I received my new Safari on Tuesday December 7th. I had to wait until the following Sunday before I could take her out, seemed like a month and not five days. I charged the batteries and read the manual cover to cover countless times.
Myself and a friend arrived at the stubble field at 7am on a very cold Sunday morning, what greeted us was a very frozen 40 acre field. Whilst drinking a coffee we admired the Safari and then got ourselves down to business. Setting it up seemed second nature after reading the manual and looking at different forums on the net.
My friend hit the middle of the field whilst I decided to walk the tractor trails. My first signal was a 1908 Halfpenny, followed quite quickly by a thimble from the 1800's. I was approaching the bottom of the hill and the end of the tractor tracks, and I was about to turn around when I got that banging signal, I will never forget that sound and meter reading as long as I live. I pushed my spade in and took a spade full of earth and corn stubble out, I scanned the hole with the machine and it was still there.