A little Arizona AU for your viewing pleasure...

Haven't posted much lately, too busy at my day job, the one that pays for the money I lose prospecting...

Thought I'd share a few little samples of some I've dug up lately... my gold gettin rig and the view when I stop swinging coil at night..... (I usually don't have the black box on the back but this was an extended duration trip and I had extra gear to take).

Jen

Wonderful report Jen. Love the wheels on that Quad bike  Well done on the gold, cheers Pete.

piston broke wrote:Wonderful report Jen. Love the wheels on that Quad bike  Well done on the gold, cheers Pete.

Cheers... thanks Pete... (subbed to your youtube channels).

Jen

I don't do much video uploading but threw a couple up... I find so much trash in this area I never start the camera before digging but they're honest finds. (Note, I find that it weighs more if you slam the nugget onto the scale... LOL (it was a long day and I'd just driven back to Vegas from the gold fields and was half asleep)).

Thanks Jen for a great post,your hard work has paid off with some lovely finds.

deutran wrote:Thanks Jen for a great post,your hard work has paid off with some lovely finds.

Thank you kind sir... my dog taught me everything I know.

There are a couple others at this link, with another little vid:

http://arizonaoutback.ipbhost.com/topic/13500-thank-you-chris-azo-great-customer-service/

Well done Jen. It looks like your killing it over there. Very nice gold and great vid's.
wombat

Well done. Thanks for sharing some of your gold adventures with us & best of luck to you all out there, prospecting for the golden ointment Jen.

Cheers Kon.

nice gold mate done well how do you find the solid tyres on your quad??? not to bumpy

joe82 wrote:nice gold mate done well how do you find the solid tyres on your quad??? not to bumpy

Thanks everyones... appreciate the support... I'm about to head back out for the next few months (my job allows me to work remote so I do from 6am till 2pm my bill paying job) then hit the gold fields... I can work from home so take my caravan out and park it on the fields and away I go... life's good.

Joe, I LOVE this ATV.... in 2014 the US Govt contracted with Polaris to make a military version of the Sportsman 850 subframe system. They had specific requirements for it and after fullfilling the govt contract, Uncle Sam gave them approval to sell remaining stock to the idiots like me that had more money than brains, didnt mind it waying like 1,500lb and bonded tires requiring a $1,000.00 USD purchase for each tire when they eventually need replacement... but you know what... it's the best money I ever spent... unlike the civilian line, this has dual fuel tanks, upgraded EVERYTHING, and obviously no worries about a flat.

The military version is called the MV850 (military vehicle), the civilian ones they sold in ONLY one year (2014) is called the WV850 (working vehicle)... exact same rig, different paint is all (well the military version has a roll bar near where the windshield should be, to save those soldiers who roll it apparently).

The only drawback is that when in what we call a wash (gravel filled dry river bed), the honeycombs get filled up by rocks and once you get on hard pack, your'e still getting thwapped in the back of the head with pebbles... LOL (actually it's not that bad, the foot wells are wider than stock for the big military booties so that keeps some of it down.

It fits into the back of my Toyota Tundra with a long bed 8'... but just barely...

MV850
https://military.polaris.com/en-us/sportsman-mv-850/

Polaris wil provide ATV All-Terrain Vehicles MV850 to army and Special Forces of Germany
https://www.armyrecognition.com/september_2013_defense_industry_military_news_uk/polaris_wil_provide_atv_all-terrain_vehicles_mv850_to_army_and_special_forces_of_germany_1409131.html

https://gas2.org/2013/09/23/army-now-airless-tires-hit-battlefield-w-video/






WV850

Great pics and vids..some nice looking gold too Thanks for sharing your adventures with us

That is one beast of a quad bike,would love to get me one of those,but at the price of two GPZ7000's,a bit above my pay grade

Cheers...Dave

Sharkbait wrote:Great pics and vids..some nice looking gold too Thanks for sharing your adventures with us

That is one beast of a quad bike,would love to get me one of those,but at the price of two GPZ7000's,a bit above my pay grade

Cheers...Dave

Thanks Dave... they're actually surprisingly not that dear... I purchased mine new in Nov. 2017 (it had been sitting in storage since new as a collectors item and never ridden) but you can still find good deals on them due to the age, even down under I bet. They pop up on Craigslist here (at dealers mainly) so I imagine Gumtree there... or any of the specialty bike classifieds.

