My BIGGEST Gold Nugget Was Under This Boulder!!
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- Опубліковано 29 лют 2020
- I went out today to mine some nugget gold using my wash plant and I found a big gold nugget under a boulder! When I move boulders I normally find gold nuggets but this one was my biggest gold nugget yet!
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Wow, I’m surprised to hear that that’s your biggest nugget… For all your digging! Wishing you lots of more success! Miner’s rock!! ❤️💛💚
I think a 30 ton bottle jack and some cribbing would come in real handy at times.
I agree. I worked in heavy industry for over 30 years. And I haven't seen anything that can't be moved with the right size portable hydraulic jacks. When you properly rig a 100 ton hydraulic jack against a movable object--something is going to give. It's simple leverage at work.
Thank you Pauly for luring me to this madness. 🔥🍀 great work Andy! Love it.
Lol thankyou
Au-some :)
That’s a magnificent looking nug , congrats is due !! Many of us go a lifetime hunting one piece like that and it doesn’t come , well done Andy and Brian !!
AUmigo Gold thanks so much, you are so right about that, it’s a nice confirmation to the girlfriend, she said you need a bigger machine😁 haha
ANDYTHRAXX MINING hahaha she’s a keeper lol and I don’t mean just the nugget lol
AUmigo Gold lol
Kick ass nice find, Hope there is many more in that area!! Keep up the hard work
Thank you very much Tyler 😁
You sure have some great finds too.
Your doing a great job! Not many people appreciate the effort it takes to mine any mineral, and a bloody damn good effort to tip that huge rock out of the way with a 4 ton excavator, to keep all the ‘greenies’ happy show what a good job you do of reinstating, cheers T
Thankyou very much😀
And yes totally great idea, I will show it all reinstated after.
Thanks for watchibg
Nice Bucket! Oh ya that yellow rock was OK too..............😉
Dan Hurd Thanks Dan, this bucket rides in the front seat🤗
you guys inspired me to go up to Canada this summer. i just need to kick this Corona virus. no gold here in Seattle.
i seen that too.i was looking and said to myself that's Dan's bucket.hi from carmichael,ca.
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@@ANDYTHRAXX all these gold mining vids give me the get up and go feeling to start mining myself . I have about 40 yrs experience in quarrying BUT, I'm from England . We don't have any thing like you guys here regarding gold dredging but we do have metal detecting and sometimes that gets boring when you have found Roman, medieval coins and artifacts for 40 and a bit years . This is the first vid I've seen about you and I'll def be watching more . Good luck with your prospecting and good day sir . Regards from England 🏴👍
Wow! That's awesome! Nothing but flower gold by me here in Colorado. Took the kiddo out and we moved some old flood plain rocks and had some success. Nothing close to this!!! Great find!
Chris thanks, that’s great you get the kiddo onto gold, flour gold is fun too, sometimes more rewarding because at least you get some gold in every pan 🙂
Congrats! nice job, and nice gold! Never give up💪
Well done, you earned that after all the work moving that boulder
Lol, Thank you very much 🙂
Niceee u got a new subscriber I'm watching alldayyy 💯💯keep living the dream makes me wanna go dig everything up 😂
That’s so awesome, thankyou
Yes, friend, the happiness on your face after that nug was priceless. Congrats.
I love watching gold minding
Next time instead of slowly scratching away at a big rock, get some decent metal like crow bars or some long high tensile steel poles and lever it out I could move that sucker by hand with the right tools
Agreed
Lean a couple smaller rocks against the back, as you budge it they'll roll/tip in under to get another hold. Repeat process till its on its top.
Ya make great videos! Good luck out there!
Hard work pays off! That's a nice little chub-nuckle of Gold!!
Yogi Demis thank you 😁
Micro blasters would of made the job a lot easier.if you don't know what they are Dan hurd has a few videos of using them to split big rocks to move them easier.
Hey totally !! If I had another day I really would have liked to try blasting it, sure would be pro
Just subscribed yesterday and love your channel bud! You remind me of a cross between Les Stroud and Winston Rothchild from Red Green 😂. I mean that as a compliment, from the Canada of the States….Minnesota 😊 Prospecting here is tough, but it’s around. Take care. Nice nugget too!
Great find mano, congrats on that big boy😊😊 and thank you for the great video and igniting the nugget fever in all of us on the island 😁😁
Haha thank you very much, it reignited it in me too, now I walk around starring at the ground all the time.
@@ANDYTHRAXX I've been working on a boulder for the last month myself by hand and hope I find something under it after she falls in the massive hole I have dug and hould have A video of it hopefully next weekend 😉
Can't wait to see what else you find on that claim
Bloody rippa mate!
