Hey Chris ! You guys did pretty good out there despite the heat ! All that dust makes dry washing fun. Love it ! Those adjustments tipped the scale in your favor for sure. 👍 Thanks for the shout out mate ! 🤠⚒⛏👍👍👍
Hi, Chris! You’ve got to make a trip to the beaches of Nome, Alaska some time. There are lots of beaches which are free to the public, with tons of flour gold, and the sand is a lot easier to dig in. As a matter of fact one just finds seams of pink sand and scoops it up. I was watching one guy today who took in almost four grams in a single day. Heat is not a problem, and neither is darkness, since the sun never sets in the summer. You would go wild! 😃
I'm not downloading to see if I'm absolutely right but perhaps Australia should do more frivolous art welding MIG welding to create ozone electrical Arc creates ozone
One of "I brake for bedrock"s best tricks is vacumning the bedrock after removing the bulk with a cordless tool. Heavies hide in that dust you cannot get with a shovel. At least broom it up if that is too much money. Would be curious to see a test with brooming a pan and take it home and run separate to see recovery rate. At least we would know if worth while.
Iced coffee is what plants crave? And here I always thought that BRAWNDO was what plants craved. Along with electrolytes. Mind BLOWN. Lmao. Keep up the awesome work you do! Love to you and Fernie!
Australia has to deal with the "tropic of Capricorn." Due to the tilt in the Earth’s axis, Australia is hit extra hard by the Sun’s rays in Summer. Follow the line of Capricorn and you’ll realise that they are in the centre of the Sun’s light.
There is an ozone layer over Australia but is is thinner than most places. If there was no ozone layer plant life would die off. The large tree would take some time but they would die too.
Awesome shout out to Allan's Gold Mining. His recirculating water system is REALLY amazing. Now Chris, time to get a trailer and start building a recirculating system! lol jk
I also would like to chime-in about the location of the canopy and dry washer. I was wondering why the setup was UP the hill from the work zone. Should you not be processing DOWN the hill from the source...or, at least, nearer to it--if not above it? You guys are very entertaining to watch. Thanks for all your hard work!
I currently work in Wind turbines, last year we were working in dry heat at 120°f(49c) external temp, inside turbine wash pushing 135°f(58c) I feel ya, thank God we don't have all the bugs that want to eat you here. lots of people get heat stroke and heat exhaustion pretty frequently...all I can say is you guys should definitely be hydrating, honestly never see either of you drinking water. at one time when I was facing and welding they heat temp gunned me in the nose cone of a locomotive welding away and temp was 146°f(63c)... I much prefer the cooler temps...
I have 2 hobbies Fly fishing and watching people pan for gold on RU-vid. I went gold mining once in the local mountains, I was on the WRONG end of a shovel all day. That's what gold mining is.
@@VoGusProspecting You guys have been in the sun to long!...put the tent on the hard pan where you are digging the dirt (you in shade), fill wheelbarrow,take the wheelbarrow full of dirt over to the dry washer in the trees...Just take the tent with you! why do you need to move the setup?
Thank the sweet lil baby jeebus it's now preety much winter down under. Sure not so productive for that fun new dry blower toy that your just getting figured out but gimme our winter any day of the year over our summer
So... This might sound like a stupid question.... But why didn't you move the gazebo to where you were digging? Doing anything in direct sun could have been avoided....
As usual, a brilliant video chock full of very useful info. I was wondering though, why didn't you move your gazebo to where you were shoveling into the barrow and then when you were operating the dry wash, move it so the operator was in the shade? All you operations were done in the sun. You best described the heat when Gadz dropped a shovel load on the ground because of it.
Never let it be said that old gold miners can't learn new tricks.. there is always someone out there who knows/has bigger and better ways of doing things.. I've personally learned a few things from you Chris, Gadzzy and Mick just to let you know not to mention Shane Klesh and Dan Hurd, Pioneer Pauly and Bill's trash & treasure So until next time I'll be looking forward to your next video.. The CoCo dog says give Frenie a scratch from her. God Bless and Be Safe .. Don E. in Denver Colorado U.S.A.
I BRAKE FOR BEDROCK is a stud. Makes me proud my fellow Arizonan represents the goldfields so hard. Now if I could only accomplish a fraction of what he does. And don’t forget about Boulderdash. That guy drops some serious knowledge.
When I first came to regional Victoria a Truckie told me he delivered a full bucket of dirt to some old fella.( his words) And the old bloke sifted the dirt and got over $200:00 worth of gold! Could be bull dust but not being an experienced gold seeker I “wanted” to believe him. 🧚♀️
Not that I know or anything but I've watched and heard prospecting and when he gets to bedrock uses a battery operated shop vac and where you have fine gold maybe that work well but like I said I don't know
As an ex welder in the South that worked in a tin building with no air conditioning in 48.9°c (60°c+ in the shop) with 100% humidity and wearing full leathers I like to give people like y'all a hard time about the heat. With that being said I completely get that different places have different kinds of heat and the heat there must be nuts.
