Hello everyone I'm Travis. I spent a few months about 10 years ago getting into metal detecting, and for various reasons I got out of it and the ACE 250 has just been collecting dust.
I recently bought a house sitting on 4 acres, with an old home foundation on site. While most of my time has been spent in fixing up the house, I couldn't resist breaking out the ACE 250 on my birthday and taking it for a spin. Within minutes, I dug up a 1919 wheat, and then obviously tons of junk.
The yard is full of little slivers of aluminum, mostly from cans that have been repeatedly ran over with lawnmowers for who knows how many years. It's old oilfield country, so there is a lot of old scrap pipe and other little pieces of iron as well.
I'm thinking instead of re-learning the ACE 250, because I know I'll eventually want to upgrade anyway, that I may as well upgrade detectors and learn one once, instead of relearning just to turn around and learn a new one all over again.
I'll soon have much, much more time at home that I have had in many years (More than I'd like to have, pipeline work is in short supply right now) so I'll probably be considering a considerable amount of time in this hobby, so I'm thinking the buy once, cry once philosophy may work here.
While my mind is changing fairly often, and I can easily be swayed if I'm wrong on my thinking in any of this, right now I'm thinking about getting the Equinox 800. I've lost my old Garrett Pro Pointer, and I'm leaning towards replacing it with a carrot, unless there's something better?
My mother took over my Lesche years ago, so I'm also in the market for digging tools. I would rather lean on the real world advice of those of you that do this often, than to try to do my own research and just make a best guess, so I'm wide open on options. a T handle shovel looks like it could really lighten the workload?
Anyway, I know this is really long, but here's my introduction and request for advice. I'm open to answering any questions and I'm open to receiving any and all advice ya'll want to give.
I recently bought a house sitting on 4 acres, with an old home foundation on site. While most of my time has been spent in fixing up the house, I couldn't resist breaking out the ACE 250 on my birthday and taking it for a spin. Within minutes, I dug up a 1919 wheat, and then obviously tons of junk.
The yard is full of little slivers of aluminum, mostly from cans that have been repeatedly ran over with lawnmowers for who knows how many years. It's old oilfield country, so there is a lot of old scrap pipe and other little pieces of iron as well.
I'm thinking instead of re-learning the ACE 250, because I know I'll eventually want to upgrade anyway, that I may as well upgrade detectors and learn one once, instead of relearning just to turn around and learn a new one all over again.
I'll soon have much, much more time at home that I have had in many years (More than I'd like to have, pipeline work is in short supply right now) so I'll probably be considering a considerable amount of time in this hobby, so I'm thinking the buy once, cry once philosophy may work here.
While my mind is changing fairly often, and I can easily be swayed if I'm wrong on my thinking in any of this, right now I'm thinking about getting the Equinox 800. I've lost my old Garrett Pro Pointer, and I'm leaning towards replacing it with a carrot, unless there's something better?
My mother took over my Lesche years ago, so I'm also in the market for digging tools. I would rather lean on the real world advice of those of you that do this often, than to try to do my own research and just make a best guess, so I'm wide open on options. a T handle shovel looks like it could really lighten the workload?
Anyway, I know this is really long, but here's my introduction and request for advice. I'm open to answering any questions and I'm open to receiving any and all advice ya'll want to give.