though I had some problem with sea water It also ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxa-FNYUOM93a388gi9a4brtSCEVmrHgJH land for finding any things very easily. (thought it would work as normal due to it being water proof within certain parts of the detector), on dry land and sand worked well. My first one, so still have lots to learn
Hey Teacher! Yesterday my wife and I had our first metal detecting DATE, and it was awesome! We went to a local lake that has a few little beaches and WOWZER we found $2.78 in coins and of course quite a few pull tabs! Thanks for all the videos and of course all the teaching !! Good luck to you all! PS YES SHE CARRIED THE SHOVEL AND SAID, WE NEED ONE OF THOSE SHOVELS WITH THE BASKET !!! Happy Hunting everyone!!!
@@MetalDetectingNYC evening Merrill After playing catch-up on your vlogs as only found you by accident and now staying with you. I was wondering if you have talked about headphones and pin-pointers I've so many questions about them as there are so many available if it's at all possible could you do a vlog or 2 on them. I appreciate that it's something that may take time but it's something that doesn't seem to be covered by people doing detecting as it's all about the brand of detector. Thank you for your time Regards Tony and Kaz
Me and my other half both metal detect on the beach, I call it freedom as I can pop headphones on and finally get some peace and quiet as the metal detecting tones are way more soothing than the tones that come from partners mouth, her tones are of the high screeching very conductive tones on full volume 🤣🤣🤣 Ps. She does not understand why after she stops I continue from early morning till dark on the beach 😂
Just make one of these try and detect in the woods. We will see how fast it gets itself tangled in the trees and bushes. These cannot detect under those bushes where I have found lots of gold and silver. Love your vids Merril. Keep up the great work.
What I can see more useful would be underwater drones scanning the ocean floor around old ship wreck sites. Get geolocation of targets then send divers down to retrieve the targets. Would make better use of their limited oxygen.
The future of MD as I see it will be my grandson who LOVES to dig with grampa and your students all over. Just as I got my love for detectingfrom my grandparents in the early 70s. If he has a drone involved doesn't matter to me as long as he enjoys being outside and saving history, and hopefully treasures.
Great video and thoughts on this. 😁 When it comes to a drone digging and metal detecting, you are correct in the fact that a single drone cannot accomplish this. However, a flying drone could quite easily transmit a coordinate to another land based drone that is built for digging and that drone could move to the target and dig it up. The real trick I suppose is how does the digging drone know what it is trying to dig up. It could figure that out by metal composition analysis, but that still requires it to be able to detect the difference between a lump of dirt and another object. I think that is the real stumbling block right now.
I have much experience with building and flying drones. Yes, there may come a time when they may be able to metal detect, but personally I wouldn't lose sleep worrying if our MD hobby is under threat. The technology for that to happen is way out in the future. Even then, such a drone and its specialized detector will be extremely expensive and limited to wide open, relatively flat areas. Personally, I'm more concerned about learning how to get the best from my Manticore, that is current reality.
Drones are great for other aspects of metal detecting like research and field over views. But I think actual detecting is a ground operation. Robot wars type of tech with roomba avoidance software and not digging but logging gps locals and signal sounds with VDI #. DIGGING IS THE BEST PART! Imagine ACRES of land with all the signals maps out for you already Coil swing is easy with just gearing the robot wheels to swing it horizontal. I have put a little thought in this. It might be accomplished with just a cell phone tech nowadays....
We work with Boston dynamics robotic dogs. They have lidar scanners hooked up currently. I can probably add detecting module but it won't be cheap . You can play who let the dogs out while it scans for 100k. Currently deploy these on construction sites to monitor human safety. The battery will last Alot longer on the dog. You would also get a better scan from the ground ..dogs like spot would be ideal for detecting large fields . Beach salt may pose an issue on longevity.
What would a detecting module be exactly ? Would it be the same parys as a high powered metal detector? We're you proposing to add a sweep option on the dog ? Do you not think two drones carrying both ends of a 5 metre coil , half metre above the ground would cover way area more quickly?
What great information! At age 73, I have been think about my future in mental detecting as I continue to age. With the use of a drone, I could become a wheelchair detectorist. My challenge then becomes, how do I convince my younger wife, by four years, to go out and dig the treasures. The future, in this hobby, seems very bright as we age.
I'm 77 and can detect, swing a coil, get on my knees a hundred and fifty times a day and get back up, drive an hour to get home, and able to use the latest metal detectors out there. I love this sport and truely believe this sport is good for my health and keeps me on the go, and gald I find it extreamly difficult to sit and watch tv.
I began detecting detecting in 1978 when a detector looked like a shoebox fastened to a broom stick and just look at where we are now. Technology has bloomed almost into the space age when it comes to detecting!
I used to work in a lab which made small drones about 10 years ago and remember seeing this video when doing a drone mine detector project. The problem is you need motion to detect and it's difficult to get a repeatable swing without losing controls, especially with the coil acting as a very far offset pendulum. It would work with a PI detector that didn't require motion, assuming you could follow the terrain very precisely to keep a good low coil to ground offset. With PI you wouldnt be able to discard iron though. There's also the issue of noise with occasional false beeps, so you'd either have to stop and double sense each signal to verify it (or map the field multiple times to check for repeatability) or you'll have an error and noise prone signal map, or turn the sensitivity way down to ensure only real objects were found. If you did that you'd only find large objects near the surface though. All possible, but the tech just wasn't good enough back then. Good to see it again though 😊
Only hobbiest metal detectors require motion, real geophysical instruments whether time domain electromagnetic induction (TDEM) or frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM) don’t.
I use a kite and camera for picture for metal detecting over the marsh...low tech, low cost...and when they crash...I just follow the line to retrieve the camera...a drone would make my charting easier....but when it crash...I would cry more...meantime , I hope they do make it work and empty the ditches of popcan, before they get shred and hand up thunder my coil, or in a cow stomach. Nice video.
Nice topic. I think that air drone metal detectos will be developed more for military or business (de-mining fields, hazard areas, to check underground structures or pipe/cable lines on difficut to reach terrain). For the hobby, I see more a land unmanned vehicle with an MD that will mark possible targets, or better an underwater unmanned vehicle that will scan the seabed with an md and pick up the target (maybe a system that will suck it in a bag). So you stay dry and don't risk your life underwater. I know there are some with a camera and a claw, adding an md wouldn't be too difficult.
Hi Merrill, interesting subject. Aerial metal detecting has been used since at least the 1960s to find Ore deposits. On pasture a wheeled drone could take the hard work out of scanning for hoards and on flat cultivated land or flat terrain. The flying drones could easily be stabilised but I am not saying how! As for looking for small items we are safe for a while 👍
I relic hunt in the UK and I dig anything non-ferrous unless there are a lot of known objects such as shotgun shells where I will skip them if they are the right size and number. I might miss a good target that way once in a while but when I have limited time to detect a field, being able to cover more ground is of value... but for the most part, I am listening for tone and attack to decide whether to dig. When I started, that was the only way to do it and it is still the best.
