YOU KNOW ITS BAD WHEN......

Draining the rice off in the sink with the water running and your looking for gold flecks....

Do you run your rice thru a sluice? Before u pan off the concentrates?

When you keep checking out your tyres just in case you pick up the odd nugget from the gold fields

Even worst if you weren't looking and a 2 ounce nugget slipped through the holes in your colander! You would never forgive yourself?
As for checking tyre tread, how about mud flaps with catchment built in! Bye!

You've spent 6 months panning 1/2oz of fine gold only to drop the glass container on a rock causing it to break in a running stream.

twobit wrote:Draining the rice off in the sink with the water running and your looking for gold flecks....

and recycle the water.

someday wrote: how about mud flaps with catchment built in!

I wonder if my next prospecting rig should be a 'scraper'

TwoBit, stay away from the corn if rice is doin ya head in


I hope that you don't swallow a piece then....you'll be sifting through more than rice then

I looked in the microwave oven and saw a round nugget finder spoked coil in stead of the rotisserie plate.I think this hobbie is getting the better of me.
Steve

Goldstalker, that's even better than the mud flap idea? Back home at the end of your gold driving trip, park the car over the specially designed 15X6 foot gold retention pan and hose your car from the inside! Hmm

Ya dream of opening a car wash in the triangle ,then recycle the water.

when you clean 25 grams off gold and the hole container falls down the plug hole...so evey time i go to wash my hands i check to see if any gold containers are sitting there just incase it happens again......
cheers
stoppsy

when detecting gold goes in the bottle
shotgun pelets go in back pocket
i always check the washing machine
often find a pc of gold in there
always check those pellits

Stopsy gold has to be in the S bend
done the same stupid thing

when you can't sleep because you'r too exited about going detecting tomorrow
got it bad
Clint

When you find a nice patch.......but it`s at the wrong end of an old riffle range oh adwata!!! i wish i still shared ur enthusiasm about tomorrow I just want to sleep for a week but the missus won`t let me

Gday

When you are on a cruise ship to Bali for twelve days and all you can think about is you would rather be in the bush prospecting.

Or when you get married on the weekend and then go bush Monday for two weeks with the boys, still copping it about that one

I must have other attributes that she likes

cheers

stayyerAU

Or when your wife falls over in the diggings and you bend down a pick up a chunck of Quartz instead of her....

Or everytime you drive through a goldfield you turn to look at an interesting roadside cutting and nearly drive into oncomming traffic or off the road......

When you get a "Hall Pass" and you go detecting instead

this is some funny stuff lol

Your raking leaves with a headset on!

Digging the wife a garden and using a miners pick instead of a digging fork.

you wish the lawnmower was a coilteck coil that big.

everytime you hear the word "mine" you immediatley think of your minelab detector

When driving your eyes are focused on soil, road cuttings, "wonder if theres gold there!"

shaking another prospectors hand and you shake left to right in a slow motion rather than up and down, thinking "oh yeah hes got a 10 ouncer in his pocket for sure!"

Gus wrote:Or when your wife falls over in the diggings and you bend down a pick up a chunck of Quartz instead of her....

Or everytime you drive through a goldfield you turn to look at an interesting roadside cutting and nearly drive into oncomming traffic or off the road......

HAHA I love it!!

twobit wrote:this is some funny stuff lol

Your raking leaves with a headset on!

Digging the wife a garden and using a miners pick instead of a digging fork.

you wish the lawnmower was a coilteck coil that big.

everytime you hear the word "mine" you immediatley think of your minelab detector

When driving your eyes are focused on soil, road cuttings, "wonder if theres gold there!"

shaking another prospectors hand and you shake left to right in a slow motion rather than up and down, thinking "oh yeah hes got a 10 ouncer in his pocket for sure!"

When you go into a pet shop and get distracted by the Quartz in the bottom of a fish tank
Cheers Dig

....When ya sweep the floor in a sidways motion and then pan off the contents of the dustpan.

.....When ya take the kids to the park but ya won't let them play until you have detected the area thoroughly.

....When ya sieve the contents of the vaccuum cleaner.

....When ya search pot holes in the road for the odd chance...

....When ya set up camp and dig a hole for the camp dunny cause the missus is bustin, but have to detect the hole for gold nuggets first.

i was talking to the other half about gold sluice the other day and the first thing she said to me this morrning was " i bloody had a dream about you buying this bloody gold sluice and you found heaps off gold with it, i couldn't believe i had to dream something like that".... now to just keep talking about stuff i wont and hope she just keeps dreaming off it and gets sick off it and just say buy the bloody thing...
cheers
stoppsy

Or when every new item of clothing has to be either camo or Khaki....

Or every time you read Gold,Gem and Treasure magazine you break out in a cold sweat.....

Or....I forget...I was day dreaming of gold

You know it's bad when you know there's little to no gold in a stream, But you still pan anyway for 2 dozen specs with a total value of a buck!

you watch someone swill wine at a resturant and think "oh yeah he pans gold"

Wishing i was Jonathan Porter .... GOD help me .

You pan during your lunch break instead of eating at work.
Glad i am not the only one who checks road cuttings, I thought i was weird ..ffhheww Glad i am not...
You swing in the rain, with a tick in your eye and a snake at your feet, and only worry if water is getting into the detector.
Then you don the headlamp for a night swing because you didnt get anything that day, become disorientated in the dark, and wonder how long its going to be until the sun comes up..
Think about the water filtration systems for our drinking water and wonder where the concentrates are poured.
Look for where the beach scraper on the back of the tractor dumps his waste.
Think about cleaning out the old dentists "S" bend.
This topic will never end, wondering how much gold is in the PC i am typing on...
25 tonne of mobile phones = 10 kilo of 22 ct gold.
we are surrounded by it, and its still hard to find....

when you miss a day
all days are good days
you miss one your gone
so have a good day
Clint

when you nearly run off the road cause your rubber neck is doin overtime looking out the back window at those slender hot sexy looking quartz veins in the road cuttings and then think "oohhhh yeaahh baby, i'm gunna stop and wave my wand over you"