New spot with some promise

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Found the right person to ask (finally) and was granted permission to detect on two former home sites, a driving range, and around two barns now used as sheds from an old farm. The property is owned by a trucking company (!?) and covers maybe 70 acres, all open except for trees around the home spots.

Just down the road from where I work, so I have a new lunch-hour hangout. Here are the results of my first hunt.

The bad news is that the homes were bulldozed into the foundations. The sites have so much metal I couldn't do a manual ground balance. I literally had two to ten hits every sweep in much or the area I was concentrating. The larger home was on a knoll with a 100 x 100 ft perimiter marked by big 'ol oaks. I tried to slolum through them.

Found the bell in what would have been the back yard heading towards the barn. Unfortunately, it was in three pieces (four counting the clapper - the iron glob - and one missing chip). I tacked it together with gap filling CA and it is presentable. Also found a kerosene lantern collar, an ornamental brass piece, and a copper plate from a Ford something (5E212 F17A EE RON M 1 326). A little condenser and lots of scrap (most not shown).

Definately going to be a challenge seperating the trash from the treasure here. I'm motivated to find a whole bell.

 

[navarrone]

Its from a 1926 Ford mfg month March....looks like the bell is from a set of sleigh bells.........Please correct me if i'm wrong! If there's any elderly persons who may remember seeing this type of plate? One suggestion would be to check the numorus Ford ModelT clubs for input.
Curiosity killed the cat?

 

[nealb]

Charlie - Nice finds. Love the bell and the VIN plate. Found the following on a forum:

1934 Gar Wood dump truck"

Just got a 1934 Ford pickup. Hydraulic dump bed has a plate Built By "Gar Wood". Type D6 with a serial # also. I was given a plate with the Ford logo and the #'S 5E212 F37a EE RIN M 4 080. Truck is in decent shape and I would like to restore it. Can anyone tell me anything about this or where I may find any info? I was told this was the first year Ford used Gar Wood hydraulics.
Thanks, Willy

It's a start
HH

 

[Tin Nugget]

Re: FORD PLATE

The FORD plate with the F17A 5E212 is a plate that is tack welded to a catalytic converter. That one would be from a Ranger pick up. 5E212 is the base part number for the converter. The F17A indicates year and model. F=1990's 1=1991 7=Ranger pick up.


nealb, same with your plate. F37A 5E212. Plate from catalytic converter. 1993 FORD
These are actually engineering numbers that the parts department at any FORD dealer can cross reference to the actual complete part number but always 5E212 is the base part number for a FORD catalytic converter.
Not sure why they bothered to give that plate to you as it has nothing to do with a 1934 vehicle.

 

[RON (PA)]

Charlie,

Nice pics. I like the back ground. Hard to make?? Sounds like this will be a good site for many years to come. They are bound to be a few treasures still in there. Good luck.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Ron(PA). Wasn't hard tomake at all. I "lifted" it from a non-related website (it was for custom knives). Offered to anyone who wanted to use it so I guess it's OK.

You'll have to save it to disc and then play around resizing until it prints out to proper scale on your own printer. MAkes a great background because as they get cruddied up you can just pring more.

Interesting about the plate. It was certainly tack welded, so I guess it must be from the c.converter. Poo. That's no fun. It was folded up on itself at one end in a real wad. It is magnetic, so it's certainly not copper as I first thought. Harumph. Wasn't far from the little points coil so I figured it was older. This site is all topsy-turvy from dozing and heavy equipment.