Nice Jen!

Watch out for every bush/tree/cactus/flower/weed/blade of grass over there. I'm sure you're well aware that absolutely every single living thing has hypodermic needles attached to it in your part of the world, destined to cause you excruciating pain.

But man is it pretty... Gotta love AZ.

Thankyou Jen.
I enjoyed the viewing very much

Thanks for sharing with us all

avon g wrote:Nice Jen!

Watch out for every bush/tree/cactus/flower/weed/blade of grass over there. I'm sure you're well aware that absolutely every single living thing has hypodermic needles attached to it in your part of the world, destined to cause you excruciating pain.

But man is it pretty...  Gotta love AZ.

This coming from someone living in a country where anything with an eye can kill you, WANTS to kill you and those that appear harmless as they tuck in their Joey, in a flash of light make it across the paddock before you’ve even had a chance to say “Hey Skippeeeeeeeee” (your voice trailing off into blood curdling screams) as it balances on its tail like some sadistic magical carnival act and in a flurry of flailing paws and claws your left standing in a pile of strips of your own flesh, skeleton exposed with nothing more to say than “Hey bartender, give me a Bundy and Coke...... and a mop” (think about it, it’ll come to you eventually)

I have snake chaps, when they invent “everything that moves” chaps, let me know.  

Jen

Jen wrote:Thankyou Jen.
I enjoyed the viewing very much

Thanks for sharing with us all

Thank you Jen, great name!!!

bloody impressive to say the least definitely a top set up your running there mate good luck on the gold8)

Howzat it goin .Crikey I can see ya looooove your toys ,i'm green with envy ,and yeah i'd love a set of those tyres on my quad too , do they stiff'n the ride much ? And what no Dodge or Ram ,Chev or F truck     I guess that's what we mostly see outa the states on TV ,every one driving a big pick up  There's a few Toyota Tundra's floating about down here ,what's yours 6-8 ,diesel or petrol ??
                          Oh yeah , I forgot , the Gold ,lovely eye candy ,much of it looks a bit coarse ,what purity does it have  on average ??
                         Mmmm ,the skipee scenario ,well after much thought ,I concluded that on a visit to Aus , and deciding to take the locals on in a drinking match , you'd maybe had too many Bundy's & Coke and In a drunken state of mind ,or in the horror's ,dreamt the scenario ,and the mop was for cleaning up afterwards ,plus all the prawns you'd chucked on the Barby  

Great post, I don,t know how I missed it. Later is better than never however.

Congratulations, Jen! I've never even thought to find something there but now I'll try!

Nice nuggies Jennifer

mungass wrote:Nice nuggies Jennifer

Thank you mungass, adorable picture you're using.

I didn't really see an "off topic" area but couldn't help saying how proud I am off all the Aussies kicking our arses in Reno (I watch a lot of Aus TV/Youtube/News).

This is only a couple hours from an area called Rye Patch, Nevada where I detect for a few months each Summer, as a dual Canadian/US citizen, my allegiance is obviously to my commonwealth brothers and sisters... WELL DONE!!

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.. Oi Oi Oi !!!!



Jen

Thanks for the video

geof_junk wrote:Thanks for the video  

You’re very welcome Geof.
Jen

Gday. Makes ya proud,and the speed,is that around 360 miles an hour? . thanks Jen.
Regards
big fella

big fella wrote:Gday. Makes ya proud,and the speed,is that around 360 miles an hour? . thanks Jen.
Regards
big fella

372.823MPH to be exact and ya, you all should be proud.... just shows how much bigger your    are than the yanks.

372.823MPH to be exact and ya, you all should be proud.... just shows how much bigger your    are than the yanks.

Except those Yanks that have a bit of Canadian blood in them.  

yeah sweet , to the tune of Acca Dacca ....well done Jen