inexpensive metal detector
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:48 pm
I have the week off, and have been working in the backyard finally digging a trench with my Ditch Witch. It's gone great. I now have power to the backyard at the patio and the sheds, well I will as soon as I wire up a new breaker box. And I have water at the back patio and the new shed which are 100 yards away from the house. I would like to add water to the other side of the driveway, without having to rip up the driveway. In order to get the electrical conduit under the sidewalk it took two days of digging and breaking rock as we are on rock and only have four to eight inches of dirt. It sucked. So I don't want to try that to go under the driveway.
But!
A couple of years ago when we added the veggie garden we found an old sprinkler head in it. Which I chopped off with a shovel (that was how I found it while digging) and since there was no water coming out forgot about it and where, exactly, it is. And there is a plastic sprinkler box in the yard with some pipe leading from it that appears that would go under the driveway and to the veggie garden area. I would like to find the pipe end in the veggie garden area and find out where the pipe goes from the box so that I can tie it in to the new water pipe I just layed and we can get a working water spigot on the other side of the driveway. In order to do this without digging up the whole yard randomly, I figured a metal detector would be what I need.
So,
The pipes are metal, probably copper. I would imagine that even a cheap metal detector would find a 1/2 inch copper pipe less than two feet down, but I don't know.
Will a cheap metal detector work for this?
What is a good, cheap, metal detector?
There are an assload of pawn shops around here, and most seem to have old metal detectors, is there one I should look for first there?
Would this one be alright?
http://www.amazon.com/Bounty-Hunter-Dig ... 890&sr=1-1
I have a cousin who is an avid metal detector user, and her suggestions were 1) anything under $1000 is crap, and 2) wait till this summer at the family reunion and she'd loan me one of her old ones, but I want to get this done this weekend and be done with it. If possible.
Thanks!
But!
A couple of years ago when we added the veggie garden we found an old sprinkler head in it. Which I chopped off with a shovel (that was how I found it while digging) and since there was no water coming out forgot about it and where, exactly, it is. And there is a plastic sprinkler box in the yard with some pipe leading from it that appears that would go under the driveway and to the veggie garden area. I would like to find the pipe end in the veggie garden area and find out where the pipe goes from the box so that I can tie it in to the new water pipe I just layed and we can get a working water spigot on the other side of the driveway. In order to do this without digging up the whole yard randomly, I figured a metal detector would be what I need.
So,
The pipes are metal, probably copper. I would imagine that even a cheap metal detector would find a 1/2 inch copper pipe less than two feet down, but I don't know.
Will a cheap metal detector work for this?
What is a good, cheap, metal detector?
There are an assload of pawn shops around here, and most seem to have old metal detectors, is there one I should look for first there?
Would this one be alright?
http://www.amazon.com/Bounty-Hunter-Dig ... 890&sr=1-1
I have a cousin who is an avid metal detector user, and her suggestions were 1) anything under $1000 is crap, and 2) wait till this summer at the family reunion and she'd loan me one of her old ones, but I want to get this done this weekend and be done with it. If possible.
Thanks!