Fascinating stuff Merrill. I see this as being most useful to STEM applications but eventually hobbyists will grab it and probably have a man on the ground who can then follow up and dig the markers that a drone puts down to me that would be the most beneficial and expeditious way to locate and retrieve targets. Looking forward to seeing this industry evolve.
Seems like it would be easier and faster to mount a coil on an wheeled RC vehicle rather than a drone, especially for flatter terrain without saplings and tall brush. Very interesting topic, Merrill.
totally agree with you Kevin, and we should start working on it, Again, the combination of both aerial & terrestrial drones is very exiting. These techs will definitely find its way into the market, metal detecting as we know it today will become an old-timer discipline
Interesting stuff. Several years ago I watched a Discovery Channel show about diamond mining. A guy in Canada was convinced the diamonds were in old lava shafts called Kimberlite Pipes. He actually mounted a type of metal detector on an airplane and was able to use it to pinpoint where the Pipes were. Several years later I was on Venice Beach in Fl. when a gentleman approached me and we began talking detectors. He shared that he used to detect from an airplane. I realized it was the fellow from the show I watched. At that time he had a thriving mining business at the sites he had discovered from the plane. I can't remember the exact dates he did this but I believe it was the early 80's. I can only believe the technology has exponentially blossomed in this field as it has in others. Can't wait to see what the future holds! Thanks for sharing.
There are already drones operating magnetometers in regular search grids being used to locate buried pipelines and abandoned well bores. One company I worked for was flying an airborne drone for magnetic surveying as far back as 2007.
I have been thinking in developing a Rover to do the same. Swing a regular detector, read the pitch sound of the object, if that's in range of what I'm looking for install a little flag in the area and keep going.
Drones are annoying when there buzzing around me but are also useful in some circumstances. Thanks again for the interesting video and it was pretty cool to see one of my comments talked about in the video.Yes the metal gun does need to touch the specimen to record a accurate reading. Play with the settings on you’re manticore. I’ve started to and I noticed how much potential this machine has. Everything will get unlocked lol.
!!!!!!!!Indian head nickels!!!!!!!Hey Merrill, this is Richard @ALASKA_MetalDetectingRecovery from Alaska. I fly down to Florida every year on my birthday to go visit my retired parents, I always bring my Metal Detector down with me and this year I’ve decided to “SPREAD THE LOVE” randomly dropping 40 Indian Head Nickels on the beaches and side roads where they have little beaches. I have a collection of about 100 Indian Head Nickels and I really don’t need that many… WISH I COULD MUDLARK WITH YOU SOMEDAY… 😎🤘
Nice Video, I seen a video from Africa they used a drone to pick up heat signatures after sunset set up with GPS & video images, This only works from a hot day to cooling off & they where looking for Military artifacts, They found had gun from the 1900's, Items in the ground baking in the sun would keep the heat after sunset longer than the soil with a limited window of time until the item is cool downed to the soil temp, They could use this method in England looking for large cashes in farm fields during summer
Recently went down this rabbit hole and then found your video lol, I thought I was onto something here and see your video is from 1 year ago. Long time viewer now and thought it was hilarious you already made a video on it.
I do this hobby to go out into nature and relax. At home, however, I could play a metal hunting simulation from a prone position. Professional treasure hunters could help themselves with drones in hard-to-reach areas. They could locate a large amount of metal and later check what is hidden there. Drones with lidar and thermal cameras would be even more effective. Thank you. No! The magic of metal detecting is that you dig your shovel and later your knees deep into the mud and have a moment of anticipation when you don't know what you're going to pull out of the ground. For me. Great 👍 video. Stay safe and HH
It be good if LiDAR and the technology of the nokta invenio be more affordable to scan the ground in real time and see if the object is worth digging out.
The fun is the find. So I prefer swing my machine as long as it is fun. Thank you for such a well done video! At the end of a search I count the number of finds to be just as much fun as total dollars found. Having fun is what important.
Good morning Nice to see you using the ring cases Also you may have seen these programs but if not check them out on UA-cam Great British history hunters fantastic finds all filmed by channel 4 Regards Tony and Kaz
Good morning Merrill, I was asked about this some time ago. The last drone video is nice but there are some flaws to it. The frequencies used to metal detect will let you see big objects, It will miss the small objects like coins or buttons. We know the low frequencies will detect deep larger objects. But here is the thing, no matter how advanced your metal detector drone would get, high frequencies do have ground penetrating limitations.
Less thinking .. more digging Merrill. 🙂You will never see a drone finding coins, rings, buttons, etc. in a field, around a house or on a beach. Too small of targets. Large objects .. sure. If you can miss a coin when you are walking over it, how is a drone going to find it flying higher than your coil is on the ground. This is like the flying car I was promised 50 years go. I have yet to see anyone come pick me up for a ride in one of those yet.
This was a enlightening video to be sure. In the last fifty years I watched metal/mineral identification from many different standpoints, from steel mill metallurgy to the metal detecting hobby, to the oil industry fracking. I think this has a future. If Minelab makes it I will probably buy it, not so much Garrett. This was a wonderfully done video, nicely presented, with the usual charm and grace. Peace to you and yours from the Fiedlers.
@@normawinton6832 You got me there. I used to take the ATPro to Europe with me to detect in the small creeks. The little sniping coil was perfect around the large rocks in the along the bridges and shallow water fords. Garrett make a great waterproof pinpointer, probably the best including the one from XP. I'm not real big on their other detectors though. Peace
As LiDAR is being used by archeologists so will drone metal detecting be used to do fast metal sweeps of land. Before a shovel is brought onto said land ground penetrating radar units will be deployed. GPR units are getting better and less expensive all the time. So running a rolling GPR wagon over beaches etc will, soon-ish, be a reality. Things change, you roll with it or you get run over.
