?Cash in Plastic

[fishfinder]

Is there a detector that will help locate Cash(paper money) that is encased in Sch. 40 PVC pipe?
Thanks

[jeff of pa]

Sorry, NO, Nothing Reliable.

the Only thing that will work is Your "Brain on Research"
on this one.

although you could try alternative Tools, you may get a false sense of
having gone over the area, if you believe in them too much.

[diggemall]

A good, well-trained dog perhaps........

Diggem'

[schlooppy]

If you know the general area you could get a ground probe and probe the ground hoping to hit the pipe.

Schlooppy

[Gypsy Heart]

Throw your information out here and see if any of us could help you find it! What about one of those machines that roll across the ground to find things like bones and larger buried objects?

[buscadero]

FF: Prior to 1983, The Ink used in US Currency was Lead Based! Maybe a fairly large amount Could be detected? Anyone know for sure?

The Current Ink contains Cadium, Mercury, & Arsenic!
Joe

[jeff of pa]

FF: Prior to 1983, The Ink used in US Currency was Lead Based! Maybe a fairly large amount Could be detected? Anyone know for sure?

The Current Ink contains Cadium, Mercury, & Arsenic!
Joe

the Early Detectors were able to be tuned to get a signal from paper money, However they would get signals from your hand & many other items. Making them still too unreliable, to trust, either way.

[fishfinder]

Thanks for the responses...This money was buried in the mid to late 1980's. There probably would have been a back-hoe used for this...so that would probably put it at 5 to 7 feet down. This is on less that a 10 acre tract. I have permission from the current owner to look for it ...but not to just go digging at will.
Thanks again.

[jeff of pa]

in that case the ONLY thing that may work, is some type or Ground Penetrating Radar like archeologists use.

[CaptJohn]

Go to the Dowsing Forum, do NOT get caught up in all the posts, just read about some simple dowsing methods, or go to your city water dept., and ask if any body there can dowse. Maybe one will explain it to you. DO not turn this into a dowsing post, I just want to suggest that He take alook, OKAY?

[Monk]

I know this may seem far out. But you'll have nothing to loose and it may work with a little luck. = Take a black light and walk over the ground, you may still see where there was a hole dug or ground turned. You'll know what to do from there. Keeping in mind where would he have likely taken a backhoe? I think I''d go to the center of the 10 acres and curcle my way out. Means you dont know were he went on the 10 acres look for some kind of monument? plus there's a good chance he placed a rock on top the dug spot? Remember He had to find the spot again himself! ( BACKHOE, Can you really be sure he would have used one?) How long was the pipe? You could get a lot of cash in a 1 or 2 foot long pipe! A shovel or post hole digger would have worked just fine. Like along a fence line. I can't see anyone going 4 or 5 feet deep with such a container, But then what do I know. You have all kinds of fun and good luck.

[jeff of pa]

Go to the Dowsing Forum, do NOT get caught up in all the posts, just read about some simple dowsing methods, or go to your city water dept., and ask if any body there can dowse. Maybe one will explain it to you. DO not turn this into a dowsing post, I just want to suggest that He take alook, OKAY?

this covers that

although you could try alternative Tools, you may get a false sense of
having gone over the area, if you believe in them too much.

[jeff of pa]

I know this may seem far out. But you'll have nothing to loose and it may work with a little luck. = Take a black light and walk over the ground, you may still see where there was a hole dug or ground turned. You'll know what to do from there. Keeping in mind where would he have likely taken a backhoe?

GOOGLE EARTH may show something also

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

Do your search after a very heavy rain that soaks the ground. Investigate those places where the water still stands and those places that the water soaks through the quickest. On a smaller property you could do the soaking yourself. Not feasible for ten acres. exanimo, ss

[Kentucky Kache]

Good idea, Siegfried. I wonder how long ground would stay
loose enough to make a noticeable difference.

[CaptJohn]

Something came to my mind when reading SiegFried post. Is this 10 acres open, forrest, cleared, being farmed with crops on it, or what. Post and Then I may have some ideas. Also do you know if some houses were next to any of that 10 acres at the time, and is there something natural on it, or on the horizon, that could hide him from those houses while burying it, or to use as a future Locating aid. AS AN Example, Line up that Mountain peak with that Large corner Power pole and its on that line, ..... so many feet from the property line......
But yes, they may have marked it with a stone or something. Maybe a piece of metal, several inches deep, so that they could locate the spot with a MD later. OR ten paces from that piece of metal... on and on. Post more about the lands current condition.

[Zobex]

Something came to my mind when reading SiegFried post. Is this 10 acres open, forrest, cleared, being farmed with crops on it, or what. Post and Then I may have some ideas. Also do you know if some houses were next to any of that 10 acres at the time, and is there something natural on it, or on the horizon, that could hide him from those houses while burying it, or to use as a future Locating aid. AS AN Example, Line up that Mountain peak with that Large corner Power pole and its on that line, ..... so many feet from the property line......
But yes, they may have marked it with a stone or something. Maybe a piece of metal, several inches deep, so that they could locate the spot with a MD later. OR ten paces from that piece of metal... on and on. Post more about the lands current condition.

Something to remember about burying anything. EVERYONE who buries something, they use position markers. Unless they were using a GPS to take a fix and that was not available in the 1980's. We've been forced to bury everything from gas supplies to .45 and m-16's (not inside the USA). And we make VERY sure there are positioning makers. Either already there or we make them. So in the mind of the person who DID bury this object, it was POSITIONED. I remember starting in the 1980's there was a fad of burying things in plastic tubes, IE PVC. Very water tight. Also in the 1980's people were into burying not just cash in most common $100 bills but with it or near it they would bury guns, ammo and gold coins (South African). Soo , there is a chance if you can not find the plastic tube full of paper, you might find something else that was buried with it. Track down some of the survivalist books that were published in the 1980's. They often give advise on how to 'hide" something and often people are dumb enough to literally follow the book like a cook book. Not thinking that as soon as any of these such books go to a publisher the FBI gets an advance copy and duplicates it for internal reading by it's agents. So if there is any stunt promoted in these survival books, that is one of the first things the FBI looks at when doing a case etc..

The FBI and Secret Service have developed some technology to find non metallic objects like this, due to espionage needs, but that is not available to people like us.

Zobex

[cptbil]

FishFinder:
"Jeff" is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT !
The Only Thing that is reliable IS!
A GPR !

[cptbil]

Here's "me n Bugs" ...
AND! My
StubNose .44 mag!
checking out a Spanish Mine Tunnel ....

[Kentucky Kache]

Somebody on here had a dog that could sniff out PVC pipe.
Was it dano?