Follow the Hoe in the Snow

[Allen in MT]

I guess I'm fortunate in that I have a chance to follow a digging operation. Even when it gets cold and snows these guys keep a digging. They don't have time to shut down and check to see what is being lost. They clean to the paylayer and then take the paylayer and about 2 feet under it. There are those occasions because of the uneveness of the bedrock they can't scrape the bottom clean and are using a toothed bucket. so that is where every now and then I get lucky. Anything over an ounce I split with the owner and under an ounce is mine.
These little pickers were from about an hours time in the pit. And that water can be mighty cold and the mud is plenty slick, but fun nun the less.
enjoy and HAGD
Allen in MT

 

[FlakMagnet]

All I can say is
you earned those nuggets...

us whimpy desert hunters just cringe when we see snow on the edge of a hole like that.

 

[Hoser John]

Your testicular fortitude is amazing!!You can't find much worse conditions to work in even if ya tried!1Youz da man AMT!!You deserve every frigid ounce ya find.Tons a au 2 u 2-John

 

[VT Dave]

n/t

 

[pdeere]

Allen
Are you talking about the back hoe or the gold hoe? Nice work!

Luck
Paul