Just dropped $150 on a ground-penetrating radar survey and got nothing but rocks

Ngl I'm pretty frustrated right now. I paid a local guy in Ohio $150 to run a GPR scan over a patch of my buddy's farmland where we thought there might be an old homestead foundation. The guy came out, spent maybe 45 minutes, and the results showed a bunch of buried limestone chunks and an old water line. That's it. No old bottles, no foundation, no nothing. I was hoping to find something to dig into on weekends, but instead I just burned cash on a guy telling me what was basically obvious from the surface. Has anyone else had a GPR scan come back totally useless or am I just unlucky with this site?

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drew96511d ago

That's the thing about paying for specialized gear these days, it ALWAYS feels like you're gambling on someone else's machine doing the work you could've done with a shovel and some patience. It's kind of a metaphor for how we throw money at shortcuts instead of trusting our own two hands to figure stuff out.

derekward10d ago

Tbh I had the exact same thing happen with a guy in Indiana. $200 later and all he showed me was a map of where the drainage pipes were at.