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Box detector opinions?
- Thread starter midalake
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Joel-Winnipeg
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Whites Sierra Madre is a deep finding detector and with the optional 15 inch coil it can go down to 5 feet
Used for hunting deep and large treasures.
Used for hunting deep and large treasures.
Ironically, unlike standard detectors, a 2-box unit need not be "sensitive" in order to be "good". They will only find things can or jar sized, and bigger. So unlike coin machines, you DON'T want them to be more sensitive, in order to accomplish your goal. And therefore, the ones made in the 1950s (those early Fishers) are probably every bit as efficient as you'd want them to be, and probably similar to today's 2-box units in ability. Therefore, unlike standard machines, most 2-box machines will generate little debates (ford vs chevy) between them.
I've seen only a Whites 2-box unit in action, and it would find a soda can sized target to perhaps 2 ft. deep? And a toaster sized item to perhaps 4 ft.? I don't know if you want to go deeper than that, for these sized items, as ..... there was/is no reason for people to be burrying their stashes any deeper than necessary, to hide from prying eyes. I mean, so long as the surface was replaced, what difference did it make if your box or jar or whatever was a foot deep, verses 3 to 5 ft. or whatever? There's some sort of misconception or superstition out there, that all caches must, of necessity, be super deep. That's not necessarily the case, when you put yourself in the mind of someone in the 1800s, who merely needed it "covered", when you think of it. The real benefit of the 2 box machine, for cache hunting, is not so much the depth factor they give on large objects, but the mere fact that they can't find anything smaller than a soda can sized item. Thus, you simply don't hear all the little stuff, to begin with, and only dig the larger items. If you've ever tried using a standard machine to do that (ie.: just thinking you can "pass up" the small sounds, and "only" dig the larger sounding stuff), you know how difficult that is. You are forever sitting there guaging the large vs small etc... and never get anything done, and always end up digging small stuff anyhow. A 2-box machine takes all that out of the equation, for if you only wanted to dig big stuff.
I've seen only a Whites 2-box unit in action, and it would find a soda can sized target to perhaps 2 ft. deep? And a toaster sized item to perhaps 4 ft.? I don't know if you want to go deeper than that, for these sized items, as ..... there was/is no reason for people to be burrying their stashes any deeper than necessary, to hide from prying eyes. I mean, so long as the surface was replaced, what difference did it make if your box or jar or whatever was a foot deep, verses 3 to 5 ft. or whatever? There's some sort of misconception or superstition out there, that all caches must, of necessity, be super deep. That's not necessarily the case, when you put yourself in the mind of someone in the 1800s, who merely needed it "covered", when you think of it. The real benefit of the 2 box machine, for cache hunting, is not so much the depth factor they give on large objects, but the mere fact that they can't find anything smaller than a soda can sized item. Thus, you simply don't hear all the little stuff, to begin with, and only dig the larger items. If you've ever tried using a standard machine to do that (ie.: just thinking you can "pass up" the small sounds, and "only" dig the larger sounding stuff), you know how difficult that is. You are forever sitting there guaging the large vs small etc... and never get anything done, and always end up digging small stuff anyhow. A 2-box machine takes all that out of the equation, for if you only wanted to dig big stuff.
Of the main two box design the best was the Discovery followed by the slightly less well specified Whites TM808 and the C-Scope 9000HPX. If you can afford to pay more a pulse hoard hunter design is still the better choice as pulse will work anywhere including a wet salt beach. Deeper than any two box and most offer ferrous/non ferrous discrimination by tone/meter or both. Any size/shape of searchcoil can be used and the big plus, small trash is automatically ignored.
The drawback is that there's hundreds of deep buried hub caps, paint cans, sections of metal pipe etc everywhere which you can spend hours digging. Meanwhile in the same area someone with a standard detector will be digging a rare coin or artifact that you have missed as its to small.
The drawback is that there's hundreds of deep buried hub caps, paint cans, sections of metal pipe etc everywhere which you can spend hours digging. Meanwhile in the same area someone with a standard detector will be digging a rare coin or artifact that you have missed as its to small.