Pirate Treasure-Trying to get a permit to dig up
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My user name is "Franklin" another poster uses "Frankn"
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lastleg-I know the difference between these two. Maybe you don't. I correctly referenced the franklin story and I know that Frankn is the author/OP of "The Offer". Where did I call him "Franky"? Thanks lastleg for your failed effort in trying to keep the facts straight. I can see why you and ECS have a "Like" affair going.
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franklin-your username is franklin, not Franklin.
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Bigdogdad called me Sunday to help out on a dig. I drove down to Bradenton and he took me to the site but unfortunately the battery was dead on my deepseeker. It was very embarrassing. BDD had his Garrett 2500GTI and I switched coils to the big coil. It worked pretty good. We found a lot of junk metal.
If you don't go out and at least try to find something, you will never find anything. Research is good but you have to get out there and prove you research good or bad.
If you don't go out and at least try to find something, you will never find anything. Research is good but you have to get out there and prove you research good or bad.
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Salvor6, I have traveled more miles, searched more for treasure than you ever will in your life time. I have hunted and dug for treasure in 15 different States. I have researched more cities and county archives and county records and have research, photocopies that will blow the tires out on your pickup truck. I have bought more shovels, picks, mattocks than they stock in a Lowe's Department Store. I have left brand new shovels hidden in the mountains that are still there. I have hired back-hoes, track-hoes, bull-dozers, dump trucks and I have dug, dug and dug some more by hand and with heavy equipment. One of our holes we dug was to the bottom of a 23 foot deep well in the middle of a church parking lot. I do not sit by a computer and do arm chair research. I hunt and research for treasure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year ever since I was 5 years old and that will soon be 55 years ago. So don't lay this on me about not getting out in the field and digging for treasure--------I AM THERE EVERY DAY.
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I don't think Salvor6 was picking out anyone in particular with his post. franklin-That's a LOT of digging. Please share some advice with us on what you have learned to do and not to do. I am always trying to learn.
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My post was not directed at franklin.
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Please end the "I have done more than you have in a lifetime" contest .
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Inquiring minds want to know.
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I think they heard you Treasure Hunter ! Ditto !
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A self-styled Florida treasure hunter is positive he knows where there's buried silver; the state isn't buying it | Tampa Bay Times check out what i found guys. Lolol
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Donneybrook- I am glad that you found it all amusing and that there is now lolol "lots of laughing out loud". Ha! Ha! The jokes on me. Speaking of jokes I will bring this story up to speed. Although the Highway department would not allow me to dig with a shovel for fear of disturbing Indian mounds and/or damaging the foundations of the bridge, they have no problem allowing an out of town contractor to come in and rip and tear the place up. The old oaks where some of the treasure may have been buried (there was more than one location) are now replaced by a row of palm trees. They spent a huge fortune at this interstate interchange planting hundreds of trees. Would they allow a local like me to do a little digging and probing? No. They don't want to encourage guys like me to look for treasure.
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There is more to this whole episode than meets the eye. If anything was found during this "improvement" nobody is saying anything. I almost talked to the guys running the heavy equipment but I chose not to. The "Silver at Rocky Bluff" story is not over. The heavy equipment went back to Homestead. I will let the dust settle. In the meantime there are other fish to fry.
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There is more to this whole episode than meets the eye. If anything was found during this "improvement" nobody is saying anything. I almost talked to the guys running the heavy equipment but I chose not to. The "Silver at Rocky Bluff" story is not over. The heavy equipment went back to Homestead. I will let the dust settle. In the meantime there are other fish to fry.
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BDD,it is quite possible that there was NEVER any pirate silver at Rocky Bluff.It seem that the story is over.
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It seems the DOT with the landscaping project decided that the Rocky Bluff story has come to conclusion,BDD.
I have made no such decision to end this or any story as you have implied,but only made an observation on the import of your post.
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BDD I am shocked by what they did under the bridge. I see a front end loader/backhoe right next to one of the pilings! The DOT was not worried that the support pillars would be compromised? What a bunch of BS! If I were you I would keep a close watch on what they were digging. There's no telling what they found.
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I say good for BDD. BDD is not attempting to scam anyone and entice them to spend their hard earned money with some mind games about treasure, as is someome else ,who is receiving more than his deserved share of publisity about treasure, while folks search for the "treasure" based on faith and faith alone. And least we forget, the thrill of not finding anything at the end of the chase.
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