My cache hunting tip for the day.

af1733 said:
Definately a good tip.

What kind of caches have you found, Digum? Anything cool?
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To me, any cache is cool. Anytime I dig up a metal container or see a rusty jar lid attached to glass my heart rate goes up about double. I think "this is the one". So far I've only found five small caches. One was an old Prince Albert can with some wheaties and other change. One was a small metal music box with some old inexpensive jewelry and some silver dimes and wheats. Two were mason jars with change, and one of those had a hot wheel in it. The last was about 40 wheats spread out over an area about 20 feet long and 6 ft wide. The wheats were only about 2 inches deep so apparently a dozer or tractor had broken a jar and spread them. I found pieces of the kerr jar and part of a rusted lid. No big caches so far but I'm not done metal detecting yet. Three of those caches sere found between the kitchen window and an out building. One was found right beside the path going to where the clothesline used to be, again within view of the kitchen window. (That's a good tip in itself for new people to the hobby. People hung their pants and overhauls upside down and change fell out. Look for narrow shallow side by side lines beside or behind the house where water dripped off the clothes lines.) The last cache, that was spread out, was at a campground where there used to be an old farm house. I WILL find the big one someday!
 

Digum said:
af1733 said:
Definitely a good tip.

What kind of caches have you found, Digum? Anything cool?
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To me, any cache is cool. Anytime I dig up a metal container or see a rusty jar lid attached to glass my heart rate goes up about double. I think "this is the one". So far I've only found five small caches. One was an old Prince Albert can with some wheaties and other change. One was a small metal music box with some old inexpensive jewelry and some silver dimes and wheats. Two were mason jars with change, and one of those had a hot wheel in it. The last was about 40 wheats spread out over an area about 20 feet long and 6 ft wide. The wheats were only about 2 inches deep so apparently a dozer or tractor had broken a jar and spread them. I found pieces of the kerr jar and part of a rusted lid. No big caches so far but I'm not done metal detecting yet. Three of those caches sere found between the kitchen window and an out building. One was found right beside the path going to where the clothesline used to be, again within view of the kitchen window. (That's a good tip in itself for new people to the hobby. People hung their pants and overhauls upside down and change fell out. Look for narrow shallow side by side lines beside or behind the house where water dripped off the clothes lines.) The last cache, that was spread out, was at a campground where there used to be an old farm house. I WILL find the big one someday!
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Yeah, clotheslines are great. I've found a ring or two in holes with coins under a couple of lines at older homes. Other than that, I've never found anything that can be considered a cache but, to be honest, I've never hunted any locations where one would expect to find a cache. Still looking for my first!

Nice finds on your caches, though. You'll hit the big one someday!!
 

Other than that, I've never found anything that can be considered a cache but, to be honest, I've never hunted any locations where one would expect to find a cache.
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I don't know if you hunt in small towns or cities or in the country. I don't think it really matters much. In the times when people buried allot of caches, they did it where ever they lived. My grandfather lived in a small town and he hated banks. He remembered the depression. He didn't trust banks so he buried his money between the front steps of his house and the well. It was safe there. At different times in our country people have not trusted banks at all. They couldn't leave any money they had in the house. Someone might steal it. The house may burn down. There weren't allot of choices. If you didn't trust a bank and didn't feel it was safe in the house, the ground was the next best thing. When I hunt any older house no matter where it's at, I hunt it with the attitude that there may be a cache buried there. Not all caches are found around big expensive homes either. Allot of people that live a modest lifestyle in an average home have as much or more money than some of those in upscale homes. I live around millionaire farmers that drive 10 year old beat up trucks from cows bumping into them. They wear overhauls everyday including church, and live in two bedroom 50+ year old frame houses that need paint. Never prejudge how much money or worth the people had at any hunt location. Some will fool you.
 

Well, I just don't hunt a lot of homes, more parks, fields, schools, ect. I need to get onto some more homesites, though. Need a change of scenery. :wink:
 

Find the chicken coops. Best alarm there is!

HH
Steve
 

I found a old foundation in the woods in back of my house. And my home is 114 years old i will be doing some cache hunting there.....And if i come up with any good ideas i will post them...............Jim
 

how do u no were the kithchen or chiken coop is when mostly all thats left is foundation (somtimes) and the fireplace.
 

treasureace13 said:
how do u no were the kithchen or chiken coop is when mostly all thats left is foundation (somtimes) and the fireplace.
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Some old one room houses didn't have a kitchen. People cooked out of the fireplace and lived around the fireplace. Some had two rooms, a kitchen to cook and eat in, and another room with a fireplace for sleep and to live in. In some old houses the kitchen was seperated from the house by a breezeway, usually 4' to 6' long if the people didn't like cooking in the house. You have to look at what's left and estimate the size of the house and the layout of the rooms. That's not always possible. Ask older people in the area if they remember the house. Do they have pictures or remember who lived there? If so, did those people have children or relatives in the area? They might have information or pictures. Look for signs of a clothes line, chicken coop, a barn, outhouse, corrall, or well, anything. There may be a heavily beaten path from the house to these places. The outhouse may have been moved several times over the years and you may find a big path and several small paths branching off to it. If you locate a big path at the house, you've located a door. Back doors on many old houses were beside the kitchen.If none of these things exist, then grid the place off. Hunt one "small" area. Then hunt it from a different direction. Then hunt it from a different dirrection again. Don't hurry. The land will be there tommorrow. After you've hunted it from every angle, mark off and hunt another small area and do the same. Dig! Dig! Dig!
 

HI All,

Yeah check any old bolders there to, even if there a ways off, as it will most likey
always be there.Big old trees are always good to as kids played around them and also baried stuff even money.

My brother inlaw was a kid and was by a well at one time and while getting some water with the owner of the land, he was kicking the dirt around and found a mason jar with silver coins in it,the owner said he couldn't have it.
Well needless to say he found one of the owners caches ! Right next to the well.
So theres still lots out there keep digging and have fun !

LOL ! Robin
 

Just keep in mind that every time you dig a signal around a large tree, there will probably be a root in the way. :(
 

Digum said:
They couldn't leave any money they had in the house. Someone might steal it. The house may burn down.
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Not necessarily a valid assumption: I know of one farmhouse where the "vault" was a metal box, under the floorboards of a small entry room (sort of like todays "mud rooms") This little addition to the house was on concrete footings with a dirt floor beneath. Roll back the carpet, lift up the floor boards and viola ! This "vault" served as the family bank through the late 50's.

Diggem'
 

In 1998 I bought a large old house from HUD, to flip. This house was interesting.

When I checked the attic, there were tables lined up with dried up pot in growing trays.

Must have been about 50 or 60 plants. Blue lights hanging fron the celling to shine on them.

I guess this helped them grow? Any way while repairing the house to sell. I found some jewerly

under the floor in the hall, liked 5 or 6 pieces. I gave it to my mother, and never thought about

it anymore. Mom's gone now, I don't know what she did with the jewerly, I'm sure it wasn't worth

a lot. This thread just reminded me of that.

Treasure is where you find it, and that could be anywhere.............Roadquest
 

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