Went to the beach at charles mills, and it stunk

[Nickleanddime]

Well went to the beach today and struck out. Well you gotta get started to strike out though. Payed my 5 bucks got my permit and off I went. No ones been since June so I figure a good day. Well my md wont cut through the wet freshly graded sand. I tried everything all kinds of setting but nothing. I had to scrap the sand to keep the thing from going crazy. If I got more then a inch off the ground crap tone I call it. Plus like a idiot I wore steel toe boots! Talk about two newbie mistakes in one day lol. Well live and learn. Good luck out there.

 

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[elijahhenry10]

What machine are you using?

 

[Nickleanddime]

A novigear, it's a cheap garage sale find just something to start with on a small small budget. It was sold as a kids toy at best buy many years ago, I seem they sold it for 30 bucks. It works great in regular soil even hard pack. But sand and pea gravel and even bark it won't work. It kinda boggles my mind.

 

[cudamark]

I think there were several things working against you that day. First, you have a machine not suited for wet, salt sand. Two, the steel toed shoes. Three, the fact that the sand had been "graded". I assume by that you mean it's been sifted. Some beach machines will pick up just about everything in the top couple inches of sand. In dry sand, that detector should work ok.

 

[elijahhenry10]

Just try it again, following cudamark's advice, especially on the steel toes boots.

 

[Nickleanddime]

Thanks for the advice, I forgot I had the boots on because I just received permission to md a couple of places so I was excited. I thought that about the sifter taking the stuff out when I seem it. We just had a huge flood here and the lake was covering the beach, so they'd have taken the wood and other junk out. I'm going to hit these other places and let it dry out and pack back down.

 

[elijahhenry10]

I can't even wear my boots with metal eyelets, my detector will pick then up too. Just some food for thought.