METAL DETECTING OLD TREES

[XLV]

Old trees are hard to find in some areas of the world ... has anyone just focused on old tree detecting ..any thoughts or finds ...

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Have not focused on them, but always detect them and the surroundings.

 

[sandchip]

Found a Merc the other day at the base of a cedar tree in the courthouse lawn. Figured it slipped out of the pocket of somebody sitting there at one time, waiting on someone's verdict, perhaps? Interesting to think about...

 

[Ammoman]

Old trees are like a magnet to me. The good part is they give up some pretty good finds. The bad part is....roots can make it hard on the recovery process.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I will metal detect old stumps.
Sometimes I find musket balls lodged in them.

 

[XLV]

way back bullets and nails were a small time logging mills worse night mare if they didn't check the log for nails or bullets the blade had to be resharpened or replaced

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

When they did river runs, I imagine embedded stones were just as bad, probably worse.

 

[XLV]

Your right but what i seen most of those companies used grinding mill first

 

[Zincoln Miner]

Do not pass up them old trees.

 

[boogeyman]

A friend up in Washington wanted me to check her trees. This was back in the days when the Green Peace tree huggers were spiking trees. Since she was close to the center of town I figured she didn't have much to worry about. In California, found a log that had about 20 or so pennies pounded into it. Must've been some really bored kids! Spiking trees in my book is attempted murder!!! Not whatever piddly fines they were handing out.

 

[watercolor]

Old trees have always been like a magnet to me- especially the large ones.
The best luck I had was a barber dime on one side and two standing liberty quarters on the other side of the same tree.

 

[Dr. Witty]

i found a SLQ in the middle of a field. After closer inspection i saw a depression in the ground and a lot of very old and rotten roots around. There must have been a large tree here many years ago.

 

[CASPER-2]

being from new England - we have lots of 200 - 300 yr old tree still
ive done very well hitting around them - work slow over the roots
one of my last good finds was a seated half dime that was from CW era
plantation down south under a root as big as my calf muscle - tree had to be like 300 yrs old
others had gone around the tree and they were getting false signals - I went over slow and picked it up