Metal Detecting

Haze · 2 Jan 2012 at 16:04

anyone here do it? recommend a forum and some where to buy equipment from?

thanks

Haze · 2 Jan 2012 at 17:27

yeah it does seem like a bit of a beard and wax jacket thing

i hear garrett is the way to go, but ill have a poke about on that forum and see

i know a couple of the farmers in my area so am hoping they will let me have a go

Haze · 3 Jan 2012 at 23:00

lol, well im gunna get my self a garrett ace 250, and drag my bro around some fields

Haze · 13 Jul 2019 at 13:30

jsmoke said:
I obtained a metal detector I'll need to Google the brand as may be cheap and not very useful but thought I'd give it a spin this weekend. Might try a beach does anyone do this what have you found?

Make sure you have permission before you detect anywhere, you will need a crown licence for the beach, its free, poke about on Google

Haze · 13 Jul 2019 at 20:18

jsmoke said:
So can you keep/sell anything you find?

If it is gold or very old you have to declare it as treasure

Haze · 15 Jul 2019 at 12:12

jsmoke said:
Does anyone know roughly what metals the dial settings represent?

The dial starts at 0 and 'all metals' to 5. The instruction manual only says the further to the right you put the dial the more undesirable metals such as iron will be ignored. Is there a more detailed answer. For example say at position 3 will gold or silver be detected or ignored.

Your main metals are iron, brass, nickel, copper, gold and silver, aluminium, lead, chrome etc.

You have answered your own question....

Do we have to guess what detector you are using?

I should imagine 1 will be gold ect and 5 will be Iron ect