Hunting around sidewalks

[acasto]

How do some of you set up your Safari to hunt near sidewalks? If I get within 2 feet, I get an earfull of screaches.
I have tried using the noise cancel closer to the sidewalk area, but not much help.
Any ideas?

Thanks
Tony

 

[kschae4]

Tony- I only work sidewalks when near a park, bringing along some beat up coins of what i'd expect to find around the park.. I scan the concrete so I know what the rebar reads/sounds like ( overload ? ) so I learn to avoid it and drop the beat up coins next to the concrete to get familiar with the coin readings...HH

 

[acasto]

Thanks for the info. That certainly makes sense to me.
I am looking around High School sidewalks. I've noted the 2 primary paths, gym/cafeteria to the parking lot, opposite end of building to other parking lot. 2 feet off the sidewalk held some clad, 2 silver pieces of jewelry and a bunch of metal eraser tips of pencils. Pull tabs, shredded metal soda cans, aluminum wrappers... People are dirty.

 

[kschae4]

Most welcome.. .students can be careless discarding trash anywhere on school grounds. Hopefully there's a football field with bleachers to hunt under.. HH

 

[Onus]

I have had better luck hunting around the edges of a sidewalk with a very small coil. Someone tried to tell me that sidewalks don't have rebar! Baloney! A few don't but some City codes require it. Onus

 

[acasto]

Sidewalks here are loaded with rebar. Thanks for the smaller coil idea. I am currently looking for an X-5 or X-8 to try out.