Depth of the "average" cache???

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

My Uncle invested in gold coins. He died suddenly of heart failure while raking leaves in the yard. My Aunt says they never found the gold coins. Thanks for all the tips. I will have to make a trip there someday and try to find.

Please no PM's offering help. Im going to search this myself. Tips welcome.

 

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[Kas]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

My Uncle invested in gold coins. He died suddenly of heart failure while raking leaves in the yard. My Aunt says they never found the gold coins. Thanks for all the tips. I will have to make a trip there someday and try to find.

Please no PM's offering help. Im going to search this myself. Tips welcome.

Caches were put down as ready money if needed to buy something. A cache could be dug up quickly, and were buried in the night, or where no one could see the person burying the cache.
As I stated above, caches were buried where it could be seen from the "master's bedroom."

Most coin caches won't be any deeper than you could reach into the hole with your arm. Make sense?
You don't want a big noticable hole. Someone could see that the ground had been dug. Look where digging wouldn't have been noticable. Just into the field, or as suggested above, chicken coop or coral. It was a one man operation, so no need to look under a rock you couldn't move quickly, grandpa wasn't that strong.

I found my merc cache right next to the rotten stump of a wooden clothesline post. A women's cache. If you go hunting and detect the area as you would coinshooting with these tips in mind you might find a cache if it is there.
Good luck and happy hunting.

 

[morbiusandneo]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

My Uncle invested in gold coins. He died suddenly of heart failure while raking leaves in the yard. My Aunt says they never found the gold coins. Thanks for all the tips. I will have to make a trip there someday and try to find.

Please no PM's offering help. Im going to search this myself. Tips welcome.

Caches were put down as ready money if needed to buy something. A cache could be dug up quickly, and were buried in the night, or where no one could see the person burying the cache.
As I stated above, caches were buried where it could be seen from the "master's bedroom."

Most coin caches won't be any deeper than you could reach into the hole with your arm. Make sense?
You don't want a big noticable hole. Someone could see that the ground had been dug. Look where digging wouldn't have been noticable. Just into the field, or as suggested above, chicken coop or coral. It was a one man operation, so no need to look under a rock you couldn't move quickly, grandpa wasn't that strong.

I found my merc cache right next to the rotten stump of a wooden clothesline post. A women's cache. If you go hunting and detect the area as you would coinshooting with these tips in mind you might find a cache if it is there.
Good luck and happy hunting.

I measured my arms length at 29". My last cache was about 26" deep, buried about 1920's. But, it was nowhere near the "masters bedroom".........stvn.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

My Uncle invested in gold coins. He died suddenly of heart failure while raking leaves in the yard. My Aunt says they never found the gold coins. Thanks for all the tips. I will have to make a trip there someday and try to find.

Please no PM's offering help. Im going to search this myself. Tips welcome.

Caches were put down as ready money if needed to buy something. A cache could be dug up quickly, and were buried in the night, or where no one could see the person burying the cache.
As I stated above, caches were buried where it could be seen from the "master's bedroom."

Most coin caches won't be any deeper than you could reach into the hole with your arm. Make sense?
You don't want a big noticable hole. Someone could see that the ground had been dug. Look where digging wouldn't have been noticable. Just into the field, or as suggested above, chicken coop or coral. It was a one man operation, so no need to look under a rock you couldn't move quickly, grandpa wasn't that strong.

I found my merc cache right next to the rotten stump of a wooden clothesline post. A women's cache. If you go hunting and detect the area as you would coinshooting with these tips in mind you might find a cache if it is there.
Good luck and happy hunting.

Thanks for the tips. My Uncle had been investing in gold coins for some time. Nobody know where he hid them. He may have been raking leaves on top of it.

 

[Dave45]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

morbiusandneo if the cashe was 26 inchs what detector did you find it with?

 

[morbiusandneo]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

morbiusandneo if the caChe was 26 inchs what detector did you find it with?

Pendulum(map), dowsing rod(field), then probe.....And finally shovel.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

morbiusandneo if the caChe was 26 inchs what detector did you find it with?

Pendulum(map), dowsing rod(field), then probe.....And finally shovel.

My Pulse Unit will signal at 4 feet deep if the target is large, like a bucket or can.

 

[Kas]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

My cache was at 12". Most are at depths that are quick and easy to get at if needed. The quicker you can get it out of the ground and back in the better.

What I found interesting to learn the other day, was how those who traveled on the wagontrains buried their cache every night. They did so because of raids and indians. Some of these folks died during the night and the cache was never recovered.

 

[LadyDigger]

Re: Depth of the "average" cache

I use a Fisher 1270 and have dug object down to 5' One of which was an old pipeline. Yeah i know, but I worked offshore for 4 yrs and new to listen for flow. Pipeline was dead. Another good one; in Lake Grechin ,Arkansa I went to a diamond mind about 10 yrs ago. Man , talk about die hard diggers! These guys whre down 20' in the ground w/ a serious reinforcing anti cave in set up. It is open to the public and I cant wait to take my kids there to really gettm' pumped. Any Ideas on how you check soil for diamonds without just digging?

Buccaneer

Did you know you can take a 5 gallon bucket of sluiced soil (wet) home with you A DAY? We went in August of this year and I'm still going through the sluiced soil (it's dry now ). I found a few small stones that I am taking in to the diamondtologist I met at work (was a customer)...I think they are quartz, but a couple of stones have me wondering....hmmm?

Yes, I agree...those holes, mostly on the side were the mining use to be...some pretty darn big and deep holes. I crawled into a few of them and took some dirt. If you see the storage units on the other side of the field...that is where those DIE HARDS pay about $40 a month to store their equipment!!!

Watching some of those die hards that wondered in while we were there...some crawl on the ground along the dirt to search (one guy found a really nice Amytheist (sp?))....some just walk slowly along the ground looking down and others get down and dig. We had a really good rain while were were there, I recommend going BAREFOOT if it rains...that mud is hard as heck to walk in during and after a rain....never walked in mud like that before. They have a wash station to wash off the tootsies and gear! And that mud does not come out well in white t-shirts!!!

I can't wait to go back (hopefully next year )....I think I found my own way of sluicing that I want to try out at the crator (I have pics posted on my webshots...when I get ready to make my post...I'll put the link for the photos and I'll post pics of my new strainer sluicing )

We also camped at Lake Greeson....we metal detected just a tad bit on the swimming lake...hubby and I both found a ring...his was .925 and I believe mine was either a toe ring or baby's ring (no markings). We didn't do as much as I planned and I also found 3 arrowheads at the Indian place...so cool!

Now, as far as how deep is a cache? Hmmm....I have no idea and I like this question....as I am still looking for my first one!!!!

Happy Hunting all,
Annmarie