How crazy are we????

[slingshot]

I'm out enjoying my MX 5 and take my 8" screwdriver that I got for a quarter at a garage sale. So after an hour I decide to go into the gravel tot lot and stick the screwdriver in my back pocket. When I get to the car to change to my Compadre, I notice the screwdriver's gone. Upset, I look in the trunk, and by luck there' s my favorite hard steel screwdriver I had misplaced! Happy? No! I go trekking 3 football fields of an area looking for my 25¢ screwdriver for half an hour! Does anyone feel me?

 

[Mega]

I guess we tend to find it 'odd' that folks use a Screwdriver to go detecting in,i can honestly say that i have never in all the years that i have been detecting have never seen anyone use a screwdriver,i must obviously work well but i guess that its mainly due to folks detecting in parks etc which we dont tend to do.

Must admit have left my spade in the middle of a field before and then had to go back and retrieve it again but a spade can be seen from some distance i guess,glad you found your digging tool though.

 

[airscapes]

Mega, here in the states a good lot of us are stuck searching for modern coin and jewelry in school sports fields, the grass areas around the front doors where kids hang out before school, grass areas around the parking lot, parks, sidewalk strips etc.
Most of the finds are not much deeper than 4" so you can pop the coin with a screwdriver or prob very quickly without cutting a plug. We here in the states wish we had the places you guys have on the other side of the pond.. We do a happy dance when we find a 1950s silver coin.. we would probably drop dead if we ever could dig roman or older coins!

Slingshot, I had to drive 15 miles, preparing myself for disappointment to look for my TRX I left in the grass.. that is what I get for taking the wife with me.. She had me stop and take a picture of her on the swings.. then we left and did some errands.. Got home and had some time so was going to mess around in the front yard with the 4x6 on the DFX and no pinpointer in the holster.. Lucky for me it was still there when I returned about 2 hours later..

 

[slingshot]

Mega, here in the states a good lot of us are stuck searching for modern coin and jewelry in school sports fields, the grass areas around the front doors where kids hang out before school, grass areas around the parking lot, parks, sidewalk strips etc.
Most of the finds are not much deeper than 4" so you can pop the coin with a screwdriver or prob very quickly without cutting a plug. We here in the states wish we had the places you guys have on the other side of the pond.. We do a happy dance when we find a 1950s silver coin.. we would probably drop dead if we ever could dig roman or older coins!

Slingshot, I had to drive 15 miles, preparing myself for disappointment to look for my TRX I left in the grass.. that is what I get for taking the wife with me.. She had me stop and take a picture of her on the swings.. then we left and did some errands.. Got home and had some time so was going to mess around in the front yard with the 4x6 on the DFX and no pinpointer in the holster.. Lucky for me it was still there when I returned about 2 hours later..

Well, are you ready for this? I go back home and remember it had a yellow handle and then I convince myself that some kid could fall on it so I go back looking for a 25¢ screwdriver! Nothing! So I go home for an hour frustrated and tell my wife I'm going to the store. I get there and start tucking my shirttail in my pants WHEN-you guessed it- my hands hit a solid object in the far corner of my pocket with the blade stuck under my belt!

 

[slingshot]

I guess we tend to find it 'odd' that folks use a Screwdriver to go detecting in,i can honestly say that i have never in all the years that i have been detecting have never seen anyone use a screwdriver,i must obviously work well but i guess that its mainly due to folks detecting in parks etc which we dont tend to do.

Must admit have left my spade in the middle of a field before and then had to go back and retrieve it again but a spade can be seen from some distance i guess,glad you found your digging tool though.

It"s unbelievably fast and easy here in our hardpan soil. For the deeper coins, the blade can be used as a sharp knife to cut a "v" and fold it up to retrieve the target. When we make videos here, we don't spend half the video cutting a plug, getting our pinpointer and scanning the hole with gloves on, then scanning the plug, then resetting the plug.. So I can't imagine doing it your way. We do have some open civil war fields here away from civilization, and it's a joy to use a shovel with retrieval.

 

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We do a happy dance when we find a 1950s silver coin.. we would probably drop dead if we ever could dig roman or older coins!------------------------------------------------I really don't like to tell anyone what I find and I would never look like a nut doing that goof ball dance that I saw on TV------Never watched it again -----But thats me------after1--------
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[ken ward]

I done the same old thing with my bright yellow handle screwdriver. I was in a big park that had 4 soccer fields. Some place I let it laying on the ground. I spent about an hour hunting for it. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that I had to find it so no kid would step on it and get hurt. I did find it. Than I went home... KEN
from Ind.

 

[slingshot]

I done the same old thing with my bright yellow handle screwdriver. I was in a big park that had 4 soccer fields. Some place I let it laying on the ground. I spent about an hour hunting for it. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that I had to find it so no kid would step on it and get hurt. I did find it. Than I went home... KEN
from Ind.

Thank God!! I'm normal!

 

[ken ward]

I done the same old thing with my bright yellow handle screwdriver. I was in a big park that had 4 soccer fields. Some place I let it laying on the ground. I spent about an hour hunting for it. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that I had to find it so no kid would step on it and get hurt. I did find it. Than I went home... KEN
from Ind.

Thank God!! I'm normal!

Are you sure we are normal?.. KEN

 

[Dancer]

My worst. Before leaving home, checked for extra batteries, equipment, water, sunglasses ,etc. Half hour drive, no one around, perfect. No detector.
Ever fill that growth growing out of your head? Called a Dumb A__ !

 

[slingshot]

My worst. Before leaving home, checked for extra batteries, equipment, water, sunglasses ,etc. Half hour drive, no one around, perfect. No detector.
Ever fill that growth growing out of your head? Called a Dumb A__ ![/quot
Yeah. I had inherited 2 extra autos and put about 3 detectors in each auto so I would always have one. Decided on one vehicle and moved them to it, that is until I took a 60 mile trip in the best vehicle, only to find I didn't have ONE detector at a town with about 20 schools and even more parks.

 

[GeorgeinSC]

Normal??? Just What is Normal? I have been flat out told that I am Crazy. Is Normal something like the old saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder"? Of course you should see the folks who think I am Crazy eyes light up when I show them some of things that I have found while detecting.

 

[GeorgeinSC]

My worst. Before leaving home, checked for extra batteries, equipment, water, sunglasses ,etc. Half hour drive, no one around, perfect. No detector.
Ever fill that growth growing out of your head? Called a Dumb A__ !

32 mile drive to the Beach. Got on the beach and turned on my X-cal. It would not work. Finally realized that Both batteries were still at home. So drive home, retrieved batteries, back to the beach. I think I found enough clad to pay for the gasoline I burned in all that driving.