The Iceberg story- updated 2/23/07

[Montana Jim]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice silver Danimal... wtg! I'm glad I'm not the only one out in the snow... Great digs!

 

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[ivy_walls]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

nice finds .... did you use a pickaxe ?

10 day forcast shows highs in the 50's next weekend .... YAHHHH HOOOOOOOOO !!!

note: I work outside - cold weather doubly sucks !!

Mark ( A.K.A. ivy_walls )

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

I just found out that I'm not as tough as I thought I was. I have hunted with 2 to 3" of ice but nothing like that. YOU ARE THE MAN DAN!!!.....Nice silver!

 

[Danimal]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

nice finds .... did you use a pickaxe ?

10 day forcast shows highs in the 50's next weekend .... YAHHHH HOOOOOOOOO !!!

note: I work outside - cold weather doubly sucks !!

Mark ( A.K.A. ivy_walls )

No pickaxe, I used a short garden shovel I picked up cheap at Home Depot a while back. There were several times I was sure that either the wood handle or the rivets holding the blade on would break I was leaning on it so hard. It has a fairly pointy tip and places to get a boot down on to drive it in.
Where do you live that it'll be in the 50's??
To be honest, I was dressed for this and was plenty warm. Next time I WILL take a cheap snow shovel to clear areas more easily. Kicking deep snow aside with you leg and boot sucks.

 

[ZoSo71]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice!!! Very Nice..

I wish I could have been there!..Sounded like a great time! But after looking at your picture of the road conditions, My mustang would have been in that ditch to your right!
Great digs on the silver.
Count me in for next weekend, For sure. My daughters dance stuff is done and taxes are getting done. I'll prolly be out of a job Friday..
So my slate is clean. and my gear is ready!


ZoSo71

 

[RONC(OR)]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice finds when I lived in the cold i would use a small army entrenching tool like a hoe makes quick work of frozen ground HH RonC

 

[civilman1]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Congrat's all the way around.....New machine,silver and wheat's and wheat beer......Sound's like a beautiful day in the neighborhood......HH!!

 

[coinman66]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice digs Dan! Glad to see you get out with the new DFX. Could you tell me a little bit about the headphones, did they cme with the DFX? Thanks Coinman66

 

[ivy_walls]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Where do you live that it'll be in the 50's??
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I am living comfortably (knowing its gonna warm up) in Mishawaka, Indiana (northeast Indiana). Warmer temps are on the way !!!!!

Mark (A.K.A. ivy_walls)

 

[Danimal]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice digs Dan! Glad to see you get out with the new DFX. Could you tell me a little bit about the headphones, did they cme with the DFX? Thanks Coinman66

No, I bought the headphones seperately from Brian Pennington who owns Southern Treasure MD shop. Unlike some other well-known brands, the Killer B's use the same 150 speaker in all their models. Most of the other high-end headphone companies use a lower-end speaker in their <$100 units. They sound and fit great so far and seem very well made. Here's a link to the webpage where they are sold:

http://www.southern-treasures.com/killer_bs.htm

Brian has been great to me and when that happens they deserve a good word and repeat business.

 

[Danimal]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice!!! Very Nice..

I wish I could have been there!..Sounded like a great time! But after looking at your picture of the road conditions, My mustang would have been in that ditch to your right!
Great digs on the silver.
Count me in for next weekend, For sure. My daughters dance stuff is done and taxes are getting done. I'll prolly be out of a job Friday..
So my slate is clean. and my gear is ready!


ZoSo71

I can't do it next weekend Dave. I have my son next weekend and he has baseball workouts both Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. I looked, and it IS supposed to hit 50deg by Sunday!!

 

[ringfinder]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Man nice digs. Guess you will be using the ACE as a back up now huh. Too bad, look at all the neat finds you found with that great detector.

Gary and I have been itching too get out, maybe this week or next we can hit the old Happy Trails site. Maybe we will take along a jack hammer and a bigger pick and axe. LOL

Well HH, and keep the coil to the soil if you can get to it through the snow. LOL, Ringfinder

 

[ModernMiner]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Dan,
Love the Merc. Can't wait to find one myself. That's for the great post and photos.
-MM-

 

[Danimal]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Man nice digs. Guess you will be using the ACE as a back up now huh. Too bad, look at all the neat finds you found with that great detector.

