I wonder if those will find buried gas lines (copper?) and electric lines that don't have tracer wires buried with them? Say 1' to 2' deep? I wish there was a water pipe (plastic) detector as well - - -
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Be careful where you scrape. Federal lands are a no-no, especially > National Parks. Former business buddy and long time 220D owner was a hard > core Civil War reenactment buff that lived in MD. He would scrape areas > immediately outside of the parks and battlefields, especially creek and > river beds/banks. Amazing stuff he found, like lead shot, buttons, belt > buckles, etc. > > You see lots of bluehairs on the beaches around here early in the morning > looking for lost stuff. They have a loosely knit fraternity of sorts that > will purposefully search for stuff people lost in an effort to find and > return it. That’s pretty cool. > > -D > > > > On Feb 3, 2018, at 6:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > So my dad has been prodding me for like 2 years to get a metal detector. > Use his money to buy me one. Birthdays, Christmases. Like constantly. I > resisted a long time. He’s 88 and basically just watches tv all day. I > guess he watches one of those shows or something. So I finally gave in to > his suggestions and got one. > > > > I was just out by the garage checking it out and in about 2 minutes > found a screw and a hose clip/ holder buried in the sand. I was getting > other hits on stuff I couldn’t see but I must have been moving it around as > when I would scrape the dirt whatever it was would move too. Rust bits or > something like that maybe. I have to learn all the settings and sensitivity > and such. > > > > Looks like it might be fun. There was a Waaawwww battle right on/near my > property so there might be some artifacts around. That could be fun. > > > > Anyone else do this? > > > > —FT > > > > Sent from iPhone > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
