Cleaned some clad from the park

[rmptr]

I was happy to get battery money today!

Used my CS coil in the outfield of the baseball diamond,
and the little tiny 4" hockey puck in the trashy spectator area.

In the $2.50 worth of clad there were 6 nickels, so that's good,
but still not same as finding a ring!

Maybe tomorrow...

Out in the field I finally tried a Fiskars garden knife for cutting flaps in the deep grass.
That puppy is sharp!
Sliced my arm, leg, and my fat belly!
I better make a sheath, quick!

HH
rmptr

 

[Cynangyl]

Glad to see you got to get out and gather some battery money! Keep it up...surely the rings will come! David and I tried to find a Fiskars Garden Knife on Saturday and did not find any We gave up and bought a different garden knife and were not so happy with them. Dagnabbit...wish I could find one! Dun wanna cut my arm leg or fat belly but sure would like to be able to actually push the darn thing through the turf! lol

 

[Brett2259]

I too find coins in parks and trash. With my detector the nickle area also registers pull tabs and other trash...so I don't dig for those signals anymore. Could this prevent me from finding rings as I have tested my wedding band and it came up a nickle reading. But how I hate digging up trash on the nickle readings.

 

[Cynangyl]

Your wedding band comes up a nickel....my gold toe rings come up a nickel.....yeah, I would guess we better dig nickel readings!

 

[goldencoin]

glad you got out and cleaned up

HH
-GC

 

[DugHoles]

We will all have a great day detecting just as long as we don't go out and try to make our "gas money" back......

Nice digs there........don't forget the first aid kit.......LOL

Cheers!

Dugholes

 

[Brett2259]

Since I have only been detecting for about a month now and learning my metal detector I have been at parks and beaches since then. I find alot more at parks than on the beach(coins). Like I said before, I don't dig up nickle readings anymore because they end up being pull tabs or junk. I keep reading from the forums that one should dig up everything.

So my question is this: Am I missing out on potential jewelry(rings, earrings, etc) for not digging up these signals?

I might be spoiled because I go for the high beeps and get the copper coins, dimes and quarters.

 

[rmptr]

I thought I'd better respond to the group quickly,
before I succeed at hara kiri...

OK Brett, you're a newbie?
YOU MUST DIG ALL POSITIVE REPEATABLE SIGNALS.
Even world renowned famous detectorists write page after page of how a $5k ring showed up on their thousand dollar detector as a pull tab or foil.
Sorry, that's the way it IS... if you hope to find gold jewelry

Dug, first aid kit with a sterile needle and thread may help!

Cyn, I tried three different places and even bought an Ames 7 in 1 potting trowel which is bigger, clubbier, and has a thicker blade, (all of which I DON'T like), before I found the Fiskars at a True Value hardware store.

I'd like to have a Lesche like the best equipped MD guys, but Fiskars is only $8 plus tax.

Hopefully I'll have an interesting find to post, soon.

Oh, here's a shot, cleaning my pennies in the tumbler.

HH
rmptr

 

[revdrlon]

i got a fiskars garden knife and the first time i stuck it in the ground the hendle pulled off it when i tried to pull it back up, and it wasnt that sharp at all, i could rub the edge all over my hand somewhat hard and it wouldnt cut me. i took it back to wal-mart where i got it and got my money back because if it comes apart on the first hole then i dont even want to see what would happen after some actuall use. i really want the ames 7 in 1, i am prolly gonna pick it up fornext weekends hunt, i hear it is supposed to be quite a bit more sturdy than the fiskars.

 

[Cynangyl]

Looks like it does a pretty good job of cleaning them up! I may have to save up for one and get it from Eathan!

 

[Brett2259]

Yes I am a newbie. I already stated that I have been detecting for about a month. I think that people should know the place where they are at. If it is pull tab city then that is what your going to get for the most part. Alas, but I concede. I will make a day just to dig up pull tabs and trash. At least it will be alot cleaner when I visit it in the future.

 

[rmptr]

Well see there Brett,
Your Bruce Campbell avatar threw me!

I've found some areas have concentrations of pulltabs and foil.
What I do is kinda hedge in around the edges and work my way through it until I get burned out and then head off somewhere else for awhile. Or turn up the discrimination, or set the notch.
If I don't dig it today, I'll need to dig it tomorrow!

Unless someone else beats me to it!

A concentration of scrap may show heavy use and that is a place that will have a probability of a quality drop.
I will guarantee you, 80% of all rings found are in the foil/pulltab/nickel range on your MD.

And then there is silver... That shows up way high on the spread...
Wait a moment!
Have you seen this?



...Rev, sry to hear about your bad fortune with Fiskars!
I think I'd be upset...

Ames 7 in 1 is bigger, not near as sharp edged ,
is made of stainless, and has a massive bright blue handle protector plastic thing.
It costs about twice as much.
It might work just fine for you.
Sure hope so!

HH
rmptr

 

[Brett2259]

Thanks for the info. Will make a day of Jewelry hunt.

 

[SoreKneesDayton]

Try thr blue handled bulb planter at Lowes by Ames $13 really good.

SKD

 

[crazyjarhead]

Tha bucket is filling up. That will be a lot of coin rolling

 

[revdrlon]

sore knees, thats the ames 7-in-1, i want it really bad

 

[sonny60]

that will help buy some gas

 

[rmptr]

i got a fiskars garden knife and the first time i stuck it in the ground the hendle pulled off it when i tried to pull it back up, and it wasnt that sharp at all, i could rub the edge all over my hand somewhat hard and it wouldnt cut me. i took it back to wal-mart where i got it and got my money back because if it comes apart on the first hole then i dont even want to see what would happen after some actuall use. i really want the ames 7 in 1, i am prolly gonna pick it up fornext weekends hunt, i hear it is supposed to be quite a bit more sturdy than the fiskars.

It's a couple days later, now...

Rev, My fiskars handle is coming loose, as of today.
Maybe 5hrs of intermittent use.

rmptr

 

[allen]

that clad adds up....