to dig or not to dig??????

[mreese1849]

I have a spot in the woods that have produced some really cool finds that date back to the turn of the century. It is in the middle of the woods right beside some abandoned rr tracks and about 100 ft away from the site of the city's first mill that started in the 1880's. I have found an old chimney base that proves some kind of building was there. Looking at the area you would never think anything was there. I constantly dig up old mason jar lids with the white glass in the top and pieces of china plates and old pottery. I have found a 1907 coca cola watch fob, a piece that came off of a chest that has a keyhole, and a lot of nails and other miscellaneous things. Everywhere I swing my detector around this site is COVERED with metal that my SE PRO is rejecting. Iron I guess and I get faint high signals in between the iron that is hard to pinpoint. My question is would you dig this metal up? Im not joking when I say this land is absolutely covered in buried metal. I am wondering if I dig a lot of this up would it bring out some hidden signals from underneath the rejected metal? I know there are coins here as it was some sort of an establishment, but I have yet to find any here and am still new to the se pro.

 

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[mreese1849]

Do I need to get the iron out of the way? Is this keeping me from potential good targets?

 

[jrc79inNC]

Try gridding a small sector, say 3 feet by 3 feet. I would dig everything up that you get a signal. Then I would come back to it and go from there. I have gone through spots I thought I cleaned before only to find more stuff there. Happy Hunting.

 

[mreese1849]

I have yet to find any cans, pull tabs, or anything trashy here. Everything I dig up seems to be something to old to recognize as modern, but the ground is literally covered with discriminated metal. I can't even swing my coil over the ground here without the threshhold hum disappearing. The soil is also VERY different here. It is like the blackest gardening soil and very easy to dig, but I live in georgia and if you walk away from the spot you come across the regular red dirt or clay.

 

[Landlord Jim]

Try going very slow with a small coil and find stuff between the junk metal.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

You've got what can best be described as "ghost town" conditions. Some places can be litteral non-stop iron (nails, etc...). The SE pro is a "power-house deep-seeker" machine, so is not the best suited for such conditions. The down side of ANY power house machine like that is, that it's not going to see through, around, and average, as well as other machines can. A better machine for those conditions is a 2-filter machine, line the Silver Sabre II, or a classic II or III, etc.... Sure, they don't go as deep, nor have all the fun whistles and bells, but you will hear a coin from amidst the nails better.

This isn't to say your SE pro won't find anything in such nail/iron environments. So by all means work it till you can no longer pull conductive targets from the mess. But after you're done with that, a 2-filter machine is an alternative to pull yet more.

 

[woody_g]

from what you are saying its easy digging and having already found a great find like the watch fob there it sounds like a great place to hunt. you won't know until you dig it but it could be very productive.personally i would rather dig old iron than pulltabs and cans. you gotta dig a little trash to get to the treasure LOL.good luck to you and hope to be seeing some pictures of some cool finds you dig here.by the way would love to see a picture of the coca cola watch fob you already found there.

 

[mreese1849]

You've got what can best be described as "ghost town" conditions. Some places can be litteral non-stop iron (nails, etc...). The SE pro is a "power-house deep-seeker" machine, so is not the best suited for such conditions. The down side of ANY power house machine like that is, that it's not going to see through, around, and average, as well as other machines can. A better machine for those conditions is a 2-filter machine, line the Silver Sabre II, or a classic II or III, etc.... Sure, they don't go as deep, nor have all the fun whistles and bells, but you will hear a coin from amidst the nails better.

This isn't to say your SE pro won't find anything in such nail/iron environments. So by all means work it till you can no longer pull conductive targets from the mess. But after you're done with that, a 2-filter machine is an alternative to pull yet more.

yeah learning this machine hasnt been easy thats for sure, but I think im getting the hang of certain signals lol. I might have somebody from tnet coming with me this weekend that uses minelab.

 

[mreese1849]

from what you are saying its easy digging and having already found a great find like the watch fob there it sounds like a great place to hunt. you won't know until you dig it but it could be very productive.personally i would rather dig old iron than pulltabs and cans. you gotta dig a little trash to get to the treasure LOL.good luck to you and hope to be seeing some pictures of some cool finds you dig here.by the way would love to see a picture of the coca cola watch fob you already found there.

I'm excited about what could be there. Hopefully when I get this iron up some good signals will show up.

 

[olfacere]

In an area like that, I would consider large, iron objects to be targets. If you're in a park, then the bulk of your signals will be pull tabs, clad coins, little steel scraps, and so forth. When surrounded by the relics of an abandoned home, however, your "trash" is at least interesting, if not valuable. You should only avoid iron signals if there is reason to believe they are worthless and reason to believe there's better stuff to be found. Take a few extra chances digging that big iron and I bet you'll be glad you did.

 

[mreese1849]

In an area like that, I would consider large, iron objects to be targets. If you're in a park, then the bulk of your signals will be pull tabs, clad coins, little steel scraps, and so forth. When surrounded by the relics of an abandoned home, however, your "trash" is at least interesting, if not valuable. You should only avoid iron signals if there is reason to believe they are worthless and reason to believe there's better stuff to be found. Take a few extra chances digging that big iron and I bet you'll be glad you did.

Yeah I never thought of it that way lol all of the iron I have dug have been old square nuts, some horseshoe shaped object with a bolt in the top, and axe heads.