First Chain With The Rake

[Compass]

Yesterday I went to the lake to try out my new "treasure" rake in the water. I pulled it for almost 3 hours and found a very thin silver chain after which I switched to the Nox 800 for the remainder of the hunt. Couple of things I learned about the rake: It did not dig as deep as I expected or wanted it to. It had a tendency to ride on top and took a lot of work to even force it down an inch or two. I may try and add some lead weights to the head to help drive it a little deeper next time. Pulling the rake wasn't as strenuous as I had anticipated but then again it wasn't going very deep.

With the detector I managed to find a small silver ring and a hollow gold earring that tests out as 14K. My buddy used his detector the entire hunt and found a nice 5 gram 14K ring so maybe I would have been better off metal detecting the whole time but still, I am encouraged by this first test of the rake and will try again next hunt. It does test one's patience though even more than detecting does.

In this last picture you can see how thin this chain is compared to the thickness of a dime. If the rake can find this small sized silver chain it should be able to grab a bigger gold one as well.

GL&HH!

[Mike Hillis]

I would think this would be more of a dry sand activity...Pretty cool though.

HH
Mike

[King-Of-Bling]

You finally did it ! Did you try the screened rake I see in the lower right corner ? Glad to see it worked.

[Compass]

1 hour ago, Mike Hillis said:

I would think this would be more of a dry sand activity...Pretty cool though.

HH
Mike

Thanks Mike, I think that it would work on the dry sand but I'm hoping that there may be more chains in the water.

[Compass]

50 minutes ago, King-Of-Bling said:

You finally did it ! Did you try the screened rake I see in the lower right corner ? Glad to see it worked.

Thanks Kobling, Of course the real goal is to find a gold chain but now that seems more doable. I had the other basket rake with me but after 3 hours I had had enough manual labor for the day and just detected.

[King-Of-Bling]

2 minutes ago, Compass said:

Thanks Kobling, Of course the real goal is to find a gold chain but now that seems more doable. I had the other basket rake with me but after 3 hours I had had enough manual labor for the day and just detected.

Been thinking of the screen one. You can adjust the depth I think by the handle attachment. Might go deeper. That's where it's going to be harder to pull.

[Compass]

9 minutes ago, King-Of-Bling said:

Been thinking of the screen one. You can adjust the depth I think by the handle attachment. Might go deeper. That's where it's going to be harder to pull.

As you know, pulling the basket can be brutal work but at least you always find stuff- mostly trash but an occasional coin and random  ring keeps it interesting.

[Dances With Doves]

If your good at building  things  build  yourself a mertich pull  sifter   for the water.They  are not as wide and have teeth to get down a bit. I   had his  book  but my friend lost it.

[Compass]

28 minutes ago, Dances With Doves said:

If your good at building  things  build  yourself a mertich pull  sifter   for the water.They  are not as wide and have teeth to get down a bit. I   had his  book  but my friend lost it.

Thanks DWD, I did a search for "Mertich pull sifter" and came up empty. Is it much different than this?

[matt]

Too bad you can't tow it with a quad or side-by-side