hey i got gold fever and you wouldn't believe it i'm out chasing gold and i
don't want to leave it this gold detector has got me on the run
all around australia it's got me roaming i find a piece to do that well we've been out hunting
some goldie's on our last trek out with the uh equinox 800s our minelab gear absolutely smashed
it as you will have seen in that clip we now moved on to a place where i've got a suspicion
that it could be a little bit older and i'm going to have to readjust my program just to
get some targets coming through and you need to do that a little bit don't get a coffee push kid
when we uh moving into old sites a wider program tends to be better you have to be adjustable to
the situation whether it be increasing your sensitivity decreasing your sensitivity your
recovery speed or in fact what you are notching out that's right so i'll change my notching now
i'm going to notch out everything up to about 15 and leave all the rest open if it is an old
site you just never know what you can uncover you'll often hear though as you will know that
a lot of people say i notched to 15. the reason we notched to that magic 15 number is that it's
a half sovereign signal half sovereigns for 15 18 for full sovereigns and in an old site like this
you don't want to leave one of those behind absolutely not let's uh get our machines on
and go and see if we can uh do a repeat of what happened where we're looking for the goldies
i got a really nice 26 signal it could have been a bottle cap but sometimes you just
get that feeling that oh you know i've really got to dig it well what we've got is a pulley
this is in fact if we clean this out a little bit better for you
this is a little rope pulley i think it's a bit small for a window but it would have been
off something like that because what i want to show you is in between the groove there there
are little ridges and that was for gripping the looped rope that went through it so these are all
brass but they've also got a bit of a steel center in them which can throw you off a little bit but
you know realistically that's a really nice little relic they're always good to find they're always
a thumping signal and we found it in a spot where we didn't know anything about so we're riding the
winner already all right i've got a bit of a signal here sounds fairly close to the surface
it's got a fairly high and it's fairly stable in around my 27 26 there
come back there has to be have a look at it nice clear signal i'm more used to
hunting the goldies with this machine but let's see what we've got down here
here it's a nice solid sound straight off like i said it was shallow going to come back a little
bit with my screwdriver here don't damage anything just gradually lift this up just in
case there's something in there okay let's have a look what i pulled out here this looks like
an old nokia mobile foam battery now it's giving off a good sound probably because of the brass
that's up on the top here possibly uh certainly uh sounded off well and recovered by gold digger dave
while he's out in bed to go using the equinox 800 well i've come to the edge of this site because
it looks a little bit more scraped than i would like and you can see this little embankment and it
goes up under what i would call reasonably natural and we also have a line of trees so that denotes
potentially a fence line but what i do have here as i was going up is this beautiful little signal
and that's coming in 32 34 31 it's just the sort of thing that you can't leave in the ground it
could be spectacular rubbish it could be silver or a penny and it's just in that area there
so we are going to give that a good old dig i can get down deep in that one which is good
we are still down deep so i'll come at it from this side
oh there we go we've got something steel
there we go i'll show you that side the unscraped side that was a padlock no
wonder it gave us such a bloody good signal they are a big thing you know
we'll keep going okay well i've been out here been having a bit of a crack with the 11 inch coil
i'm getting a few uh extra noises and digs around and the coffee bush kid's using his six inch uh
equinox coil thought i'd call him over and get a second opinion as i continue to dig this target
what are you making it out it's still something i would think we needed to dig yeah maybe
i'm putting it off to the side here i think i've missed it again
i've missed exactly where it was let me have it
is that sounding too big for you to be anything off that's right over there that one
i don't think it's down somewhere
i reckon it's actually there and it's there's a 39 and sometimes 39s are really
of the time they're bad they're like they're steel but then sometimes when you get a
small 39 signal and especially out in the bush where i am they turn out to be gold weights let's
have a look and see what's down here anyway if that's the case uh um it would be appropriate
if i'd actually found the gold why did it fit in with goldie digger dave and gold digger dave
have a look as we dig this one down i'll scrape the soil back out to this side a little bit
so it got there let's come back and have a listen with the pinpointer now
we're still not hearing anything and that's at full depth that's that's going to be deep i
sometimes you've got to weigh things up how tough is the ground what do you think it is what's been
on the site yep and me the ground's hard it's hard digging it's 39 we still haven't got any
depth with the pinpointer which should give us something to at least that depth so that's what
you've got to dig more before we get a signal well i think uh probably given that we haven't got our
shovels and things out here with us we only came with the smaller tiger digging tools
yeah we might just cover this one back over and we might have a crack at it uh maybe another day when
it's run might make it a little easier to dig there yep i would definitely go along with that
let's fill it back in and we'll move on again thanks all righty well i'm doing this area we've
got a shade tree but we're also right beside a path um i've already pinged a two dollar coin from
here along the edge of pathways people run stuff falls out of their pockets it rolls over into the
the grassy area and gets covered up they're always a good spot to go but i've got this signal here
now it was a 16 there's a 17 now i thought that it was um yeah i'm in
with a chance with the thrippins post 46 but just down here in that little area
and i will say i have seen what it is let me give it a good old scrape it is a coin and it
looks green but it's actually a very sick looking 20 cent piece that's our first one for the day
so we'll take that one and i'll cover that up and we'll go and we'll see what that one is over there
oop let's just turn him off that only needs a foot scrape and a little bit of a pad
you wouldn't know i was there and we got this one which i haven't dug
it is more 23 than 22 but the 22 does come in
so all right it's about there we'll find out properly
it's just a little bit off it's there i'll dig down with him
just gently
i wouldn't mind half betting it is actually just a bottle cap
but i might be surprised but then again
i might not be surprised either so it was close to being a two dollar coin but that 23
just sometimes gives it all away but we dug it we found out what it was we can put that in our pouch
and we can keep going well look we've had a quick little look around this site that we're on here
and we've been getting quite a few interesting targets and some great signals we've dug up some
bits of junk but i could potentially see us coming back to have another dig in this area it's got a
lot of potential what are your thoughts andrew yep i think it has got lots of potential and
you might be better off with the six inch coil too to get in amongst all the the trash because there
is a lot of trash here but you can always chop and change absolutely and i think you're dead right
i've had that little issue when you come over and check the other target for me my call was
getting multiple signals from around that target in this kind of area you could definitely see
the advantage of having a six-inch coil on your minelab equinox it might take longer to do the
area but by geez you're going to be doing it more thoroughly and this scrub and lots of nastiness
that a big coil does have trouble pushing its way through whereas the little six incher
ah can bloody go in anywhere absolutely perfect well that's it uh from gold digger dave and the
coffee bush kid we'll see you when we come back here on another episode of the minelab show
hey i got gold fever and you wouldn't believe it i'm out chasing gold and i don't want to leave it