Can I Live Off Gold Prospecting (pt 2) 

As the great Paul Hogan once said “Well you can live off it, but it tastes like s**t” 😂👍🏻

Omfg!!! You straight busted out with the "like selling drugs..." that shit caught me completely off guard! Lmfao!!! Well done brother! That was funny as duck 😂😂😂

Rough guess on the large bullets you found. Either .303 British, or .30-06, both common rounds for military and hunting from 1940's to current for the .30-06. The .303 started losing favor in the 70's I think

If you were going the vanlife route, you could literally be camped full time at your chosen area to work and smash out the hours. If you had a reasonable solar-battery rigged on your vehicle, the capacity to live and enjoy the time and space is definitely a real possibility and quite attractive (in my opinion!)

Hey brother, I have leukemia, crohns, osteonecrosis, kidney failure, and more. I wish i could get out and hunt gold. Here in Louisiana, we don't have gold, but hunting gators is a different story. I love watching ALL of your videos, and we have been missing your Fern in your videos!! Keep it up and find so shiny for me!

Really looks like a 303.

I am truly glad that you take safety seriously. Please continue to be safe and take care of yourself. (My dad got killed work when I was 13.)

Are you sure that's not a warzone from the emu wars? Would explain all the ammunition and those look like emu self destruction craters! 😂

Love the video Chris 👌 being a swinger for a job I have to run my accounts on a 3 month basis. Nuggets are not consistent enough to go week to week from what I have found. It's very scary sometimes when your having a dry spell just hoping for that next swing to be a big bit. The high times are amazing but the lows are long and stressful. 👍

i love the TINY WEIGH in pan!

I just started the video but I would say definitely not as the price of painkillers for the back pain will be too high. 😜

I have a friend with a RU-vid channel mine your business is the name of it he started with one claim (alluvial ) and now has two he doesn’t have a job and he manages to support a family of 3 Like you said it’s not a kings life and it’s super hard work but he does it. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

Thanks for another fun video Chris! I left a message on a video a month ago about this series. So happy to see you are carrying on with it. It gives a realistic conception of what it could be like to try and survive on gold prospecting.

.303 British Probably fired out of an Enfield.

Food and basic shelter in Victoria 2023. You need $1000 just to shop nowadays let alone shelter. Love the concept Chris.

303 British, that particular projectile is an earlier design used in the Boer War.

Just a guess, but that bigger bullet kinda looks like a round nose .303 British. It was used by Australia's military so I could see them ending up in the civilian market after WW2.

Interested to see comparison to collecting 10c aluminium cans

Another great video, thanks Chris. I thought you were going to say ‘Only Fans’ instead of ‘drugs’ as I just watched Gadzee’s double D melons 😂 or at least that’s what I’m going to admit to 😂 Merry Christmas and thanks for another entertaining video. Wishing you a prosperous New Year 🎉💕

Great instruction and demos Chris. It would be a tough life, but, certainly, a healthier one. Thank you for creating a great resource for the community!😊

Today was alright for me, 6.61g, but it's tough to keep backing up day after day full-time prospecting. Cheers 🍻

I can't believe you said that at the end 😂😂😂😂

Perhaps you could drape a wet towel or sheet over the dust outlet from your crusher so the dust doesn’t go everywhere.

That old projectile looks like it could be either a 30/30 or .303

That's not to shabby. I'd like too see how much gold you can retrieve in a week using your inventions like your low banker, etc.

In 1980 I tried it with machinery. 6 weeks later the little money I had was gone . Was told By a miner that made a living from it that only 1 in 200 just make a living at it . One I met That had made very good at it Terry Toope lived in a 2 room plywood shack with plastic windows with an out house and lived in town in a small house in the winter . He prospected for 25 years before striking it big . It can be done but are you going to be the lucky one out of 200. People that have not learned it as one would learn a trade your odds are very slim to none . It though is one hell of an experience

The problem comes when the next 6 hours yields a half gram, and the next six yields a quarter, and then you go for a long drive.

Thanks for your year of hard work 💪 Merry Christmas to you and your family 🙏,and of course another cool vid.

