VDI Numbers for trash

A#1 said:
Anyone collect any VDI numbers for the trash they've dug?

I can find lots of lists and charts of coins and jewelry, but i wanna know about the garbage.

if a number is solid trash, I want to eliminate it. If it's iffy I wanna keep it.
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It really doesn't work like this.....trash comes in many shapes and sizes.... only trash that is uniform in size, shape and composition would be seen as the same VDI or relatively close to being the same number every time....also ground mineralization and other nearby objects could change the VDI
 

scotty544 said:
It really doesn't work like this.....trash comes in many shapes and sizes.... only trash that is uniform in size, shape and composition would be seen as the same VDI or relatively close to being the same number every time....also ground mineralization and other nearby objects could change the VDI
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Not exactly arguing your point. You're right, and I know that......But it does, and you know it.



Discrimination exists for a reason, I paid for it, and I want to use it. I'd like to collect more data on the numbers that aren't considered desireable. I'm looking for the input of others to help.

If someone ALWAYS digs trash on 11, I'd like to know it......I've never dug anything worth the effort on 11.
 

If you want to dig gold rings or earrings you have to dig basically any VDI number down to like 1 or 2 according to the post that I have seen.....I am willing to skip some to avoid alot if trash so personally 11 is my bottom number, which is almost always a nickel, also I will not dig a target bouncing around 13 to 15....generally it is a pull tab.
A#1 said:
Not exactly arguing your point. You're right, and I know that......But it does, and you know it.



Discrimination exists for a reason, I paid for it, and I want to use it. I'd like to collect more data on the numbers that aren't considered desireable. I'm looking for the input of others to help.

If someone ALWAYS digs trash on 11, I'd like to know it......I've never dug anything worth the effort on 11.
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Yeh, that's what I was gettin at.

While I know there is good things that may be eliminated, the places I go probably won't have that stuff anyhow. I simply don't want to waste what time I get to play , on a one in a million shot at a gold earing, that most of these people were too poor to own in the first place. I really just want to find their coins.
 

-9 up to -1 are iron, and in my book, junk. Positive numbers can all be good targets. In a trash riddled site where I just want to find old coins and silver, I keep 12 and 13, and 19 and up. I ignore the rest, unless it's a real old site and I'm getting deep readings. Those get dug too, as the numbers can be unreliable.
 

A#1 said:
Not exactly arguing your point. You're right, and I know that......But it does, and you know it.



Discrimination exists for a reason, I paid for it, and I want to use it. I'd like to collect more data on the numbers that aren't considered desireable. I'm looking for the input of others to help.

If someone ALWAYS digs trash on 11, I'd like to know it......I've never dug anything worth the effort on 11.
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I've dug a few deep buffalo nickels that rang it at 11 and bounced to 12 occasionally... they were a good 9 inches down in semi hot soil...
 

I've dug many good old nickels that hit in that 11 range. If I were at a park hunting for silver then I'd pass. Turn of the century home and I'd dig anything above iron. The VDI scale is too compressed to use it the way you want to......especially at an older site. JMO.
 

HighVDI said:
I've dug many good old nickels that hit in that 11 range. If I were at a park hunting for silver then I'd pass. Turn of the century home and I'd dig anything above iron. The VDI scale is too compressed to use it the way you want to......especially at an older site. JMO.
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I agree...
 

Where are you hunting? Old home site? Modern park? Challenge yourself and build a test garden. This will tell you a lot.
 

ZR2guy said:
Where are you hunting? Old home site? Modern park? Challenge yourself and build a test garden. This will tell you a lot.
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Mostly old homesteads. Thing is, there's so many on them along my paths to other places. I get a half hour or so at each one to do an assessment, and I have to move along. Usually, I just get to do a surface check, and many times cant use the detector at all if it isn't early spring. When i do get to use it, I'd like to weed out as much crap as I can and kabeep mostly coins, to judge whether or not I want to return to that particular spot, and when. I note all that, for when I get more of an open opportunity later. Then I do a more thorough job of the place.

I don't do modern anything. I really have no interest in most everything current. Closest has been the front yard of my 1940 cabin. Never been to a beach, a current school, a park, never even done my yard. I have better things to do than find clad and zinc, and I have more efficient ways of obtaining it if I chose to.

A test garden would be cool, but I just ain't got there yet. I'd like to read more about them over the winter.
 

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Old sites take time. No way around it. People have the misconception that they can tell how good a spot is by going over it quickly and almost cherry picking it in a sense. Truth is, the more you dig, remove and change the dirt at the site can make it a whole different scenerio. I've spent many hours on a couple sites and still to this day find missed items. One spot I thought was completely useless then come fall/winter it coughed up 8 coppers and a shield nickel along with dozens of flat buttons and musketballs.
 

To narrow things on a fast hunt I sometimes dig only signals that are consistent
 

If you just want numbers, then you are never going to learn what the machine audio is telling you about the prospective target. The audio quality is just as and sometimes more important than a VDI number on this machine. Instead of asking for numbers that may or may not be applicable to your situation, the best thing you can do is get hours of usage on your machine, dig those items and then commit the audio vs. target to your muscle memory. You said that you "paid for discrimination". I pay for "all metal" the capability to be able to flip a switch to hear it all (including iron) and let my brain do the discriminating based on my knowledge and experience with the machine. There are no short cuts, especially if you are looking for coins and relics at old home sites. Good luck.
 

I don't care what the VDI is until after I dig the target.

I'm still learning the language of Equinox and the VDI is like a doctors signature... illegible!
 

I've only taken my 800 out for one hunt. I wasn't even thinking TID's, just dug each solid signal in two directions. If it was solid, I was down on my knees digging.

My way of getting familiarized with the new beast.

I did note however that each TID of "1" was foil. But then as I understand, some gold will come in as a "1" too!

So, I dig 1000 pieces of foil just in case one might be gold ????
 

DeepseekerADS said:
I've only taken my 800 out for one hunt. I wasn't even thinking TID's, just dug each solid signal in two directions. If it was solid, I was down on my knees digging.

My way of getting familiarized with the new beast.

I did note however that each TID of "1" was foil. But then as I understand, some gold will come in as a "1" too!

So, I dig 1000 pieces of foil just in case one might be gold ????
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At old sites, some deep targets will only hit one direction, especially if there are other targets nearby. You have to consider I.D, sound, and depth when deciding to dig or not. As for digging 1's......in a park, school, or other public grass area, no, I don't dig 1's either. At the beach, yes. It's so easy to scoop and go that they're not a big deal to recover. Plus, you eliminate that trash off the beach for next time.
 

AurumHunter024 said:
I don't care what the VDI is until after I dig the target.

I'm still learning the language of Equinox and the VDI is like a doctors signature... illegible!
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Well maybe not illegible, but definitely ambiguous without the context of the audio.
 

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