Post by mowhawk81 on Feb 20, 2013 10:38:31 GMT 10
Hi everyone.
Well as the title says, Im another newbie from Canberra. My name is Mark and im 31. I have a friend who has been into prospecting for years and is planning 3 month trip to WA soon, i think he has passed on the bug to me. I have never been prospecting, but he has inspired me to start. I have a bad back so walking around all day with a detector is out of the question. i decided to give panning a go but again the back problem means i need to be as efficient as possible to make this a viable hobby. After about 2 weeks of evening youtube sessions, i decided to build a sluice so i can dig for an hour or so, then sit back and pan the material from the sluice. So far i have a trough i purchased off a mate at a metal shop for $50. Its 170x48x25cm. I went to my local bunnings and they have a nice ribbed rubber material that looks like it wold do the trick. The only part i am unsure about is do i need to fork out for the miners moss or would marine carpet work? Bunnings has a ribbed marine carpet that looks like it would act as small riffles also. I will be putting it all together in the next few weeks and hope to go out to the Shoalhaven over easter to test it out. I was thinking of heading south from Braidwood to the Bombay/Bendoura/Ballalaba area, but after reading the forum i found a lot of members go to O'allen so i may head over there for a bit of verbal gold as well as the other kind.
Well i think that is enough of an intro, hope to see you all out in the feild.
Well as the title says, Im another newbie from Canberra. My name is Mark and im 31. I have a friend who has been into prospecting for years and is planning 3 month trip to WA soon, i think he has passed on the bug to me. I have never been prospecting, but he has inspired me to start. I have a bad back so walking around all day with a detector is out of the question. i decided to give panning a go but again the back problem means i need to be as efficient as possible to make this a viable hobby. After about 2 weeks of evening youtube sessions, i decided to build a sluice so i can dig for an hour or so, then sit back and pan the material from the sluice. So far i have a trough i purchased off a mate at a metal shop for $50. Its 170x48x25cm. I went to my local bunnings and they have a nice ribbed rubber material that looks like it wold do the trick. The only part i am unsure about is do i need to fork out for the miners moss or would marine carpet work? Bunnings has a ribbed marine carpet that looks like it would act as small riffles also. I will be putting it all together in the next few weeks and hope to go out to the Shoalhaven over easter to test it out. I was thinking of heading south from Braidwood to the Bombay/Bendoura/Ballalaba area, but after reading the forum i found a lot of members go to O'allen so i may head over there for a bit of verbal gold as well as the other kind.
Well i think that is enough of an intro, hope to see you all out in the feild.
