Boobydoo
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Hello to everyone, hope you all got a chance to get out this weekend. We got rained out Saturday but yesterday morning the rain had stopped so I went out hitting the really rich side of town.
I was a man on a mission and ended up searching 3 schoolyard woodchip areas and 2 parks woodchip play areas. 2 of the schools and 1 of the parks had very small areas to search and these 3 places took only about a half hour each to cover. The third school had a lot of play area to cover and I had searched it last year also but it produced big time again this year. The other areas, I had never searched before. I hit it hard out there, 6- 1/2 hours total search time and then the skies opened up again and the rains came.
My pouch overflowed with finds. It was definitely a fun and productive day out there for me. My first good find at one of the smaller schools was a tennis bracelet laying right on top under the swings. It's got red and white stones and is hallmarked 925 on the clasp. Also laying on top here, right next to the swing support pole was a large 10K gold hoop earring, bent up, but gold, I'll take it! I saw a park on my way to the next school and hit that without much success, a few coins only. The next school was small also and I found a few things including a junk ring, a train flattened penny, and one kind of rare find, a matching pair of "925" earrrings. They are huge, triangle shaped with purple stones. They were in the swings area but not under the swings. They were only about a inch down in the chips located about two feet apart from each other. They are so heavy, I can't imagine someone wearing them, maybe that's why they were taken off and eventually lost. The skies were darkening so I decided to head toward home and coving the school I hit last year on my way. I saw another park so I swerved in and searched that too. It produced a lot of coins and another junk ring, and also an interesting old key on a plated gold chain, pretty cool. I also found a $1 Euro coin here. Someone had searched it sometime lately because some of the coins I found were at the bottom of holes that were loose and had been dug up recently?? Maybe they didn't know how to use their machine very well or else they don't like coins and threw them back in the hole and re-buried them.
Finally, the last school, and this placed was really producing, tons of targets. My best find of the day too. A really nice ladies 10K gold ring with a blue stone, maybe tanzenite and ten small diamond looking stones surrounding it. Woooowhoooo! It was in an open woodchip area between the swings and a sitting bench at the edge of the play area. I always try to cover 100% of the woodchip areas, not just around the play structures and a lot of my good finds come in places away from the play structures. I also got a small 925 earring here too. Lots of trinkets including 2 more junk rings.
I have seen members keeping track of their ring total so I went back through my log and counted up mine for the year. Including today, my total rings count is 47.
10 gold rings, 9 silver rings, and 28 junk/trinket rings.
I was pretty beat when I got home but very happy about my mound of finds. It took me a while to clean them up and I was too busy last night to post my finds, so here's some photos of today's booty. 6- 1/2 hours searching time, $20.90 clad value and 242 coins. I found a ton of quarters today, 56, so that boosted the $ amount. That puts me at about 2500 coins and $173 for the year so far.
Thanks for reading and best of luck to you all out there, HH!!
Smiles!
BDoo
I was a man on a mission and ended up searching 3 schoolyard woodchip areas and 2 parks woodchip play areas. 2 of the schools and 1 of the parks had very small areas to search and these 3 places took only about a half hour each to cover. The third school had a lot of play area to cover and I had searched it last year also but it produced big time again this year. The other areas, I had never searched before. I hit it hard out there, 6- 1/2 hours total search time and then the skies opened up again and the rains came.
My pouch overflowed with finds. It was definitely a fun and productive day out there for me. My first good find at one of the smaller schools was a tennis bracelet laying right on top under the swings. It's got red and white stones and is hallmarked 925 on the clasp. Also laying on top here, right next to the swing support pole was a large 10K gold hoop earring, bent up, but gold, I'll take it! I saw a park on my way to the next school and hit that without much success, a few coins only. The next school was small also and I found a few things including a junk ring, a train flattened penny, and one kind of rare find, a matching pair of "925" earrrings. They are huge, triangle shaped with purple stones. They were in the swings area but not under the swings. They were only about a inch down in the chips located about two feet apart from each other. They are so heavy, I can't imagine someone wearing them, maybe that's why they were taken off and eventually lost. The skies were darkening so I decided to head toward home and coving the school I hit last year on my way. I saw another park so I swerved in and searched that too. It produced a lot of coins and another junk ring, and also an interesting old key on a plated gold chain, pretty cool. I also found a $1 Euro coin here. Someone had searched it sometime lately because some of the coins I found were at the bottom of holes that were loose and had been dug up recently?? Maybe they didn't know how to use their machine very well or else they don't like coins and threw them back in the hole and re-buried them.
Finally, the last school, and this placed was really producing, tons of targets. My best find of the day too. A really nice ladies 10K gold ring with a blue stone, maybe tanzenite and ten small diamond looking stones surrounding it. Woooowhoooo! It was in an open woodchip area between the swings and a sitting bench at the edge of the play area. I always try to cover 100% of the woodchip areas, not just around the play structures and a lot of my good finds come in places away from the play structures. I also got a small 925 earring here too. Lots of trinkets including 2 more junk rings.
I have seen members keeping track of their ring total so I went back through my log and counted up mine for the year. Including today, my total rings count is 47.
10 gold rings, 9 silver rings, and 28 junk/trinket rings.
I was pretty beat when I got home but very happy about my mound of finds. It took me a while to clean them up and I was too busy last night to post my finds, so here's some photos of today's booty. 6- 1/2 hours searching time, $20.90 clad value and 242 coins. I found a ton of quarters today, 56, so that boosted the $ amount. That puts me at about 2500 coins and $173 for the year so far.
Thanks for reading and best of luck to you all out there, HH!!
Smiles!
BDoo
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All the clad, too. Superb!
thats a great haul for the year, i'm still waiting on my first ring ! congrats and send some of that luck this way 
