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Saffron
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This tip could save you a lot of time, effort and frustration :thumbsup:

When entering a new field have a good look around at the boundary hedges and fences. If you see any white posts, or other obvious markers, pay especial attention to them as they mark pipelines. If you see one you should see a second the other side of the field and the pipeline will be directly between the two.

Despite being much deeper than what your detector would normally find due to the size of them you can often detect them. If you start trying to dig one you will waste a lot of time and effort, and become very frustrated ..... and end up with a very big deep hole!

I did a rally a couple of years back and by the end of the day there were about 20 holes in a perfectly straight line across the one field.

If unsure if you have found a genuine target or a pipeline try a short distance away on the line of the pipe, if you get an identical signal then you have found the pipe but if you do not then it could be a good target.

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This reminds me of the old 'Pipe-Locators Licence' which we used to have to buy in order to detect. i thought it was just a scam to extract a fiver from us but it turns out it was perfectly fair. :lol:
"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."
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Also some pipes and cables are not as deep as they ought to be!
Good things come to those who wait.
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Watch out for Telephone lines too............ :oops:
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Danté wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:08 am Watch out for Telephone lines too............ :oops:
I've sliced a few of those in the ground, and even just laying on the surface, with the spade but not whilst detecting. The media company just come out and fix them with no questions asked as they know it was their substandard installation. :o
The shallow electricity cables are the ones to watch out for. :boom:
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so funny, gotta say if you detect something a several meters long, in my mind I don't really want to dig it but your right look for the markers to reassure your descision :thumbsup:
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