AT Pro and trashy areas

[MDzombie]

I went to an older park, was built in the late 30's-early 40's. turns out this was a park that had LOT of baseball games...and everyone had a beer in there had it seems as there was pull tabs and caps EVERYWHERE!!!! my AT Pro was going nuts! if I dug everything from 60 and over i might as well just get my self a back hoe. any tips for cutting tough that trash some?

[Irons]

Got a park near me just like that, its carpeted with old style ring pull tabs.

When the tongue is seperated from the ring it sounds just like a nickel at a solid 51-52.

There are so many of these it's hard to find a place to ground balance the machine, no kidding.

I don't go there very often as it would drive me crazy.
It is the toughest place I have ever hunted by a long shot. It also has the most potential for old coins. I have found 3 silver coins and a dozen or so wheats there.

What I end up doing there is grid an area and just dig signals 68 and up.

There isn't much else you can do, I know I have passed over gold and silver jewelry there but hell it would take a year to clear maybe 1/4 acre.

Just be glad your AT Pro has excellent target seperation, you will be able to nail coins where others have failed.

Good Luck!!

[kelpike]

Originally Posted by Irons

Got a park near me just like that, its carpeted with old style ring pull tabs.

When the tongue is seperated from the ring it sounds just like a nickel at a solid 51-52.

There are so many of these it's hard to find a place to ground balance the machine, no kidding.

I don't go there very often as it would drive me crazy.
It is the toughest place I have ever hunted by a long shot. It also has the most potential for old coins. I have found 3 silver coins and a dozen or so wheats there.

What I end up doing there is grid an area and just dig signals 68 and up.

There isn't much else you can do, I know I have passed over gold and silver jewelry there but hell it would take a year to clear maybe 1/4 acre.

Just be glad your AT Pro has excellent target seperation, you will be able to nail coins where others have failed.

Good Luck!!

I agree with Irons. I would also add that you should try the 5X8 coil. I recently bought one and it helps with the seperation in trashy areas. I will most likely just leave it on my machine all the time. It is also much easier to pinpoint with the 5X8.

[pulltabMiner]

Agree with all comments. Best to use the small 5x8. It does wonders in a trashy site.

[Dark Chameleon]

I'm using my 5X8 for my park...it does make it easier, your not seeing as much jumping around from 15 to 90 in the same place, your still going to find millions of pull tabs but you can do the 90 degree scan and see if that sweet bell sounds both ways then its a little better, i even found some of the flattened pull tabs did give a different number at 90 with the small coil.

One thing though, it takes three times longer to scan the area...and means three times as much digging, if thats not good enough for the trash then you could go sniper but i think then it might be good to consider moving onwards or just digging....i got a shoe box of bottle tops and pull tabs from the last three weeks and not coverred the smallest area of the park.

Maybe if it poisses you off enough then just move around, one day there, one day somewhere else...

[goodmore]

Ageed! Use a small coil and dig high tones. The last thing you want to do is make a mess out this field by digging tabs too. Summer is not the time to be digging a thousand tabs. Come back in the fall. Grid it off and take the tabs and everything else out in sections. The field isn't going anywhere.

[Dark Chameleon]

Originally Posted by goodmore

Ageed! Use a small coil and dig high tones. The last thing you want to do is make a mess out this field by digging tabs too. Summer is not the time to be digging a thousand tabs. Come back in the fall. Grid it off and take the tabs and everything else out in sections. The field isn't going anywhere.

I get worried about other detectorists coming alone and taking my stuff

[goodmore]

The best way to hunt a site with junk is to let someone else remove the junk. I really do like when someone says the site has been hunted. I have faith in my equipment and myself to pull good targets. I will never see a public park or ball field that hasn't been hunted. They can have the clad. I am not looking for it. Silver and gold and key dates.

[Lightningjack]

Originally Posted by goodmore

The best way to hunt a site with junk is to let someone else remove the junk. I really do like when someone says the site has been hunted. I have faith in my equipment and myself to pull good targets. I will never see a public park or ball field that hasn't been hunted. They can have the clad. I am not looking for it. Silver and gold and key dates.

Thats exactly the way I think with the exception that I actually love hunting the trashy spots in parks with my At-Pro, Thats where I dig most of my silver coins...

[LAEarl]

While I don't have an AT Pro I certainly can relate to the type of park you hunt. I have several 100 year old parks that are like that. Every swing will net a signal. I discrim Fe and dig the high tones. It is a big park so if I miss something I highly doubt that if someone will come in behind me and find it. It will be there for when I can stand to dig very tab signal I find.

Good luck and happy digging.

[outwardjourney]

Best advice I can give you,

5X8 Coil and use the following settings, you will miss out on gold and nickels

PRO ZERO
Iron Disc 40
Eliminate everything from 40 - 69

Detect only 70 +

I found my wheatie cache this way and got lucky that inside that same cache were some buffalo nickels, but it works great!

[cher]

Originally Posted by MDzombie

I went to an older park, was built in the late 30's-early 40's. turns out this was a park that had LOT of baseball games...and everyone had a beer in there had it seems as there was pull tabs and caps EVERYWHERE!!!! my AT Pro was going nuts! if I dug everything from 60 and over i might as well just get my self a back hoe. any tips for cutting tough that trash some?

"Now hear this, get outta my way people, I just got a signal!!"
See it CAN be done!

[ValleyMike]

^^^ Now I don't care who you are, that there is funny

[DirtyRob]

Got my first indian head in a park like this. I tried to concentrate on "70" and above and any good VDI signal at 6 inches+. The indian was a solid "77" at six inches. The park is over 100 years old and I get the old style type pull-rings at 6 or 8 inches at times. So, you can't always just hit the deeper stuff.

Doing a small grid and cleaning out all of the junk would be impossible. I have had swings where I've had as many as 20 targets per swing. Now that's a slow, wide swing. But slowing down and trying to let the machine recover from target to target searching for that deeper signal in between.