Man vs rock, I bet there was an old timer watchig from beyond who was cackling his head off watching this!
Hahaha , I bet there was, thank you very much Chris 😜
damn Im out in the prairies i could only dream to go and find gold like that here. I gotta find a job working for you guys out there! looks beautiful !
Hard works ,finally you got your gold
Thanks for sharing. Thinking that next time you might want to use a jack hammer to reduce the size of the boulder.
Right on!! Great find!!!
An actual gold miner mining gold, what has youtube come to!! lol Nice to see a real operation showing real finds, this channel will do well keep it up!
i got biger one then that like 10 times biger big nug boy
Thankyou very much 🙂 Were having so much fun and just want to share that reality.
agreed...cant wait for our project to start together Andy !!
Hook a chain around those rocks. Save alot of time.
Buddy!!! Love it ....so much i forgot to comment LOL...Cant wait to get out with ya soon ...Best Season COming ...I can feel it
Canadian Gold Mining haha thanks man, and yes all your work and effort is leading to an amazing summer this season 🤪 can’t wait to see ya
Canadian Gold M
love the passion keep it up!!
Well done mate that's totally worth the effort very nice piece stoked for ya cheers
tazy T thank you so much 😁
Great find guy.
Where im at there are ginormous boulders.
What i plan on doing is learning how to use a block and tackle or two.
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Yes that’s awesome, moving a big boulder gets you really deep really fast and always holds the big pieces 😁
I've recently watched a few videos on a Lewis chainsaw winch. They look and seem like they work fantastically! Just need some cable,chains,chain locks and such. Looks inexpensive too!
I enjoyed this video alot Andy great job and wicked mint nugget
CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH I appreciate that so much, thanks 🙂
Fantastic Mr Thraxx wow! Tenacity and perseverance.
The only way to move the rock is to dig a deep hole for it to fall into
its hard to dig a hole when hes on bedrock
Exactly
You're right. He got there in the end
Wow! This is beautiful. Congratulations !
Great find brother! Keep ‘em coming!!!
Thank you very much, next video very soon and I so appreciate you watching 😄
what a great video buddy! Good job.
Awesome find! Love seeing small scale mining operations, keep it up.
Thank you very much
12:12 - Congrats on the find. You deserve it after all that work.
Thanks for letting me watch it from where I wanted to let alone having to watch the whole vid
Perseverance paid off to you congratulations
I just came across your stuff today I think your awesome! I hope you've invested in some metal detectors since this video is 2 years old it looked like you missed some gold! Best wishes I'll be here watching and hoping for the best for you, it's fun to live out your dreams through someone when it's just not possible to do it yourself, so thank you it's a Beautiful scenery always. Thanks
I love it,!! ❤️🏄♂️🇨🇦🚁
GOOD JOB MAN, 🇬🇧💥🔥👊😎👊🔥💥🇬🇧
Trebor 😜 thanks so much !! Truly appreciate it
Dude ur awesome. Just found ur content. . Subbed an watching it all 4 life
Thank you so much, you rock!! we really want to show the excitement of real small scale mining, that anyone can do😄
I appreciate you watching and sticking around.
Good stuff, great video. Regarding the bolder, I would've got the quick cut out, made about 3 or 4 cuts to fit my wedges and split in in half.
Just a 16 minute video of a guy trying to move a rock
Feel good vid of the month, right on guys
That’s awesome thank you
I can't stop watching this episode I love it impressive machine with a good operator good job andy
congratulations you put the work in and got the nugget you where looking for. thank you for sharing the adventure.
Had to comment. First you should have pinned the thumb up out of the way. How to pry with bucket, get teeth started under rock, then curl bucket in and stick out and boom down all at the same time. Doing it like this you will not even lift the ass of the machine off the ground. If you still need more pry power place a rock or log chunk behind the big rock and then place bucket between the two. The small rock or log chunk will act as a pivot point or fulcrum for your bucket, use same bucket curl, stick out, boom down. You will find this technic very useful. Good luck from a 45 year equipment operator. Nice find.
Joe Blow yeah that’s a good call, we did eventually pin the thumb out of the way, I will take this advice thank you very much 🙂
He accidentally pryed it at 11:39, moved a fair bit.
We learn by tryin', not sitting on our butts whinin' LOL I loved watching you try to make that machine work for you! Gold was cool, too.
