Oh man. Finding gold on your property would be soooo sweet!
"Rents backhoe"......
It is pretty sweet, but you don't rent a backhoe, you go buy one... I picked up this one for not much more than scrap price a week before I even tried to find a piece of
gold, anywhere, ever... Sad part is, between work and digging for gold, and the honeydew list, I haven't got it running yet.
When the little lady gets sick of your crap, she can tell you to go play in the yard... Where I came from, that means grab a beer and go mow the lawn... I don't even have a lawnmower, nevermind
a lawn to mow. Do a little drywashing outback, or some rock hunting, or grab some black sand out of the driveway and run it through the cube, or go head down the arroyo and play with the
metal detector.
Its pretty darn sweet, and I lived there for almost 5 years before I played with any of it... I grab the dirt out of the holes the dogs dug.. 4-6 little pieces of TINY flour per tablespoon full, some
decent size stuff out in the "drive way" extension... And more flour... I've pulled some plus 60 out of the pile of dirt left from when they dug our septic tank... And rocks... I have
no bedrock(that I've found yet), I have no rock outcroppings, but I do have rocks that have washed down from the mountain, and I've found gold in those... And some are tricky, pretty
piece of quartz with gold that has been coated with caliche and looks like a crappy tan rock.
It is pretty darn fun...
Arroyo out back, where the pick is, I pulled 6 decent little pieces in a single prospector scoop, metal detecting, (more specifically LEARNING to metal detect), probably a pocket
of black sand.
A good example of those "pretty" rocks that are out there... The MD20 and currency microscope tells me there is gold in there.
Part of the driveway... The part we don't really drive on... I've got about 600 feet of this.
Pretty little piece that came out of that driveway.
Chris in CO, get digging... You aren't "looking for gold", you are making a nice flowerbed... Or the foundation for a new Gazebo, or some such other non-sense..
My better half plays along with the piles of rocks in the front yard... They are for a planned "rock garden".. They aren't there to be crushed...
Gold in your yard is pretty darn sweet. If you don't have half a day or a whole day to go out and get gold, you can go play in the yard for a half hour, or a few hours..
Its a fantastic time waster and stress reliever.
May start digging up the front yard if I cant get out on a creek or up to Denver soon.
