Huckleberry
Elite Member
My Yard... My Nemesis
My own yard continues to give me fits! Original cabin built in 1860‘s, burned and replaced with the house built in 1900. Just a touch over 4 acres and has all the trash from everyone who ever lived here, at depth. Overload signals that end up being gate hinges, masses of foil, and the occasional 4 foot iron pipe thrown in just for fun. (I’m a sucker for overload signals.) Nails, nails, and more nails. Running at Disc 0 sounds like machine gun fire. Bolts, spark plugs, pull tabs, Stag cans, you get the idea. It’s so ridiculous that I have to search for a place to ground balance. I have hunted it off and on for a little over three years finding a few cool relics and perhaps 20 wheats, a single undated Buff nickel, and a token from the early 1900's, as well as some clad and then the party was over. I had begun to believe that it had been hunted out previously due to the lack of silver, but now I tend to doubt that because I think that the amount of trash in the ground would cause a "normal" person to move on. Some of you may know that I recently upgraded to the Fisher F75, and my yard my nemesis was the reason for this. I only have about 50 hours under my belt with the F75, but I think that I have a pretty good handle on its operation, however, not one silver coin at this point from my yard. Just a lot of trash. So anyway, today I got a 5 inch sniper coil for it, hoping that will help. I really believe that there are goodies to be found here, and if the sniper coil doesn’t help, I will have to resort to the “dig it all” approach, and am not relishing that prospect. Anyone have any suggestions??? Have I lost my mind???
My own yard continues to give me fits! Original cabin built in 1860‘s, burned and replaced with the house built in 1900. Just a touch over 4 acres and has all the trash from everyone who ever lived here, at depth. Overload signals that end up being gate hinges, masses of foil, and the occasional 4 foot iron pipe thrown in just for fun. (I’m a sucker for overload signals.) Nails, nails, and more nails. Running at Disc 0 sounds like machine gun fire. Bolts, spark plugs, pull tabs, Stag cans, you get the idea. It’s so ridiculous that I have to search for a place to ground balance. I have hunted it off and on for a little over three years finding a few cool relics and perhaps 20 wheats, a single undated Buff nickel, and a token from the early 1900's, as well as some clad and then the party was over. I had begun to believe that it had been hunted out previously due to the lack of silver, but now I tend to doubt that because I think that the amount of trash in the ground would cause a "normal" person to move on. Some of you may know that I recently upgraded to the Fisher F75, and my yard my nemesis was the reason for this. I only have about 50 hours under my belt with the F75, but I think that I have a pretty good handle on its operation, however, not one silver coin at this point from my yard. Just a lot of trash. So anyway, today I got a 5 inch sniper coil for it, hoping that will help. I really believe that there are goodies to be found here, and if the sniper coil doesn’t help, I will have to resort to the “dig it all” approach, and am not relishing that prospect. Anyone have any suggestions??? Have I lost my mind???