2 Short Hunts....

[CRUSADER]

I was out of action yesterday, as the painful arm I worked on through at the weekend flared up into a large red lump. Intercostal muscle I think. It was my left arm which I started using after I knacked my right arm. I'm not looking for symathy as its my own fault. However, tonight I stuck on a load of 'tiger balm' & joined Dad for 1 hour.

Dad got 1 Roman last night.

Tonight we got a 17th century token & bits.

We will do more of this field tomorrow. I may have to limit my time & help Dad dig. :P

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Looks like you got a spindle whorl as well in the finds! Take care of that arm, I got some kind of tennis elbow in my digging arm and it took over one year to get better. Partly my own fault as I did not give up detecting and the last winter was easy and did not freeze much. I am looking forward to a cold winter as I have two years of finds I have to report to the Archies and I want to get it over with. HH, Mike

 

[CRUSADER]

Looks like you got a spindle whorl as well in the finds! Take care of that arm, I got some kind of tennis elbow in my digging arm and it took over one year to get better. Partly my own fault as I did not give up detecting and the last winter was easy and did not freeze much. I am looking forward to a cold winter as I have two years of finds I have to report to the Archies and I want to get it over with. HH, Mike

Biggest issue for me, is that this will be the first winter in years that I have ploughed fields to do. A few of our farmers are leaving the stubble over winter. Who needs arms anyway, when you got pieces of metal

 

[shaun7]

Looks like you got a spindle whorl as well in the finds! Take care of that arm, I got some kind of tennis elbow in my digging arm and it took over one year to get better. Partly my own fault as I did not give up detecting and the last winter was easy and did not freeze much. I am looking forward to a cold winter as I have two years of finds I have to report to the Archies and I want to get it over with. HH, Mike

Biggest issue for me, is that this will be the first winter in years that I have ploughed fields to do. A few of our farmers are leaving the stubble over winter. Who needs arms anyway, when you got pieces of metal

"who needs arms anyway"? was that a bit of a monty python moment

 

[CRUSADER]

Looks like you got a spindle whorl as well in the finds! Take care of that arm, I got some kind of tennis elbow in my digging arm and it took over one year to get better. Partly my own fault as I did not give up detecting and the last winter was easy and did not freeze much. I am looking forward to a cold winter as I have two years of finds I have to report to the Archies and I want to get it over with. HH, Mike

Biggest issue for me, is that this will be the first winter in years that I have ploughed fields to do. A few of our farmers are leaving the stubble over winter. Who needs arms anyway, when you got pieces of metal

"who needs arms anyway"? was that a bit of a monty python moment

I can detect with a meer flesh wound, i'll swing with me head

 

[kdismuke1]

Great finds wish i was in England.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great finds wish i was in England.

Terrible really. But I have a post all policy. I'm still waiting for my next 'great find'

 

[B|lker]

Nice finds crusader and Dad.

Hopefully theres no Knights that say NEEE in the area.

Keep posting i love to look.

 

[civilman1]

Nice dig's for a "bum" arm Cru......I Hate When You Swimg Too Much

 

[woody50]

Hey Cru, take care of the arm, really! Don't over do it, you arm is more important than overdoing it now and having problems for a long future period. I though that Intercostal muscles were rib muscles though.

A tip for those who have or get 'tennis arm', or like I had last year 'heel spur' (I think I had that because I only had two weeks to search, and did much of the searching wearing rubber boots instead of good shoes). After trying things like shoe inserts I heard about shock treatment. It was expensive (the insurance paid quite a bit though) and painfull (not a normal pain but hard to describe, the pain comes from the place deep in your heel, but is gone immediately after the shocks stop), but I was cured after a number of visits.

Finally could walk again without pain. Now I have bought an expensive and good pair of rubber boots, and using those with rubber inserts seems to help from the heel spur to return, in anycase I just had three weeks searching and no problems.

Shock treatment is also used with 'Tennis Arm' problems. Like I say, its expensive and painful for a short time, but it seems to work. Otherwise you have years and years of pain. You can read more about it at http://orthopedics.about.com/od/footankle/i/shockwave.htm

I hope my advice could help some of you, but leave something in the ground for me please when your pain is gone!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I also went through a series of shock treatments, it helped a lot and I probably should have gone back for more. HH, Mike

 

[woody50]

I also went through a series of shock treatments, it helped a lot and I probably should have gone back for more. HH, Mike

Yea, me too Mike but just thinking of the pain (well I still can't describe the pain, its not steady, just with every jolt and not on the surface but inside your heel, but bearable if you sort of cry. By the place I went they don't numb the place first, like they do someother places) makes me want to live without it. I could bear the pain pretty good, but others had big problems.

But like you said, it sure helped!

 

[shaun7]

I also went through a series of shock treatments, it helped a lot and I probably should have gone back for more. HH, Mike

Yea, me too Mike but just thinking of the pain (well I still can't describe the pain, its not steady, just with every jolt and not on the surface but inside your heel, but bearable if you sort of cry. By the place I went they don't numb the place first, like they do someother places) makes me want to live without it. I could bear the pain pretty good, but others had big problems.

But like you said, it sure helped!

just a thought woody,did you detect so fast before the shock treatment in your heels?

if it mean't i could find stuff like you i could handle the pain!

i want supercharged heels

 

[au4me2]

Crusader,
I will read anything you post, It's all great.

 

[woody50]

I also went through a series of shock treatments, it helped a lot and I probably should have gone back for more. HH, Mike

Yea, me too Mike but just thinking of the pain (well I still can't describe the pain, its not steady, just with every jolt and not on the surface but inside your heel, but bearable if you sort of cry. By the place I went they don't numb the place first, like they do someother places) makes me want to live without it. I could bear the pain pretty good, but others had big problems.

But like you said, it sure helped!

just a thought woody,did you detect so fast before the shock treatment in your heels?

if it mean't i could find stuff like you i could handle the pain!

i want supercharged heels

YOU WILL find stuff like me, maybe it might take you longer to find it, but you will if you keep digging every sound and get to know your detector and your ears. Stay if possible with one detector. I take on the average one year before I know what a detector can do...

Detecting fast, well not really, its just grown over the years, I guess you might call it experience, and knowledge of my detector. The longer you search (me since 87) and the better you know your detector, the more finds you will find. They, or the most of them, will not be great finds, but finds in any case. The great thing to think is then say the average silver to copper coin ratio is 55 to 1 (just taking an example). You will find 56 finds and one will be silver. Now, if you find the 56 finds in say 2 hours, and you search for three hours you should have 3 silver ones. Just an example.

I try to 'make many meters', many many meters. Then I know what the detector is saying and leave only what he is defintive about not being anything important (most the time small iron, big or middle sized iron I usually dig - I have found some nice iron things that way).

But when you find a hot spot, say in a large field, two roman coins in a small area, I slow down to a crawl or slower and check out in ever increasing circles the signals. If I find nothing I move on, otherwise I spend even more time there. The guys that I search with are always looking at me when I slow down, they know something is up, and most of the time I see them sort of moving to me...

Another thing I don't do is look at what I have found. If I think is something nice it goes into a separate compartment of my pouch, and I continue. I want to use every minute that I get to search (yes I am married) to the fullest. At the end of the day I look. Of course if I ID something exceptional I do stay in that area, but just give the object a once over (20 seconds or something like that)

But everyone has to find their own way of doing it of course....