Hello Merrill, Took my brand new Legend out for the first time yesterday. Found 7¢ and 20 minutes later called it quits 😂. Way too cold, disadvantage’s of buying one in the middle of winter! ANYWAY, DRONES! I’ve thought about this a while back and being 70 years old, I don’t know that I’ll get to see it come to life. A drone that COULD be capable of finding gold from the air would not only be priceless but could destroy the economy of the whole planet! Gold and silver will, I would imagine, still be precious, but there would be so much more of it that the prices would drop considerably! That’s just my 2¢ 👍
Nice vid brother. I’d say beaches would be hard because the markers won’t change after inputted but waves and tides will move the targets around. Fields and parks may work better, but someone still needs to dig um. Interesting topic ✌🏽
Verbal TID. The Deus 2 WS6 ergonomics w/o remote are stellar. The future might be to add value to that concept by providing verbal audio of TID. A computer generated voice simply tells you the TID number or TID range. All of the data is already present so what is needed is a range of voice intrusion preceding, following or on top of the signal tone. This could be applied in various offerings to improve ergonomics; looking at one's screen while detecting can be harmful to your cervical spine/subluxation. trap/neck/shoulder pain etc... -TB
My thoughts Merrill, well look at where we are today, and look back a hundred and fifty years ago. Can you see the difference? We have come a long way to say the least. So far in fact that my mind cannot imagine where we will be in another hundred and fifty years. I was born in 1945 and 77 yo. Just in my lifetime mankind has made many giant leaps. A horse can go a lot of places a car cannot. So I believe detectors will get better, but that is the big way this hobby will change, we will always use our feet in this hobby. I don't care to think about where we are headed, it's too mind boggline, so I'll let you do that for me. All I have to do is, just keep watching. Plus, I'm being entertained at the same time. 😉
If drones are the future ,I'm awful glad I am part of the past. To me it's the personal connection to the moment and place your hunting. Watching a drone go find targets would take some of the adventure out of typical detecting. The cost I'm sure would prohibit most from trying it. Thought provoking episode 👍🏻👍🏻
Hey Merrill Just bought a really expensive drone for my older son for videoing festivals he goes to but you know I’ll be borrowing it to check out beach conditions and cuts along the beaches. It’s got a 2.5 mile travel distance so it’s gonna save a ton of time driving from beach to beach checking conditions.😁👍
They have lydar drones too.that scan areas and could see under the vegetation and find old mines and home sites and all kinds of ground would be great.They have an episode on skin walker ranch you should see.i've head they use them to find mining areas.But could you imagine being able to see under the grass and bushes and trees to find old foundations and get a GPS reading of the spot.
I would rather have the drone on Skywalker ranch episode.its not your average drone it's made for mining and seeing under all vegetation and abnormalcies like man made structures and no telling what other drones they make they have a four to eight hour fly time they map large areas.
First of all, my daydream of somehow developing a drone just crashed and broke a plastic propeller. 😄 Nevertheless, I don't think these will replace muddy boots on the ground for the near to medium future. I could however imagine a scenario where a private company could attempt to con a government to fund their work, especially if they that have a group of vitriolic 'archaeologists' already against M. detectorists (such as is the case in France). All they'd have to do, would be to convince/fool them into vehemently believing that the technology was impressive and detailed, and then that we as a community could be disposed of and banned. I use the word con, because it would simply not be cost effective (agreeing with your point on not being able to say more than there's a phase shift), burn up a lot of operator time and heat-maps would still need manual investigation and digging. In the end I think that all-terrain land drones would be more viable (battery-wise) if motor-generated EMF factors could be cancelled out. If the technology became more accessible to our community (as well as people less scrupulous about permissions), I could otherwise imagine a drone heat-map being drawn up on dark nights whilst people slept, and where locals weren't twitchy about alien invasions.
If a drone can find me gold well hell ya, but Merrell if a detector is now costing us 1500.00 and change what's the price of a drone finding gold going to be?, I pride myself on the finds i make!, trying to find and better my hunting techniques makes me a better hunter where are we going if this technology goes there? Carry on my good man with your informative videos
We really are living in the future. Good concept man, I’ve have an idea for future detecting too but it’s so good that I want to keep it to myself for now 🙈😅. My concern is though at the rate technology is changing these concepts will quickly become obsolete, I have a feeling one day you will just be able to stick a probe into the ground and it will scan everything similar to radar giving you a 3D image of everything
That is really cool! I have played around with some drones in the past and have some basic UA-cam videos on my channel. Nothing spectacular. It was a short-lived hobby. My main hobby is metal detecting. I’ve been a Detectorist since I was nine years old and won the whites XLT spectrum in 1995 at a club hunt where I found the prize token. I have recently upgraded to a whites, DFX, but I am in the market and dream of getting a equinox. I have been filming some of my live digs and could use a little help on how you edit the videos sense yours are perfectly put together in my opinion. I have footage from my hunt yesterday where I found five silver half dollars. Two 1964 Kennedy half dollars and three walking liberty half dollars. The footage is great quality would love to know how you edit yours and hopefully you can check out the final video. I have a little honey hole that is filled with silver half dollars and will be starting my Metal detecting channel on this account with those videos from yesterday being the first ones I upload. If you have any pointers, please let me know and I hope you get to see my videos of these beautiful silver coins I have found. Keep up the good work I watch every single one of your videos.
My thought is a lot of beaches you can not fly a drone and also in parks too. So if the drone laws do not change we as a metal detectorist should not have any worries.
@@MetalDetectingNYC Funny, I guessed your comment "great point". as I said it to myself as I clicked on your reply. You know Merrill, I truly believe YOU help keep this 77 yo mind tuned up, as your videos are truly fascinating. You are a big part of my life Merrill and I've never meet you. Every video you put out just adds to my metal detecting enjoyment. Tomorrow I'm headed to the beach. Theres a storm headed here and I hope theres a cut and I will be pratcing your "V" patern you taught me. Thanks Merrill, I believe your videos help add years and purpose to my life.
It would work to locate bottle dumps, caches, and large Roman hoards. This type of approach has already been used to locate shipwreck treasure, just not employing drones.
I don't see it happening anytime in the near future as far as we are concerned. The objects we look for are too small. For industrial purposes it absolutely is happening.
Exactly this... These drones cannot scan like we do, they will only detect very large objects. To scan closer to the surface they would be better off using an autonomous vehicle. I don't see anyone treasure hunting autonomously in the next 50 years... I don't think there is a market for it and the price of entry would be a barrier
You can't break the laws of physics. These drone metal detectors are using old metal detecting technology, which are only capable of detecting large objects very deep. They have improved the efficiency of this type of detecting, nothing more. This includes GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar). I was told that XP is working on a GRP detector. I don't know if it's for the consumer or industry? One other important issue is wattage. If they increase the power of the electromagnetic field, it will have an effect on medical devices (pacemakers), telecommunications, etc. I really enjoy your videos!
