Cabin fever

[Evilpope]

Just a quick question has anyone here metal detected in snow if so how hard was it.i guess what im asking is it alot different than detecting dry ground.do i approach it different? It snowed again last night i am going nuts not detecting but I've never detected in snow before. Let me know what to expect thanks.

 

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[3cylbill]

cabin fever ?............time for ...REASEARCH....REASEARCH...and more REASEARCH....

 

[HighVDI]

There is nothing different. I went out a couple evenings ago in some rain that turned into snow. Covered my display screen with a sandwich bag and wrapped my battery box with a plastic bag. Machine still works fine and got a couple keepers that hunt too!

 

[Joe-Dirt]

cabin fever ?............time for ...REASEARCH....REASEARCH...and more REASEARCH....

And the bust out that screw driver and find out what makes your TV work!!

I’ve been killing time getting permissions.

 

[Debatedc]

Snow on the ground makes it really easy to see where your coil has swept. Gridding is much easier to accomplish.

 

[basssmann]

A couple inches isn't bad... but,

1. your knee's and gloves will get wet fast
2. all surface junk, that you would normally see and skip over, will be beeping and making you look
3. the snow will stick to your coil, and will get heavy fast
4. if working a slope or hill, you will slip on you ass
5. if you find something good --it will be a good day........ if you don't find anything good -- it Sucks... LOL

 

[Loco-Digger]

Cabin fever is what drew me to Treasurenet back in the winter of 2013.

It's a great time to hunt a local outdoor flea market. You just need a long flat head screwdriver to pry the coins from the gravel. The only issue with snow detecting is the depth of the snow. For every inch of snow on the ground reduces depth in the soil. Another area to detect would be local popular sledding hills for recent pocket spills.

Good Luck

I take this time to work on displays and research.

 

[pa plateau hiker]

Cabin fever...time to get involved in other hobbies besides metal detecting.

 

[Rookster]

Even though in the South we don't have as much snow as the Northen states its still been colder this year. The cold days with 15 to 20 MPH winds is not my kind of day to MD. Even with headphones on its hard to hear the signal.We have better weather coming so I'm just doing little woodworking jobs in my shop. Did get one new CW 82acre permission at of all places, the library the other day while looking for some old maps.Looking forward to hitting it. Good look to all.

 

[against the wind]

Welcome to The CFC.
(The Cabin Fever Club).

 

[Dan(NM)]

While snow isn't an issue in NM, the lack of moisture creates some problems this time of the year. We've had less than an 1" of rain in 3 1/2 month, so the ground is like concrete and it does limit where a guy can go, it's almost 70 and sunny here already, that's the upside of the desert.

 

[Evilpope]

There is other hobbies other than metal detecting..lol

 

[Bonzododa71]

Hi E,
Got the same problem here in Canada, for me snow is ok at about 1 inch deep and without a prolonged freeze, but right now its been a month of really cold weather and my back yard is as hard as concrete I use that as a yard stick for any possible outing...
I have sent my brother -in - law some drawings for display cases and he will make them for me and I will get the old finds out clean some and arrange them in the cases, kills a lot of time....
...Bonz

 

[pa plateau hiker]

There is other hobbies other than metal detecting..lol

Hmmmm, now you've got me wondering about that.

 

[Rookster]

Tell me about a lack of moisture buddy. Here in the south in places it's been dry with no burn warnings in a lot of places. And as I've noticed a lack of depth with my machine even though you ground balance as well as possible. But it's been some better lately. Good luck

 

[srcdco]

I remember back in the 80's there was an article in one of the treasure magazines (it might have been Treasure or Treasure Found!) called "Try Snow-time Detecting". It was written by a person that spent the winter detecting the snow piles along parking lots, particularly at malls. He used a hand-held sand scoop. He showed all the coins, keys, and rings that he found in the snow.
I showed the article to my grandfather and told him I wanted to try it at the local mall. His response was "Why do you want to do that? Wait until spring, then you can just pick the stuff off the top of the ground.", so I never tried it.

Maybe you could try something like that, if you really need to get out.

Scott