Beyond Gutted...
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:50 pm
So me and Harpoon set for a great days detecting. Probably our very best field was rolled and ready and we had waited for it to be perfect so we could enjoy the day to the max.
We walk out to our favourite starting point a tree in the middle and note a broom head sticking out of the ground. 'Wasnt there last year' comments Dave 'must have been turned a little deeper than we thought'... Then the plastic sticking out of the ground, bottles visible and it started to dawn on us... Turning the machines on just caused a crazed beeping as the Deus went wild... A massive adjustment to the discrim and sens meant it was workable but now littered with silver paper, food wrappers, burnt junk, tarpaulin rings and every associated piece of crap you could possibly imagine.
It is our worst nightmare, a field we have meticulously 'cleaned' taking every piece of junk with us for over 10 years, it was at the point where every signal is a missed one and gets you fired up, sadly no more.
We were to depressed and put off by the smell to carry on.
The question now is can we go back with a mind set knowing whats coming and give it two hours at a time to start clearing it again, hoping that a smattering of finds whilst doing so will keep our spirits up or do we ignore until after the next turn of the plough, which I fear will make it worse and break some of the big cans and cat food wrappers into smaller and more numerous bits, is it now or never for trying to 'clean it up'?
The bit I don't get is we have so many eco rules and taxes and yet mass spreading of rubbish is fine!!?? Why don't we just take our own household waste out and throw it in the fields and rivers seeing as that is where it appears to be ending up, indeed much of the rubbish appeared to come from overseas as the pet food was for German brands I hadnt seen here.
I would never dream of drinking my can of drink and throwing it mindlessly in the field, but that is exactly what has happened on a massive scale, just cannot be right. We almost felt sorry for the field itself. Generations of people since Celtic times had all left their mark here, by way of pottery and losses in the sandy soil on a hill overlooking the valley. Our generation have left it looking like a brown field tip, an eyesore, littering the general area as the plastic blew around in the wind...
Awful plain awful, appears environmental rules are all well and good for politicians to preach about at election time, but in reality whilst you can be fined for dropping a can in the street, spreading tons of household garbarge over 100 acres is just peachy.
Apologies for rant, I will get off my soap box now.
BY
We walk out to our favourite starting point a tree in the middle and note a broom head sticking out of the ground. 'Wasnt there last year' comments Dave 'must have been turned a little deeper than we thought'... Then the plastic sticking out of the ground, bottles visible and it started to dawn on us... Turning the machines on just caused a crazed beeping as the Deus went wild... A massive adjustment to the discrim and sens meant it was workable but now littered with silver paper, food wrappers, burnt junk, tarpaulin rings and every associated piece of crap you could possibly imagine.
It is our worst nightmare, a field we have meticulously 'cleaned' taking every piece of junk with us for over 10 years, it was at the point where every signal is a missed one and gets you fired up, sadly no more.
We were to depressed and put off by the smell to carry on.
The question now is can we go back with a mind set knowing whats coming and give it two hours at a time to start clearing it again, hoping that a smattering of finds whilst doing so will keep our spirits up or do we ignore until after the next turn of the plough, which I fear will make it worse and break some of the big cans and cat food wrappers into smaller and more numerous bits, is it now or never for trying to 'clean it up'?
The bit I don't get is we have so many eco rules and taxes and yet mass spreading of rubbish is fine!!?? Why don't we just take our own household waste out and throw it in the fields and rivers seeing as that is where it appears to be ending up, indeed much of the rubbish appeared to come from overseas as the pet food was for German brands I hadnt seen here.
I would never dream of drinking my can of drink and throwing it mindlessly in the field, but that is exactly what has happened on a massive scale, just cannot be right. We almost felt sorry for the field itself. Generations of people since Celtic times had all left their mark here, by way of pottery and losses in the sandy soil on a hill overlooking the valley. Our generation have left it looking like a brown field tip, an eyesore, littering the general area as the plastic blew around in the wind...
Awful plain awful, appears environmental rules are all well and good for politicians to preach about at election time, but in reality whilst you can be fined for dropping a can in the street, spreading tons of household garbarge over 100 acres is just peachy.
Apologies for rant, I will get off my soap box now.
BY