Fascinating stuff! Now look into an AI controlled, all terrain, walking based detector for beaches. With a spray can attached to an arm which would spray a dot or circle or ..... should I say it, - an X to mark the spot! You dig as the AT-ATs look for you. (All Terrain Aluminum Tab seeker)
The problem with that drone is it only looking for big objects it's not going to see a small coin or ring. You can get metal detectors that will show you the shape of the object in a 3D configuration, like the Nokta Invenio and my Lorenz DeepMax Z2. But what you really need is a Drone that can do a Geophysics Magnetometry survey and a metal detecting survey at the same time (my Lorenz DeepMax Z2 can do subsurface mapping). I have had some of my metal detecting permissions surveyed by a magnetometer and intend to then combine the two surveys together in Quantum GIS (a free Program). QGIS can merge and blend the two images seamlessly together. I will then be able to see where Dwellings once stood by the concentration of metal objects in a localised area in relation to what can be seen by the magnetometry survey. But for the future I'm trying to get my head around what Sarah Parcak (Space Archaeologist) is doing with Multispectral imagery: Multispectral imagery is a type of satellite imagery that is collected in multiple wavelengths of light. Space archaeologists can use multispectral imagery to identify different types of materials, such as stone, soil, and vegetation, which can help them locate ancient features that might be hidden under the ground. Because then I will not need a Magnetometry survey.
I would like your opinion if you could on the GPX6000. I live in Western Australia and want to go detecting over the next 12 months and longer if it suits. I like your shows as you're very informative and know what you're doing. Thanks
I’ve honestly never tried any of the gold specific machines. New York has no major natural gold deposits. If I lived in Australia I would have taken the plunge though. The GPX6000 is the Equinox of Gold Mining !
@Metal Detecting NYC @Metal Detecting NYC Thanks for taking the time to answer me, and yeah, I'll stick with the 6000. In Australia, they start $8,000. So, a big commitment. Anyway I enjoy your shows and will continue to watch. Good luck with your detecting.
Hey Merrill, the ring display cases turned out really awesome!!! But, I think drones has a wide range of different types of great uses, but as for metal detecting? I think that it will never take the place of a human being to operate the metal detector in the correct fashion, the human body is still superior for this task. I do see drone metal detectors being used for locating landmines and such, but then again for locating coins and rings, you have to swing the coil back and forth, left and right closely to the ground and the drone cannot do that. Besides, where's the sport on that idea anyway! It would be like playing golf without the holes. Thanks for the latest news on metal detecting bro. Greg the Egg.
Supposing you had a drone and an air gun that fired a colored dart (feathers) or a paintball gun that could shot different colored balls at locations with the color based on the vid number? This would be way more profitable than scoops if you could refine it!
Curious what you think of Maceraci Defineci and all those ancient burried treasure finds. Seems odd to always be finding such things but also does not all seem staged.
The only application I can think of where an aerial drone makes sense over a rover is for minesweeping. Even for difficult access sites a ground rover dropped by a helicopter or drone would be more practical.
🤔 I’m curious about drones detecting water bodies. GPS location should be enough to mark targets. Makes me wonder what the military uses these days. Still, it’s like when online shopping moved in and home town businesses moved out. We don’t want the joy of detecting to be reduced by machines and laziness.
Do you think that someone could genetically modify some ants and worms that would dig in the grountil they found small particles enough accumulated to trigger them to come up then they glow in the dark Or they grow under UV light and then they will stand there
What I find interesting is not the drone, but the metal detector used by SPH. They claim it can find targets 10 to 15 meters deep. Add to that the distance above the ground it safely can fly, and you have a very deep sensing detector! They should put that technology in a hand held unit…just remember to bring the big shovel 😂
Hi, don't worry, this will stay confined to commercial applications - maybe beach hunter s need to be careful. Drones cause a lot of EMI, so the coil needs to be far away from the drone. This in turn creates a lever, which interferes with the drone's stabilization if the coil hits the grass or the ground, requiring a significant distance to the ground. It's also unwieldy. Plus - you get only one pass per flyover. How many times do you sweep the coil for a regular target? Who wants to have a drone fly over the field five times before digging? Mine detection, where you have a clearly defined area, low discrimination need and a lot of time - maybe. Magnetometers? Yes. Regular hobby stuff? Nope. Drones are like 3D printers: a lot of hype but usefulness only for very specific applications. Also AI has little use, as the signals are easily analyzed by traditional signal processing.
It's a concept yes. I thought of several concepts but then I realized all the time and money it would take to have a working machine I realize I would never get the return on the investment. No matter how good a drone is the bottom line is detectors technology requires a slow overlapping sweep over unlevel terrain. So it basically can't cover more then a person sweeping. They might pull it off looking for a sunken ship but they're not digging below trash under a root while pulling nails with pinpointers. They would need to dig evasive holes even if they got close. With all the weight of everything to detect, dig and then store it the weight would practically require a helicopter lol. Then how do they fill the hole? And that's even more equipment. By the time they ever got to this point if it was even possible we'll already have dug so much it would never allow them return their investment never the less make a profit.
though I had some problem with sea water It also ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxa-FNYUOM93a388gi9a4brtSCEVmrHgJH land for finding any things very easily. (thought it would work as normal due to it being water proof within certain parts of the detector), on dry land and sand worked well. My first one, so still have lots to learn
Hey Teacher! Yesterday my wife and I had our first metal detecting DATE, and it was awesome! We went to a local lake that has a few little beaches and WOWZER we found $2.78 in coins and of course quite a few pull tabs! Thanks for all the videos and of course all the teaching !! Good luck to you all!
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YES SHE CARRIED THE SHOVEL AND SAID, WE NEED ONE OF THOSE SHOVELS WITH THE BASKET !!! Happy Hunting everyone!!!
That is an amazing way to spend a date! My wife is a wonderful lady but in terms of Metal detecting….. she be like 😵💫
@@MetalDetectingNYC evening Merrill
After playing catch-up on your vlogs as only found you by accident and now staying with you. I was wondering if you have talked about headphones and pin-pointers
I've so many questions about them as there are so many available if it's at all possible could you do a vlog or 2 on them. I appreciate that it's something that may take time but it's something that doesn't seem to be covered by people doing detecting as it's all about the brand of detector.
Thank you for your time
Regards Tony and Kaz
Me and my other half both metal detect on the beach, I call it freedom as I can pop headphones on and finally get some peace and quiet as the metal detecting tones are way more soothing than the tones that come from partners mouth, her tones are of the high screeching very conductive tones on full volume 🤣🤣🤣
Ps. She does not understand why after she stops I continue from early morning till dark on the beach 😂
@@Windsurfingaddict lol!😂👍
Just make one of these try and detect in the woods. We will see how fast it gets itself tangled in the trees and bushes. These cannot detect under those bushes where I have found lots of gold and silver. Love your vids Merril. Keep up the great work.
What I can see more useful would be underwater drones scanning the ocean floor around old ship wreck sites. Get geolocation of targets then send divers down to retrieve the targets. Would make better use of their limited oxygen.
They have had equipment like that for years, obviously not drones since they fly and not swim.
The future of MD as I see it will be my grandson who LOVES to dig with grampa and your students all over.
Just as I got my love for detectingfrom my grandparents in the early 70s.
If he has a drone involved doesn't matter to me as long as he enjoys being outside and saving history, and hopefully treasures.
