When your pinpointer detects grass from 8 inches up...

[Pulltabby]

Good info how to hunt these awful sites.......but for most here this hobby has a lot to do with simple relaxation. Hunting over such nighmare noise is not my cup of tea. hh


oj/bc

 

[davemill]

I would think also, that even with gopher wire, the chatter would be doable for finding repeatable signals. No different than dealing with chatter in black sands at a beach. The key is to find something NON-random...

Skippy

Skippy,

Check out the youtube video in the first post. This isn't black sand, where I have had some limited success with the ATPro. This is detecting on top of what is effectively a solid metal surface spreading infinitely in all directions. Pinpointer goes nuts eight inches above ground. Detector could barely find my digger, let alone a small gold ring. A bit worse than black sand!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I would think also, that even with gopher wire, the chatter would be doable for finding repeatable signals. No different than dealing with chatter in black sands at a beach. The key is to find something NON-random...

Skippy

I know what skippy is talking about. Example: I was commissioned to find a buried cache that was said to have been buried at the foot of the wall of a house. The next-of-kin, who were looking for this canister their late father had buried ... had tried renting a detector. But the detector "just blared off everywhere". So they called me.

I immediately spotted the problem: The entire wall of this house was plaster and lathe with chicken screen re-enforcing, that extended down into the base of the ground at the foot of the entire side of the house. Meaning the detector couldn't get within a foot of the edge of the house, without the toe of the coil beginning to pick up the signal from the wall.

But I was able to discern a difference in the signal. ie.: once you've established a "base-mark" for the disturbance, you listen for sounds that deviate (ie.: hint at a stronger spot). Or you off-tune to the disturbance (assuming it's a "constant") and then hopefully targets that deviate from that norm will give you a hint.

Of course, this is all easy in print. But every site and circumstance is different. I suppose if the chicken screen were very shallow, .... it's not gonna fly. Perhaps a Compass 77b would simply not see any of the screen ? If it's of iron composition, that is. If it's conductive metal make-up for the screen (to prevent corrosion), you might be scr*wed

 

[DiggerMD]

Pulltabs, rusty nails,beer caps,athelic shoe spikes, eraser heads, crack head glue tubes, junkie needles, zipper pulls,foil wrap, now chicken wire uggggg

I've often thought, if I catch someone detecting/ poaching one of my spots I'm buying 2-3000 copper and steel bbs and all the pull tabs I have gathered and throwing them out over the area.

 

[Pulltabby]

I've often thought, if I catch someone detecting/ poaching one of my spots I'm buying 2-3000 copper and steel bbs and all the pull tabs I have gathered and throwing them out over the area.

My money says been done by a few folks

 

[Skippy SH13]

Skippy,

Check out the youtube video in the first post. This isn't black sand, where I have had some limited success with the ATPro. This is detecting on top of what is effectively a solid metal surface spreading infinitely in all directions. Pinpointer goes nuts eight inches above ground. Detector could barely find my digger, let alone a small gold ring. A bit worse than black sand!

I guess then, that all I can say is that if you've tried to find repeatable signals and can't then you're out of luck. Sorry!