[meteorite-list] Magnet canes are evil

From: David Pensenstadler <dfpens01_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:33:36 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <10647.15722.qm_at_web113316.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

I took an old collapsible tripod leg and modified the bottom with a powerful magnet to use as a cane. Works well.

Dave

--- On Tue, 8/24/10, Thunder Stone <stanleygregr at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Thunder Stone <stanleygregr at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnet canes are evil
> To: parkforestmet at hotmail.com, countdeiro at earthlink.net
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 7:32 PM
>
> List:
>
> When I got into meteorite hunting and decided to make a
> magnet cane, I thought about how to make it and this show
> "Becker" came on; it starts Ted Dansen as a grumpy Doctor
> and noticed that the blind man walked across the street and
> into a diner and sat at a table.? As he sat, he folded the
> cane and set it in a backpack.? And it hit me -?? What a
> great design for a meteorite hunting stick. I should make a
> magnet cane out of a folding blind mans walking cane.? So I
> bought one at a medical store and refined the bottom with
> glue and a screw to attach the magnet and made my very own
> meteorite hunting cane.? It's great because I can fold it
> and put it in my back pocket or my backpack.? It's also
> good for travel - like on a plane.
>
> It looks very much like this one.
>
>
> Blind-Mans-Walking-Cane-50-Inch-long.html
>
> It has always fascinated me to look at all the different
> meteorite hunting canes there are, and how each person puts
> their individuality in making them.
>
> Greg S.
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: parkforestmet at hotmail.com
> > To: countdeiro at earthlink.net
> > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:00:28 -0500
> > CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnet canes are evil
> >
> >
> > Next time I'm hunting in an area that will take me
> hours from my vehicle I'll be using one of these. Ideal if
> you have bad knees, hips, back and don't want to recline in
> the dirt or a farm field sprayed with pesticides,
> herbicides, liquid manure or whatever. It will have a magnet
> on the tip of course.
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/Travelon-Walking-Seat-Cane-One/dp/B001CZT4SG/ref=pd_sim_hpc_1
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:28:30 -0400
> > > From: countdeiro at earthlink.net
> > > To: ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com;
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnet canes are
> evil
> > >
> > > Robert wrote:
> > >
> > > I sometimes carry an LL6 with me....That usually
> "cures" them.
> > >
> > > Ah, come on you guys. You talk like we relative
> "newbies" are a sandwich short of your picnic. I carry a
> very powerful (+50) neomydium on a staff I use, cause I'm a
> cripple and I don't like to fall down, or bend over. But, my
> first location device is my own pair of MK2 eyeballs backed
> by recognition patterns learned in studies on line, in
> papers, texts and handling in person thousands of meteorite
> wrongs and rights. Yeah, I know, I'll never catch up to you
> in numbers, but you'd be surprised at the difference in each
> individual's learning abilities, memory and powers of
> observation. Per esempio. I was dropped in a known
> strewnfield that had been worked, admittedly for six years,
> by one of the best hunters in the Americas and several of
> his equally experienced dealer/hunter friends. Within an
> hour I spotted a 13.7 kilo LL6 sticking three inches out of
> the ground. I had used my eyes first, then the cane second.
> If it hadn't been attracted I would have picked it up anyway
> to lo
> > up
> > > e it. If it was obviously not a wrong, but still
> ringing bells (possible planetary, or other rariety) I would
> have put it down. Then cubed, GPS'ed and taken a photo, put
> it in a baggy (if it would fit) and taken it home to the
> scope. But guess what?...this LL6 clicked, albeit lightly.
> So, you had better use a lunaite to embarass "newbies" with
> their magnets. And keep in mind that hunting for meteorites
> isn't a very complicated business. Hell, you can teach dogs
> to do it.
> > > And about that first lunar to be found in the
> Americas...don't be surprised if some reportably dumb ass
> newbie trips over it.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Count Deiro
> > > IMCA 3536
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >From: "Matson, Robert D."
> > > >Sent: Aug 24, 2010 1:10 PM
> > > >To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > > >Subject: [meteorite-list] Magnet canes are
> evil
> > > >
> > > >Mark wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> As soon as everyone stops using metal
> detectors and magnet canes
> > > >> to look for meteorites then the first
> Lunars in Europe or USA
> > > >> will eventually be found, .... until
> then!
> > > >
> > > >I have never used a magnet cane, nor will I
> ever, and I always
> > > >advise new hunters against their use. A
> magnet cane is basically
> > > >an H-, L-, iron, and stony-iron filter. I
> sometimes carry an LL6
> > > >with me to the desert on the off-chance I'll
> run into someone using
> > > >a magnet cane. That usually "cures" them.
> ;-)
> > > >
> > > >--Rob
> > >
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