While metal detecting at Cherokee Park on 'Dog Hill', a sudden and disastrous event occured. Metal detecting, backing down the hill, when all of a sudden my feet slipped in the mud and I fell forward on my detector and broke the upper stem in half. This immediately put me out of action. It would have been less disastrous if I'd broken my arm instead. But for those of you who would care, I was completely un-injured.
I called KellyCo to get a replacement part and they referred me to Garrett, as they have few replacement parts. I'm having the new part shipped to me and should have it soon. It cost about $11. I was just getting ready to quit detecting when I fell. The ground was still frozen about 1/2" down and frozen to a depth of at least 3". And frozen dirt is VERY hard to dig. I was planning on going metal detecting with Mark tomorrow, but we've called it off. I think it needs about a week of 50 degree weather and sunshine to thaw the ground enough to detect. I guess I jumped the gun a little bit. As you can tell by looking at the picture I can use this DOWN time to clean my detector a little.
3 comments:
Awful! My condolences. But I'm glad you weren't hurt, and I'm glad it happened when the ground was frozen (so that you don't feel like you are missing out on some good metal detecting weather.)
What you need is a good rain to thaw the ground. Now...what were you doing...trying a dance move with your detector? Did you ship it to Haiti? Did a squirrel get p***ed off and break your detector?
Who knew MDing could be so violent?
You should have buried the broken part. Then 20 years later someone can go metal detecting and find it.
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