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We saw no metal plates to hold back dirt, Maybe this is why they dug at night time , they didn't want anyone to see what they were doing wrong. In this picture they are bringing in the jackhammer by chain, Ya they used the jackhammer it kept the neighbor up all night. So she set up and saw everything that went on. Ya, SHE SAW IT ALL. The FBI ran the excavator at night time . The hired local operator left at 7pm Tuesday with the keys in the excavator. HE was not allowed to talk to us , WHY, he was not there during the night dig. But he was there to back fill everything back in place by Wed morning so it all looked like no digging was done. So when the hired operator did talk about the dig , he said nothing was found , Ya because he was not on site when the treasure was dug up. This is why they hired a local person to do the job, they wanted him as witness to tell what he saw. Hay the FBI told us they have their own equipment to do the dig. YET they hired a local so he could tell his story. GOOD JOB but it did not work. GOT YA.
update / Every thing you said you want to see in the pictures will happen , only no hard hats or wall supports. But you will see how deep they went when you see the bucket all the way down in the hole. Ya you will see FBI agents run to the holes and get down inside them. They use measuring tapes and GPS equipment to be sure they have the right target. BUT there is a lot more to this story and I will explain it when I show the pictures , This is why I am doing this step by step , there is a lot going at the dig and I will not have the time to answer to many questions . So I am doing this slow and trying my best for everyone to figure it out.
FK, When it comes to a 13' deep trench excavation, it it extremely unsafe (and illegal)
to enter the excavation without trench plate shoring
Similiar to this...
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The chances of being buried alive are significant, especially if the ground is over saturated.
If you did not see shoring brought onsite, then any gold recovered would have to have been excavated with the bucket.
Your camera appears to be pointed directly at the spoils pile.
I would expect to see someone periodically scanning the spoils pile with a metal detector.
I'm envisioning when the first bar was discovered, everybody would scramble up on the spoils pile to see what was found.
Once something was found, the excavator operator would dump the excavated material on the other side of the excavation...so envision a large barren spoils pile on one side of the trench and a smaller spoils pile on the other, from which they would pick bars of gold from as the guy with the metal detector pointed them out.
Your camera looks to be positioned to capture all of this.
It would be much faster to dump the excavated material into a 4x4 dump truck and haul it off, but I assume the ground was too muddy or the site was inaccessible.
Any jack hammering would have to be done with a large attachment to the excavator.
Bucket is taken off and the chisel tip is attached. Rock is broken up, then the bucket is put back on to excavate the fractured rock.
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Digging the gold bars up with an excavator would probably damage them significantly.
I would expect that gold shavings would be scratched off with the bucket teeth.
Depending on how they backfilled the trench, this "select" material may have been placed back into the bottom of the trench or smeared around on the top. I would expect there is solid evidence remaining in the backfill material that could be recovered if it was washed.
Of course that would be contingent on gold being found.


update / Every thing you said you want to see in the pictures will happen , only no hard hats or wall supports. But you will see how deep they went when you see the bucket all the way down in the hole. Ya you will see FBI agents run to the holes and get down inside them. They use measuring tapes and GPS equipment to be sure they have the right target. BUT there is a lot more to this story and I will explain it when I show the pictures , This is why I am doing this step by step , there is a lot going at the dig and I will not have the time to answer to many questions . So I am doing this slow and trying my best for everyone to figure it out.
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