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This old farm I live on . . .

Tony N (Michigan)

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I live on an old farm. There was a farm house from the early 1800's here. In 1920ish these folks I knew bought the farm, tore down the old house and used what they
could of of the old building to build a two story. Much of the house has square, rough hewn floor and wall beams from the old house.

The really bad thing is that they just tossed the old square cut nails EVERYWHERE! And whenever they put on new shingles, must have tossed the nails in the yard too.
Then, years later, they put aluminum siding on the house. There are pieces of siding throughout the yard. It is next to impossible if not impossible to find any old coins due to the
extreme amount of trash.
I wish someone could come up with a detector that could see through all that crap. At least I'm not bitter :lol:
I just wonder how many coins are under that stuff. I've detected this farm since the early 90's with my Explorer and only found three silver coins and some wheaties. And they weren't that deep.

I've detected the yards with iron mask at zero. Tried different sensitivities. I've detected it with a DFX, and quite a few other detectors.

Just my rant for the day.
 
Only one way to do it that I know of, short of using a road grader to scrape off the top 2 inches............mark off a 10 ft. x 10 ft. square and go over it until you've removed all the trash, then get the goodies. Keep marking off squares and remove trash. Repeat as necessary. :rage:

I've done this in trashy areas of parks before. It might drive you crazy but it works. :stretcher:
 
Architex said:
Only one way to do it that I know of, short of using a road grader to scrape off the top 2 inches............mark off a 10 ft. x 10 ft. square and go over it until you've removed all the trash, then get the goodies. Keep marking off squares and remove trash. Repeat as necessary. :rage:

I've done this in trashy areas of parks before. It might drive you crazy but it works. :stretcher:

The only problem is that these nails are everywhere and also at great depths. I pulled 4 nails from one hole yesterday and they go from about 3 inches down to 10 or so. It's a veritable minefield.

Maybe if I mark out a 5 x 5 foot area, and dig it all up and screen out the rubbish. But that might take me years to do.

There is an old farm down the road that doesn't have this nail problem and I've found lots of super nice coins there.

I've run all metal wide open to see if I can hear any coins mixed in and used the 8" coil. But I just end up digging nails. These nails false like they are a silver on edge.
 
Personally, some areas are just not worth the trouble. Spend your time at more "detectable" sites.
 
I hunted that old house last week with about the same results! 6 or 8 square nails 2 clad dimes,1 clad quarter and a 1951 wheat...
 
Too far to go. I haven't hunted our family farm yet. The house was built in 1900. Also found where the first post office in the township was. It was established in 1853. If it wasn't 85* out I would go out today! I'm not as hardcore as I was 30 years ago!
 
Tony N (Michigan) said:
The only problem is that these nails are everywhere and also at great depths. I pulled 4 nails from one hole yesterday and they go from about 3 inches down to 10 or so. It's a veritable minefield.

Tough call. Nothing easy about dealing with a yard totally trashed out with nails. Add aluminum siding and you have a real headache.

What size of coil are you hunting with?

My personal opinion is that a 'carpet of nails' scenario is not the strength of the Explorers/Etrac's. If you haven't already tried a smaller coil, I would give that a shot first. Minimize the number of targets under the coil at one time.

Good luck,


Rich (Utah)
 
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