Mystery Mass in the Morning

[Skipper]

Headed out early so as to beat the traffic of morning rush. Glad it becomes light earlier now. Got there to beat the parking toll booth attendant too. Sweeeet! ($8.00 during the week, $10.00 on the weekend). Went down the steps to the little beach area and found two deep crushed beer cans in the dry sand. Just threw those out. Got a gardening trowel too, just threw it out. Ironically I also found a plastic Army man with a metal detector....lol Headed to the waters edge next....

Found squat for the first half hour, then, when in the shallower water, got a faint signal. Dug and dug and dug. Signal kept gettin' louder. Finally at about three feet, I dug up this thing, pictured below. Encrusted and heavy, ...my luck probably a coffee can filled with concrete to serve as a small boat anchor...lol. Brought it home and it's soaking in a bucket of fresh water. So now what I don't know how to go about the electrolysis method or build one ... I will be chipping away at it over the weekend. I'll post the finale later..

Hope all the pics post in one posting....If not, look for the next post ...

Skipper.

 

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[Cavedweller]

Hey Skipper - Let's just hope nobody finds what that little metal detecting army man is looking for -
landmines -Ha Ha - but hopefully you will find something good inside that mystery mass - Cavedweller

 

[guzz1]

Skipper Great pics Let use all Know whats in the big Glob ....

 

[Skipper]

This is going to take awhile....I have little patience for this one. Found out how to make a reverse electrolysis bucket online. But...I may have to use a hammer instead...

 

[Skipper]

Mystery solved...Sorry folks....Not a canaster of gold coins, that's for sure....It's an old battery from a lantern type flashlight. It's an older type that has eroded away and the battery and casing was left... Oh well, at least I cleaned up the environment at the beach.

 

[FloridaBill]

Well to bad but that was still a cool story thanks for sharing.

 

[goldencoin]

very interesting

HH
-GC

 

[guzz1]

Hey Skipper You get an A+ for effort , Guzz1`

 

[G.I.B.]

hehehe....

What a great story, thanks for the effort.

I was wondering if the guy that threw it out ever had any idea at how much time would be spent digging it back up!

The next one will be a chest filled with gold coins, just gotta keep digging

 

[Skipper]

Godda luv this hobby,

Life is like a box of chocolates, Ya neva know what your gonna get....

Thanks for watchin'