Metal detectors, used one? Found anything worthwhile?
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My son has (what I think is) a decent one. It displays the type of metal located & at what depth. He's found a few interesting bits. A lid from some wax used on planes in WW2. And he was most pleased with the buried car he located. A BMW 5 series, on blue. Being 9 at the time he cleaned it off and added it to the rest of his Matchbox collection.
The idea was it would be used to most weekends. It isn't. It'll be fun for a few hours, but they're juicy, heavy and awkward. And frustrating. The metal detector not the 5 series.
I know a chap who was regularly metal detecting, hours, days, weekends, years on end, and finding old coins of small value. He dragged his very reluctant wife with him one weekend and introduced her to his hobby. Within fifteen minutes, much to his horror, she'd found a very valuable coin and was back sat in the car exclaiming her boredom.
The idea was it would be used to most weekends. It isn't. It'll be fun for a few hours, but they're juicy, heavy and awkward. And frustrating. The metal detector not the 5 series.
I know a chap who was regularly metal detecting, hours, days, weekends, years on end, and finding old coins of small value. He dragged his very reluctant wife with him one weekend and introduced her to his hobby. Within fifteen minutes, much to his horror, she'd found a very valuable coin and was back sat in the car exclaiming her boredom.
My parents used to do detecting all the time on the beach and I am wearing a nice gold knotted ring that mum found on the beach.
A long time ago she told me to head under the pier near the groynes (sp?) as its where the money tends to sit.
I tried it once and felt a right tit 'Hoovering' the beach.
A long time ago she told me to head under the pier near the groynes (sp?) as its where the money tends to sit.
I tried it once and felt a right tit 'Hoovering' the beach.
Vonhoften said:
Just lost the last 30 minutes of my life to that:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tRq8h1OjNE
My wife's car keys, lost in 6 inches of snow (which was why we bought it in the first place).
A nut off my lawnmower, which had worked loose and spat into the cuttings box. I'd since emptied the box into a tonne bag already half full of cuttings...
10p, on the beach.
And that's it.
But seeing as the alternative to the first one was new keys and matching ECU, coming to approx. £1000 (including recovery to the dealer etc), it was sixty quid well spent.
A nut off my lawnmower, which had worked loose and spat into the cuttings box. I'd since emptied the box into a tonne bag already half full of cuttings...
10p, on the beach.
And that's it.
But seeing as the alternative to the first one was new keys and matching ECU, coming to approx. £1000 (including recovery to the dealer etc), it was sixty quid well spent.
As a kid I was dragged off by parents to the beach or some obscure part of the country where I sat in the car for hours while they plodded around with tekkers looking for "treasure".
They were serious about it, numerous machines in the car, selecting their weapon of choice dependant on soil type and what they were hunting. They normally found interesting historical "junk" of no monetary value but occasionally found stuff worthwhile.
My Dad still frequents the beaches of Devon and Cornwall but more likely the Med where he scavenges the waterline. Finds enough to pay for a couple of holidays a year.
They were serious about it, numerous machines in the car, selecting their weapon of choice dependant on soil type and what they were hunting. They normally found interesting historical "junk" of no monetary value but occasionally found stuff worthwhile.
My Dad still frequents the beaches of Devon and Cornwall but more likely the Med where he scavenges the waterline. Finds enough to pay for a couple of holidays a year.
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