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Do you ever weedeat area before you detect
- Thread starter pplinker
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doc holiday232
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But of course----use lawn mower too.
still looking 52
Well-known member
We've gone as far as clearing a wooded areas when the silver is around. We didn't take any trees down but we did remove a lot of brush and spend a lot of the day working before we hunted.
That kind of stuff is fun when your thinking you might be getting close to some good targets.
That kind of stuff is fun when your thinking you might be getting close to some good targets.
I have, once. It was more of a reconnaissance thing than clearing an entire search area.
A friend and I had gotten permission to detect a possible homestead site, in a large field. It was mostly tall grass and weeds, with a few spots with less vegitation. We only had a general idea of the location of the buildings from our research. Nothing significant remained above ground.
We used grass whips to clear small areas to detect for nails or other telltale signs of a buildings former location. After about 8 or 9 test patches, we were successful. We hit some square nails and other debris including some pottery shards.
We waited until the following early Spring to detect the site in earnest, when the grass/weeds had been matted down during winter, and prior to any serious new growth. (it was early Fall when we did our initial reconnoiter)
Since that time, I normally wait until early Spring to search similar sites. It takes a little patience, BUT, it sure is easier!
A friend and I had gotten permission to detect a possible homestead site, in a large field. It was mostly tall grass and weeds, with a few spots with less vegitation. We only had a general idea of the location of the buildings from our research. Nothing significant remained above ground.
We used grass whips to clear small areas to detect for nails or other telltale signs of a buildings former location. After about 8 or 9 test patches, we were successful. We hit some square nails and other debris including some pottery shards.
We waited until the following early Spring to detect the site in earnest, when the grass/weeds had been matted down during winter, and prior to any serious new growth. (it was early Fall when we did our initial reconnoiter)
Since that time, I normally wait until early Spring to search similar sites. It takes a little patience, BUT, it sure is easier!
Yes.....and I have also covered an area with a piece of plywood and using a small coil, detected my grass flattened tracks as I walked backwards.
I lived in an old neighborhood in Phoenix. There was an elderly widow who lived next door. I asked here if I could detect her yard and she said, No. A few weeks later she told me her lawn mower was broken. I offered to mow it for her if she would let me detect. She said yes and I mowed the yard and was able to detect. Found a couple silver dimes and a silver quarter along with some clad. The next week she got a new mower so I didn't get to go back.
Hoser John
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A few times in tough fantastic old yards in Garden Grove. Paid off BIGTIME!!!!John
Electricfrontporch
Member
Mudwhale said:John-Edmonton said:
So you are the crop circle creator....
Maybe crop circles are from super sneaky detectorists??
Some years back i had access to a pasture site that had some roman coins in a very tight radius,this usually indicates a 'possibly' hoard site,but usually scattered hoards are produced as a result of ploughs hitting the top of a buried container/pot but as this was pasture for 100s of years no plough had been near the field,had used a 'petrol strimmer' on some of the thick gorse and clear some of the area for further detecting but alas only found a few more stray roman coins.
One can never leave a site un-detected just because of some problems of ground coverage,in my case it revealed not what i had hoped for but also saying that it could have been the 'Holy Grail' of finds
One can never leave a site un-detected just because of some problems of ground coverage,in my case it revealed not what i had hoped for but also saying that it could have been the 'Holy Grail' of finds
Blind Squirrel
Well-known member
Howdy pplinker--
Yup, I sure have weed whacked sites before detecting. Here in west Texas we have "Oil-camps". They are modern day ghost towns built by oil companies to house their employees in the 1940's through the 1960's. I found one such camp that had about 60 foundations, sidewalks and clothes lines in the back yards. This particular camp was in operation up to about 1966. When I first started hunting that camp in the mid 1980's the weeds were waist high. That inspired me - who else would be crazy enough to chase the rattle snakes away and cut those weeds to detect? You guessed it - me! I was working 6 days a week (sometimes 7) back then so I had 1 day a week to detect. I would usually only hunt one yard a day because of the 100+ temperatures. I just used yo yo, like a sickle, to cut the weeds and I had to rest and hydrate before detecting. That camp was my honey hole for a good 5 years before I was satisfied that I had it pretty much cleaned out. It was worth the effort. I pulled out a LOT of silver, wheat's, jewelry, old toys, WW2 military items, tokens etc. Best of luck and...
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
Yup, I sure have weed whacked sites before detecting. Here in west Texas we have "Oil-camps". They are modern day ghost towns built by oil companies to house their employees in the 1940's through the 1960's. I found one such camp that had about 60 foundations, sidewalks and clothes lines in the back yards. This particular camp was in operation up to about 1966. When I first started hunting that camp in the mid 1980's the weeds were waist high. That inspired me - who else would be crazy enough to chase the rattle snakes away and cut those weeds to detect? You guessed it - me! I was working 6 days a week (sometimes 7) back then so I had 1 day a week to detect. I would usually only hunt one yard a day because of the 100+ temperatures. I just used yo yo, like a sickle, to cut the weeds and I had to rest and hydrate before detecting. That camp was my honey hole for a good 5 years before I was satisfied that I had it pretty much cleaned out. It was worth the effort. I pulled out a LOT of silver, wheat's, jewelry, old toys, WW2 military items, tokens etc. Best of luck and...
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel