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Hi,
Like the title says I basically hung around and read threads etc and then I saw something in the "What is This?" forum and since I love a mystery I signed in. My solutions may not always be on but I enjoy the challenge and the opportunity to identify something.
That's fun but I've been an explorer for a long time.
1964 and my dad decided that he wanted to get out of the country and took a position in St. Croix, USVI and we all moved down there.
I was 9 and a couple years passed and I got old enough to go exploring. There was an abandoned sugar mill a walk across a field from us and we'd go exploring.
I'd always read National Geographic and the tales of archaeologists and I wandered that sugar mill with a shovel, pick and paintbrush. I accumulated a bunch of broken Danish shards from plates and cups etc. A rusty plow or ho and odds and ends. (There was a slave revolution in the 1800's that basically wiped out a bunch of sugar plantations, what I was finding were the result of the riots)
I'll dig that stuff out and take some pics later.
Anyway I explored without the benefit of a metal detector for years. It was walk and sight for the most part.
One day, years later, I bought a PMI TR600 Bounty Hunter at a garage sale for 15 bucks and took it home. I cleaned it up and soldered a connection here and there, put in a fresh battery and ran my front yard. Ten minutes in I found my set of keys that I ha lost two years previous when we first moved into the house. They were six inches down.
I was hooked!
I decided to run the backyard. I was running it in a back and forth pattern and had gathered half a pound of pull tabs when I probed a rusty lining at a 45degrees angle. I stuck a twig in it so I'd remember and kept swinging. Six ft away I found another 45degree rust lining thing pointing toward the first one>
There was an idea gelling by then.
I changed my pattern and did a bit of triangulation and geometry and found another pair of rusty 45s about 10 ft away.
I looked at my twigs and My idea convelesned... it was the remains of a swing set.
I pictured it in my mind and searched three or four ft from where the theoretical center bar would be.
I found a bunch of lost ice cream change from the 60s!
About 6 bucks in silver, dimes, quarters, wheats etc. That and a couple cast iron tootsie toy cars.
Anyway I'm hooked.
Like the title says I basically hung around and read threads etc and then I saw something in the "What is This?" forum and since I love a mystery I signed in. My solutions may not always be on but I enjoy the challenge and the opportunity to identify something.
That's fun but I've been an explorer for a long time.
1964 and my dad decided that he wanted to get out of the country and took a position in St. Croix, USVI and we all moved down there.
I was 9 and a couple years passed and I got old enough to go exploring. There was an abandoned sugar mill a walk across a field from us and we'd go exploring.
I'd always read National Geographic and the tales of archaeologists and I wandered that sugar mill with a shovel, pick and paintbrush. I accumulated a bunch of broken Danish shards from plates and cups etc. A rusty plow or ho and odds and ends. (There was a slave revolution in the 1800's that basically wiped out a bunch of sugar plantations, what I was finding were the result of the riots)
I'll dig that stuff out and take some pics later.
Anyway I explored without the benefit of a metal detector for years. It was walk and sight for the most part.
One day, years later, I bought a PMI TR600 Bounty Hunter at a garage sale for 15 bucks and took it home. I cleaned it up and soldered a connection here and there, put in a fresh battery and ran my front yard. Ten minutes in I found my set of keys that I ha lost two years previous when we first moved into the house. They were six inches down.
I was hooked!
I decided to run the backyard. I was running it in a back and forth pattern and had gathered half a pound of pull tabs when I probed a rusty lining at a 45degrees angle. I stuck a twig in it so I'd remember and kept swinging. Six ft away I found another 45degree rust lining thing pointing toward the first one>
There was an idea gelling by then.
I changed my pattern and did a bit of triangulation and geometry and found another pair of rusty 45s about 10 ft away.
I looked at my twigs and My idea convelesned... it was the remains of a swing set.
I pictured it in my mind and searched three or four ft from where the theoretical center bar would be.
I found a bunch of lost ice cream change from the 60s!
About 6 bucks in silver, dimes, quarters, wheats etc. That and a couple cast iron tootsie toy cars.
Anyway I'm hooked.
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