Great perspective!
Great video and thoughts on this. 😁 When it comes to a drone digging and metal detecting, you are correct in the fact that a single drone cannot accomplish this. However, a flying drone could quite easily transmit a coordinate to another land based drone that is built for digging and that drone could move to the target and dig it up. The real trick I suppose is how does the digging drone know what it is trying to dig up. It could figure that out by metal composition analysis, but that still requires it to be able to detect the difference between a lump of dirt and another object. I think that is the real stumbling block right now.
I have much experience with building and flying drones. Yes, there may come a time when they may be able to metal detect, but personally I wouldn't lose sleep worrying if our MD hobby is under threat. The technology for that to happen is way out in the future. Even then, such a drone and its specialized detector will be extremely expensive and limited to wide open, relatively flat areas.
Personally, I'm more concerned about learning how to get the best from my Manticore, that is current reality.
Drones are great for other aspects of metal detecting like research and field over views. But I think actual detecting is a ground operation. Robot wars type of tech with roomba avoidance software and not digging but logging gps locals and signal sounds with VDI #. DIGGING IS THE BEST PART! Imagine ACRES of land with all the signals maps out for you already
Coil swing is easy with just gearing the robot wheels to swing it horizontal. I have put a little thought in this. It might be accomplished with just a cell phone tech nowadays....
We work with Boston dynamics robotic dogs. They have lidar scanners hooked up currently. I can probably add detecting module but it won't be cheap . You can play who let the dogs out while it scans for 100k. Currently deploy these on construction sites to monitor human safety. The battery will last Alot longer on the dog. You would also get a better scan from the ground ..dogs like spot would be ideal for detecting large fields . Beach salt may pose an issue on longevity.
Wow!!!
What would a detecting module be exactly ? Would it be the same parys as a high powered metal detector? We're you proposing to add a sweep option on the dog ? Do you not think two drones carrying both ends of a 5 metre coil , half metre above the ground would cover way area more quickly?
What great information! At age 73, I have been think about my future in mental detecting as I continue to age. With the use of a drone, I could become a wheelchair detectorist. My challenge then becomes, how do I convince my younger wife, by four years, to go out and dig the treasures. The future, in this hobby, seems very bright as we age.
I'm 77 and can detect, swing a coil, get on my knees a hundred and fifty times a day and get back up, drive an hour to get home, and able to use the latest metal detectors out there. I love this sport and truely believe this sport is good for my health and keeps me on the go, and gald I find it extreamly difficult to sit and watch tv.
I began detecting detecting in 1978 when a detector looked like a shoebox fastened to a broom stick and just look at where we are now. Technology has bloomed almost into the space age when it comes to detecting!
I used to work in a lab which made small drones about 10 years ago and remember seeing this video when doing a drone mine detector project. The problem is you need motion to detect and it's difficult to get a repeatable swing without losing controls, especially with the coil acting as a very far offset pendulum. It would work with a PI detector that didn't require motion, assuming you could follow the terrain very precisely to keep a good low coil to ground offset. With PI you wouldnt be able to discard iron though. There's also the issue of noise with occasional false beeps, so you'd either have to stop and double sense each signal to verify it (or map the field multiple times to check for repeatability) or you'll have an error and noise prone signal map, or turn the sensitivity way down to ensure only real objects were found. If you did that you'd only find large objects near the surface though. All possible, but the tech just wasn't good enough back then. Good to see it again though 😊
Great perspective!
There are standard no motion detectors now. Not what everyone uses but C-Scope had no motion detectors 770XD for one.
Only hobbiest metal detectors require motion, real geophysical instruments whether time domain electromagnetic induction (TDEM) or frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM) don’t.
@@jimsmillions2why not just use a golf cart that can drive itself. It's a bad idea.
I use a kite and camera for picture for metal detecting over the marsh...low tech, low cost...and when they crash...I just follow the line to retrieve the camera...a drone would make my charting easier....but when it crash...I would cry more...meantime , I hope they do make it work and empty the ditches of popcan, before they get shred and hand up thunder my coil, or in a cow stomach. Nice video.
Nice topic. I think that air drone metal detectos will be developed more for military or business (de-mining fields, hazard areas, to check underground structures or pipe/cable lines on difficut to reach terrain). For the hobby, I see more a land unmanned vehicle with an MD that will mark possible targets, or better an underwater unmanned vehicle that will scan the seabed with an md and pick up the target (maybe a system that will suck it in a bag). So you stay dry and don't risk your life underwater. I know there are some with a camera and a claw, adding an md wouldn't be too difficult.
Hi Merrill, interesting subject. Aerial metal detecting has been used since at least the 1960s to find Ore deposits. On pasture a wheeled drone could take the hard work out of scanning for hoards and on flat cultivated land or flat terrain. The flying drones could easily be stabilised but I am not saying how! As for looking for small items we are safe for a while 👍
I relic hunt in the UK and I dig anything non-ferrous unless there are a lot of known objects such as shotgun shells where I will skip them if they are the right size and number. I might miss a good target that way once in a while but when I have limited time to detect a field, being able to cover more ground is of value... but for the most part, I am listening for tone and attack to decide whether to dig. When I started, that was the only way to do it and it is still the best.
Fascinating stuff Merrill. I see this as being most useful to STEM applications but eventually hobbyists will grab it and probably have a man on the ground who can then follow up and dig the markers that a drone puts down to me that would be the most beneficial and expeditious way to locate and retrieve targets. Looking forward to seeing this industry evolve.
Seems like it would be easier and faster to mount a coil on an wheeled RC vehicle rather than a drone, especially for flatter terrain without saplings and tall brush. Very interesting topic, Merrill.
totally agree with you Kevin, and we should start working on it, Again, the combination of both aerial & terrestrial drones is very exiting. These techs will definitely find its way into the market, metal detecting as we know it today will become an old-timer discipline
Towed metal detector and magnetometer arrays are used daily by geophysicists, of which I am one and do this regularly.
Interesting stuff. Several years ago I watched a Discovery Channel show about diamond mining. A guy in Canada was convinced the diamonds were in old lava shafts called Kimberlite Pipes. He actually mounted a type of metal detector on an airplane and was able to use it to pinpoint where the Pipes were. Several years later I was on Venice Beach in Fl. when a gentleman approached me and we began talking detectors. He shared that he used to detect from an airplane. I realized it was the fellow from the show I watched. At that time he had a thriving mining business at the sites he had discovered from the plane. I can't remember the exact dates he did this but I believe it was the early 80's. I can only believe the technology has exponentially blossomed in this field as it has in others. Can't wait to see what the future holds! Thanks for sharing.
Wow! That is so cool that you got to meet him!
Are you talking about Chuck Fipke?
@@ryanenorth For the life of me I can't remember his name. Just that he was a Canadian and one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Probably 6'2 or so.
