Help with trashy fields!

[stryker1313]

I am currently working an area at a soccer around bleachers that is extremely trashy. It is one of the few parks people can drink legally at and people do so after soccer or bbq'ing. I am wondering how people deal with this kind of situation. Every few inches there are hits, most of which of course are pull tabs and bottle tops. I feel like i am digging every couple of inches, which gets a little tiring. Is there anything I can do except just clean it out little by little? Thanks.

 

[z118]

There's a park in my town like that... all the high school kids hang out there and drink beer. I can hardly take a swing without getting a tone from a pull tabe or crown cap. To be honest I have just avoided this park because I've had other places to hunt that were not so trash filled. Best bet would probably be to dig everything, or try to work around the junk if you can tell the difference with you detector. You might miss stuff that way though.

Good luck!

 

[billiard rich]

Unless it's a very old place, I'd forget about it. Sounds like you'd almost need to leave the detector at home and just dig and sift all the ground. If your gut tells you there's something there, stick with it - otherwise...

HH

Rich

 

[Rommelvon]

I use a 5.3 coil on my M6 it really helps a lot in trashy areas, and it's easier to get a good lock on good targets

 

[rcasi44]

I've even got a little 5" for my MXT but unless I didn't have anywhere else to hunt for clad I'd forget it also. It is a lot of work. A small coil would be the answer if you still want to hunt. Rob

 

[silver quarter digger]

looks like you are using a DFX to hunt the field. grab a cheap bounty Hunter and turn the disc up to 2 oclock. disc quailty on Bounty Hunters is excellent and should make that site a peice of cake to hunt. good finds should start popping up everywhere.

BTW- a low end bounty hunter goes about for 60 dollars and far less expensive than a Whites accessory coil.

 

[TimeWaster]

Disc to two o'clock?

Which dial do you mean when you say "disk to two o'clock? I've got a Lone Star, I think that is a Bounty Hunter isn't it? I have come across what I think is an old grist mill. The problem is that there is 100 year old garbage EVERYWHERE. If I can get the right settings on that Lone Star, it sure would save some fruitless digging!

 

[CyberSage]

looks like you are using a DFX to hunt the field...

Your DFX will do a fine job. Get yourself a smaller coil, Eclipse have better separation. The following from Whites Web site...

Eclipse Shooter DD (4x6) Search Coil for DFX™, MXT™, and M6
Elliptical 4x6 inch "DD" design provides superior performance in extreme ground, better sensitivity to physically smaller metal targets, performance in extreme trash and physically smaller foot print for working around obstacles. Longer but narrower detection window compared to similar sized search coils. Finds the good stuff in areas littered with trash.

Turn down your sensitivity a bit. Using to much discrimination will null or mask out good targets. It will be noisy, but you should be able to get the goods. Hope this helps.

Keep Swing'in
Jack

 

[Snowy]

Lots of good information here ...

If you are persistent in detecting the area, then do small sections at a time and dig everything. Get the trash out of there. If you get frustrated with digging just trash, go somewhere else ...

We've got a local ball field here we keep hitting and it keeps giving up silver. We've been hitting it for 4 years now and I recently found a ring. The signals are getting more scarce, but under where the bleachers were is still a place to be "cleaned out." The fill for this field was brought in from old land. We've found a lot of religious medals in there as well.

It just depends on what you feel like digging when. If you're not in a good mood, then go somewhere you think you'll find something good. Digging lots of trash when you aren't so chipper only agitates the crappy feeling you already have.

Good luck!

 

[RelicHound]

Which dial do you mean when you say "disk to two o'clock? I've got a Lone Star, I think that is a Bounty Hunter isn't it? I have come across what I think is an old grist mill. The problem is that there is 100 year old garbage EVERYWHERE. If I can get the right settings on that Lone Star, it sure would save some fruitless digging!

push the center button "disc" turn the sensitivity knob to 2 o'clock{the "dots" go from blue to gold on the lone star,itll be about the 3rd gold dot in}if you can get away with turning the sens up higher go for it. turn your disc/notch knob{the knob on the right} to about 3 o'clock {dead even with the screw} that is the normal coin shooting mode and you wont pick up much trash in that mode and unfortunately you wont pick up nickels or gold either. if you want to be able to find gold and nickels simply push the "notch" button and back your disc/notch knob to 8 o'clock{the 4th small blue dot} youll pick up newer pull tabs,nickels and rings and the occasional older pull tab. from my experience with the lone star pull tabs will range just after nickel in the scrap/gold range,almost rite on that line...anything after that is somthing worth digging, if it jumps from nickel to scrap dig it as well as that is usually a small gold item . the lone stars discrimination is pretty good the high tone is most always somthing good{although large pieces of aluminum will give off a high tone} the low tone is usually always a nickel or a peice of jewlery,the middle tone is the one that is confusing and is usually the tone givin for trash but gold rings will also give this tone.

 

[TimeWaster]

Thanks!

Thanks RelicHound, I'll give that a try and see how it works.