???Cache Machine???

[TURNMASTER]

Ok so I have puzzled over this a little.
Word is a friends great great uncle buried 30k many years past near a small town 100mi. out of Spokane.
No one in the family ever recovered the cache.
He knows where the property is but not the exact location on the property.
Working opposite shifts makes it hard to get a weekend off together to go look.
I am thinking the X705 may not be the correct tool for the job.

My goal is this... To have the best tool for the job when we get to knock on the door to ask for permission. It won't be this year most likely. I am not going to get in a hurry and go hunting bear either with a gun that is too small or that I haven't had time to learn to handle.

Time is not really an issue here and there may not even be any cache so it would be nice to have a machine that would otherwise compliment my 705.
I know it is a pipe dream but...these things sometimes work out.
I would be haunted if I never even tried!!!

So what would you use or add to your tool box in this case.

Thanks for Dreaming with me
Jeff

 

[Digger]

A lot will depend on what type of container the loot was placed in and how quickly the owner wanted to access it. If he loaded an old iron kettle with gold or silver coins, you are not going to find them running discrimination, regardless of the detector you chose. If he buried it in a hurry, or wanted to access it quickly, it probably won't be very deep. Lots of folks here in the midwest used what are known as "post hole banks". They simply removed one of the fence posts near the house, placed the money in the hole, and put the post back on top of the loot. Quick, easy to relocate, yet well hidden. Some folks kept their money in the chicken house. Chickens make pretty good "watch dogs" when someone came snooping around their farm. If the loot was buried for the "long term" it could be deeper or could have something (like a large rock) placed over it. Some folks buried multiple caches out behind the house, in their orchard or grove. These folks typically had a lot of money and were the unofficial "banker" for the new settlements. I know of one local man (125 years ago) who acted as the local banker, before there were banks. People would come around and ask him for a loan....... he'd tell them he had to pray on it and that they should return the next morning. That night, if he wanted to loan them some money, he'd go out to the grove and dig up one of his caches. This story has been handed down to me from some of the oldtimers. Apparently there was something to it as when a new house was built on that site 30 - 40 years ago, there were several gold coins found during excavation. My brother and I have hunted around that farm on a couple of occassions, hoping to pick up a few "straglers". Nothing yet!!!

I've read a lot of stories about caches and one thing remains in common with most of them....... they haven't been found yet! But you have to ask yourself, if you found it, would you tell anyone? If you don't, 50 years from now, people are going to think it's still out there. JMHO

With that said, here is a past post concerning the X-Terra finding some caches

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,978240,978240#msg-978240

best of luck to you in your pursuit! I'd tell you to let us know how it turns out........ but I wouldn't blame you if you kept it a secret!!! HH Randy

 

[TURNMASTER]

If I were to find a cache I would tell (I think!) but maybe not the full extent. This one and another small one came to light after I bought that BH that I leave in the closet. I may not share if I found a super rare key date worth hundreds of thousands though. To easy to track down an adress and invite thieves! Who knows though I might want to brag.

Living The Dream
Jeff

 

[SteveP(NH)]

The thing about most caches is that they were deliberately buried and if the person who buried the cache had any brains they probably would have buried it 3 or more feet deep. The problem with the Xterra's is that none of the coils are big enough to go that deep unless the case the cache was buried in was the size of a trunk and made out of metal.

Most folks would use a 2 box type detector as they ignore small targets such as coins, cans, etc, in the first foot or so, leaving you with a clearer picture of what is big and deep underground. Supposedly the two box detectors can detect a manhole cover sized target 5 feet or so down and an oil barrel sized target to a depth of 20 feet but I've never used one myself. Every once in a while one pops up on ebay and usually goes for somewhere in the $300 to $350 range though I have seen them go lower sometimes. New they are around 600 or 700, though Garrett makes a 2 box attachment for their GTI-2500 model so if you know someone who has one of those you can get the 2 box attachment for 200.

I believe that Whites, Garrett, Fisher, C-Scope, Discovery Treasure Baron, and 2B make 2 box machines. You can find reviews of these models if you google "2 box detector". These type of machines work by having the transmit coil at one end of a 5 or 6 foot long pole and the receiver coil at the other end. You carry the pole horizontal to the ground and in effect you get a search coil 5 or 6 feet across.

 

[TURNMASTER]

Thanks