Reading Holey dollar"s post of a few days ago, I was interested to note the possibility of tree root complications. My old Whites's 5000 has found more tree roots than anything else. Many times I have wanted to wrap it around a tree. Other than the sidewinder mentioned, has anyone else experienced this problem with other makes and models?
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tree roots
- Thread starter Tseeker
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Hi Tseeker, tree sap can be pretty mineralised,
and the issue of detectors detecting the roots has been around for some time.
Charles Garrett mentions this problem in more than one of his books.
Talking about mineralised tree root sap, I read a story regarding a deep dig ~ chasing a signal years ago.
They dug and dug, following the beep __ found nothing !!!
When they did some investigating it appeared that the spot where the signal was coming from years before was a stable,
this stable was there for years and years, they worked out the the horses peeing on the floor of the stable
resulted in a big sphere of highly mineralised soil, ~ turns out that the mineralised soil causing this "ghost" signal...
I haven't had a problem with detectable tree roots in the past few years,
maybe the more modern detectors don't have this problem.
Could possibly be a coil issue too!
and the issue of detectors detecting the roots has been around for some time.
Charles Garrett mentions this problem in more than one of his books.
Talking about mineralised tree root sap, I read a story regarding a deep dig ~ chasing a signal years ago.
They dug and dug, following the beep __ found nothing !!!
When they did some investigating it appeared that the spot where the signal was coming from years before was a stable,
this stable was there for years and years, they worked out the the horses peeing on the floor of the stable
resulted in a big sphere of highly mineralised soil, ~ turns out that the mineralised soil causing this "ghost" signal...
I haven't had a problem with detectable tree roots in the past few years,
maybe the more modern detectors don't have this problem.
Could possibly be a coil issue too!
holey dollar
New member
Tseeker
I am going back to the spot i talked about a week or so ago,(the deep target )Regards Tree roots I'm thinking the signal i was getting is not a tree root, think it could be a large piece of old iron. I have run the Vaq over all sorts of tree roots and not a whisper from it. Just got to go back and Dig Dig Dig,
Dave Holey Dollar
I am going back to the spot i talked about a week or so ago,(the deep target )Regards Tree roots I'm thinking the signal i was getting is not a tree root, think it could be a large piece of old iron. I have run the Vaq over all sorts of tree roots and not a whisper from it. Just got to go back and Dig Dig Dig,
Dave Holey Dollar
dirt doctor
Well-known member
I've dug into a root system many times . Once in a while there's a nearby coin other times I find nothing and twice in my detecting career this has happened .
I think in my career I've probably dug enough pull tabs to fill a wheelbarrow but not once a silver coin "captured" or engulfed by a root . I still always check it out though .
H H ,
George
I think in my career I've probably dug enough pull tabs to fill a wheelbarrow but not once a silver coin "captured" or engulfed by a root . I still always check it out though .
H H ,
George