Good target, massive root system !!??

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Hello all,

I got this signal at a park. Great one direction half dollar signal Upper 80's and low 90's. Solid hit on my AT pro !! However there is a huge crisscross root system right over the target. I try and dig around it but it seems to be as thick as a small tree. I dug down like 6 inches past the top of the root, still can't get under the root to pull out the target... I give up for the day and cover it up, the signal gets lost in trash. I hope to recover it tomorrow with the right tools. Somethings telling me I need to find out what it is... Any advice, I sure could use it !! How I could get around or under this root system..
Sorry no pictures, I did not have my camera. I wish I took some photo's so you guys could see the problem. Oh well maybe next time...

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

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[Tnmountains]

Axe and chainsaw it what I am thinking. Oh wait you said "Park" Mosquitos carried me away today. Good luck with that target!

 

[Roger Mn.]

Get a dry wall saw and cut the roots.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

The roots are as big as a small tree, maybe 6" in diameter. It would be hard to cut them out with a chainsaw let alone a drywall saw. Thanks for the idea though.

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[flinthunter]

Use a keyhole saw, be very discrete.

 

[Dave Rishar]

Got a few targets like that at the local turn-of-the-century park. I'm biding my time and keeping an eye on the weather forecast. The next time that we get a nasty winter and the trees start tipping over, you'd better race me to that park.

 

[Tnmountains]

I use a little folding saw to cut limbs when I climb trees to bow hunt. They are just a few bucks at the sporting goods store and will make quick work of any root.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Tunnel in from the side,or bigger hole and a mag light.

 

[Higgy]

Make friends with a beaver?

 

[Boatlode]

 

[Ocean7]

I've had this happen in a spot where I was digging half reales. The MD was reading dime sized object at 12" down. Dug a fairly wide hole - never found.
Was it actually inside a root? Who knows - some ya just have to let go.
Destroying a tree for a single coin is NOT worth it IMO - plus it is public property. Such acts only destroy this hobby.

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Leave the root system. If roots are as big as a small tree, the tree itself has been here long before us and hopefully long after.
A single coin ain't worth park administrators closing more parks.
Peace

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

If I recover it, I will not destroy the root system. I promise you all that. Roots larger around than a half dollar are major lifelines for trees and if cut can kill an old tree... I'm thinking all go in from the side, several feet away and dig a tunnel... After I try to push it out with a screw driver or my smaller Leache like tool or knife.

Thanks for the replies !!
Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Well,

I went back today, I dug around the first root system. Only to uncover more roots, I don't think I'll be able to get this target..

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[Ocean7]

Well,

I went back today, I dug around the first root system. Only to uncover more roots, I don't think I'll be able to get this target..

Keep @ it and HH !!

good for you! The coin is probably deep in one of then roots. I still know exactly where that last half reale sits unless somebody has cut through
all kinds of roots to get to it. I sure hope not but it't not worth killing a 100 year old tree. The Coin karma gods will make up for it somewhere else!

 

[Roger Mn.]

Twenty Dollar gold coins ring up in the 80 to 90 range .