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Help using Outlaw with 8" Concentric on a trashy site

shaunem

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The family and I are vacationing in the US and I had brought my outlaw to do some detcting.

As it turns out the house we are staying at is 100 years old. I have been given permission to dig the site and boy have I been!

Any suggestions on how to hit anything other than nails and pennies? this site is soo loaded with stuff I can't even get a fraction of a swing in before its beeping and booping.

I have a little more time to hunt the site and want to see if I can target a little better with this setup.

I have been using disc between 5c and pull tab. Any suggestions if its worth raising the disc up much higher to filter out the iron a little more?

I guess I have not been on a site with this much stuff before. I can barely start swinging or find a spot to ground balance the detector there is so much stuff. My pinpointer is finding multiple targets per hole as well.

I will post my finds once I get done. Good times!

Shaun
 
Hi Shaunem, I would lower the disc to foil and dig everything I could from the places on the property that are most likely to hold old coins or relics so you can clean the trash out. Then I would raise the disc up to just below Zn and go over those same places again. If you dont have the time to do this, I would raise the disc to just below Zn and go very slowly over those places to try to get between the trash. Too bad you dont have the 5.75 coil availible as it would be a better tool to get between the nails and such.

In my experience the Outlaw loves larger rusty nails (especially bent ones) and will often sound off on them very nicely regardless of where the disc is set.

Good luck and show us your loot after youre done!
 
Im with mo jo ,
 
I would do it a little bit different. Seeing there is so much trash set the disc. just below penny and pick the good stuff first. When you get to the trashy areas and get all beeps and clicks slow your swing speed way down. The 8" coil will do a decent job of separating. Swinging slow when you get a decent tone, slow way down and work over the tone to see if you can isolate the signal from the trash. I do this with my Silver umax and 8" coil and pluck coins from the trash on a regular basis. After you get the good stuff you can turn the disc. down as far as you can tolerate. Using this method I regularly dig the coin target and find the trash that was discriminated out with my pin pointer. Be sure to recheck the hole once you remove the target.
 
Thanks for the feedback. So far I have found many pennies.. and enough nails to rebuild that fence many times over. Several pulltabs.. (no ring yet :( ). I always figure if I am finding that many pennies there must be other coins dropped as well.

I managed to give most of the yard a good sweep but mostly found pennies and nails. I posted here because I don't have the experience with US coins to know how different they might sound off. I must be passing over them...

I will try the Zn setting for a bit around the traffic areas.. I do concur that bent nails sound tasty regardless.

The sandy soil is a dream though.. so nice to dig through!

I will post finds when I get home.

Shaun
 
Hi Shaun, hope you and your family enjoy your visit with us! The house being 100 years old, it would most likely have had an outdoor toilet or two at one time, also likely a well, barn, chicken coups, clothes line, a garden, smokehouse and probably several burn piles(trash) and lots' of activity areas ,all in the back yard. Do your best to imagine where each may have been. Front yard likely to have less trash, though also less activity. If sidewalk, that's good, and better yet if it has a front or back porch.. Under the porch and around the edges is always good , and probably less trash there. Many, if not most yards of that period were fenced, and hoed bare(slick) of any grass, with a flower bed here and there. Time of course has changed all that. Also consider possible locations for stables , buggy sheds or any other outbuildings that were in use a 100 years ago but now long gone. Though the area may not be so big, most all those things were a necessity and way of life back then, and likely accounts for there being so much trash on the place. Any large old shade trees? If so hammer the SW quadrant ! HH Charlie
 
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