stevewilko
that's right it was me....
Been reading avidly through all of your most gracious information for which I thank you all.
My avitar is my camper. Do say g'day if you see me in the field. I have always loved the bush, both camping and fishing, - but I don't shoot.
I am rising 62 years of age and I have been retrenched (being unemployed or perhaps unemployable) for some 16 months, so I thought "why not do what I love, being out where I want to be and tie it to an interest that will keep me fit" Why not indeed...
Studying gold detecting with all our online resources for a month or two I have recently purchased a bonafide Minelab GPX 4800 with 11" DD and a 15 x 12" Mono.
The detecting package was sourced from a Queensland Pawnbroker and is complete, including pin pointer et al. I am satisfied it was never used.
I have the original purchase invoice dated April 2014 @ $5495.00. I didn't pay anywhere near that sum - I believe I bought it $$ right.
From my home location I have decided to use Blackwood as my launching place. I have been out there 3 times now and have detected perhaps 8 hours in total.
My Blackwood choice is purely because it is nearest to my home, is viable as a gold bearing region, is not easy by all reports and comments and is as good a place as any to earn stripes in detecting knowledge and hopefully detecting expertise!
The first trip was an overnight stay; to drive around Yankee Road, to find and then walk about the area of Albion reef down to Perry reef.
The second was also overnight; to try to understand what I was looking at and I started detecting using the 11" DD, which was about 2 hours of detecting.
I went back last week to Albion only and had about 3 hrs with the 15 x 12" Mono and 3 hours with the DD.
I have found horseshoes, nails, needles (?), bucket handle segments, junk iron, iron pegs, and coin like metal (tokens?) and axe heads from long gully creek at the B'Wood substation all the way up to Albion North. Did somebody mention "get fit" before ha ha!
Anyway I am seeing the area drying off after this weekends rain and should be detecting there Thursday (17 Nov).
I will post new threads plus join in with the forum as contributor as we go.
Cheers all,
Steven
My avitar is my camper. Do say g'day if you see me in the field. I have always loved the bush, both camping and fishing, - but I don't shoot.
I am rising 62 years of age and I have been retrenched (being unemployed or perhaps unemployable) for some 16 months, so I thought "why not do what I love, being out where I want to be and tie it to an interest that will keep me fit" Why not indeed...
Studying gold detecting with all our online resources for a month or two I have recently purchased a bonafide Minelab GPX 4800 with 11" DD and a 15 x 12" Mono.
The detecting package was sourced from a Queensland Pawnbroker and is complete, including pin pointer et al. I am satisfied it was never used.
I have the original purchase invoice dated April 2014 @ $5495.00. I didn't pay anywhere near that sum - I believe I bought it $$ right.
From my home location I have decided to use Blackwood as my launching place. I have been out there 3 times now and have detected perhaps 8 hours in total.
My Blackwood choice is purely because it is nearest to my home, is viable as a gold bearing region, is not easy by all reports and comments and is as good a place as any to earn stripes in detecting knowledge and hopefully detecting expertise!
The first trip was an overnight stay; to drive around Yankee Road, to find and then walk about the area of Albion reef down to Perry reef.
The second was also overnight; to try to understand what I was looking at and I started detecting using the 11" DD, which was about 2 hours of detecting.
I went back last week to Albion only and had about 3 hrs with the 15 x 12" Mono and 3 hours with the DD.
I have found horseshoes, nails, needles (?), bucket handle segments, junk iron, iron pegs, and coin like metal (tokens?) and axe heads from long gully creek at the B'Wood substation all the way up to Albion North. Did somebody mention "get fit" before ha ha!
Anyway I am seeing the area drying off after this weekends rain and should be detecting there Thursday (17 Nov).
I will post new threads plus join in with the forum as contributor as we go.
Cheers all,
Steven
