Made Myself Useful Today

[dan h]

Went to a local park with my Safari + 8" coil to look for shallow coins around the picnic tables (ground is much too dry & hard to pursue deep signals). About to leave when someone asked me to help find goal post anchors. He said they were pipes just below the surface, designed to accept the above ground goal posts. The entire park, about 1.5 city blocks, was going to be used for a field day, with multiple activities and they needed to set up the goal posts. It took about an hour to find all four anchors. They consisted of a pipe with a rectangular piece of metal welded to the top. Per instructions, I used a spray paint can they provided and X'ed each anchor site and sprayed the rectangular pieces. The last anchor was not vertical, which made it very elusive, giving different signals as I swept over it from different angles. Maybe while the field was still wet from the last rainy season, a large riding lawnmower ran over it and pushed it from vertical to about 50 degrees.

I used the Safari's all metal mode and there was lots of metallic scrap which hindered progress, especially for the last anchor.

The guy thanked me for helping make the field day work. I like to be helpful and also know that metal detectorists need all the good press we can get.

I used the 8" coil around the picnic tables but the way DD coils respond to the myriad bottle caps somewhat nullified the advantage of a small coil. Maybe I should buy a concentric coil for the Safari, if one is available.

 

[jenkiel]

Hi,Dan, I use Detech "5x7" for my Safari,like it a lot,but "Tinfoil" says that SEF "6x8" is better. Don't know,not a coil expert.

Jens.

 

[Arturo de Zorro]

for the Explorer and E-Trac and it will work on the Safari, I have two 8" concentric coils that I bought to see if there was any depth difference. They both are so close (about 7" in depth) didn't see a difference, the concentric is good in iron trash as long as the good stuff is at the same depth as trash.