Detecting in South Africa

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2840 on: June 25, 2012, 02:28:52 pm »

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I did warn him that I'd shoot him for all the crap that he gives me on the forum and so I did LOL

Homefire it is a pin-pointer that you saw next to the detector, it works of the same board with a switch to toggle between the main coil and the pin-pointer coil works great but I will need to use a longer cable, this ones a bit on the short side.

Occassionally these photos of the detector were taken after we went detecting. It was black from all the burned grass so I cleaned it up (put too much effort in it)

Viking that lead piece look quite interesting are you sure that it's not silver?

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2841 on: June 25, 2012, 03:22:53 pm »

Glad that detector was only to play with. It don't look like it's going to make it.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2842 on: June 25, 2012, 03:29:16 pm »

It makes you wonder what X would of done if I gave him a toilet roll No no!

he would of thrown that at me and knocked me out Thumbs Down

imagine what damage that would of done Thumbs Down

Homie, I think he built that detector as an ornament to hang on his wall, I wonder if he has fixed my pin-pointer seeing as it is under guarantee Touch

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2843 on: June 25, 2012, 04:14:06 pm »

Now you guys need to calm it down a notch , you know it's going to end in tears....X If I hear that you have thrown paper at someone again , it's going to be the naughty corner for you.
Pgill you need to stop teasing....
Anyway here are some pics of the buckle that was electrolysing last night. It was spotless this morning but I did not seal it and it's rusted a bit again. I'll give it a couple of minutes again tonight and then seal it.
I love the hand made look...anyone know anything about these buckles?

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2844 on: June 25, 2012, 04:31:00 pm »

LOL! I'm going to PM my Secret Recipe for Spit Wads to him. The kind that Go Ka Splat and Stick all over the place.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2845 on: June 25, 2012, 11:38:26 pm »

Viking I am glad that you see who the s%$# stirrer is, when it comes down to violence with a deadly weapon, specially in the eye, that is just too much.... It was so bad that I did not SEE it coming Shocked

Homie, please don't give him more weapons as I only have one eye left No no!

Viking, that is a great buckle as the main pin is pretty much still complete. It is probably from horse tack.... Clean and seal, that is the secret.... Good job buddy Great

You will soon start to see a nice collection instead of a pile of crap Welcome

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2846 on: June 26, 2012, 11:27:56 am »

I think I might have found another good site,
Found the ruins of an old house, with a massive old bluegum outside and remnants of a garden, Also found about a km of the original road leading from our village in the direction of Table Bay.
I stumbled across an outcrop of grey rock, this caught my attention because the last time I scratched around a rock outcrop like this I found a near perfect VOC Half Doit from 1793.
I did not have the detector with me so I just took some really lousy quality pics. Well what I did find was a hole in the rock and after uncovering it some more I found what you see in the last picture, anybody seen this before....an old furnace maybe?
I'll head back there sometime with the detector and a camera., In the meantime I hope you get some use out of these pics.

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sorry the pics are so small ....better than just telling you all about it though.

Posted on: June 26, 2012, 10:48:39 AM

Gold coin country?..........hell yeah

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Does anyone have any info on how to go about finding the old privy's and dumps around ruins like this.
What to look out for etc.
Jeez man I'm excited about this site! VIVA GOOGLE EARTH Kiss

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2847 on: June 26, 2012, 11:33:36 am »

Usually they can be Seen as a Depression some place around the Back of the Home.

A old CB WIP antenna works good for a Probe to find the soft spots.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2848 on: June 26, 2012, 11:49:06 am »

Hey Viking, that looks like a great site to me Great

I think you need X there to find the privy, his nose will smell anything Laughing

but without him, look for smallish square depressions in the back garden about 25m away from the back door Clapp

it's a kak job digging them though Funny

Not sure about that rock though,,, many see all sorts in rocks, I just see rocks, well that is at this time through 1 eye Shocked

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2849 on: June 26, 2012, 12:19:07 pm »

I can't believe how green the fields are there by you. MAN just what my cattle need. Viking that site looks great I'm sure that you will have quite a few hours of detecting to do there and numerous finds.

Peter STOP bitching about your eye or I'll smack you on the nose and both eye's will water. By the way Lucky did not bring his finds for me to clean up for him. Too bad I would have liked to take a few photos of them to post here.

Homefire don't you worry that detector will get here it's just a question of time GD once sent me some HDU and it took over six weeks to get to me. I don't suppose that they gave you a tracking number? I don't think that they do that for the international post.

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I'm going to PM my Secret Recipe for Spit Wads to him. The kind that Go Ka Splat and Stick all over the place.

Send it send it I wana try it out on Peter Grin

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Ho by the way Viking that buckle looks great nice find there mate

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