Gary is one of those folks that you feel you've known your entire life.Would love to get up there some day and hunt with you. Great video that 18 minutes flew by too quick, keep them coming!
Thanks, Gary. I've been prospecting off and on for years--since the 70s, but I still don't know it all, not nearly! You've got a real knack for teaching, and I usually learn something each time I watch one of your clips; you make your audience feel almost like they're right there hunting and digging with ya. Good luck in the field. Please keep the vids coming!
Hi Gary, idea- why not put an old towel in your backpack as it can act as a catch pan below a small landslide area below where you are scraping out. you could tuck it into and around rocks and even roll the outer edge up a bit to create a lip. I'm going to put one in my pack right now. Thanks again for your great educational videos
An amazing day dancing with those giant boulders on a steep slope. Your two-toes skills and gold hunting knowledge we’re on full display. Thank you Gary for the knowledge and inspiration.
It figures, doesn't it, that if you think you won't need your pan, you're surely gonna need it? But, to show your skills at improvising, you came up with a way to save the day. Actually, it turned out to be a good lesson for all of us. Thanks again, Gary, as always it was a pleasure.
Good morning. Hey Gary this is Joe. About a week ago I wrote you that I would like to go with you sometime to prospect. I know in one video, you had mentioned the dredger. My Grandfather was Dredgemaster on #20 in Hammonton back in the day. I have a documentary on VHS that I want to copy on CD to give you. I love your videos and am learning a ton. Thank you for your knowledge. Keep up the good work.
Two Toes is my favorite. He doesn’t give unreal expectations. “One hour, no targets.” That’s what it’s really like. He’s the guy that made me feel ok about not getting anything every day, which makes me excited to go again.
I am a truck driver and I used to use a brake chamber diaphragm when I would prospect in the desert, they are shaped like a gold pan and you can fold them up to put in your back pocket or backpack. I used it to winnow the dirt away, you might put one in your pack as a just in case pan or for areas you can't get a hard pan into.
Gooooooooood Mooooooooorning Gary. Your videos are the antidote to a lot of the Doom & Gloom in the world these days and this one is no exception. Thank you so much. I do have a couple of questions: 1) Right off the bat we all noticed your new digging/scratching tool. I noticed it doesn't have a magnet on it so I'm wondering, what's the story behind that choice? 2) Poison Oak. YIKES!!! I'm hyper-allergic to the stuff and while I've viewed one of your videos about how to deal with it, a refresher is always nice. Here's the question: Do you have any idea about how the old miners dealt with it? Surely it caused a lot of suffering back then as well.
My new rake has 2 magnets between the blades and one on the end of the handle. I have dug up several bottles from the 1850's that were Poison Oak remedies, I'm thinking it was as big a problem for them as is for us.
@@TwoToes Aahhhhhhh.... the ol' stealth magnet trick. Thanks. As far as the P.O. is concerned.... yeah, I'm sure you're right. They had to have been affected. Very cool on the P.O. remedies bottles finds. Now THERE would be a prospecting "tool" to have in your quiver... Poison Oak protection. Just smear it on like sunscreen.
Fascinating as always, we go down to the river here on the Trinity (Humboldt County) and there's a quarts rock on the river bar that has to be 4.5 ' High 5' long all of 4' through full of pirate flakes hasn't moved in +35 years i know of, out in the river some 60' east and a little south is another large quarts rock in the water about 3' above the low water level used to be about 5' but has eroded couple feet in the past 10 years. All of this rambling on but I bought a Garrett AT Max and going to take a look around this area. Enjoy your videos and have pickup a lot of good stuff to help me with me and my honey find more GOLD😃👍
Nice flake, looks like to rocks it got between were almost flat also! Thanks for your videos, awesome way to start the day with a cup of coffee and Two Toes!
Hi Gary, just want to say thank you for all the knowledge I gained from your vids, went crevicing for the 1st time last week and with the info I gained from you I was able to pick a good crevice (1st crevice) and was able to find some nice flood gold flakes, gold in every pan success, also want to know what you do with the led & heavy metals you pick up, I like the idea of cleaning up the environment, would like to know what to do with it, i hope to meet you some day, oh and your crevice tool works great!! Thanks again, Sergio Ramirez
Great video. Those boulders sure squashed that piece of gold flat, wonder if the old timers found much squashed ones like on the bed rock of those of those streams.
I read through a few replys looking for poision oak stories. You see, I worked in the East SF Bay Area clearing brush from fire trails. I've used a weed whacker with a blade and loppers to vlear poision oak. I have had a fresh wet vine draw across my wristand I watched it get red and start to swell. So, here's how me and my dad and brothers kept from ever getting a case from poision oak. We took outer clothers off and put them directly into the wash machine. Then, got into the shower. Here's the process. Using Dawn dish soap, wash exposed hands and fore arms and rinse FIRST. And do this 2 maybe 3 times. If you wash your hands and then not rinse, youll spread it. Ok, then you start washing from head to toe with dawn. Wash your hair and rinse 2X. Then face etc washing 2X and then use regular shampoo etc. If you do this, even after hours on the trail you'll eep from getting it. I hope this helps. I used to get it really bad. Now, I don't think twice...
Gotta have some good ropes to desend and asend some of those places you take us to.Love having if needed than the alternative.Still top notch video for all to enjoy and learn from one of the best.See-ya Gary David out
Ive been watching and likeing all of your vids. I noticed your warning of poison oak in several videos and I wanted to ad that, 90 percent of the oils from oak, ivy,sumac etc is carried and transmitted via the stems of the plant. Not the leaves. They are also quite transmissive year round as well so, when you run into that stuff with little to no leaves on them, be just as cautious and do not contact the stems.
By watching your shows but I've been going out and I've been picking up on some gold doing good job just watching the way you do it you know it's not that hard I already filled up one little bottle file with the little gold nuggets Garland road o how to Forest ranch down there by the green bridge yeah I've been doing a lot of good stuff and I wanted to thank you for all your help and you're such a good teacher anyways continue to work I really love watching your shows and hang in there buddy you're doing a good job
Gary is like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where he steps on gold and does a crazy jig. They both have the knack for zeroing in on gold but unfortunately Gary doesn’t do the jig 🤣. I was going to respond to this video the day of but you guessed it it’s the next day! Take care and may the gold come in bunches.
My wife and I are out here camping from New York State is there any possibility I can go out with you a few hours detecting or panning. You are my absolutely favorite on gold panning.
Cool video, Great spot to good luck next time . I wonder if the gold was flattened out by shifting, or being smashed by some rocks. That was a beautiful piece of gold anyway.
You know Gary the amount of gold they would have to find to make it pay is a lot more than nowadays. There might be a lot of money in the gravel they left but like you said it’s going to tough going. Looking forward to the next video
Hey, Garry! Nice video, as usual. The only suggestion I would make is to watch the audio levels of your intro and the credits - they are too high in comparison to the audio levels in the video itself.
First back after the vid .... sweet at least you didn’t get skunked I’ll guess .45g something to look forward to 😂😂😂thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
Gary love your videos, learning alot..Will be going out to prospecting first time this year. On a budget, what about using a pinpoint for crevices. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
26th thumb 👍up. G'mornin Gary. 6 mins in. I'd be excited just finding that Long square nail. Pretty cool On a side note. Idk why or how, but Poison Ivy back east and Poison oak out west doesn't effect me. Freak of nature. I've waulered in Poison Ivy.. a few times, never caught it. Siblings were ate up. Grabbed and pulled out Poison Oak a few times here and there on the trail to save someone else, barehanded, nothing. Idk Poison knettle tears me a new one though....GO figure.
Same. I've climbed up & down the hills in Tuolumne county, & never once had a reaction to poison oak. If anyone does encounter it may I suggest washing with rubbing alcohol. Also --just a guess-- the old -timers probably used booze to neutralize the urushiol in poison oak. Seems logical. Happy prospecting!