That's hot. I live in Darwin, in our wet season it gets about 38 c during the day and stays at that for about 16 hours before cooling down to about 34 for about 2 hours then it progressively gets down to around 28c for about 1 hour. So out of 24 hours, it's over 30c for at least 20 hours, for about 7 or 8 months straight, with very high humidity. The cool months are about 34c for 14-18 hours , but it's a dry heat, so feels much cooler. Over night low is around 21 c sometimes we might get 7 or 8 nights of 17c.
@@VoGusProspecting hey buddy you guys are great 👍. As long as enjoy what you're doing keep at it. If you don't mind me saying, mate you're bringing a lot of enjoyment to hundreds, maybe thousands of people that always gets the thumbs 👍 from me..take care and thanks for your comment
With Dry Washing, I cannot help but think those large clumps which rolled by (around 3:15-3:20) held gold within which is getting missed. Will you come back when there IS water and wet sluice, take larger clumps home to process (break up and sluice) there?
Im so glad you checked out Adam and boulderdash (and you are to obviously) they are the dry washing kings in my opinion. Great amount of gold leftover there now imagine if you packed in a vacuum like they do you’d be surprised how much more you get I’m guessing almost double (definitely wait for cooler weather though…) Thanks for getting out of bed editing, sharing, and continuing on well done Chris see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻 P.S. you know your not dialed in completely yet don’t be afraid to keep tweaking the settings 😬
@@VoGusProspecting I dont think you'd need a large scale one even, just a roto-tiller with tines to break the material up then an auger to slide it sideways onto a conveyor that drops it into the box ;)
The last episode I had to have a smoke afterwards with such a huge line of gold. I’m feeling a shower is needed after this one. That was nice looking course gold from what I could see. As always great episode and was nice to see both Gadzee and Mick.
I absolutely love your videos and everything you stand for👍 You do crack me up when you’re working yourself hard in That heat…. In a black shirt??? 👍😮💨❤️
I live in S.W. Washington 🌲🦉🌲 Wet, cloudy, cold……. My depression has nothing to do with the weather (Can’t Stand Heat) Your kind words of hope n inspiration are always Welcome….. I’ll be 70 in August and don’t get out much, mostly rockhounding… Always dreamed of finding a little shiny something something….. Keep Up the Good Work🥰‼️ I recently bought a metal detector 😁
It would be interesting to know how much gold was trapped in the dirt clods that rolled off the drywasher. Keep up the great content, I can only enjoy panning virtually as I'm working overseas.
@@VoGusProspecting You have serious snakes there and they likely come out to sun baked areas at night to absorb heat. We have an area here in Missouri that is a swimming hole by day with lots of people. An hour after sunset it is covered with rattle snakes fighting for space on the exposed granite til it cools off around midnight or even later some nights. Crazy what folks do not know. If they knew how many rattlers were in the area they would never go there even in the daytime. Blew my mind. These are timber rattle snakes that are about as bad as we get around here.
So....your going to run it a third time right? That would be interesting to find out if you still get decent gold that was traped in the dirt.👍 Great video again!
@@torbjrngleerup5716 All that work was not wasted at all. When a drywasher is Level and running properly, there is little if any loss. Water recovery systems lose gold all the time, probably more than you think.
it's not about being humble enough to ask other miners it's the fact of you could be one of the best in the world but to be the best is to understand you never stop learning I guess it is like anything else you stop learning on the revaluation that you know it all you will never unlock potential of being the best you can be no matter the setting so to speak another great vid til the next
Just a suggestion instead of trying to run all those large clumps of dirt why don't you try to run them through your chain mill or ball mill card running them through the dry wash you're probably get a better response and more return of gold
@@VoGusProspecting Well I can say it was just a thought understand it's just a hobby and doing it for the enjoyment but I might give you a little bit more to put in You're dirt sample bags that you give away Like I said just a thought
I have a odd question What about the large dirt balls that were going past the dry washer and into the railings. They never made it through the unit. Would there still be trapped gold in that as well? Or did you crush it up and run that after
That's pretty much what I thought as well - these don't look like rock, but more like river sediments and baked-together .. dirt, basically. I wonder if it would be more efficient to either carry water in to "dissolve" them, or crush everything up into a fine powder and then run that through the drywasher?
Yes. You're correct. But consider this. There is no water there at all. There is no way to work that soil other than a dry washer. There is also no way to efficiently break up those clumps. We may loose some Gold in them but we're 100% up in the gold we could recover because, there is no other way.
@@VoGusProspecting I see your point Mr VoGus and see why you didn’t go further with it. The extra effort would not be worth it (diminishing returns) so to speak. You remind me of a fellow I prospected with in the beginning of me prospecting hobby. He always was the voice of reason with our group. Thank you for responding very much. Your a good fellow.
🤫That's like Gadzees signature move. He secretly does one in every video with the wheel barrow. Congratulations for spotting it. Now the challenge is to go back through the other vids and find it in those too 😉
what's a typical day looking for gold cost? just wondering. i know its for fun. ever think about running lights and start at 3 am or something? the lights and battery packs are kinda cheap?
serious question could you use like a hand guided tiller to break up the top soil if you could get one there? I know you said you are limited on your tool choices due to licensing.
Chris, get yourself a couple of long sleeve WHITE shirts, wearing black just makes you hotter. Any sports store will have cricket shirts quite cheap, they'll get dirty, but after playing cricket in QLD for over 20 years in long sleeve white shirts, you'll thank me ..!
