>Reposting from /diy/
Gold sluice
So I have a problem where I keep learning new skills that I will never use. For what ever reason this week I have an itch to find gold. There is no gold in my state (Indiana) except for specific glacier run off, but as luck would have it, there is such deposits and a large stream in my back pasture. The only thing left to do now is try to find some gold. Problem is I don't know what the hell I'm doing, so are there any amateur/professional gold prospectors here who would like to give me some tips that I may be overlooking?
As for my sluice I'm planning on running everything through a series of progressively smaller screen down to 1/4 vertically then put some sideways wood strips for my initial baffles, then some field tile spread flat for secondary, and finally some 1/4 inch hardware cloth spread over burlap to catch any fine particles. The slant I'm thinking will be around 5-8% because that's the slope of the bank I'll be working on.
As far as where I will be trying this, I have two spots in mind that I intend to try, the first is mainly medium/fine rock with silt right behind that sits just behind a 90° angle where the creek goes from narrow deep fast moving water to wide flat slower water. The second spot is a pool right in front of a culvert we put in were the water had to raise up about 2.5 feet to get through the culvert. It's almost exclusively silt/organic debris, but I'm hopping it acted as a trap giving any gold that may have washed there a chance to settle before the water moved on.
Anyone able to offer any advice for a beginner or modifications/alterations to my plan?
I'd make sure you have gold in your exact spot by panning it first before investing in a sluice. You have the right idea with reading the river but it's irrelevant if it's had many opportunities to slow down before your exact area. If you can't even pan down to a good amount of black sand a sluice is a waste, need to find better areas.
>>908240
I know non commercial quantities have been collected about 50 miles downstream so I am hoping that means some is in my area, but I'm certainly not expecting any great results. The whole point isn't actually to get gold (although it certainly would be nice) but to learn the process that's used for it. As far as costs go I have everything I need to build the sluice already, so I'm gonna build it to try playing with it.
Who knows, maybe one day I will go out west somewhere and try it for real.
You need to pan. Otherwise youre just gonna have a big dirty trough with no gold in it.
In fact, panning is probably all you really need to do. Collect enough sluice and it looks like black amd gold snot its actually p cool. The problem is youre probably just gonna end up with a fuckload of pyrite and if you try to extract the gold from the sluice youll end up with nothing, so keep the snot instead. It really does look cool.
I've been keeping an eye on end time prophecies. Apparently the Christian one about the end of the world has some merit so far. There are mass animal deaths. The sources of information on this website seem legit for the mass animal deaths.
http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/animal-deaths-birds-fish-end-times.html
Are we fucked here? I'm not sure these many animals should be dying.
you're right
better head to the highest point you can get to and wait for the end
>>907029
Probably not, given that Jesus repeatedly predicted his second coming would occur within the lifetimes of his contemporaries.
Matthew 16:27-28:
"For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done. Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
“18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.”
When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes."
>>907029
Christ tells us that we will not know when the world will end, but that the second coming will be like a thief in the night.
Brit here
planning a trip to NZ and wanting to fit in a weeks /out/ing
Any advice for NZ bush: best way to learn/any info on the flora etc, laws, fishing
also - i've got a truck there waiting for me, so im open to location suggestions
pic related, wanting something like this
>>906958
most touristy hikes are in the south island, and I definitely recommend them, though I think they're more hilly than foresty. If you're going to both islands then I believe that there are some really nice hikes in the coromandel, as well as a lot of beautiful beaches.
http://www.thecoromandel.com/activities/
Also, purely out of bias, I definitely recommend visiting lake Taupo, especially if you're going to be going during the summer (December - February).
>>906958
if you want your pic related look up blue springs
i recommend do fuck everything on the south island and on the northisland go to lake waikaremoana
Man that waterway reminds me of this scene.
https://youtu.be/MH_MObR3G54
Also will you be visiting straya at all?
Can someone educate me on wtf this is? Saw it a while back leaving uni around sunset and took a pic and I just cant wrap my head around how this exists
I was kinda high atm I saw this so fingerprint cloud felt surreal as hell,
This was maybe a year ago i just never posted em
Its obv. God
t. Christian
>>906824
Looks like pileus on top of towering cumulus or cumulonimbus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_(meteorology)
I swear, this device is a blessing. Perfect for any girl who spends a lot of time outside. Much better than squatting!
>>906601
Shewee shills get out
Seems pretty unsanitary to just let urine dribble through your piss flaps and out of a funnel, and then what do you do with the piss soaked funnel? Throw it in your backpack and let piss particles contaminate everything you have with you?
is there one for taking a stream of shit
Anybody else feel the urge to just leave behind your life and start road tripping through the country? Just go from town to town sleeping in your car and working odd jobs whenever you need cash. Sounds like such a nice life.
Anybody here ever done something like this? How long did you do it for and what was it like? What was is like settling down again after doing it?
Pretty sure almost every single person wants to just get up and go on a journey you special snowflake princess. Also it's not 1940. You can't just go to towns doing "odd jobs." You need to save up for all your expenses you will need.
>odd jobs
It's not 1930. No one is going to hire you on the spot for a day/week doing anything. If it was that easy, everyone would have work.
>Craigslist>gigs>labor
>Craigslist>jobs>etc
How retarded is this idea?
