wet/dry washer Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 at the laundry pass week, read an article about big foreign corporations have taken over the amozon, natives are being eliminated. sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Au Seeker Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 I had to remove several posts because of political content and complaints from forum members, but as we all know political discussion is not allowed per forum rules and therefore shouldn't be posted, please refrain from posting any more political content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted September 7, 2019 Author Share Posted September 7, 2019 Took a drive Wed. morning to check out a new area that I just got permission to beep the day before. The area is very large and a lot of brush and trees. It's where the slaves 200+ years ago did extensive gold digging. Lucky for me they didn't have metal detectors so if they didn't see gold in the rocks they just tossed it. I've found nuggets/rocks before in this type of ground. Came back that afternoon and had two wisdom teeth removed so now laying low taking meds until next Wed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Furness Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Good Luck on the new grounds! Ah ... Kinda old to have wisdom teeth removed ... we need all the thought process we can muster at our older age! Losing two storage units is going to cost in memory retention! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted September 8, 2019 Author Share Posted September 8, 2019 Dang Mike, never thought of things as storage units. You got me to thinking there's more to getting old than I thought. Storage units here, storage units there! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Yeah, from the aerial view, sure looks like a nice plot of ground to beep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 Heading to the new spot tomorrow morning 0545 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Have a good beeping morning Don, after some good coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted September 15, 2019 Author Share Posted September 15, 2019 Left the bakery at 06:00 got to the new area and was suited up and beeping by 07:00. Got 20 feet from the truck and got a good strong signal, was thinking can't get any better than this. Raked a little dirt back with the scoop and then ran the scoop filled dirt over the coil, yep it's in there. A long ago spent .22 short cartridge! Kept going and got about 200 yards away and spotted a hornets next on the side of a tree about waist high.The size of a 20 gallon barrel. Normally those boys are all over you before you can spot them, guess these were still asleep. Did a perfect 180 and headed for the slave digs only a few yards away. About an hour later almost ran face first into a yellow jackets nest, got close enough to see them packed on the bottom side and all moving like they do just before attacking, another fast 180 and half and hour later was at the truck sipping a cup of coffee when I spotted about 1/4 mile away heavy brown smoke headed my way, threw everything in the back and hurried away. Those heavy weeds were higher than the P/U cab and they burn really fast. Thinking maybe tomorrow would be batter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Maybe the fire will smoke out or burn the hornets nest and the yellow jackets. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Yesterday drove the 51 miles to the first turn off for my new spot to beep. Everywhere I looked was big brown smoke columns, in every direction. Still liked two miles being to my spot but after thinking about how the boys here start these fires I thought it better to wait for a couple of more days. A few years ago I had one of the local boys tell me how they start the fires. They take a candle of different lengths, depending on how long they want to wait before they have a fire. They put the candle in a small mound of dirt around it's base and then a trail of very dry weeds leading to the big stuff a couple of feet away. The candle length gives them time to be back in town drinking beer and playing footies with the ladies. That way eveybody knows where they were when the fires start and no way can they be to blame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Sort of a delayed fuse there, a self made timer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted September 29, 2019 Author Share Posted September 29, 2019 Started asking the lady that owns the new area that's 51 miles away if she is sure exactly where her land starts and ends. I want to be sure I'm on land that I have permission to hunt. I've run into some of these people before that get their land free and their a testy bunch to say the least. The last time was about three years ago with a man that said where I was detecting was his land so I ask him to see the paper/deed their given but he said no. Then out from their house came his wife about a 1/4 mile away with her machete, they were both standing between me and the truck which was another 1/4 mile away 90° in another direction. So I ask the lady how much land their given and she said 5.5 acres which I think clears me in the other dispute years ago. When I was there the other day beeping I notice white stakes about a foot long above the ground with a number painted on them. That is her ID number for the land and I'm guessing a surveyor put the stakes there so what I wanted was the GPS Lat/Long of the stakes so I can put the info on Google Earth and make a printout. The first stakes (2) started about 100 yards from her plastic sheeting house and were only about 12 feet apart which didn't make a lot of sense to me. I ask her about that and she said the land was shaped like a big Y. So the search started for #3 and #4. Never found #3 after looking for and hour in almost impossible jungle so went back to the truck in a clearing and went in the other direction and after a long walk along a fence line that was mostly cleared we found #4. The good part is the entire area is extensive old slave digs, a very good sign. Will try for #3 stake later! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 06:00 tomorrow buy cheese bread at the bakery then eat it on the way to the new spot with the slave digs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Furness Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Good luck out there! And be careful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 Got the cheese bread Mike but the weather people said lightening and TS's so I brought the bread back to the house. Lightening still going on up North. This is 14 hours later. Been hit once sure don't want to chance it a second time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 I'll take the inside corner area out by #4. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 2, 2019 Author Share Posted October 2, 2019 Good on ya rascal, that's slap dab in the middle of the heavy slave digs. The dig area there is very big and #4 is about the Southern edge. Those tiype of digs have always produced gold for me, not a lot but the right color. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 RD that's the first area I went to and worked about an hour before finding that barrel shaped hornets nest. That's the largest one of those kind I've seen here. I was maybe 30 yards from it before I saw it, I lucked out usually that kind of hornet is on you way before that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 I sort of felt like that part of the map was drawing me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_desert Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Might as well pretty the map up a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 I like that RD, headed out again tomorrow. Got new tires today so now I'm not affraid of what the cops at the road block might do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Au Seeker Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 16 hours ago, garimpo said: I like that RD, headed out again tomorrow. Got new tires today so now I'm not affraid of what the cops at the road block might do. Don do you have annual vehicle inspections down there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 No nothing like it there but there's only three ways out of town here and two of the main ones have Military Police stations that stop some traffic or none, that's when you get everything checked. If you don't have the proper paper work they just confiscate the vehicle. The last time they got me was for a chip in the wind shield. The fine was $200.00 and a new windshile was $350.00 installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 Started out again today RD got the cheese bread paid for then say the lightening in the East which is the direction I had wanted to go. Storms off and on here today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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