Trashiest Site EVER Rewarded us in a LARGE way today.

[BuckleBoy]

Hello All,

Went out a bit today with DiggerGirl and hit one of the Trashiest sites we have hit this year. The later the occupation of a house, the worse the trash. Pre-1900 houses all you have to worry about is Iron. But if the place was around for any time after that, you start to see the Zinc jar lids that always sound like Half Dimes --and that AWFUL Aluminum. Well, we worked hard today. I'll start off this post with a photo or two of the Crap we dug to get our finds. First is a bucket full of 100+ pounds of junk iron. Well over half of it is from this site. Second photo is a backpack, a small bathroom trash can, and a plastic bag full of aluminum Crap. (Not "Crappe"--CRAP!)





And here is the lovely lady herself hitting the fields with Passion in the beautiful fall colors today:





Here's the tip of the day: ALWAYS trust your method. The ONLY way to work a site out is to grid it. If you're gridding, and aren't finding much--keep it up! If you use a method to research--stick to it long enough to get a sense of whether or not it's working. Let's face it--if your method works, don't question it. If it doesn't, then you won't begin to understand WHY it didn't work unless you followed it consistently in the first place. It's the only way to keep "improving your game."

So--after gridding and gridding, and the first backpack got filled with aluminum and junk iron....and the SECOND backpack was getting almost full... and then a THIRD PILE OF DUG CRAP started to stack up I was beginning to feel that we hadn't made a dent in the site. Well...I still feel that way. There is SO much left to dig there. But the difference is that now I have this to keep me dreaming of what lies underneath the junk:







It is an 1851 Large Cent. I was pleased to get a photo of it while it was still stuck in the dirt. And she's a pretty one too.

I don't know where my brain was when I posted the uncleaned finds--because I left one out of the photo...but then I left one of them out of the "after cleaning" photo as well! (Must be the Mountain of dug Junk Relics I have laying on every available surface and countertop. The token with the square hole in the first photo I thought might be a Chinese coin, but it is in fact a "Louisville Railway" token that says "School Ticket" on the reverse side. (I will get around to adding a photo of it cleaned up.) I gently straightened it back flat again by using boiling water to make it more pliable. Hopefully DG will add her finds to this post soon.











Best Wishes,


Buckleboy

 

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[CRUSADER]

Yeap, stick to the grid. Yesterday Dad wanted to start off some place else in the field. I told him to stick to the grid & carry on were we stopped the day before. He wasn't convined until the first run where I pulled out the first hammered we have had in a while. I rubbed his face in it. Also turned out to be a rare Henry IV

 

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[allen]

that large cent is a beauty...

 

[whitesPA]

nice

 

[kevo]

Nice LC...how are those hands of yours holding up?

 

[Ohio Jerry]

Buckles,
That 51 LC is a beauty!! Man I'm glad to see a shot of it still in the dirt,it's one of my biggest thrills of this hobby to see that big green disk peeking out of the dirt..never know when it's gonna be that "93" keep em coming!!!
Jerry p.s. you have my deepest respect for persevering thru all that iron to get to the goodies,wow...

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

Great tip and you showed how it pays off. Congrats on the finds, the LC is great, I love the still in the dirt photos
Glenn

 

[BuckleBoy]

Nice LC...how are those hands of yours holding up?

Good enough to have done it all day Today as well--and good enough to do it again tomorrow afternoon.


I've got one Heck of a post to make here tonight.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Your day paid off with a nice largie. I liked your tip of the day. Sound advice. I know it is difficult when your out in the field to stick to a certain pattern. You are tempted to abandon it when you arent finding anything . Sometimes I do abandon it if my gut tells me something that might work better but I usually stick with it to a positive conclusion.It is almost like the good guy sitting on your left shoulder telling you one thing and the bad guy on your right telling you to throw caution to the wind because after all "what do you have to lose".
Congratulations Buck and I also have a theory on why you forgot to post certain pictures. On my Conn. copper post you told me that you were going to have some beer to celebrate my find. Maybe hangover.
Chris

Probably wasn't a hangover--I just toasted your Conn. copper, not all of the coppers you guys have found this year.     It was probably because at the end of the day tomorrow I will have spent over 20 hours diggin in four days (even with obligations every day). 



