Not a bad afternoon........

[Ralph Bryant]

....at least where clad and coin count was concerned. Managed to get out about 3:00 this afternoon and hunted until around 6:00. Spent most of the time at the older school in town just picking coins here and there. Total coin count was 112, including 3 silver rosies, another kids ring, some kind of heart-shaped key, and an old gold gilt make-up case. Having a blast digging coins, no matter how old or new they happen to be. Here is a cumulative total of everything found with the Ace 150 and 250 since January 19th when I first received the 150.

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Maybe it's time to just start rinsing the clad and throwing it in the bucket instead of trying to keep count, and just keep up with the "good stuff" and ring count. In any event, I think it's going to be a very good year.

Ralph

 

[Garry/OH]

That's about one coin every minute and a half...you must have been swinging like this guy. I spent about the same amount of time in a woods along a river today and found one junk ring, one clad quarter, one old button that crumbled in my hand, and a handful of junk....site selection does make a difference....plus I got all muddy.

Were you using the stock or small coil...and I guess you were just going after high coins and not jewelry????

 

[Ralph Bryant]

Hey Garry,

I was swinging and popping coins like a wild man. I could hardly take two full steps without getting another signal. This was near the football field house and concession stand, using the smaller coil in all the trash. I dug a bunch of pull-tabs early on, so decided to try out the notching capabilities of the 250 and set it for coins mode and notched out the lowest screwcap/zinc segment so I would only have to deal with the coins. Probably would have been much more productive to notch out the zincs altogether and just go for the coppers, dimes, quarters, and nickels. Nice thing about the 250 is you can do precisely that with no problem. Zincs Stink ! But the 250/4.5 combination absolutely LOVES dimes, and hits them harder than any other coin for some reason, even the quarters.

When you get your 250 and start clad/jewelry hunting, get yourself a phillips screwdriver with about a 7 inch shaft, put it on a grinder and sharpen the tip to a dull point, and use it as a probe. Then when you get a signal, do a quick pinpoint and probe until you feel the coin, then just pop it out of the ground instead of plugging or digging. Saves a heck of alot of time. If I had to spade-dig every coin, I wouldn't find half as much in the same period of time.

BTW, got the "Super-Shooter" up and running this morning. AWSOME !

Ralph

 

[NM5K]

>If I had to spade-dig every coin, I wouldn't find half as much in the >same period of time.

I've been using a valve pushrod so far. I started out
digging, but that was too much work, and too much damage
to the yard vs using a probe stick. And also, I managed
to have already broken the shovel off the handle of the
cheap digger they sent me.. The gumbo here needs a manly
shovel not to break. I got the idea of using a pushrod,
cuz it's round on the ends and should scar up coins too
much. There is no handle, but that hasn't seemed to be a
problem so far. But I may make one from a screwdriver also
to try one with a handle. With the usually accurate pinpointing
of even the stock coil, I'm stabbing many coins in place.
With the pushrod, it's very metallic, and you can feel the
slight "clink" when hitting the coin. It may be digger shovel
malpractice on my part, but I find I do much less lawn damage
using a probe digger, vs using a shovel digger. And I agree,
I think it's faster too. Many times, I'll just gouge the coin
out with my fingers, if I feel it's not very deep.
MK

 

[Uncle Willy]

You done good Ralph. Don't know what my 250 pile looks like but the can it's all in weighs about 15 pounds. Keep going and you'll have a mountain. How do you like those little yellow puppies now?

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

I use a 20-inch phillips ( with point ground ) to probe with and flick bark chips away. Sure saves on the old back. Our own Stan Young here on the forum makes a handy digger for popping coins. I seldom dig a coin unless it's really deep.

Bill

 

[Kevin_Fayette_Pa.]

n/t

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[Garry/OH]

I used to use a screwdriver all the time. But I have beeen carrying a Lesche Predator, I think that's what it's called...on a deeper coin I can dig a plug about the correct depth in a few seconds...quite often, the coin is on the bottom of the plug. On shallow coins, I use some tool I got from Keith Cochran...someone's homemade job...it's sort of a souped up screwdriver and works quite well. But your right, a dulled screwdriver is best and quickest on shallow coins. Some say they can flip coins are pretty good depth...I have trouble after about three inches. Quicker for me to dig a quick plug. How deep can you flip them?

Be sure and fill us in on how that Tesoro contraption does. Compare it with the souped up Compadre and the Ace after you get some time with it and the Ace.

 

[Uncle Willy]

One way to retrieve deep coins without digging a hole is to probe for it then run a hunting knife down alongside and past it, move the knife back and forth to cut a slit in the ground, move the knife side to side to widen the slit, reach down with the probe and flick the coin into the slit, pluck the coin out with a spoon, step on the slit hard, and no one will ever know you were there. A must in manicured yards.

Bill

 

[Ralph Bryant]

My dad uses an old dull screwdriver too, and just punches a "grid" about two inches in diameter all over the pinpoint location until he feels the coin. The "gridding' loosens up the soil, and makes it very easy to just flip the coin out of the ground. 4 or 5 inches is fairly easy. Much past that, and you need to use another method.

Ralph

 

[DavHut]

Very good Ralph. The Ace does it, fer sure.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I do that one also. Any port in a storm.

Bill