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3 hours with the Platypus
- Thread starter Grubstake
- Start date
the next time you decide to take a particular COILTEK coil and vacuum up most of the gold in N. America could you give me some warning so I can order in about 500 of them to handle the orders?
You have single handedly caused a Platypus stampede and I don't even have one in stock.
I have them on order, but people are placing orders for them everyday, and the waiting list is getting longer and longer.
I do really love seeing all of those beautiful nuggets though so keep up the good work!
DOC
You have single handedly caused a Platypus stampede and I don't even have one in stock.
I have them on order, but people are placing orders for them everyday, and the waiting list is getting longer and longer.
I do really love seeing all of those beautiful nuggets though so keep up the good work!
DOC
Well DOC, ROB sent me an 14 inch AI coil to try out out there, you better order some more, because from what I haveseen so far just here in town, there going to be reallllly good out there. But I still love my Platypus, I'm going to hate to let Larry use it SAT, but he wants to try it out, He said he was going to get one of his own around the first. SOOO get to calling TREV, and order up. Ha! ha! GRubstake
I see it is an 11" eliptical DD.
I like the idea of it being waterproof which is a great idea and has been needed for years.
Apart from that what is the fuss about? Obviously it gets gold, but Grubbies gold has all been relatively large from what I have seen.
The real test is on the tiny bits and I have not seen any reports on this performance.
Frankly, if I was to have put up a photo of the gold I got each day last year during the dry season with my 14" eliptical mono Nugget Finder I suspect there would have been a similar rush on them as well.
I was getting gold nearly every day from "no-weighers" up to multiple gram pieces. I had several days where I got more than 20 pieces in less than half a days detecting.
Now, someone please tell me how this new Platypus coil is better than the rest. Thanks!
I like the idea of it being waterproof which is a great idea and has been needed for years.
Apart from that what is the fuss about? Obviously it gets gold, but Grubbies gold has all been relatively large from what I have seen.
The real test is on the tiny bits and I have not seen any reports on this performance.
Frankly, if I was to have put up a photo of the gold I got each day last year during the dry season with my 14" eliptical mono Nugget Finder I suspect there would have been a similar rush on them as well.
I was getting gold nearly every day from "no-weighers" up to multiple gram pieces. I had several days where I got more than 20 pieces in less than half a days detecting.
Now, someone please tell me how this new Platypus coil is better than the rest. Thanks!
The reason, there has not been any little gold, sub gram that is, is this area was screened and sluiced in the depression era, They got most or all of the really small stuff, but stuff like I'm getting did not pass through there screens. Thats why its all bigger in size. I am getting depth, most of this gold is a foot or better down, I am digging the normal stuff from mining, bits of the wire they used for there screens and sometimes #8 bird shot at depth. The coil is open style, which makes it easy to work in the brush and high grass. Plus like you said completely waterproof. and it is also very lite weight+elliptical in shape. I don't falt nuggetfinders, my uncle hunts with one in the very same patch, he has found gold, but not as many nuggets, or at the same depth. Grubstake
Yes Dave, but let's not forget, you live in Australia.
By U.S. standards of gold finding, what Grubstake is doing is what 99% of all American prospectors can only dream about.
If you go out an find a nugget in 10 hours here, you are over the moon.
Most guys average 1 nugget every 10 trips.
DOC
By U.S. standards of gold finding, what Grubstake is doing is what 99% of all American prospectors can only dream about.
If you go out an find a nugget in 10 hours here, you are over the moon.
Most guys average 1 nugget every 10 trips.
DOC
Your right Doc, I use to go out and see guys get so excited, shoveling dirt into a dry washer, and finding little bits, I call gold dust, after 6-8 hours, they would have a DWt, maybe. I know I've done it. I dredged for years, my biggest nugget dredging, was about a 1/2 oz. I did twenty oz's one summer, dredging two days aweek, because I worked the other five. I moved tons of rocks, I was having fun and getting gold. I started detecting, and found a pound in just a few weeks, its been getting better every year. We are into the 3rd week of a new year, and I have found about 3 oz's already, and all with good size. So I'm happy. My detector is old, but padfor its self in a short time. The gold I have gotten has gotten me a new excallibur, and some money, and a new hunting rifle. And the year is juststarting. I sell or trade all my gold, But once I find it its just a way to get things I can't afford other wise. This is America! I love it free interprise. And that coiltek PLATYPUS is what found it! Grubstake
Hey Dave,
its kinda like fishing, you use what ever bait works. Grubstake has just found out what they are hitting on and some of us want to get in on the rush before it changes.
Grubstake,
Poodle or Horse its all good.
DOC,
seems you have to make Grubstake a dealer
if your gona yell at him?
its kinda like fishing, you use what ever bait works. Grubstake has just found out what they are hitting on and some of us want to get in on the rush before it changes.
Grubstake,
Poodle or Horse its all good.
DOC,
seems you have to make Grubstake a dealer
if your gona yell at him?
I am very pleased for Grubby. I know how hard it can be to get onto a reliable patch of gold and the thrill of finally finding one.
However, I would love to see some more in depth reporting on the coils performance and how it stacks up against other coils. As I have asked before, what is the fuss about?
I suspect the big advantage is with it being waterproof. That alone will be enough to put it in the bag of a lot of serious detector operators.
Are there plans for a waterproof mono? Now, that would be another step forward!
However, I would love to see some more in depth reporting on the coils performance and how it stacks up against other coils. As I have asked before, what is the fuss about?
I suspect the big advantage is with it being waterproof. That alone will be enough to put it in the bag of a lot of serious detector operators.
Are there plans for a waterproof mono? Now, that would be another step forward!
Lets just put it this way, My uncle runs the same detector, minus the Platypus and Amp. he is running a 16 E DD Nuggetfinder, I and he does not think he is getting the same depth. Its for sure he is not finding as many nuggets. I ran the stock 11 inch over ther, and I don't think it does as good either. These are my opions, But to me the proof is in the amount of gold you get, we are all right in the same area. Time will tell how this 14 AI is going to do, reports on it SAT night. Grubstake. PS most of the gold is atleast 6 inches down, most in the 8-12 inch range. It is very red and mineralized clay, hard to dig, and hard to locate a target, once out of the hole, as they are in mud balls. More later Grubstake