Bucket Lister Today!

[oldmxrat]

Got out for a hunt this morning in a small Sierra town. I was trying to get permission at one of the old houses along the RR tracks but couldn't get an okay, so I just went along between the tracks and the property lines.
I've been wanting to find an old RR padlock since I first started detecting. Well, today was the day!
Also got a marble (love finding them!), a 1956 Uncle Sam Half Buck play money and a 1962 Look magazine 25 year anniversary token.

Oh, and the usual junk plus $3.69 in clad.

 

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[Bucket Lister]

Dry well drained soils really helps the survival rate of the relics.

Not to mention easier to dig than silty/clay crud.
My permission has a mix. The front yard was mostly silty, the back near the barn is all ash layer full of hot rocks, and the area I'm digging now is the most beautiful fluffy topsoil I've ever seen--it's like digging sifted flour!

I wish I still had all my childhood marbles still.

I still do still! 😝 Nyah! 🤣

 

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[oldmxrat]

Dry well drained soils really helps the survival rate of the relics.
Congratulations on the R/R lock.
Beautiful condition
Is there any marking on the back?

I wish I still had all my childhood marbles still.

Yeah, even those two aluminum pieces came out clean, they were also in the railroad embankment.
Mo back markings, just smooth.

I honestly don't know what it is with marbles, but I always get a big smile on when I find them.

 

[pepperj]

Yeah, even those two aluminum pieces came out clean, they were also in the railroad embankment.
Mo back markings, just smooth.

I honestly don't know what it is with marbles, but I always get a big smile on when I find them.

I rarely find marbles at my sites.
Clay once in a blue moon.

 

[Mud Hut]

I really love those pull tabs, but that lock ain't to shabby either!

 

[Relicific]

Nice find

 

[oldmxrat]

Afternoon chums!! Hope u have all had a nice Sunday! Xx 🤗

As predicted torrential rain over night and this morning so i made an executive decision that we would not be detecting today!! So we went to the Rocks by Rail museum to see if we could glean any info on the ironstone mining that took place in some of our fields… hmm there wasnt much info.. but himself had a lovely time looking at the trains!! xx

He has had an emotionally hard few days .. he watched a documentary about Roman Soldiers earlier in the week, and was crushed when they said Roman Soldiers had to be over 6ft… so he wouldnt have made the cut… inconsolable is his current mood…😔 when i explained this to the train man, he looked strangely at us.. and let Himself climb up into on of the engines.. that put a smile back on his chops.. ahh. what a awesome girlfriend i am … 😂😂 xx
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You ARE a good girlfriend for that one, us boys love our trains!