I have a sort of odd request. My wife has lost her cell phone and it is a rather expensive proposition to buy another. Meanwhile she has reactivated a really old phone which barely works in the current smart phone world. Her lost phone may be buried in a farm plot we were working on last week. It is a presumably waterproof Galaxy so maybe there is hope that is can be revived if found. We have ruled out other areas for loss of the phone and unfortunately could not use the GPS locator app at the time it was lost. There are about 50 locations where we planted some tea plants in rows. We dug each about 18 inches with an auger. So, if it is there, the worst case would be that it could be up to 18 inches and probably more like a foot deep or less and if there, is in one of 50 spots. She thinks it fell out of a shirt pocket while hand back filling the holes and maybe it got buried.
Somewhat slim chance but I hate to not try and find it. I don’t believe it is worth buying one for half the value of the phone because I think our chances are less than 50 / 50 of finding it.
I would be happy to pay a few bucks for renting your unit for about two days. Would only need it for perhaps an hour, but I would have to get it from you then get out to east Texas and back and get it back to you.
Does a tool rental company have this sort of thing? I’ll check. Maybe people use one for locating pipes, etc.
Wow, that’s going to be tough for you. I had a metal detector that I bought on the spur of the moment, to help me find my keys that I had dropped in snow. It didn’t help with that (fortunately, I found my keys, anyway). It takes practice to get good at using them. Also, most of them don’t work more than eight inches deep (I think that’s the number…). You also need to move kind of slowly and methodically when you are using one. You might be better off just re-digging the holes.
Incidentally, I sold that metal detector, or else I would loan it to you.
Tool rental companies definitely have metal detectors, I had to rent one from Sunbelt 4 or 5 years ago to find a ring that slipped off during a snowball fight. It was about $20 for a day, IIRC.
Great. I figured that if you were renting a backhoe, you might be needing to find a pipe or something or perhaps a wired buried along with a plastic pipe. Thanks, I’ll check.
I’ve got an older model detector that you can borrow if you go that route. I think it Whites’s brand so is pretty decent as detectors go (based on my limited knowledge of metal derectors). Picked it up at a garage sale a while back and have only used it to search around my yard. It did find stuff.
