Beginners Guide to metal detecting - Basic Mistakes (3)
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2015
- In this episode I try to point out some basic mistakes, and try to help new people from feeling discouraged in the their first few weeks of metal detecting! I've also included some short clips from when we first started to highlight that we all were in that place at first!
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I'm late to the party....but so glad I found you! Made me feel so much better about myself as a newbie. Can't wait to catch up on more of your videos!!
"You think you've found something, but you haven't! You've found ye self!" hahahah
And Samantha, I still detect myself a year and half later!!! Some things are just too hard to learn ;-)
It's really nice to watch down to earth people giving advice and encouragement. You are entertaining to watch good on ya lass.
Thanks for the video and all your advice , I'm getting a Garrett Detector (as after your great review it looks so easy to use) and I'm looking forward going out and having some fun finding alsorts of things.
Permission to detect is important I know and a few people to ask who own land but I will have a good practice at home first and remember to remove my ring!
I'm really intrested in the local history of where I live and it will be fantastic to have my own collection of coins and belt buckles and thimbles just to think I'm a part of the story, It would be nice to find rare things but I pick up so much litter when dog walking (as I don't like to see where I live looking a mess) that a few hundred bottle caps before my first coin wouldn't matter to much.
Thanks again and look forward to another great video.
OK I CONFESS........ 35 years of detecting, OMG what have I missed? Way back when, I was for coin and ring size targets, Discrimination set up high, dig NO large targets. I'M STILL, being stupid. Yet where I live now is U.S. Civil War area (1860-1865) I could be missing belt buckles, artillery shells, large relic's. Bad habits are hard to break, your video's help in developing good habits for better success. Thanks
45 years ago i got a detector and didnt know a thing. One of the first things i did was take a gold ring and buried and then listened to the tone the detector made when passed over it. Then when i went to tbe beach i heard the same tone and started digging. I dug and dug and dug and finally reached what made the tone....a steel radial tire! Only used the detector a few more times because my husband stopped wanting to go to tbe beach. (Anytime i found fun stuff to do he usually wanted to stop doing it. Odd man. He is my ex husband now)
Susan Farley hahaha
HELLO SUSIE HERE ON LONG ISLAND MY WIFE DOESNT LIKE IT EITHER DOESNT BOTHER ME AT ALL TIME GOES REAL FAST GREAT HOBBY
Hello..am new to this channel..love your down to earth approach (literally!) I laughed out loud when you were detecting ur ring! Brilliant!!❤
This was the best! You have a real talent to instruct this field. I enjoy your show.
Great attitude!! Thanks for being so positive and helpful :)
Great video! Thanks for the information! Just learning about detectors!
Best detectorists on u tube. Down to earth,fun and honest couple and so enthusiastic about their hobby. Brilliant
Thanks Iain, Ill put your £10 in the post later hahaa ;-) thanks very much for kind comment :-)
Bugger I thought it was £20 :-))
What you said about detecting yourself reminded me of Bernard Manning's old joke about the Irish fella who took up metal detecting. He dug halfway to Australia before realising he had steel toe caps on his boots
this is the funniest, the most educational video I have ever seen. thanks...
I have been detecting for 8 months, and did all the same things. Persistance, watching youtube, asking advice on forums, or facebook. Also looking for a detecting mate/buddy can be a tremendous help, and doubles the fun. I am on my 4th detector now.....addictive hobby :-)
+greg w. Yes me and twiggy were very lucky to have each other and both starting at the same time was great for us! Do you still detect your spade etc hhaha
that ring bit was genius!
haha the ring bit was real, and you know what I still do it, detected myself loads of times :-)
I wish I could have watched this last January! I hope you don't leave those boxes where someone can take off with them anywhere! Great digs Dawn!
+Rusty Halo Metal Detecting Hi Rusty, those boxes are kept locked away very safely, only the buckets or iron are in the shed :-)
Great video Dawn. Just started detecting myself and I have got the bug. Your video just confirms I'm doing the right stuff. Cheers!
haha you know I still detect my own ring 3 years later, hope you find some good stuff, enjoy the fresh air and the peace and everything else is a bonus :-)
OMG That is EXACTLY the sound I made when I found my first old coin from the 1800s! Love your videos!!!!
+Jan Mendoza haha its great finding a great old coin!! Its the only sound that should be made haha
Good video again, useful to someone trying to get into it like me.
