Old Barbwire

[rcb1023]

Hello all,

I'm currently hunting with the GTI-2500 (all-metal mode) with about 20 hours in on the detector and I've been working a property that had been used for farmland, etc at least back to the 1930s. Anyway I've tried detecting on several occassions and the biggest problem I'm running into is that when the barbwire around the property was installed, lots of small/extra pieces were just thrown on the ground. On top of this, since the barbwire has been there so long, its really rusted and is showing up as all kinds of different signals and sizes on the detector. Is there a way to pick those out with the detectors indicators to avoid digging them? Hope that made sense. Thanks for any and all help.

 

[oldranger]

HI Rcb

i use the1500 ... i would think that
imaging along with a bouncy signal
would be a clue for me ...More
experienced folks will have more
advise and soultions.. Ive found
that REALLY bouncy signals are usually junk
I odnt know what size a rusted out area would
show as...

Good luck

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way

 

[Orion42]

Rusted iron can show as a good target. Size is the only way to help eliminate it.

John

 

[bcoop]

I think I would hunt with some discrimination and surface elimination of an inch or so. I can't imagine hunting in all metal in that type of situation, I would need a bottle of Tylenol after hearing all of that.

BCOOP

 

[darrenb]

I have the same problem on my property... hunting with an ace 350. I hear 'bong bong bong' in my sleep for a week after trying to hunt it. I finally just gave up on it for now. I'm sure there are good targets out there, but it just seems like too much work.
HH!
Darren

 

[rcb1023]

Thanks for all your responses.

Thanks OldRanger.

Thanks Orion42. What would the size show to indicate it's not good? Would it fluctuate?

Thanks BCoop. I will definitely do some discrimination, but I don't know if the surface elimination will do much good, because several of the wire pieces I've found have been a few inches under the soil. I guess they had plowed the land several times and push some of the stuff deeper.

I have found a few items a little better than the old barb wire. A tooth from a sickle mower, an old plow point, a piece of a horse shoe, a piece of a mule shoe and a vintage rubber propylactic tin (I really didn't expect to find that).

Thanks again for your help.

 

[rcb1023]

Thanks DarrenB. It does get discouraging for sure. There was an old house on the property as well that was torn down a few years ago, but the owners had placed all kinds of electronic trash in the house before it was torn down and I guess all of it was just spread out on the ground when it was being cleaned up. That place really does do a lot of dinging. I've worked it a little and will continue to work it off and on. I've removed some of the trash, but nothing good yet.