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With this cold weather keeping frost and snow on the ground,.... I wanted a digger to get through the surface layer.
Ground is only about 3/4" frozen with 2" snow on top.
So messed around the workshop a bit, with modified digger ideas.
This is the MKI Ice X-Tractor.
Wooden T to combat cold hands.
Rubber grip along the stem combating cold hands again.
Stainless digge
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Cody our 3 month old cross between a border collie and small hunting dog.
Result: little black cat chasing handfull !!
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You can only sound deffensive about something you really like, enjoy,.... love might be stretching it.
Same over here, I bought one and it didn't leave the car for quite a while.
After the initial "cool new tech" reaction,... came the questions, frustrations, limitations concerning its use as a coin shooter/jewelry hunter.
When I'm talking about jewelry, you really need
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In my experience a CZ-3D or Minelab X-terra VLF you are trying to coax a good tone out of a target.
A bit like morse code: Dot Dot Dot DIT Dot Dot Dot / Iron Iron Iron TARGET Iron Iron Iron
Easy on the ear and highly recognisable.
Shorten the sweep and it turns to Dot DIT DIT Dot / Iron TARGET TARGET Iron
With a Deus I would discribe it as.
DoOOotdiIIiitdoOOOoot you are listening to pitch
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Kevin B Wrote:
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> The Deus has worked great for me. I never scrub
> the ground with it, as it picks up ground noise.
> I never use pinpoint function, I just 90 degree
> the signal and am rarely off. Out of all the
> units I have bought and sold, I have kept the Deus
> the longest. Different strokes for different
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How to turn a Deus into a CZ-3D???
Don't know how TD did it, but the CZ-3D sniffs out the deep coins in enhanced mode better/easier than a Minelab or that confounded Deus creation.
I say confounded because I'm continually frying my brain trying to make good use of the wireless system, it is ever so ergonomic.
Anyway, targetting deep coins with a Deus is difficult.
Here is my b
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Fully agree on the GMP catching those old coins in between the nails.
If it were just nails and coins you could probably live with it.
The 18 kHz crams together the high conductors in the discrimination band.
So in my WWII bunkers every piece of copper and lead shrapnel would certainly be situated in the finds pouch.
A unit with a variabel notch setting is needed to turn the hunt into a fun
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I will usually fiddle with ground balance and sens several times before I'm happy with it.
What I'm trying to do is get the machine to a point where the interaction between ground balance and sens just starts low conductor falsing in a 0 disc/all metal setting.
I finally back off the sens just slightly until I'm not hearing it and then set Disc to the desired setting.
This usu
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K.I.S.S. the polite version of "idiotproof".
We sell and service outdoor powerproducts and the major brands are spending a lot of time and effort into producing "idiotproof" products.
Most users aren't idiots, but simply untrained/unexperienced/non-manual people. Aren't we all to a certain extent,...
The dealers receive technical and of course marketing training
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Don't know if the time is wright. Do know they are a real pleasure to use.
Every setting is at your fingertips, pinpoint all metal depth reading at the push of a button.
TID has just enough increments so you can decide quickly dig/no-dig.
Tones are crisp and clear and easy to distinguish.
It hasn't got a single gimmick on it, everything is there for a reason.
And it finds the o
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Haven't watched an episode of diggers, we don't get that channel.
But actually very nice metal detecting has become one of Hitlers rants. He's an avid motorbiker, uses ipads, etc. etc.
AT-Pro and tot lots,.... when you need some comfort detecting, pulling a few coins to ease the stress. Couldn't think of a more convenient combo.
Tot lots are empty when it rains, the AT-
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@Kevin
Don't let the ramblings of a few old grumpy men talk you IN or OUT of starting a part-time detector business.
NO way would I rather be anything else then a "Stihl nutcase" and small engine mechanic.
Sure beats working is a production plant machining highly accurate gearcases, gears and aluminium chassis elements.
Same deal every day for months on end, with a 20 minu
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When you forget about the $, the paperwork, the modest financial gain, etc. etc.
I would say you need a new hobby!!
I'm a real woodchuck Stihl power tools dealer and full time mechanic on just about anything with a carburetor.
I loose myself and forget all the troubles when I pick up a detector.
You just don't want to talk shop 24/7.
Don't get me wrong I still love felli
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