UNSEARCHABLE SITES????

[kevo]

OK, I found a nice little spot in a very old town, second in kentucky. The lot was vacant. Well, I tried searching there and no matter what settings I use there was just way to much trash. I mean, for every sweep of my coil I would get 4-8 beep...it was horrible. Has anybody else ever experienced this or am I just giving up to easily??

 

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[BuckleBoy]

The old stuff is there, but masked by trash and other things. Get the big items like aluminum cans and iron junk outa there and you'll be able to hear deeper targets. The sad truth? You have to do a lot of diggin in a site like that. There are lots of trashy abandoned lots in my city, and they take a lot of time, sweat, and perseverance to hunt.

Regards,

Buckleboy
Member, KDM

 

[halfdime]

You'd be better of buying the property and sifting the soil at your leisure!

 

[Mirage]

As with any site you have to weight the effort vs reward factor. Sometimes this is not easy to judge. IMHO -If the potential is big(1800's stuff) then it is definately worth more effort. If you are just looking at mercs, rosies and silver washington's then..well might not be worth two days of digging up the whole lot.

 

[Stacylee926]

Yuppers! The day after I got my new ACE 250, I went to a primo old homesite in a very historic area. After 45 min I totally gave up and left. I couldnt tell the signal for a quarter vs trash - they all sounded alike! When I go back again, I know I can read the signals better now - but my primo site is STILL packed with trash.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

If I were you, I would invest in a sniper coil. These 4 inch coils are great for getting between trash items.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

LOL. Ever try searching around a picnic pavilion where a roof with aluminum nails has been replaced? Bottle caps, pull tabs, screw caps and aluminum nails . . . and rings, and coins, and . . .

No spot is unsearchable. It just takes a LOT of digging and patience.

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

It's tough when you hit a place loaded with trash. I'll post pics after while but I finaly resorted to coin mode and sensitivity as low as it would go on my Ace 250 a while ago. I came out with a sterling pistol shooters badge/pin at about 4 inches deep. Also found 2 quarters, 2 dimes and 2 nickels stacked up in one hole. It still finds coins great even with sensitivity all the way down. I'm sure small gold rings are left when I do that but sometimes you just gotta do something. Good luck to you!

 

[lucky1777]

I tried to hunt a park in Iowa that was full of trash. There use to be about 7 old homes there. After the flood of 03 the government bought out all the homes. They hired a company to tear down the houses. They used a giant grinder and ground up everything and then buried it. This place is terrible and there is no way that you can hunt this site. Good luck with your site...

 

[TxTim]

A shooter coil might help.
The only unsearchable site I've seen was a field choked with multiflora rose shrubs.
It literally took 1 hour to move 50 yards and that was with a detector held over my head.
We were only looking for a way out after we got into that mess - giant thorns!!!

 

[ringfinder]

I agree with the small coil. They are great for trashy area's. I would also like to point out, a few years ago, a group of my fellow water hunting friends and me were hunting a boat swim area. It was so full of trash we thought we would never pull anything good out of the area. It took us over a month to get the trash out of this area, a 5 gallon bucket at a time. Then Bingo, rings, old silver coins, bracelets, you name it started coming out of the depths of that swim area. We still hunt that site and we still pull trash out of it, we also come up with a ring or two.

Keep at it, those good finds will come. Looking forward to your future posts.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[Harry_Morant]

Don't think of them as being unsearchable for you - think of it as being usearchable for everyone else who has given up and have left all the treasure for you.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

A shooter coil might help.
The only unsearchable site I've seen was a field choked with multiflora rose shrubs.
It literally took 1 hour to move 50 yards and that was with a detector held over my head.
We were only looking for a way out after we got into that mess - giant thorns!!!

I have made some of my best finds in the "killing fields". Ouch!

 

[bill gent]

welcome to reality
seems we're a nation of trash a clean site is hard to come by but dont give up

 

[gold fish]

I've got a spot like that I wanna hit this summer, I'm not looking forward to all the work, but I hit a bunch of IH and wheat pennies on the adjacent property. I guess it just pays to figure the potential for good finds.

 

[whoknows52]

C'mon.....ya didn't think it was gonna be easy.....did ya!!!!!!!!

 

[treasurejack]

I have a detector setup for just this type of a situation......"a 4 inch coil" is a good way to start hunting a site like this. Hunt the area in grids ( I use four small flags, moving just two when arranging a new grid) and once most of the trash is removed from a grid I switch to the larger coil. Might take several visits to hunt an area in this fashion but the trash is good sign that there items worth finding there, especially if the area is old.

 

[stoney56]

Sometimes a meter helps. Then you have to go slow, and I do mean slow-maybe an inch or two at a time and lift the coil a bit to reduce the area it covers. I've done that on more than a few razed house lots but still get pieces of brass, copper, the occasional washer, etc.