Mayo South Elgin
Sr. Member
So we (Dirt Fishing Wolf, Lowbatts, Watercolor, and myself) hunted a couple areas with old homesites.
Very little remains of any structures other than some concrete foundations in some spots, and miscellaneous large and very large pieces of iron including a rear end off a vehicle, a transmission probably for the same vehicle, a couple engine blocks in another area (What - they never heard of Victory Auto Wreckers?). As usual Tim had provided a couple of aerial view maps of the areas we intended to check out and I think we managed to avoid them once we started swinging the coils.
In one spot I got my first honey hole of the season.
Don't get too excited... It was all pennies - 17 in total and I think three were wheaties.
I say I *think* three were wheaties because I didn't clean them off after the first few, and my total wheat count for the day was 6 so who knows how many came from where. And there may be another two that Lowbatts lost - possibly in the jump seat area of my truck.
It was strange that my detector didn't tell me the quantity - I think the next generation of processors should do that. Once they get the radiation thing solved. But seriously, if they can send all the info they send wirelessly - text, voice, photos, movies, internet etc - on phones - why can't our detectors tell us how many targets under the coil, what those targets are composed of, and how deep they are? Maybe it will be an I-phone app for $2.99 and we can just duct tape an I-phone on a stick and wave it over the ground.
Other finds for me included the ornate victorian style dresser or furniture pull - I think the two screw eyes at each end are not original to the piece. The hub cap shaped thing could be from a wagon or maybe one of those old steel pedal cars that kids rode around in? The name on it is Hamilton. Piece of a spoon, a horse or ox ring thing, house address numbers 0 and part of 7, the seal from a gas meter, not sure what the double D-shaped thing is, and then while hunting the really really really far away site I also found a Geo-Cache with a pencil and paper and a little trinket inside - I think it was a small fridge magnet - the camo container was tied between a couple of horizontally positioned trees. And I found it without a GPS!
Our biggest "find" still remains there until we figure out how to get all the original heavy gauge copper power line down from the poles and into the truck... probably a few thousand pounds of it.
I think it would be in the best interest of NATURE to remove such an offending eyesore - just like the people we saw that were removing iron fence posts and barbed wire for the nature conservancy.
All in all a great day for detecting with friends!
Very little remains of any structures other than some concrete foundations in some spots, and miscellaneous large and very large pieces of iron including a rear end off a vehicle, a transmission probably for the same vehicle, a couple engine blocks in another area (What - they never heard of Victory Auto Wreckers?). As usual Tim had provided a couple of aerial view maps of the areas we intended to check out and I think we managed to avoid them once we started swinging the coils.
In one spot I got my first honey hole of the season.
Don't get too excited... It was all pennies - 17 in total and I think three were wheaties.
I say I *think* three were wheaties because I didn't clean them off after the first few, and my total wheat count for the day was 6 so who knows how many came from where. And there may be another two that Lowbatts lost - possibly in the jump seat area of my truck.
It was strange that my detector didn't tell me the quantity - I think the next generation of processors should do that. Once they get the radiation thing solved. But seriously, if they can send all the info they send wirelessly - text, voice, photos, movies, internet etc - on phones - why can't our detectors tell us how many targets under the coil, what those targets are composed of, and how deep they are? Maybe it will be an I-phone app for $2.99 and we can just duct tape an I-phone on a stick and wave it over the ground.
Other finds for me included the ornate victorian style dresser or furniture pull - I think the two screw eyes at each end are not original to the piece. The hub cap shaped thing could be from a wagon or maybe one of those old steel pedal cars that kids rode around in? The name on it is Hamilton. Piece of a spoon, a horse or ox ring thing, house address numbers 0 and part of 7, the seal from a gas meter, not sure what the double D-shaped thing is, and then while hunting the really really really far away site I also found a Geo-Cache with a pencil and paper and a little trinket inside - I think it was a small fridge magnet - the camo container was tied between a couple of horizontally positioned trees. And I found it without a GPS!
Our biggest "find" still remains there until we figure out how to get all the original heavy gauge copper power line down from the poles and into the truck... probably a few thousand pounds of it.
I think it would be in the best interest of NATURE to remove such an offending eyesore - just like the people we saw that were removing iron fence posts and barbed wire for the nature conservancy.
All in all a great day for detecting with friends!
