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"> One of your trash techniques I have been trying lately was in your #2 I think. In normal conditions we are told to sweep our coils flat & close to the ground. Many are scrubbing the ground for best depth. Again, I'm no engineer. But, picturing that a round coil sends a "cone" shape into the ground, in heavy trash, lifting the coil up with narrow that beam & can get you in between some tight quarters. Someone called it "surgical" once which I thought was a great analogy <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> Again, great ideas for all of us.......
HH, Bill
"> One of your trash techniques I have been trying lately was in your #2 I think. In normal conditions we are told to sweep our coils flat & close to the ground. Many are scrubbing the ground for best depth. Again, I'm no engineer. But, picturing that a round coil sends a "cone" shape into the ground, in heavy trash, lifting the coil up with narrow that beam & can get you in between some tight quarters. Someone called it "surgical" once which I thought was a great analogy <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> Again, great ideas for all of us.......HH, Bill
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After reading and rereading both your posts, I copied and printed them, put the page into a sheet protector, and took it with me for an after-work outing today.
What I really found helpful wasn't so much your specific set-up suggestions (though undoubtedly they're valuable in their own right), but your description of the painstaking, almost surgical evaluation of a "confusing" site.
So...I hit an area that's pretty trashy (bottle caps, iron, foil, tabs, you name it), adjacent to the college campus, and tried to pay more careful attention to isolating the mixed signals. Although I found only 7 pennies and a quarter during this rather brief experiment, I am pleased to have correctly ID'd them prior to digging, despite the trash around them. The quarter was particularly satisfying as it was surrounded by bits of iron.
Thanks for the thoughtful posts!
-RS in WA- aka coppersnipe
What I really found helpful wasn't so much your specific set-up suggestions (though undoubtedly they're valuable in their own right), but your description of the painstaking, almost surgical evaluation of a "confusing" site.
So...I hit an area that's pretty trashy (bottle caps, iron, foil, tabs, you name it), adjacent to the college campus, and tried to pay more careful attention to isolating the mixed signals. Although I found only 7 pennies and a quarter during this rather brief experiment, I am pleased to have correctly ID'd them prior to digging, despite the trash around them. The quarter was particularly satisfying as it was surrounded by bits of iron.
Thanks for the thoughtful posts!
-RS in WA- aka coppersnipe