First Old Horseshoe.....

[Garrett424]

So I got off work and stopped by a farmer friend's place to get some tomatoes. He has THE BEST around and he charges about half of what everyone else if getting. He also throws in a few extras which is cool.

Better yet, he also knows I treasure hunt and gave me permission to hunt a HUGE hay field. I didn't even ask he just brought it up. It's at least 15 acres and it's never been built on; only farmed. The grass was pretty short considering.

It's pretty clean so far. I walked around for almost a half hour and didn't get a single hit.
Then, I got a nice high, deep hit. I figured it was probably trash but of course, I dug it anyway 'cause you never really know until you know.

I got down about 8 inches and saw the end of one half sticking out. The rest was deeper. I pulled it out, re checked the hole and it was still ringing. Beneath the first half awaited the other half. That was at least a foot down.



This is my first actual real horseshoe. It still has pieces of nails in it.
I dug up one a while back but that one was a pitchin' shoe so I'm not counting it.

I was running my disc at about 11:00 and had this one not been so highly oxidized I'm sure I would have passed right over it.

I have no clue how old it is but I would guess that it came off of a work horse a very long time ago. This isn't a location where anyone would just ride. I can just picture a horse pulling a plow or some other piece of old time farm equipment.

So, does anyone know how long a horseshoe needs to be in the ground to rust into two pieces??

Other than a bit of trash, that's pretty much it for today. I ran out of daylight again.
These days are just getting too short.

Thanks for looking and HH.

 

[Longhair]

There's really no way of knowing, especially without actually looking at it for indications of just how it was made.