Convinced myself to go to the old church, crawl in out of the snow, and do some searching. Was gonna use just the pinpointer, but realized that would go off on everything with no way to tell what it is. So my husband came up with a good idea, to remove the center shaft portion from my 705. That worked pretty good, and then put the two pieces back together and had a little 2 foot mini detector.
He drives me out to the church, because there's snow on the ground and i don't want to get stuck by myself, not to mention get stuck under the church, LOL.
We went to the little cubbyhole door and opened it and crawled under and i started detecting with the minelab. He used the Garrett probe and found just nails. The detector went off often, but it was always metal tones and readings. But then it got a pretty clear and solid 36 or thereabouts. I forget the number but it usually means coin. So i sifted around in the soft dirt and turned up a coin. I got the flashlight from him and looked at it close and it was a wheat penny! But i couldn't read the date without glasses, so i stuck it in my pocket and kept searching awhile longer.
My husband hadn't dressed as warm as me so he went and sat in the car. So far there had been enough room to be on you knees comfortably. But the ground sloped up. So when i searched the other side, it wasn't comfortable at all. Crawling along and i had a belt with the digger and pin pointer and it kept getting in the way or i'd have to keep checking to see the tools hadn't fallen out. It gets tiring pretty fast sweeping the detector from a prone position. So that half of the church wasn't searched that thoroughly. There was an old axe under there, but i just left it. I've got plenty of rusty axes, LOL.
Hubby kept coming to the vents and asking if i was okay and how much longer i'd be and i was getting pretty tired and dusty so i worked my way out. When i blew my nose....yuck it was muddy from the loose dust under there. Oh well, i got a 1919 penny! That's my oldest find to date. Actually just my third good find, i found a 1943 wheatie and a 1932 quarter somewhere else awhile back.
I'd advise anyone doing this to take a partner, a cell phone, look out for broken glass. And do it now while the snakes are hibernating.
Penny
I only hunted a bit over an hour.
He drives me out to the church, because there's snow on the ground and i don't want to get stuck by myself, not to mention get stuck under the church, LOL.
We went to the little cubbyhole door and opened it and crawled under and i started detecting with the minelab. He used the Garrett probe and found just nails. The detector went off often, but it was always metal tones and readings. But then it got a pretty clear and solid 36 or thereabouts. I forget the number but it usually means coin. So i sifted around in the soft dirt and turned up a coin. I got the flashlight from him and looked at it close and it was a wheat penny! But i couldn't read the date without glasses, so i stuck it in my pocket and kept searching awhile longer.
My husband hadn't dressed as warm as me so he went and sat in the car. So far there had been enough room to be on you knees comfortably. But the ground sloped up. So when i searched the other side, it wasn't comfortable at all. Crawling along and i had a belt with the digger and pin pointer and it kept getting in the way or i'd have to keep checking to see the tools hadn't fallen out. It gets tiring pretty fast sweeping the detector from a prone position. So that half of the church wasn't searched that thoroughly. There was an old axe under there, but i just left it. I've got plenty of rusty axes, LOL.
Hubby kept coming to the vents and asking if i was okay and how much longer i'd be and i was getting pretty tired and dusty so i worked my way out. When i blew my nose....yuck it was muddy from the loose dust under there. Oh well, i got a 1919 penny! That's my oldest find to date. Actually just my third good find, i found a 1943 wheatie and a 1932 quarter somewhere else awhile back.
I'd advise anyone doing this to take a partner, a cell phone, look out for broken glass. And do it now while the snakes are hibernating.
Penny
I only hunted a bit over an hour.
