Frodov
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- Joined
- May 24, 2007
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- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Prism IV / Bullseye II pinpointer
Oh Boy! What A DAY! Day 3 of 3 off from work.. and aside from getting dressed up and going to get pictures take for a Christmas Card (dragged nearly kicking and screaming by my wife of course).. and not much else on the agenda for the day. Yeah, it was a little cold, and the ground was a bit damp from all the rain we have gotten here the last two days in Central Kentucky. So, with a fresh dose of Ibuprofen in my system and the neck/shoulder not hurting too badly, I grabbed my detector and headed off to hunt a few playgrounds and tot lots in some nearby parks.
I figured even if the grass was damp (read -sopping wet), the woodchips would be a bit more forgiving. And, they were. I have not hunted too many tot lots since early in the spring, before the weather warmed up and the parks became populated nearly every day. Today, with it damp and cold, and the kiddies still in school, I had a perfect window of opportunity. I found some rather interesting items too. There were the usual suspects of course, pull tabs, can slaw, etc etc.. and there were the miscellaneous odds and ends and bits of mystery metal. Not much in the way of bling.. one little bead, or "slider" maybe, I'm not sure what to call it. It's not gold, more like polished brass I think. Check it out..
I found a piece of a golf club.. ? Guess someone was having an off day or something and took it out on the poor unsuspecting putter.. I found a handle for a car (automobile anyway) window crank.. in the middle of a soccer field? Metal button, a piece of screen door or screen window frame, and a piece of pipe... oh and a watch back.. and a watch.
Did I mention I found a watch? A very BIG Watch.. Never heard of this brand before, being the NOT so WORLD traveler that I am.. Ever hear of this brand before?
Does the Back cover help?
Now I did a little looking on the internet.. apparently this Breitling brand is quite expensive. Too bad I couldn't find this particular model listed anywhere. Cool Watch, too bad it's not running. According to the date on the chronometer, it quit working or at least stopped in May.. FIVE YEARS FROM NOW! <laughing>
I found a neat little foreign coin today too. It's about the size of a dime, almost exactly in fact, only thicker. I don't see a country of origin anywhere on the coin, but I figure it's a British coin. A five pence piece.
... according to the web search I did, the current exchange rate for this coin makes it worth about 7 cents U.S. Oh well, another coin for my growing collection of foreign coins.
I found a whole pocket full of plastic bottle caps too.. these I saved for my wife, the coke rewards caps anyway. My wife puts the codes in on the web site and reaps the "coke rewards" for all kinds of neat stuff. <grin>
I had hunted two tot lot/playgrounds and was on my way to a third when driving through the campus of the University of Kentucky when I spotted a small park that was being renovated! All the playground equipment had been removed and new equipment was being installed.. the woodchips were all bulldozed or pushed off to one big pile on the side of the park. COOL! I pulled in and parked and got right to hunting along the pile. I had been there maybe ten minutes when I saw a tow truck pulling off with a truck that looked just like mine.. HOLY CRAP! IT WAS MINE!!!! HEY!
Running and shouting for all I was worth, I covered about 120 yards in near Olympic record time waving my metal detector in one hand and my drop cloth in the other trying to get the driver's attention. Whew! I did! He stopped. I asked him why he was towing my vehicle and he told me it was parked illegally. HUH? I asked him if it was or was NOT the parking area for the small park. "Uh, yeah, it is." He admitted.. but then said that he thought it was a vehicle belonging to a student. Apparently the students like to park there instead of designated parking spaces.. so they get towed. Well FINE! But I'm not a student, and I was NOT parked illegally! So.. he lowered the hydraulic lift on his tow and let me have my truck back.. in the middle of the freakin' street!
Now I'm trying to figure out how in the hell he got my ride picked up in the first place. He had me picked up from the front of my truck.. he would have had to pull my vehicle out from the rear first then hooked up from the front. All in less than ten minutes. SHEESH! Well, that pretty well put an end to hunting that little park.. <shudder> I decided that I would hit one more park a little closer to home and a LOT more Parking Friendly.
The last park was a bit more relaxing to say the least. I found some more clad, some more junk, a couple more pop bottle caps. Then I decided to call it a day. My neck/shoulder was starting to twinge a little and my stomach was growling. Time to head for home and start dinner. All in all I had a pretty good afternoon, three.. well.. almost four different little parks for a total of about two hours maybe two and a half hours of detecting. When I got home and cleaned up my finds and counted up all the coins.
