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Or make your own, Sean. Being a bit cheep myself, I shelled out a little more for one of those gasless wire welders off CL ($125) and have used it to make all sorts of tools for getting gold. Riffle bars, a grizzley, and then a couple weeks ago, a pick from a broken shovel. It's pretty easy with the wire feed -just point and pull the trigger. The hard part is figuring out what you want and where to get the scrap metal for cheep -our local dump has a recycle area where people drop off vaguely useful stuff and other people can buy it for cheep... The other reason to go this route, at least for me, is that making tools is almost as much fun as looking for gold, and I can do it in all the time I can't get away to the mountains...

That was my first time in a hydrolic pit and first chance to look at the topography -should I tend to focus on the low spots where gold would have washed to, the high spots where gold might never have moved from, or the slopes where it might have gotten hung up? I know, gold is where you find it, but what does the wisdom of experience say? And do you guys work the areas to the West, with white dirt and manzanita and piles of head sized rocks, or the area to the East where there's actual dirt and more modern trash? Matt, carpooling would be sweet; it's really the drive and the gas that kill me. You stay over up there or just go for the day? You go on weekends or during the week? I'm pretty busy during the week but I could take a day off now and then. Weekends are pretty busy -I only get up to the mountains once a month or so... But maybe having someone to go with would make it a little easier. -Peter

Hey all, I went to the dump and found my share of square nails, bullets, shot, and other odds and ends -but in amongst all that I found this little bit of gold. 0.3g isn't much, but I'm pleased none the less. I don't think I can get back to gold country until late November, but when I do, It'd still be great to meet up with someone who knows a thing or two about it...

El Dorado, sorry to hear you won't make it. I'm still on for 9:00 sat at the dump -at least until I get fed up with nails. I might still be around Sunday -what time do you think you'll be down at Shirttail creek?

El Dorado, sorry to hear you won't make it. I'm still on for 9:00 sat at the dump -at least until I get fed up with nails. I might still be around Sunday -what time do you think you'll be down at Shirttail creek?

Where's the there, there? Looking for a dump in Forresthill, all I find is the transfer station in town. I'll shoot to be there at 9:00. White subaru.

I'll be in the area Sat & Sun but without internet, so if anyone will be out and can put up with the company, let me know by Friday afternoon the where and the when.

Hey all, I'll go wherever I can get some help; but I guess I vote less trash -cause I'm in the same boat as all those noobs who couldn't find anything behind the dump for all these years. Just let me know where and when and I'll show up, though. -Peter

El Dorado, is that an invitation I could take you up on? I've been up on the South Yuba the last two summers learning about sluicing and crevicing but I got a GMT a month ago and took it up along the river, just downstream of Humbug and got skunked -other than some lead shot and .22 shells. Looks like I don't know crap about finding gold above the water line -so it'd be great to go detecting with someone who knows what they're doing.