the evil side of detecting :devil:

[lazyaussie]

well i"m cleaning up some of my scrap metal & thought i"d show ya someones attempt to stop other detectorists from hitting there spots. these bits of aluminum are from tot lots only i"v never found any in the grass & come from tot lots in a area of about 50 kilometres round.
They ID spot on as $1-$2 coins & are very frustrating to dig up but on the bright side they are clean aluminum so can go for scrap & make me some $$$.
Have any of you guys had this problem ??

 

[dahut]

...seeding the lots to discourage detecting? Wow, greed knows no bounds, eh?

I've often found that my own lurid imagaination rarely measures up to the truth. Much of that stuff looks melted, from heat. Before I believed someone was going to all that trouble, I'd look to some other likely cause.

 

[lazyaussie]

They"er not melted they look rolled all the corners are all rounded ???? a lot of these have been cut from the same 6 piece of aluminum & have been found in over 30 parks & are mostly under the swings i"v had this happen in other areas to a lesser degree one area i find lots of bits of cut up threaded brass witch all ways look the same & are all ways under the swings & in another area it"s cut up square bits of coke can under the swings again the only thing i leave in the parks is nothing .

 

[monoman]

lazy it could be from the assembly of the swings ground off pieces of metal from the steel that supports the swings

 

[lazyaussie]

nah monoman i find a bit of that stuff to but once i clean a park once i don't find that stuff any more with this stuff i keep on finding it in my well hit parks again & again.

 

[gordygroover]

years ago I worked for Weyerhaeuser in their bark chip plant here in Longview, Wa. The chunks of bark comming from our log de-barker would come along on a conveyor belt and land in a big hopper. Below the hopper was a grinder assembly that redused the chunks to different grinds....chunk, course, medium, small, etc.
Depending on the customers request, the bark or wood chip product would then feed into a chute where one of us lucky laborers would hold a plastic bag. Fifty or so lbs of bark chunks would fill the bag and we would heat seal it, toss it on a pallet and repeat the process.
It was not terribly uncommon for a pop can to get tossed onto the conveyor belt as it was heading to the grinder. Instant can slaw..
I am sure that same scenario is still being done and that is likely where a lot of the tot lot can slaw comes from.
We also make the green fibre stuff you see being sprayed onto the ground to help grass seed germinate. All it is, is ground up alder wood mixed with green dye. The people you see spraying it just mix it with some water and grass seed and blow it out wherever they want grass to grow.
WELL....being dumb, hick kids..(this was in the early 70's) some of us decided that we would save the customer some expense and time by adding the grass seed to the forty pound bags we put the product in
Apperantly.we used the wrong type of grass seed..(dude...like I said, it was the 70's) and some state workers were unknowingly spraying the dreaded cannibus sativa devil-weed along out interstate roadways.
Sorry to get off track..just walking down memory lane.
Knock Knock....
Daves' not here!!!!
If the above two lines have you confused then you must have waisted the 70's differently than me.
Happy 2009 everyone

 

[John-Edmonton]

Especially to us tot-lot-gots kind of hunters. Look at all the nails, needles, garbage we have removed to make those playgrounds safer. That person doing the seeding needs a good spanking.

 

[monoman]

i think you are right on the money gordy as work had some bark delivered and it had all types of S#*!@T in it from coke cans, nappy pins bottle tops cast toy cars and the driver said that was clean compaired to the condition it is delivered to them.

 

[lazyaussie]

You might be right Gordy & as for the 70s i was still pooping my nappy's

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I find a lot of scrap metal from the playground equipment especially if it's new. I don't have any problems with can slaw in bark chips.

Bill

 

[dahut]

- - We actually tried the Old Socks Roll up with the Big Bambu, too!

But, my favorite was another lost 70's classic, "Al Sleet, the Hippie Dippy Weather Man."

But again, I would suspect industrial involvement before evil detectorists seeding the bark chips.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

I think that you may find that the junk in the picture should give you a longer pinpoint fade than a coin. They should hit like a screw cap. Try it out and see. You'll need more than 2 inches distance from the coil to make it work though. Just some food for thought.
Mick Evans.

 

[lazyaussie]

they"r spot on $2 coin signal nice & sharp & when shallow they give the nice double blip.

 

[BigCatDaddy]

This little guy was shredding like crazy!!!

 

[John-Edmonton]

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