turtlefoot13
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- Aug 23, 2009
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- Location
- The Ozarks, Missouri
- Detector(s) used
- Teknetics Alpha 2000
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Several hundred acres of private land that I have open permission to relic hunt was opened last week to a private logger to do some selective harvesting of pine trees for power poles. This logger has had to build a road down into the property to get the logging equipment in and the logs out.
I went down the newly built logging road to look around this afternoon and I was saddened to see that a large section of the old narrow gauge railroad line was bulldozed flat and covered with at least a foot of fill dirt with base rock on top. It was the area that was starting to produce some nice logging relics. That's the bad.
The good news is that this logger has taken one of his skidders and has cleared out a lot of the underbrush and sticker bushes so his workers can get in to get to the pines that they need (this is over an area of about 200 acres). This has opened up a lot more land that I can easily hit. Being able to walk through parts of the woods that were virtually inaccessable, I found another tale tell ridge that looks like a narrow gauge line that I wasn't aware of. I also found another trail tree (or bent tree) that I was not aware of on this property.
I lost one area to relic hunt but I gained a larger area than what I had. I guess I can live with the trade.
Doug
I went down the newly built logging road to look around this afternoon and I was saddened to see that a large section of the old narrow gauge railroad line was bulldozed flat and covered with at least a foot of fill dirt with base rock on top. It was the area that was starting to produce some nice logging relics. That's the bad.
The good news is that this logger has taken one of his skidders and has cleared out a lot of the underbrush and sticker bushes so his workers can get in to get to the pines that they need (this is over an area of about 200 acres). This has opened up a lot more land that I can easily hit. Being able to walk through parts of the woods that were virtually inaccessable, I found another tale tell ridge that looks like a narrow gauge line that I wasn't aware of. I also found another trail tree (or bent tree) that I was not aware of on this property.
I lost one area to relic hunt but I gained a larger area than what I had. I guess I can live with the trade.
Doug
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