At first I thought it was funny.. this bloke just does everything soo bloody wrong.
[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWwiECdmW04[/video]
[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWwiECdmW04[/video]
How not to detect
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I don't want to sound like im stupid but what was he doing wrong.
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freshly landscaped area, new turf, nothing much to find there. He couldave extracted the coins with his trowel, and alot more efficiently. The plugs left no grass attached, and were very shallow, he ripped them apart as well. But alot of us did similar as newbs.
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rocketaroo said:
Still do sometimes, but since i've started i've noticed it's fine and grows back in no time maybe a week or two max, especially after rain. At the end of the day as long as it doesnt look like your excavating for the footings for the Taj Mahal, and you keep it clean by using a cloth or breaking apart over the hole I don't see a problem nor do the council workers and curiosts that i run into frequently, I get comments like 'look at that you can't tell you've been there'. Even 3/4 plugs go yellow even when you've gone well below the roots :|
Edit I know there will be people that disagree but i've tried it all and i see what i see, and i do want to do the right thing
AussieGamer_Ben said:
i agree! maybe he is a newbie but he's methodical in his approach to the task, and he cares about how he excavates - and he fills in his holes
scores 10/10 i reckon
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Why waste time with a plug for a coin that is just under the grass surface..
Slice and pop.
Saves time and effort... Thus by end of the day = Still fresh and more targets found...
Just collected $160 for about 4hrs and on top of that a few rubbish targets. A handful of plugs at best and only because teh targit TID was strange...
Add about 20% extra Slice and pop due to golden / red / blue ring pulls...
Majority of spendables were just below the surface.. Had I tried to use plugs in the dry conditions; my efforts would have been much much less.
You can see bt the gloss on my digger that most work is about 20 to 30mm
Slice and pop.
Saves time and effort... Thus by end of the day = Still fresh and more targets found...
Just collected $160 for about 4hrs and on top of that a few rubbish targets. A handful of plugs at best and only because teh targit TID was strange...
Add about 20% extra Slice and pop due to golden / red / blue ring pulls...
Majority of spendables were just below the surface.. Had I tried to use plugs in the dry conditions; my efforts would have been much much less.
You can see bt the gloss on my digger that most work is about 20 to 30mm
Absolutely awesome hunt mate AM! Top effort with a massive yield.
As for the vid, I just think he is wreckless and made many ridiculous choices. I know some start sloppy..but this guy, and like many I've met, don't care about the damage, even if you told them. I started in deep bush digging large iron signals like flywheels and made a mess yet still easily covered, got to learn detectors and how they work, then move onto public areas, where I then only detected tambark until the folk here taught me how to do grass properly and tidy. Like AM just said, with very little effort with techniques like slit or probe / levering, little holes, little cleanup, many more targets. I don't even agree that he's breaking glass so 'children don't get hurt' when it could have easily been wrapped up and put in the bin instead.
I just posted the vid as a 'what not to do' for others to learn from.
As for the vid, I just think he is wreckless and made many ridiculous choices. I know some start sloppy..but this guy, and like many I've met, don't care about the damage, even if you told them. I started in deep bush digging large iron signals like flywheels and made a mess yet still easily covered, got to learn detectors and how they work, then move onto public areas, where I then only detected tambark until the folk here taught me how to do grass properly and tidy. Like AM just said, with very little effort with techniques like slit or probe / levering, little holes, little cleanup, many more targets. I don't even agree that he's breaking glass so 'children don't get hurt' when it could have easily been wrapped up and put in the bin instead.
I just posted the vid as a 'what not to do' for others to learn from.
Awesome hunt there AM, well done.
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Yep... some were quicker and the odd 2 or 3 together.
Will put a new post up.
Research and timing and focus.
Open screen would do your head in. 4 or 5 targets under a 17inch coil....
So missed many possiable targets and or other interesting stuff.
But tone and only a few squares open in the ctx 3030 screen around 12.35 12.43. Tone = stop and pinpoint. Any more than one probe thickness off center and stll a fast rate. Move to next tone.
But even then crushed bottle tops and some ring pulls or crushed /crumpled ally tricks you.
But you can move fast and cover ground. TID only checked on occasion.
It is about focus and knowing tour machine and targets.
Some 50 and 20 etc picked up as in or close to target and some were sunbaking. .
Big Bbq area and grass had been mowed but not raked or in the catcher. Lost coins were almost always just on surface or had been stood on.
Will put a new post up.
Research and timing and focus.
Open screen would do your head in. 4 or 5 targets under a 17inch coil....
So missed many possiable targets and or other interesting stuff.
But tone and only a few squares open in the ctx 3030 screen around 12.35 12.43. Tone = stop and pinpoint. Any more than one probe thickness off center and stll a fast rate. Move to next tone.
But even then crushed bottle tops and some ring pulls or crushed /crumpled ally tricks you.
But you can move fast and cover ground. TID only checked on occasion.
It is about focus and knowing tour machine and targets.
Some 50 and 20 etc picked up as in or close to target and some were sunbaking. .
Big Bbq area and grass had been mowed but not raked or in the catcher. Lost coins were almost always just on surface or had been stood on.
What's with the laser temp gauge AM? Secret detector technology?
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As for the video, whilst he has the best of intentions, he is ruining the plugs searchIng for the target due to the crappola pinpointer he is using. The recovery speed on that bounty hunter also seems pretty ordinary - very hard to accurately narrow down where the target is, hence the large plugs.
He seems to give up on using the pinpointer during the course of the clip, resulting in even more frustration on locating the coins.
The state he left some of those plugs in would be of concern if detecting around my local haunts, think I would be lending him a decent pinpointer for both of our benefit.
Unfortunately some people simply don't see eye to eye on what is considered as acceptable methods for target recovery, some are set in their ways, some couldn't care less.
He seems to give up on using the pinpointer during the course of the clip, resulting in even more frustration on locating the coins.
The state he left some of those plugs in would be of concern if detecting around my local haunts, think I would be lending him a decent pinpointer for both of our benefit.
Unfortunately some people simply don't see eye to eye on what is considered as acceptable methods for target recovery, some are set in their ways, some couldn't care less.
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Surprised there is support for the guy in the vid. Yes he cares, but he also doesnt know better.
rocketaroo said:
He'll develop or learn a better technique I'm sure - he will be "slicing and popping" like the best of us on PA in no time...... practice makes perfect
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Jon said:
All scripted and some of the cut's are so obvious...
The cutlass find down Miami way was a laugh.... Laughed so much I hurt my self...
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AtomRat said:What's with the laser temp gauge AM? Secret detector technology?
Some of the sunbakers were giving TID that were so strange...
So ment to take some ground temps and coin temps... All good intentions and forgot at the time...
I could fake it - but that is not me...
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