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Title: Back to Talacre, perhaps! Post by: Resurgam on May 19, 2017, 08:34:10 PM Having recently been knocked off my feet by a viral infection contracted from our three year old grand-daughter, I am slowly getting back into the swing of day to day living. Chickenpox; bah!
The Safari has been broken out of it's resting place, the Nel Big coil has been fitted and a home made bungee clipped to the shaft. Any one else doing some beach detecting this coming Sunday? Title: Re: Back to Talacre, perhaps! Post by: dingdong on May 20, 2017, 12:35:41 PM Hi me ole mate... sorry to hear about the "Chicken pox".... NASTY !!!😟!!!
Glad to hear that your well on you road to recovery..😉...also hoping that you make some significant finds on Talacre.....good hunting..😁 Title: Re: Back to Talacre, perhaps! Post by: Resurgam on May 22, 2017, 07:27:19 PM Hi Chris, thanks for the good wishes. Having had the Shingles inoculation, I didn't develop the normal rash that one would expect but had the worse case of acute septic tonsillitis to go with it. Couldn't even swallow water for days but it had its' good point; I lost a couple of pound of my excess weight that I had been carrying around.
I did make it to Talacre but somewhat later than I normally like to make a start on the beach. Arrived about half past seven and headed for some areas were I anticipated getting the odd coin or two and practised the new search pattern that I picked up from one of my old detecting magazines. Put in just over five hours and managed to wheedle out a dozen coins and plenty of large pieces of copper shrapnel from 50 cal projectiles. 3 X 2p decimal 2 X 1p decimal 3 X Georgian 1d 1 X Georgian 1/2d 2 X 3d bits 1 x 6d piece .......... all need cleaning to establish actual crowned heads and dates. Paid a heavy price in aches, pains, and stiff joints for twenty four hours after and will have to give some serious thought to rationing my detecting hours in future. The Evolution sand scoop helps to take a lot of the stress out of the digging and having given up with my designer made bungee I fashioned one from a couple of luggage bungee cords and it worked a treat. The heavy Safari, with the Nel big coil fitted, floated sweetly just above the sand and I just had to press slightly to sweep really low, without any restriction on the swing arc. ps I'm still playing around with taking up airgunning as a stand by hobby for when I can no longer swing the detectors. ;) Title: Re: Back to Talacre, perhaps! Post by: dingdong on May 22, 2017, 11:41:37 PM Hi me ole mate,will post thoughts later...thanks for post ..catch ya tomorrow ...👍
Title: Re: Back to Talacre, perhaps! Post by: Resurgam on May 28, 2017, 09:44:32 AM It looks like there are still some finds to be made in between the mountains of WWII scrap at Talacre and all it takes is a new approach and a little parallel thinking to produce some odds n sods. Of course there were plenty of copper fifty cal jackets that fooled both me and the Safari into thinking that
they were coins. ::) |