This could save your life!

[BC1969]

Was thinking about something that almost happened to me a long time ago in Alabama.
If you happen to be searching a old homesite, be it standing or just a pile of rocks, do yourself a huge favor and do NOT walk across a old pile of boards laying on the ground, sure it may just be an innocent pile laying there, covered in leaves and weeds, or it very well may be covering a old well!.
Like I said, you could lose your life, especially if you are hunting alone.
I was searching the area around a old homesite, it just looked like a pile of old rotting boards, one step later and crunch...I was flat on my back, with one leg magically in an unseen hole.
Well I got up and realized what had just happened, and grabbed a nearby rock and dropped it in the hole, about 3 seconds later I heard a splash..
I just felt the need to share this experience, since it could have been my last.

 

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[christo000]

I will definitely look more carefully for that

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[xrunndonex]

Also if you drive a lot in forest roads (old logging roads) a ham radio is a good investment

 

[xrunndonex]

Also if you drive a lot in forest roads (old logging roads) a ham radio is a good investment

You don't need a ham license if you are seeking emergency assistance cb radios work to but hams have much more distance

 

[cazisme]

An aquantiance who worked for the County doing tax valuations was in a part of our state that has Indian reservation on it. He had the flu needed to pooh bad saw an old outhouse. Goes to outhouse does his business and pulling up pants floor collapses he is in deep ****. Has to crawl climb out drive home to change covered in ****. Has to have lots of shots for bad diseases in pooh. Watch out for weak boards. Could have been worse he could have drowned.

 

[Mr.T]

If you do wind up in the bottom of a well, make sure you check the bottom well before you get rescued. There's no telling what coins/treasure might have been tossed in there for good luck!

It was common custom in Ireland to throw silver into the wells to purify the drinking water!!

 

[Old Dude]

Very good thread. Many times we are so excited to be hunting a new spot, we rush in and throw caution to the wind. This pic shows a site I found while detecting last year.
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[sponge]

Just get a real long rope and tie it to your car and waist. Leave the keys in the car with the windows down. When you fall inthe well hopefully your car gets stolen and you get ripped out of the well. Works every time

 

[nuggetdog]

Thanks for the post, it reminded me of something that happened to me 35 yrs ago. I was a log home builder, we covered up the stairwell hole with a sheet of plywood and over time the cover moved and when I came down off a 8 foot wall and landed on that cover I went all the way to the basement floor and just missed a table saw. Shattered my heel and shook me up pretty good, sure don't want to experiance anything like that again. Be carefull everyone!!

Paul

 

[dbag1969]

I was thinking at first that this is a rare or remote event but one search on 'google' revealed this to be a somewhat common occurrence. Apparently the girl in the attached story was standing on a piece of plywood that was used to cover an old well. This just recently happened, Jan. 28th, 2014...be careful out there in the woods!!! Girl, 10, rescued after falling 30 feet into Pasadena well | Anne Arundel County News - WBAL Home

 

[waterdog]

Boy your right about that Capt Nat! I mean after all, if I fall 20 feet down into a bottom of a well, I'll be super excited that my detecter fell in with me! Really! Who cares that I didn't bring my phone or flares with me. But boy I'm sure glad I got my metal detector. I mean, can you imagine what the folks conversation sounded like after finding him at the bottom a year later? "Well at least he had his MD with him".

 

[Tugger]

BC1969. Gives some good advice! I live Washington in an area of many old mines are abundant one tell tail sign of an old well or mine entrance are a growth of blackberry vines growing in a place that just seems out of place?we all just need to be aware of the surroundings we are hunting. God hunting!

 

[waterdog]

An aquantiance who worked for the County doing tax valuations was in a part of our state that has Indian reservation on it. He had the flu needed to pooh bad saw an old outhouse. Goes to outhouse does his business and pulling up pants floor collapses he is in deep ****. Has to crawl climb out drive home to change covered in ****. Has to have lots of shots for bad diseases in pooh. Watch out for weak boards. Could have been worse he could have drowned.

ROF LMAO!!!!!!!

 

[Tugger]

OMG water dog....did he remember to check for valuables tossed down there? Always take advantage of the situation! Although he might have had other things on his mind just then..

 

[Roadquest]

Have been working on a home made grappling hook, just in case of something like that. If you survive the fall. maybe you could get out.

 

[BC1969]

Yeah it is a lot more common than people think, this link is for a story about a month ago of a kid that fell 140 feet!! Down a old well..how he survived that..I have an idea but..bleh. Lucky kid.
South Carolina boy recovering after falling down 140-foot well* - NY Daily News

Mike

 

[vandaria]

Was shown an old house I could detect at and the owner walked me around the property first. He was sure to warn me not to walk on the two bumps in the yard near the house, which looked like the rest of the yard mind you, because underneath were the cisterns for the house and he wasn't sure if it would give or not. The whole house looked like it was about to fall over tbh lol. Oh and that yard wins for most pop/beer tabs EVER. 70 I think it was that day and 2 clad coins a spoon...and some foil. Not too keen to go there again.

 

[Don Griffith]

...hope your md is waterproof...

 

[BamaBill]

That's why if I'm hunting an old homesite with any amount of brush I carry a walking stick to poke around ahead of me to make sure I'm not going to step into a chuck hole either and break an ankle or a leg. It's a habit that carries over from wade fishing, where a wading staff has saved my bacon more than once when it kept me from stepping into a hole and floating my hat.

 

[BC1969]

The fall season is almost upon us, frost lowered grasses means folks stomping through the woods trying to find old homesteads..so I figured I'd bump this, to remind folks to watch their steps...for it could end up your last ones.

Mike

 

[Red James Cash]

I try to drill that into people when theyre walking through tall grass.I came across an open well once in waist high grass.where it was nobody would of heard you yelling if you lived the fall,whack your head good on the way done,see ya.