"What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

[tabdog]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

As a surveyor, I found a 4" iron post 4' deep.
Dug it up with a ditch bank blade. (brush ax)
Would have used a shovel, but it was miles to
the truck through rough country.

I have dug sanatary sewer man holes even
deeper.

I was using a Schonstedt Magnetic Locator.

As far as treasure hunting:

I had a place where I use to take my new MD's to check them out.

It's in a big old park with some history. It's a real trashy spot and is
a place where there is a good chance of finding goodies. Kind of
unknown by most MD'ers around here.

I had used a BH, a Garrett, a Fisher and then a Cibola. I found stuff
with all of them.

I got a Silver Sabre uMax and expected it's controls to be a lot like
the Cibola. They both have the same knobs and red a button for pin
pointing.

I dug a small brass bell that was real deep with the SS uMax and
then I got another signal close to the 12" deep hole I just dug. I dug and
dug. kept getting a signal. The hole got really big and the 12" hole became
part of the hole. Before long I had a 20" X 30" hole I could stand in and
still kept getting a signal.

I decided to check it out with my Cibola.

THERE WAS NO SIGNAL AT ALL!!!

That was the day I realized that the setting on the sensativity must be
set for the conditions. I proceded to learn to put my sensativity on the
edge, but not too close.

Sense then, I have learned even more in the field and on these forums.

For that, I thank you all..........

Happy Hunting,

Tabdog

 

[cybercop106]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

I found a subway train.

Boy were they mad...... but it was such a good reading I couldn't stop digging.......

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

lol!

I found a subway train.

Boy were they mad...... but it was such a good reading I couldn't stop digging.......

 

[rmptr]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

LoL!

WoW! Where was that, CyberC?

That's amazing!

Best
rmptr

 

[cybercop106]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

LoL!
WoW! Where was that, CyberC?
That's amazing!
Best
rmptr

Actually it was overseas and apparently happened in Feb2007. This is what it said: "A 330-foot-deep sinkhole swallowed about a dozen homes and a number of cars in Guatemala City. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main. The two bodies were found near the enormous fissure, floating in a river of sewage. The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths, and authorities feared it could widen or others could open up."

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

Bright and early one morning I was pinging up Wrightsville Beach, N.C. pretty heavy, hitting handfuls of dropped change and hit a good signal that said it was a dollar. I had a scooper and a shovel with me and went at it. Two and a half feet later I found what ended up being a six pack of Coors in a trash bag with ice still around it. Someone must have buried it a few hours before I went down and were going to impress some friends by digging up cold beer that afternoon. I put it back in the ice and covered it back up. Didn't want to spoil the fun. I guess I should have at least left a note...

HH,
Ramapirate

You should have rewarded yourself with a cold one and left the empty with the rest of the beer. That would have given them something to wonder about. LOL

Ray S

 

[ZenAgain]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

Right around a foot deep. At six inches I found a WW2 era dogtag but still got a signal from the hole, at 12 inches a double headed axe blade probably circa 1900ish. Also, a tent spike, also around a foot deep. (Thank God for full sized shovels....)