Ground Balancing

[joe_dirt]

How do you handle a situation where you're hunting an area that has so much trash you literally can't find a clean spot to ground balance? Other than finding a new location to hunt. Thanks for any advice.

 

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[thumper7813]

What kind of ms u using

 

[goldentruth]

How do you handle a situation where you're hunting an area that has so much trash you literally can't find a clean spot to ground balance? Other than finding a new location to hunt. Thanks for any advice.

Popular saying: Dig it all! Many have thought junk and found a treasure. A Spokes person for Whites GMT Goldmaster was checking a gold tailing pile and found a signal and dug around and found a nugget then nearby he found a small signal and thought it was probably junk and when he dig thru the pile of rocks found the signal stronger he just found a mud/clay covered rock, he cleaned it and it was quartz! he cleaned it better and found it was infused with gold running thru it... It had over 2 OZ Gold! (So Dig it all!)
Like my X wife from Arkansas said when she found Metal detecting was Difficult:"Dang that's hard!" lol
You got to stick with it my friend.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Use a large tree or cactus trunk to initially balance, then dig a few targets out of the way and do the actual ground. I had this problem once in what turned out to be a dump site from the 1930s.

 

[joe_dirt]

Use a large tree or cactus trunk to initially balance, then dig a few targets out of the way and do the actual ground. I had this problem once in what turned out to be a dump site from the 1930s.

Interesting, I've never heard of this. Almost sounds like one of those pranks you'd play on the new guy. But hey, I'll give it a shot. I'll just make sure nobody is watching just in case. ;-) Thanks for the replies.

 

[cudamark]

I just keep walking until I find relatively clean ground to get the machine balanced, then return to the nasty ground.