Glad to help
Thank you for this video. I am beginning and have gotten so discouraged. I appreciate you putting this out there. I just thought it was me. Ty so much.
Please dont be discouraged, I myself went through this after seeing everyone with what seemed to be gold finds every week! We all find lots of rubbish and sometimes we find cool stuff, good luck and keep going :-)
You are my new favorite person! Your personality is golden!
Woohoo thank you very much thats very nice of you to say :-) :-)
Interesting video thanks Digger Dawn 👌👍
It’s great to get help from Beautiful young ladies. I just started watching some metal detecting videos, so this is all new to me so it’s great to see helpful posts. Thanks for sharing
You are awesome! What a cool hobby, I can't wait to jump into it. You have some great useful beginer advice, I can't wait to start exploring the Northern California Gold Rush area. Keep up the great work and cool videos!
Well done Dawn, great advice!! Nice....
Nice one, Dawn, and, yes, had to laugh as I've done most of the mistakes you put in the videos. All the best, GL&HH, Ian.
+ian hughes Yeah I still detect my rings, spade etc even now haha atb DD
Really good information here. Thank you Dawn.
The regulations are so strict here in Sweden.
You are allowed to OWN a detector, but you need permission from the local authorities to detect. You have to apply for permission and you can only apply for a specified area, and the area can not be near earlier archeological finds (and those places are scattered everywhere!!!!).
And you also have to have a good reason to detect in the area, and the permission of the land owner.
So... you aren't even allowed to detect in your own backyard without permission :-/
I really would like to get a metal detector and detect on my great grandmothers land, but I don't know if it is worth the hassle going through all the bureaucracy...
Found over 30 coins in the church yesterday plus 2 keys lock..today i am sore ...my legs of all things...here in NZ..love ya work...
I'm 37 from the US and I'm fairly well traveled, but I've never heard an English accent quite like yours!
Rochdale, Lancashire accent from the north of England.
Spot on!! Well I currently live here it's a mix of Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale :-)
@@DiggerDawn I thought it was Manchester when I first heard you, but heard you mention Rochdale in a video. I am from Birmingham, but live in Canada. Loving watching your videos. I am new to detecting, found lots of junk, and a few modern coins so far with my Garrett 400i.
"I's detectin me own ring"😆haha i love ur accent.
Hey I the first time I went with my steel toe work boots on that's Dawn just received my At max thanks for the tips and laughs
awwww bless you.you have us rolling around in stitches here..great advice and laughs.keep it up.. all the best :)
An extremely well made video that points out basic 'errors' and so very many thanks to you DD :0)
Thanks Beedle :-)
Great Video.
I started detecting about the same time that You two began posting videos and I have learned at about the exact same pace. It was fun to see in your early videos the excitement to find anything old that was not rubbish and I could and still do related to your excitement. Thanks for the videos.
Dawn, we have all been to this ring rodeo..haha. So true, I've been detecting 24 years and I are this rookie mistake only two years ago with my pin pointer. I'm just glad no one was around to see this fiasco..haha. Another rookie mistake I made was two years ago at a rally in Toronto, Canada. Tim and George from Diggers were there. George was detecting near me and I got a nice signal. He came over and watched me as I retrieved a coin. My mistake was I didn't check my hole before filling it in. I was nervous enough having one of the worlds most popular detectorists watching me. As I went to walk away George swept his detector over my hole and it beeped. I was a little embarrassed when he told me to check it one more time. I opened up the hole again and scanned with the pin pointer and there was another coin...bugger all. He bugged for the rest of the day...haha. Needless to say I have never made that mistake again.
Nice one Dawn, as you say we all have and still do all of these mistakes. I've never detected with steel toecaps but wear a ring on every occasion. Even after many years of detecting we'll still be fooled into digging some iron, coke cans and pull rings. I know i have for years LOL. All the best HH Tony
+magpie307 I know Tony! It wouldnt be as much fun if we dug up gold and silver every outing..or would it?? hahah I just remember thinking I must be so rubbish at detecting after looking at peoples finds every weekend while all I had was a couple of ring pulls and a bag full of rubbish! as for detecting myself, yeah I do it every week ;-)
Your right there, The novelty of digging gold and silver would soon wear off. I'm rather looking forward to my first gold find but first might have too dig loads of rubbish to get there LOL ATB Tony
This was fun to watch, just got my first detector and can't wait to learn. Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub Darren!! Youve chosen to start the best hobby in the world, join my group on FB if you want any advice or help on metal detecting :-)
Will do! 😀
Thank you Dawn. I love any advise detecting. 👍👍👍👍🙏
I'm starting a new set of videos called Tips for Detectorists, it's starting tonight 7pm Friday :-)
Nice metal detecting Dawn
Detecting One's Self....got to spread the word on that one. Your info on this vid is great. It helps beginners like me help other beginners. Thanx Much !
