Safari / Iron Nails

[MetalMiner]

This is why you need to MD a location from all directions, otherwise you could miss stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvmxAeJz_yk&feature=youtu.be

 

[kschae4]

M2,thanks for making this video. Most helpful for those of us who are AM and relic hunters.. The curious will be wondering why these crazy diggers boys are doing the foxtrot without their partners .

 

[MetalMiner]

I seen someone else do this with another MDer & was curious how the Safari would respond to Iron on top of a coin. After I did this I was thinking, I wonder if the iron nails have been in the ground a long time & they get that Halo effect if you would still be able to see the coin under them, no way to test that because once you dig the hole you break that halo effect. Also gonna post another video of iron next to the coin which is interesting results.

 

[klever]

Thank for the post MM, that is good to know. Looking forward to your side by side. Yesterday when detecting I was getting a zinc penny read, ended up digging a rusted nail, went back over the target and penny was still there. Was happy to know that the nail did not block the target. Although I did not go from the other side..

 

[john mihalcin]

very interesting. never saw that before.good to know.

 

[Cos]

Here's my take on the coin/nails video. The Minelab cannot "see" the coin under the nails. What it sees are the edges of the coin sticking out beyond the nails (when you go across the nails). The reason you get no sound from the coin when you swing down the length of the nails is because the detector nulls out the iron all the way down the entire length of the nails. When you swing across them, it only nulls across the width of the nails and then picks up, and sounds off on, the parts of the coin not covered by the nails.