French Creek hunter
Full Member
- Dec 8, 2011
- 100
- 12
- Detector(s) used
- White's Classic 5id, Minelab E-Trac.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I've been doing some research on dating trees, other than cutting down the actual tree and counting the rings. I usually measure the radius of the tree after measuring 5' from the base of the tree. Divide the inches by one and that should give you the age of the tree. Your now asking what this has to do with metal detecting, well, it has a lot to do with it. If you can age all the trees in the area you can get a clear date on when the area started to become either abandoned or when civilization started to come into the area. I wanted to learn how to do soil samples too, but I figure that takes a lot of scientific objects that I don't have or are too expensive to buy. I plan to get a E-Trac this winter, then I hope I can go to my civil war location once I have a good tree growth guide book and measure me some trees!
Another topic I wanted to ask y'all. If you contact Kellyco and ask for just the E-Trac,bag,and informational guide book. Do you think they would subtract the shovel,head-phones,etc, from the cost of the metal detector? Because all I want is the metal detector basically. I know it's like $1,500 for the whole thing but I hope to get it for $1,300 or so.
Another topic I wanted to ask y'all. If you contact Kellyco and ask for just the E-Trac,bag,and informational guide book. Do you think they would subtract the shovel,head-phones,etc, from the cost of the metal detector? Because all I want is the metal detector basically. I know it's like $1,500 for the whole thing but I hope to get it for $1,300 or so.