I take my hat off to you Al, I wouldn’t know where to start with mechanics & engines. I’m a fairly practical chap, but when it comes to what’s under the bonnet (of both cars and women) it’s all a mystery to me.

New water pump is in..Just test drove the truck..seems ok.. :0)

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I take my hat off to you Al, I wouldn’t know where to start with mechanics & engines. I’m a fairly practical chap, but when it comes to what’s under the bonnet (of both cars and women) it’s all a mystery to me.

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Hah!  Trucks are a piece of cake compared to that other contraption you mentioned!  :-)

Tits ..tracks.. or tires...

Sooner or later there's ..troubles.... :0/

Next up cab corners n rocker panels...

Trailer makes it mooey easyer..
Doors need work too..

Barn looks big now that it is empty..
Now fer some gold panning with sample ore..

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Can you see it...?

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Had to evict the mice out...
They ruin more stuff around here.. :0(

The other projects i have..

Testical support fer ..fer some close in blasting...

Didn't even hit the canvas condo... :0)

I have too much to do with just one little ol pickup. ;-) Brad

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Can you see it...?

 

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Wow Al .....you are going to become another Parker Schnabel or more likely Tony Beets.

Where is your pay dirt coming from?

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Can you see it...?

 

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Wow Al .....you are going to become another Parker Schnabel or more likely Tony Beets.

Where is your pay dirt coming from?

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Next you'll want me best fishin holes... ;0)

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Can you see it...?

 

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Wow Al .....you are going to become another Parker Schnabel or more likely Tony Beets.

Where is your pay dirt coming from?

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Next you'll want me best fishin holes... ;0)

 

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You betcha, All.  Of course it could also be coming in some of the rock you have blasted, but getting it is a little harder!  If you didn't process that much dirt or rock, that's a lot of gold.

Most of the panning is dun in the barn over a few beers...

Some of the samples are from out west.. you can buy bags of ore..10 lbs bags from gold mines..

Kinda fun n entertainin...
Kids love it...

One of the guys here bought a 25lb bag delivered fer $134.00..
As it stands now...we got apx $500.00..worth at today's prices fer gold..n the bag still has1/2 to 1/3..of the bag to go...
Mike bought the bag 2 years ago..
Just kinda a fun pass time here..

Matt Baker mining & metals on youtube...if you wanna look it up..

I have two crawler track pads I've been wanting to make into a crusher. I'll probably still have to have a ball mill. Once you go down the Hard Rock path it might get out of hand.
It's so easy to get buckets of gravel from here and there. If one pans out get some more. I can talk myself out of hard rock prospecting pretty easily.

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I have two crawler track pads I've been wanting to make into a crusher. I'll probably still have to have a ball mill. Once you go down the Hard Rock path it might get out of hand.
It's so easy to get buckets of gravel from here and there. If one pans out get some more. I can talk myself out of hard rock prospecting pretty easily.

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Hard rock mining is pretty tough.  You would really have to find a quartz vein with a lot of gold in it to get much gold in a small scale operation.  At $5000 an ounce, any kind of gold recovery is much more appealing than just a couple of years ago when it was around $1500.  Whe I was a boy, my mother took my brother and me to Dahlonega, Ga. (in the mountains) and we panned for gold in the streams and found some very tiny pieces.  But we really didn't know where to get the dirt from, as we we getting it on the sides of creeks.  You kind of have to think of a creek as a gold sluice and figure where the gold would naturally settle.  Gold is just about everywhere.

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One of the guys here bought a 25lb bag delivered fer $134.00..
As it stands now...we got apx $500.00..worth at today's prices fer gold..n the bag still has1/2 to 1/3..of the bag to go...
Mike bought the bag 2 years ago..
Just kinda a fun pass time here..

Matt Baker mining & metals on youtube...if you wanna look it up..

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How here is a gold miner!

This is the kind of nuggets I like to find ...... a tad over 30 grams ..... almost an ounce, but worth a lot more as a large nugget than gold content!

I am anoid...
Bought after market cab corners n rocker panels...n they not fit good at all really...
I'm gonna make them work..but it is not how I wanted to do things..

Rocker panels are in.. not the way i wanted to do them.. but i had to really cut n fit the body parts that were sent to me..
As the did not really fit at all..

At least they were cheap.. n I did get them to work.