Deepest find, some points and pics

[earthmansurfer]

Hello all,

Started my one week vacation yesterday and have put in about 6 hours in the last two days in what I thought was a hunted out playground. I've pulled about 20 coins till yesterday from there and almost all of them were 2 to 3 inches. The odd thing is that almost all of the coins are from the 1920's. Can't figure how they are so shallow. The machine GC's the soil at 67 to 71 and the Fe3 is at .03. The soil is not so clay like but packed pretty well.

I wanted to find some deeper stuff as I know it's there due to the age of the place (500 plus years old). First, yesterday I found a couple of coins, my second oldest, a 1911 Deutsches Reich (I'm in Germany) and it was 2" deep! Fill dirt maybe? (but so many coins there). It's in the picture (upper left corner) but due to the zinc it's faded, though the condition is very good.
Ok, today I went searching for some audio signals with no accompanying ID. Walla, two coins at 6" deep! Strong beep but little or no signal (I had to jack up the sensitivity). Was running mostly at 60 to 80. Solid signal on a dime sized and nickel sized (though thinner) coin at 6". Depth gauge was right on.

Got my second button, looks pretty old, but the back is torn out. (Hollow type). The interesting find is the shield/badge looking thing. It has a date of 1899 and says "Behringersdorf Rad F. CLB All Heil 1899". It has a little bicycle at the top. Behringersdorf is a little town next to mine. Rad is from Farrad meaning bicycle. Will have to investigate the rest.

The other finds include another small shield, thimble, fired and compressed bulled (hit at around Seventy something but feels lead?), a double heart "thingy" and some coins from the twenty's as well as a Hitler coin from 44'.

Now some information. The T2 is a very very sensitive detector and often in an annoying way. If my ground balance is off it starts to chatter. If my discrimination is above 40 it often starts to chatter. And above 70 or 80 on the sensitivity requires some clean ground or ignorance of the chattering. In a way it's all good as it keeps me checking my settings.

I like using the Db mode to pick up fainter targets. Correct me if I'm wrong but it is continuous so you see what is there. I also got solid signals on the 3b mode with the deeper stuff but also, not much or no ID. That is something I need to learn now. NOT to become too reliant on the ID. I think the 3b mode might be a bit better around crowded targets than the Db mode but I'm not having any real problems with the Db mode.

For those learning the detector listen to the pinpoint mode. I can usually tell a coin (hits narrow) compared to anything aluminum (hits wide). But I often dig everything solid as many of the coins here were made form aluminum! Can't win. I'm looking forward to trying out the T2 in some other areas on smaller coins. It seems perfect for those due to it's sensitivity/frequency. Also, GB in all metal mode, that really helped me in the tough soil today. It's amazing how much better this detector operates when properly gound balanced. I guess it being hyper sensitive really makes every adjustment count.

EMS

 

[jeff@middlesex]

Very interesting. I don't know how you setup your machine. But set the settings first and then ground balance it. The chatter over 40 disc is very strange but does sound like a ground balance issue.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Thanks Jeff,

That sounds odd to me. I thought the detector was more stable if you ground balance it before settings as the settings "over charge" the unit? I guess I might have just discovered one of my "problems". Thanks again, I'll test it out tomorrow. Perhaps I was confused my Mike H.'s post stickied post above on zero discrimination (which I like Mike). He talks about a stable setup.
Is it normal to get no ID on (smaller) targets beyond 6"? As I stated in my post one target at 6" gave no ID until I jacked up the sensitivity and then it was sporadic. The smaller target gave no id at all, but a pretty good beep.

Sincerely,

EMS

 

[Rick(ND)]

A few things I notice with the T-2 I had was if it chattered too much I had to drop the sensitivity and raise the disc to a higher number. I also notice deeper coins didn't read correctly on the ID, but you knew they were good. That is how my walking lib half read as it was just a repeatable signal that was weak sounding and kind of a med tone in my 3b mode i was in.The half showed 13 inches deep, but was only around 9-10.

Rick

I do miss my T-2 as it was a great detector and got some real small targets that I needed a good pinpointing probe like the Uniprobe to find some of these targets..

 

[earthmansurfer]

Went out again today and had my detector running at 99 in a local field! A little bit of chatter but not too annoying. I re-read Mike's post and noticed that Db mode won't id on deeper targets and I verified that today. For setting my machine up today I found clean ground (I don't know how many times I messed up here as it's hard to find a peice free from iron! (But not in the fields)).
I lowered the sens and disc down, set the coil on the ground and was able to move up the sens to 80 - 99, depending on the ground. The disc ran well at 40 today. Basically I followed Mike's directions and tried out what Jeff said too (Thanks Jeff). No problems today but I'll need to try the playground out again as that's where I've had problems.

I used the 2+ mode for the first time today and it worked great in the fields. Was too hot so didn't stay long but found an old button and an old pin it looks like.