Xraywolf
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Believe it or not, still largely intact.
This place is huge [by city boy standards I guess] ... Big as it is, used to be alot bigger, they have been steadily developing the grounds over the last couple decades, probably ate up about half of it.
He was actually born and raised right across the street in 1863, that area was turned into seniors condos years ago. A historical marker marks the site, and the cabin that he grew up in was moved to Greenfield Village decades ago, obviously anything interesting in the ground there is forever unrecoverable.
Across the street is the family farm, still an open field. I grew up in Detroit but we used to go by there now and then, I remember it because farms are very uncommon in the Detroit metro area. Used to grow corn as I remember, don't think anything is grown there anymore.
Living within a 20 minutes drive of it you would think that I would have detected it before, and I did - Twice. Both times the ground was hard as a brick and I gave up pretty quick. Not sure why because its been very hot and sunny, not much rain, but the feild is digging like a dream now, I was digging 6" plugs in seconds. There is alot of foliage there, not quite crab grass but something like it and taller ,,, But this brushes to the side easily, so I was able to swing the coil nearly on the ground most of the time.
There are a few thickets there, was thinking about venturing in, knowing this ground had been undisturbed in decades ,,, But it actually looked pretty foreboding with night coming on, and I figured for sure I would stir up every biting bug within a mile, plus the swinging would be limited, so I passed.
Managed to find a silver dime and a toasted wheat, a couple bullets and what looks to be a piece from a gun, possibly toy gun hard to tell.
Wasn't at it long, less than an hour. You could swing 8 hrs a day 7 days a week for the whole summer and not detect 1/3rd of this place, since the digging is easy I will be going back. Very clean too, I ran on full sensitivity and got very few signals. Thought I'd get chewed up by bugs but didn't get bit once, wish me luck.
Penny and dime were probably about 5" and rang up loud and clear, if there are any halfs or dollars out there they should ring like a bell.
Obviously, the odds of finding anything actually connected to young Ford are almost non existent, but its fun thinking its possible.
This place is huge [by city boy standards I guess] ... Big as it is, used to be alot bigger, they have been steadily developing the grounds over the last couple decades, probably ate up about half of it.
He was actually born and raised right across the street in 1863, that area was turned into seniors condos years ago. A historical marker marks the site, and the cabin that he grew up in was moved to Greenfield Village decades ago, obviously anything interesting in the ground there is forever unrecoverable.
Across the street is the family farm, still an open field. I grew up in Detroit but we used to go by there now and then, I remember it because farms are very uncommon in the Detroit metro area. Used to grow corn as I remember, don't think anything is grown there anymore.
Living within a 20 minutes drive of it you would think that I would have detected it before, and I did - Twice. Both times the ground was hard as a brick and I gave up pretty quick. Not sure why because its been very hot and sunny, not much rain, but the feild is digging like a dream now, I was digging 6" plugs in seconds. There is alot of foliage there, not quite crab grass but something like it and taller ,,, But this brushes to the side easily, so I was able to swing the coil nearly on the ground most of the time.
There are a few thickets there, was thinking about venturing in, knowing this ground had been undisturbed in decades ,,, But it actually looked pretty foreboding with night coming on, and I figured for sure I would stir up every biting bug within a mile, plus the swinging would be limited, so I passed.
Managed to find a silver dime and a toasted wheat, a couple bullets and what looks to be a piece from a gun, possibly toy gun hard to tell.
Wasn't at it long, less than an hour. You could swing 8 hrs a day 7 days a week for the whole summer and not detect 1/3rd of this place, since the digging is easy I will be going back. Very clean too, I ran on full sensitivity and got very few signals. Thought I'd get chewed up by bugs but didn't get bit once, wish me luck.
Penny and dime were probably about 5" and rang up loud and clear, if there are any halfs or dollars out there they should ring like a bell.
Obviously, the odds of finding anything actually connected to young Ford are almost non existent, but its fun thinking its possible.
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