Ground Balancing

thumper7813

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Mar 31, 2013
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kelso wa
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Bounty Hunter Fortune Hunter / White's Coin master GT
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All Treasure Hunting
What kind of ms u using
 

goldentruth

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Nov 3, 2011
523
38
French Gulch, North Calif.
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"WHITES" GOLDMASTER "GMT" & "TESORO GOLDEN SABRE II" with silent search.
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
How do you handle a situation where you're hunting an area that has so much trash you literally can't find a clean spot to ground balance? Other than finding a new location to hunt. Thanks for any advice.
Popular saying: Dig it all! Many have thought junk and found a treasure. A Spokes person for Whites GMT Goldmaster was checking a gold tailing pile and found a signal and dug around and found a nugget then nearby he found a small signal and thought it was probably junk and when he dig thru the pile of rocks found the signal stronger he just found a mud/clay covered rock, he cleaned it and it was quartz! he cleaned it better and found it was infused with gold running thru it... It had over 2 OZ Gold! (So Dig it all!)
Like my X wife from Arkansas said when she found Metal detecting was Difficult:"Dang that's hard!" lol
You got to stick with it my friend.
 

Terry Soloman

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May 28, 2010
19,422
30,105
White Plains, New York
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Nokta Makro Legend// Pulsedive// Minelab GPZ 7000// Vanquish 540// Minelab Pro Find 35// Dune Kraken Sandscoop// Grave Digger Tools Tombstone shovel & Sidekick digger// Bunk's Hermit Pick
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Use a large tree or cactus trunk to initially balance, then dig a few targets out of the way and do the actual ground. I had this problem once in what turned out to be a dump site from the 1930s.
 

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joe_dirt

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Jan 15, 2013
596
665
Southeast Virginia
Detector(s) used
Teknetics T2, Makro Pointer
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Use a large tree or cactus trunk to initially balance, then dig a few targets out of the way and do the actual ground. I had this problem once in what turned out to be a dump site from the 1930s.

Interesting, I've never heard of this. Almost sounds like one of those pranks you'd play on the new guy. But hey, I'll give it a shot. I'll just make sure nobody is watching just in case. ;-) Thanks for the replies.
 

cudamark

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Mar 16, 2011
13,221
14,545
San Diego
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XP Deus 2, Equinox 800/900, Fisher Impulse AQ, E-Trac, 3 Excal 1000's, White's TM808, VibraProbe, 15" NEL Attack, Mi6, Steath 920ix and 720i scoops, TRX, etc....
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
I just keep walking until I find relatively clean ground to get the machine balanced, then return to the nasty ground.
 

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