Wheat grown into tree root

djabend

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Dec 12, 2006
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I was field testing my new sunray XL-1 probe for my XLT this weekend. This thing is great and I don't know how I ever did without it. Makes recovery so much faster for both shallow and deep targets.
I got a signal that was jumping around between two roots at the base of a tree. The sunray got me right to it but I soon found out it was half buried in one of the roots.
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I could see it was a penny so I stuck the shovel under it and pryed. It would not budge. I then took the shovel and bashed the root until the coin dropped free.
1958 wheat last year they were minted lol
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Not much found but was glad to see the probe really works well
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HH,
Donny
 

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weasel606

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Jan 28, 2007
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great recovery ! some of those dang roots hold onto there money pretty good ;) congrats
 

Natman

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Nice you got ole Abe out of there!

I hate tree roots..I had a good dime signal once with a huge root on top of the target dead center..never could get it out of the ground..if it was my yard I would have probably taken the axe to it.

Nat
 

mastereagle22

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Neat find there.

I carry a little saw with me now and I am going to hack the next root that tries to keep my coins! :)
 

CRUSADER

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Reading the title - I didn't know Wheats grow :D :D
 

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