$9.56 in clad, a big honkin' watch, some neat odds and ends.. and a much needed return to this ever so addictive hobby. Recovering treasures and artifacts. Recovering my sanity! <grin> Hope you all have a good week, a WONDERFUL and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!.. and as always..
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
I figured even if the grass was damp (read -sopping wet), the woodchips would be a bit more forgiving. And, they were. I have not hunted too many tot lots since early in the spring, before the weather warmed up and the parks became populated nearly every day. Today, with it damp and cold, and the kiddies still in school, I had a perfect window of opportunity. I found some rather interesting items too. There were the usual suspects of course, pull tabs, can slaw, etc etc.. and there were the miscellaneous odds and ends and bits of mystery metal. Not much in the way of bling.. one little bead, or "slider" maybe, I'm not sure what to call it. It's not gold, more like polished brass I think. Check it out..
I found a piece of a golf club.. ? Guess someone was having an off day or something and took it out on the poor unsuspecting putter.. I found a handle for a car (automobile anyway) window crank.. in the middle of a soccer field? Metal button, a piece of screen door or screen window frame, and a piece of pipe... oh and a watch back.. and a watch.
Did I mention I found a watch? A very BIG Watch.. Never heard of this brand before, being the NOT so WORLD traveler that I am.. Ever hear of this brand before?
Does the Back cover help?
Now I did a little looking on the internet.. apparently this Breitling brand is quite expensive. Too bad I couldn't find this particular model listed anywhere. Cool Watch, too bad it's not running. According to the date on the chronometer, it quit working or at least stopped in May.. FIVE YEARS FROM NOW! <laughing>
I found a neat little foreign coin today too. It's about the size of a dime, almost exactly in fact, only thicker. I don't see a country of origin anywhere on the coin, but I figure it's a British coin. A five pence piece.
... according to the web search I did, the current exchange rate for this coin makes it worth about 7 cents U.S. Oh well, another coin for my growing collection of foreign coins.
I found a whole pocket full of plastic bottle caps too.. these I saved for my wife, the coke rewards caps anyway. My wife puts the codes in on the web site and reaps the "coke rewards" for all kinds of neat stuff. <grin>
I had hunted two tot lot/playgrounds and was on my way to a third when driving through the campus of the University of Kentucky when I spotted a small park that was being renovated! All the playground equipment had been removed and new equipment was being installed.. the woodchips were all bulldozed or pushed off to one big pile on the side of the park. COOL! I pulled in and parked and got right to hunting along the pile. I had been there maybe ten minutes when I saw a tow truck pulling off with a truck that looked just like mine.. HOLY CRAP! IT WAS MINE!!!! HEY!
Running and shouting for all I was worth, I covered about 120 yards in near Olympic record time waving my metal detector in one hand and my drop cloth in the other trying to get the driver's attention. Whew! I did! He stopped. I asked him why he was towing my vehicle and he told me it was parked illegally. HUH? I asked him if it was or was NOT the parking area for the small park. "Uh, yeah, it is." He admitted.. but then said that he thought it was a vehicle belonging to a student. Apparently the students like to park there instead of designated parking spaces.. so they get towed. Well FINE! But I'm not a student, and I was NOT parked illegally! So.. he lowered the hydraulic lift on his tow and let me have my truck back.. in the middle of the freakin' street!
Now I'm trying to figure out how in the hell he got my ride picked up in the first place. He had me picked up from the front of my truck.. he would have had to pull my vehicle out from the rear first then hooked up from the front. All in less than ten minutes. SHEESH! Well, that pretty well put an end to hunting that little park.. <shudder> I decided that I would hit one more park a little closer to home and a LOT more Parking Friendly.The last park was a bit more relaxing to say the least. I found some more clad, some more junk, a couple more pop bottle caps. Then I decided to call it a day. My neck/shoulder was starting to twinge a little and my stomach was growling. Time to head for home and start dinner. All in all I had a pretty good afternoon, three.. well.. almost four different little parks for a total of about two hours maybe two and a half hours of detecting. When I got home and cleaned up my finds and counted up all the coins.
$9.56 in clad, a big honkin' watch, some neat odds and ends.. and a much needed return to this ever so addictive hobby. Recovering treasures and artifacts. Recovering my sanity! <grin> Hope you all have a good week, a WONDERFUL and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!.. and as always..
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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