5 hour park hunt

willie d · May 14, 2009

I got to the park a little after 10 a.m. Started around the basketball court and picnic benches. I dug a couple coins and a bunch of pulltabs there. Worked my way towards the playground since it was empty. More coins and more pulltabs. One pulltab in particular I thought was pretty interesting. A root had grown through this pulltab. I came across one like this about a month ago. The playground didn't yield much, maybe 4 or 5 coins. Off to the baseball/soccer field go! Just outside the tot lot I get a few signals. I slide my foot to clear the top layer of leaves and there is 2 quarters just sitting there. Another swing, another signal and another couple of quarters. I ended up finding $3.75 in quarters in a 3x3 foot area. I worked about 1/5 of the ball field. I found the necklace on one of my last passes. I saw it out of the corner of my eye on a previous pass laying in the grass. When I first saw it, I figured it was "mardi gras" beads. I went over and picked up, it's got some weight. It's not beads, but it's not gold either, unless gold is slightly magnetic

$6.50 in clad and 10 eaten pennies

A penny smooshed by a train

A pulltab w/root

pulltab from a few weeks ago

Junk

Didn't find any gold or silver this hunt, but I had a good time. That's what it's all about.

John (Ma) · May 14, 2009

Very nice haul, looks like a fun day.

Mr_Mojo_Risin · May 14, 2009

Thatsalottadiggin Willie!

Swingit · May 14, 2009

Nice Finds :thumbsup:

Moonshadow · May 14, 2009

Great job on the clad! I bet that dern necklace gave you a heart failure at first. Nice finds!

HH,
Moon

michigan michael · May 14, 2009

Nice hunt! bet that pull tab was from A ROOT beer!

allen · May 15, 2009

all that clad adds up...

willie d · May 15, 2009

Thanks for the replies everybody.

It was a nice, peaceful day at the park digging clad. I have found a war nickel and a 1936 buffalo nickel here in the past. So, it has been interesting. The park seems to have an endless supply of pulltabs.

I thought the necklace was a reward for all the pulltabs that I've dug here. But I knew It couldn't be that easy, the necklace just laying there like that. Oh well there's always next time.

STH69 · May 17, 2009

nice finds, if I had a buck for every pull tab I found like that one! I would have another MD!

sfinder · May 17, 2009

Nice hunt! At my work we have a container we can put the pulltabs in for the Ronald McDonald House, comes in handy.

Pentico · May 17, 2009

That is a lot of digging.
Great job on cleaning up your part of the earth! :thumbsup:

Denver

ringfinder · May 17, 2009

Hey nice hunt, nice of you to dig all that junk and take it with you, now the next time you
go back, you can find the goodies. So many people dig junk, but just put it back in the hole or leave it on top of the ground, to find it again the next time they hunt the spot again. DAH!!!

HH,Ringfinder

fortbball9 · May 17, 2009

It really don't take long for the ground to do the damage on them pennies.
No matter how you look at it you still hear CA--CHING

fortbball9

willie d · May 17, 2009

STH69 said:
nice finds, if I had a buck for every pull tab I found like that one! I would have another MD!

Thanks, aren't those kinds of pulltabs fun? :cussing:

sfinder said:
Nice hunt! At my work we have a container we can put the pulltabs in for the Ronald McDonald House, comes in handy.

Thanks. The pulltabs go in with the rest of my aluminum for the scrap yard. At the end of the year, half the money goes to march of dimes, half to st. Jude's hospital.

Denver Nuggets said:
That is a lot of digging.
Great job on cleaning up your part of the earth!

Denver

It was my pleasure. :thumbsup:

ringfinder said:
Hey nice hunt, nice of you to dig all that junk and take it with you, now the next time you
go back, you can find the goodies. So many people dig junk, but just put it back in the hole or leave it on top of the ground, to find it again the next time they hunt the spot again. DAH!!!

HH,Ringfinder

LOL I hear ya, I never understood that either. :icon_scratch:

fortbball9 said:
It really don't take long for the ground to do the damage on them pennies.
No matter how you look at it you still hear CA--CHING

fortbball9