mxdigger
Jr. Member
- Joined
- Jun 30, 2013
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- Location
- Richmond VA
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Equinox 900
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
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I just had a fire in my shop that destroyed everything in it. Along with it all my relics, fossil collection, arrowhead, coin and bottle collection that took me 50+ years to root out of the ground. Thousands of bullets, buckles, buttons and hundreds of other items all melted together in one big ball of melted lead. I cried for a week every time I looked at my burned out shop now it's been a little over a month since it happened and I still get choked up when I think about it. It got all of my metal dectors, my Deus, Minelab, At pro and my Nautilus DMC 2BA. I also had several other older machines that I had retired and were wall hangers.
I had two big glass cases that held most of my relics and other things that I have collected over the years and there is no sign of the cases and most of the things that were in them.
Insurance won't cover that kind of stuff unless you buy a rider policy but to do that you have to have the things apprased by a reputable dealer that does that kind of stuff. I can replace all my detectors, hunting clothes, guns and bullets but all those things that I hunted for all those years are now just memories. I even lost most of my pictures because they were stored on a old computer I had in my shop along with my cameras I took them with.
I guess what I'm saying is think about what you have laying around and do what you can to keep from having to go through what I am now having to deal with. Even a fire safe wouldn't have helped in my case as the firemen that responded to the fire estimated that there was 2500 degrees in that building when it was at its glory. It took less than 2 hours to destroy what took me years of my life to build.
I had two big glass cases that held most of my relics and other things that I have collected over the years and there is no sign of the cases and most of the things that were in them.
Insurance won't cover that kind of stuff unless you buy a rider policy but to do that you have to have the things apprased by a reputable dealer that does that kind of stuff. I can replace all my detectors, hunting clothes, guns and bullets but all those things that I hunted for all those years are now just memories. I even lost most of my pictures because they were stored on a old computer I had in my shop along with my cameras I took them with.
I guess what I'm saying is think about what you have laying around and do what you can to keep from having to go through what I am now having to deal with. Even a fire safe wouldn't have helped in my case as the firemen that responded to the fire estimated that there was 2500 degrees in that building when it was at its glory. It took less than 2 hours to destroy what took me years of my life to build.
