I had a long day of digging planned today, I wanted to search the British trenches, one German camp and on the stables/Org.Todt site. I put all the digger gear in the car and sped off to the first site. When I had got myself out in the forest I turned on the metal detector, and it gave off this series of beeps like it is NOT supposed to do. I turned it off and tried again. Same reaction. Hm, what could this be. Had the batteries run out allready? I removed them,checked that they had power and inserted them again. When I turned it on this time it didn`t make the beeps, but the numbers on the display seemed wrong. I tried to groundbalance it, it made another type of beeps than it should and the numbers on "setting" and "phase" only showed "0". I had a tiny hope there was something wrong with the batteries so I got back to the car and drove to a gas station and bought a new set of batteries. The Fisher F5 have been working as it should since I got it some years ago,but two weeks ago there was that one day it acted strange. I drove to the German camp because there I had located a couple of dumping pits earlier so if the Fisher wouldn`t work at least I could do some digging.
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...
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...
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