(meteorobs) OT -GeoZay
GeoZay at aol.com
GeoZay at aol.com
Sun Jun 29 14:37:22 EDT 2008
>>Don't get me started! I used to dive for placer in the mother load with
Hookah & my Scuba (Certified) air with a 4" surface dredge and a 6"
subsurface.dredge tube. Did it for years with a club I had formed in General
Dynamics, Pomona around 1975 thru1979.<<
I got pretty much the same equipment...but apparently a lot more recent. :O)
My partners use a 6 incher. A 4 inch is about all I can handle with my wife
as the tender. Getting a little weaker in my older years. I've been working a
big gravel bar these last few years. My partners are probably the best
dredger's I've ever came across. They do things in the river that I never thought
was possible...such as dredging all the way across the river under very high
rapids in water between 8 and 25 feet deep (to bedrock). I'll never get over
that. They got it down to an art.
>>You NEVER, EVER get rid of the urge to get wet & dive again for Placer.
(We)
and occasionally just me & my son, worked a lessor known river that usually
gets by-passed by modern dredge get-rich-quick people.<<
Nope you never do.
>>2-3 miles up the Merced R. from Hwy. 49. Good Placer still left in the
bedrock cracks when exchequer(sp?) dam backs the.water up high enough to
boat the equip. in.<<
I think I know the area...Bagby? Never dredged there, but did a lot of
busting rocks and panning. Didn't do too bad, but it was still a lot of work for
the return. Lately that area has been under too much water and the Forest
Service hasn't been issuing any permits. Although they may have started up again
these last few months since the low rainfall this year. Haven't checked the
water levels around there lately.
>>But I don't think about it anymore...... ;-) <<
Well...if you get curious about our site, you're welcome to take a look. :O)
Don't adjust your computers folks...now back to meteors. :O)
G. Zay
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