Dirty tricks that are done to detectrists.

[neilo]

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 ?

 

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[JW]

The person has metal detecting experience but my detector would ignore the specific round metal objects or plates if they were the same size, just program the Explorer to ignore a sample and keep hunting.

I want one of those "dickhead" plates.? That's classic and sick but high points for creativity.? Someone with WAY too much time on their hands.

HH

JW

I have heard of folks burying a clad quarter in a hole full of human waste and covering it with dirt so it looks untouched...someone got kicked out of a MD club for doing this...

 

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[gldhntr]

glue the d/h plaques to some of those 89 cent trophys, and next time you catch your local arkie in the middle of taping a news flash on their latest site, run up and present it to them on camera, and hope it is live instead of taped for later..........................gldhntr

 

[KevGA]

Marc already has tags made up, he advertised them for sale at adiscounted rate to members a few months ago. I don't belive there was much of a response at the time, but I think he may still have some available should you want to leave a marker. They each had a serial number that could be tracked through part of the site he was going to get going, sort of like that "Where's George" site that tracks dollar bills.

As far as the bits of metal and the "d-head"s, I'd tend to agree that someone was trying to mask some sort of find. Quite a bit of effort involved just to try and piss us off.

My .02

 

[Monty]

The only thing I have heard about prior to this post was someone taking a hand full of clad pennies and throwing them out on the lawn at the park. Would be better if they would throw out silver dimes! I can dream can't I? Monty

 

[jeff of pa]

As far as the bits of metal and the "d-head"s, I'd tend to agree that someone was trying to mask some sort of find.? Quite a bit of effort involved just to try and piss us off.

My .02

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[treasurekidd]

I agree with Jeff. This person, and I use that term loosely, obiously went to a lot of trouble to make and bury these. He knows detecting, as already pointed out. He knows where to put them, and he may have also known that the aluminum material he chose to use registers the about the same conductivity as gold on most detectors! Is he doing this just to tick us off? I don't think so. I think he's try to hide something that he is after. Get in there, clean all the tags out, and beat him to what he is after!! Good luck!!

 

[Born2Dtect]

Aluminum is easy to work with, cut, stamp. The lettering on the piece is very straight and uniform so it was not done by hand but with a machine that would hold all the letter stamps and punch them all at once. I could get scrap pieces from my work place. If I were truly trying to keep someone away from an area I can think of far better ways. I think it is just a bad practical joke by someone with way too much time on their hands. They need a hobby like..................................................Metal Detecting!

Ed Donovan

 

[lonewolfe]

I once found an area in a huge park where someone had thrown probably 100s of wheat pennies many years prior all over the place (approx. a 50x50 ft area).

After digging out several dozens for 2+ hrs at an average depth of 2 to 3 inches, and still getting signals like there was no tomorrow, I got tired of digging, and left the rest for the next guy!