There are already drones operating magnetometers in regular search grids being used to locate buried pipelines and abandoned well bores. One company I worked for was flying an airborne drone for magnetic surveying as far back as 2007.
Wow!
I have been thinking in developing a Rover to do the same.
Swing a regular detector, read the pitch sound of the object, if that's in range of what I'm looking for install a little flag in the area and keep going.
I honestly never even knew this was a thing. Its crazy to think about but i could definitely see drones scanning the ground and placing markers. 🤯🤯🤯
Drones are annoying when there buzzing around me but are also useful in some circumstances. Thanks again for the interesting video and it was pretty cool to see one of my comments talked about in the video.Yes the metal gun does need to touch the specimen to record a accurate reading. Play with the settings on you’re manticore. I’ve started to and I noticed how much potential this machine has. Everything will get unlocked lol.
!!!!!!!!Indian head nickels!!!!!!!Hey Merrill, this is Richard @ALASKA_MetalDetectingRecovery from Alaska. I fly down to Florida every year on my birthday to go visit my retired parents, I always bring my Metal Detector down with me and this year I’ve decided to “SPREAD THE LOVE” randomly dropping 40 Indian Head Nickels on the beaches and side roads where they have little beaches. I have a collection of about 100 Indian Head Nickels and I really don’t need that many… WISH I COULD MUDLARK WITH YOU SOMEDAY… 😎🤘
Nice Video, I seen a video from Africa they used a drone to pick up heat signatures after sunset set up with GPS & video images, This only works from a hot day to cooling off & they where looking for Military artifacts, They found had gun from the 1900's, Items in the ground baking in the sun would keep the heat after sunset longer than the soil with a limited window of time until the item is cool downed to the soil temp, They could use this method in England looking for large cashes in farm fields during summer
Recently went down this rabbit hole and then found your video lol, I thought I was onto something here and see your video is from 1 year ago. Long time viewer now and thought it was hilarious you already made a video on it.
I do this hobby to go out into nature and relax. At home, however, I could play a metal hunting simulation from a prone position. Professional treasure hunters could help themselves with drones in hard-to-reach areas. They could locate a large amount of metal and later check what is hidden there. Drones with lidar and thermal cameras would be even more effective.
Thank you. No!
The magic of metal detecting is that you dig your shovel and later your knees deep into the mud and have a moment of anticipation when you don't know what you're going to pull out of the ground.
For me.
Great 👍 video. Stay safe and HH
It be good if LiDAR and the technology of the nokta invenio be more affordable to scan the ground in real time and see if the object is worth digging out.
Yes a year ago I had idea what if we just hang a coil to a drone... now your video shows that more people thought about that. :-)))
Utterly compelling viewing Merrill. Thank you
Thank you!
The fun is the find. So I prefer swing my machine as long as it is fun. Thank you for such a well done video! At the end of a search I count the number of finds to be just as much fun as total dollars found. Having fun is what important.
Good morning
Nice to see you using the ring cases
Also you may have seen these programs but if not check them out on UA-cam
Great British history hunters fantastic finds all filmed by channel 4
Regards Tony and Kaz
Good morning Merrill, I was asked about this some time ago. The last drone video is nice but there are some flaws to it. The frequencies used to metal detect will let you see big objects, It will miss the small objects like coins or buttons. We know the low frequencies will detect deep larger objects. But here is the thing, no matter how advanced your metal detector drone would get, high frequencies do have ground penetrating limitations.
Less thinking .. more digging Merrill. 🙂You will never see a drone finding coins, rings, buttons, etc. in a field, around a house or on a beach. Too small of targets. Large objects .. sure. If you can miss a coin when you are walking over it, how is a drone going to find it flying higher than your coil is on the ground. This is like the flying car I was promised 50 years go. I have yet to see anyone come pick me up for a ride in one of those yet.
This was a enlightening video to be sure. In the last fifty years I watched metal/mineral identification from many different standpoints, from steel mill metallurgy to the metal detecting hobby, to the oil industry fracking. I think this has a future. If Minelab makes it I will probably buy it, not so much Garrett. This was a wonderfully done video, nicely presented, with the usual charm and grace. Peace to you and yours from the Fiedlers.
Garrett is good in water though. No flooding issues!
@@normawinton6832 You got me there. I used to take the ATPro to Europe with me to detect in the small creeks. The little sniping coil was perfect around the large rocks in the along the bridges and shallow water fords. Garrett make a great waterproof pinpointer, probably the best including the one from XP. I'm not real big on their other detectors though. Peace
As LiDAR is being used by archeologists so will drone metal detecting be used to do fast metal sweeps of land. Before a shovel is brought onto said land ground penetrating radar units will be deployed. GPR units are getting better and less expensive all the time. So running a rolling GPR wagon over beaches etc will, soon-ish, be a reality. Things change, you roll with it or you get run over.
Hello Merrill, Took my brand new Legend out for the first time yesterday. Found 7¢ and 20 minutes later called it quits 😂. Way too cold, disadvantage’s of buying one in the middle of winter! ANYWAY, DRONES! I’ve thought about this a while back and being 70 years old, I don’t know that I’ll get to see it come to life. A drone that COULD be capable of finding gold from the air would not only be priceless but could destroy the economy of the whole planet! Gold and silver will, I would imagine, still be precious, but there would be so much more of it that the prices would drop considerably! That’s just my 2¢ 👍
It will be interesting to view this video on UA-cam in 10 years. I'm sure we will be amazed.
It’ll get 500 more views in 10 years while the channels that fake it average 40,000 likes! 🤣
Drones will be the way
Nice vid brother. I’d say beaches would be hard because the markers won’t change after inputted but waves and tides will move the targets around.
Fields and parks may work better, but someone still needs to dig um.
Interesting topic ✌🏽
another great video thanks again for all you do the time it takes to make these videos for us to watch thanks again.
Verbal TID.
The Deus 2 WS6 ergonomics w/o remote are stellar. The future might be to add value to that concept by providing verbal audio of TID. A computer generated voice simply tells you the TID number or TID range. All of the data is already present so what is needed is a range of voice intrusion preceding, following or on top of the signal tone. This could be applied in various offerings to improve ergonomics; looking at one's screen while detecting can be harmful to your cervical spine/subluxation. trap/neck/shoulder pain etc... -TB
Love the new ring displays
Still have to pinpoint and finely Dig it.., no drone has mastered holding a shovel yet 😂
Truth!
