Talked Myself Into a 25" Nugget Finder Coil

[klunker]

 My arm isn't sore anymore so you and S.H. are back in my good graces. But you both need to understand that idiots like me need protecting from ourselves. giant coils defiantly have a useful place

[Steve Herschbach]

I am sorry about the arm but not about the gold. That actually is a great story - congratulations on the nugget!

[Ridge Runner]

I've seen 4x4 4x8 coils  but when you talk about swinging a 25 inch coil with your arm that's hard to do long. I think that is more in the line of a hola hoop.

 We'll do anything to find that one nuggets that dreams are made of.

  Chuck Anders

[Steve Herschbach]

The secret is using a swing arm, like the home made one in my earlier picture, or this commercially made one, which I have also. You operate the detector with both arms greatly reducing arm strain.

[nvchris]

I use both, a HipStick and a swing arm with the big round coils.

[Biotronics]

29 jule 2019. East Kazakhstan.

[Steve Herschbach]

Awesome first post - welcome to the forum!

[maxxkatt]

On 3/30/2014 at 2:41 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

I went back and found a picture of that 25" coil I had in 2009 at Moore Creek. Note the makeshift swing arm I fabricated out of a broken fiberglass handle. The Tesoro Lobo was being used as a pinpointer.

 

put a trailer on your ATV and mount the coil on the back and drive slowly back an forth. Use a wireless or long headphones cable. I remember many years ago about a guy that did just that with 4 -5 detectors attached to a trailer on his jeep and ending up finding a monster nugget worth millions of dollars he sold to a casino in Las Vegas.

 

 

[Rivers rat]

Can you put it on a TDI????

 

RR

[Steve Herschbach]

You could, nearly all Minelab PI coils are TDI compatible.

I’ve been involved in drag coil operations. Here are some videos about the method.