G’Day all,

Just joined here.

I recently bought two cub drifter camper trailers.

One is an 80’s model and the other a 90’s off-road model, both are in pretty good nick for their age, just in need of some TLC.

I am in the process of doing them both up and will be selling the 80’s model when it is ready and registered.

I am in the middle of renovating these back to their original condition If anyone has any info on the cub drifter models i.e. user manuals, service manuals, etc. I would greatly appreciate it.

I normally just camp out in a swag up on a stretcher bed under a tarp beside my Troopy, but my warranty kicked in at 50 and I had to have full spinal fusion done. I am now in need of some creature comforts when I camp.

So I am now upgrading my sleeping arrangements and keeping the 90’s off-road model to once again head out into the gold fields and go gold prospecting a long time passion of mine.

This was taken when I was up on the Palmer River goldfields:
Nice to meet you all.

Cheers,
Grant

Hi grant and well done.

May your bottle top and can collection be exceeded by a nice lump of gold…

@Engel – have a Minelab SD2200DV2 currently running a Double D coil to cope with the mineralisation in some of the goldfields. It’s an oldie but a good one, it was used out on the WA Goldfields before I got it so it already had some pedigree at finding Gold. I also use a 14″ mono coil and have an old 24×12 elliptical mono UFO coil for finding the deep stuff. Also have an Aldi metal detector special for the beach / parks

@dieseltojo Cheers mate.

Welcome to the forum, Grant.

I also chase the yellow stuff, both here in Qld and in the west. The pics below show a typical days work near Cue, close to an ounce and a half.


I’m a Troopy man too.

Jeff

Hi Grant,

Welcome to the family mate and the greatest forum …ive never found any gold yet BUT ive cleaned up 9/10’s of oz mate.. i had the minelab latest 10 + years back n it as great fun.. Welcome

@diesel Nice, you even have some good speccies there got to be happy with that

@rredbeak Thanks for the welcome. Gold Prospecting is just my excuse for getting out into the outback, love it out there, the gold coloured stuff is just an added bonus

Good to have you here Grant.
Finding a little bit of shinny gold stuff would help pay for the fuel to get out where you want to be.
It’s a great place to wander in…..this Australia

@Lance thanks for the welcome Yes it is amazing the sights you get to see when you travel this great land of ours. I love the history that you get to learn about when you research the goldfields and get to see it first hand when you visit the old diggings.