Dude, you are just a straight up bad ass!!! If you were on 24-7 I'd watch the hell out of you. So many people try their best, but you make me feel as if your actually talking to me, and no matter what; you give a damn about my knowledge about prospecting! To hell with the haters, let them live in fear their entire life's, just do what you do and I'll guarantee you have a dedicated viewer in South Alabama!

“Your Forever Box” that makes me laugh every time.

Merry Christmas and thank you for your hard work and fantastic videos

Another great video Chris. I'd love to see this again but done separately, compare say 40 hrs of panning and rockerboxing to 40 hrs of hard rock minin. You could probably turn the old mouldy into a better paying business than gold, I make around 300 on a good month from carving wooden fishing lures, 100 on a bad month and I'm onpy a small hobby business.

To actually make it work you would have to be on a paying spot with backup when that runs dry. So, while you are working you need to leave some time to prospect further afield. So basically 1 out of every 5 days is a hit or miss day while prospecting. Since gold is roughly $au97/gram today, A 5day work week (with 1 day subtracted for prospecting) would require realistically a minimum of 1 gram every day to just make ends meet. This doesn't cover other costs like fuel, vehicle rego etc.

I absolutely love that little green pan... For cleanups only... 1/2 tbs at a time

awesome vid Chris! Its gonna bother me if I don't say something...but A length of pipe with a wetted down sack secured round the end will sort the dust issue from the crusher...think leaf blower/vac bag...dunno what your guys "trade me" (NZ) is like but that shits cheap as to source...save ya doggo snorting all that pixie dust up later too lol I see she went straight back to her happy place after you so rudely interrupted her sunnin session :) Anyways all the best to you and your for the season and the New Year!! Keep up the good work :)

I've been waiting for this one hehe. I'm like the noobest of noobs when it comes to prospecting. I have a little under one gram after spending a lot of time just looking around. I'm probably 3 months deep I would say. Living in a Ute and looking for gold is basically impossible for me but I'm at least trying to make that the bare minimum. I've made some friends along the way which has been nicer than the gold.

love that you made this a challenge!

I think a lot of people could make a living but what kind of living? I’d have to sell my house and property and live in a hole in the ground in order to make a living on the average amount of gold I find in a year!

G'day hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic new year, cheers mate.

That ending caught me off guard 😂😂

Great content as per usual, I think as you stated depends on the ground. It would need to cover my beer bill first! Who needs food!😂 ❤it 😊

You're a legend of a human - have a fantastic Merry season !

Seems to me that you could certainly supplement an income quite nicely and get fit at the same time....also a backache but it could work. I feel like supplementing a crafters income might be the way to go. Very interesting little series thanks for sharing

I put a descriotion of my hand rock crusher 14" x 4" steel tube on a bottom plate on the net,so is that where u got the idea,but u can use a 40 " x2" steel rod as a pounder! Also,id put that dust into wet trap to catch any gold dust! Food here cost a single senior who doesnt eat as much as hard working peeson,6 to 800 $ canadian a month!

The affordable housing was made by a preying mantis

I cannot more highly recommend a drywall dust collector to take care of a lot of your silica dust. I recently listened a podcast about the worst industrial accident in US history, which was a truly massive silicosis causing project. Take care of yourself and your pup :) Love the content.

Creating and selling specialized gold prospecting equipment made me more money then gold prospecting ever did. :)

Seems like it's possible but not too practical to work hard everyday just to squeak by could have found a reef and get a bonanza but again reefs aren't exactly easy to find I think tho panning high banking etc would generate more gold for a while and all good things eventually come to an end was a great idea to test out for sure

They are early 303 bullets that was the type used in ww1

Blessings and Merry Christmas from Kansas.

Hee hee, you said MAIN VEIN.!!! In all seriousness, I always love the videos Chris. 😁👍

Is it a 338 as some of those give some long distant lead poisoning when it hits? Chris...You are the most excellent adventure... Amazing Mate

Lmao at the last statement. Awesomecvid Chris thanks

Me Merry Christmas mate, thanks for all you do

why don't you tie a hessian bag to the outlet of the crusher and wet it before you use it as a dust reducer Chris?.

Love ya content mate, but scared me about the 5 inch stuff, I'm sure I walk over that alot!!!! But 99% of the time i'm by myself!! Do you know of any apps that peeps maybe able to hunt for me if i go missing?? Selling Drugs!!!! LOL.....Merry Xmas dude..