Yep, it is hard to stick to your method--but it is important to do it long enough to know if it's working--whether that's 100 feet square worth of gridding, the way your researching spots, making sure that you hunt ten sites of a certain type before you make a judgement on whether or not that type is a good type to concern yourself with, etc.  It's all on different time scales, depending on what it is that you want to find out--and the proof is in the pudding.  (Keeping RECORDS helps Greatly improve your focus!)  Too many folks just go crazy on a site--crazy in the library--crazy in the research part of things.  They write down every little lead they get, they fill book after book of them! They never put the pieces together or see the bigger picture. I have hunted with these types before, and it ain't fun. They see a "site" everywhere.  Look at those rocks!  See those old trees?  Something was up there on that hill!  Now, intuition is good--but it is best to use it to Find a site that you know or Strongly suspect is there already.  For example, we might search for a treasure that we've heard of--and look for "signs" to find it.  But just because we see "signs" doesn't mean that a treasure will magically appear for us to find somewhere in the vicinity.  We all have to focus somewhere.  You see, there are hundreds of thousands of sites out there, and hundreds of thousands of inches of ground at each of those sites.  (Look at any of my photos of the wide open fields I hunt, and you'll immediately recognize the importance of Focus.)  You can't hunt every site, and you can't hunt every square inch--not in one lifetime, or a hundred lifetimes--so focus on what works for you.  And Consistency is the only way to find that out--to pick and choose what methods work best.

 

[IAsoldier]

No my dads house is so bad (trashy) I gave up. There probly tons of goodies hiding in the dirt but Im not up to digging forever. WTG on trash clean up time to $$$ it in LOL. Good find on the LC Later.

 

[civilman1]

Hey Buckle's....It's the only way to keep "improving your game" Well said!! Congrat's on some Sweet Find's and Gridding 101.....

 

[daytondigger]

I'll take that Iron City beer can off your hands Buck...

That LC just proves that determination absolutely pays off. Awesome digs buddy...

Iron City?..........I think not, sure looks like a Falls City to me. I'm a Rustybuncher, I prefer steel cans.

Buckleboy, congrats on the finds once again. I've filled a bucket or two with scrap before I started finding the goodies, but I did it over several days. You guys are gung ho!

 

[VOL1266-X]

BB, you worked hard and showed extreme patience to get those very good items. You need to go by a recycling plant-you can pay for your gas!!! HH.

 

[Ohio_Doug]

Way to go! Persistence definetly paid off for ya

 

[BureFreak]

Thats a nice looking Large Cent ya got there. Keep up the good hunting.

 

[wwwtimmcp]

very nice lc , keep up the great work.

 

[Newt]

So that makes how many LC's this year?
Good day out.
Newt

 

[nova treasure]

Hard work and determination almost always equals success,Very nice Large Cent.

Nova Treasure

 

[BuckleBoy]

So that makes how many LC's this year?
Good day out.
Newt

This makes seven for me since the beginning of Summer, and one 2c piece. (But three of those were in the last two weeks--since harvest)KFB, RR, and Bb have all dug one each this year.

-Buckles

 

[BuckleBoy]

You guys are gung ho!

You betcha.

BB, you worked hard and showed extreme patience to get those very good items. You need to go by a recycling plant-you can pay for your gas!!! HH.

Thank you for your reply, friend. We're hoarding Brass right now just in case the world ends the day after the election. :P Actually waiting for the price to go back up so we can cash in 30 lbs. The iron we have to get rid of, though. No place to put it without the floor caving in.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Here's the tip of the day: ALWAYS trust your method. The ONLY way to work a site out is to grid it. If you're gridding, and aren't finding much--keep it up! If you use a method to research--stick to it long enough to get a sense of whether or not it's working. Let's face it--if your method works, don't question it. If it doesn't, then you won't begin to understand WHY it didn't work unless you followed it consistently in the first place. It's the only way to keep "improving your game."

Best Wishes,


Buckleboy

Great find, and great advice, BB! Gridding is the only method that will let you know that the site is worked out. If you don't grid, you will wonder if you left good finds behind. I typically return to my best sites for years, and that is with gridding.

Congrats on the Largie, and thanks for the advice!

Neil