Detecting in Tight Places

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Ran across a thick, gnarly tangle of thorns and bracken that looked oddly UN-NATURAL. Did someone pile this stuff to hide a TREASURE ? The thicket was too tight even to get a small coil into and too deep to hold my pinpointer into it. So, I took a tree-limb walking stick carved a bit at the bottom, padded it with closed cell foam and zip-tied an old pinpointer to it. [ see attached PIX ]. My neighbor Leo is holding the gizmo for my camera. This gizmo got deep into the thicket where I found an old soda can and a few modern coins of no consequence. Also, the local city work crews pushed last Winter's snow to the edge of a parking lot. Detecting the place where the snow was "dumped" netted me two bucks in change to boot !

 

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[crashbandicoot]

Ran across a thick, gnarly tangle of thorns and bracken that looked oddly UN-NATURAL. Did someone pile this stuff to hide a TREASURE ? The thicket was too tight even to get a small coil into and too deep to hold my pinpointer into it. So, I took a tree-limb walking stick carved a bit at the bottom, padded it with closed cell foam and zip-tied an old pinpointer to it. [ see attached PIX ]. My neighbor Leo is holding the gizmo for my camera. This gizmo got deep into the thicket where I found an old soda can and a few modern coins of no consequence. Also, the local city work crews pushed last Winter's snow to the edge of a parking lot. Detecting the place where the snow was "dumped" netted me two bucks in change to boot !

That,s using your head to solve a metal detecting problem.Thanks for passing that along.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A good idea !

 

[pepperj]

Ran across a thick, gnarly tangle of thorns and bracken that looked oddly UN-NATURAL. Did someone pile this stuff to hide a TREASURE ? The thicket was too tight even to get a small coil into and too deep to hold my pinpointer into it. So, I took a tree-limb walking stick carved a bit at the bottom, padded it with closed cell foam and zip-tied an old pinpointer to it. [ see attached PIX ]. My neighbor Leo is holding the gizmo for my camera. This gizmo got deep into the thicket where I found an old soda can and a few modern coins of no consequence. Also, the local city work crews pushed last Winter's snow to the edge of a parking lot. Detecting the place where the snow was "dumped" netted me two bucks in change to boot !

Your thinking out of the box-cool suggestion.
Nature doesn't like a void.
Lots of parks even a decade ago, started the urban renewal where they let nature just take over any where out of the mowing.
So little sucker trees/bushes start growing up thick and it pretty well takes out the ability of swinging a coil.
Field edges on thee permissions start to get the Prickly Ash/Hawthorn growth and it eliminates swinging.