- - otherwise known as cleared city yard lots. We went to a section of the city where there is some urban renewal work scheduled. We found the old houses all torn up and ready to move to their new location, but no scraping has been done.
Where we live, much of the good stuff is below a foot or so of trashy soil, so you must wait for the bulldozers to remove the surface layer. This "scraping" leaves only a small window of opportunity, between the scrape down and the new building. Some people call it "following the bulldozers". Timing is everything.
Sadly, we were way too soon, by a long shot. All there was today were the usual trash items you'd find in any city scape:
'Couple of wheat cents down in the lower right. My hunting pal hates this kind of detecting; he reckons a Memorial penny as the worst thing you can find and screw caps near to the Devil himself.
I had hoped for a bit of jewelry, as every yard holds one or two such goodies, but it didnt happen. Oh, well...
At least I can say the F70 did a good job in the trash, once I understood the amount of iron masking that was going on. That is always a key when hunting such places - iron will kill you if you don't know it's there.
UPDATE: I'm having good success with my "skinned boots," too. What I've done is spray a thick layer of bed liner coating, a "skin," on the toe of the boots to prevent abrasion:
That "blob" on the left boot is a nickle, sealed in a mound of hot melt glue. This is a quick, verification tool I have used for years. It gives me a known reference while in the field, to tune my detector or when the ground is clean, just to make sure everything is working!
Once it is layered under the bed sealant it blends in real well. It looks pretty goofy if you don't camouflage it somehow, that gob of glue stuck to your shoe. You can also put a zinc cent on the other toe, as a further reference, but I didn't bother this time.
As a whole, the sealant upgrade seems to be working alright.
Where we live, much of the good stuff is below a foot or so of trashy soil, so you must wait for the bulldozers to remove the surface layer. This "scraping" leaves only a small window of opportunity, between the scrape down and the new building. Some people call it "following the bulldozers". Timing is everything.
Sadly, we were way too soon, by a long shot. All there was today were the usual trash items you'd find in any city scape:
'Couple of wheat cents down in the lower right. My hunting pal hates this kind of detecting; he reckons a Memorial penny as the worst thing you can find and screw caps near to the Devil himself.
I had hoped for a bit of jewelry, as every yard holds one or two such goodies, but it didnt happen. Oh, well...
At least I can say the F70 did a good job in the trash, once I understood the amount of iron masking that was going on. That is always a key when hunting such places - iron will kill you if you don't know it's there.
UPDATE: I'm having good success with my "skinned boots," too. What I've done is spray a thick layer of bed liner coating, a "skin," on the toe of the boots to prevent abrasion:
That "blob" on the left boot is a nickle, sealed in a mound of hot melt glue. This is a quick, verification tool I have used for years. It gives me a known reference while in the field, to tune my detector or when the ground is clean, just to make sure everything is working!
Once it is layered under the bed sealant it blends in real well. It looks pretty goofy if you don't camouflage it somehow, that gob of glue stuck to your shoe. You can also put a zinc cent on the other toe, as a further reference, but I didn't bother this time.
As a whole, the sealant upgrade seems to be working alright.
