I've been hunting an old High School built in the teens or early 1920's . It has a park like setting on the front and side lawn with 100 year old trees or older. Perfect place to use a small coil,which I don't have yet and the trashy park setting. Heres my problem , using the stock coil I have had a reading at least 3 times with a Co of 45 or 47 at a depth of 6 or 7 inches. When I get down to the root 5 to 6" in diameter and using my X1 probe I still get a co reading of 45 or 47 and its as solid as can be with my probe. The probe keep sounding off as I would dig but I can't find the target. So I gave up on the first 2 like that. On the third time it happened I put the probe on the exposed root itself and I would get a solid Co 45 rubbing my probe on the root. these roots are 5 or 6 thick . They will have the most solid sound I've ever heard. I tried this on 1 of the other tree roots and the same solid hit . Can tree roots give off a false reading ? If so, Why?
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Question about Roots of old trees
- Thread starter Jeff63
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LandOLincoln
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U need to use pinpoint. If its just a low hum then the target is deaper probably under the root. Dig a bigger plug and get below the root on either side.
Years ago in a very old park in detroit, a lady friend and a few others (me included) were hunting in the old woods. The lady friend got the same type of signal that you are referring to. The tree was mostly dead, so she managed to get the root cut out, and sure enough the signal was in the root. We had gotten lots of old silver, rings, coppers, and all kinds of good stuff in these woods. Being the kind hearted friend that she is, she tried to auction the root to us guys. Nobody would fall for it. A couple weeks go by and we asked her to cut it open, nope no way Jose'. But she did take it to her dentist and he xrayed it, there was a .22 cal. bullet in there
sure glad i didn't bid on it..........NGE At another very old park in Trenton, Michigan, I was hunting with my Explorer XS, and at the base of a tree that was at lest 8 feet in diameter I got a silver signal that read 8" deep, so I made a 4" deep plug and ran right into a 4" diameter root. I checked with my white's bullseye pinpointer and the target was still in the hole under the root, so I removed about another 4" of dirt and there in my hand sat a 1853 half dime
My explorer did not lie, it was 8" deep (4" of dirt, 4" of root)..........NGE
sure glad i didn't bid on it..........NGE At another very old park in Trenton, Michigan, I was hunting with my Explorer XS, and at the base of a tree that was at lest 8 feet in diameter I got a silver signal that read 8" deep, so I made a 4" deep plug and ran right into a 4" diameter root. I checked with my white's bullseye pinpointer and the target was still in the hole under the root, so I removed about another 4" of dirt and there in my hand sat a 1853 half dime My explorer did not lie, it was 8" deep (4" of dirt, 4" of root)..........NGEE-TREC-Virginia
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I've dug my good share of silver from under tree roots. Like LandOLincoln said, you'll need to dig a bigger plug to allow you to get under the root. It will test your patient and you'll need to be careful not to ding the coin with your digging tool, but it will pay off.
I found a Mercury dime today under a root while hunting with a fellow forum hobbyist. I dug about two inches before I hit this intertwined root system. My original pinpoint was off by a few inches, so after I rescanned the hole, I had to move over a few inches and as soon as I cut a flap under the root, the dime fell out. I've worked around roots a lot lately because the old trees have been the best source of my silver this year. I even managed to dig a 1700's Colonial Copper half penny from a foot down under a huge root. You just have to be patient and work around them. NEVER cut them intentionally. Accidents will occur, but never try to chop one out of your way. Remember you're trying to leave it the way you found it, so don't damage the trees. I wish you all the continued success, and definitely keep hunting in and around old trees!
E-TREC-Virginia
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moonshine said:
If you cannot get to it with the digger, that's the time to give up. We should not resort to saws, chainsaws, picks, backhoe diggers, or any other type of heavy equipment, or dynamite.
E-TREC-Virginia said:moonshine said:
If you cannot get to it with the digger, that's the time to give up. We should not resort to saws, chainsaws, picks, backhoe diggers, or any other type of heavy equipment, or dynamite.
I totally agree with you and thats why I gave up, We don't need anymore bad press or TV. One thing that I never thought of at the time and I'll be sure to start doing it and that is try to use my probe in pinpoint mode. One thing I got in the habit of is to always leave a site as if I was never there. You never know who is watching out the curtains. Thanks everyone , I've been detecting for about 10 years but I just got the E-Trac 2 weeks ago
Jeff63 said:E-TREC-Virginia said:moonshine said:That's about 9 years and 50 weeks too late........NGE
there is a sweet sounding 11-47 under a root mass of a maple tree.....i even went back with a saw and tried to hack through the roots but.....the maple won.....that will stay there forever (?). i must have spent two or three hours trying to get to it.
If you cannot get to it with the digger, that's the time to give up. We should not resort to saws, chainsaws, picks, backhoe diggers, or any other type of heavy equipment, or dynamite.
I totally agree with you and thats why I gave up, We don't need anymore bad press or TV. One thing that I never thought of at the time and I'll be sure to start doing it and that is try to use my probe in pinpoint mode. One thing I got in the habit of is to always leave a site as if I was never there. You never know who is watching out the curtains. Thanks everyone , I've been detecting for about 10 years but I just got the E-Trac 2 weeks ago
gunwolf
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a love digging the bases of old trees...I have found with the e-trac that the numbers will be a little crazy if it is under the root. next to the root I will get a good reading . I dug a mercury dime out from under a 5" root and it was 10" deep...it was reading 10-39 12-45 11-41 all over the place!