Outlaw and two weeks in a trash park

[Oldbuttplate]

Well after two weeks hunting in this park that's over a 100 years old I came out a little disappointed that nothing old came up. I found about 14 in clad and 2 wheat pennies and more smashed aluminum cans then I thought possible! Had some Electric parts come out, copper fuse ends and industrial parts. And one very good case of tendinitis.
I just covered 25% of this park so may not have hit the sweet spot.
I will say I'm impressed with the outlaw, it performed extremely well in that environment. The part of the park was used as a dump for ten years, from 1950 to 1960. I can say that this had to be the most difficult place I have been. After I take care of the tendinitis I'm going to see what's in the other 75% of this park. I did have some one say that they had gotten all the good stuff out, they just left the $14 on purpose I guess.
Next will be back in the woods that have grown up over all that time.

 

[Digger 45]

Its never all hunted out, go over every direction and mark out spots with slow movements of the coil. I have found that by raising the coil on sweeps over cans you can determine a can from a coin, it will still sound of some 6 to 8" above the ground this is a large piece of metal.

I have one area that i pulled hundreds of pull tabs { beaver tails} and now getting to older coins down deep. I use Construction flagging tape and tape off a square 10' x 10' and slowly cover every inch. I change coils and do it again.

There are so many things to change your hunting results, weather, wetness of the soil, different coils and different detectors, so try everything you can think of and you will see different results.

My total of rings this year is 33, 8 Gold, 12 Silver and the rest junk rings, i have one gold bracelet, one silver chain and pendent and of coarse lots of coins. Not many real old coins but some.

I run the outlaw and the Fisher F 5.

Good luck and keep trying new things.

 

[hatpin]

My park is not as trashy as yours but old coins in the mowed areas are very difficult to find. The wooded areas , however, have been productive for me.I use very little discrimination . All signals get attention. There may be a slight beep but after kicking the debris away the signals usually improve. Even if its just a half inch closer, it will often sound much better.

I hunt with the Vaquero. Its impossible to cover every inch in the woods. I just take my time, go slow and get the coil as close to the ground as possible. Sometimes I search in all metal mode, depending on how much metal is in the particular area.

 

[kaolinwasher]

I have a park like that . has a old dump covering a large earea and other parts are good .I have found no silver coins ever , in it with all the detectors I have used. but it has yielded several silver items of jewelry and lots of clade. sometimes i feel like I am the last in line and the food has run out . hope you find that sweet spot or maybe a tree will be uprooted and get you a nice find , or a contraction project, seems they always make some new project and that will be your finest hour .

 

[Oldbuttplate]

This park was very Active from 1890 to 1925 from the history I have, so the price of things would have been in the nickel and dime Range I would think. I found one path but not been on that part, good thing about that is it can't be seen in the Summer time. In researching this I came up with some photographs of a horse drawn trolley that serviced this park. Too bad they put in a four-lane over it. When I get out of the trash part I'm going put the 10x12 on the outlaw and go am. Have to say this has is one of the hardest and most fun hunts I have had. I think it will take a year to cover it. If I come up with one thing from that point in time I will be happy.

 

[tabman]

You can eliminate most of those smashed aluminum cans with a little practice with the Outlaw. It sounds like you have a great place to detect. I find dividing up a large area into smaller areas makes it a little more manageable and not so overwhelming. Good luck!

tabman

 

[Oldbuttplate]

Yes, I can tell the cans it's just me, I feel if I don't dig them up I'm going to miss something. Never know what's under the things, may as well get them out of the way. At the point now with the outlaw that I know what it's telling me.

 

[Hombre]

I've found some older coins under modern shallow clad before, one time I found a deep Barber quarter under a pocket spill of about six, shallow 1960's copper pennies.

 

[kaolinwasher]

maybe you all heard this but a guy found a role of silver quarters under an old aluminum can and when he dug the can it was full of prob holes from other detectorists who passed on it . sometimes i like to dig all .

 

[Oldbuttplate]

maybe you all heard this but a guy found a role of silver quarters under an old aluminum can and when he dug the can it was full of prob holes from other detectorists who passed on it . sometimes i like to dig all .

Never heard that but that's why I dig them. Just never know.

 

[wheatymike]

I may be wired wrong but I like hunting trashy spot. Maybe it's the challenge of finding something were others just shake their head and give up. I always know when I hit a trashy spot that nobody else has been hunting it. At least not for long.

 

[dan b]

This brings up an interesting point.

I read so many posts about people obsessing over getting more depth. Some are willing to spend big bucks to go an extra couple of inches. The logic is that they will find those good targets beneath the reach of most machines. Maybe there is a tiny potential there. However, it seems to me, that the focus should be on recovery speed and the ability of a detector to be able to disc out bad targets and still sound off on the good ones. Since 90% of good targets are in the top 6" of depth, it seems logical to conclude that the majority of missed targets are still in that range, just masked with trash.

Read this article right to the end:

http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/behindthemask.htm

It's not Tesoro specific, but the account of the baseball diamond is a real eye-opener.

It just goes to show how important it is to be able to see through a blanket of trash as opposed to squeezing out an inch or two at high expense. When I see videos of a Tesoro machine like the Outlaw sounding off on a coin with a couple steel nails right on top, it reminds me that using a Tesoro is the right move. I've personally experienced this with my Vaquero, pulling coins out of holes with trash in the hole.

Anyway, good luck in that park.

 

[hatpin]

Thats an eye opening article Dan b.

 

[dan b]

Yeah, kind of puts a different light on what you should be looking for in a detector. Finding silver dimes at 15" is pointless if you can't find one sitting beside trash at 2". I suppose if you take the time to clean the trash like he did in the article, then these high priced multi-frequency machines would be awesome. I think in a farmer's field where common trash is absent, and iron is minimal, then those super depths would come in handy. For parks and schoolyards, it's pretty hard to fault a Tesoro. While some complain about a lack of depth (generally from people hoping for detection depths 8 inches or more) you can't say a Tesoro doesn't find good targets in the trashiest of areas. You just need to go slow and know your machine.

Dan

 

[Scanman]

Great article, thanks for sharing Dan. When I purchased my LST, I actually was set on a White's Spectrum XLT. The Metal Detector dealer that I went to sold many brands of detectors, he told me it made no difference to him what metal detector I purchased. I was able to demo all the detectors and he set up a test with a small gold nugget buried in sand in a 5 gal bucket, with a nail on top. Only the Tesoro could ID the Gold, all the other detectors the gold was masked by the nail. After playing with all the detectors, I left with the Tesoro LST.

 

[Oldbuttplate]

Thanks Dan, very good article. This was something I found out back in 78 in a school yard. That time it was pull tabs on top and silver under, I was all summer in that yard. I some times think this hobby is 40% Technology 30% luck and 30% witchcraft. So mine variables in it that perfection is impossible. Every day we have new conditions at the same spot, glad I look at this as a fun hobby, if it was a job I find something other to do.