might help to get new places to hunt in your community

[buckeyehunter]

My brother was a volunteer fireman for about a year with his local fire dept. and became friends with the chief who has lived in that area all his life and he has helped us to get into a few new places and gave us a lot of ideas of places to go. He called my brother the other day and said an old farm house had been donated to the fire dep to "BURN DOWN" and told us to go out and detect it when we get a chance, we have not seen the property yet and only thing we know is it's old! hope to get out there the next weekend it is nice.
Just thought I would pass this on , I had never thought about this before but I know a local dept close to me has had quite a few donated houses to burn and it would be a lot easier (atleast for me) to go talk to them instead of beating on someones door at dinner time.
My only concern is are we allowed to do detect there just because the fire dept. said ok ( I will have to do a little checking) but I bet even if the property owner showed up and you told them the fire dept. gave you permission I dont think there would be any problems.
Another suggestion... a few years ago I hunted a very old house that was owned by the twp. I had known about the house and went to the twp. bldg to ask permission and they were very nice and had no problem with it. If your like me and not thrilled about beating on peoples doors these might help you get some really nice places in your community.
Mike

 

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[PAmike]

good ideas mike. I actually know of a few old houses that have been abandoned and a few more that burned down in the past year or two. I was thinking of finding out who owns them and getting permissionto detect them. The houses would be great to do a thorough search inside and out.

mike

 

[buckeyehunter]

funny you would say that PAmike, Years ago when my brother was a volunteer at another dept close to me (now lives about an hours south of me) they had an old farm house donated to them to burn, he was allowed to go though it, the husband had died years earlier and she had left a lot of his belongings in the house and she had moved out... Anyhow he was a photographer all his life and he had 2 SHOE BOXES full of pictures of NAKED women he had taken and I would say all of them were from the 40's to 60's, pretty wild to see... was just praying I wouldnt come across a picture of my grandma! (thank god I didnt!) but he also found a lot of other things, old lanterns, signs, old playboys..... you name it there was still a lot in there.

 

[PAmike]

one word....EBAY


mike

 

[serb535]

haaa, treasure comes in many forms.....how old were the playboy mags?

 

[buckeyehunter]

honestly I didnt even see the magazines, he sold them before I even got to see them but I would say somewhere from the 40's thru 60's but honestly have no Idea, Just guessing because from what he said EVERYTHING that was left in the house was from that era.
Mike

 

[bigrig40]

thanks for the idea. a friend of mine belongs to the fire dept. here in indy and he is checking with his chief on 3 turn of the century houses they have for their use.he even told me his house which is only a mile or two from me is dated in the 1920's that i could hunt it when ever i want.

bigrig

 

[stoney56]

Just one thing to remember. Even though the house is abandoned and going to be burned down, still fill your holes as the firefighters still walk around the property dragging lines and are keeping their eyes on the house for dangerous conditions. They're not looking down very oftenexcept to step over hoses and thus they might step in unfilled holes and twist or break ankles. Just keep safety in mind is all. HH