Lol - that ending tho...😂

And vogus prospecting is that drugs. Keep em coming boss

Great video!

Always awesome brother always and please stay safe out there

The quartz in the north american ,canadian rockies,does have gold!

Thanks for sharing Chris. LOL.

Thanks Chris!

.303, so if its .303 as I suspect it is, that says to me is ww1 era because ww2 the 303 bullets from ww2 on were pointed.

LOVE your Platform 9-3/4 patch, Chris! That tells me you’ve got a good heart. What house do you ascribe to? I’m a Ravenclaw myself. 😉

find a remote gold mine and grow some weed lol

Looks like you could do with a Fridge of Wonder.

Someone prospecting out of their vehicle could also monetize their journey via RU-vid and other socials. This seems like potentially viable.....except for the eventual end when the gold is no longer accessible.

The dust... you have to catch and suspend in wet, shake with eucalyptus sap and collect the foam. Then, I don't know... magnifying glass in the sun and catch the fumes to dispose of.😅 You've manage content well so you can draw up a brownfield greenfield and get investors.

Although I was happy to see the weight at the end, I agree with you at the end, Chris. Selling drugs definitely puts more money in your pocket for a lot less hard work. 🤔😉 Too bad that is not a legal avenue in almost every part of the world. 😢 From a nursing perspective, my access to those kinds of drugs is definitely controlled extremely well. My personal Tylenol at home won't sell either.... 😁 Thank you so much for sharing your theoretical test with us! It was a great idea! Unfortunately, I know that there is absolutely nothing near my area in southeast Alabama. So, I anxiously await your next adventure! In the meantime, I pray that you have an amazing Christmas filled with live, hope, peace, and.... Gold. Blessings from Alabama ❤️

That caliber, Maybe 303 British

hey Chris @Vo-Gus prospecting when are you guna clean out that wheelbara? How much shiny is in the bottom?

Awesome vid. Very realistic

Bin diving for 10cent cans would make you more than this. But no chance of finding a lucky nugget

The problem with gold prospecting is the bull 💩 licence you need to pay for unless you run the risk of a massive fine

Of course you can,claim a bunch of areas, salt them, and sell them. Walah 1500$ to 10$k per claim and 50k later your set for the year.

Make sure the Detonator has been struck on that 💥

Yea selling can be more profitable along with a better retirement home :)

how much gold do you need before someone will buy it from you? I'm guessing you'd have to sell at a discount to current spot price as well, depending on how much gold you have?

You can make a darn good living mining gold. Gotta be hard rocking or dredging though

Lots of bullets and rocks stacked for cover?

I hate to say it but that looked like a bum hole. Bums leak corn. Ron is gold

If you can survive doing what you love to do, you are ahead of most of the poor bastards out there. And hey............there's always the chance of a big pay day coming up.

Merry christmas

Bloody music in between you talking chriso, does me in

Good vid.

Lol on a full time wage most single aussies can't afford to live in the cheapest of accommodation.

defineci deniz channel has this weird detector that spins around 360 degrees when its over a pile of metal. I'd like to see you use one of these for fun.

Question would you go into a mlne plaser mine witch has gravel in the walls some loose some like concrete water wast deep some tunnels caved in would you it's called river of gold in california mountains 🤔

$100 a week for food? If you eat three meals a day that's $4.70 a meal what are Australians eating a cheeseburger or equivalent per meal?

Ok next week down the creek no gold just drugs need a van for under a grand..it the plan man ....❤ you chris

selling drugs. what a good ending 😆😂

Well ..ive crashed and burned ..never found gold in over 2 years ..

Batuan dan urat emas yang bagus sobat ....🙏🙏 Satu provesi sobat....

I can’t understand why you make all that harmful dust when it is so easy to add water and get ZERO dust! That’s how I do it.

But,but having a hobby that could pay you back, price less!

Pimpin Aint Eazy either !

But how much did the equipment cost to process it? Motorised crusher? And do t you make more money out of producing videos than gold hunting?

Have you ever had any nasty run-ins with snakes/spiders?

Lol please don't come gold prospecting go sell drugs get arrested go to jail just don't come make the gold less available. I love this plan .. pure diabolical