Postalrevnant
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After a few great days I guess I got a taste of reality. And I did a first today. I was in a cornfield, one with a house that had been burned down in recent years. They finally came with the machinery and tore up the house. Hauled a good part of it off, but still there is more left to haul off.
Also they brought some machinery to chop up the ground in the cornfield area. First 2 hits were clad quarter, dime, dime, so thought might be good clad day or perhaps a silver surprise. But the next 3 hours taught me differently. Apparently the combination of flood waters depositing silt and machinery from this week or years past managed to find lots of aluminum can bags or just someone constantly threw aluminum cans in the field.
Anways, The solid coin signals were 5" to 6"+ on my detector. I thought for sure I had found a lucky spot. Nickel and solid coin signals with the sound of quarter of course turned up to be a great pile of aluminum can squashed up scraps.
The thing I did that I have never did before was dump out all of those scraps in the middle of the house debris. I have to admit the wet, mud, cold and wind with the aluminum was a big bummer.
I am not going to post any pics yet. I got 47 cents total in clad. But I did get an interesting, modern looking button. But it's got one really sweet design. It is so dark that I cannot get a good pic off it. If I can get lucky enough to get a good pic and show the detail on the button will post a pic.
Guess this week leveled out after today. 2 great days. And one day of aluminum scraps a plenty. And one day of larger bottle caps from the large beer bottles. LoL bet you guys all love those finds in huge concentrations. Especially at good depths and great looking spots. Of course unlike full aluminum cans you cannot guess aluminum cans by the pinpoint length.
Thanks for the read. I have not been posting my so so days so far. But I really should post a few of them. That way I can go back and read these days when I get a really really bad day. Then these days won't seem so bad.
Postalrevnant
Also they brought some machinery to chop up the ground in the cornfield area. First 2 hits were clad quarter, dime, dime, so thought might be good clad day or perhaps a silver surprise. But the next 3 hours taught me differently. Apparently the combination of flood waters depositing silt and machinery from this week or years past managed to find lots of aluminum can bags or just someone constantly threw aluminum cans in the field.
Anways, The solid coin signals were 5" to 6"+ on my detector. I thought for sure I had found a lucky spot. Nickel and solid coin signals with the sound of quarter of course turned up to be a great pile of aluminum can squashed up scraps.
The thing I did that I have never did before was dump out all of those scraps in the middle of the house debris. I have to admit the wet, mud, cold and wind with the aluminum was a big bummer.
I am not going to post any pics yet. I got 47 cents total in clad. But I did get an interesting, modern looking button. But it's got one really sweet design. It is so dark that I cannot get a good pic off it. If I can get lucky enough to get a good pic and show the detail on the button will post a pic.
Guess this week leveled out after today. 2 great days. And one day of aluminum scraps a plenty. And one day of larger bottle caps from the large beer bottles. LoL bet you guys all love those finds in huge concentrations. Especially at good depths and great looking spots. Of course unlike full aluminum cans you cannot guess aluminum cans by the pinpoint length.
Thanks for the read. I have not been posting my so so days so far. But I really should post a few of them. That way I can go back and read these days when I get a really really bad day. Then these days won't seem so bad.
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