deepskyal
Bronze Member
- Aug 17, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- White's Coinmaster 6000 Di Series 3, Minelab Eq 600
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I came across an awesome place to detect. Lots of history dating back to the mid to late 1700's, thru the 1800's and ending in the early 1900's. Now a ghost town I guess. Nothing remains of the people or houses or anything.
Just thick, massive dense weeds of all sorts with thick stalks and a few relics sticking up to let me know I'm where I want to be.
Weedwacking seems out of the question. The stalks on some of these weeds are massive and they are so densly packed, I think the weedwacker would just choke. Plus...I want to get it close to the ground so my coil is within an inch or so....
Its not like high grass where i could lay plywood down to pack it and waiting til the fall...well...those weeds arent going to just fall over and lay flat on the ground.
Maybe some of you relic hunters have an answer to how you cut through this stuff. I'm thinking major brush fire at this point.
Short of buying a brush hog.....and I dont know how I'd transport it anyhow.
So...how'd you detect something like this..?..and not detecting it isn't an option.
Al
Hard to believe there were 140 people that lived here....plus a saw mill, a distillary, an indian village, an oil refinery, a railroad, coal mine, ...and it all uped and disappeared at the turn of the 20th century. The whole area looks like the pic.
Just thick, massive dense weeds of all sorts with thick stalks and a few relics sticking up to let me know I'm where I want to be.
Weedwacking seems out of the question. The stalks on some of these weeds are massive and they are so densly packed, I think the weedwacker would just choke. Plus...I want to get it close to the ground so my coil is within an inch or so....
Its not like high grass where i could lay plywood down to pack it and waiting til the fall...well...those weeds arent going to just fall over and lay flat on the ground.
Maybe some of you relic hunters have an answer to how you cut through this stuff. I'm thinking major brush fire at this point.
Short of buying a brush hog.....and I dont know how I'd transport it anyhow.
So...how'd you detect something like this..?..and not detecting it isn't an option.
Al
Hard to believe there were 140 people that lived here....plus a saw mill, a distillary, an indian village, an oil refinery, a railroad, coal mine, ...and it all uped and disappeared at the turn of the 20th century. The whole area looks like the pic.