Swamp bash GPZ 7000

Here in the Pilbara after a killer season things are starting to go pear shaped with the first big weather system of the year coming in hard. Nothing worse then days off and it's to wet to head out. Impassable bog holes are manageable but the moaning ground noise of the detector is the final straw. Takes me back to the release date when I struggled to tame the pure horsepower of the wild beast. Can anyone out there give me any advice on how to run the z in wet ground,  any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Justdoit, I think it's probably distant lightning playing havoc with EMI. I had the same problem here in the GT today.

No it's not EMI Iam talking about as that is common in the Pilbara all year round. It's more a case of the salt coming to the surface in wet ground.

Hey JP I would love to pursue professional help via your latest training venture, but it's a bit far from home. Is there any tips your willing to part with over the airways. I don't understand what you mean by saturable ground.

Saturable ground is dependent on the Gold mode and Ground type mode your using, basically speaking its when the coil gets swamped by highly magnetic surface minerals resulting in a signal when the coil is coupled to the ground (height varies dependent on severity of saturation).

The only way to tame salt is to maintain VERY accurate coil control and sweep speed, if its too extreme then you need to also be prepared to use a less aggressive gold mode and Sensitivity settings.

Hope this helps
JP

Thank you both for your reply.

Gold mode, time to bite the bullet. I don't know why Iam so apposed to anything other than high yeild difficult, I have never lasted any longer than an hour or so. Without bailing out and back to my comfort zone.
The the exception being last April at Leonora. Soaking wet goldfield new machine no ferrite,talk about full noise. Being determined to detect regardless of rain I settled on extra deep difficult sensitivity 5. Full noise eight hours a day for 5 days moaning and groaning. Day6 10:30 am one ground noise  pulled me up, similar to the one I heard every swing of the coil. Only this was on a fresh push with detector holes to the left and right. Standing with one foot in a puddle I was so sure it was a  false signal, I didn't film. Well out pops a 82 gram slug.  At 500mm deep under a false bottom of iron ore.

The points that concern me are as follows.

Now if I wasn't looking at dozer tracks and detector holes, would I have got the hammer and chisel out ? NO.
Did these coarse settings only work because the target was a textbook nugget.(As Iam sure these settings would miss .22 bullets on the surface) Why did the previous Operator miss it,did I have a depth advantage due to wet ground?
In ground without the visual aid of workings how could anyone identify a similar target response in the swamp?
When operating close to rich ground how do I run in a setting Iam not confident in as patch hunting should be done once thoroughly unless ground is proved?
   Any  detector operators opinions appreciated.