brianc053
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- Sussex County, DE
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- Minelab Equinox 800
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- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hi everyone. This morning I got a call from the owner of the historic farm property where I have found King Georges, crotal bells, and http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/m...find-1753-spanish-one-real-few-weeks-ago.html
The farmer's friend (His name's Dean, and he works in construction) was trying to locate an old septic tank - or more specifically the lid to the tank - so that it could be pumped out and inspected.
He asked "can you find it with your detector?" and I replied, "I don't know, but I can try!".
I met up with Dean at the property this afternoon. The property owner had an "as built" diagram that gave us some idea of where to look, but it wasn't very precise. The owner had also marked on the outside where they thought the septic line left the basement, so we at least had a starting point.
I have to admit: I had no idea what settings to use on the Equinox 800 (I chose "Park 1" because there's no "Septic Field 1"), so I put it in all metal mode and just started swinging. Of course there were beeps everywhere, but I listened for objects that sounded...larger. You know what I mean?
The first thing I found that wasn't small was a pipe of some sort (we didn't dig it up; I could just tell it was a pipe since it ran in a straight line for a long distance. Probably the gas line to the pool's heater, I was told). I used the pinpoint feature and swung back and forth across the pipe while walking - it was pretty obvious.
And that was when I realized that the pinpointer mode could actually be the way to find the tank lid, so I used that to listen for a signal that was huge. (Side note: we were all counting on the lid having reinforcing rebar or similar.)
Since I've dug plenty of aluminum cans (which, as you know, have a VDI just like a great coin - but are much larger when pinpointed) I knew how to listen for large signals.
It didn't take me much more than 5 minutes to find a pinpointed signal that seemed huge, and I said to Dean, "If I were going to dig a hole, I'd dig right here" and I started to dig with my Predator plug-digging shovel.
Dean had a "real" shovel so he politely told me to move out of the way and started digging. And since he's a pro it didn't take him more than 5 minutes to dig down far enough to hit something that sounded hollow. He used some rebar to tap other areas around it, and declared "I think you found it!"
He and I removed the rest of the dirt from around the cover, and - sure enough - there it was!
Dean insisted on giving me a little money for the effort (I tried to refuse but he pushed it into my pocket), but I was just happy that I learned something and could help him out.
- Brian
The farmer's friend (His name's Dean, and he works in construction) was trying to locate an old septic tank - or more specifically the lid to the tank - so that it could be pumped out and inspected.
He asked "can you find it with your detector?" and I replied, "I don't know, but I can try!".
I met up with Dean at the property this afternoon. The property owner had an "as built" diagram that gave us some idea of where to look, but it wasn't very precise. The owner had also marked on the outside where they thought the septic line left the basement, so we at least had a starting point.
I have to admit: I had no idea what settings to use on the Equinox 800 (I chose "Park 1" because there's no "Septic Field 1"), so I put it in all metal mode and just started swinging. Of course there were beeps everywhere, but I listened for objects that sounded...larger. You know what I mean?
The first thing I found that wasn't small was a pipe of some sort (we didn't dig it up; I could just tell it was a pipe since it ran in a straight line for a long distance. Probably the gas line to the pool's heater, I was told). I used the pinpoint feature and swung back and forth across the pipe while walking - it was pretty obvious.
And that was when I realized that the pinpointer mode could actually be the way to find the tank lid, so I used that to listen for a signal that was huge. (Side note: we were all counting on the lid having reinforcing rebar or similar.)
Since I've dug plenty of aluminum cans (which, as you know, have a VDI just like a great coin - but are much larger when pinpointed) I knew how to listen for large signals.
It didn't take me much more than 5 minutes to find a pinpointed signal that seemed huge, and I said to Dean, "If I were going to dig a hole, I'd dig right here" and I started to dig with my Predator plug-digging shovel.
Dean had a "real" shovel so he politely told me to move out of the way and started digging. And since he's a pro it didn't take him more than 5 minutes to dig down far enough to hit something that sounded hollow. He used some rebar to tap other areas around it, and declared "I think you found it!"
He and I removed the rest of the dirt from around the cover, and - sure enough - there it was!
Dean insisted on giving me a little money for the effort (I tried to refuse but he pushed it into my pocket), but I was just happy that I learned something and could help him out.
- Brian
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