The playground from hell
. That's what a co-worker I sold a GTA 550 a couple of years ago called a playground at a local county school. He tried to hunt it but said the high tone coin signals were nonstop and he gave up before he started. He asked me to go check it out so I put a 5.5 inch coil on one of my Barons and gave it a try. When I got there I saw why he had problems, the playground is only about 4 years old but it was built on top of what had been a town's garbage dump until about 40 years ago. Basically they leveled off the dump, put maybe 6 inches of dirt on top and built the graveled playgrounds on top of it. I gave it a try but he was right about the nonstop signals, even with the sensitivity set at minimum and the small coil the detector sounded like a machine gun. I actually found a couple of coins, but gave up in less than a half hour. The next day at work I told him about it being built on a dump and that I didn't think it was worth the effort required to hunt since there wouldn't be any old coins there anyway. That was in December of 2006. Fast forward to last Monday. I stopped in a local pawn shop and noticed they had a BH Fast Tracker for sale, in photo below with price tag shown beside it.
I bought the FT, tried it at a couple of places here in town and while it had more depth than I expected, I got a 3/4th by 1/2 inch sterling silver teddy bear from a bracelet or necklace that was close to four inches down and a couple of coins an inch or so deeper, I noticed the sensitivity could be set low enough that it would barely get a dime an inch or so from the coil. This afternoon I took it to the "playground from hell", set the sensitivity at the 3 o,clock position and it kicked new coin booty. I dug some trash, mostly pieces of aluminum cans, but the ground under the gravel was hard enough so the coins that weren't still in the gravel or lying on the surface of the ground were only maybe an inch down. No pennies in the photo, I dropped those in the "ruint penny bucket" before I made the photo. Would rather be hunting older sites for silver coins but it was rather gratifying to be able to hunt the "playground from hell" and find coins, even if they are coroded clad.
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. That's what a co-worker I sold a GTA 550 a couple of years ago called a playground at a local county school. He tried to hunt it but said the high tone coin signals were nonstop and he gave up before he started. He asked me to go check it out so I put a 5.5 inch coil on one of my Barons and gave it a try. When I got there I saw why he had problems, the playground is only about 4 years old but it was built on top of what had been a town's garbage dump until about 40 years ago. Basically they leveled off the dump, put maybe 6 inches of dirt on top and built the graveled playgrounds on top of it. I gave it a try but he was right about the nonstop signals, even with the sensitivity set at minimum and the small coil the detector sounded like a machine gun. I actually found a couple of coins, but gave up in less than a half hour. The next day at work I told him about it being built on a dump and that I didn't think it was worth the effort required to hunt since there wouldn't be any old coins there anyway. That was in December of 2006. Fast forward to last Monday. I stopped in a local pawn shop and noticed they had a BH Fast Tracker for sale, in photo below with price tag shown beside it.
I bought the FT, tried it at a couple of places here in town and while it had more depth than I expected, I got a 3/4th by 1/2 inch sterling silver teddy bear from a bracelet or necklace that was close to four inches down and a couple of coins an inch or so deeper, I noticed the sensitivity could be set low enough that it would barely get a dime an inch or so from the coil. This afternoon I took it to the "playground from hell", set the sensitivity at the 3 o,clock position and it kicked new coin booty
. I dug some trash, mostly pieces of aluminum cans, but the ground under the gravel was hard enough so the coins that weren't still in the gravel or lying on the surface of the ground were only maybe an inch down. No pennies in the photo, I dropped those in the "ruint penny bucket" before I made the photo. Would rather be hunting older sites for silver coins but it was rather gratifying to be able to hunt the "playground from hell" and find coins, even if they are coroded clad. [attachment 86282 MVC-029F.JPG]