Kind of a relief to see you get skunked for most of the day. It, strangely, gives me hope since getting "skunked" is my normal experience while using my metal detector for gold detection. Square nails are great for momentary rushes of excitement, though.
With boulders that size, maybe the ancient water flow was too strong to deposit anything but big nuggets, all the smaller stuff being washed further away? And big nuggets being easy to spot / pan, the 19th-century miners cleaned them all out? Except, of course, the thin flake you found :)
when you find flat gold is it because gold and rocks are moving down a waterway path, rocks land on the gold and slowly flattens the gold? Would that mean there is a lot of small gold pieces coming from bigger source?
We just hiked down a hillside that was so steep, when I got to the bottom I thought to myself what the hell did I just get myself into lol. My brother in law looks like an oozing pillsbury dough boy from the poison oak. And to top it of I was the only guy to really find anything. Good luck hope you find the big one down there!
Good mornin Gary, I've been watching your videos for a couple weeks and I've decided to start getting into the hobby. I live near salt lake city utah and I thought perhaps I could start by detecting around some old mines. What detector would you reccomend for a rookie?
Gary is one of those folks that you feel you've known your entire life.Would love to get up there some day and hunt with you. Great video that 18 minutes flew by too quick, keep them coming!
Thanks, Gary. I've been prospecting off and on for years--since the 70s, but I still don't know it all, not nearly! You've got a real knack for teaching, and I usually learn something each time I watch one of your clips; you make your audience feel almost like they're right there hunting and digging with ya. Good luck in the field. Please keep the vids coming!
"Well, I'm going to throw this in the bottle before I drop it again..." 🤣
I love your dry sense of humour, thanks for my first real laugh of the day.
Hi Gary, idea- why not put an old towel in your backpack as it can act as a catch pan below a small landslide area below where you are scraping out. you could tuck it into and around rocks and even roll the outer edge up a bit to create a lip. I'm going to put one in my pack right now. Thanks again for your great educational videos
An amazing day dancing with those giant boulders on a steep slope. Your two-toes skills and gold hunting knowledge we’re on full display. Thank you Gary for the knowledge and inspiration.
It figures, doesn't it, that if you think you won't need your pan, you're surely gonna need it? But, to show your skills at improvising, you came up with a way to save the day. Actually, it turned out to be a good lesson for all of us. Thanks again, Gary, as always it was a pleasure.
he didnt have his pan, so he used his high tech metal detector, nice hi
Good morning. Hey Gary this is Joe. About a week ago I wrote you that I would like to go with you sometime to prospect. I know in one video, you had mentioned the dredger. My Grandfather was Dredgemaster on #20 in Hammonton back in the day. I have a documentary on VHS that I want to copy on CD to give you. I love your videos and am learning a ton. Thank you for your knowledge. Keep up the good work.
Two Toes is my favorite. He doesn’t give unreal expectations. “One hour, no targets.” That’s what it’s really like. He’s the guy that made me feel ok about not getting anything every day, which makes me excited to go again.
I am a truck driver and I used to use a brake chamber diaphragm when I would prospect in the desert, they are shaped like a gold pan and you can fold them up to put in your back pocket or backpack. I used it to winnow the dirt away, you might put one in your pack as a just in case pan or for areas you can't get a hard pan into.
Thanks Garry,
Always such a pleasure to join jou on your adventures. You’re so funny in a homely predictable way. Have fun and stay healthy
Love
Rosie
Morning all!
Thanks for taking us along.
Another Great Video. Really Enjoyed It. Thanks For All Your Hard Work, Gary. We Appreciate It Very Much. Wishing You "Big Nuggets" In Every Pan.
Thanks Gary, another great video. Glad we don't get poison oak here in Australia - just deadly snakes, spiders, sharks and crocs.
