Found water shut-off at local school

[cadman_us]

Went to local high school to detect this morning, while I was detecting, a Grizzly Adams (BIG, full beard) type of guy walked up to me. In my mind I was thinking of what I was gonna say, you know, ambassador of metal detecting kind of stuff, He asked me "Would you mind locating a water shut-off for me?" Turns out he is head of maintenance for the school. Off we go to the other side of the school, he said it is down about 2" but we lost it and can't find it, it is a 1" nut welded on a shaft. I told him to give me a while and I would flag it if I found it. He then left.

I was using the XP Deus, but I don't know it well enough for this kind of detecting, only had it a week, so I got the Omega 8000 out of the car and maxed out my sensitivity in all metal and swung till I got an overload, it took 5 targets and about 20 minutes to find it, it probably would have went faster, but all I had was a 4" coil....

Flagged it and left.

 

[Larry (IL)]

A little PR work at your local school = brownie points.




That reminds me of the time my Father-in-law was on a small town water committee. A metal detector comes in pretty handy in finding residential shut off valves that have been long forgotten about. More brownie points

 

[TerraDigger]

Its not always a returned item thats a good deed. Its doing a kindness with your detector. Larry's right.....POINTS