Magnets and detectors

[robbor]

I was thinking of getting a big rare earth magnet to aid in speedy recovery of nails and iron while detecting for gold. But the magnet Im thinking about getting is very powerful and im thinking it might effect the detector. Any body else use magnets?

 

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[JakePhelps]

I use it sometimes when relic hunting to pull the large iron relics outa the ground, hasent affected my detector yet, but i wouldnt go sticking a magnet to your detector just yet

 

[uberlapis]

I have a few rather large magnets and they help out a lot.
I put them on my larger shovels used when not in a yard or park.

when I hunt the shore line of the near buy river there is all kinds of conditions every 2 feet including hard dirt, rocks, gravel, thick clay, soft sand, sediment mixed with tangled sticks, and other stuff.

I need every digging tool you can use but I want to travel as light as possible So here is what I do and the way I multi purpose the maginet. I take my lashe on belt a small pick axe that is placed in the junk pocket of my goodie bag. and with an Ames garden shovel the full sized like if you were digging a trench or something but not a full length handle the shorter "T" handle. I have a large maginet attached to the shovel and just let my small sand scoop stick to the maginet.

Detector in right hand, I hold the T handle in my left and let the digging end of the shovel drag behind me.
When I dig I toss the scoop on the ground do my digging and the maginet helps pull iron objects and saves me a ton of time trying to find nails in river muck.
When I'm done digging I just put the shovel near my scoop and the maginet grabs it and I'm on my way.


HH
Uber

 

[Monty]

I got a pretty strong magnet strapped to my water hunting scoop. Someone told me that it would help to capture a lot of small ferrous articles that you might otherwise miss. Haven't tried it yet, but can't hurt! Monty

 

[Crutch]

Computer hard drives have very powerful magnest of a small size. They are either rare earth mag or the next step up in strength.