Help On Keeping to a grid? Please read! Ideas Needed! :rolleyes:

[UKBrad]

Hi, i have recently started to detect a field however we are struggling to keep to a straight line as it is quite a long field. We have tried making footsteps and following them back however they are hard too see. Please post all ideas. Many thanks

 

[jeff(va)]

I have used 1/2" diameter white PVC pipe to mark off a section of the field.Cut them in about 2'long pieces.There easy to see and give you a good reference point.
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jeff

 

[KS_Mike]

Here is something that might work. In the sport section of Walley World (aka Wal Mart) they have orange cones - 4 per set. The cost is roughly $3 or $4. They might be 6" tall - I bought them for basketball practice but for what you are talking about they would work perfectly. But 1, 2 or 3 sets ... get 12 to 16 cones and just walk off the area you want to detect. Pick the cones up after you are done and take home. They stack up easily and take up little space and taking them out to the field is easy as they are light.

Just an option.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

The orange cones work good. Also phone,electric and gas companies use little flags with a small metal stick. They usually stick out of the ground about a foot. I have found quite a few on the side of the roads they work well also.

 

[Dan MI]

I use a fishing reel on a stake with red string on the reel. I place the stake in the ground, grab the end of the string (with a loop on the end) and walk to the other end of the area I am hunting and anchor the loop end with a bamboo barbecue skewer with a tape flag on it. Go back to the reel and take up the slack. Then just walk the string detecting till I get to the other end. Once there, move the string and skewer over 2 or 3 feet (depending on your sweep), walk back to the reel and move it over and walk the line while detecting again.
This takes some extra walking and time but I have found it extremely effective for getting complete coverage of an area.
If I have to leave and plan on coming back to the area, I will take a nail and pierce a folded piece of surveyor's orange tape. Four of these can be pushed into the ground at the corners of the area I have hunted. If you fold the surveyors tape to a 1" square you will be able to spot it fairly easily and it won't get picked up by a mower.

 

[Jim West Pa]

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[WVAdirtdigger]

so getting the little flags is easy for me and they do work well.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Hey thats great hopefully you use a few!

 

[John Nelson]

A trip to the local Home Depot, in the tool section, get a roll of flourescent contractors twine (approx. 250 feet, with a wind-up reel) Get 2 small tent stakes. Total Cost about $10.00
Tie one end to a tent stake, walk out, tie other end to other tent stake. MD over string, go back and move both stakes approx. 3-4 feet, repeat this until whole field has been MD'ed. Jjohnelson@AOL.COM