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7centsworth
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Welcome to the forum .
Welcome to the X-TERRA forum. If you're hunting old homesites for coins and relics with your X-TERRA, you're using Gray Ghost headphones and you've got a 6-inch DD coming soon................we're speaking the same language! Glad to have you onboard and looking forward to seeing some of that old Kansas silver! HH Randy
P.S. A couple things you might try to reduce the number of aluminum cans you dig is, after detecting the target, switch over to Prospecting mode and "trace" the size and shape of the target. Also, you can switch back to Coin / Treasure mode, raise the coil about a foot in the air and sweep over it again, to see if the target response is still there. If it is, it's likely too big for a single coin. You may not eliminate all of the cans. But these two steps will help identify a lot of them. JMHO
P.S. A couple things you might try to reduce the number of aluminum cans you dig is, after detecting the target, switch over to Prospecting mode and "trace" the size and shape of the target. Also, you can switch back to Coin / Treasure mode, raise the coil about a foot in the air and sweep over it again, to see if the target response is still there. If it is, it's likely too big for a single coin. You may not eliminate all of the cans. But these two steps will help identify a lot of them. JMHO
T.A.L.LasVegas
New member
Welcome to the forum it's nice to have you here.
HH
Todd
HH
Todd
Thanks for the welcome guys.
Randy,
I appreciate the advice. After digging several cans I did start to notice the difference in the size of the target. Hopefully with time and experience I'll learn the machine well enough that I have an idea what's under the coil. Until then I'll just work on cleaning my yard up
Several years ago I bought a six acre tract of land and built a house on it. Recently I came across a local history book that indicates in the mid 1800's a very eccentric man built a house near where my current house is. He apparently lived in it for awhile as he continued to build and add on to it. He died before it was done and the house sat vacant for years after that. The house was eventually torn down and the area was converted to farm land. I found a map of the area from 1873 and it shows the house as being very close to my land. I can't tell for sure but it looks like it might have been either on my land, or the vacant piece of land next to me. Everything has changed in the 140 or so years so it's hard to tell for sure. I'm hoping I might come across something interesting while playing around in my yard. I also have several other old sites in mind when I get a little more comfortable with the machine. Maybe I'll get lucky and have some pictures I can post before long.
Doug
Randy,
I appreciate the advice. After digging several cans I did start to notice the difference in the size of the target. Hopefully with time and experience I'll learn the machine well enough that I have an idea what's under the coil. Until then I'll just work on cleaning my yard up
Several years ago I bought a six acre tract of land and built a house on it. Recently I came across a local history book that indicates in the mid 1800's a very eccentric man built a house near where my current house is. He apparently lived in it for awhile as he continued to build and add on to it. He died before it was done and the house sat vacant for years after that. The house was eventually torn down and the area was converted to farm land. I found a map of the area from 1873 and it shows the house as being very close to my land. I can't tell for sure but it looks like it might have been either on my land, or the vacant piece of land next to me. Everything has changed in the 140 or so years so it's hard to tell for sure. I'm hoping I might come across something interesting while playing around in my yard. I also have several other old sites in mind when I get a little more comfortable with the machine. Maybe I'll get lucky and have some pictures I can post before long.
Doug
MT_VertCaver
New member
Welcome and good luck!!
PS You'll find a couple of these too.
PS You'll find a couple of these too.
Doug, we are fortunate, as Iowan's, that there are several resources available for us to help locate "old" properties. One of the sites I use to help find these places is at an Iowa State University site called "Iowa Geographic Map Server". If you google that site, you will find that there were aerial photographs taken of the entire State dating back to the 1930's. It is pretty self-explanatory..... but basically you can zoom in and out of your locale, looking for aerial views of those old homesites. Even though the house may have been gone by the 1930's, you'll be surprised at how much you can "see" from those aerial views. When you get the aerial view of that old farmsite area, you can screen save it as a jpeg and overlay it to a modern Google Map. Then it is just a matter of walking up to where the front yard use too be! If you need further instructions, don't hesitate to drop me a private message and I'll help you figure out where that old house use to be, in relation to where your home is located. HH Randy
randall burd
New member
you bought a greatmachine- good luck
Thanks guys. I'm hoping the 6" DD ships soon. I'm interested to see if I notice a difference between it and the 9" 7.5. My ground balance has been coming in anywhere from 17 to 44, and that's just in my yard. It's mostly in the low to mid 20's range. I haven't yet encountered any areas that have a high concentration of trash. Does anybody have any thoughts as to whether or not I'll be better off with the DD in these conditions?
Thanks
Doug
Thanks
Doug
randall burd
New member
the dd coil will discrimate better than concentric in highly mineralise soil . you will not go wrong with that coil. I am going to buy one my self.
17 -44 is quite a variance on ground phase readings. As I've said many times, 28 is my magic number for switching from the concentrics to a DD. My suggestion is to try them both in a "head to head" comparison. Mark out a section of your yard. Go over that section with the small coil, marking each target with a golf tee or poker chip. DON"T DIG THEM YET. Just write down the TID for each target and what you think each of them is, good and bad. Then go over the same section with the 9-inch coil, sweeping in the same direction, and see if you can confirm the targets found initially with the small coil. Then compare the TID numbers between the coils on each target. If you find additional targets, mark them with a different colored golf tee or poker chip. If you found additional targets, it could be that you simply missed them in sweeping with the DD. So go back over those you missed the first time and see if you can find them, now that they are marked. Then, dig them all up and let us know your results. HH Randy
Randy,
As always, that's great advice. I'll try that once the DD comes in. I think the reason I have such a large variance in my ground balance readings is because I had a lot of fill dirt brought in when I built the house. That area seems to be in the high 30's to low 40's. The rest of my land seems to be auto balancing in the low 20's. I'm still digging a lot of trash (intentionally at this point). I try to take my time, analyze the tone and TID consistency and make a prediction before I dig. I feel like I'm starting to hear and see some of the differences that indicate it's trash. Considering I only have a few hours of detecting under my belt I'm feeling pretty good about that.
I appreciate all of the tips, tricks and advice I've found on this forum. It's a great place and I'm excited about my new hobby.
Thanks everyone,
Doug
As always, that's great advice. I'll try that once the DD comes in. I think the reason I have such a large variance in my ground balance readings is because I had a lot of fill dirt brought in when I built the house. That area seems to be in the high 30's to low 40's. The rest of my land seems to be auto balancing in the low 20's. I'm still digging a lot of trash (intentionally at this point). I try to take my time, analyze the tone and TID consistency and make a prediction before I dig. I feel like I'm starting to hear and see some of the differences that indicate it's trash. Considering I only have a few hours of detecting under my belt I'm feeling pretty good about that.
I appreciate all of the tips, tricks and advice I've found on this forum. It's a great place and I'm excited about my new hobby.
Thanks everyone,
Doug