+Metal Detecting : Beginner to Beginner haha you know what! In this weeks video both me and Twiggy detected ourselves at different times, so funny!
LOL...I learned something early on in detecting...Don't were steel toe work boots while out detecting. I found my boots more times then I found coins.
+Metal Detecting : Beginner to Beginner we both found our own swordy spades at weekend lol
thanks for this video. I wish I had watched it three weeks ago when I got my first metal detector because it took me three hours to realize all the beeping from the start was due to my steel toed boots.
loved this - I appreciate you taking the time to share - thanks from Canada
Loved your video....it gave me a good laugh. I like the way you explain things. Its all good advice, you were helpful. thank you
haha Im a teacher of teenagers, I have to teach in an entertaining way, luckily its natural for me :-)
Good video Dawn. Good advice as well. it does take time to learn your machine and then after you learn it you dig up more pull tabs. But the balance leans more towards the good finds. it is just you still should dig the ify signals
thanks and Cheers
+Coyote Rider yep you can never be sure of the signal, its always worth it in the end iffy signals get the goods :-)
unfortunately its only gold plated!
Love the tray idea will buy some 👍👍👍👍
Excellent vid, educational and humourous. Make more!
ive made about 190 haha :-) I try to help out people I remember what it was like to be a beginner
enjoy your vids dawn keep it up 🤩
Thank you! Will do!
Very informative, thanks
youre welcome
"I'm detecting me own ring!!!"....love it!!
haha and I still do it :-)
Nice Rockery
Twiggy built it, its his job :-)
Good bitz of advice & thanks.
Hope it helps :-)
What a nice video, and fun and educational to watch.
Thanks very much John :-) Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Detecting yourself: I have a few metal pins in my chest holding my ribs together lol.
oh dear, that would cause problems
Lol. Steel toe caps! I have titanium pins and plates in my left ankle and a hip replacement same side. Metal detectors love me😆
You are great, love all your videos , keep them coming
Thanks Barry nice of you to say :-)
Great for a beginner 👏👏👏👍👍👍
Thank you! 😃
Have a great day 👍👍👍👍🙏
Great video Dawn! When I started detecting this Spring I had one of these mistake experiences. I found a nice target and pinpointed it. Dug my hole and settled in for the search. My Garrett carrot told me my target was closer so I widened my hole only to get the same results. Once again I dig and get the same thing. Puzzled,I start to wonder if I'm onto some sort of rare and elusive silver worm? The light finally came on and I remembered I have had both knees replaced!
haha thats funny, not for your knees but you know what I mean :-)
😂❤
Thank you Dawn for that great advice. Kind regards Patrick
+Patrick Meehan If the videos only help a few then we will be happy! Thanks for commenting and have a good week Patrick! :-)
Truly enjoyed your channel and subscribed 🌹
Could you also explain on how to get permission where to dig and contracts with land owners and what you can keep and what you can’t
Dawn, at time frame 7:39, that looks like it might be the top of an old straight stick walking cane. If you find out one day I would love to know if I was right. My first summer of detecting and your right, many trips out and not finding anything good yet, but I won't give up!
Something I've been doing, don't know if I'm wasting my time doing it but I'm keeping my finds separated by tags from each location searched along with a rough drawn map showing where on that location each item was found. My thought is, as I learn more, one day a light bulb might go off in my head and it will make more sense to me then it does now. May be these finds are clues as to what else may be there and help guide me to go back to some of these spots and where to continue searching when I do go back, make sense? One thing for sure, it keeps me thinking about these spots I've been to and urges me to continue.
Anyways, thanks for the tips and good hunting! Cheers!
Hi Dawn, great vid, thanks... I find I keep forgetting to takr my radio controlled wrist watch off when pinpointing.... Grrrr.... Cya Dawn
cheers dawn great mix of fun and enthusiasm as well as being informative. comedy gold. or silver. not iron or foil anyway.
You found a ring on your own finger good job didnt think you would need a metal detector.
Another great video love the content
Excellent vid! :) Gives me hope for when I get mine.
