Tracker IV settings help

[Clint in KY]

Here is the situation. The wind knocked over my bird feeder pole which broke one of the feeders. The part I am trying to find is a steel bracket. In an attempt to use my MD I find my yard is mostly fill dirt with lots of metal mixed in. I can’t swing the detector more than 3 feet without it sounding. The bracket should be lying at ground level. I can’t dig every signal, so I need a way to set up the Tracker IV to detect ONLY iron (steel). So given the fact that the Tracker IV does not have a notch feature where I could notch out every thing except iron, is there any way I can set up the detector I have to find the bracket, or am I going to be forced to get a “better” detector?
Thanks for any input.

 

[Diga]

Hi Clint.

Put the Disc/Notch dial to the lowest setting and switch the detector to tone mode. That will give the steel bracket (ferrous) targets a grunting tone and the nonferrous targets a clean tone. Also, reduce the sensitivity to about 1/3. Test it on a coin and a ferrous object of similar size to that bracket. EDIT: You might have to flip that toggle switch to all metal, because I can't remember if the Tone option picks up all metal when the disc dial is turned all the way to the left, but it probably doesn't. Test it out as I described.


Another option is to try one of those magnetic sweepers.

 

[markinmichigan]

Sounds like a mission. You can get the Bounty Hunter Tracker IV to mostly detect iron/steel, but because it does not have a notch or VDI, you have to use the discrimination control in reverse. You won’t be able to detect only iron, but you can bias the detector strongly toward it. I think???

Try this, might work....Sensitivity. Start around 50–70%. Too high and the detector will respond to everything. Turn the discrimination very low. Start just above IRON. Sweep slowly. Dig targets with rough/broken audio.

OR get a very powerful magnet. OR a new detector. The Nokta Legend, the machine can actually isolate iron much better using iron filtering and tone breaks. It would find a steel bracket much faster.

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[hoser]

It can't be deep so if it was me, I would go rent/borrow one of those roll around nail magnets you use after doing a shingle replacement job. But that's just me.

 

[yatahaze323]

How big is this bracket?

If you expect it to be on the top of the dirt, I'd say keep it in all metal and turn the sensitivity level way down so you only detect the very top area of the soil and not notch anything out. Test it with something of similar size and material if you can to make sure it can detect it, if not keep turning the sensitivity up slightly until you can hear it.

If you have a rake try raking the area it might help move it around to help see it.

The rolling magnet would probably be the easiest if you can't find it any other way.