Never Been Hit Site

[OxShoeDrew]

...and my coil broke after 30min. :shocked04:
I got in about 30min at this tavern site today. I'm telling you....there is a TON of stuff here :shocked02: The land is privately owned and I'm helping the owner learn to detect...but when I'm able to concentrate there were keepers EVERYWHERE. This guy could open a museum if I was allowed to concentrate until the site was gone through. Don't believe me?...every hole I dug had multiple pottery shards, and a full oyster shell was found in one hole! :shocked05: Here are the initial finds...

[MangoAve]

Sweet. I thought the place I was intending to hit today was gonna be virgin..not so much. Only got a buckle but unknown age. I'm still waiting for one large cent.. 1800s..

[buck57]

Wow. 30 min. Can't wait to see what a good half day hunt will yield. Congrats

[Trooper Bri]

Oh boy. Sounds like you have yourself a heck of a honey hole Drew. Congrats!

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

you guys need back up!!! awesome targets

[Lodge Scent]

Oh man ! Congrats on a a nice spot Drew. Cool little knife (if that's what it is).

[BTV Digger]

Tavern site...man what an opportunity! Great finds in such a short time...quality and quantity! I'm sure you'll be back several more times. Bet there's some great old bottles buried somewhere around there too.

John

[kpmoose]

Congrats Drew. Time to get a new coil ASAP. Good luck hunting that site. Looking forward to the future pics.

[Timewarpdigger]

Nice finds and hope the site continues to amaze. Safe & HH

[Digger Don]

Super nice finds for only a half hour of hunting. I would be going nuts until I got back there. Good luck on your return to the site.

[Cheap Thrills]

Wow , life is good , what a site !! :thumbsup01: You have a good excuse to treat yourself to a back up detector if you don't already have one .:grin:

[del]

sweet large cent and I like the personalized pen knife , nice finds Drew:thumbsup02:

[Bell-Two]

Man that is the dream we all have to get on such a site! Love the knife and great coins...keep us posted! :wow:

[The Rebel]

:shocked05: Wow Drew, that place is a gem for only a 1/2 hr of tecting.

[MangoAve]

....wait, didn't your machine break Tue? And again this weekend? Apparently you kill the machine while trying to find the coins. It should be the other way around, the machine kills the coins.

[OxShoeDrew]

....wait, didn't your machine break Tue? And again this weekend? Apparently you kill the machine while trying to find the coins. It should be the other way around, the machine kills the coins.Yeah, Jim...it runs about an hour then all heck breaks loose. I've isolated the problem to one coil. I have to send it in. :crying01:

[MangoAve]

Yeah, Jim...it runs about an hour then all heck breaks loose. I've isolated the problem to one coil. I have to send it in. :crying01:

You did have a back up, right? I thought you said you did. Hate to see you out of the game for a bit. What will you do with yourself? :hystericallaugh:. Weird tho. Some of the things I work with are 50kHz transformers. They can sing when the coils are loose, but they are in power supplies, not coil antennas. Just from electronics experience, They don't draw much power so I don't think the issue is any bit heat related. There were many posts on here about coils (the internal enamel coated wires wrapped in coils) coming loose. Unless it's the connector end. You would not believe how many issues are caused at connectors. They can have stress relief but yet the internal wires still move just a bit and eventually the connection becomes poor or open. If the coil arm has any resistance and bends it may pull the wire a little. It's inevitable tho. I hope mine isn't starting to act funny. I have no idea why on Sat morning I was getting weird stuff. I think it was location tho. When I was near a signal it was reading the signal. But near an area where there was nothing in the ground, it was giving some random numbers. Sometimes it happened when the detector was put down. There was a fire station close by, maybe the antenna's gave interferance. I know store entrance doors set off radar detectors, quite a bit higher frequency, not sure if those were interferance too. They were diagonal maybe 500 ft away. ...ehhh..

[OxShoeDrew]

Jim, I agree that it may be the connecting point as we are forced to actually bend the wire (right where it connects to the housing) when we carry the machine at its balance point. Although this one is the youngest of my four coils. I've also had "shielding" issues with my other T2. Although that sounded different. So I don't know. I've emailed Teknetics and am waiting for reply.

[Sal66]

Great going Drew ! Sounds like hours of more goodies too find . Sorry to hear about your Coil :shocked02: . My situation was different but I still know how it feels .
I'm sure the Owner must be going Crazy after seeing what he has just sitting in the ground and on his own land . That's a great way to get Hooked on the hobby, no ? LOL

[aloldstuff]

Drew, you must be going out of your mind.....waiting......waiting, knowing that this site will produce great finds. Hope you can get your machine problems fixed real soon. Now all of us are waiting......waiting, for the next post.

:congrats:on those finds

[Skamaniac]

Super hunt! Keep us posted!

[Isaac]

Awesome finds... keep pounding it! :thumbsup02:

[fsa46]

Looks like you found yourself a winner. Can't wait t see your other posts on this site. "Good Luck"

[CTTodd]

Like the knife. Get back there