Put it that way, now I feel like a wimp. lol
Nice peice of gold bud! Lot of work for one piece! Way to hang in there Gary
Gooooooooood Mooooooooorning Gary. Your videos are the antidote to a lot of the Doom & Gloom in the world these days and this one is no exception. Thank you so much. I do have a couple of questions: 1) Right off the bat we all noticed your new digging/scratching tool. I noticed it doesn't have a magnet on it so I'm wondering, what's the story behind that choice? 2) Poison Oak. YIKES!!! I'm hyper-allergic to the stuff and while I've viewed one of your videos about how to deal with it, a refresher is always nice. Here's the question: Do you have any idea about how the old miners dealt with it? Surely it caused a lot of suffering back then as well.
My new rake has 2 magnets between the blades and one on the end of the handle.
I have dug up several bottles from the 1850's that were Poison Oak remedies, I'm thinking it was as big a problem for them as is for us.
@@TwoToes Aahhhhhhh.... the ol' stealth magnet trick. Thanks. As far as the P.O. is concerned.... yeah, I'm sure you're right. They had to have been affected. Very cool on the P.O. remedies bottles finds. Now THERE would be a prospecting "tool" to have in your quiver... Poison Oak protection. Just smear it on like sunscreen.
Fascinating as always, we go down to the river here on the Trinity (Humboldt County) and there's a quarts rock on the river bar that has to be 4.5 ' High 5' long all of 4' through full of pirate flakes hasn't moved in +35 years i know of, out in the river some 60' east and a little south is another large quarts rock in the water about 3' above the low water level used to be about 5' but has eroded couple feet in the past 10 years. All of this rambling on but I bought a Garrett AT Max and going to take a look around this area. Enjoy your videos and have pickup a lot of good stuff to help me with me and my honey find more GOLD😃👍
Nice flake, looks like to rocks it got between were almost flat also! Thanks for your videos, awesome way to start the day with a cup of coffee and Two Toes!
Ahh come on what’s a little poison oak Gary. That’s one hella flat piece that Tony the Tiger would be proud of. Thanks Gary have a great day 🇺🇸👍⚒🍀😎
Gold Flakes!
Breakfast of champions !
And
Prospecting Goats 😂
Thanks fer shar’n sir
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"I left my gold pan in the truck intentionally" That has got to be the first time that ever happened.
Thanks for sharing as always Two Toes
I found your channel today and I really enjoy it. I do a little detecting myself.
I watched this in the morning, and my entire day was better because if it. :-)
I once was in a spot when i needed a pan and then i remembered my hat. Worked great. At least you didn't get totally nailed:) Great video!
Thanks for the video Gary 🍻👏👏👏
Hi Gary, just want to say thank you for all the knowledge I gained from your vids, went crevicing for the 1st time last week and with the info I gained from you I was able to pick a good crevice (1st crevice) and was able to find some nice flood gold flakes, gold in every pan success, also want to know what you do with the led & heavy metals you pick up, I like the idea of cleaning up the environment, would like to know what to do with it, i hope to meet you some day, oh and your crevice tool works great!!
Thanks again, Sergio Ramirez
Awesome piece of gold mate, great video ⛏️🤠⛏️🇦🇺
Monday morning coffee in hand fresh new Two Toes on UA-cam.
ALL IS RIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE
Great video. Those boulders sure squashed that piece of gold flat, wonder if the old timers found much squashed ones like on the bed rock of those of those streams.
Good to see you got some gold! Might have to detect above the spot you found the gold.
Ha! Morning all! Of course you found gold.....you followed your gut! I'd like to see a competition between Ucorne Cornelius, bugs bunny, and you......
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Great job Gary. That was much more fun for us than you had packing all that gear. Thanks for the video buddy.
That was a good hunt! Enjoyed.
Good work Gary.
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I read through a few replys looking for poision oak stories. You see, I worked in the East SF Bay Area clearing brush from fire trails. I've used a weed whacker with a blade and loppers to vlear poision oak. I have had a fresh wet vine draw across my wristand I watched it get red and start to swell.
So, here's how me and my dad and brothers kept from ever getting a case from poision oak.
We took outer clothers off and put them directly into the wash machine. Then, got into the shower. Here's the process. Using Dawn dish soap, wash exposed hands and fore arms and rinse FIRST. And do this 2 maybe 3 times. If you wash your hands and then not rinse, youll spread it.
