Detecting party spots

[BlackX]

One of the things I've come across is that many areas of interest that I've found are now party spots for teenagers. (Live in suburban area, so any woodsy area turns into a party spot.) Given that, they are often literally carpeted in beer cans, tabs, and other trash. One spot I was recently at I couldn't see much of the trash but I could almost literally not sweep without a near continually 176 reading and every time I'd dig one of the signals just to check, it would be one or more beer cans underneath the leaves or ground. That spot in particular I probably won't go back to but, fairly near me, there is the site of an old mill that is similarly carpeted in cans and other metallic refuse. There are also some other locations near me that I think have been used by picnickers over a long period of time but they're also carpeted with modern trash as well. No settings or speeds seemed to work very well. Any suggestions for detecting spots like that other than spending days or weeks cleaning up the trash?
_Rich_

 

[digman]

Rich heres a really easy solution FIND ANOTHER SPOT !!!!!!!!!! Theses teenage party spots hardly pay off Remember how much money and jewlery did you have when you were a teenager????? its really not worth your trouble Just my 2 cents Bob Clark

 

[bottlebum]

If the site has alot of potential for old finds, you've only got about three choices:

#1) Discriminate and try to pick through the trash (might miss some goodies because you discriminated them, also there might be goodies that are masked by the junk)
2) Dig it all and find it all.
3) Do like Digman said and move on.

HH, Bottlebum

 

[Rick(ND)]

I know it will be tough to detect places like this, but to help you can run a smaller coil, turn down the sensitivity to auto and to me cans are not much of a problem as they are bigger and when you lift the coil up a bit the signals seems the same, so it is a alum can where as a smaller target like a coin will get weaker with the coil lifted. The only thing that will get me sometimes is the older metal screw caps off the some of the wine bottles or the older 16 oz pop bottles as the will read mostly in the 177-178 range like a new zinc penny. If it is a weaker 176-177 I will dig those if the area is old.

 

[stoneshirt]

And then theres always the Garden Rake,IF you think it's WORTH it!!
Ken

 

[Neil]

If youve got the patience you could try the all metal mode and just dig those items that sound the right size. its fairly easy to size targets in all metal, tell their shape I mean. I would start with the lowest sens possible and work my way up depending on how much trash really is there. Also as one of the guys mentioned the smallest coil you have would help alot. If you have a GT use the pinpoint mode in all metal and if you have an older sov just put it in all metal. It might sound crazy with all the targets but if you dig just the size your looking for you should do okay if theres anything there to be found.

HH
Neil

 

[adam in cal]

n/t

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

As Rick said, in situations like this the best "tool" is to lift the coil up a few inches. If the target is still strong at say 4-6"+ off the ground, it's probably NOT a coin or anything worth digging and I move on. If it gets real "small" as you lift the coil, probably not a large trash object. I prefer not to hunt spots like this but sometimes they can pay off. I would DEFINITELY use a smaller coil for such sites...at least the 8", smaller still would be good.

 

[deerman]

n/t

 

[BlackX]

>dig the cans, then recycle

Yeah, at $0.05 per can, at least for the newer ones, I can probably get my kids interested in helping.

>find another spot

This location in particular is right on top of a mill that was built in the 17th or 18th century. Given that I haven't yet found a good spot around hear that doesn't seem to have been pounded for years, this may be one place nearby that has a chance to be effectively virgin (if the partying has been going on in that location as long as I think it has).

>Discriminate and try to pick through the trash

I've tried that with no luck. If the sovereign would discriminate above the low 170s, maybe that would help but most aluminum cans read higher than the disc cut-off (and they're everywhere!).

>smaller coil
I only have the stock 8" that came with it so far. But it's better than going at it w/ a WOT.

I did have another thought about this problem since I first posted this: That is, thoroughly clearing/cleaning one small square then detecting--one small area at a time until I'm done. Might grid it out by pounding in some branches for stakes to mark where I've been in case there's fresh partying between detecting excursions.

_R_