If I managed to sort it im sure you can :-)
OMG! "I'm detecting me own rings!" LOL!!! Thank you for the laugh! That was great! Been there and done that. ;-)
You know what Amy, I still do it, I havent learned LOL
@@DiggerDawn I D I O
1:34, this was amazing.
Well hey a Canadian Jean here,although i don't have any rings on my left hand ,but if i did, i try not to pick up the plug as i like to leave on side of the plug intact to the ground that way my pinpointers not going to pick the up .
My first Metal detecting trip I found one 50 cents piece (Australian) one bottle top and ring pull. I still have them.
you always remember your first finds :-)
@@DiggerDawn Cheers
Great fun videos. Love what your doing so keep it up xx
+Keith White Thanks Keith :-)
Oh shoot i always wear steel toe cap boots ( Biker) . Looks like im going to have to buy some new boots for detecting. I'm not really a trainers kind of person.
Hey Dawn, you have got a way of putting things over that allows your northern humour to really shine through.Having just watched this video you have really brightened my morning up. Just out of interest roughly what area are you in, we are near Rochdale.
yep Im in Rochdale too :-)
Dawn, do you know if there are any descent metal detecting clubs around the Rochdale area please?
Hi hello Dawn nice digging 👍👌
thanks Dawn , lovely garden by the way x
Thanks Dawn I love your enthusiasm! I got the 400i for when we go abroad with the motorhome to use on the beaches but alas Covid has seen us off! Anyway, did you join a club when you started or are you self taught please? Thanks... Pete
good video dawn
Thank for the info
Glad it helped :-)
Another beltin vid thanks dawn n twig
Ya can't beat detecting your own ring. But number 2 should be your detecting your own spade.❤️✌️🍰🥳🍷🎂😘😘🍒👍
😂😂😂😂😂😂
That gold 2p is actually worth alot by the way 👍
Get yourself a double barreled tumbler and clean your money. Banks look more favorably when the money is cleaned / rolled. I usually run my copper coins for an hour and silver for 2 and they will take them at the bank.
I like in Number 2 how she said be happy with everything you find...Great way to be..so what if you find trash....its still fun to hunt even if its a glue can from 1960s lol
Yes and that video is 3 years old and Im still the same today :-)
Love your videos. I Look forward to watching them.
+CHANCHO JONES thanks for that lovely comment :-)
I don't wear jewelry so i haven't found my own ring but i have detected my shovel whie trying to pinpoint where something is at
Daw this omg had me lol so fumny detecting myself
I know a thrift shop that sells donations really cheap by weight. My friends keep purchasing their own keys by mistake. I have a 1966 silver plated 1/2 penny on my key chain.
Just started a month ago . Saving up for a mini Garett reader.
Thats brilliant, I hope you get your machine soon!
Thank you for this
great job. thank you
This can save some headache for the beginners ~>
Thanks Dawn
Love your videos
Brilliant, thanks Dawn! ❤️
I remember watching you when I first got my Detector!
haha did you, and did my advice help? I know i got disheartened a little at first looking at everyones gold and silver on FB every day!
Yes it did! Plus you made me laugh
Thanks Dawn,i do what you said,very heloful
+Jon DAVID Im glad it might have helped you , and hopefully made you smile too!
great job again dawn :)
your right on all counts ive tried detecting in toe caps (big mistake) ...went out the other night and found 4 cans and about 5 ring pulls and that was it and ive been detecting about 3 years now so it shows (that i am still rubbish at finding coins) lol
+Derek Naylor me too, sometimes its all not rocks, moo tubes and lead, it wouldnt be real if that didnt happen Derek!!! and yeah I still detect myself...I just dont learn! haha
ouch moo tubes and dont they get deep them things lol ...i will be out again this week like you say you just have to keep going :)
+Derek Naylor Moo tubes give of the best signals EVER! You just cant NOT dig them, Twiggy dug 26 once in a day he was nearly needing a moo tube fix himself he was so frustrated haha
26 thats not bad going but like you say they sound just like coins on the euroace lol
he was on his deus! so the old moo tubes fool everything!
Great advice you could as a beginner recommend joining a club lots of useful information gained from members over many years and msvhines
+detecting nottingham Hiya, yes i said in last beginners video to join clubs so people could help etc, weve learnt so much from other people, we were out alone at first but I highly recommend joining a club too, for the best of both worlds :-)