Good mood to you, dear readers of our blog. I think many of you have repeatedly and often seen discussions on social networks on the topic: “Which metal detector is best for a beginner to choose?” And, as usual, such a question sparks a storm of controversy and a lot of practical advice. Including on the topic “What is better for scrap metal digging???” And here, all the advisers answer unequivocally. That to search for scrap metal it will be enough to buy the cheapest and simplest metal detector. Which one is up to the owner to decide.
However, as my observations have shown over the two months that I have been actively digging for scrap metal, the time of simple and cheap metal detectors in searching for scrap metal is irrevocably gone. And that's why I decided so.
You have to dig in the “knocked out” places. Yes, the reality is that over the past year, and what a year, since March of this year, people have rushed en masse to dig for scrap metal. And that includes me. Naturally, more and more often we see traces of competitors in “fat” places that they managed to dig here just recently. And, in order not to lose the trip to a minus, you have to pick up smaller finds from your competitors. How about small ones?
Here is the most interesting thing! There is one such place where MTS once stood. There is so much iron there that you can transport the soil itself to a collection point. Naturally, all the large iron such as tracks, tanks, and shafts were removed from this place a couple of years ago. However, having recently arrived at this place, my comrade and I, in three hours, dug up half a ton of all sorts of little things weighing from a kilogram to five. Naturally, there were also missing tracks, but the bulk of the weight was made up of just such small things.
On the third day of digging, a resident of this village came up to us and asked what else we could dig here, because it was he who had previously collected everything that could be collected here. Seeing several piles of gears, fragments of shafts, and other cast metal, a local resident became worried and quickly ran home to get a metal detector and a shovel.
He walked around for no more than two hours, gave up on the matter, collected his 20 kilograms of iron, loaded it into the “six” and left. Meanwhile, we loaded our Niva to the limit of reasonable capabilities and went to hand it over to the collection point.
Why is that? You ask. Because the local digger went and dug with his Minelab Go-Find, while I had a Fisher F70, and the comrade had a working and reliable (like the entire civilian fleet) ICQ. Garrett ace 350
Cop through the tall grass. Another problem in metal mining is the tall grass at the search site. Many who dig for metal know that summer milking or field camps are located in hard-to-reach places. There, where you can only get there at the beginning of June. And, at this time, in the place of the same summer milking, the grass stands waist high. What to do? There’s nothing to do but dig. And, here, the device’s coil must be moved at a height of almost a meter from the possible and desired target.
Do you understand what I mean? That’s right, there’s nothing to do with some cheap toys worth up to 15 thousand rubles in such places. And we dig, we dig very well and efficiently.
Example. We arrived this week to once again hand over our half-ton of ferrous metal to acceptance. As always, jokes and chat with the owner and he tells us that we have competitors in our village. Three friends chipped in, bought a metal detector, took a Niva from their father and decided to dig for scrap metal. As a result, in three days they dug up no more than four hundred kilograms. My comrade and I smiled and sincerely, in our hearts, wished our competitors good luck and donkey perseverance.