Not trashy....just TRASH!

[Gila Marc]

I've been researching some old sites lately, and came up with one that appears just about impossible. It's Super-Ultra, Trash-a-Rama, Trash-a-Mundo, MEGA-Trashy!!! In places it's ALL trash...NO GROUND! Problem is, after about two inches down it's OLD trash.

I took one good look at that, shook my head and went over to the old railroad site. I tried both my MXT and Quattro. The MXT, with the tiny coil, was able to pull out several non-ferrous whazzits, lots of brass nuts & fittings, six live modern 9mm rounds, one 1943 silver war nickel and one lead hem weight. Only hem weight I've ever found, and I KNOW that's old!

The Quattro, at a definite disadvantage with the stock 10.5" coil, was a constant symphony of flute sounds. It did pull several whazzits and one deep solid lead doohickie that looks just like a bomb, fins and all. A neighbor told me it's a sounding weight from back in the times when they ran steamboats on the Colorado River. It's obviously old and very oxidized, the fins mearly all gone, but if the sounding weight theory is true, it and the hem weight are the real prizes of my recent finds!!

So I'm happy, but I can see that the Quattro will be getting a 5" coil as soon as possible!!

Marc

 

[beachguy777]

Yea, Gila, the 5 incher will separate the trash much better that the 10 and a half. Only drawback to me is, not being able to cover as much ground, but when your dealing with that much trash, "Who cares"?:|Well that's a pretty interesting day you had there and I'm excited about the war nickel too. You found some really cool stuff, and I'm proud of you to grin and bear it with the big coil in that much trash. You get the "man of the day" award for that one!

 

[Golden]

I know how you feel about the trash! You do need a smaller coil. But sometimes some ground is just way overboard with rubbish. Perfect example of that is where I work. I work for a transport company and the ground where the yard contains all the different trucks and semis use to be the old cattle yards. There has to be a myriad of old coins about the place. But having done a bit of cleaning around, there's so much iron rubbish like nails, bolts, pieces of stell imbedded in the ground to a foot deep, I don't think I would have a hope in hell of digging anything of any real consequence out of there. But, there is the old racecourse car park across the railway line, and it's looking better each day!

 

[beachguy777]

Yea, I went detecting on a beach the other day where my detector in all metal mode was just one mass of noises for tall the metal trash in the ground. I couldn't believe it, but all I was finding over there was melted down alumanum cans, because it's a party beach where they have tons of beach fires and apparently throw their cans in the fire. I honestly thought something was wrong with my detector, but when I went to another area and put it in all metal, it was back to normal. Wheww..... the things we have to go through being "metal archeologists".