Metal detector for finding dropped things

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer
Bought one off Ebay to find a piece that had fallen off the tractor loader. Bored myself stiff searching three acres before I found it. I've enough six inch lengths of rusty fence wire to circle the globe.

Detectorists have my sympathy, so boring I almost topped myself. Neighbour advised me to keep the detector for next time. Can't remember the price but it is probably worth getting a half decent popular make that will sell when you've finished with it.

Good luck! :(
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
got a one that is good for finding pocket knives in the straw..and found the odd tool ( not too deep buried tho)well its paid for itself lets put it like that ... cost about 60 quid if i remeber rightly do t where i got it from ..my memory about stuff now is carp....:rolleyes:

nb..well the cost be has to be tempered by the time put to the detecting i guess....
 
I got one for Xmas, think they’re about £150. Found my friends new bike keys in a huge steward down shed full of store lambs whilst picking up all the re bar and walk through feeder readings aswell. Found some good bits of history on the farm aswell. New hobby .
 
I got one as I was fed up with loosing stuff but also bought a little pinpointing thing which is for when you’re sifting through the dug earth, you pinpoint what you’re looking for with it beeping faster and faster until it’s a solid beep when it’s practically touching the metal. I’ve found the pinpoint thing more useful than the detector. Only goes about 6 inch’s I think but when you drop bolts or what not in mud it’s so simple to find them again. One point to note if you get a metal detector is don’t wear steel toe caps...
 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
I’d go with @Valtra Man on this one. Those pin pointers are the tool if you’re snuffling round the yard or in some grass for a chain link or something. A walk about detector (cheap one) will not find a haybob tine in a row of grass or a shear grab tine in a load of silage. Been there, done that.
 
Problem with a hobby detector is that they have to be sensitive to find tiny silver coins, etc, but this means that they are also sensitive to the vast amounts of iron and metal scraps that have been dropped over the years. You don't realise the scale of the problem til you try a modern artefact detector.
Most now have discrimination against iron, but of course, this makes them useless for looking for a nut or bolt, and switching it off will drive you potty. Similarly, trying to use one round the yard will drive you mad, so a hobby one is really only much use if you know roughly where you dropped something, in the long grass for instance.
 

two-cylinder

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Location
Cambridge
I suppose the sensible thing would be to hire a detectorist.....
Inundated with them about here; always newbies expecting to find their fortune!
Fields been walked many times, but let them try as everyone finds more nails, cultivator tines/points,horseshoes and other pieces of sharp junk that could be injurious to tyres!
 

Muck Spreader

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin
We bought a Garrett Ace 150 a few years ago for recovering bits of tractor and machinery that drop off. Does what it's supposed to do, just went on the recommendations of proper "detectorists" as what to buy. However, it can be pretty boring waking up and down a field.:inpain:
 

Moors Lad

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Location
N Yorks
MAPLIN selling them cheap at moment in the closing down sale :) I bought a new Seben one of Ebay few wks ago but not tried it yet as fields not fit to walk on :(
I was bought a Maplin one as a present - might be me but it seemed a total waste of time - I couldn`t find something I`d planted for it ,and just got totally fed up with it - it`s a wonder it`s still in the house!!!
 

Cowcalf

Member
have one that I got as present, only cheap, brilliant for finding tools ( sockets etc ) after working on machine outdoors will easily locate 1 inch nail after working to avoid punctures
 

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