DukeBoxer
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A couple months ago I had a theory that there could be good targets in the top soil removed from new construction houses and farmland and later sold. I wanted to ask here if anyone else has ever tried detecting dirt piles, knows someone who removes topsoil or does that as a business themselves but I never made the post.
Yesterday where I work topsoil was brought in and spread out on new planting beds. I asked the guy running the show where the soil came from and he said that it's scraped from a farm and dropped off in piles near his office. Before I left last night I decided to go over it with the detector and I'd say I was proven right. I found a 1945 Mercury dime and a '65 quarter in the layer of soil they just brought in. Those were the two cleanest sounding targets I got using the AT-Pro and the Nel Thunder coil. I also heard a lot of iron and trash and think I'm gonna go over it again with the 5x8 coil when I get a chance.
Has anyone else had luck doing the same thing?
Yesterday where I work topsoil was brought in and spread out on new planting beds. I asked the guy running the show where the soil came from and he said that it's scraped from a farm and dropped off in piles near his office. Before I left last night I decided to go over it with the detector and I'd say I was proven right. I found a 1945 Mercury dime and a '65 quarter in the layer of soil they just brought in. Those were the two cleanest sounding targets I got using the AT-Pro and the Nel Thunder coil. I also heard a lot of iron and trash and think I'm gonna go over it again with the 5x8 coil when I get a chance.
Has anyone else had luck doing the same thing?
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