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[CreekSide]

Those are fairly big snakes, what kind are they?

Owners said rat snakes @ 7 feet long. They had called me to come and get them. But then found someone closer. I’m glad to cause I’m scared of snakes lol. I was going to use a long pole.

 

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[newnan man]

Good morning folks, beautiful start to Memorial Day. Have a great one.

 

[CreekSide]

Morning everyone

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Morning all.... Work or Play 🤔

 

[pepperj]

Morning all.... Work or Play 🤔

Oh it's a work day for sure.
It forecasted a 90% rain morning-partly sunny
Though it is coming mid day for a few hours

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Good morning everyone. I hope all are well this Monday morning.

I was outside with a couple of my brothers tending to the barbecue grill yesterday. Fortunately, we have it under a small metal gazebo thing, because we heard something hit the roof. It was a little pellet of hail. Then another, then another, and they kept getting faster and bigger, until after a few seconds it was raining baseball sized hail. I was glad for the gazebo, but it was incredibly loud and scary hearing the hail hit it, and watching it crater into the ground around it. Fortunately it didn't last too long, and I guess we actually got off easy compared to some places. No serious damage to anything here, but other areas lost power, had tornadoes, and even some fatalities.

Here's some of the hailstones, including one in my hand. I retrieved that one about half an hour after the storm passed through. So it had already melted some, but it's still baseball sized (I have pretty big hands). Probably the biggest hail I've ever seen.

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yeah that's dangerously big hail

 

[pepperj]

Yesterday was a run around putting out the fires day.
Mowed-watered-feed.

Mid-day we got a text by a friend to look for her wedding band.
They had the hay cleared out of the area where the ring was lost (LAST YEAR!)
Later I looked at her and said maybe a you should of called then.......

She thought the ring fell off and fell to the left where she was tossing hay into the pen of 6 Billy goats.
I think it's in the pen enclosure and either it was eaten, or is laying in the 8 inches of goat muck.
(No, it fell over there claim)

So after looking for 2.5 hrs in a small area of the barn, that is loaded with iron objects from the last X decades.
I quickly resorted to using the pinpointer-turning the sensitivity down to 25 because of the goat enclosure and other large metal objects.
Everything from garbage cans full of feed, engine blocks, metal art work, name it it was there.

The husband then stated that he took all the hay off the floor-and torched it to find the ring.
it was on the gravel-yet the gravel had loads of old metal parts on it from dismantling tractor parts.
Another 30 minutes there and we called it a day as it was well past 7pm.
I had a pile of screws, brass rivets, scale weight, washers, bullet lead, lead.
I said the goats will be happier now not getting a supplement of rusty iron at least.

So plan B is to clear the gravel area of parts.
Plan C is to clear an area of metal where they're going to muck out the barn.
Plan D is to spread it and detect it.

I'm still doing the why it wasn't a priority when first lost.
Now over a year later it was top of the list to be found.

I was having fun finding different lock washers and saying "Oh I got something round" then palming it into her hand.
A tad sadistic me was...

 

[releventchair]

Yesterday was a run around putting out the fires day.
Mowed-watered-feed.

Mid-day we got a text by a friend to look for her wedding band.
They had the hay cleared out of the area where the ring was lost (LAST YEAR!)
Later I looked at her and said maybe a you should of called then.......

She thought the ring fell off and fell to the left where she was tossing hay into the pen of 6 Billy goats.
I think it's in the pen enclosure and either it was eaten, or is laying in the 8 inches of goat muck.
(No, it fell over there claim)

So after looking for 2.5 hrs in a small area of the barn, that is loaded with iron objects from the last X decades.
I quickly resorted to using the pinpointer-turning the sensitivity down to 25 because of the goat enclosure and other large metal objects.
Everything from garbage cans full of feed, engine blocks, metal art work, name it it was there.

The husband then stated that he took all the hay off the floor-and torched it to find the ring.
it was on the gravel-yet the gravel had loads of old metal parts on it from dismantling tractor parts.
Another 30 minutes there and we called it a day as it was well past 7pm.
I had a pile of screws, brass rivets, scale weight, washers, bullet lead, lead.
I said the goats will be happier now not getting a supplement of rusty iron at least.

So plan B is to clear the gravel area of parts.
Plan C is to clear an area of metal where they're going to muck out the barn.
Plan D is to spread it and detect it.

I'm still doing the why it wasn't a priority when first lost.
Now over a year later it was top of the list to be found.

