Heavy Silver and a Whatizit..

[Terry Soloman]

Got out for a morning hunt at a local park and did great. The silver chain came after 35-minutes of digging pennies and canslaw, at about 3" deep, then after about 15 more pulltabs I got a "coke can" signal, but for whatever reason I decided to dig it. Out popped a 2.5-ounce Sterling silver bracelet (about 5" deep) - Wow!

The cigar shaped do-hicky has me stumped. It is heavy (brass, copper, just don't know). Anybody have any clue?

 

[worldtalker]

Nice Silver haul man.Is that a spring in that do-hickey? GodBless Chris

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Terry.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Yes, it is a spring on that side.

 

[worldtalker]

Yes, it is a spring on that side.

Thought so, I have no idea what it is.

 

[Bigshooter 67]

Guy wire splice, called a cigar by lineman is what it may be.(if it has holes in each end) Old school though!

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[bush13st_beav3r]

Yep, I was thinking handle or wire splice....pretty nice digs you got there!....I'm waiting til it cools down to go try to find me some gold... Hopefully.. ...doubtful tho, havnt yet...but I know its hiding somewhere....me and my sniper dressed atp w find it...dig it....and take it home....only to have it taken by my better half... *sigh*.. o well, ...GL&HH on your next outing

-beav3r

 

[worldtalker]

Guy wire splice, called a cigar by lineman is what it may be.(if it has holes in each end) Old school though!

I thought about this,and,now I know where I saw one of these,in the scrap pile in back of my truck.

 

[RobRieman]

Guy wire splice, called a cigar by lineman is what it may be.(if it has holes in each end) Old school though!

Your exactly right! But they are not old school, we still use them ever day. Take a look at the overhead wires around your area, you will find hundreds of them!

 

[cjon455]

awesome silver!

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds terry congrats HH

 

[Terry Soloman]

Guy wire splice, called a cigar by lineman is what it may be.(if it has holes in each end) Old school though!

Thank you for the ID Bigshooter!

 

[DFW_THer]

Bump for HUGE SILVER! 2.5oz?!?! Extremely nice.

 

[rastinirv]

Guy wire splice, called a cigar by lineman is what it may be.(if it has holes in each end) Old school though!

Thanks for the ID. I found one of those too. Heavy copper thing.

 

[granthansen]

Wow. Big silver. Gotta dig those coke can signals!

 

[coolhandgump]

The proper name for your cigar is a full tension automatic splice for what looks like#4 solid copper wire I use them every day and they go by many nicknames( jiffy,pickle,sleeve) it works just like Chinese finger cuffs, power line wire goes in either side and small clamps inside grip down when tension is applied