curly maple
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- May 12, 2006
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my grand mother was born in 1898 and lived at this location till 1912 and i know the peaple who own the land and asked permission to detect here witch they said yes. so i get there with my detector yesterday and try to figure where the old house sat its all grown up with trees. i find a depression in the ground and try there first well my detecter a prizm 5 starts going off like crazy it says copper and its ringing 2 feet from the ground i am thinking i found the motherload 
i start digging the detecter says its right on the surface but i cant find any thing so i keep trying the detector but the thing still keeps ringing with the detector 2 feet in the air and by the time i get within 8 inches of the ground it says its on the surface and shows the penny icon. so i keep making my hole wider and finally hit some metal i dig it up and its an old barrel ring about 14 inches in diameter. so my question is why did it act like this is it because i was in the middle of a circle. by the way my grandma died only a couple of years ago at almost a 103 years old.
curly maple
i start digging the detecter says its right on the surface but i cant find any thing so i keep trying the detector but the thing still keeps ringing with the detector 2 feet in the air and by the time i get within 8 inches of the ground it says its on the surface and shows the penny icon. so i keep making my hole wider and finally hit some metal i dig it up and its an old barrel ring about 14 inches in diameter. so my question is why did it act like this is it because i was in the middle of a circle. by the way my grandma died only a couple of years ago at almost a 103 years old.curly maple
4 feet later I found a old iron pipe running down to the water. Our detectors take their best guesses and sometimes they are wrong 
