I swear if we didn’t have bad luck, we wouldn’t have any luck at all.  The bar that we set the tension for the belts on the trommel decided to fall off.   We managed to wedge it with an axe head of all things until we get the welder.

Next the pull string on our pump decided to break, we had a spare so no big deal.  Had a good couple of runs, and then the backhoe decided not to start anymore.  Today multiple trips to town are called for.

We didn’t get a lot of gold, every time we have to leave for a while we knock the high wall on our dig spot in so no passers by get hurt while we are not here.  We are going through a lot of overburden.  If we get the back hoe going, we should get better results.