deepskyal
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- Location
- Natrona Heights, Pa.
- Detector(s) used
- White's Coinmaster 6000 Di Series 3, Minelab Eq 600
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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I hope you folks enjoy this as much as I did.
The house in this pic is right behind my house. I dubbed it the poison ivy house...for very good reasons. Those thick vines you see on it are poison ivy. I've wanted badly to detect this old place but was afraid to get within 10 feet of it...I'm allergic to that stuff.
Well...they finally started tearing it down this afternoon. Such a beautiful place I bet in it's days...a nice old colonial style to it, wooded siding....columns on the porch.
The first pic is out my bedroom window.....they had just smashed down the little garage that was next to it.
The next pic is a view of the main street-side of the house as the excavator was tearing into it.
Then I was sitting in the house...heard a very loud rumble.....thought the whole side of the house was crashing in my yard....so the next pic is what I saw when I went out in my back yard.
And you'll see in the last pic.......oops.....guess the guy didnt realize houses have basements.
This is a 60,000 pound excavator...now in the cellar...with a monster pile of rubble blocking access to it.
They are making futile attempts to get it out 3 hours later. That bucket has a huge hook hanging from the bottom jaw that's firmly imbedded into the second floor.
It's comical. He's like a 20 year old kid trying to move this thing...and he's the one that got it stuck. Nothing against you younger guys but....sometimes there just isn't any substitute for experience.
Al
The house in this pic is right behind my house. I dubbed it the poison ivy house...for very good reasons. Those thick vines you see on it are poison ivy. I've wanted badly to detect this old place but was afraid to get within 10 feet of it...I'm allergic to that stuff.
Well...they finally started tearing it down this afternoon. Such a beautiful place I bet in it's days...a nice old colonial style to it, wooded siding....columns on the porch.
The first pic is out my bedroom window.....they had just smashed down the little garage that was next to it.
The next pic is a view of the main street-side of the house as the excavator was tearing into it.
Then I was sitting in the house...heard a very loud rumble.....thought the whole side of the house was crashing in my yard....so the next pic is what I saw when I went out in my back yard.
And you'll see in the last pic.......oops.....guess the guy didnt realize houses have basements.
This is a 60,000 pound excavator...now in the cellar...with a monster pile of rubble blocking access to it.
They are making futile attempts to get it out 3 hours later. That bucket has a huge hook hanging from the bottom jaw that's firmly imbedded into the second floor.
It's comical. He's like a 20 year old kid trying to move this thing...and he's the one that got it stuck. Nothing against you younger guys but....sometimes there just isn't any substitute for experience.
Al
