Does any one have trouble with electric fences?

[Digger70pa]

No mater what detector I've ever used didn't act up around electric fences. I was wondering if any of you guys have had the same issues. I have had a couple of farmers turn them off for me but I don't want to push it. Thanks & HH

 

[mudpuppy]

That said, my Uncle was a survivalist, he had a ton of gold and silver bullion/coins...he blew up from a heart attack on his way home from church one day, never realizing his dream of surviving Armageddon!...let that be a lesson to the rest of you!...He was dead on the spot, behind the wheel! Luckily, in his final second of Life, he was able to make it into the ditch and not hurt anybody else.....well sir, nobody ever found the stuff he buried out on his farm..and the years went by... knowing him and his thinking, I suspect some of it was hidden in 'post hole banks' under the fence posts....fortunately for all concerned, I was contracted by my aunt to set all the new poles and restring that fence...did I find anything? NO!....she has since sold the farm and has a very comfortable life in the Villages in Florida, I had nothing to do with it, other than paying attention and knowing my Uncle a bit..shes always been good to me...old fences are a hotspot, if you can find them...
Mud.

 

[Mark in NC]

Yep...for sure. It's worse when it's been raining. Some machines may not false every time the fence pulses, but you better believe it's probably impacting your "depth".

 

[Furious T]

I got a kick in the back from one, but that's the only impact I have noticed.....

 

[morelic55]

Most of the FT machines I've had were terrible around electric fences, the GBSE the worse...............Mark

 

[detectex71]

Only when I touch them barehanded!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!

 

[2 Much Trash]

Yep...for sure. It's worse when it's been raining. Some machines may not false every time the fence pulses, but you better believe it's probably impacting your "depth".

There's a lot of truth to that Mark. I had a G2 a few years ago. The quietest most stable machine I've ever used. My friends couldn't get close to the electric fence that surrounded this pasture we were hunting, but I could no problem. Never found anything along the fence but I could definitely hunt right next to it. The last hunt I had there the landowner had moved his cattle to another field and had turned the juice off. I hunted that fence line and picked up a bunch of nice relics. That just showed me that although my machine was running smooth with the juice on its performance was still being hampered by emi.

 

[Monte]

Unless the power was off. We got hit by a wind and rain storm today, when I headed over to the sheep ranch to work some older structures, and that cut my detecting short. I was going to work the Fisher F-19 close to the fence line but will do it later this week.

Maybe some Teknetics of the future will better address some of the EMI issues? The powered-up fences are often a challenge to most detectors worked close to them.

Monte

 

[detectingMO]

the worst are buried dog fences. same low radio frequency range! horrible