gotta near death dredge story 4 u

[skunkapemining]

As I met my wife to be,of course I take her to my dredge camp! Tent,leanto for kitchen and buddy the black bear chasing dog. As time goes on,we set up camp and put the 6" precision in the klamath. It takes a day to getthat bardge into place. We dredge for a couple hours as daylight allows. We grab a picker off of the scalper! Gung ho for tomorrows dive! Dredge in place,I take the first dive, frkn water is moving! Jake, the 13 year old, grabs a mask and is right there with me. We had gone over "DO NOT LET ANYTHING GET IN THE WAY OF YOU QUICK RELEASE" he did not listen! WE were down moving rocks and a rather big one was in the way. He motioned he would get it and I should check topside. I left him the rock bars and went topside and grabbed the side of the bardge. As I pulled my ocean reef full face mask off and tried to get a relax, I hear a funny noise over the engines. Sounds like a camel gettn it in the backside! I look around and debb goes fishing! Grabs jake under the arm and wings him topside! Remind me not to piss her off!He had tied the second weight belt in a knot to fit. He had tried to pry the rock up and the prybar knocked his regulator out of his mouth. Panic and current whipped him behind the dredge,debb strongarmed him to the shore. We went over safety again(that night)It took only a week to get him to dive again,but he was shaken up! As we dredged that claim for a couple weeks, HELLBILLY showed up and the the little guy aaron(border hoppn wagon burner) LOL! was running his 5" dredge. Aaron was only 10 years old and running a keene triple sluice. Oh yea, i have have plans for these boys! That was a fun summer! This happened in July. By September, we were living in wall tents and mining gold for 18 months, then buying this major,but fun property!

skunkape

[russau]

thankfully someone was there!

[Hoser John]

I've seen experienced miners get into that nasty double belt mess too. Sounds like a lucky kid to have such a strong Mom around and if I were you I'd be careful not to pizz her off too Try to stay warm today as supposed to be last storm today and a couple of days to dry off bud-tons a au 2 u 2-John

[Reno badboy]

Thank the dredge gods !! Sounds like a good woman bud! Mine watches when I'm down 'cause I do dumb stuff sometimes! She pulled me out of the way when a good sized rock was tettering over my head! (Opps, was into decent gold!!) Nice to hear the kids are into it!

[4theluvofgold]

Aaron, "I'm NOT losing my pan" hangs by a sapling on the bank reaching out to grab it. And he does! But can't get help till it comes down stream.

[gremlin]

never get in between a mom and her kid.
a mom will do any thing to keep her kid safe.