Im involved in recovering buried logs off farms,most are from the original clear felling,have fallen into swamps and sunk,the swamps were drained and are now home to milking cows.
The process up until now has been pushing a stainless rod down through the soil,locating the log(s) and excavating..
Has anybody used anything similar to a metal detector to find such underground objects?
Thanks Nev

Reply to post by neville wallace-wells, on December 04, 2000 at 23:50:27:

Don't think a metal detector would help for wood.

One peice that would help is ground penetrating radar, but it is expensive.

GPR would speed your recovery rate, but you would have to have some very valuable timber to justify the cost.

I spoke to the arborist for a university in the PNW, he tried to get GPR for a search for utilities when the campus was upgrading sewars. Not all previouse improvements were in the records, they just new the approximate location. GPR was shot down as too expensive. But the after action studies showed that the elimination of exploritory digging would have paid for the GPR sled.

There are several sites on the net for companies that do GPR contracting.

Reply to post by neville wallace-wells, on December 04, 2000 at 23:50:27:

Hi Neville, Ask around in your local area and find a "dowser". These are people with the ability to locate a lot of stuff underground; water, pipes, cables and roots of trees even. I know a lot of folks are scared about this, but trust me, it works!!!. I can locate water pipes and phone/electrical wires and sometimes roots, buried logs I never tried yet,
Good Luck, Jim.