Re: You're right Viper!! Was there ever a doubt??? ^0^
June 02, 1998 at 22:24:56
In Reply to: Re: You're right Viper!! it's the ad that's wrong - http://www.accuratelocators.com/sd2100.htm
posted by Lanny in AB on June 02, 1998 at 08:54:31
Lanny,
You are 150% right, falsehoods have a way of growing into the absurd, then it's time for a reality check. The truth? Some people can't take the truth. They are too busy gathering evidence that supports their own belief, rather than consider a different and opposing point of view.
When you live and work with a particular machine day after day, week after week, its shortcomings become apparent. Sone things you can change, some you can't.
As I read some of the posts, I have to ask myself are they talking about the same machine I have?!? After reading Steve's post earlier, I knew he was talking about my machine, excellent post. I lack the patience to try to pick out a good signal when the thing is taking my head off. At times, it sounds like a five Sovereigns on steroids, in a trashy construction site, with a 100 watt booster amp. That's when I pick up a PI. I hate the clicking, but it does the job when the SD goes off the scale.
In Northern Nevada, the deeper you go, the greater the concentration of elements that upset the circuitry. There is nothing worse that being on a good patch, and have a machine going haywire. Gold has a penchant for collecting in the worst possible places.
As you drive along US 95 between Vegas and Sparks, you'll notice hundreds of old prospects. We have it made compared to the old timers. They didn't have SD's to fret about, they had picks and shovels. Me and that number two shovel are not friends, feeding a dry-washer by hand will make you appreciate a backhoe with a front-end loader.
There was a large header and tailing pile from the 30's in the wash we are working now. Who ever worked the prospect, lost several nice pieces in the header pile. The material under the pile had never been worked, there must have been 30 yards of header material alone. We used a D3 Cat to push the pile around and sampled as we worked. Nice pieces started popping out of the old among the PA tins and trash. They had no way of knowing there was another trench cut deeper in the bedrock, 10 feet beneath the tailing and header piles, that was richer than the current gut of the wash. He was set up on a bench and may not have known it.
It's a hot dusty run into Lovelock by jeep, can you imagine what it must have been like on foot? Rabbit Springs was the closest potable water to the claim, and that's over ten miles as the crow flies. When you consider a gallon of water lasts a man less than a day, and weighs 8 pounds in a plastic jug, we take a lot for granted.
HH
Viper
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