Ok, then you start washing from head to toe with dawn. Wash your hair and rinse 2X. Then face etc washing 2X and then use regular shampoo etc.
If you do this, even after hours on the trail you'll eep from getting it. I hope this helps. I used to get it really bad. Now, I don't think twice...
Hey awesome video. I've got some areas of big boulders here in Montana. Gonna give some new stuff I learned a try
Thanks for tip about throw up piles. I've never detected them before and our local gold creek has lots, up to 10 or 15 feet high
When the price of square nails rises we will all be rich!
Amen to that. lol
Lead is a nice revenue too!!
Gotta have some good ropes to desend and asend some of those places you take us to.Love having if needed than the alternative.Still top notch video for all to enjoy and learn from one of the best.See-ya Gary David out
Nice find. Is your mini rake homemade?
Yes, it is!
loads of great info fam. nice AU indeed. keep up the hunt fam. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
Ive been watching and likeing all of your vids. I noticed your warning of poison oak in several videos and I wanted to ad that, 90 percent of the oils from oak, ivy,sumac etc is carried and transmitted via the stems of the plant. Not the leaves. They are also quite transmissive year round as well so, when you run into that stuff with little to no leaves on them, be just as cautious and do not contact the stems.
By watching your shows but I've been going out and I've been picking up on some gold doing good job just watching the way you do it you know it's not that hard I already filled up one little bottle file with the little gold nuggets Garland road o how to Forest ranch down there by the green bridge yeah I've been doing a lot of good stuff and I wanted to thank you for all your help and you're such a good teacher anyways continue to work I really love watching your shows and hang in there buddy you're doing a good job
Gary is like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where he steps on gold and does a crazy jig. They both have the knack for zeroing in on gold but unfortunately Gary doesn’t do the jig 🤣. I was going to respond to this video the day of but you guessed it it’s the next day! Take care and may the gold come in bunches.
"Throw up pile" is my new favorite prospecting term. 😅
Semper Fi brother! Enjoying the videos. Happy belated birthday too!
My wife and I are out here camping from New York State is there any possibility I can go out with you a few hours detecting or panning. You are my absolutely favorite on gold panning.
Cool video, Great spot to good luck next time . I wonder if the gold was flattened out by shifting, or being smashed by some rocks. That was a beautiful piece of gold anyway.
I've just starting using a steelphase sp01 signal booster on my sdc.
Great little attachment.
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You know Gary the amount of gold they would have to find to make it pay is a lot more than nowadays. There might be a lot of money in the gravel they left but like you said it’s going to tough going. Looking forward to the next video
Was so happy to wake up to a new video. You da man!👍🏾
😆 hey i thought you always had your 10” gold pan with you!
Hey Gary this is Danny Chambers Chico
Kinda hard to get a good detector when they cost as much as a used car...lol⛏
Keep up the awesome job Gary🍻⛏👍✌
Hey, Garry! Nice video, as usual. The only suggestion I would make is to watch the audio levels of your intro and the credits - they are too high in comparison to the audio levels in the video itself.
Amen
I like seeing that yellow stuff.
First back after the vid .... sweet at least you didn’t get skunked I’ll guess .45g something to look forward to 😂😂😂thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
Gary love your videos, learning alot..Will be going out to prospecting first time this year.
On a budget, what about using a pinpoint for crevices. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
26th thumb 👍up. G'mornin Gary.
6 mins in. I'd be excited just finding that Long square nail. Pretty cool
On a side note. Idk why or how, but Poison Ivy back east and Poison oak out west doesn't effect me. Freak of nature. I've waulered in Poison Ivy.. a few times, never caught it. Siblings were ate up. Grabbed and pulled out Poison Oak a few times here and there on the trail to save someone else, barehanded, nothing. Idk Poison knettle tears me a new one though....GO figure.
Same. I've climbed up & down the hills in Tuolumne county, & never once had a reaction to poison oak. If anyone does encounter it may I suggest washing with rubbing alcohol.
