Out In The Briar Patch...
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You know,I have never thought of hitting the blackberry briars here around my area,I bet i could find alot of stuff there.Seems like common sense to look there but,,,,,for w/e reason the idea had eluded me until i saw this post.Thank you for sharing!!!Nice finds!!
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Is this Pat. Nov 27, 1883? Clasp, I think. Is this it? Patent US289153 - CLASP - Google Patents
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Well just be sure there is a cellar hole if you do go, LOL here is one in there but you can't see it in my pic's.
Yes it is THANKS!
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Some very interesting finds in a somewhat 'ugly area'! Up in Washington State and on an island my girl friend asked if I could get rid of some blackberry bushes that were slowly but surely covering the entire place. the back 1.5 acres was completely covered.
Normal weed whacker gadgets will not take on Blackberry bushes! If you own a Stihl or a good Husky then they have some reasonable steel blades that will work. This little bottom end weed eater didn't. I made a spacer where the I.D. matched the shaft on the weed eater and the O.D. matched the I.D. of an 18 tooth carbide Black & Decker 7 1/4" wood saw blade. The spacer needs to be a very close match to I.D.'s and O.D.'s otherwise the blade will wobble and that is dangerous! In addition I purchased a fender washer that held the blade and spacer in place and with the standard weed whacker nut it held all down real well. I made certain that the blade I purchased allowed me to keep the safety guard on the weed whacker. I am not saying this is safe to do but I used the rig for about two weeks straight on an average of about 5.5 hours a day. After I hit a few rocks the blade started to dull a little so I replaced it with a 24 tooth carbide blade. The nut never came loose and for the first three days I checked it about every hour, it was always tight.
The method of cutting is to start at the top of the bush and cut 12" sections. If you do this gathering them up is quite easy and you never have a 10' long tentacle wrap around your head and neck as that is what happens when you start at the bottom of the BB bush. Anyone using this thing must understand it is a very dangerous tool! You must always have the blade out in front of you and never get it close to your legs or feet. Wearing some sort of safety leggings and toe covers is a wise choice!
Cut awhile and then clean up awhile and take a rest break.
Anyway, using one of these cutters you could "recover" say 10' x 10' area, detect it and move on. Mind you, this is work but your area looks virgin and it could be worth the effort.
As a parting note, if you choose to use the method above be careful as at high revs the blade will cut your leg off in about 2 seconds! At lower revs it will just make a very deep gash but down to the bone!
Safe hunting................63bkpkr
(Oh, in my two weeks of work I cleared about an acre of ground of the blackberry bushes. Needless to say I was looked upon with very loving eyes! Her Mom & Dad even took a liking to me after they saw all the work I'd done.)
Normal weed whacker gadgets will not take on Blackberry bushes! If you own a Stihl or a good Husky then they have some reasonable steel blades that will work. This little bottom end weed eater didn't. I made a spacer where the I.D. matched the shaft on the weed eater and the O.D. matched the I.D. of an 18 tooth carbide Black & Decker 7 1/4" wood saw blade. The spacer needs to be a very close match to I.D.'s and O.D.'s otherwise the blade will wobble and that is dangerous! In addition I purchased a fender washer that held the blade and spacer in place and with the standard weed whacker nut it held all down real well. I made certain that the blade I purchased allowed me to keep the safety guard on the weed whacker. I am not saying this is safe to do but I used the rig for about two weeks straight on an average of about 5.5 hours a day. After I hit a few rocks the blade started to dull a little so I replaced it with a 24 tooth carbide blade. The nut never came loose and for the first three days I checked it about every hour, it was always tight.
The method of cutting is to start at the top of the bush and cut 12" sections. If you do this gathering them up is quite easy and you never have a 10' long tentacle wrap around your head and neck as that is what happens when you start at the bottom of the BB bush. Anyone using this thing must understand it is a very dangerous tool! You must always have the blade out in front of you and never get it close to your legs or feet. Wearing some sort of safety leggings and toe covers is a wise choice!
Cut awhile and then clean up awhile and take a rest break.
Anyway, using one of these cutters you could "recover" say 10' x 10' area, detect it and move on. Mind you, this is work but your area looks virgin and it could be worth the effort.
As a parting note, if you choose to use the method above be careful as at high revs the blade will cut your leg off in about 2 seconds! At lower revs it will just make a very deep gash but down to the bone!
Safe hunting................63bkpkr
(Oh, in my two weeks of work I cleared about an acre of ground of the blackberry bushes. Needless to say I was looked upon with very loving eyes! Her Mom & Dad even took a liking to me after they saw all the work I'd done.)
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Thanks for the tip 63bkpkr. Unfortunately this is a town park. If I was going to clear it, I think a flame thrower would be the best choice 
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The Rebel,
I've always wondered what "Parks" looked like in other states and now I know what they look like in CT! I guess maybe they figured everything else was mostly houses so they kept a few patches as parks but just let them grow wild. Interesting.
All fun aside, that is one bad place to detect but as your determination has shown there are good finds in there.
Good Luck,.................63bkpkr "Have Weed Whacker, Will Travel" Paladin
I've always wondered what "Parks" looked like in other states and now I know what they look like in CT! I guess maybe they figured everything else was mostly houses so they kept a few patches as parks but just let them grow wild. Interesting.
All fun aside, that is one bad place to detect but as your determination has shown there are good finds in there.
Good Luck,.................63bkpkr "Have Weed Whacker, Will Travel" Paladin
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Those are cool finds.
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LOL!! @ PALADINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ,good one man!!! Gave me a chuckle
Did you at least run your detector through there after all that hard work?
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Lucky, that's one heck of a question to ask me now that I'm long gone from that area. I was so dead tired that going back out there to swing the detector with the same arms I'd been using all day long to swing the weed whacker NEVER occurred to me. Where were you and your question in 2002?! DARN!...................63bkpkr another revoltin development
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What island in WA?
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That was Whidbey on the ocean side of Deception Pass. Nice place, a bit noisy when the Navy jets are flying with very calm living around Coupville..............63bkpkr
That was Whidbey on the ocean side of Deception Pass. Nice place, a bit noisy when the Navy jets are flying with very calm living around Coupville..............63bkpkr
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nice pin!! no pain, no gain!
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Actually, I stand corrected. it's a nature preserve with hiking trails but in a very well to do area. My arms sure were sore getting the MD caught up in the briars. Where's Briar Rabbit & Briar Fox when you need um....
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Neat - I grew up a stones throw from Deception Pass.
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