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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Life is a never-ending series of unwanted lessons. Got an email. "Sorry. Refunding all the money plus $50 for your trip over here. Local guy just paid us $5000 more for the drill and he's picking it up tomorrow morning with a trailer. The owner decided price wasn't a fair value to him." I...
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Life is a never-ending series of unwanted lessons. Got an email. "Sorry. Refunding all the money plus $50 for your trip over here. Local guy just paid us $5000 more for the drill and he's picking it up tomorrow morning with a trailer. The owner decided price wasn't a fair value to him." I...
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Yes indeedy. Then again, gold goes to the bottom and lays upon bedrock. The idea behind drilling is to: 1. Determine the depth to bedrock. 2. Determine placer deposits or lack thereof.
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Soda Springs - as in Soda Springs, California up on Donnor?
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    I see your point, Mike. It would involve a great deal of setup and breakdown for sampling just to reach the bottom of the hole. I'm just trying to be a bit wise before jumping in with both feet and tearing the countryside apart. Better if a guy has some clue of what lies under the surface...
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    Who manufactured this auger/drill?

    Hello, Delmer: I can see why you say it looks like Pettibone. I would agree but search as I would, I could find nothing remotely close. Kindest Regards, Jim Mitchell DLOG Finders
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    So Truckdoctor . . . . I should look under "Coleman"? Would Coleman perhaps be the manufacturer? I looked at the flights and they are "hardened". The bits on the end? Well, two bits are screwed onto the end with screws - literally. The whole cutting edge on the bottom was welded onto the...
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    Who manufactured this auger/drill?

    I just bought this machine and it has no build plate. It is powered by a 4-cylinder Detroit with a turbo. It is a 4x4 with 4-wheel steering. Not a home made machine. I need to find manuals but I can't even do that if I can't ID who built the machine and what it is called. Kindest Regards...
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Hi again, Mike: I'm trying to find out the make and model so that I can go on a search for manuals. It is not homemade. I saw one just like it years and years ago. It was working in a rock quarry drilling blast holes. I'm no more a drilling expert than I am anything else. I thought to...
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Does anyone recognize this drill / auger? Who was the manufacturer? What was it called?????? Kindest Regards, Jim Mitchell DLOG Finders
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Thomas Edison was an optimist! Good quote. Yes, the price of admission is steep and the results are not guaranteed. Kindest Regards, Jim Mitchell DLOG Finders
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Mike, I have approximately 50+ acres of alluvium. It ranges from 5 feet to as much as 38 feet down to bedrock. Sample, sample, sample. I want to auger down, find out what is underneath by running the drill tailings through a trommel wash plant before I go digging up a huge patch of God's...
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Help: So I need some help identifying an auger I bought today. Runs like a Swiss watch and everything works. Nothing that a good shop sanding and a coat of Emron won't fix. I crawled all over this machine looking for a name plate. Nyet. Nada. Nothing. Not squat. Just a lot of old yellow...
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    Hey Truckdoctor: I got over to see the D9G today. Solid unit and clean. Not abused. One hydraulic leak in a ripper cylinder but that can be fixed. Undercarriage good but pads are average. Kindest Regards, Jim Mitchell DLOG Finders
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    D9G or D9H - What do you recommend?

    I'll check it out. Thanks so much. Kindest Regards, Jim Mitchell DLOG Finders
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