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NAME: Kelly
LOCATION: The east side of The State of Washington. More specifically, about an hour from Ephrata (north-ish), Wenatchee (northwest-ish), Ellensburg (west-ish), Yakima (southwest-ish), Tri-Cities, southeast-ish), Othello (east-ish) and Moses Lake (northeast-ish). So in the middle of everywhere (a step up from in the middle of nowhere).
[A LITTLE BACKGROUND] I've been away from it for about 55 years, but spent a good bit of my youth on metal detecting and other treasure related adventures.
My parents co-owned an antique-rock-bottle shop in Brewster, Washington, so the metal detecting thing fit like a glove. If only for locating long abandoned dumps and giving us an excuse to dig holes up to five feet deep.
My dad's detectors were Whites. I suspect even a cheap detector of this era would more than compete with them. We'll see. As I write this, I'm still in the shopping mode. I have have an 1,800 square foot hobby shop fitted with a 4'x6' carving machine, a cabinet saw (Unisaw), a 17" bandsaw (Grizzly) dedicated to re-sawing, a 14" inch bandsaw (Powermatic) dedicated to scroll work, a Hegner scroll saw, a couple miters, an 8" spiral cutter head jointer, and so on. So I am familiar with the "hurts once" concept, but am also familiar with the wisdom of buying a tool of lesser value, if it'll do the job, to avoid going into debt, and waiting until I can afford better (e.g., if I get enough use out of the cheaper item, I can give it away when I buy that Hilti).
First project will, probably, be to see where the property stakes are located.
In the back of my mind is the railway station site I visited just up the river back around 1965, give or take a few years. It was taken out for the hydroelectric dam.
I might do a bit of beach combing during a rare visit to the Pacific Ocean, but suspect they've been well combed by others. Said another way, there are still many abandoned homesteads and things that would be far more productive and those tug on me far more than do the beaches..
LOCATION: The east side of The State of Washington. More specifically, about an hour from Ephrata (north-ish), Wenatchee (northwest-ish), Ellensburg (west-ish), Yakima (southwest-ish), Tri-Cities, southeast-ish), Othello (east-ish) and Moses Lake (northeast-ish). So in the middle of everywhere (a step up from in the middle of nowhere).
[A LITTLE BACKGROUND] I've been away from it for about 55 years, but spent a good bit of my youth on metal detecting and other treasure related adventures.
My parents co-owned an antique-rock-bottle shop in Brewster, Washington, so the metal detecting thing fit like a glove. If only for locating long abandoned dumps and giving us an excuse to dig holes up to five feet deep.
My dad's detectors were Whites. I suspect even a cheap detector of this era would more than compete with them. We'll see. As I write this, I'm still in the shopping mode. I have have an 1,800 square foot hobby shop fitted with a 4'x6' carving machine, a cabinet saw (Unisaw), a 17" bandsaw (Grizzly) dedicated to re-sawing, a 14" inch bandsaw (Powermatic) dedicated to scroll work, a Hegner scroll saw, a couple miters, an 8" spiral cutter head jointer, and so on. So I am familiar with the "hurts once" concept, but am also familiar with the wisdom of buying a tool of lesser value, if it'll do the job, to avoid going into debt, and waiting until I can afford better (e.g., if I get enough use out of the cheaper item, I can give it away when I buy that Hilti).
First project will, probably, be to see where the property stakes are located.
In the back of my mind is the railway station site I visited just up the river back around 1965, give or take a few years. It was taken out for the hydroelectric dam.
I might do a bit of beach combing during a rare visit to the Pacific Ocean, but suspect they've been well combed by others. Said another way, there are still many abandoned homesteads and things that would be far more productive and those tug on me far more than do the beaches..
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