That is so true, I have learned such an incredible amount doing this project it’s opened more doors in my life than I ever could have imagined. 🙂
I love the saying “seize the day”
How about cutting a score line across the middle of that bolder. Then drilling bore holes and then using feathers and wedges to split that bolder in half. I would think it would be easier to move half of that rock than the hole.
Congratulations on your awesome discoveries. Best of luck with future digs for color.
Jay Bales thank you so very much 🙂
Dan Hurd has some explosives he uses to split rocks - drills a hole and puts a cap in preformed, self contained charge and fires it electrically. Scan his videos?
B. James Voorhies yes totally great point, I should have tried that 😄
That little Hitachi digger reminds me of my Fox Terrier Clyde when i was kid, nothing could make him give up what he set his mind to : D Really fun video thanks!
Hahah that’s great! Thank you so much
That was a nice nugget mate putting in the hard work pays off 👊🏻🤠👍🏻
TAS D GOLD PROSPECTING thanks so much!!😁
So awesome Andy love it your living the dream being able to mine like that much love from Tassie 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you so much 😁 gold is great eh!!
I’m loving what you’re doing too
ANDYTHRAXX MINING it sure is thanx man
Hay
Any chance of this guy putting the Woods back together before he leaves
HuasoPodrido Hi thanks so much for watching,🙂 good question, yes we go the extra mile putting it back together.
I take it so seriously that my very first video shows that process, called “Andy’s reclamation”
You’re a smart guy the deeper you do the more change of bigger gold. Interesting watch wish this was in the U.K. I’d come give you a hand 😇
Barry The Baker thankyou , I could go for the help 🙂
Where abouts are you? I mean area not location, I’m guessing you’re Canadian? I’m from the U.K. just subscribed I hope you do well buddy 😇
Earned a new sub 🎉 👍
Here in western South Dakota in the Black Hills mountains ive been working the upper benches of ancient tertiaries and man its similar. I tried panning and sluicing in the creek bed itself and had very poor results. Id find gold occasionally but it was miniscule.
Since i got wise and woke up one day and realized I was digging the wrong spot things are only getting better. I brong home gold every time I'm out there.
When you hold your first $200 gold nugget in your hands after four years of prospecting... King Kong aint got nothing on me! Its an overwhelming feeling to see what youve been reading and researching about all that time.
It's Grrrrrreat
I wholeheartedly agree and that is so cool what you’re doing too, keep up the great work and thank you so much for taking the time to write.
All that effort paid dividends 👍😄 Awesome find😊 Happy days!
Heck yeah! I'm happy to see records being broken so close to home!✨💛
PioneerPauly 😝
Hey Pauly
@@triple_A_rockhound Hey hey!!
THAT SURE WAS A DIG FOR HIM
I was wondering if he was in that area of the world.
Such a great video guys👍🏻. It was pure entertainment. I am glad that this giant stone did not tear the excavator into individual parts. Very nice to see your joy in this wonderful find. The hard work was worth it. I look forward to more videos from you. Best greetings from Switzerland✌🏻
THE GOLD BUDDIES 🙂 thanks so much
Nice work.. It's a little harder to find gold but it really works well 👍
Holy cow man that’s a nice nugget !!! Great job keep it up !!!😎
JB Prospecting thank you very much 😝
12:04 surprise*
Goin AWOL wow nice an ad
Play on words "prize" get it?
Dude. I saw another nug next to it on the zoom in. On the left!
Arg I’ve lost sleep over that, it sure looks as though🥺
Yes! It was bigger than the one he saw...
U mean on the right
Definitely something there
U have every right to be beside yourself , I would be to. U r a hard working individual and deserve it, congratulations
Thank you so much 😎🍻 really appreciate you watching the video
Man you were doing battle with that bowlder! Hard won victory's are the one will you remember forever ,keep up the hard work bro!
I think you are so bang on with this, thank you so very much.😄🍻
god damn you hyped it up like it was the Welcome Stranger
With today's gold prices, that paid for gas ,wages,and a little profit.bout 400 bucks for 2 hours of work and that's without sluicing. He'll probably find half an ounce at least if that was just laying there
@@koalaman9585 Calm down mate, I still think it's cool, I just didn't expect it to look so underwhelming.
After watching the Aussie gold stuff the piece you found looks like a booger.
Seriously. 3g.... so $150 ish?
@@clemente5677 Yeah our gold in Australia is huge man, especially in Victoria.
It really does look like nothing compared to Aussie gold, what do ya do lol.
We’re in Canada so $150.00 US dollars is like enough to live for a year here😜
Hahaha I was screaming at you how to move that rock! Watching that shit show was funny and frustrating at the same time! Sort of good job brother. Lol Your a gold finder not a boulder mover. Awesome find in the end. All that work totally worth it! Your the man dude! Good luck.
