In the cold?

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Over the past few weeks I have seen people post threads on what the have found with their metal detectors. I would like to know how you find stuff in this weather. like right now its less then 10 degrees outside and the ground is rock solid. How do you retrieve your items from the ground and what do you use?
 

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Did you take notice of where they live? Ground may not be hard down south or in other countries. Look at their profile to the left, most people put in their location. This forum is global..
 

Some folks are shut up inside so long that they pull out stuff they found in the past but did not post before and post it now just to start a conversation and have at least something treasure related to do.

I also know of someone who will take a rechargeable drill along to use when the ground is hard...(but not in a time of "polar vortex"...ha ha)
 

Their hunting in the woods. The leaves keep the ground soft enough to dig. Got that from I think from digmup. Good luck out there's
 

I've been woods hunting also. It's the only place you can dig all year in Cincinnati. I actually prefer it to parks and schools. And it's the only time the weeds are down to get to the older less hunted areas.
 

I haven't tried this year but in years past the ground in my woods is undiggable in January...

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I live in Tennessee and our winters are not too bad. Except now but the ground doesn't freeze. Even with the extreme cold weather we are having right now it is going to be in the 50's later this week. I am a relic hunter and this is our season. Farmers usually have the fields plowed or cut and the woods can be hunted without worrying about snakes, ticks, spiders and veggy overgrowth. The ground here is pretty moist and soft. I hunted last Saturday and it was 25 degrees out and the soil was nice, moist and easy to dig. I went back to Kansas to visit my dad a couple years ago and hunted in 4" of snow and found several wheat and indian head pennies. I am sure further north the ground freezed too hard to hunt.
 

We are froze solid but when I can not take it anymore I get out the pick and hit plowed fields.
 

Here in central Arkansas the ground rarely freezes solid. When it does it doesn't last more than a couple days. Winter is a lot easier time to dig than summer when the ground is dry and rock hard.
 

God made winter so that we can use that time to search coin rolls from the bank. ;)
 

You need to move south...this is our time of the year for metal detecting down here :) Nobody in the parks or schools to worry about because it is too cold or out of season for sports...i lived in WI for 15 years and it got down to a low of 20 degrees yesterday and people were freaking out around here lol. Also like mentioned by tresurehound, the fields are plowed and nothing growing and the woods have less vegetation and nasty critters attacking you like in the summer months.
 

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The beach sand can be dug into no problem, and like they said ground that is covered in leaves too. Some of us are just nuts enough, ...ER I mean motivated enough, to dig into frozen ground. Ended up with blisters on my palms from my digging tool so wear thick gloves! And dress for the type of weather you'll be in. G L & HH!
 

Wood chips in tot lots are diggable longer than solid ground - the ground is frozen at least 3" here at the moment (cold snap), but only the top 1" or so of the wood chips is frozen. They don't bind as tight either, so as soon as you break through in one spot, you can just up-end the frozen layer and get at what's underneath.
 

Most of my stuff lately is surface or 1-2 inches down, yes it is cold and yes even the volleyball court's sand was like permafrost in the perpetual shadow of the building. My pick only get me an inch or so. I need the sun's path to get higher in the sky.
 

hey robreiman, find anything in the woods?
 

73dguard said:
hey robreiman, find anything in the woods?
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I did! I found 1/2 of a brass horseshoe at a site that used to be a gun powder factory in the 1800's. They made the horseshoes out of brass for a while in an attempt to keep the horses from producing sparks while walking on the nailed down floor planks.
 

RobRieman said:
I did! I found 1/2 of a brass horseshoe at a site that used to be a gun powder factory in the 1800's. They made the horseshoes out of brass for a while in an attempt to keep the horses from producing sparks while walking on the nailed down floor planks.
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Now that's cool! I never knew that.

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Although the temps are freezing one day, the ground may not be froze the next. Me and my brother, nova treasure have been dodging the nastier cold/wet days and hitting any days that is tolerable. I agree with other replies that tree cover can be wonderful against the gusting winds and possibly affect the soils ability to be dug. Also, I like the fact that you don't have to fear snakes, insects, and other aggrevations that you do during more pleasureable weather. Some say that the moist and wet soil conditions during Winter months provide a better signal or even easier target retrieval.
 

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