I wish I had a picture to share because this was a real hoot.
Late summer I was detecting
some empty camp sites. I love those sandy ones because of all the fun stuff you can find 
. I always search in all metal mode on camp sites because of the variety.
Anyways ...I was checking out the corner of this one lot and had a typical reading and dug down about three inches and found this blue piece of material
.
My heart went a pitter patter thinking...YES....a bag of coins
......nope.
I pulled on the material and could not get it to budge
so I began digging.....and digging...and digging ...and pulling...and digging
After about 5 minutes I experienced this very foul odour.....what could it be?
Did some one bury my old socks or the family dog in this here material?
I said to myself ...where is the metal? I scanned over the same spot and still had a reading...what the hay says me.
So I dug a bigger hole....then, I got a good grip on this here material and pulled as hard as I could and landed flat on my ....you know what.
Talk about stink... I took a close look at what I had and it surprised me.
I had pulled out of the ground a full size approximately 6 man tent.
The fiberglass poles had metal sleeves which the detector picked up and the tent came complete with ropes & poles.
Soooo....I spread it out on some picnic tables and started searching more campgrounds down the road that were vacant.
After two hours I returned to where I left the tent and someone stole it!
Ha Ha ....I was gonna get it cleaned at the laundry mat.
I figure a married couple must have camped and the honey bunny said no more camping and buried the thing I know my wife threatened to do it to me once.
Anyways it was funny at the time.
Cheers!
Late summer I was detecting
some empty camp sites. I love those sandy ones because of all the fun stuff you can find . I always search in all metal mode on camp sites because of the variety.Anyways ...I was checking out the corner of this one lot and had a typical reading and dug down about three inches and found this blue piece of material
.My heart went a pitter patter thinking...YES....a bag of coins
......nope.I pulled on the material and could not get it to budge
so I began digging.....and digging...and digging ...and pulling...and diggingAfter about 5 minutes I experienced this very foul odour.....what could it be?
Did some one bury my old socks or the family dog in this here material?
I said to myself ...where is the metal? I scanned over the same spot and still had a reading...what the hay says me.
So I dug a bigger hole....then, I got a good grip on this here material and pulled as hard as I could and landed flat on my ....you know what.
Talk about stink... I took a close look at what I had and it surprised me.
I had pulled out of the ground a full size approximately 6 man tent.
The fiberglass poles had metal sleeves which the detector picked up and the tent came complete with ropes & poles.
Soooo....I spread it out on some picnic tables and started searching more campgrounds down the road that were vacant.
After two hours I returned to where I left the tent and someone stole it!
Ha Ha ....I was gonna get it cleaned at the laundry mat.I figure a married couple must have camped and the honey bunny said no more camping and buried the thing I know my wife threatened to do it to me once.
Anyways it was funny at the time.
Cheers!
