Went to a different area today. It is a larger sports complex that my better half has been saying for a while that I should check out.
Took the Cibola and Tejon, both with batteries that are only battery checking at 3 beeps.
I saw a grounds keeper walking around with one of the large vertical tube type of utility metal detectors. I started on a different field with the Cibola. After about 30 minutes the guy comes over and asks if I am looking for anything in particular. I said no, just what ever I may find and showed him a handful of can slaw. He said he used large zinc plated nails put in the ground around the sprinkler heads in the field to find them. He'd appreciate it if I didn't remove them. No problem. I asked where where the sprinkler heads. He gave me an approximation. I asked if I could find one and see what it sounded like. He said it wasn't easy but if I didn't dig it OK. I walked in the direction he said one of the sprinkler lines was. In about 5 minutes I found one. Called him over and showed him why I wouldn't dig it. It discriminated out about where a zinc penny does. When I pin pointed it screamed saying it was right on the surface. Used the hand held pin-pointer to locate it exactly and brushed the grass away from the head and it was obvious it was a sprinkler head. The Cibola hit the head a lot harder than it hit the surrounding nails. I asked if they were brass, he said they are a bronze heads. He wished me luck.
I did the sidelines of two fields then ran out of battery in the Cibola. Tejon did in front of a concession stand, behind the benches on one baseball field and the tot lot. I saw evidence of digging in the tot lot and only turned up one quarter and the Smirnoff bottle in the wood chips. The screw top was at about 8 inches and the rest of the bottle slanted down. I was surprised it came out in one piece.
Total just under $2, 18 pull tabs, two buttons, two pockets full of can slaw, some metal blobs, the bottle and part of a matchbox car. If you can make out the liscence palt it says NMT659. A google search says it was either a Morris 1100 or MG1100 matchbox.
I need to go back to the field I hit yesterday!
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Took the Cibola and Tejon, both with batteries that are only battery checking at 3 beeps.
I saw a grounds keeper walking around with one of the large vertical tube type of utility metal detectors. I started on a different field with the Cibola. After about 30 minutes the guy comes over and asks if I am looking for anything in particular. I said no, just what ever I may find and showed him a handful of can slaw. He said he used large zinc plated nails put in the ground around the sprinkler heads in the field to find them. He'd appreciate it if I didn't remove them. No problem. I asked where where the sprinkler heads. He gave me an approximation. I asked if I could find one and see what it sounded like. He said it wasn't easy but if I didn't dig it OK. I walked in the direction he said one of the sprinkler lines was. In about 5 minutes I found one. Called him over and showed him why I wouldn't dig it. It discriminated out about where a zinc penny does. When I pin pointed it screamed saying it was right on the surface. Used the hand held pin-pointer to locate it exactly and brushed the grass away from the head and it was obvious it was a sprinkler head. The Cibola hit the head a lot harder than it hit the surrounding nails. I asked if they were brass, he said they are a bronze heads. He wished me luck.
I did the sidelines of two fields then ran out of battery in the Cibola. Tejon did in front of a concession stand, behind the benches on one baseball field and the tot lot. I saw evidence of digging in the tot lot and only turned up one quarter and the Smirnoff bottle in the wood chips. The screw top was at about 8 inches and the rest of the bottle slanted down. I was surprised it came out in one piece.
Total just under $2, 18 pull tabs, two buttons, two pockets full of can slaw, some metal blobs, the bottle and part of a matchbox car. If you can make out the liscence palt it says NMT659. A google search says it was either a Morris 1100 or MG1100 matchbox.
I need to go back to the field I hit yesterday!
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