Which detector did you have that you wanted to wrap around a tree?

[Sandman]

I wondered which detectors were the worst things that people would try to use and wanted to back over them with the truck or wrap them around a tree.

What other methods of distruction would you use on that POS?

 

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[EDDE]

like selling a junker car
pawn it off on a friend
op sorry 89 dollar BH

 

[lumbercamp]

My first detector was a jetco in the early 70's, which was a worthless piece of junk. I got rid of it in a hurry and have been using Garretts ever since.

 

[BIG61AL]

Friggin pos Bounty Hunter! That junk could find anything metal it just could not pin point worth a damn. After digging holes 12 inches across I'll still could not find the target. Wish i ran over that crap with my car or throw it out an airplane. Best thing I ever did was get rid of the headache!

 

[buscadero]

If memory serves, I believe it was a Relco! $19.95 Special. It would pick up Coins 1" deep, Maybe!
HH Joe

 

[Shortround]

Wow - I see Bounty Hunter popping up I tossed mine into the rafters of my storage building - maybe oneday my son will decide to take up MDing and he can retrieve it and procede to pull out his hair...

 

[Mike Silver -gold]

A few years ago I bought a Land and sea. Or surf and turf, from Tecnatics. It cost quiet a bit to. It was a new design they put out. Great depth in the ground and water. BUT 1St time in the water, water leaked in and it died. So they sent me another one, and same thing happened. It is not made anymore. I have had great detectors from them in the past. Mark1 and their 1000. But that surf and turf was not thought out enough. Mike

 

[aa battery]

Garrett Ace 100 now a door stop

 

[Ricardo_NY1]

Time has not landed a POS detector in my hands yet, but if I got my hands on a POS detector and had to get rid of it, I would hold a lighter and some hairspray and torch the housing. After that is nice and crispy I would have to grab a sledge hammer and crack that coil in half. What's left of the shaft I would use to finish destroying what is left of the housing and coil.

 

[Shortround]

Time has not landed a POS detector in my hands yet, but if I got my hands on a POS detector and had to get rid of it, I would hold a lighter and some hairspray and torch the housing. After that is nice and crispy I would have to grab a sledge hammer and crack that coil in half. What's left of the shaft I would use to finish destroying what is left of the housing and coil.

Wow - you know you can get medication to help get rid of those impulses

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Back in 1977 I was stationed in Germany. I mail ordered a $300.00 Relco Metal Detector thinking I would find all kinds of old coins around the 100 year old barracks I was living in.
The Relco turned out to be a piece of crap, never found even one coin with it. It makes me sick to think of all the awesome stuff that is in the ground around those old barracks that
I could have dug if I had just an average machine back then...

Mike
Erlangen Germany
1st Armored Div.
C Co. 1st Btn., 35th Armor
1975- 1978

 

[cuddles17981]

The one I have right now.. Don't laugh.. lol Bounty Hunter pioneer 202. I can live with it for now,I had it for almost a year,and believe it or not once you have the sounds mastered and the metal disc. its,well,tolerable... 8)..

 

[cuddles17981]

Friggin pos Bounty Hunter! That junk could find anything metal it just could not pin point worth a damn. After digging holes 12 inches across I'll still could not find the target. Wish i ran over that crap with my car or throw it out an airplane. Best thing I ever did was get rid of the headache!

I hear ya..

 

[jeff of pa]

A RELCO made from a Kit,
that needed a small AM radio
to receive a tone & signal from the coil

BFO

Later traded it in on a RELCO FRONTIERSMAN BFO

also needed to be Run over.

Then I purchased a WHITES GEB/TR & was in Detecting Heaven

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Which detector did you have that you wanted to wrap around a tree?

The one the bozo was using that hunted the two house sites on a new driving range/sports complex extension nearby where the 1800's homes were razed and the foundations filled in but the stands of old oaks remain near the road. (They're using the barns for mower & equip. storage). I arrived and asked permission and was told. "NO! We caught some guy leaving huge holes and he was a real jerk when we told him to clear off. Sorry, but no."

Come to think of it, I guess I'd rather wrap it around his neck instead of a tree.

 

[gregl01]

Sorry BH guys!!!! My first detector was a Radio Shack Discovery 2000. It wasn't all bad but definitely not all good. As others have said the pinpointing was non-existant and its discrimination was a joke. With disc turned all the way up it would still ding on almost any piece of junk except coins!!!! And then you'd dig a hole as wide as the coil and still be off by a couple inches. Maybe I'll send through a woodchipper!!!!!
Greg

 

[BuckleBoy]

Kindafoundabuckle tells this great story about how a friend of his got a signal around the base of a tree and actually FOUND a detector that had been literally "wrapped around a tree"!!!

Cheers,

Buckleboy

 

[Blackjack77]

Sorry BH guys!!!! My first detector was a Radio Shack Discovery 2000. It wasn't all bad but definitely not all good. As others have said the pinpointing was non-existant and its discrimination was a joke. With disc turned all the way up it would still ding on almost any piece of junk except coins!!!! And then you'd dig a hole as wide as the coil and still be off by a couple inches. Maybe I'll send through a woodchipper!!!!!
Greg

Discovery 2000 was My first MD. Found a IH with it, peaked My interest enough to buy
a better detector!! It was the only good find with it. Luck more than anything.

 

[Gribnitz]

Discovery 2000 was My first MD. Found a IH with it, peaked My interest enough to buy
a better detector!!
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Same here. My first was a Garrett Ace 300, POS, but it did find me my first 69 cal mine ball and convinced me to spend more and buy a real machine. The Ace would find stuff, but it had to be within 3 inches deep or so before it would give a good reading on the meter and if it was deeper than 6 inches, it wouldn't even see it. It worked, but not well enough.

 

[Night Stalker]

This one! Except mine did not have the arm rest on it. I found it at a yard sale for $10.00, I took it apart and tried to make a pinpointer, then ended up throwing it in the trash.