In Reply to: Forget it! I understand now! DUHHHHHHHH! LOL N/T
posted by Steve in Michigan on May 08, 1998 at 13:47:44

Hi Steve. Glad you liked the chuckle. Seriously, I had a Garrett groundhog and an ADS machine 20 years ago. Same thing. The roots would sound off or I'd dig a ways down and the signal would disappear. Gone. Just like that. Sometimes it was a penny about 1 inch down sideways, but many times it wasn't. Someone around that time said many times it could be from these two reasons: 1. A lot of parks had sprinklers that had steel pipes with brass heads. Over time, there was corrosion inside that eventually came out through the sprinkler and the fine bits of metal couldn't quite follow the water being absorbed into the roots. It just left a very fine coating on them until someone came along and disrupted it. It was like a halo, but ever so thin and delicate. 2. Sometimes fertilizer was put on the ground and watered. Again, containing many minerals and being washed into the ground, some might clump up or be concentrated in one area and settle in such a way, it appeared to the detector to be a target until someone disrupted the soil and nature's target was no more. When signals don't disappear, there could be a pipe 2 feet down or, as we hope, we do find a good coin. I found my first gold class ring this way. The signal wouldn't go away and neither would I. Good Luck -Rick

• hee hee Bonney in VT 20:59:10 5/08/98 (0)