Martin_V3i
Elite Member
IMO, if you can not dig a plug using a Lesche, and easily flip an in-tact "Conehead" shaped plug, it don't matter much that your mineral content is low and the soil shows good in analysis. Loosey-goosey soil negates depth ability. There's a lot more to the soil issues besides basic readings which may indicate reasonably good soil conditions, and deep readings.
Soil so called being sweet, soil being low minerialized, yada yada tada.
My soil reads very good in being low in minerals per the readings I get from the Whites V3i analysis screen. I have a quarter buried, placed in the sidewall of the hole, at 11", it's been there for several months now. It takes all I can do to get it consistently hitting even using the 10" coil, tweaked to the max. I read all over the place where peole say the V-machine hits DEEP-DEEP-DEEP, yet there ain't no way I'd ever find Barbers and silver dimes like people tout finding at 10", no way.
I do not believe that you can hit depth unles you can flip a consistent conehead dig with ease, no matter the soil conditions. Either that or the other V3i users saying how deep this thing goes, have "Super-Vs". I have never ever found a dime below 7", anywhere here in these south soils. Finding that quarter at 11" with the 10" with a struggle tells me a dime signal is foolish thinking, even at 8".
AND YES, I understand buried isn't the same as a coin which has been in the ground for years. Silver hardly gives a halo like other metals though, so there shouldn't be that big of a difference. martin
Soil so called being sweet, soil being low minerialized, yada yada tada.
My soil reads very good in being low in minerals per the readings I get from the Whites V3i analysis screen. I have a quarter buried, placed in the sidewall of the hole, at 11", it's been there for several months now. It takes all I can do to get it consistently hitting even using the 10" coil, tweaked to the max. I read all over the place where peole say the V-machine hits DEEP-DEEP-DEEP, yet there ain't no way I'd ever find Barbers and silver dimes like people tout finding at 10", no way.
I do not believe that you can hit depth unles you can flip a consistent conehead dig with ease, no matter the soil conditions. Either that or the other V3i users saying how deep this thing goes, have "Super-Vs". I have never ever found a dime below 7", anywhere here in these south soils. Finding that quarter at 11" with the 10" with a struggle tells me a dime signal is foolish thinking, even at 8".
AND YES, I understand buried isn't the same as a coin which has been in the ground for years. Silver hardly gives a halo like other metals though, so there shouldn't be that big of a difference. martin
Where did the conehead plug term come from ?
