Mystery 6x6

[azz7772]

do you bring a gold pan with you in case you find an interesting spot to try. I think having one of these machines and gold prospecting would go hand in hand I am going to keep mine in my machine when I go exploring.

[LarryW]

Wow, those arrow heads are really cool! Thats sounds really fun just wondering along the riverside searching for them. Nice collection.

You machine sounds awesome! Looks like it will work out really nice for the arrowhead hunting. That jet drive looks to work really nice. Thanks for the videos!

Just FYI, To embed the videos there is a filmstrip button you can click on that says insert video when the cursor is over it. Then just copy the youtube link into it. Then it will show up as a video instead of a link.

[Coop]

I find them in the banks of the river, especially after the ice carves out the banks in the spring, and after floods. The rivers are not in the same place and as wide as they were 3ooo-10000 years ago, the river changes course over the years, so the artifacts I find in the river could have been woodland thousands of years ago.

Coop

[azz7772]

I plan on using it to look at the shore banks when hunting for arrowheads in the rivers.

Coop

you find arrow heads in the river. They must be hard to spot. You think they were used for fishing?

[Coop]

I plan on using it to look at the shore banks when hunting for arrowheads in the rivers.

Coop

[Coop]

I haven't run it to much yet so I don't know about the gas usage yet. It has (2) 5 gallon tanks in it, teed together.

Coop

[azz7772]

you will be able to go trolling the shore line with that thing

[Michaeljp86]

The just floating part was the funniest.

It moves pretty good. Does it drink a lot of gas? Seems like it would with that size of engine.

[Coop]

Here is a vid with the jet drive running. It is long, I can't seem to get the editing function on Y-Tube to work, so the engine is runing up till 2:35, after that I'm just floating till the end when I finally get it running by bypassing the fuel pump.

6x6 with Berkley Jet drive in Guilford Lake, Guilford NY - YouTube

Here is the short edited version:

Coop

[Rock Doctor]

I love the sound of that thing

RD

[azz7772]

cool vids that machine looks like a nice water machine sounds good to.

[Coop]

coosaridgerider....Yes, very nervous, I didn't know what to expect. But it wasn't tippy at all, and floats high in the water.

Michaeljp86...The jet drive moves it along faster than the tires, with less engine reving, and the steering is more responsive. I didn't get a chance to play with it to much, all the moving around I did with the jet was with the jet only, the tires weren't moving, I'm curious to see how it goes with the tires turning and the pump working.

Coop

[Michaeljp86]

cool, I bet it really moves with that jet drive

[coosaridgerider]

Where you nervous the first time going in the water lol.

[Coop]

Ok, here is the first vid of it in the water for the first time. It floated well, leaned a little to the left, ( I guess that is "port" when in water), probably would be level if I had a passenger, but being that this was the first time I put it in the water, I couldn't find anybody who wanted to ride with me, go fiqure?....Anyway, this part of the experiment went well, hull seems to be tight, I didn't take on any water. It propells itself suprisingly well with just the tires, at least suprising to me, I've got nothing to gauge it against, I've never had a 6x6 before. After this vid, I put it back in the water and tried out the Berkley jet drive, that went well until the engine quit 200 feet from shore due to the electric fuel pump dying, I'll post that vid later as soon as I fiqure out how to edit out the 15 minutes of dead floating time trying to get it running so I could get back to the launch area.

Coop