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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Jun 11, 2016 12:40:33 GMT -5
Welcome aboard and I trust you will feel at home hee. Look forward to your posts. I go to brant Broughton outside of Lincoln each year. have dug with the bouys from Coil to the Soil and Weekend Wanderers.
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Jun 8, 2016 15:33:29 GMT -5
Some days are just going to be bad ones. Although I do at times take literary liberty this is how my day went without being overly melodramatic! Raining once again so I didn't bother calling Navy Davy. Did the domestics with the only casualty being a glass. Around 11am Marie came home and complained about the smell in the hallway...................oops my wet sneakers from yesterdays dig. Imagine if I put Odor Eaters in them and put them on I would take three steps and disappear. Sprayed them with an air freshener! Marie was out the door shortly there after to do some errands. Decided I would go for a swish to see how the Seahunter mk11 was working then remembered that my chest waders had a leak in the boot. Applied a generous amount of crazy glue to the affected area thinking that would seal the leak. Drove to a nearby lake, opened the trunk to get the shoulder length gloves out as the water is still a tad nippy. Not there . Remembered then that they were in Marie's or Navy Davy's trunk. Put on the chestwaders and waded in the drink finding 9 coins at $8.80 not too mention that my left boot was full almost to the knee with water. So much for my repair effort. Chest high I stepped into a hole in the bottom of the lake twisted my bad knee bent over and took in a few quarts of water inside my chestwaders. Cursed a tad . Should have kept my mouth shut as one of those flying ants flew in my mouth. Tasted rather good with my Mentos that I was chawing on. Dam flying things were everywhere getting into everything. Headed to shore as enough was enough. Saw a few fish in the water and caught one on the sand..................not sure what species it is. Seahunter MK11 worked great with no falsing...must have been the area in the Dominican that caused the problem. Keep the chestwaders on for the drive home. Made the mistake of taking them off in the kitchen....yup you got it..a minor flood. Where was my brain! Hung them up in the bathroom to dry. In retrospect I think I should have taken them off in the bathtub. Dug up enough to buy a TV bingo card. Think I should join Marie's mother and the girls for the games the way my day went? Not in this life time. Sitting on the couch for the rest of the day....not tempting providence! Jays and Tigers!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Jun 7, 2016 14:06:57 GMT -5
With the demands of work digging time has been at a premium to say the least. No choice as we have to fill the shifts. Of course the overtime might add that 3rd week to my UK trip. Day off and Navy Davy and I were going to hit the road for a dig but we choose not to go as the weather was on the "dark side." Around noon with the house work done another choice....this one was easy. To dig or not to dig! Next choice was harder. Where to go and I'm sure we have all asked that at one time or another. Made up my mind and decided on a few local spots. Next choice was the toughest. Digging out my Garrett arsenal.....which machine to take. Freedom 11, Freedom 3, Freedom 3 Plus or Freedom CDC. The choice did not seem that hard as the Freedom 11 had fresh batteries in it. Four spots and 2.5 hours later quota was had. Sure nice to just get out....but that has not been my choice!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Jun 7, 2016 6:50:20 GMT -5
A point of view and one can argue otherwise....only a hobby all in all!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Jun 5, 2016 2:38:50 GMT -5
Hats off to you John. A very personal and pleasant post!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Jun 3, 2016 13:53:08 GMT -5
Here too still!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Jun 3, 2016 8:49:07 GMT -5
Lets just try and keep things upbeat me bouys!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 31, 2016 14:06:15 GMT -5
Prayers and last living relative on my mothers side!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 28, 2016 14:30:35 GMT -5
Was excited as I had the chance to use my birthday present on my birthday...my new coil for the pro which set Hunny Bunny back $208. When the pro is working it is a great machine.
Hit a school field and the Pro worked great for ...3 minutes then shut off. Checked the connections, batteries and even going so far as to try a new battery holder and batteries. Again worked for about 2 minutes then started chattering...turned her off reset...worked okay for another 2 minutes then went into a "wailing" mode. CANNOT TELL YOU HOW PO'ED I AM!
This Pro has been back 5 times already for everything from leaking, water in the lcd display area to the machine posts breaking off and most recently a new circut board.. With the price of this new coil (which is suppose to be water proof and I never take in the water due to leakage issues from earlier experiences never sees the water), repair costs and shipping I am sure I have surpassed the original price of when I brought it new. Oh forgot to mention about how the coil always loosens which I had mentioned to Garrett many times and even the previous coil would not screw flush like the headphone connector.
Finished the dig off with a Freedom 3 Plus in a very foul mood! Here is a machine made at Garrett over 20 years ago when Garrett turned out quality products. I'm Sure Charlie Garrett would roll in his grave with his factory producing machines of the present day quality.
Having been a Garrett only swinger for 45 years I fell that I have the right to complain and complain loudly. Some would say I misuse the machines...have really old Garretts that still work....some would say it's just a lemon....well its been in enough times to be repaired its virtually a new machine thus would could infer the workmanship of the repairs was substandard or the parts.
Garrett thanks for ruining my birthday!
Will let you know how Garrett customer service responds.....................have seriously started looking at other manufactures of detectors. Last thing I need is to cross the big pond on the yearly UK trip and have a machine crap out like the Pro did on the Dominican trip!
Turned it on once at home and guess what....worked for 2 minutes!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 27, 2016 11:54:50 GMT -5
Did read that and there was some good thoughts. Did purpose to John that an article is needed on some of the detectors advertising that involved military ordinace used in there ads...explosive topic I would think!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 24, 2016 13:25:52 GMT -5
We are lucky here in this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 24, 2016 13:24:13 GMT -5
For the prompt service of getting me a new coil for the Pro......even though they emptied my pocket book!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 24, 2016 13:18:47 GMT -5
Rather tough talk on a thing that is just......................a hobby!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 23, 2016 15:58:03 GMT -5
Navy Davy and I, two grumpy old men headed out for a for-ray the other day. Neither one feeling chipper, stout of heart nor lucid for that matter. Good thing about getting old is that as the mind deteriorates so you basically forget about the pain..................what your name is or where you are at! The conversation was light..............not focused on anything in particular like a runaway train going towards a certain derailment. Anyway we pondered where to go.................really cannot recall what we decided on but we did........decide. Each of us dug about 30 coins calling it a day as I could hear ND's bones creaking in unison with mine.....was it a piece of sky lab falling again? . $7.76 added to the "Going to the ................fund." Where and what fund? No silver, no gold. Nothing of note on the dig but vaguely recall that the Freedom 3 CDC was dinging here and...........................there. Had a sudden epiphany............I wanted to find a ring before I finished for the day..........it hit me.....think inside the box. Had found a key that unlocked something! Got ND to stop at the smart shop and I brought a box with one swipe of a debit card....must have been a debit card as I own no charge card......does Marie as she loves to shop?Inside the box was a real fake gold ring of a red "C" and an inscription that said Stanley Cup.....what was I doing with his cup? Think they had a hockey team once but now I heard....somewhere that they play flog.......or is it glof! Now what do I do with the beer?
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on May 18, 2016 17:49:20 GMT -5
Enjoy!
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