Fill your holes in remote areas?

[IMAUDIGGER]

I occasionally detect some open public ground that has been hammered over the years.
You can see evidence of cut brush and rolled rocks but that's about it.

In the last couple years somebody is going up there and leaving 6"-12" deep holes everywhere.

How freaking difficult is it to kick the dirt back in the hole?!
Lazy with no respect is my first impression.

I figure this guy probably also craps on top of the ground, then leaves a little pile of toilet paper next to it...

 

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[basssmann]

IMAUDIGGER, Yeah, It only take 30 seconds to put the dirt back.... that's a bad habit.... but, sometimes a skunk will pull the plug out and dig in the easy to dig dirt, for grubs... they have made a mess for me, after I left. Always make a neat plug and stomp it a few time, it helps..

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

IMAUDIGGER, Yeah, It only take 30 seconds to put the dirt back.... that's a bad habit.... but, sometimes a skunk will pull the plug out and dig in the easy to dig dirt, for grubs... they have made a mess for me, after I left. Always make a neat plug and stomp it a few time, it helps..

I get that. Too many craters for a skunk. Many are in rocky tailings.
I at least try to get the majority of the dirt back in the hole.

 

[oneguy]

depends on the location...imo I like to see where others and myself have been? I also check others hole(s) and have found what they obviously were digging for but couldn't find the tiny bit. I don't leave any craters and sold my boat anchor "crater maker" (gpx5000) because I'm lazy and don't like to dig too deep...so I focus on smaller shallow bits with the simple lightweight Gold Monster. So I kinda go both ways on the holes depending on the location and/or depth of the hole? jmo...…..

 

[Tpmetal]

depends on the location...imo I like to see where others and myself have been? I also check others hole(s) and have found what they obviously were digging for but couldn't find the tiny bit. I don't leave any craters and sold my boat anchor "crater maker" (gpx5000) because I'm lazy and don't like to dig too deep...so I focus on smaller shallow bits with the simple lightweight Gold Monster. So I kinda go both ways on the holes depending on the location and/or depth of the hole? jmo...…..

no always fill your holes. no reason to create even more landmines for ankles and animals. believe it or not small deep holes exactly like we dig can break animals legs. Just think of how much effort and money farmers go through to get rid of gophers and prairie dogs on cattle land. Be responsible and fill it in.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Well it's not just that, it's usually public land.
Little bit of respect goes a long ways to keeping the regulators off our backs.

 

[galenrog]

Always fill holes. Anyone who does not, in my opinion, is a jackass.

Time for more coffee.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I don't care where you're at, you fill your holes. Those holes belong to you, I don't care what comes along afterwards and digs them back up. Fill'em and tamp them down. It is a habit we need to practice 100% of the time.

It's the right thing to do.

 

[Hawks88]

I see it all the time on local beaches here. Someone gets here before me and never fills the holes. What I don’t like is sometimes people ask me why I didn’t fill my holes. I tell them I always fill my holes and empty my trash on my way out. I see a lot of people looking straight ahead while they jog on the beach early in the morning. One of these days someone will get hurt and metal detecting will no longer be aloud on local beaches anymore. It’s easy to push sand back in the hole when your done. Common sense.

 

[oneguy]

You guys are right.... It'd be a travesty to leave a 6" hole in a 20' tall dredge tailing pile or old hydraulic tailings and ruin the natural beauty of a mined site. What was I thinking?

 

[goldseeker4000]

HOLES! I like holes. They help me see where I left off and what directing I am going to next time I am there. Plus they help me find my way back to the truck.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Personally I'm pretty savvy on remembering where I found gold and where I didn't. Even years later.
I try to cover my tracks so to speak, especially if I'm finding gold.
Torn up areas are a magnet for other prospectors and I want to be able to come back later.

These "hands and pans only" areas didn't just spring up overnight. Lots of people giving lots of reasons.

My dad knew an old guy that hit these places hard when detectors first were being offered to civilians. He cleaned house for decades. Only evidence was some old grey brush that had been cut with loppers 45-50 years ago. No craters to step over.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Well, if you see a deep hole, and still get a signal there = just imagine what they missed! YOU can make that come to life!

 

[63bkpkr]

One year I dug a long wide trench and when I looked at it I realized it was really ugly. I filled it in with boulders and I was rewarded with the knowledge that I'd just reconstructed the porous structure that I'd removed some nice gold from. It should pay off the next time I get out there! Yes it took some hard work for quite a few hours to fill it in but it was almost natural looking when I left.

Holes, trenches, 50 gallon drums and such need to be properly removed or filled. Leave the wilderness looking like wilderness as it is just beautiful. I'm no tree hugging monkey! I just like the beauty of a place to be there after I've been there..................63bkpkr

 

[gold tramp]

Holes let me know where the overgrazing minelabbers have been.
Gt....

 

[russau]

As has been said many times , fill your holes and others holes that they left ! A really good reason to do this is , in Colorado , some public land was closed due to lazy jerks left many holes and our gubermint people closed it to us ! Kevin knows exactly where I'm talking about , soooo if you like where your at and want to continue to even go there , fill ALL HOLES !

 

[OreCart]

I am on the fence on this one...

It is a little different for me as I am on my own farm, but at the same time, I am the tenth generation and so I know it is not really mine; I am just a caretaker of this place for forty years or so.

I dig a lot, and for various reasons like constructing roads for logging, digging gravel, and drainage for farming, but in terms of gold hunting, it typically is digging gravel in small streams. I do not fill them back in because I can see where I have already dug. Still, I see evidence from my forefather's from years ago as well, so it is not like this farm is virgin earth or anything. Overall, humans have lived here and changed things, time mitigates that change, but does not totally erase it.

In a stream; I am not sure that it really changes much, gravels shift, and stream migrate anyway.

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Note: No one has picked up on this so I will explain it, but in Maine it is NOT against the law for me to dig, bulldoze, stump etc even in wetlands if it is for logging. I can build a logging road every twenty feet if I want, as long as it is for logging. The second I say an area in wetlands will be used for future tilled fields, pushing a single stump becomes illegal. It is absolutely stupid, and I do not agree with the law, but that is the way it is even if we do not eat trees (for the most part).

 

[goldseeker4000]

Wow y'all are wound way too tight! None of you on here except for Oneguy knows when someone is jerking your chain. And to the guy who made the comment about Minelab users for finding gold nuggets, if your serious about finding nuggets consistantly of all sizes you need to be using a Minelab.It is what seperates the serious gold hunter from the weekend dreamer. If you dont believe me than fork out the money for a gpx5000, gpz7000, gpx4500 or a gold monster1000 and see for yourself.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Minelab detectors separate the serious prospector from the weekend dreamers.

 

[BLK HOLE]

Life is easy if you keep things simple! Fill your holes no matter if in the middle of the woods, somebodies yard, in a park. You don't want to be "That Guy"