End of the Copper Trail was almost the end of the road

[Iron Patch]

Yesterday Ironhorse and myself were out, was an incredible day for weather, but that is changing now so our season is drawing closer to the end... so the end of the copper trail is near. I certainly didn't get any finds worthy to post, but thinking about what could have been, I'm pretty glad to live to hunt another day!

What happen was Ironhorse and I were leaving a field from what was basically just a path through the woods. It wasn't a long path but was very uneven and probably somewhere a car shouldn't be going, so it was a rough ride out with the car bottoming out several times. So pulling out on to what I guess I would describe as a country road was a relief to be on pavement again, and at the same time we were discussing the next place to go. It was then out of nowhere we heard a horn blaring! It was very confusing because neither of us seen anything coming, and maybe it was a blind spot because of the trees, or maybe being in the passenger seat I created the blind spot as we were turning.... really don't know, but I was not paying much attention and seen nothing. Ironhorse then slowly pulled over to the opposite side of the road, and doing it slowly I think indicates he really didn't have a clue what was happening, but at the same time found the focus to put us to where we had to be.... when quite honestly I was still there thinking what the hell is that. It was no more than 3 seconds later a huge truck goes flying by, still laying on the horn, and it was like a damn fright train passing us. Both of us just sat there for a few seconds contemplating what the result could have been because there was absolutely no way that thing was stopping, and I'd say it was a good 10 minutes before we were able to shake that one off and get back to thinking about detecting. I'm very glad to be able to give everyone a reminder to be careful, and to passengers don't distract the driver! We've been detecting together since 1999 and never had anything happen like this, or even close really... we were lucky!

 

[g-olden years]

Whew! So glad you two made it safely!

Once some years ago my adult son & I were coming back from lazy day fishing in our local small river. To avoid the long trek down & out of a big ravine, we took our usual shortcut across the elevated railroad bridge, after listening carefully to make sure no train was coming through this wooded area. We were wrong! Heard the train when we were half-way across the narrow bridge! Moment of pure terror. Instinct took over and we ran as fast as possible without tripping over the uneven ties, made it to end of bridge and veered onto the dirt shoulder just seconds before the train roared past. A lesson I should've learned decades earlier! Andi

 

[Iron Patch]

Whew! So glad you two made it safely!

Once some years ago my adult son & I were coming back from lazy day fishing in our local small river. To avoid the long trek down & out of a big ravine, we took our usual shortcut across the elevated railroad bridge, after listening carefully to make sure no train was coming through this wooded area. We were wrong! Heard the train when we were half-way across the narrow bridge! Moment of pure terror. Instinct took over and we ran as fast as possible without tripping over the uneven ties, made it to end of bridge and veered onto the dirt shoulder just seconds before the train roared past. A lesson I should've learned decades earlier! Andi

Often times over the years, especially on the bad days, I've often wondered how close I was to finding something great that day, and did I make a simple wrong choice that cost me making that find. Several years back an old coworker of mine was driving a coke delivery truck and another truck coming towards him lost his extremely heavy load and killed my coworker instantly. It blows my mind how such precise and bad timing led to such a tragedy, and had either driver did anything to create a 5 second difference in their day it would not have unfolded like it did. Well yesterday was the first time in my life where bad timing and a combination of things made for what was a very close call, too close.

 

[against the wind]

Sorry to hear about your close call with disaster.
Riding a motorcycle all these years, I have learned
to drive 200% defensively. Crazy stuff going on out there.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Life if fragile, and can be taken away in a twinkling.
Yep great to live to dig another day.

 

[Scrappy]

Holy Crap, glad to hear you fellas are ok! Not to get off subject but it looks like that trail continues directly across that highway in that clearing. Have you door knocked that farm?

 

[Iron Patch]

Holy Crap, glad to hear you fellas are ok! Not to get off subject but it looks like that trail continues directly across that highway in that clearing. Have you door knocked that farm?

That's just a house on the water, but we went to the right to the fields on the creek and surprisingly found very little! Might have to revisit that area some day.

 

[ironhorse]

Hey thanks for that scary reminder!
Semi vs Toyota, ,, we all know how that was going to end

 

[treblehunter]

I don't think your spandex suit would have help much in that situation. Thank God it turned out the way it did.

 

[Iron Patch]

Hey thanks for that scary reminder!
Semi vs Toyota, ,, we all know how that was going to end

I think that thing would have smoked us all the way to the next site!

 

[Ahab8]

Glad you guys are ok buddy. One of my good friends was driving a dump truck and was hit by a semi loaded down with logs. The guy fell asleep and crushed my buddy coming around a corner. The worst part is that he was alive for a couple hours in that mangled mess of metal while they tried to cut him out. His wife was just about to have his little girl. We have seen some horrible wrecks where I used to live in northern Maine. Usually truckers hauling logs that fall asleep on those dangerous windy roads. Life is full of near misses my friend. Glad that's what life had in store for you. Where the hell would I have sent that dollar lol

 

[The Patriot]

Live to detect another day...Certainly is a good reminder for everyone to pay attention when we are out...we all know how fragile life is.
Had close calls in the past but not detecting related...sure puts things into perspective.
Thanks for the reminder.

 

[ironhorse]

Only to a hole in the ground I think.....


i learned a valuable lesson and now to grow another set of eyes on the back of my head

 

[Iron Patch]

Only to a hole in the ground I think.....


i learned a valuable lesson and now to grow another set of eyes on the back of my head

Well the boys in NB and their boat did hold the record for a lot of years.

 

[bonepicker]

Nice to hear you guys are ok.
its moments like that, that make you realize how short and precious life really is.
One day you're here, and then you're gone.

 

[johnnyblaze]

You never even had a chance of being hit IP only the good die young

~Blaze~

 

[Iron Patch]

You never even had a chance of being hit IP only the good die young

~Blaze~

Thanks for calling me a bad a$$. You know it blaze!

 

[Derek752]

Glad you guys didn't get killed !