Bandido II Umax settings near Old Railroad

[Rayo]

I do a lot of hunting near my house where there used to be railroad tracks..The ties, and tracks have been gone for at least 25 years..

I have yet to find anything "good"..All I keep finding is Railroad Spikes & Tie Plates..

What should I set Discriminate to on my Bandido II Umax to avoid this?

Thanks..

 

[JimGilmore]

Just because there are tracks does not means the train stopped or people hung out there.....
Try to find out where stuff happened....maybe look where the signal man stayed or somebod had to make switching to the trcl or where the crew for the trai had to stop for water and stff...

 

[Hombre]

Hey Tuso

My advice is to move on to a better place or start your own scrap yard biznez. and clean the place out. But seriously... there is no way to disc. out a tie plate or anything that big, maybe a spike would disc out, I dont know, never tried it. Big iron will have a harsh sound to it unless it is real deep, putting it in the pinpoint all-metal mode in normal or no-motion mode you can trace the signal and see if it's bigger than the coil. Coin signals when they have some depth to them sound like they have a tight soft little 'ring' sound to them. It's hard to describe the smooth edge sound of a coin or anything small and round. Once you have one of these type of signals, investigate further and put in pinpoint 'normal' all-metal mode and see how tight and small the signal is. I like the brown stock 8" coil for pinpointing because I can vision the signal through the hole in the middle of the coil. HH

I do a lot of hunting near my house where there used to be railroad tracks..The ties, and tracks have been gone for at least 25 years..

I have yet to find anything "good"..All I keep finding is Railroad Spikes & Tie Plates..

What should I set Discriminate to on my Bandido II Umax to avoid this?

Thanks..

 

[Rayo]

Just because there are tracks does not means the train stopped or people hung out there.....
Try to find out where stuff happened....maybe look where the signal man stayed or somebod had to make switching to the trcl or where the crew for the trai had to stop for water and stff...

I'm starting to think my yard is where a former train station was..Last year I pulled a 1941 Australian Penny out of the ground..Then just today I unearthed an 1850's Druidical Exhibition Token..I would take some pictures, but i'm not sure how to clean the coins without damaging them..

Then as I walked across the street to where the former Railroad tracks were..I found a copper, or brass part of an old lantern?

Once I got directly over where the tracks once stood I found about 3 more spikes..It seems like all the good stuff is in my yard..lol

My advice is to move on to a better place or start your own scrap yard biznez. and clean the place out. But seriously... there is no way to disc. out a tie plate or anything that big, maybe a spike would disc out, I dont know, never tried it. Big iron will have a harsh sound to it unless it is real deep, putting it in the pinpoint all-metal mode in normal or no-motion mode you can trace the signal and see if it's bigger than the coil. Coin signals when they have some depth to them sound like they have a tight soft little 'ring' sound to them. It's hard to describe the smooth edge sound of a coin or anything small and round. Once you have one of these type of signals, investigate further and put in pinpoint 'normal' all-metal mode and see how tight and small the signal is. I like the brown stock 8" coil for pinpointing because I can vision the signal through the hole in the middle of the coil.

Thanks for the advice..LOL!..But really I think I'm going to wait till I get about 100 of these spikes..Then drop them off at the local scrapper..That should be good for $5 or so..haha

While hunting directly over the former tracks..I noticed on some hits..When I would get a scratchy signal..As soon as I flipped it to ALL Metal..The signal would go nuts..

Then while trying to pinpoint..If I found that the signal was very strong over a 2 square foot section..I would just move on to look for another target..

I'm going to try, and remember what you said the next time I go out..