Old school yard hunt using 2 tone ferrous sounds

[Goes4ever]

went to an old school I have pounded to death, thought I'd try 2 tone ferrous sounds trying to squeeze out some more finds since this yard is heavily littered with iron. I rarely dig nickels at this school so I thought hunting with an open screen and using ferrous sounds I'd have a better shot at finding some. Nickels tend to bounce around a lot and just do not come in good on the normal etrac coin program.

It worked like a charm, dug 5 nickels total, 2 modern, one 1939, and 2 silver war nickels. Also got two wheats as well. Then I headed over to a farm house that I have hunted a million times to give it a try there for an hour. Found a thimble and an old advertising pocket knife.

 

[Goes4ever]

video from today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-VkyjCHFk0

 

[B-Ruce]

Nice job Terry. That two tone ferrous seems to be working pretty good for you. Good job with the video as well. You seem to enjoy editing (I do, too).

HH,

Bruce

 

[LabradorBob]

Great job,and once again great video.
Looks like ferrous will be your secret weapon.
best of luck,and keep up the great posts.
Labradorbob

 

[NebTrac]

Nice job Terry! Congratulations on the finds and the Fe program. Thanks for the video too!

NebTrac

 

[Gaz]

....well done Terry.

The 2 tone Ferrous definately does the business mate. It's so good for getting in between that iron.
For anyone wanting to use this setup when in the right situation, it's important to remember that when sweeping, even the shortest or smallest of high tones warrant further investigation.
The important thing is the two way signal!!!!!

If it's solid and repeatable two ways......dig it!
If it's iffy and repeatable two ways......dig it!
If it's warbly (mixed high and low tone) two ways......dig it!

Dig all high's, ignore all lows.

The Etrac is only ever telling you what it see's. This setup is great for good/bad target separation but sometimes when they are so close, you'll get the 'warbly' mixed high and low tones so it's important to dig these.
In my mind, the ETrac knows there is something worth digging and also something iron. It's telling you they are both down there.

A low tone one way......a high tone the other way.........iron. I have dug so many of these signals to double double check......always been iron.
Elongated pieces of iron tend to do this. It's the way they effect the coil. It gives a good signal one way and a ferrous the other way.
Smaller or more irregular shaped iron will give a low tone both ways.

One amazing machine the ETrac!

Good hunting,

Gaz.

 

[silvereagle]

hey that is a great video and finds,so in ferrous 2 tone where is the gain set at?and is the screen wide open?

 

[Goes4ever]

I used the relic screen for simplicity, only tiny bit of iron is disc at bottom right corner

 

[geodawn]

Very nice hunt. I've been experimenting with 2 tone ferrous this weekend and boy those nickels pop out of the ground!

 

[dgc]

Thanks for posting the video. Gonna have to give 2 tone ferrous sounds a try in an iron nail infested site I'm hunting.

 

[Gaz]

I used the relic screen for simplicity, only tiny bit of iron is disc at bottom right corner

...y'know....Me and my mate have tried 2 tone Ferrous with a bit of discrim at the bottom and I'm totally convinced that the ETrac does some wierd things!!
We've experienced the machine being unstable, numbers jumping around and the cross hair tending to be pulled down to the top line of where the discrim started.
We took our discrim out and run fully open (apart from our FE01 line to stop falsing).
It runs alot more stable and the numbers lock great........just can't explain it.

Gaz.

 

[Barry NY]

Love it your way, Gaz!!!!!!!!!
The E-Trac rocks like it's on steroids.
It separates and isolates amazingly fast.
Also, you never need to pinpoint - just wiggle it backwards to the front edge of the coil until you lose the signal...

 

[Goes4ever]

Love it your way, Gaz!!!!!!!!!
The E-Trac rocks like it's on steroids.
It separates and isolates amazingly fast.
Also, you never need to pinpoint - just wiggle it backwards to the front edge of the coil until you lose the signal...

I NEVER use pinpoint, so this works great for me!