Took our old greenhouse down yesterday and until I worked out how to get them out, I must have lost about 50% of them. Didn't even see where they went (apart from the one that hit me in the face!) I expect I'll be picking them out of the mower for weeks.
Yes! Had to replace glass a couple of weeks ago, and only one clip went ping - and, amazingly, I did find it, which was just as well, as no spares to hand.
A metal detector would be useful for non ferrous objects but if you already know they are magnetic then the magnet can do two jobs at once ,find and collect the items.
One of those old TV magnets performed a magnificent job retrieving my Meccano nuts and bolts from the carpet before Mother passed the Hoover over the floor, before I removed it from a telly down the dump The vacuum made such a racket when swallowing them that mother thought the machine was getting damaged. It was my brothers interest in fly fishing that did that.Mother made an expedition into his room quickly pushing the hoover ahead and pouncing on a dead fly on the floor. Immediately there was an unusual whizzing noise which she discovered was the reel on a rod paying out its contents of nylon line which she had not noticed the fly was attached to. 20 seconds later the Hoover was dead as its works ground to a halt with yards of hot melting nylon wound tightly around the brush roller and the drive belt.
True, but a metal detector can more thoroughly, with less effort and more quickly sweep an area, than can a magnet. Find it with a detector, pick up with a magnet.
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