Which Tesoro Model with CleanSweep for Jewelry?

[psyvad]

All of the detectors I've owned have had digital displays, but as most of the areas close to home are newer schools/parks/sports fields, I'm thinking that a CleanSweep coil and Tesoro detector would be a great combo for getting the most coverage to find gold jewelry. The jewelry probably won't be too deep, so I'm looking for a detector that you can swing fast with the CSC and not miss the gold.

After reading quite a few posts on this forum, I'm leaning towards the Golden Umax + Cleansweep. Is this the right combo for what I want to do or is there a different model that would be better?

Thanks!

 

[Mike Hillis]

Where do you live? If you live near me, you should get a garrett or something.

HH
Mike

 

[psyvad]

Thanks for the tip Mike, but unless you live near Folsom, CA you're safe. I have read many of your posts on the Fisher forum about the F5 and am curious. Would choose the F5 over a Tesoro with a CleanSweep coil for jewelry hunting large parks & sports fields? Why or why not?

Thanks,
Bart

 

[Mike Hillis]

Bart,
Actually, I'm a big fan of the Golden/Cleansweep combination and am fixing to get another one. Just trying to decide how to go about funding it. I use that combination to profile sites and determine where all the action is and I've been a bit lost without it. Plus there are some sites where that is simply the best combination to hunt it.

Difference between machines come down to feature sets and design intent. Some features are better than others for certain targets. My F5 isn't much good without the Golden/Cleansweep profiling site conditions for me, telling me where the good spots are. My time is so limited that I want to go right to the most productive sites or locations right away.

Give you an example. Got a large sports complex with 5 soccer fields. Which fields see the most use by the folks with the stuff to lose that I'm after? Would take me 5 times as long and expend much more energy trying to figure that out with the F5. Remember, its not just the finds I can recover now, but also the finds I'm going to be recovering in the future. Run through the whole thing with the Golden/Cleansweep, seeing what targets are in the ground, and what field is producing what. I learn right away that field #1, and #2 are busts other than the occasional find. Field #3 sees a lot of action based upon the trash content but contains few coins, while field #4 and 5 gave up lots of clad. During the hunt I might recover a nice silver or gold jewelry item, which is nice, but not the point of the hunt. The point of the hunt was to figure out if this is a good site, what is in use and where I should focus my time next time around. Now I come back a month or six weeks later, totally skip fields 1-4, go directly to fields 4 and 5, validate my decision process with the Golden/Cleansweep combo (maybe fields 1-4 had been hunted by someone else but I hit #4 and #5 before they could but if I again find a good clad count then I know I'm on the right fields) then take out the F5 and gold hunt the most likely spots of soccer fields based upon my prior experience because it has a better feature set for that type of focused hunting.

HH
Mike

 

[tabman]

After reading quite a few posts on this forum, I'm leaning towards the Golden Umax + Cleansweep.

Thanks!

I'm thinking the same thing. I really like my Tesoro Golden uMax and I plan on getting a CleanSweep for it.

tabman

 

[wltdwiz]

golden umax

 

[psyvad]

Thanks Everyone. Now I just need to decide which of my detectors to sell to fund the Golden & CleanSweep.

 

[Rebel1]

What make the Golden a better choice than the Vaquero? Just curious, as i am leaning towards the Vaquero right now as a next unit.

 

[tabman]

What make the Golden a better choice than the Vaquero? Just curious, as i am leaning towards the Vaquero right now as a next unit.

The tones and notch feature.

tabman

 

[Rebel1]

The reason i sold the 2 Ace 250's i had was the tones. I hate those bell tones. And why is the notch an asset? I had a Vaquero and really liked it but messed up and sold it. I have never even seen a Golden though. Sure wish some of you fellas lived closer so we could maybe get together.

 

[cowtownkid]

I wanted a "Cleansweep" for my new Tejon, called Tesero after calling a few dealers and found out the "4-pin" Cleansweeps are currently out of production due to issues with the coils...They are planning on bringing them back online but could not give me a time frame...

 

[wltdwiz]

rebel 1
no pesty bell noises with the golden just mellow tones
& the notch is handy in really trashy spots
can notch out the pulltabs & still get the ladys rings & nickles

 

[Rebel1]

Thanks for the info. I may have to reconsider. Which one of the 2 is better on SMALL gold? I know the Vaquero will pick up a .23 gram piece at 2"-3" deep. How about the Golden.

 

[amberjack]

I wanted a "Cleansweep" for my new Tejon, called Tesero after calling a few dealers and found out the "4-pin" Cleansweeps are currently out of production due to issues with the coils...They are planning on bringing them back online but could not give me a time frame...

issues?

 

[triplehooked]

Would that notch out Indians though? I've heard some Indian head pennies ring up as zincs.... The Golden Umax sounds pretty cool. A pull tab notch would be nice at a trashy park. Tones would just be a bonus.

 

[tailofdog]

I also have the F5 and, find it great at knoking out all unwanted trash and, it is a really nice detector with a lot of features. The problem is it is a very time consuming search weapon.
I also am thinking of a Tesoro cleansweep combo.I was thinking of the Deleon but, am not sure of the availability of the cleansweep for it or of the combined weight factor.
So the notch feature and tones make this ideal as opposed to using the discrimination on the Vaquero?

 

[Habanero]

I also have the F5 and, find it great at knoking out all unwanted trash and, it is a really nice detector with a lot of features. The problem is it is a very time consuming search weapon.
I also am thinking of a Tesoro cleansweep combo.I was thinking of the Deleon but, am not sure of the availability of the cleansweep for it or of the combined weight factor.
So the notch feature and tones make this ideal as opposed to using the discrimination on the Vaquero?

Deleon and Cortes, if I am not mistaken, share the same coils as the umax detectors.

 

[Rick in Pa]

I use a Cleansweep on my Cortes with very good results.

 

[Digga03]

me thinks the 3 hot circuit machines will run deeper with CSC, micro max ( 5 pin) not as deep but maybe a bit more sensitive, 4 pin deeper, 5 pin not so deep, all will find jewelry, it seems a bit funny to me but the higher frequency Tejon is super hot on silver which is fine by me finding it a very versatile machine that can be used for shallow CSC jewelry hunting to deep old silver hunting as well might be a bit of a learning curve with it but well worth the effort, will be running some tests on this new coil from NEL over the next few months see how deep it can run coil is 12 x 13 DD 4 pin would only run it on the V or T so the coil can be balanced.

sorry for slight post hijack.

 

[oldcoon]

I would not use a clean sweep coil for jewelry. Poor choice, really. Aye. The expanded range of the clean sweep coil is very apt to pick up other nearby buried objects and thus mask out the jewelry, especially smaller pieces like toe rings, delicate gold bands and earrings, fronts and backs. If jewelry was my aim I would forget about covering wide swaths on a single sweep and concentrate on small areas with a small coil that can pinpoint smaller targets. This is why the humble Tesoro Compadre with its hard wired 5 something inch coil is such a great jewelry finder.

However if your heart aches for a clean sweep and your pocketbook can swing it, no pun intended, by all mean acquire one, but please post your results and conclusions here.

Good Luck. Happy Hunting.