Turtleman
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Folks,
Took an extended lunch break and got to hit two spots about an 1/8 mile apart. The first site I obtained permission to hunt just today. It used to have an amusement park on it in the early 1900's. The 8 acre property is very grown up with vegetation including multiflora rose (think thorns). It was mostly a survey hunt meaning I was trying to determine if it was worth hitting again. I was hoping for some older coins but managed only a memorial penny. I did find two old locks, though, one of them is complete. Also found a tag (location crossed out because local detectorists have ruined other historic places in the area and I don't want to lose my rights to hunt because of bad ethical behavior of a few bad apples). I received a PM from someone who is related to the person on the trapping tag I found. I just sent the tag off to him so his family can have the tag from their ancestor. Also found a what's it. Any thoughts on what it is? It has 'L' stamped on the back.
Then I drove over to a property I have been picking away at for a year now. It saw a lot of action from the 1890's until now. I have learned a lot about how to use my Minelab Explorer on this 180 acre property. Even in late winter/early spring before the vegetation starts to grow, there are many places with 6 inches of dead vegetation so it is difficult to get the coil close to the ground. What I have learned to do is use two hands on my detector, plow my coil through the vegetation as much as I can and check out any null or slight sound. I found all three coins today that way - 1925 wheat, a 1906 IH which was quite deep and a 191? (maybe 1912) V-nickel...only my second V; the other was also found on this property. As you can see, the soil and farmer's fertilizer is not kind to these coins.
I have also pulled a few barber dimes, many buffalo nickels and lots of wheats from this site over the last year...none today, though. I was excited about the IH because it is the first from this site; I knew they had to be there. I am slowly learning how IH's ring up on the Explorer.
As an interesting side not, the property is a mixture of buildings, woods and fields. As I came out of the woods (where I found the coins) I saw a puddle about three inches deep. We had a bit of heavy rain recently in NW PA and there were 7 carp, each over two feet long, in the puddle. They were at least half out of the water but all of them were alive. The puddle was probably 10 feet long by three feet wide. It was just in the lowest point at the end of the field. I picked each carp up and carried them, wriggling and all, down to the creek so they could live another day!
Now for the pictures.
T-man
Old Amusement Park site:
Took an extended lunch break and got to hit two spots about an 1/8 mile apart. The first site I obtained permission to hunt just today. It used to have an amusement park on it in the early 1900's. The 8 acre property is very grown up with vegetation including multiflora rose (think thorns). It was mostly a survey hunt meaning I was trying to determine if it was worth hitting again. I was hoping for some older coins but managed only a memorial penny. I did find two old locks, though, one of them is complete. Also found a tag (location crossed out because local detectorists have ruined other historic places in the area and I don't want to lose my rights to hunt because of bad ethical behavior of a few bad apples). I received a PM from someone who is related to the person on the trapping tag I found. I just sent the tag off to him so his family can have the tag from their ancestor. Also found a what's it. Any thoughts on what it is? It has 'L' stamped on the back.
Then I drove over to a property I have been picking away at for a year now. It saw a lot of action from the 1890's until now. I have learned a lot about how to use my Minelab Explorer on this 180 acre property. Even in late winter/early spring before the vegetation starts to grow, there are many places with 6 inches of dead vegetation so it is difficult to get the coil close to the ground. What I have learned to do is use two hands on my detector, plow my coil through the vegetation as much as I can and check out any null or slight sound. I found all three coins today that way - 1925 wheat, a 1906 IH which was quite deep and a 191? (maybe 1912) V-nickel...only my second V; the other was also found on this property. As you can see, the soil and farmer's fertilizer is not kind to these coins.
I have also pulled a few barber dimes, many buffalo nickels and lots of wheats from this site over the last year...none today, though. I was excited about the IH because it is the first from this site; I knew they had to be there. I am slowly learning how IH's ring up on the Explorer.
As an interesting side not, the property is a mixture of buildings, woods and fields. As I came out of the woods (where I found the coins) I saw a puddle about three inches deep. We had a bit of heavy rain recently in NW PA and there were 7 carp, each over two feet long, in the puddle. They were at least half out of the water but all of them were alive. The puddle was probably 10 feet long by three feet wide. It was just in the lowest point at the end of the field. I picked each carp up and carried them, wriggling and all, down to the creek so they could live another day!
Now for the pictures.
T-man
Old Amusement Park site:
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