Whatchya Think?

[MichiganJason]

I noticed today that they are in the process of ripping about about a 75 foot long 20 foot wide section of road. Fairly old section of town, I was just curious if anyone thinks I should get down there and swing the detector. I have never done that before as far as ripped up sidewalk or roads. Anyone have any luck?

 

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[Ant]

Yeah, you better hurry up. I would concentrate on the side walk and the area that people would have been exiting vehicles or buggies and the likes. Sometimes it's best to cherry pick and then go back for the iffy signals, if they scrape, hit that spot first.

You might want to hit it subversively, in the evenings when workers and lookie lews are at home.

HH

 

[Ima Swinger]

Never tried it myself, but what the heck....give it a shot.
You might get lucky!!

Ima

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Are you still sitting there? Get moving.....................

 

[wesfrye53]

I sure would. The 2+ weeks I was down with my knee the city cleared two lots that had homes built in the 1900's or older. By the time I noticed it, they had already spread stone and oil for a parking lot. Bummer...and 1 block off the city square!

So, as Gypsy said...you're still sitting there? I believe I'd get a couple of smudge pots (really showing my age there) and get out and hunt tonight!

 

[BioProfessor]

Go. They were paths long before they were sidewalks. There's stuff under the concrete and you can bet it's not hunted out.

Daryl

 

[diggummup]

One of the best places to look for older coin.Get at it and good luck.Ant gives good advise too.

 

[thompy]

to late I already beat you to it, no, great place to look, the sidewalks are better, and hit a foot past the sidewalk. should hit Cedar River some time. Thompy

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Old-town asphalt street tear outs are never as good as old-town sidewalk demolitions. Reason is, asphalt is engineered with a compacted decomposed granite base of fill. Asphalt has to carry more weight (cars and trucks) vs sidewalks which only carry pedestrian weight.

So odds are, when you see what you think is asphalt being torn out, it is often only just below the actual blacktop, but not below the fill-dirt, to the native dirt. It may look like regular dirt (depending on how your native soil looks vs the DG fill dirt look), but it's most likely sterile fill. Sidewalks however, were often-times laid, at least in the old days (prior to the 1920s?) right on the earth, or right on top of the wooden walks, with no preparation. Nowadays, they do a few inches of compatible soil or sand, but not in earlier walks.

 

[MichiganJason]

I went down there and had the worst interferance I have ever had with my detector.....I could hardly detect....I dont know what happened. I'll try again if I can.

 

[Ant]

I could be underground power-lines that are causing the problem. They could be overhead or a microwave transmitter may be on a nearby building, airports can cause that also.

I’ve hunted areas with interference like that and only concentrated on the best signals I could hear. Sometimes that produces, and sometimes it doesn’t. Those conditions are not comfortable to detect in but we have to do what we have to do. I’ve even gone back to a location at a different time and the interference was much less or had vanished.

My experience is in line with what Tom_in_CA has expressed.

HH

 

[Ant]

This Demo had no fill and produced my first Indian head penny, a vintage Marine lapel pin, the normal wheats and a couple silver dimes as mentionables.

 

[BigRon]

Go for it. Let usknow how it goes. If I remember correctly You are using a BH Lone Star, me too so let us know how it turns out.

 

[Montana Jim]

Dig.