Also --just a guess-- the old -timers probably used booze to neutralize the urushiol in poison oak. Seems logical.
Happy prospecting!
How much could you get for a gold plated square nail?
Way to beat that skunk my friend! Great way to end your day!
Kind of a relief to see you get skunked for most of the day. It, strangely, gives me hope since getting "skunked" is my normal experience while using my metal detector for gold detection. Square nails are great for momentary rushes of excitement, though.
One piece of candy is better than none😁, almost a half gram flake 👀 not bad at all 👍.
Nice last minute find sir, better then a skunk outing right?
With boulders that size, maybe the ancient water flow was too strong to deposit anything but big nuggets, all the smaller stuff being washed further away? And big nuggets being easy to spot / pan, the 19th-century miners cleaned them all out? Except, of course, the thin flake you found :)
when you find flat gold is it because gold and rocks are moving down a waterway path, rocks land on the gold and slowly flattens the gold? Would that mean there is a lot of small gold pieces coming from bigger source?
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That was a fun location. Too bad for the poison oak.
Big flat Corn Flake !!!!!
Man that piece is hammered 🇺🇸
@Jeff
Golden Flakes fer breakfast and smoked tuna fer lunch ?
Sounds like ya missed a good trip sir ?
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@@ancientbedrock9366 yep sounds like it but it's Baseball season and thats taking up most of my time now
I got the feeling Jeff and Gary gona do another boulder moving video soon lol
@Smithsgold
Go Lions !!!
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I gotta tell you. My first thought when you showed us where you thought you'd like to dig was," Looks like a good place to get yourself snake bit."
That is always in the back of my mind.
We just hiked down a hillside that was so steep, when I got to the bottom I thought to myself what the hell did I just get myself into lol. My brother in law looks like an oozing pillsbury dough boy from the poison oak. And to top it of I was the only guy to really find anything. Good luck hope you find the big one down there!
Pretty brave for touching that poison oak! I'm sensitive to it year round, hate that stuff
I guarantee you there's gold under the poison oak!
Well! at least you took some AU home, I guess with your other finds, you could say- you "nailed it" !!
Morning Gary , 🌄.
how long fo the batteries last on the sdc. a few days week or 2. the battery on my gold monster lasts for months just asking. have a good day boss
I get a day out of a charge. When I get home and put them on the charger it shows them at around 20% .
@@TwoToes pat keene gave me an extra battery for my gold monster you carry extra batteries or C batteries ?
@@greedygringoprospecting6941 I carry a extra set of regular C cells.
How much does that detector run, and whats the model?
Great video again bud
Это же ctx2300
Remember you can get poison oak from the bare branches as well as the leaves.
Maybe some snow this weekend. Wouldn't it be nice if a late frost killed those poison oak buds?
Morning folks
Morning buddy 🇺🇸
@@MericaAdventures morning
Good to see ya man...
I was rooting you the whole way
if ever there was a corn flake thats it.sweet looking pc.
That’s a good piece I’d take a half a gram a lot days when I only find a few specks 👍
Good mornin Gary, I've been watching your videos for a couple weeks and I've decided to start getting into the hobby. I live near salt lake city utah and I thought perhaps I could start by detecting around some old mines. What detector would you reccomend for a rookie?
Great flake!
Glad you refound that dodgy AU.
You should put some straps on your pan and use it as a hat then you will never forget it.🍺😂👍
Top of the day to you too ✋
Good job you got one better than nothing
I notice you are going to the Sierra's and Nevada desert. Are you hunting on BLM land? Trying to figure out how to hunt. I am in Sacto.
I go on BLM and National Forest most of the time.
Gary going home gold less, I highly doubt it 😆
Your channel name should be "two tons" you must have found 4000 lbs of gold by now 😀
my very first piece of gold was a flat piece 👍🏻
Top show 🇧🇷💎⛏️
nice beanz
I just noticed, the 2300 when it finds something sounds like Jimmy (the handicapped kid) on South Park. 😅
Oh key Doe key Shalom ! !
no gold pan, bro