One big Honer

[Lowbatts]

3" down between two large roots smack up against the base of the very old mulberry tree in a schoolyard, this reed was vertical and a killer to get out. It's almost twice the size of my 6" honer. It's the biggest one I've dug and I've pulled many over the years.

Clad was the order of the day, as I am in the process of clearing last year's milk money out of the local schoolyards. Not much in the three yards today, and too high a ratio of zincies for my liking, but I'l take 'em.

 

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[twistidd]

I would have never guessed that was a harmonia peice. If I dug that I'd throw it away out of ignorance!

Nice find. I hate zinc cents, and only recover them from tot lots. I never dig plugs for them. Most of the time they come up all crusty anyway. The only time I'll dig a zinc cent signal is it if it deep, because then it usually isn't a zinc, but a deeper copper or maybe silver that the M6 cannot quite get an accurate ID on.

Joe

 

[Lowbatts]

Those old reeds are a good read of the site and often your first good signal. Here's the dirty little secret behind digging those zinc signals: deeper than 4" DIG every time! Mason jar lids and Scovill buttons come up in the zinc range on many machines.