g'day guys how are you today ? i recently received a request from one of you guys about
showing a video on how i pack all my prospecting gear on the bike
so today i thought i'd go through what i take out with me, how i get it on the
bike, and yeah give you guys a bit of a look, so stick around and we'll go through it all
alrighty then so starting over from this side here, obviously camelback for my water, three
litre bladder in that one, and i think that's ambush camelback so it comes with a couple of
pockets as well, you can see here that opens up and then we've got another pocket up in the
top here, so this stuff here goes in my camelback
bandages, and a bit of basic first aid, a couple of dressings and band-aids a little bit of
antiseptic cream in there, now i carry several bandages probably five or six of them in there
basically carry that number of bandages in case of snakebite, you want to be carrying enough bandages
to be able to completely bandage a leg from the tip of your toes to the top of your leg
um pretty important there in the australian bush got some pretty dangerous snakes out there
so they're definitely a must in my opinion, the other things i carry in the camelbak
a poncho just a plastic poncho in case i get caught out in the rain could be useful
takes up very little room, i also have a space blanket, a thermal blanket just in case of
get caught out in the cold stuck out there for some reason overnight
just again takes up next to no room so why not, emergency whistle,
carry an old compass, snuffer bottle and a bit of tape and that's also just a plastic bag
that can be screwed up and stuck in there as well, so that stuff all fits into my camelbak
and yeah fairly important stuff it's generally the stuff i like to have on me at all times
particularly the bandages the whistle and even the compass, so if you're further off from the bike
that stuff's with me and i don't have to stress about needing that
and not being able to get back to it, so yeah water and basic emergency supplies
okay so then over this side, i've got the big duffel bag up here i'll give you a look at
in a minute, and all of this stuff you can see here in front pretty much packs up into that bag
including the gold monster, so starting up the back there i've got a bit of stuff for the bike
i've got a can of the tyre puncher repair stuff now i've never used that but hopefully it'd be
good enough to get me out of a sticky situation at least good enough to inflate the tire to get
me back up to the closest road, keep a security chain just to lock my helmet up to the bike
uh i've got my hat, glove and some safety goggles over there, safety goggles are mainly just if i
get caught out after dark, having a tinted visor on my helmet clear safety goggles are useful
plenty of cable ties and some more tape, i've got my leg bag here this is generally just
what i put all my finds in, it's has a bit of a tool belt on it so i can hang my pick from my waist
got my scoop hanging from that and a bush knife, this bag also contains my handheld gps
just for plotting locations and things, all my specimen jars and i also always take a little
portable ash tray out with me being a smoker don't like putting my cigarettes out in the bush
i always make sure they come home with me, i've got the straps over there for strapping everything to
the bike, and generally if i'm filming all my camera gear, goes in the bag as well
so yeah as i say all that fits in this duffel bag quite nicely, so i'll pack it in and show you how
it goes, all right so a quick look at this bag, now this is just a cheap amazon bag duffel bag
see the label on it there nex usa pack um i can't remember exactly what it cost or what
size it was but yeah fairly cheap and it's got lots of pockets on it pockets up the ends more
pockets on the ends of those a few pockets across the front um pretty sturdy pretty strong and gets
all that gear in without any problem, now what i do do on the inside here you can see i've added
several bits of cushion foam, just old foam, i just pack in around the sides there which is
basically just to help protect the gold monster when it's in there
if i drop the bike or whatnot, going over the bumpy terrain it just keeps everything nice and
secure inside stops it from floating around too much, so i'll get the stuff packed in there and
give you a look at what it looks like, all right so one of the great things about this little gold
monster unit is you can see how small that all breaks down to, the shaft comes apart
and i'll generally just leave the control box on the end of the shaft there no point
no reason to be taking that off and same with the coil it's always just plugged in
and i'll just take it off the bottom of the shaft there and slip that all into the bag
and simple as that so i'll just keep the
gold monster upright and in it goes, from there i'll generally put in my pick
now just as a safety precaution i keep a bit of garden hose, i'll just jam on the end of the pointy
end, and that also stops the pick from just pushing through the bag, wearing a hole out in the bag and
always put it this way so control box up that end and the other end of the pick up the opposite end
and if i remember the pointy end i'll almost always put down like that
in that goes, no worries from there it's my
tool bag which has normally got all this other stuff in it
so my tool bag and scoop so i slide the scoop down in there, this stuff here goes underneath
generally sits nice and flat like that, the bag gets done up,
and my end pockets are generally all my stuff like my hat, can of spray and camera gear
so i'll stick all that in, and give you a look, so here my little gopro box just in the end there
got my hat, i have a hat with a fly net on it if you've ever spent any time out in the bush
you know how annoying the flies get, so that's another sort of must-have
in my opinion, nothing worse than being out there on a hot day and the bloody flies
bugging you all day, and just a glove, and as i say my safety glasses down in the other end here
they get done up, and that's my bag packed
strap the handles together, and that along with my camelback
is ready to be strapped to the bike
all right and so putting it all on the bike, you can see on the dr here i've got quite a large
rack, that rack came from cycleracks.com
it also doubles as a bit of a crash bar as well, when i drop the bike it comes out and
it protects the indicators and the side of the bike quite nicely so it's quite a good little rack
and you can see the duffel bag simply fits on that almost perfectly, have a look from the back here
and you can see it's almost side to side
so yeah not much to it that just gets strapped down to the rack with my straps, and away i go
the bag generally just stays there when i get out to my little prospecting areas, i can open
it up just loosen the straps off, open him up and access all my gear without too many worries
now the gs back here, i'm still in the process of setting that up for this coming season
i've got a few bits and pieces in the mail on their way to me, so i'll do a video on those
in the next week or two when they arrive, but it should be pretty much the same deal
gs actually came with the decent rack on the back there
so i'm sure i'll manage to get the bag strapped up on him, without too many issues
and yeah all the prospecting gear for a decent day trip, on the back of a bike without any problems
so i hope you found that a little bit interesting maybe a bit useful
thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one
cheers
you