Golden umax /|\ 25% cost paid down in under 2 months

[Topdecker]

I got a new Golden umax for $425 on December 22nd and today I rolled past the 25% mark on paying it down (over $107 now). I am only counting my clad recoveries for this, though I will chip in gold jewelry as turbo money if I ever find any.

I hope to get it paid down entirely by the end of September. It's been fun, but I sure am glad that I didn't spend more . All that clad has been recovered entirely with Tesoro metal detectors - the Golden went down and I had to take up the slack with a Silver umax.

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[tabman]

Nice going. The Golden

 

[fishandchips]

how much time do you md when you go out? I get 2 hours if im lucky after work (today) and was happy to find 3 dollars in clad. I live in an area that has 0nly been around since late 50's. I need a few good ideas where to hunt.

 

[Topdecker]

After work I mange to get in between 45 and 90 minutes. The sun is staying out longer, so that is a help

It is kinda screwed up right now. Schools are still letting kids out when I get off work and we run out of daylight before the teachers leave. So I have been hunting school yards on the weekends, mostly. During the days I have been hitting parks and athletic fields. And I have also been dealing with frozen ground, snow, ice, and the need to thaw my hands occasionally.

I think that having a cleansweep coil gives me a broader choice in targets. I mean, an area might be very target sparse, so close to empty that tackling it with an 8x9 would seem silly. But the cleansweep eats up ground and lets you turn cruddy locations into reasonably productive zones. I will try to put it in perspective - you can come very close to covering an entire soccer field in 4-5 hours (depends on how target rich it is), but your recovery tools and technique need to be blazing. It is a game of recoveries per hour.

So if you really want to get after it, get a cleansweep and open up some horizons. There is this wild rumor that you find a lot of gold too, but you would not know it from following me - gobs of can slaw, square tabs, round tabs, foil balls, and other trash though. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all gloom, despair, and agony on me


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[allcav]

Who did you get your detector from!

 

[Mike Hillis]

Don't tell him who you bought it from. You'll get your dealer in trouble.

HH
Mike

 

[Topdecker]

My dealer closed shop. It was his last new in the box Tesoro. I've been friends with him for going on 20 years and never had bought a detector from him, so I was happy to get a chance to correct that.

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[mudpuppy]

Thats some fine clad work! About 1500 coins based upon USA standards I reckon, ... sounds like me and you hunt about the same style, except I havn't got out much in 2 months!
Mud

 

[Rick in Pa]

The Cleansweep is my coil of choice for sports fields. I want to try it on my Outlaw when the weather gets better. I had no problem finding gold and silver jewelry with this coil.

 

[Topdecker]

Thanks, mudpuppy - it can be pretty fun when the weather is agreeable! Rick, I will be interested in hearing how the Outlaw works with the cleansweep.

I dunno how many coins it is... I kept a log for the first 4 weeks and once I was satisfied with the frequency and depth of dimes, I stopped keeping the log. When I started, quarters were out numbering dimes by a 2:1 ratio. I've got that about equal now (slightly favoring dimes) which means that I've got most of my issues worked out.

I pretty much attack the ground Once I tire, and that takes a while longer than when I first started, I will turn up the discrimination which rockets my coin totals. Its like getting your second wind. Gambling on gold really slows the clad recovery down, but someday that expected pull tab is gonna be a gold ring.

I hit a gravel parking lot today just to check it out. White pea gravel. It had a lot of dimes - I recovered 7 of them in a row in my test area. I have an idea that quarters cannot hide too well, but the dimes get on angle or are too hard to see with all the small white stone. Anyhow, that is a high discrimination area - no point in gambling when you are scraping rock.

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