My son and I were hunting a construction site yesterday and evidence of an old homestead was turning up. At some point I got a deep signal and we started digging. Eighteen inches into it we came down on what turned out to be an iron pipe and as I traced signals around that area it became apparent that there was still several pipes in the ground there.
Do you guys use any kind of probe or probes when hunting homesites and possibility of caches exist? I'm thinking that I need to make up a variable length one with screw together sections, so I can make it a foot long or three feet long. I thinking it would help a lot when digging in the hard ground around here, to know how big to start the hole, based on how deep the signal is. Is there a preferred metal for the rod to more easily feel the difference between a rock and metal?
Do you guys use any kind of probe or probes when hunting homesites and possibility of caches exist? I'm thinking that I need to make up a variable length one with screw together sections, so I can make it a foot long or three feet long. I thinking it would help a lot when digging in the hard ground around here, to know how big to start the hole, based on how deep the signal is. Is there a preferred metal for the rod to more easily feel the difference between a rock and metal?
