More Lumberjack Camp Iron Relics - ID Please

[Michigan Badger]

This thread has fulfilled it's purpose.

Time to remove the pictures to free up space.

Thanks for your encouragement

 

[Mirage]

Wow, lots of stuff. That hammer is neat.

Now, are you clearing out the "big" peices so that you will be able to detect the coins - is that the ultimate goal? I know of one time I found a silver pin only after removing a very large iorn plate from almost the same hole. I know I would never have found it had I not removed the iorn.

Second question - How do you know when you have removed enough iorn?

Mirage

 

[Michigan Badger]

Wow, lots of stuff. That hammer is neat.

Now, are you clearing out the "big" pieces so that you will be able to detect the coins - is that the ultimate goal? I know of one time I found a silver pin only after removing a very large iron plate from almost the same hole. I know I would never have found it had I not removed the iron.

Second question - How do you know when you have removed enough iron?

Mirage

Hi Mirage,

Yes, I first get the iron because that's mainly what I'm after anyway. Then I mow down the grass in the "hot" spots and do the slow and low search thing. I've found that an ultra slow search is the secret to the deeper smaller coins and jewelry.

I know when enough iron is out because I use the Tesoro DeLeon which is prefect for this type of hunting. I start at a discrimination setting of slightly higher than foil. At this setting the Tesoro ignores the pesky little nails and hits hard on the larger iron pieces the size of a small buckle on up. But I first dig the BIGGEST signals and work down in size from there. As you know, Tesoros are awesome at determining target size.

Once all the obvious larger iron signals are gone and all I'm getting are clicks (tiny iron discriminated out) I move on to the coin/jewelry stage. I mow the area and set the DeLeon discrimination below the foil position. I don't have time to cover all the other stuff like sounds I listen for and all that here but I think as a Tesoro user yourself you know where I'm going with this.

Extra note: In all the steps above I watch the TID readouts and they also tell me much about the type of target I'm detecting. From the TID I get a very good idea of the target density and alloy. The Tesoro TID is the only machine I've ever used that could do this consistently and well.

Hope this answers some of your questions.

 

[Michigan Badger]

hey hippy how about a picture of your zapper set up .....

Okay deacon...what you ask for you get!

I posted the whole cleaning process in the cleaning section of this forum.

Enjoy!

Badger

 

[EDDE]

 

[Digginman]

WOW, nice metal detector you found. Was it deep?? Whoops, sorry, I see now, you used that to find these relics.

Good stuff, keep diggin.

 

[Dave N Japan]

Very nice relics....Lot of history around there

 

[Michigan Badger]

Very nice relics....Lot of history around there

Thanks dave,

How's it been going in your hunting areas?

I haven't been reading much on here lately have just been too busy.

Still finding that good stuff? How's the cleaning coming along?

Badger

 

[comfyinvermont]

cool finds Badger. Love the hammer. Congrats...Lance

 

[Michigan Badger]

AWSOME FINDS BADGER AND THE HAMMER IS COOL.NO WHEELS LOL

TINPAN

Hey, the closest I could come to a wheel is a barrel hoop

 

[Deerhunter24]

Cool finds badger,

Is that coin a large cent If so, what year. Looks pretty worn, but maybe its just the pic.

Deerhunter24

 

[Michigan Badger]

Cool finds badger,

Is that coin a large cent If so, what year. Looks pretty worn, but maybe its just the pic.

Deerhunter24

Hey, good to see a post from you. It's been a while or maybe I just missed your postings?

It's a large cent sized brass knob. I posted it mainly to show that if I swing my coil over a real large cent I'll be able to detect it through this heavy tall field grass.

Good to see you post. I wonder if the other members here know that you're probably one of the top finders on this forum? It's funny but it's you guys who find the most who post the least.

How's the silver finds been lately?

Best,

Badger

 

[d2]

Badger, did they haul the logs out on trucks or on did they float 'em down a river or did the haul 'em out on a train? If they floated them out maybe the hammer you found was a hammer they used to hammer in the rings they used to bind all the logs together in a raft to float 'em down the river. Very little rafting of logs done down here in LA(lower Arkansas) in the old days but I do have one of the pins with a ring in it that my great grampaw used to tie horses to in the yard. He had hammerd it into a whiteoak in the front yard. Great finds...d2

 

[Michigan Badger]

Badger, did they haul the logs out on trucks or on did they float 'em down a river or did the haul 'em out on a train? If they floated them out maybe the hammer you found was a hammer they used to hammer in the rings they used to bind all the logs together in a raft to float 'em down the river. Very little rafting of logs done down here in LA(lower Arkansas) in the old days but I do have one of the pins with a ring in it that my great grampaw used to tie horses to in the yard. He had hammerd it into a whiteoak in the front yard. Great finds...d2

The site was most active ca. 1870 to about 1900. There's not a lot of info out there on the site. What I have at this point besides a general date slot is that they dragged the logs to a train that once came to this area. Today all the tracks are gone and there's no sign that a train ever came this way except for an occasional railroad spike I dig.

They used the BIG WHEEL a lot in this area so maybe that's how they moved the logs? I know they sure made a lot of roads that are still visible today but mostly over-grown.

Over the last couple weeks or so I've removed approximately 150 lbs. of ax heads, bits, buckles, rings, blacksmith tools, unknowns, etc. I've posted some pictures here but not all. I now have a rather large museum display of a lumberjack community the world long ago forgot about.

 

[LizardQueen]

Cool relics! The only old stuff I've dug up so far was an old faucet
and some other junk. No relics.

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Badger, I did some reading, and it appears that small hammer you found is called a "snow knocker" or "snowball hammer". Sometimes called a "Yankee snow knocker". The hook or chain allowed the hammer to be hung from a horse's harness or from a sled so it would be handy whenever needed to knock the caked ice and snow from horses' hooves and sled runners.

That is a very nice relic find, not to mention your other ones!

 

[civilman1]

Nice find's MB...those are the kind of find's I'll eventually put in my log home..nice piece's

 

[Michigan Badger]

Badger, I did some reading, and it appears that small hammer you found is called a "snow knocker" or "snowball hammer". Sometimes called a "Yankee snow knocker". The hook or chain allowed the hammer to be hung from a horse's harness or from a sled so it would be handy whenever needed to knock the caked ice and snow from horses' hooves and sled runners.

That is a very nice relic find, not to mention your other ones!

WOW! Thanks much for the info!

Is there a website that shows this hammer?

Thanks again for your work. I'm cleaning what I've dug so far and I've got about enough now to cover a good sized wall.

I need to get back out there because there's plenty more to dig I'm sure. But, duty calls and work is super busy.

Badger

 

[Michigan Badger]

Nice find's MB...those are the kind of find's I'll eventually put in my log home..nice piece's

I agree...this stuff would be great for a log cabin.

 

[Boobydoo]

That hammer really cleaned up nicely Badger.
Very cool finds here, super interesting.
Thanks for sharing all of this stuff.
Good luck finding more my friend!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[Hartmanchr]

cool looking relics!!