07/03/10 - Haleiwa Walkabout

[808beginnerdigger]

Did some surface searching in Haleiwa and found some broken machined sodas (City SW & Spring SW), few blown medicines and Konishi bottle . The only thing good was a nice USN coffee cup made by TEPCO USA CHINA and a “not so old” oriental bottle that have a plastic screw on cap - Any idea how old this is? Sure is a nice piece.

 

[808kaz]

Awright!

 

[808beginnerdigger]

07/10/10 - Went back and found this "Smile" bottle. I was talking with the leaseholder of the property while sitting on a boulder at the gate entrance. As I looked down next to my foot I saw the edge of the base just barely breaking the surface.

 

[808kaz]

AWRIGHT!!!

 

[sodetraveler]

Under Ground

Howzit 808beginnerdigger!

It sounds like you've got permission to work this lot, so you might as well dig a few holes

You know that there are bottles under there......somewhere

The problem is figuring out where the best place is to drop a test hole

You could try using surface clues - like the place where you found the Konishi shard, or you could do some probing

Now there are lots of different types of probes out there. Some are good for digging, others are good for probing.....

Check out this website for some killer probes: www.tandttools.com

The TPA36 is a good combination probe. You can either dig or probe with it since it's only 3 feet long.

For deeper probing you may want to try the TPA48 (4 foot long) or the TPA72 (6 foot long).......

As for myself, I have all 3 of these, but for digging I use a TPA36-X7 (7/16" hex shaft) and the HH36S hook probe (1/2" diameter shaft).

These are super strong and can smash through the toughest iron layer in minutes!

In the picture below you can see them along with a "standard" hand-made probe (3/8" diameter shaft on far right). The TPA36-X7 is on the left and the HH36S is on the center right with the "hook" pointed up.

 

[808beginnerdigger]

Re: Under Ground

Howzit 808beginnerdigger!

It sounds like you've got permission to work this lot, so you might as well dig a few holes

You know that there are bottles under there......somewhere

The problem is figuring out where the best place is to drop a test hole

You could try using surface clues - like the place where you found the Konishi shard, or you could do some probing

Now there are lots of different types of probes out there. Some are good for digging, others are good for probing.....

Check out this website for some killer probes: www.tandttools.com

The TPA36 is a good combination probe. You can either dig or probe with it since it's only 3 feet long.

For deeper probing you may want to try the TPA48 (4 foot long) or the TPA72 (6 foot long).......

As for myself, I have all 3 of these, but for digging I use a TPA36-X7 (7/16" hex shaft) and the HH36S hook probe (1/2" diameter shaft).

These are super strong and can smash through the toughest iron layer in minutes!

In the picture below you can see them along with a "standard" hand-made probe (3/8" diameter shaft on far right). The TPA36-X7 is on the left and the HH36S is on the center right with the "hook" pointed up.

Howzit Sodetraveler!
Thanks so much for the website... I appreciate all the info and tips I can get. I tried probing the area where the broken Konishi was - the ground was super hard. The only soft areas was closer towards the swamp. Lots of Wild Hogs in that area. You couldn't see them but can hear them in the tall grass covering the swamp area. I had to yell a few times cause they were getting a bit close. There is also a pig pen in the area and the owner (separate lease owner from the one I know) was also feeding the wild pigs. Most of the broken stuff is near his area but NOT on his property.

Thanks Again!....

 

[lldein]

Re: Probes, wifes find

Aloha, This is my first time posting here. I really love this site and have always been a Hawaii bottle fan since I was a little kid. Soda traveler thankyou for that website about probes. I lost my original one back in the 70's and haven't been able to get a good one since.

This treasurenet site rocks and I love to see the awesome pics.
Keep the pics coming, I love to drool.LOL
About 2 months ago my wife and I went surface scratching near Paia,Maui at a known dump. I was ahead and my wife yells out "Hey I got a milk!" Honestly I didn't believe her at first but sure enough there it was. The base was barely sticking out of the ground. Her first milk. Unfortunately that is all we found and alot of broken stuff. Pretty nice pint though, too bad it's common.

lldein: John

 

[808beginnerdigger]

Re: Probes, wifes find

Aloha, This is my first time posting here. I really love this site and have always been a Hawaii bottle fan since I was a little kid. Soda traveler thankyou for that website about probes. I lost my original one back in the 70's and haven't been able to get a good one since.

