Into the forest again, and I braced myself as I put in the new batteries and turned on the thing. Same as half hour ago. No matter what I tried the detector would not work. A bit angry and frustrated I wanted to smash it and throw it deep into the forest , but then I thought "what if I hit a squirrell!??" There was nothing I could do, no point in ruining both the detector, the forest and its inhabitants. Having found Zen again I went over to one of the dumping pits and dug it empty. It was deep and filled with rocks and there was not much rust in it, nothing worth keeping. The other pit was smaller and also here there was not much interesting. I did find one nice beer bottle with some text on. I never saw it before so it will be fun cleaning it up finding out what it says and what it was.
The broken detector had snuck back into my mind and I decided to drive back home and then contact the shop and see if it is possible to fix it or if I have to buy a new one. So bad timing when it is only weeks before winter hits with full force...