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Detecting in South Africa

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1190 on: July 28, 2011, 02:58:34 pm »

Hell yes

Did not find the photos that I was looking for but found some of some machines that I designed and build had to scan them so the quality aint that good want me to post them? not that it has much to do with TH :-

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Found them quality is lousy but I will try and get them better at some time heck they were taken 20 years ago LOL

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1191 on: July 28, 2011, 03:12:25 pm »

Wow, who was that chap in the last photo.... Grin

I nearly had an heart attack Amen

That looks like a machine for breathing pipes of some sort.... for the diving Idea

Great photo's....

Homefire, we have big vehicles where the tires are the height of a man, these vehicles are being driven underground..... They strip the vehicle down to nothing and send it down the shaft in a small train carriage, to be re-assembled again underground..... These vehicles have V16 engines..... The underground train used to ride for about 1/2 an hour to take us to our place of work...... the tunnels are about 6 metres (18 Feet) square...... To go down the shaft, we used to go down in an elevator at 16 metres (48 feet) a second. Man that is scary...

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1192 on: July 28, 2011, 04:06:19 pm »

Sh@# I think I'm starting to get old and I don't like the idea of this at all. Would love to go back to west coast for a while but not to go diamond diving but rather to explore the desert. He he he with what I know now I would not come back empty handed...Coming with? Looking at the first photo is the compressor and two length of 100m air lines the six guys you see there were my survival kit they took good care of me no mater what and when I gave the signal to pull me out all six of them would pull it took six people to pull a diver out the water from 100m off shore against the currents and the sea weed I have a photo of Stompie he was my best guy the smallest of them all but a real fighter. I'll scan the photo tomorrow to post it.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1193 on: July 28, 2011, 10:51:20 pm »

Would love to see the photo's Great

I also believe I would come back with some finds on a trip like that Shocked

I think being on the end of those pipes must of been crappy work Teach

I will stay on the beach and sunbathe Hello

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1194 on: July 29, 2011, 01:47:18 am »

Hi Xavier ! That was VERY nice Cryfish ! Nothing wrong to have one of this from the braai on the beach ! Kiss

I was doing some cryfish diving around
False Bay,Rooi Els, Bettys Bay - very exciting , especially, when some " tooth-one " start appearing around !!! Shocked

How deep do you go , when digging for diamonds ? Hope that you still got few of this expensive " crystals " in yours safe ?

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1195 on: July 29, 2011, 02:33:32 am »

Hey Bones How are you doing Grin

We only went to about seven meters some of the guys working off the boats went to twelve meters. There were 32 crayfish took them out in about one hour there were so many in those day's mind you I guess that there are still plenty as only a few of us were allowed in the area. Diamond in my safe? no mate there never were any in my safe as they were sold as soon as we found them by the concession holder.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1196 on: July 29, 2011, 02:53:40 am »

Just pulling yours pants , my friend ! Cheesy

Guess , if you had few of this nice stones , you would be drinking Margarita with Paris Hilton in Florida by now !!! Kiss

There is still lots of Cryfish ,but one have to go quiet far and deep , > 8 m to get big one , and you get permit to catch only 4 per day- and Police is checking it regularly ! Unfortunately , almost all , poor , perlemoens are gone , because of this chinese , who poaching them by tons , same like rhinos , because they believe that it will give them cosmic erection !!! Angry

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1197 on: July 29, 2011, 08:44:43 am »

Do you think that they know that the horn is only hair? I remember when I was living in Simon's town next to the navy base there were some nice perlemoen there big one's too. And alikrics (Not suer on the spelling) by one's use to put them on the fire with butter and garlic .

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1198 on: July 29, 2011, 09:45:17 am »

Hi Bones

Xavier was with Paris Hilton last week, drinking something..... Shocked

is it Crayfish or Cryfish Cry

umm, I am not allowed to eat that shelly stuff, allergic to Iodine....

Who is going tecting this weekend? Huh?

Besides me Kiss

I am going back to that house site again, to check out the cows..... and Bones Funny

If Silki is Bones, does that mean Bones are Silkies Laughing

X, I have started that help file,will carry on with it tonight also..... This base is quite exciting Great

Everyone else is wondering what the hell are these guys talking about Mad

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #1199 on: July 29, 2011, 02:41:33 pm »

Yeh and lets keep it that way till it's ready for distribution I think that they will love it. I'm hopeful that there will be sun shine on Sunday well I do hope so as I still have not done that testing that needs to be done with the new mod but it dose look promising. My brother in law spoke to me yesterday now he wants to know when I coming up to visit him then he tells me that I must fix the roof on the flat Grin

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