Steve Herschbach Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 This thread is so people don't think metal detecting is just digging good stuff. I do a lot of detecting where I just toss stuff in a pile for sorting later. Time to clean house so here are a few piles and some notes. First up - learning session with Minelab GPZ 7000 at Lake Tahoe beach. Fresh water lake but very mineralized beaches, loaded with magnetite sands and hot rocks. Just digging everything, and did find a ring, but just a little silver one with fake stones. Basically coins except nickels and zinc pennies go lo-hi tone. Only other lo-hi tones normally nails. Everything else hi-lo tones. First photo the pile, next photo sorted out so you can see most common trash items. Call this BEACH TRASH Next up mostly stuff found nugget detecting, but also some park detecting snuck into that pile. The sorted pile shows trash you might find nugget detecting. Nuggets of course got pocketed as found so nothing to show there. Call this NUGGET DETECTING TRASH. Extra photo showing volume of small trash targets not worth trying to sort out.... And finally some park detecting with various detectors, mostly DFX and Gold Racer plus Racer 2 and Deus. I am digging a lot of trash items for educational/learning purposes while comparing machines. The sorted pile only shows common trash; I discarded all the weird stuff. Call this PARK TRASH. Anyway, I hope this shows that it is not all digging "good stuff" and also an idea what the most common trash items are for people who have not done this sort of thing before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 How much 'good stuff' was there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 It's all in the photos except the nuggets. Next step is loose change gets added to existing pile and heads to a Coinstar machine next week (too busy now). I will post a picture of that pile and what it cashes in for next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLundy Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I hate trash...lol. But, sometimes I begging for something to dig! Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Dang, you are certainly getting your exercise! I don't know how much time you spent at Tahoe but with all that stuff I am surprised you found nada gold rings... fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I hunted Meeks Bay a couple of years ago and I didn't find much but I was not diving ... just wading in that cold, cold water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 The finds were on the dry beach Fred. 95% of my beach rings come out of the water. I actually was hoping more for old coins. People have been on those beaches since the mid 1800s losing stuff. I did lean more to low tones for that reason so my finds are heavy on the change. I did get a few square nails so old coins will happen at some point once I find the magic spot. As it was all I got was a single wheat back penny. I generally do not mind trash as long as the digging is easy, and it gets no easier than the beach. Besides, somebody has to clean it up so may as well be me! All that park stuff is tot lots or popping shallow targets with a screwdriver - no hole digging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LipCa Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 keep the 1981 and older pennies for their copper content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 Well, if any of you guys are paying more than a cent for a copper penny let me know and I will sell them to you instead of Coinstar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normmcq Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 You should get an award of some kind for cleaning up the beaches and parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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