I think this one would be able to find metal a foot deep. --R Sent from iPhone
> On Feb 3, 2018, at 8:16 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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