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Winter is coming. bummer! :rage:

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drummerman

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With winter coming to Minnesota soon, I usually put my Time Ranger in storage. Now this is probably a dumb question but, has anyone who lives here in the northern hemisphere and gets snow and cold search with their MT during winter months? I know that Bounty Hunter says that the operating range is 32 to 104 degrees F (0 - 40C) but, has anyone searched when it is below 10 degrees C? If so. Any problems with your MT?

I have been wanting to search in the winter for the last couple of years but was afraid of the cold damaging the coil or circuity. It would be cool ( :look: no pun intended) to search around places where people slide, snowmobile etc. I mean. It's such a bummer when you can't do any :detecting: because of snow and cold. :sadwalk:
 
I would like to know the answer to the cold problem to because I had the same idea, besides snow should be easier digging than rock and dirt. Ed in co.
 
Keep your stick on the ice and good luck with the winter hunt.
 
the cold may not harm your circuitry, but if you have and lcd display, it could freeze and become useless. i've seen wrist watches that froze with lcd displays and that cold isn't good for them.
 
Mark

What a picture that gives me. Something Tim "the tool man" Taylor would do! I love this forum!

Honestly, I was thinking of a way I could really do it.
I happen to be at a Fleet Farm store yesterday and saw some of those hand warmer packets. You know. The kind for ice fishing and stuff. The ones you open, activate and stick in your gloves or boots to keep them warm. (I have used them. They work good.) Anyway. I could get a few of those and activate them, wrap them around the circuitry where the LCD display is wrapping them with a strip of cloth or an elastic wrist bandage to hold them in place better. (they have one side with light adhesive on them) then putting a big plastic lunch bag around the LCD. What do you guys think? As long as it's not in sub zero weather, like really cold, it might work.
I probably won't try it until after a major snow. Once we get a good amount of snow, everybody will be out skiing and sledding. After that, who knows?
Maybe I will stick one in the battery compartment.
Geez. If that works, I bet I could find all kind of stuff! Think of all the hills people slide down, or ski down. Not to mention, street curbs. Could you imagine what a snow plows pushes around and leave buried in the mounds of snow at curb level, or in store parking lots?

Year round MT'ing YA!!! :hot:

All you guys and gals. I think this may be a new era in :detecting:
Let me know who else wants to try it. I am. I will post everything, pictures of the MT, how I have it wrapped and stuff.
 
DISPLAY WILL FROST UP AND WILL BE OK IF YOU ARE NOT DETECTING MORE THAN 1 OR 2 HOURS

YOU CAN DRY IT OFF WITH YOUR HAIR DRYER RIGHT AFTER
 
The cold will suck down your batteries fast. You would be further ahead to do research and wait for those 40+ degree days. The snow piles you can keep an eye on as they melt, no detector needed. Of course a couple of dozen other people will be watching them as well. A store may not like it if you walk around their parking lot with a metal detector and start digging though the piles of snow they paid to have placed where they are.
 
took my dried out lone star out for a trial to see if it is ok. seems to work ok, didn't find much. areas around here seem to be pretty well picked over. will try again if weather permits. i'm not much for wading around in mud and rain.
 
i dont know if this helps but there is a man on the garett forum that hunts in ths cold a lot. he goes by john edmonton he seems real nice i think he is from canada. he posts alot.
 
I personally will not take the machines out if the temperature is below 35 degrees F...I frostbite easy as well, as I fell through a pond in the winter when I was 9. Frost bit my hands, feet, ears and nose...

HH,
 
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