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  1. #1
    sal1966

    old wells

    anyone tried scooping in old wells? using long pole and sand scoop. any ideas?

  2. #2
    red
    red is offline
    No place but TEXAS

    Feb 2005
    Lexington, Texas
    Fisher CZ70, Garrett 500
    218

    Re: old wells

    I haven't hunted wells but I have had good luck hunting and digging out old cisterns and have come up with some good bottles from the late 1800 and I haven't gotten

    to the bottom yet.

    I'm planing on another cistern dig at an old 1870s train switch station soon befor the snakes get to moving.

    Good luck with you well but they are a little to narrow for me.

    Red
    DEO VINDICE<br />Keep your powder dry boys it isn't over yet

  3. #3
    Jim Cal

    Re: old wells

    Snakes give me the creeps. I haven't hunted old wells but are you talking about one that still has water or one that has filled in? Reason I ask is you can buy some pretty powerful magnets nowadays and hook one to a rope and drop it in the water for any ferrous relics or metals. Might be worth a try. I assume a filled in well would just be an excavation done with extreme caution since so many ditch cave-ins, etc. kill people every year. Jim Cal

  4. #4
    red
    red is offline
    No place but TEXAS

    Feb 2005
    Lexington, Texas
    Fisher CZ70, Garrett 500
    218

    Re: old wells

    I've been digging filed in cisterns the one me and my boys have been doing the most digging in is on the hill here at home where I found the Civil war stuff ,
    My dad told me he can remember back in the 30s it had steps going into it so to tell the truth it might have been a cellar or converted into one.
    anyhow dig it all out from wall to wall this one has brick walls.we have only gotten 5ft deep and then came all the rains and now its a cistern with watter.
    I'll move the rattle snakes you move the black widows.

    Red

    DEO VINDICE<br />Keep your powder dry boys it isn't over yet

  5. #5

    Jun 2003
    San Antonio, Texas
    Whites DFX, MXT X2, Exploder, and Classic III
    431
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    Re: old wells

    I am waiting to see if anyone has found anything too. I have access to a community well lined with native stone from the late 1800's. It is still intact and capped for safety. I have always wondered what could have been dropped into it. I won't go in, but I have been thinking of a scooping device myself.

    Rich
    Saving History, one Piece at a time!

  6. #6
    Jim Cal

    Re: old wells

    We cleaned out the well at our deer camp a few years ago (still had water) and found an old bucket, well pulley, and misc bottles. This one was brick lined and showed considerable craftmanship so we felt semi-safe in doing it. Let us know what you find in this one. Jim Cal

  7. #7
    red
    red is offline
    No place but TEXAS

    Feb 2005
    Lexington, Texas
    Fisher CZ70, Garrett 500
    218

    Re: old wells

    Old bottles are common in wells and new snakes
    DEO VINDICE<br />Keep your powder dry boys it isn't over yet

 

 

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