How hard do you work for GOLD?

Here is a video from one of my You Tube subscribers, do you go to some of the lengths that he does?

some people will go a long way to find it, they are doing it like the old timers. great video thanks HB for posting it
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stoppsy

After watching this video,and as exciting as it is i`d rather swing the detector but then again if i started to dig a deep hole knowing that there was gold at the bottom...then give me the pick,shovel and crowbar and let me at it

A beautifully shot account of dedicated prospectors....did i say dedicated.thanks for posting Johnny.

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Eureka Dreams

Good vid Hobo. Makes me want to not be sitting at the damn computer! As for how hard do we work when panning or sluicing, pretty standard.
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Chris.

Fantastic video

good vid Johnny , but watching that made me remember why i gave my high banker away a few years ago. too tough on the back.
cheers dave

hi J. top quality video prod. these guys are pro,s. great sound track. thanx for the post. cheers

Great video. I haven't done it that hard, but after a solid avo of digging and feeding material into a sluice, my back tells me that I've done the best I can.
panhead

Thanks for sharing the video hobo. It was good to see someone slaving like me. I don't think I have moved that much soil in 2011, although I did move a few large rocks. I know the hard work of panning made me buy a river sluice, still hard though especially after the wet weather moves your gravel out of your hole.

Great video..who cares about if he found anything..he found something more valuable in the quality time he spent with his (?) son and with friends in something they all enjoy...jeez the world is great.

Thanks for the video, brought back some very distant memories from when I was poking around the East Gipsland ranges. So long ago now that I sometimes wonder if it ever realy happened.

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hi HOBO
yes Darc'e in the videos is one of the most dedicated prospectors I have seen, I have spoken to him on his forum many time and cannot get over the lengths he goes to. He also makes some great high banker/sliuces just check out his Utube page

Allan in vic

Hi Hobo,
Great video,great sound track and great lengths they go to for colour.Thanks.

the-A-man

The hardest part of this project was to carry two 6hp pumps, 40 metres of pvc 100mm pipe, hoses, fuel and all the other gear 200m up a very ruggered ck, the hole we think may have been once an ancient waterfall.
The hole was nearly 20 feet deep.
We damned the creek then set up the pipe as a flume to devert the water then set the pumps going, we camped on site and it took us 2 days to get to the wash.The bed rock angled steeply down and actually went under the rock wall like a cave. we can't disclose how much gold we got as we are looking at this spot again in the future as it gets major flooding quite often.
cheers Tezz

Hi Johnny..
Nice video mate...u come along way since we used to go detecting at Dunolly.... good to see u r living the dream...

How hard do I work for gold you say? Like a banded raccoon going through the scrap bins

Cheers Kon