I was having fun finding different lock washers and saying "Oh I got something round" then palming it into her hand.
A tad sadistic me was...

Goat barn search for a gold necklace well after the fact yielded no gold necklace for me.
Then after a search the owner told me she had used a detector back then to try to find it too.

One of those , I lost it somewhere between house and yon barn or in barn or... deals.

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.
Drizzle quits I'll put the flag out.

 

[oldmxrat]

Good morning

 

[pepperj]

Goat barn search for a gold necklace well after the fact yielded no gold necklace for me.
Then after a search the owner told me she had used a detector back then to try to find it too.

One of those , I lost it somewhere between house and yon barn or in barn or... deals.

I think it was a case of early marriage spat, throw, loss.
Post - Oops - regrets.
I offered to go find it last year-not an important thing. 😯🤔
The mind's memory can play funny games, when the recall process is called upon.

I was trying for a permission once.
The parents came driving up (still their farm)
The son had the place then.
The mother said she had lost her gold pendant and chain in the garden.
"I can have a look for it, no problem"

Oh-no! That's OK, I don't want you to look for it.
(My thoughts were

something else buried out there?)

 

[newnan man]

Goat barn search sounds like the time I lost my chewing gum in the chicken coop. I found it 47 times!

 

[CreekSide]

Raining here so I’m putting the project together. Not bad so far except for one leg split. ☹️

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning everyone
Happy Memorial Day

 

[CreekSide]

All done even a new tv
The painting we got from goodwill years ago back when you could find a good deal

 

[blossom]

Evening Pirates xx hope u have had a lovely day… xx 🤗

Erm.. err… bad news from blighty😐… we didnt get to go hunting today… went to the new field himself had found…it was full of 2foot tall grass…. Apparently only last week it was just mud… 🤔 now im not sure if himself is getting confused.. or whether nature has staged un unnatural comeback

While we contemplated our options.. himself got called into work some event truck stuck in mud 🙄… so by the time that was all sorted we decided to abandon detecting for the day .. I can only apologise for any disappointment caused xx 😬

 

[blossom]

Is what Cockneys speak actually considered English or a totally different language

Crashy…….. please tell me your back to stay… 🙏 any way hope all good with you 🤗 xx

(Im posh English…. So to me a totally different language!! ) 😎 xx

 

[WHADIFIND]

Owners said rat snakes @ 7 feet long. They had called me to come and get them. But then found someone closer. I’m glad to cause I’m scared of snakes lol. I was going to use a long pole.

I ain't scared o no snakes!

Just a bit skittish about snake bites! 😱

 

[WHADIFIND]

Yesterday was a run around putting out the fires day.
Mowed-watered-feed.

Mid-day we got a text by a friend to look for her wedding band.
They had the hay cleared out of the area where the ring was lost (LAST YEAR!)
Later I looked at her and said maybe a you should of called then.......

She thought the ring fell off and fell to the left where she was tossing hay into the pen of 6 Billy goats.
I think it's in the pen enclosure and either it was eaten, or is laying in the 8 inches of goat muck.
(No, it fell over there claim)

So after looking for 2.5 hrs in a small area of the barn, that is loaded with iron objects from the last X decades.
I quickly resorted to using the pinpointer-turning the sensitivity down to 25 because of the goat enclosure and other large metal objects.
Everything from garbage cans full of feed, engine blocks, metal art work, name it it was there.

The husband then stated that he took all the hay off the floor-and torched it to find the ring.
it was on the gravel-yet the gravel had loads of old metal parts on it from dismantling tractor parts.
Another 30 minutes there and we called it a day as it was well past 7pm.
I had a pile of screws, brass rivets, scale weight, washers, bullet lead, lead.
I said the goats will be happier now not getting a supplement of rusty iron at least.

So plan B is to clear the gravel area of parts.
Plan C is to clear an area of metal where they're going to muck out the barn.
Plan D is to spread it and detect it.

I'm still doing the why it wasn't a priority when first lost.
Now over a year later it was top of the list to be found.

I was having fun finding different lock washers and saying "Oh I got something round" then palming it into her hand.
A tad sadistic me was...

Plan E? Buy a new ring and then "find" it.

Reminds me of one hunt.

Trying to find a ring. Lady lost it whilst gardening......20 years before!!

I hunted that small garden for 2 hours!!

She brought out lemonade and while we were sitting she said.......

" Oh Yeah!!! Back then? The garden wasn't there! It was "over there"!!! 😓

About an hour later? Found the ring!

Barump bump!

 

[pepperj]