This treasurenet site rocks and I love to see the awesome pics.
Keep the pics coming, I love to drool.LOL
About 2 months ago my wife and I went surface scratching near Paia,Maui at a known dump. I was ahead and my wife yells out "Hey I got a milk!" Honestly I didn't believe her at first but sure enough there it was. The base was barely sticking out of the ground. Her first milk. Unfortunately that is all we found and alot of broken stuff. Pretty nice pint though, too bad it's common.

lldein: John

Welcome to the site. Nice find! Most milks I use to find is all "sick". Lately that's all I've been doing is surface scratching hoping to come across a promising new area.

808beginnerdigger: Nate

 

[lldein]

Re: Probes, wifes find

Aloha, This is my first time posting here. I really love this site and have always been a Hawaii bottle fan since I was a little kid. Soda traveler thankyou for that website about probes. I lost my original one back in the 70's and haven't been able to get a good one since.

This treasurenet site rocks and I love to see the awesome pics.
Keep the pics coming, I love to drool.LOL
About 2 months ago my wife and I went surface scratching near Paia,Maui at a known dump. I was ahead and my wife yells out "Hey I got a milk!" Honestly I didn't believe her at first but sure enough there it was. The base was barely sticking out of the ground. Her first milk. Unfortunately that is all we found and alot of broken stuff. Pretty nice pint though, too bad it's common.

lldein: John

Welcome to the site. Nice find! Most milks I use to find is all "sick". Lately that's all I've been doing is surface scratching hoping to come across a promising new area.

808beginnerdigger: Nate

Thanks Nate,
Actually it was lightly tumbled, my wife insisted it be done and I wasn't going to argue about it. LOL
lldein

 

[hawaiiandigger]

Welcome to the site ldein, Hope you guys have great success in your digs. ALOHA (trashfromthepast)

 

[lldein]

Welcome to the site ldein, Hope you guys have great success in your digs. ALOHA (trashfromthepast)

Howzit Hawaiiandigger,
I am awed by your collection, mahalo for the welcome.

lldein

 

[808beginnerdigger]

Welcome to the site ldein, Hope you guys have great success in your digs. ALOHA (trashfromthepast)

Howzit Hawaiiandigger,
I am awed by your collection, mahalo for the welcome.

lldein

You guys got some awesome stuff... Please continue to post pics even if it's not from a recent dig... we like look and drool! Mahalo! (aka B8cast).

 

[sodetraveler]

Howzit lldien!

I see you decided to use your eBay name like 808KAZ and I

I just got back from Oahu yesterday. Mostly just pretended to be a haole tourist with the wife

Found out that if you look enough like a tourist (shark bait!) you can dig a huge hole in the beach right in front of the lifegaurd tower and not get hassled

A bottlin friend told me that he had found some BIMAL sodes at that beach (to remain un-named) after a big storm washed away the sand

I borrowed a shovel from my brother and dug down six feet right in the middle of the beach without anyone batting an eye. My wife sat next to me with one of those kiddy plastic shovels and bucket we bought at the ABC Store

All I found was a small patch of rust stuck to a baseball sized rock at about five feet down

Oh well, at least I got to try. You can't find bottles if you don't dig.......uh, except for that surface stuff.....

 

[lldein]

Howzit lldien!

I see you decided to use your eBay name like 808KAZ and I

I just got back from Oahu yesterday. Mostly just pretended to be a haole tourist with the wife

Found out that if you look enough like a tourist (shark bait!) you can dig a huge hole in the beach right in front of the lifegaurd tower and not get hassled

A bottlin friend told me that he had found some BIMAL sodes at that beach (to remain un-named) after a big storm washed away the sand

I borrowed a shovel from my brother and dug down six feet right in the middle of the beach without anyone batting an eye. My wife sat next to me with one of those kiddy plastic shovels and bucket we bought at the ABC Store

All I found was a small patch of rust stuck to a baseball sized rock at about five feet down

Oh well, at least I got to try. You can't find bottles if you don't dig.......uh, except for that surface stuff.....

Howzit Sodetraveler ,
My wife and I love your idea about digging at the beach and have a few spot's in mind here on Maui, can't hurt to try!
Aloha,
lldein