It’s Not all Gold. Lawn cleared of Nails…
As I was waiting for the tide to fall at Ngunguru for a recovery, I was browsing the local social media.
Angie had just posted asking for someone with a detector to find and remove nails from her lawn in the area around an old bonfire site.
I had time to kill, so I got in touch.
Fifteen minutes after her post, I handed Angie my spare pinpointer, and after a very quick rundown on how to use it, we were both on hands and knees sweeping pinpointers across the bonfire site.
Initially targets were constant, but after about 30 minutes the signals faded away.
Time to get the coil out and check.
We had achieved about a 90% hit rate with just the pinpointers, and with the coil I identified the residuals.
Angie and I progressively removed these until the site was confirmed entirely clean.
There were suggestions on social media to use magnets, however these would not have released the bulk of the nails which were entrapped in the soil.
The specific equipment and expertise of a ringfinder ensured a 100% removal of ALL nails from her lawn.
