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For those of you following my adventures and experimental settings in extreme iron infested sites...
As some of you know, I have been experimenting with different settings on my F70 trying to get through the unbelievable amount of iron at a site that had an old farmhouse at one time.
There is some very large iron pieces buried here, I have dug up several tools, farm implements, irregular iron and steel sections from the old house, almost every few inches there are bits and pieces of wire, iron, rusty steel in sizes that range from tiny and thin to medium size to larger.
Now let's talk about nails.
Maybe a million from small on up in all shapes and sizes...screws and bolts, too.
It is not unusual to open any given hole and pull out 3-4-5 bits of iron or nails...or more.
It is almost like they knocked down the house, took all the wood away but somehow managed to leave every bit of metal and buried it in the ground at depths from shallow to about 12".
I came here several times before with different detectors and coils and could make no headway, I know for sure a few others tried hunting here but only once, found very little if anything and then they headed for much easier sites.
I am stubborn, I kept coming back because I knew there had to be a way to get through this mess and at the good targets many suspected were here, then one day I showed up with my F70 and tried something new to me, full power, slow speed, (like boost on the F75), all metal, threshold maxed out at 9.
I got no solid signals here, everything is masked and skewed, but I looked for any signal that wasn't iron, or had blocks of higher numbers or flashes of numbers and tones mixed in with the iron signals and I turned and hit all of those type signals from a different direction to see if I could repeat that signal.
Many big pieces of iron would throw off high numbers and tones on the perimeter of the object, by turning I could eliminate most of these because they would usually go back to solid iron numbers only and I avoided digging those.
To my surprise this high power method worked, that first time I dug many targets that weren't coins but weren't iron, either.
Over the last sever a l weeks I have gone back there several times and practiced this method and got better and better at it.
So far I have dug several wheaties from the teens to the 40's, a 1917 merc, a walker half, some pocket watch pieces, 6 pocket knives, a lot of other cool objects and yesterday a beautiful 1901 Indian Head and they were all hovering at the 6" area and all extremely masked.
Many of these targets had several bits of iron in the same hole, but the F70 still seemed to get a piece of the good items and somehow let me know.
Yesterday I had the easiest time so far avoiding most trash metal and finding that Indian because I made 2 slight changes in my settings.
I switched to DE speed, much faster in this iron mess, and lowered the sense to 90.
Still more experimenting to do, maybe lower the sense a bit more and that threshold, too.
I might be able to firm up some of the good parts even more of the real targets mixed in with all those iron signals, but right now this is working well and I'm getting better at doing this with practice and with every tweak of the settings.
I am on the lookout for more challenging sites like this.
Confidence is growing and I think I can do this at any sites like this or at least I hope I can.
As some of you know, I have been experimenting with different settings on my F70 trying to get through the unbelievable amount of iron at a site that had an old farmhouse at one time.
There is some very large iron pieces buried here, I have dug up several tools, farm implements, irregular iron and steel sections from the old house, almost every few inches there are bits and pieces of wire, iron, rusty steel in sizes that range from tiny and thin to medium size to larger.
Now let's talk about nails.
Maybe a million from small on up in all shapes and sizes...screws and bolts, too.
It is not unusual to open any given hole and pull out 3-4-5 bits of iron or nails...or more.
It is almost like they knocked down the house, took all the wood away but somehow managed to leave every bit of metal and buried it in the ground at depths from shallow to about 12".
I came here several times before with different detectors and coils and could make no headway, I know for sure a few others tried hunting here but only once, found very little if anything and then they headed for much easier sites.
I am stubborn, I kept coming back because I knew there had to be a way to get through this mess and at the good targets many suspected were here, then one day I showed up with my F70 and tried something new to me, full power, slow speed, (like boost on the F75), all metal, threshold maxed out at 9.
I got no solid signals here, everything is masked and skewed, but I looked for any signal that wasn't iron, or had blocks of higher numbers or flashes of numbers and tones mixed in with the iron signals and I turned and hit all of those type signals from a different direction to see if I could repeat that signal.
Many big pieces of iron would throw off high numbers and tones on the perimeter of the object, by turning I could eliminate most of these because they would usually go back to solid iron numbers only and I avoided digging those.
To my surprise this high power method worked, that first time I dug many targets that weren't coins but weren't iron, either.
Over the last sever a l weeks I have gone back there several times and practiced this method and got better and better at it.
So far I have dug several wheaties from the teens to the 40's, a 1917 merc, a walker half, some pocket watch pieces, 6 pocket knives, a lot of other cool objects and yesterday a beautiful 1901 Indian Head and they were all hovering at the 6" area and all extremely masked.
Many of these targets had several bits of iron in the same hole, but the F70 still seemed to get a piece of the good items and somehow let me know.
Yesterday I had the easiest time so far avoiding most trash metal and finding that Indian because I made 2 slight changes in my settings.
I switched to DE speed, much faster in this iron mess, and lowered the sense to 90.
Still more experimenting to do, maybe lower the sense a bit more and that threshold, too.
I might be able to firm up some of the good parts even more of the real targets mixed in with all those iron signals, but right now this is working well and I'm getting better at doing this with practice and with every tweak of the settings.
I am on the lookout for more challenging sites like this.
Confidence is growing and I think I can do this at any sites like this or at least I hope I can.