The grid test-

[vlad]

Go to an old park [I would say school, but you have to be extra careful] and find a spot where you have pulled up at least
2 old coins within 2 feet of each other. Mark off a 4 ft square using golf tees. Take your detector, any brand and a 4 to 8"
loop and dig every signal above iron, no matter what it reads or how shallow. You are not going to believe the coins/jewelry
masked by the trash, regardless of the advertising claims of your detector maker.
After you finish, go back and hunt it with a large loop, the 11" or 10" since we are talking Fishers here; and hunt N. to S.,
then go back and hunt E. to W, and with the sens CRANKED. More surprises.
If you really want to get into the "thick of things", wait until the ground is nice and moist/wet, and use a shovel to cut
squares at a minimum of 12" and at least 8 to 10 inches deep and get the small loop in the hole and the cut squares
and remove the iron, AND MORE goodies. Even lowly mineralized earth matrix greatly affects your detectors ability to penetrate.
Do this until you have removed all the earth from the grid. Try to keep the squares intact and replace them.
A friend and I hunted an old college site out in the country that burned down in 1914. We worked a 10 X 14' square
and it was littered with iron, caps, other junk, AND over 600 coins. And we both would have sworn we had hunted it to DEATH,
with about every high end model/loop combo imaginable.
Nothing exceeds like excess

 

[tony (Orlando FL)]

However, when its near 95 degrees with 90% humidity, I would absolutely die digging everything in a 4x4 area, YET I agree, it is the way to find the things that are masked and currently under the radar screen. Seems like a good winter time project.

Problem here too is that it wouldnt be too cool to dig up an old park quite that much. Too many folks use the areas for sports and I can see where someone could get hurt if hole is not packed back down and neat as it was found.

This reminds me of a time many yrs ago, before digital cams, where a friend and I did detect and dig an area approx 5x5ft. It took hours of going every which way and with different detectors too. Then we took a fully charged car battery and some huge spikes and placed about 10 of em on each side of the square and of course attached wires and added water to each row of spikes to assist with conductivity. We used an milliamp meter to make sure the current was flowing too. This required the spike be moved a foot closer with more water. I dont recall the exact amount but without a doubt there was current flowing.

We got this idea from some device I think Compass was selling to charge the ground

We waited about 30 mins while having lunch and theorizing what the results will be when we start to detect the now empty area of soil again.

We guessed nothing would happen, but we were wrong, we were able to find about a dozen more items, including some coins too. We dont know if it was from charging the soil, or taking a break for lunch or adding water to the area or what.

It was a lot of hard work and we never did it again........ but I will always remember trying it and still wonder why.

 

[jim tn]

Back in the early 90"s my wife and I lived in the historic district of Columbus, Ga and very nearby the county fairgrounds. When I began hunting the old grounds I found it to be literally teeming with coins, (mostly clad) and of course, about 70 years of typical fairgrounds trash. I ended up grid searching the entire site, north, south, east, west, criss cross, and going back over various spots several times. As a result, and all between fair reseedings, I recovered a little over 4000 coins, jewelry items and other pieces of interest. Of the coins, excluding a pile of wheaties, 178 were of the more coveted varieties. If one could have, usuing your grid test scenario, vlad, I can't help but wonder!!!!!!!!?????? HH jim tn

 

[vlad]

But digging a square foot at a time then replacing it, as a two man team project can be fast and the ground
replaced efficiently. Some have asked why detect on an east and west tangent; simply to hit the targets
from a different axis.
If you have the time put out more about charging the ground; I remember that vaguely.
Seems Kellyco was into it also, which automatically makes it suspect to many people [electric divining rods!?].
I wonder if soaking the ground thoroughly with water would help?

 

[vlad]

n/t

 

[vlad]

and fairly fast recovery speed. Though I used a CZ, but have MANY years of experience
with working it in iron and every scenario imaginable. A Compass X-100 was also used, along
with a Whites XL Pro, Classic ID, and IDX.
Although I hate to say it here, the Millennium/Modular Treasure Baron is the best detector going, hands down.
That's GEORGE PAYNE'S last design, and the maker was too cheap to advertise it. PERIOD!

 

[jim tn]

I did work that grand old site pretty good at the time, but, yes, I would like to go back and swing my F75 over it, for sure. HH jim tn

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

dude me and a freind did that some years ago it really works we dug a 6'X6' ft square and fliped the sode upside down detected that got nothing but we proceded to sift down another ft and found an indian head penny a 1919 penny a buflow nickle and a silver rosevelt dime and a big arrow head

 

[vlad]

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