fastforty
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My daughter & I finally got up early enough to go to her school before it got too hot. We were met with enthusiastic support & permission to do as we pleased, so out we went. The sand boxes all had a fresh 3 foot tall pile of sand dumped into them, almost completely covering the preexisting sand So off to the woodchip areas we went.
We spent an hour & a half and recovered 45 targets. One target recovered every 2 minutes was very nice, as it has been taking us 10-20 minutes to dig single targets in the packed dirt at home (about the best we have done at home is 4 or 5 targets an hour). Our "finds" at home consist of two pennies & a buncha rusty nails, nuts, bolts & similar trash. At school this morning, we recovered 5 quarters, 10 dimes, 4 nickles, 7 pennies, one two-tone gold/silver sharks head ring, a zipper pull, a Levi's button, a wire bracelet & a buncha foil.
Got back home (7 mile country drive) at 10am & it was 100 degrees already. We covered maybe 1/3 of each of the two large chiplots, & still have swings & bars & other apparatus elsewhere, as well as the tetherball courts & several other high frequency areas to search. This is an old school (founded in 1865), & it was verified that nobody has had a metal detector there before (at least in the last thirty years, since alarms & motion detectors have been installed.
We spent an hour & a half and recovered 45 targets. One target recovered every 2 minutes was very nice, as it has been taking us 10-20 minutes to dig single targets in the packed dirt at home (about the best we have done at home is 4 or 5 targets an hour). Our "finds" at home consist of two pennies & a buncha rusty nails, nuts, bolts & similar trash. At school this morning, we recovered 5 quarters, 10 dimes, 4 nickles, 7 pennies, one two-tone gold/silver sharks head ring, a zipper pull, a Levi's button, a wire bracelet & a buncha foil.
Got back home (7 mile country drive) at 10am & it was 100 degrees already. We covered maybe 1/3 of each of the two large chiplots, & still have swings & bars & other apparatus elsewhere, as well as the tetherball courts & several other high frequency areas to search. This is an old school (founded in 1865), & it was verified that nobody has had a metal detector there before (at least in the last thirty years, since alarms & motion detectors have been installed.