>Know nothing about climbing
>Don't know anyone who does
>Want to try it, don't wanna die
>Thinking about finding an easy wall that I can walk to the top of it
>Find an anchor and tie the rope to it
>Go back down and try to climb it
Am I going to break my back?
>>905559
Yes. But there are many ways to belay yourself without a partner, just google them.
Also learn how to learn to properly anchor a rope to a wall.
>>905561
What's wrong with my idea?
>>905559
Go to a climbing gym.
Samwise is prepared
Yeah I think he sucks. He does have a little fat in him so he could survive without food for awhile but that's his only upside.
>>904260
>stupid fat hobbit
Finally someone who agrees! That fatty can eat Harambe 5 times over.
It's finally December, so as agreed back in October, the Secret Santa thread is back.
In the past /out/ has used the Amazon wishlist option, where folks randomly post their Amazon wishlist links and hope that someone buys something on their list for them.
In this format, each person fills out the google form provided as a link in the pastebin below. You pick a price bracket between $10-50 and write in your own wishlist, things you'd want to receive. Then, in a few weeks you'll get matched with someone from the same price bracket as yourself.
After you get paired, you will receive an email with your target's wishlist and mailing information. (We've never had an issue with someone abusing their targets information in the 5 years that /k/ has been doing Secret Santa this way)
>note, you won't be getting a gift from the same person you're giving a gift too
Matchings are a "round robin format"
A gives a gift to B, B gives a gift to C, C gives a gift to D, D gives a gift to A, etc.
This is the format that /a/, /cgl/, /k/, and several other boards have used successfully for years. I personally have assisted with /k/'s Secret Santa for the last 3 years and have found this format to be the best way to ensure everyone gets a match.
http://pastebin.com/XmsSN6jU
There are additional details on the form itself, google forms can't be posted on 4chan as they trigger the spam filter, so copy and past the google link that is inside the pastebin link above. Additional instructions can be found on the google form.
If you have any questions feel free to ask them here or email me
[email protected]
>>903808
It seems like the general consensus is that we'll be doing an amazon wishlist mega thread in addition to this.
>>904024
But this makes sure that everyone that posts an Amazon link will actually get something, not like in the past year when a bunch of people that posted early on got a bunch of stuff and those that joined later got nothing...
>>904038
That whole Amazon wishlist idea how they were doin it is retarded. I could post like 10 wishlists throughout the thread and get a bunch of stuff without buying a single thing for anybody else.
Pluis secret santa gifts should be a suprise.
/in/ - indoors
>>903619
I'm a big fan of the Florida room or the garage. One foot /in/, one foot /out/.
>>903619
Is it bad that I love it?
Best antiprespirant?
Probably not that knife
>>902218
>2016 not cutting your sweat glands out.
It's current year anon.
>>902214
I like mitchum unscented
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>>902133
Pic related is the template for the OP pic.
>>902133
tfw when my carob tree seeds won't sprouts
Did some rearranging. I think I overestimated how much space I would have and I feel like I'm gonna get very cramped very soon
What would you guys do if the world was suddenly unable to use electricity or high energy explosives (gunpowder, tnt, etc)? Would you organize people behind you or would you go off by yourself in a world like that?
cities will become shitholes, at least in the short term, You'd have to make the bug out/in call really fast.
would cars work?
if so, then it would be possible to get somewhere really remote that most people wouldn't think of running away to
if not, then you'd get killed in your sleep the first night hiking out of town
My first choice would be to go innawoods with my family and start a homestead there.
>>901771
Holy shit was that book bad. It's basically a "wiccans and minorities are good and Christians/fucking white men are bad". I bailed on it before I got through 100 pages.
To answer your question, OP, I would try to organize my neighborhood as we've got lots of land and cattle around us. Also a Cabelas is right down the street, so we could raid it for all the archery and other equipment we would need.
If that feel on its face then, I'd pack up the family and walk/bike to muy brother's house or near the Brazos river. It'd take a couple of days using back roads to avoid the main part of Fort Worth, but we could make it.
>>901796
That's true, Bubba from Alabama who posts on /pol/ probably isn't going to like it because it isn't The Turner Diaries. But then it's shocking you can read anyway.
Official Winterball Thread!
Official couples:
/pol/o/
[s4s]/c/
/m/int/
/cgl/u/
/d/toy/x/mlp/
/his/tg/vp/
/cm/qst/
/fit/lit/
/a/g/
/k/an/
/co/ck/
/aco/wsr/
/out/vr/ Are going camping
[r9k] will orbit /int/
This year, /out/ is going camping with /vr/.
We are not taking part in the Wacky Races, as far as I know.
We have yet to decide what we will wear.
We have yet to decide where we will be staying, ideally some-where with an outlet for /vr/ to charge his games.
>>901014
Cool. I'm a NEC Turbografx 16 guy anyway. I was even looking at a usb powered, portable DLP and travel screen with dc/dc convertor to run it while /out/!
How /out/+/r/ is that?
>>901014
>/pol/o/
https://youtu.be/MzrWtFCXvhY
>>901014
>/co/ck/
I see what you did there.
What do you guys think about Anoraks?
Personally, i love them. The pocket on the stomach is great. There is no zipper who can break.
>>896813
isn't this one a milsurp joint? Gotta say the UK ones look pretty on point too. I think they call them smocks.
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