Need Advice On Detecting Tall Grass

[Clad Daddy]

I got permission to hunt an old farm site this weekend. It looked perfect from the road, but upon viewing the place up close, I found a problem. the grass close to the house is thick, green sedge grass with briars mixed in tha are over knee high which only allows for sticking the coil in thin spots but no room to swing. The nearby field had been bushhogged but the stubble was at least 5" high. Anybody have suggestions?

 

[WV62]

My brother and myself had a place we wanted to hunt so we loaded up the lawn mowers and cut grass for couple hours and then got the detectors out for a few hours of detecting. Can't remember for sure if it was worth while or not.

Ron in WV

 

[JimmyCT]

protect yourself from ticks.

 

[GKMan]

A small coil may help you get closer to the ground

 

[GKMan]

I just thought of this I had read one time about a guy that had a four by eight piece of plywood maybe it was smaller than that but I don't remember.. Anyhow, he would lay it down and detect through it

 

[KinTN]

Outside of mowing, I'd wait for winter....?

 

[Elton]

Works like a charm and doesn't take long to cut where you want to detect each trip there. Rake up cut area so you can get to the ground..

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I saw a video somewhere of a guy using a 4X8 sheet of plywood. Lay it down on top the grass. Stand on the plywood. Detect thru it and then flip it over to cover a new area. It appeared to work for him. I have tried detecting tall grass by pressing down on the coil and I was worn out in just a few minutes.

 

[Robert2300]

Need Advice On Detecting Tall Grass. Bring a lawn mower?

 

[Robert2300]

I don't like detecting in tall grass. In the summer I can do without surprises, like from snakes.
If it's not such a big area, a weed wacker might do the job.
Robt2300

 

[fowlercharles]

Hi Clad Daddy, My first thought , which works pretty good for some folks, is the plywood, but another way that may work is a small piece of tough Canvas Tarp, that would be much lighter and easier to pack into places where you have to walk to that may be grassy. Just spread the canvas and stomp it down best you can and start swinging. Not perfect, but a little something to be between your feet than those nasty crawler critters. HH, Charlie.

 

[mudpuppy]

I like that plywood trick short of mowing the grass, That's a good idea there...I guess a sheet of 1/4 luan or even 3/8 CDX would do the trick, be somewhat light, easy to haul and flip, hey, I guess a fellow could even sort of cut a few oval type holes in it to sort of drag it easier, or just one right in the middle to sling it up under the arm for transport...3/8 3ply fir would probably be better and more durable than the 1/4 luan if a fellow had some hard grass to stomp down on.
Mud

 

[Big Red]

Oh my gosh..what advice! Bringing lawnmowers and weedeaters sheets of plywood, are you serious? You guys are as bad as the wrestler Rick Savage, don't forget your jackhammer and backhoe gentleman!

 

[cosmic]

Google "how to make crop circles" utube.. Thats lighter and easier than plywood..

 

[GKMan]

That's funny...

Yes, plywood is heavy...

 

[Woodchuck]

Have a UFO land they excel at crop circles LOL

 

[cosmic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEAQ-d07HlE

 

[braveheart1954]

I heard of this also..3 x 3 foot piece of light weight plastic... stomp on it...detect over it and drag it on!

 

[Johnnyanglo]

A simple lit match would be enough. Of course you can't just burn grass. Or can you?

Perhaps you can roll a long log across the field - I hear lodgpole pines are best.

Try attracting migrating waterfowl to land in the field. Or herds of deer. They will tramp down the grass and they're good eat'n to boot.

If nothing else works and you want to do it the hard way .... wait for winter when the grass naturally dies back.