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Bought a ground-penetrating radar rental for a weekend dig in Oregon and it changed my whole view of the site
I was totally skeptical the GPR would pick up anything useful past tree roots and old fence wire, but after three hours of scanning we found a clear anomaly that turned out to be a buried stone hearth about 4 feet down. The readout showed a perfect rectangle shape that matched historical records of a 1900s homestead. Has anyone else had a tool they doubted prove itself on a real site?
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rubysingh3d ago
Judge the dirt not the machine - @susan_wright34's buddy proves patience beats a refund every time.
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susan_wright343d ago
My buddy Frank out in Silverton tried the same thing with a rental GPR last fall, and he was ready to junk it after two days of nothing but ghost signals from old sprinkler pipe. He almost packed it back up but gave it one more pass near a property line. That's when @matthewmartin's comment about trusting the data popped into my head, so I told him to shut up and keep dragging it. Sure enough, he found a crisp outline of what turned out to be an old septic tank from the 1920s, not a homestead but still a huge deal for his property survey. He called me stoked, saying the machine saved him from digging six test pits blind and hitting something nasty. Now he swears by GPR for any land purchase, but I still give him grief about almost returning it.
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