iloveshinythings
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Hey everyone!
It's been a while, but work has been crazy which has left little time for treasure hunting.
But, I have had the best day of my life yesterday, hands down!
Up the road from me, they're demolishing a beautiful old, but really run down Farm House built in 1890. I figured I would go over to see if they'd let me poke around to find a few items to keep from the location. Well, they pretty much let me have the run of the place and I spent 7 hours hauling off all kinds of beautiful treasures (which mostly came in the form of beautiful rough sawn framing, and the most gorgeous trim you've ever seen.
But even better than that there is an old shed standing on the property made of beams, that they let me root through and take whatever I wanted since they were going to knock it down. I got to save the top boards of the gables from the roof, which are 1.5 inches thick, twenty inches wide and twenty feet long. They weigh a God awful ton, but they're MINE!
And look what I found!
All in all I don't know much about this stuff, other than it's BEAUTIFUL, and I am going to do my best to salvage some more today. I have a huge stack of wood, which I'll be going back for more. There are like 60 arrow heads, which came out of a lamp that I found in the flattened house. I'm sure someone took a ton of time to collect them all, and they were gonna end up in a landfill (anyone have info on the arrowheads?) Also, the spinning wheel was a super cool save from the shed. Don't know what I'm going to do with it, but just couldn't let it get crushed to splinter wood.
It might not be metal detecting, but it sure is treasure to me!
If any of ya'll have any information on anything you see, let me know! It's early and I am so sore I can barely move - but I'm going BACK IN! This is what DREAMS ARE MADE OF!
It's been a while, but work has been crazy which has left little time for treasure hunting.
But, I have had the best day of my life yesterday, hands down!
Up the road from me, they're demolishing a beautiful old, but really run down Farm House built in 1890. I figured I would go over to see if they'd let me poke around to find a few items to keep from the location. Well, they pretty much let me have the run of the place and I spent 7 hours hauling off all kinds of beautiful treasures (which mostly came in the form of beautiful rough sawn framing, and the most gorgeous trim you've ever seen.
But even better than that there is an old shed standing on the property made of beams, that they let me root through and take whatever I wanted since they were going to knock it down. I got to save the top boards of the gables from the roof, which are 1.5 inches thick, twenty inches wide and twenty feet long. They weigh a God awful ton, but they're MINE!
And look what I found!
All in all I don't know much about this stuff, other than it's BEAUTIFUL, and I am going to do my best to salvage some more today. I have a huge stack of wood, which I'll be going back for more. There are like 60 arrow heads, which came out of a lamp that I found in the flattened house. I'm sure someone took a ton of time to collect them all, and they were gonna end up in a landfill (anyone have info on the arrowheads?) Also, the spinning wheel was a super cool save from the shed. Don't know what I'm going to do with it, but just couldn't let it get crushed to splinter wood.
It might not be metal detecting, but it sure is treasure to me!
If any of ya'll have any information on anything you see, let me know! It's early and I am so sore I can barely move - but I'm going BACK IN! This is what DREAMS ARE MADE OF!
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