Damage to backhoe = $3,000. Value of nugget $300. Damage to public land = priceless.
Lol, $4,000.00 damage and it’s private land 😝
Just jokin, I hear ya, we fix and replant the land too.
It’s in the shape of Alaska! Good on ya!
Thiah Doherty indeed it is that’s so cool , thanks very much for watching 😀
Wow. Look at all the destruction on that hillside. All for gold.
Macky1101 thank you for your comment, I appreciate your concern, we really do take restoring the earth back to new again very seriously, within a very short period of time this small area of designated resource land will be replanted and it’s regrowth managed until maturity.🙂
You realise that the device you used to post the comment has gold in it that guys like these get by similar if not more destructive methods?
Stop using it and people will stop getting it....
Both my first time seeing your video and your Channel and before this first video is over I'm subscribing.
highenergyog that is fantastic 🙂 thanks so much
@@ANDYTHRAXX sometimes you just know a good channel before the video is finished, looking forward to checking out more videos from your channel.
highenergyog that is so cool, I agree too.
What a beauty!!! Awesome 👍👍 Tibbs
PURPLE NEWBIE JUICE ANTIQUING thank you, gives a guy the fever to keep going 🙂
What a beautiful disaster you left behind just to get 5 grams of gold nugget
Use a lever on the rock on the hill and lever from the top.
jeff bumbar that’s a great idea thanks very much 😁
Good work. Do you use also a metal detector and a gold sluice? Handy to have where you are.
Thanks, yes We detected it all after we moved the boulder and dug all the gravels out for sluicing. That’s the next video 🙂
sweet nugget :) like the shape of a fist punching at a certain angle when you showed it :)
I was so excited I was yelling in my car while on lunch break lol can’t wait to find something like that myself
mark gould oh man you made me smile cheek to cheek!! That’s so fantastic!!
I trust you will find one bigger!! 😀
@@ANDYTHRAXX Agreed :) keep digging and they come
The location is very potential gold, brother...👉💪💪💪
GM 1000 sulawesi yes!! Hoping for bigger pieces too😃 thank you
Missed the adventure this morning, went to work, and now some gold time...let's GO 🍻
Sure bending those 2 points lol. A rope, around the bolder, a come-a-long, and a pully system, and use the mini as a anchor
That rock looked too frustrating to move dang!!! Good job 👏 👍
Are you removing trees to find gold?
We remove trees within the area we’re mining, Nothing older than 15 years.
There are open areas with no trees as well.
When I saw your video it's reminds me this work it's too much hard my husband before work like this...
Nice way of handlin' that rock.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol thanks, it was unreal how heavy it was, I’ll try some blasting it next time🙂
GOOD DAY MATE! IN 1979 WE FOUND A 5.5 OUNCE NUGGET IN SNOWS QUARRY, ELDORADO CO. CA IT WAS ROUNDISH, PITED,AND O SO INCREDIBLE. CRUSHING CEMENTED GRAVEL, AT DEEB BLUE LEED, SEEN A LOT OF FULL MASON JARS,WHILE WORKING THERE.
wow all that work and equipment expense for 5 g. The way he was advertising this vid i was thinking he found one the size of a golf ball or something. ive seen some guys pull 15g out of the river on a days work just scraping and picking . oh well looks fun regardless
You Can drill split it
Mark Bach yes, that would be more fun 🙂
Great job brother!!!!!
Very Nice Andy. Persistent and it pays
Chris Saucier thanks, that’s right we couldn’t give up🙂
I like man That Don't Give UP Brother !
Get yourself a ram-hammer attachment for your trackhoe... make little ones out of the big ones 👍
bill underwood such a great idea, thankyou I’m going to look into that, I imagine if I drilled some relief holes too that would help😁
Nice one mate 👌👍 need to take a trip over to Australia get on the real big ones 👍
How exciting! Nice nugget!
Wow, congrats for a couple nuggets of gold from under a boulder...at the cost of the entire hillside tho?
江城银 hi there🙂, I appreciate your concern, we’re being very methodical to disturb as little ground as possible, and I assure you immediately replanting it back to new again.
What happened to the hillside?! Did the entire town slide into the creek? Are you his neighbor or something? Please fill us in.
Lol who the hell are you to be judging.
How did this get a million views, that was just sad.
clickbait
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Cool when all that effort pays off. That's a good "told ya so" story
Wow what a wicked chunka man gotta love beating personal best💯👌⛏
Divs Gold prospecting 🙂 thanks so much