kiwisouth;6580 wrote:I'm picking that the forceps are for grabbing that nice looking nugget stuck in the crevice. You will find that the forceps have fine ridges to help grip FLESH so they will hold onto a nugget quite nicely. They are an important addition to your fossicking kit.
I never thought twice when I saw the forceps but your comment made me think about them...after all I carry them all the time for picking up nuggets down in crevices and have left a trail of the blasted things all over the country side as I wouldnt mind a dollar for each one I have lost.
Many years ago throughout the 1960s and 70s my uncle and his two partners took a bar with them every time they went to a different part of the river they were working in to lever large rocks aside - these bars were considered to heavy to lug all the way up the hill again and tended to get left leaning against a willow tree for the next time they were in the vicinity. When my uncle died the older of the other two dissolved the partnership and asked if he could come with me and thus I took him out until he was around 90 years of age - he gave me the last three bars - they were all new drive shafts or steering rods for vintage cars, some long and heavy and very solid. I guess that those who mine our old claims wonder what on Earth the vintage car drive shafts are doing lying up against trees and I daresay grab them to turn into crow bars!
