neilo
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- Aug 23, 2005
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A recent trip to the gold feilds and I find some moron has chopped up aluminium cans into quarter inch squares and spread hundreds of pieces all over the area.
I go to another feild and some one else has spread ?hundreds small ?round pieces of metal looks like punchings from a press shop all around the area. What sort of idiots get kicks out of doing this. It gets harder to find gold every year and this sort of thing makes it just about impossible. In the Victorian gold feilds last year there was a person burying pieces of aluminium about an inch long with "dick head" stamped on them. He had obviously gone to a lot of trouble making these it must have taken a long time to do. I think the person that made them must have been describing himself. I will try to ?send a picture of one.
Then there are the tricks played one ?is to find a tree with very low branches and punch a small hole in a branch ?with a pointed pick and put a piece of metal inside.The detectorist comes along and detects under the tree and gets a signal. Remember detector coils detect upwards as well as downwards.He obviously thinks the targets under the tree in the ground and starts digging. He digs ?a deep hole and the ?target vanishes,he then checks the dirt he has dug out and finds nothing so ?he digs deeper incase he has turned the target in the ground sideways making it hard to detect. But all to no avail, ?later he refills the hole checks for a signal and the signals back ?
There was one crooked detector dealer who was doing modifications to the early model SD gold detectors charging over $ 200 ?to drill one hole and fit a $3 switch and solder two two inch wires.All he was doing was actually bypassing one section of the circuitry which made the detectror run quietly and smoothly. By flicking the switch the machine became very noisy and people thought it was more sensitive in reality it was less sensitive because the targets couldnt be heard ?in all the noise.
?I better get detecting done seeya Neilo ?
I go to another feild and some one else has spread ?hundreds small ?round pieces of metal looks like punchings from a press shop all around the area. What sort of idiots get kicks out of doing this. It gets harder to find gold every year and this sort of thing makes it just about impossible. In the Victorian gold feilds last year there was a person burying pieces of aluminium about an inch long with "dick head" stamped on them. He had obviously gone to a lot of trouble making these it must have taken a long time to do. I think the person that made them must have been describing himself. I will try to ?send a picture of one.
Then there are the tricks played one ?is to find a tree with very low branches and punch a small hole in a branch ?with a pointed pick and put a piece of metal inside.The detectorist comes along and detects under the tree and gets a signal. Remember detector coils detect upwards as well as downwards.He obviously thinks the targets under the tree in the ground and starts digging. He digs ?a deep hole and the ?target vanishes,he then checks the dirt he has dug out and finds nothing so ?he digs deeper incase he has turned the target in the ground sideways making it hard to detect. But all to no avail, ?later he refills the hole checks for a signal and the signals back ?
There was one crooked detector dealer who was doing modifications to the early model SD gold detectors charging over $ 200 ?to drill one hole and fit a $3 switch and solder two two inch wires.All he was doing was actually bypassing one section of the circuitry which made the detectror run quietly and smoothly. By flicking the switch the machine became very noisy and people thought it was more sensitive in reality it was less sensitive because the targets couldnt be heard ?in all the noise.
?I better get detecting done seeya Neilo ?
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