Any tips for detecting around cinders?

[hatpin]

A few days ago I was at a middle school yard and came up on an area with cinders. They used the cinders for a sprinting track. There are coins there but the Vaquero was going nuts so I left the area. I did turn the sens. down a bit, maybe I should have turned it down a lot. I cant help but think that other detectorist avoid the spot also. any tips? My Vaquero has the stock coil.

 

[TC-NM]

A few days ago I was at a middle school yard and came up on an area with cinders. They used the cinders for a sprinting track. There are coins there but the Vaquero was going nuts so I left the area. I did turn the sens. down a bit, maybe I should have turned it down a lot. I cant help but think that other detectorist avoid the spot also. any tips? My Vaquero has the stock coil.

Keep doing what you're doing until it settles down. If at all you don't succeed, try avoiding this area.

Good Luck,

TC-NM

 

[slowmotion]

This might help; You half to G.B. over the cinders. Start with SEN. at 50% or less and then start your G.B.
If it is still no good, then turn SEN. to -0- and G.B again.
Still no good? Then G.B. keeping your coil 2 to 4 in. from the ground.
Still no good? I didn't think so. Then find yourself a nice P.I. machine like the Sand Shark.
Willard in Spokane

 

[thump7]

The sensitivity setting does not affect the All-Metal mode. I think GBalancing on the cinderblocks should help. Could try turning the GBalance 1/2 turn positive from the setting you were using. In the disc mode lowering the sensitivity should help also. Make sure you are not supertuned, even setting the threshold too low would be better than too high in this situation. Even in good ground a high threshold setting combined with improper ground balance will make the machine behave irratic.
good luck.

 

[tvr]

I've got the same stuff at a couple schools I hunt. Ground balance is pretty critical. Would be nice to be working with a 10 turn pot. Lowering sensitivity helps some, I like the small coil for this work; the 5.75 inch concentric. Try all metal too. Can simulate a reduced sensitivity in all metal by hunting with the coil raised a couple inches higher than you would normally hunt. Don't expect to get a lot of depth, but then things don't sink very fast in this stuff either.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[hatpin]

I wouldnt be searching on the track itself, but along it where the cinders are scattered.Ill try all your suggestions.

 

[tvr]

The cinder areas I hunt are not the track. The tracks are now a synthetic material. The old cinders were dumped outside the stadium areas and spread out. The areas look like poor grassy areas, but when digging I know they are the cinders and I can tell I'm over the cinder area by the way the detector acts.

Good luck!

 

[WILL_PENNY]

A few days ago I was at a middle school yard and came up on an area with cinders. They used the cinders for a sprinting track. There are coins there but the Vaquero was going nuts so I left the area. I did turn the sens. down a bit, maybe I should have turned it down a lot. I cant help but think that other detectorist avoid the spot also. any tips? My Vaquero has the stock coil.

First Bandido will cut through the cinders like butter.

 

[jabbo]

Try lowering Threshold to about zero and lowering Sensitivity way down too.

 

[hatpin]

I went back to the cinder track. Im not hunting on the track itself but next to it. I couldnt keep the machine quiet, so I only dug super good signals. Got 9 quarters, 1 dime and four pennies.Nothing old except for a wheatie.