Ruth MoratzMetal Detecting: Large Targets Can Be Good
December 22nd 2006 16:39
Metal Detecting: Be Careful Digging
Be careful whenever you are digging. Be especially alert for chemical spills. A little bit is just part of the game, but care SHOULD be taken not to overexpose oneself to things like transformer oils, which are sometimes in the ground below exploded electric line transformers. By virtue of your metal detecting you will learn the looks of many places, and from the finds you will know ok this is where the shed was, or this is where they worked on cars...use common sense and also your nose to detect strong chemical smells when digging a detected target.
Metal Detectors and Adverse Operations
High Power Electromagnetic Emitters , electrical lines and towers, effect the operation of metal detectors, sometimes radically. The effect of these fields has always been detrimental to the operation of my machines.
Metal Detecting In The Water -- Safety First
While wading and metal detecting, use the coil to feel ahead of where you walk, and a good system is to detect around your self in a circle, as you methodically move in one direction, like along a shore line. There is a lot of overlap in that process, and thats a nice thing, especially in water, where sight is nowhere near as useful as on land. Avoid stepping directly down. This also clears the area of anything that might be a hazard, or at least lets you know of obstructions, and the more methodic searching will reap greater rewards in finds. On detector coils that get a lot of water use, it is good to protect them with extra covers whenever possible, and other modifications can and should be made to make the detector meatier, better able to handle the rough environment of the water for a longer period of time. Except when absolutely necessary, refrain from modifying any detector with metal.
Metal Detecting: Large Targets Can Be Good
One of the first things a metal detectorist learns is that many big targets are junk. Before discriminating metal detectors were invented, the old-timers used size as the PRIME indicator of whether or not to dig, and they also were the first to learn things like the round sound, and the various sound signatures of different types of metals as well. The round sound (See earlier post) has become much more pronounced in modern metal detecting, because of the advanced machinery available to us, but way back during the time when the only thing available were ALL-METAL detectors, well, those detectorists just dealt with the state of the art, and were glad to have any metal detecting capability, period. Not only did they deal with the situation as it was, they actually became adept.
These detectorists of old learned to discern the fine nuances of sound from various target types, and though this is not entirely necessary today, it is good to know this was possible, and still is. Modern detecting becomes enhanced with this sort of knowledge, because even though target size was a prime indicator to the old timers, way back before discriminators and modernity, those detectorists of old still found some very incredible, larger targets amongst the can remnants, door hinges, carparts, and other junk in the ground. Stories of coin rolls, bags of jewelry, and more, abound from those earliest days of metal detecting. The reason any of that got dug is because the machine operator, though searching for small round sounding objects, was so in tune with his detector that he or she could tell just from the tone that an object, though large, was somehow different than the other large targets.
The point of this is to make the modern detectorist aware that they too can learn their detector so well that it will literally talk to them, if they let it, and also, though most larger targets are junk, some are not, and attention should be paid so that your treasure hunting life becomes more profitable by utilizing your head in conjunction wth your detector.
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