Thank's for all the replys, I have used my Minelab a few times already, but surely find that my right arm gets tired with the added weight of the controls and battery, thus I am in the process of using a "patrol army bag" which I will wear around my waist with a leather belt, surely this will give me more time to be able to use the machine, about 13 weeks back I had a lower back op done to myself, had this extreme burning sensation down my right leg, numbness, and lots of pain, however to cut a long story short, I had the sciatic nerve cleaned up, it was pinched and also a small coil spring fitted with rivets between the F4 and the F5 vertebra, to give me more flexability and spring in my stride, but seriously the cusion between the two vertebre is worn out, the doc says that I have basically done 100 years of work in 42 years of age, thus I told him, hey this will look great in my CV for a job interview.
However we are still in the recovering period, my leg is much better, but there is still pain on my lower back, but at least I feel much better, just have to be careful what I do, bend down slowly when I dig in the ground or snow, we are now busy with winter and it sure is getting colder, this area where I live in South Africa is rather cold, it can plummet right down past zero and even down to minus 10, however out comes the coats and jackets.
We have been busy up near a small tome called Sterkstroom visiting old Boer War forts and areas where they had over 2000 soldiers camping during this period, in a few weeks time we will be visiting a farm where The Siedge of Wepener battle took place, at this farm, we know the owner, we have already found many interesting items in the past, consisting of 303 live bullets, even still in the clips, cannons, shapnel from the cannon, lots of doppies, old bayenots, parts of old rifles, buttons, badges, what actually happened, while they were fighting, it started to rain and a lot of stuff ended up been trampled into the mud and was lost.
Thus this area is a real "goldmine" there is stacks of stuff buried all over the place.
Will try and post some pic's, oh yes I live in a small town known as Queenstown, we have 5000 whites and about 200 000 blacks living in this area as well as Coloureds, Indians, Pakastinis. Iraques.
Well Thank's guys friends.
What is a ST?
......Swingy Thing....You hook it to your detector and to your body so your arm don't get sore ...it makes your detector lighter...........I call them swingy things ..a pain in the rear......not because they don't work good....but i try to take as little amount of things as i can get away when i go hunting...
