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- Dec 30, 2007
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I wrote a post the other day about my Tesoro Lobo SuperTRAQ. I bought it for searching old gold mines in North Carolina, but I ended up using it to locate underground plumbing pipes in my plumbing business for the past few years, and it has worked great! The gold in NC, for the most part, is fine gold. The detector didn't really find any nuggets.
I was asking some questions about the best settings for beach detecting, and got some good advise. Yesterday I did a test on it. I buried some items in a glad plastic bag, one at a time.
A gold wedding band, penny, quarter, a German 5 mark piece, an Iraqi coin, a Hungarian coin, a beer top, and a nickel.
I measured the hole to 12" deep, buried each coin individually and covered with sand.
When I ran the sensitivity and threshold wide open, the machine picked up every one of them at 12" deep. As I buried them deeper the machine started to lose it.
This machine produces the most irritating " crying baby lamb " sound you've ever heard, with the controls set to max depth. After a while it is really gets on my nerves. Even after 3 years it is really hard to get use to it. I think that this is one reason that I have not used it for prospecting, only plumbing work, but I have not really taken the time to play around on the beach either.
I was doing some plumbing work last week in a customer's house. He showed me a $17,000.00 wedding ring that he found out on the beach about five miles from my house, and his wife was standing there smiling from ear to ear! It was huge with gold, emeralds, and diamonds in it. There are a lot of multi-million dollar ocean front homes here, and I do a lot of plumbing work in them. I ask him where he found it, and he just smiled and said "Out on the beach"! Many of the customers I deal with have big Rolex watches, huge ear rings, giant gold necklaces, so it doesn't surprise me at all that you can find really expensive jewelry here. Anyway, I just ordered some RTG Sand Scoops this week. Maybe I'll find a giant ring or something!
I guess I still feel a little like a scavenger hanging around in front of the houses with a metal detector, like a bird of prey. When I was a kid we use to make fun of the "metal detector guys". They looked like Seagulls digging for food. I used to tell my Dad to go give them a few dollars so they can buy something to eat. That is not a joke, I really thought that they must have needed money or something.
Question:
If you found a $17,000.00 ring, would you try to find the owner, or just keep right on walking?
I was asking some questions about the best settings for beach detecting, and got some good advise. Yesterday I did a test on it. I buried some items in a glad plastic bag, one at a time.
A gold wedding band, penny, quarter, a German 5 mark piece, an Iraqi coin, a Hungarian coin, a beer top, and a nickel.
I measured the hole to 12" deep, buried each coin individually and covered with sand.
When I ran the sensitivity and threshold wide open, the machine picked up every one of them at 12" deep. As I buried them deeper the machine started to lose it.
This machine produces the most irritating " crying baby lamb " sound you've ever heard, with the controls set to max depth. After a while it is really gets on my nerves. Even after 3 years it is really hard to get use to it. I think that this is one reason that I have not used it for prospecting, only plumbing work, but I have not really taken the time to play around on the beach either.
I was doing some plumbing work last week in a customer's house. He showed me a $17,000.00 wedding ring that he found out on the beach about five miles from my house, and his wife was standing there smiling from ear to ear! It was huge with gold, emeralds, and diamonds in it. There are a lot of multi-million dollar ocean front homes here, and I do a lot of plumbing work in them. I ask him where he found it, and he just smiled and said "Out on the beach"! Many of the customers I deal with have big Rolex watches, huge ear rings, giant gold necklaces, so it doesn't surprise me at all that you can find really expensive jewelry here. Anyway, I just ordered some RTG Sand Scoops this week. Maybe I'll find a giant ring or something!
I guess I still feel a little like a scavenger hanging around in front of the houses with a metal detector, like a bird of prey. When I was a kid we use to make fun of the "metal detector guys". They looked like Seagulls digging for food. I used to tell my Dad to go give them a few dollars so they can buy something to eat. That is not a joke, I really thought that they must have needed money or something.
Question:
If you found a $17,000.00 ring, would you try to find the owner, or just keep right on walking?
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