My thoughts Merrill, well look at where we are today, and look back a hundred and fifty years ago. Can you see the difference? We have come a long way to say the least. So far in fact that my mind cannot imagine where we will be in another hundred and fifty years. I was born in 1945 and 77 yo. Just in my lifetime mankind has made many giant leaps. A horse can go a lot of places a car cannot. So I believe detectors will get better, but that is the big way this hobby will change, we will always use our feet in this hobby. I don't care to think about where we are headed, it's too mind boggline, so I'll let you do that for me. All I have to do is, just keep watching. Plus, I'm being entertained at the same time. 😉
If drones are the future ,I'm awful glad I am part of the past. To me it's the personal connection to the moment and place your hunting. Watching a drone go find targets would take some of the adventure out of typical detecting. The cost I'm sure would prohibit most from trying it. Thought provoking episode 👍🏻👍🏻
I wholeheartedly agree! It takes the process and the unforgettable moments out of it!
Will definitely boost the sales of ammo, particularly for the shotgun
I hear your nemesis Barry is into metal detecting drones 😂
Lol! Only Barry has the surgical efficiency!
Hey Merrill Just bought a really expensive drone for my older son for videoing festivals he goes to but you know I’ll be borrowing it to check out beach conditions and cuts along the beaches. It’s got a 2.5 mile travel distance so it’s gonna save a ton of time driving from beach to beach checking conditions.😁👍
I want to get one for beach surveying too!
They have lydar drones too.that scan areas and could see under the vegetation and find old mines and home sites and all kinds of ground would be great.They have an episode on skin walker ranch you should see.i've head they use them to find mining areas.But could you imagine being able to see under the grass and bushes and trees to find old foundations and get a GPS reading of the spot.
I would rather have the drone on Skywalker ranch episode.its not your average drone it's made for mining and seeing under all vegetation and abnormalcies like man made structures and no telling what other drones they make they have a four to eight hour fly time they map large areas.
First of all, my daydream of somehow developing a drone just crashed and broke a plastic propeller. 😄 Nevertheless, I don't think these will replace muddy boots on the ground for the near to medium future.
I could however imagine a scenario where a private company could attempt to con a government to fund their work, especially if they that have a group of vitriolic 'archaeologists' already against M. detectorists (such as is the case in France). All they'd have to do, would be to convince/fool them into vehemently believing that the technology was impressive and detailed, and then that we as a community could be disposed of and banned. I use the word con, because it would simply not be cost effective (agreeing with your point on not being able to say more than there's a phase shift), burn up a lot of operator time and heat-maps would still need manual investigation and digging. In the end I think that all-terrain land drones would be more viable (battery-wise) if motor-generated EMF factors could be cancelled out.
If the technology became more accessible to our community (as well as people less scrupulous about permissions), I could otherwise imagine a drone heat-map being drawn up on dark nights whilst people slept, and where locals weren't twitchy about alien invasions.
If a drone can find me gold well hell ya, but Merrell if a detector is now costing us 1500.00 and change what's the price of a drone finding gold going to be?, I pride myself on the finds i make!, trying to find and better my hunting techniques makes me a better hunter where are we going if this technology goes there? Carry on my good man with your informative videos
Great point
On a serious note,thank you for the information Merrill
We really are living in the future. Good concept man, I’ve have an idea for future detecting too but it’s so good that I want to keep it to myself for now 🙈😅. My concern is though at the rate technology is changing these concepts will quickly become obsolete, I have a feeling one day you will just be able to stick a probe into the ground and it will scan everything similar to radar giving you a 3D image of everything
Thanks
That is really cool! I have played around with some drones in the past and have some basic UA-cam videos on my channel. Nothing spectacular. It was a short-lived hobby. My main hobby is metal detecting. I’ve been a Detectorist since I was nine years old and won the whites XLT spectrum in 1995 at a club hunt where I found the prize token. I have recently upgraded to a whites, DFX, but I am in the market and dream of getting a equinox. I have been filming some of my live digs and could use a little help on how you edit the videos sense yours are perfectly put together in my opinion. I have footage from my hunt yesterday where I found five silver half dollars. Two 1964 Kennedy half dollars and three walking liberty half dollars. The footage is great quality would love to know how you edit yours and hopefully you can check out the final video. I have a little honey hole that is filled with silver half dollars and will be starting my Metal detecting channel on this account with those videos from yesterday being the first ones I upload. If you have any pointers, please let me know and I hope you get to see my videos of these beautiful silver coins I have found. Keep up the good work I watch every single one of your videos.
Skin walker ranch episode.disapearing alien portals.For the drone episode.
Love the footage from Burning Man.
This is so funny and a bit scary because I was just researching this exact same topic, Haha.
Interesting stuff Merril!🤔but it completely takes the fun out of it in my opinion n I know you completely agree!😁👍
Awesome video Merrill, thank you
My thought is a lot of beaches you can not fly a drone and also in parks too. So if the drone laws do not change we as a metal detectorist should not have any worries.
Great point
@@MetalDetectingNYC Funny, I guessed your comment "great point". as I said it to myself as I clicked on your reply. You know Merrill, I truly believe YOU help keep this 77 yo mind tuned up, as your videos are truly fascinating. You are a big part of my life Merrill and I've never meet you. Every video you put out just adds to my metal detecting enjoyment. Tomorrow I'm headed to the beach. Theres a storm headed here and I hope theres a cut and I will be pratcing your "V" patern you taught me. Thanks Merrill, I believe your videos help add years and purpose to my life.
It would work to locate bottle dumps, caches, and large Roman hoards. This type of approach has already been used to locate shipwreck treasure, just not employing drones.
I enjoyed your video Merrill' i do good to work a Metal detecting but no drones.Thank for sharing with us and good Luck to you.
I don't see it happening anytime in the near future as far as we are concerned. The objects we look for are too small. For industrial purposes it absolutely is happening.
Exactly this... These drones cannot scan like we do, they will only detect very large objects. To scan closer to the surface they would be better off using an autonomous vehicle. I don't see anyone treasure hunting autonomously in the next 50 years... I don't think there is a market for it and the price of entry would be a barrier
As for me. I rather swing my detector… I enjoy hunting the difficult terrain and the exercise that I get from detecting… I feel it’s more rewarding…
Heck yes Mr. Gold!!!!
You can't break the laws of physics.
These drone metal detectors are using old metal detecting technology, which are only capable of detecting large objects very deep. They have improved the efficiency of this type of detecting, nothing more. This includes GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar). I was told that XP is working on a GRP detector. I don't know if it's for the consumer or industry?
One other important issue is wattage. If they increase the power of the electromagnetic field, it will have an effect on medical devices (pacemakers), telecommunications, etc.
I really enjoy your videos!
Interesting!
I have been wanting to build a metal detecting drone for a long time.
I've already seen several metal detectorists on You Tube droning on and on.
Well researched and interesting vid. In the UK is feels like we're building on every scrap of land so there won't be any permissions anyway😢
New York and the surrounding area is like that too! 🥲
Good idea for land mine detection, for safer faster removal.