Gary and I have been itching too get out, maybe this week or next we can hit the old Happy Trails site. Maybe we will take along a jack hammer and a bigger pick and axe. LOL

Well HH, and keep the coil to the soil if you can get to it through the snow. LOL, Ringfinder

Denny...the ACE will now be my son Spencer's detector, replacing his BH Fast Tracker. Look...if ANYONE ever doubted the ACE250's ability to go deep and find good coins they would now think twice if they have paid any attention to posts from you, me and other ACE proponents that have a clue about what it can do and combine that with good research and field techniques. The ACE served it's purpose and then some for me. It got me hooked and then kept producing. I have no doubt though that the DFX and ML Explorer series can provide more target data and be more flexible (albeit also wear your arm out quicker!) and be tweaked to go deeper than the ACE. Anyone that knows me knows I will NEVER put the ACE down (verbally). I just wanted more than three or four tones.
Today, I could HEAR the difference between a silver dime and a wheat cent. Now with the ACE, I would have dug both coins, not knowing one might be silver until it was unearthed. After that first rosie today, I KNEW that the merc was a silver coin before I even stuck the shovel into the ground. Vaughan Garrett tried to get me to use a GTI2500 when I told him I wanted a better machine. Honestly, I think that the GTI will get more depth than the ACE250 in All-Metal non-motion mode, but then it's all one-tone from there. After playing around with Mirage's EXII and Nate's DFX, I was hooked on the symphony of sounds those two machine can make.

Hey...it's all good.

 

[Gribnitz]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

I know I know...to some of you it may seem nuts

LOL, yup. However, the good news is it is going to get up into the 50's and 60's this coming week !!! Won't take long to make a swampy mess of that mud to dig through then !

 

[ringfinder]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Man nice digs. Guess you will be using the ACE as a back up now huh. Too bad, look at all the neat finds you found with that great detector.

Gary and I have been itching too get out, maybe this week or next we can hit the old Happy Trails site. Maybe we will take along a jack hammer and a bigger pick and axe. LOL

Well HH, and keep the coil to the soil if you can get to it through the snow. LOL, Ringfinder

Denny...the ACE will now be my son Spencer's detector, replacing his BH Fast Tracker. Look...if ANYONE ever doubted the ACE250's ability to go deep and find good coins they would now think twice if they have paid any attention to posts from you, me and other ACE proponents that have a clue about what it can do and combine that with good research and field techniques. The ACE served it's purpose and then some for me. It got me hooked and then kept producing. I have no doubt though that the DFX and ML Explorer series can provide more target data and be more flexible (albeit also wear your arm out quicker!) and be tweaked to go deeper than the ACE. Anyone that knows me knows I will NEVER put the ACE down (verbally). I just wanted more than three or four tones.
Today, I could HEAR the difference between a silver dime and a wheat cent. Now with the ACE, I would have dug both coins, not knowing one might be silver until it was unearthed. After that first rosie today, I KNEW that the merc was a silver coin before I even stuck the shovel into the ground. Vaughan Garrett tried to get me to use a GTI2500 when I told him I wanted a better machine. Honestly, I think that the GTI will get more depth than the ACE250 in All-Metal non-motion mode, but then it's all one-tone from there. After playing around with Mirage's EXII and Nate's DFX, I was hooked on the symphony of sounds those two machine can make.

Hey...it's all good.

Yep, I know what you mean about the different sounds. I also have a Mine Lab Sovereign, one of the older ones. It has different sounds for different coins. I love the detector, but it is really heavy. I use it from time to time, but I guess as I just turned the big 60, I'll probably stick to the ACE 250. I have to say I found a lot of coins with it last year and so did you, so I guess I'll just stick with it.

I'd love to have a Mine Lab Explorer II, but being retired now, I just can't see the money. $1200 for the detector and another $250 for a SunRay probe, that amounts to a whole lot of really good finds to afford a detector like that.

Hope you really do Great with your DFX, HH and keep the coil to the soil. Ringfinder

 

[SilverDreams]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice job on the silver!

 

[Stormtrooper154]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Nice finds, however I am getting cold just reading your post

 

[Danimal]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Dan,
Love the Merc. Can't wait to find one myself. That's for the great post and photos.
-MM-

Just keep at it MM...there's plenty of Mercs in the ground still. I think I found more Mercs last year than silver Rosies....

 

[TxTim]

Re: First silver for the DFX-High tones and low temps at the Iceberg

Danimal-
You are:
The Animal!
You must have pretty good ears to pick out the slight tone difference between wheats and silver dimes!
VDI's 78+ all get dug!
Keep us posted!