Lowbatts said:
Do you know if Aurora streets are getting sidewalk/curb work this year again? Went down through the island when they were tearing down the old big buildings and there were 4 or 5 large and small old safes by the dumpster. Warmed my heart...
Ever worked the old Farnsworth site? Silver Springs?
Hey Lowbatts, no I'm not sure about the sidewalks in Aurora. Would I know just by looking to see if they are tearing it up or is there some way I could find out the upcoming schedule of work to be done? I drive through Aurora on the way to work and have been to just about all of the parks scoping them out. A couple weeks back they had been putting in new woodchips at just about every park I visited.
It would be a sight to see a bunch of old safes piled up. I'm sure you went and tried opening them! I would think they would be required to throw them out with the doors removed though.
I've thought about going to Silver Springs but it's a state park and I wasn't sure of the laws there. So far there have been plenty of places I can go under permission from Oswego Park District and Fox Valley Park District, so I haven't ventured away too far. Also because I get to go out for short periods of time and can't really go too far on the weekdays. Weekends maybe!
What's the old Farnsworth site? I've seen some older farm properties off of farnsworth by Fermi Lab... is that what you mean?
Basically, right now with the Ames Planter Buddy... shallow holes are fine and dandy, but anything that approaches 8" is taking forever to dig with it. I wouldn't even want to dig really deep targets without a good digging spade like the Lesche Groundshark. That's one of the next accessories on my list.
I found it really hard to believe that ring of Dankowski's sank 23" in 3 minutes, but I have no way to disprove it either. I'm just too new to knowing what ground conditions are around and what happens when objects are dropped in them. But I do know that around where I live there are rocks EVERYWHERE in the soil, so there MUST be coins frozen in time at all kinds of depths.
I guess there really is no one answer except to KEEP LOOKING. I'm sure most of the places I've been going have been hunted a 1000 times before, but since I've found pretty deep quarters and dimes I know there are still treasures to be found.
I want to get down to windycitydetectors and pick some of these top end detectors up and see what they can do. Does anyone know if WCD's has a test garden?