Fascinating stuff! Now look into an AI controlled, all terrain, walking based detector for beaches. With a spray can attached to an arm which would spray a dot or circle or ..... should I say it, - an X to mark the spot! You dig as the AT-ATs look for you. (All Terrain Aluminum Tab seeker)
Kinda takes the fun out of detecting, hard enough to dig a deep dime on edge with iron near it
Yes it does!!!
The problem with that drone is it only looking for big objects it's not going to see a small coin or ring. You can get metal detectors that will show you the shape of the object in a 3D configuration, like the Nokta Invenio and my Lorenz DeepMax Z2. But what you really need is a Drone that can do a Geophysics Magnetometry survey and a metal detecting survey at the same time (my Lorenz DeepMax Z2 can do subsurface mapping). I have had some of my metal detecting permissions surveyed by a magnetometer and intend to then combine the two surveys together in Quantum GIS (a free Program). QGIS can merge and blend the two images seamlessly together. I will then be able to see where Dwellings once stood by the concentration of metal objects in a localised area in relation to what can be seen by the magnetometry survey.
But for the future I'm trying to get my head around what Sarah Parcak (Space Archaeologist) is doing with Multispectral imagery: Multispectral imagery is a type of satellite imagery that is collected in multiple wavelengths of light. Space archaeologists can use multispectral imagery to identify different types of materials, such as stone, soil, and vegetation, which can help them locate ancient features that might be hidden under the ground.
Because then I will not need a Magnetometry survey.
Great points Cleggy!
Perfect video 👍👍
Thank you!
I would like your opinion if you could on the GPX6000. I live in Western Australia and want to go detecting over the next 12 months and longer if it suits. I like your shows as you're very informative and know what you're doing. Thanks
I’ve honestly never tried any of the gold specific machines. New York has no major natural gold deposits. If I lived in Australia I would have taken the plunge though. The GPX6000 is the Equinox of Gold Mining !
@Metal Detecting NYC @Metal Detecting NYC Thanks for taking the time to answer me, and yeah, I'll stick with the 6000. In Australia, they start $8,000. So, a big commitment. Anyway I enjoy your shows and will continue to watch. Good luck with your detecting.
Hey Merrill, the ring display cases turned out really awesome!!! But, I think drones has a wide range of different types of great uses, but as for metal detecting? I think that it will never take the place of a human being to operate the metal detector in the correct fashion, the human body is still superior for this task. I do see drone metal detectors being used for locating landmines and such, but then again for locating coins and rings, you have to swing the coil back and forth, left and right closely to the ground and the drone cannot do that. Besides, where's the sport on that idea anyway! It would be like playing golf without the holes. Thanks for the latest news on metal detecting bro. Greg the Egg.
Supposing you had a drone and an air gun that fired a colored dart (feathers) or a paintball gun that could shot different colored balls at locations with the color based on the vid number?
This would be way more profitable than scoops if you could refine it!
LOL you're not kidding!!!
There is a drone system with magnetometer, but the software learning curve is tough for most, and the price tag as a high as a new car.
Built a wheeled one year's ago. Great on sand, poor on soil.
I saw one of those on a I Dig Daytona video!
The nokta LEGEND v1.45 will have all that
🎼🎵🎶" Welcome.... to the Machine" 🎶🎵. (Pink Floyd) 🤖 !!!!
Curious what you think of Maceraci Defineci and all those ancient burried treasure finds. Seems odd to always be finding such things but also does not all seem staged.
Yep, the clankers will win in the end. Or the Jedi nights?
Yup, Uncle Sam wants his share!
If the drone had an auger it could land and dig. Pinpointing and picking up the item would be a whole other problem to solve right after.
I can see a drone to go to a area scan it then give you the GPS location of the targets on your metal detector... probably in the next 10 years...
The only application I can think of where an aerial drone makes sense over a rover is for minesweeping. Even for difficult access sites a ground rover dropped by a helicopter or drone would be more practical.
🤔 I’m curious about drones detecting water bodies. GPS location should be enough to mark targets. Makes me wonder what the military uses these days. Still, it’s like when online shopping moved in and home town businesses moved out. We don’t want the joy of detecting to be reduced by machines and laziness.
Pretty sure I’ve seen somewhere that that gun that determines metal content gives off radiation when in use!
Those Drones.... "You Can't Handle the Trash"🤣
Crazy.
Nooooooo!! 😢 The future is now! Good luck miners!
Do you think that someone could genetically modify some ants and worms that would dig in the grountil they found small particles enough accumulated to trigger them to come up then they glow in the dark Or they grow under UV light and then they will stand there
I think they will gladly give those objects up! They are tired of getting sliced when they sit next to a dead President! 😂
Can you like a couple of videos of mine??
I do not have a lot of videos in my own. But look at my videos I have Saved liked 👍
@@MetalDetectingNYC LOL Merrill you ARE funny.
Manicore by minelab first generation, like a fish finder on a stick..What would the Wright Brothers think 🤔. Of drones flight without people.
I'm going to look at them .. my company can buy it
you never cease to amaze me. This was a great dissertation!
That cake and cream in a can wow, the look on both of your faces said it all. Yum. Prawns fry up
What I find interesting is not the drone, but the metal detector used by SPH. They claim it can find targets 10 to 15 meters deep. Add to that the distance above the ground it safely can fly, and you have a very deep sensing detector! They should put that technology in a hand held unit…just remember to bring the big shovel 😂
Hi, don't worry, this will stay confined to commercial applications - maybe beach hunter s need to be careful. Drones cause a lot of EMI, so the coil needs to be far away from the drone. This in turn creates a lever, which interferes with the drone's stabilization if the coil hits the grass or the ground, requiring a significant distance to the ground. It's also unwieldy. Plus - you get only one pass per flyover. How many times do you sweep the coil for a regular target? Who wants to have a drone fly over the field five times before digging? Mine detection, where you have a clearly defined area, low discrimination need and a lot of time - maybe. Magnetometers? Yes. Regular hobby stuff? Nope. Drones are like 3D printers: a lot of hype but usefulness only for very specific applications.
Also AI has little use, as the signals are easily analyzed by traditional signal processing.
It's a concept yes. I thought of several concepts but then I realized all the time and money it would take to have a working machine I realize I would never get the return on the investment. No matter how good a drone is the bottom line is detectors technology requires a slow overlapping sweep over unlevel terrain. So it basically can't cover more then a person sweeping. They might pull it off looking for a sunken ship but they're not digging below trash under a root while pulling nails with pinpointers. They would need to dig evasive holes even if they got close. With all the weight of everything to detect, dig and then store it the weight would practically require a helicopter lol. Then how do they fill the hole? And that's even more equipment. By the time they ever got to this point if it was even possible we'll already have dug so much it would never allow them return their investment never the less make a profit.