Frodov
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- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Prism IV / Bullseye II pinpointer
The Code Machine And The One Armed Spud.
Greetings to all my Treasure Net friends and Fellow detectorheads. I hope you all are well and have been enjoying yourselves. I’ve been busy with a lot of procrastinated yard work and projects around the house this week. That and an overnight getaway adventure with my darling wife to Cumberland Falls (Kentucky) to attempt to see the Moonbow. For those of you who’ve never heard of it, it’s a very real phenomenon that occurs at only one place in the western hemisphere... Here in Kentucky at Cumberland Falls. You all know what a rainbow is, well the Moonbow is much the same thing only the light refracting off of the mist from the falls is from the full moon, hence the name. Anyway, we didn’t get to see it this week due to too much overcast and rainclouds. *sigh* I’ve seen it many times before but this would have been the first time for my wife. Maybe another time perhaps. We came home from our one night stay, the next morning with severe weather popping up all over, tornado watches and warnings! IN LATE OCTOBER!!!!
One actually touched down a couple of counties from where we live, but the worst we got was heavy rain. MUCH NEEDED heavy rain at that. Too bad the rain barely put a dent in the rainfall deficit here locally. The ground is very much like concrete, still. I should know, I dug a bit of it the last couple of days. In case I didn’t mention it, I’m on vacation this week, and working around watery adventures and weather and procrastinated yard work, I still managed to wrangle a couple of trips out to detect. Very VERY therapeutic indeed. I NEEDED it!
My first outing to metal detect this week was Wednesday morning, late in the morning... with the grass and even the woodchips still a bit damp, and wearing long pants and long sleeves because the temperatures had fallen considerably!, I hit a couple of local parks, one with several playgrounds and woodchips and one with numerous soccer fields and baseball fields. Lots of wide open spaces and likely places for people to spill or loose change from pockets or treasures of all sorts. And I found a bunch of them! Of course there were the usual suspects to be found as well, lots of pull tabs...
It’s inevitable that you will find pull tabs most anywhere that people gather in significant numbers. And, where you have lots of wide open spaces, translate LOTS OF GRASS, the areas will have to be mowed. In that mowing lots of things other than grass get shredded and chopped up and spit out as well, cans, plastic trash, even coins now and then. I dug one Lincoln Memorial cent up that looked like it had been through the shredder more than once. Wow. It was dug up not far from a penny that had been put through and entirely different sort of mill, this one to stretch, flatten and imprint something different into the metal.
Oh yeah... I found another one of those foreign coins from up north... a Canadian cent. No bother Eh! Along with the “usual suspects” of trash and pull tabs and what not, when you detect an athletic field of most any kind, you will find hardware. Hardware like rivets, screws, washers, studs (shoe cleats) buckles and... well you get the idea, and yeah, I found a little of everthing.
Of course you’re going to find other stuff than just metal while detecting parks and playgrounds, if you keep your eyes open that is. I call them “Eyeball” finds... but then so do a lot of people on here. <grin> Some of my eyeball finds for this trip were “usual” finds, like the soda caps or “brownie points I call them”, toys or toy parts... like plastic firepower! Unusual finds might be the ARM that I found. Just sitting there in the grass waving at me as if to get my attention and or flag down a ride like some disembodied body part. Guess there’s a Mr. (or Mrs) Potato Head out there somewhere wringing his or her one lone remaining hand wondering where this thing is. Why it’s enough to make someone lose their marbles... and someone did... and I found one of them too. They were probably so shook up that they couldn’t even keep a grip on their phone or palm stylus. Yep... I found that too.
Speaking of losing things. Someone was rewarded for their dedication and determination for losing 10 pounds... or was it 10%... weight. They got a little “award” keychain and everything. Unfortunately those keychains aren’t very well made and they tend to break apart and get lost. Only to be found by a metal detectorist some day. Yep, we detectorheads have that little niche locked up... speaking of locks... yep, found one of those too. It’s a tiny little lock, like maybe off of a diary or something. <shrug>
Hmmm... I found a lock... I found a keychain... or part of one anyway, but I didn’t find any keys this trip. I did find a WHOLE CAR though!
Yeah, it was a bit small, and very dirty, but it cleaned up pretty well don’t you think? And a convertible no less! Woo Hoo! Now if I only had a little bling, and a cute gal to ride in it... Well I did find some “bling”, but it’s not much to speak of, one very very cheap earring, One “whatzit” perhaps a key fob or something, and one military rank insignia pin. There was a soccer pin in there too... and it’s NOT gold, just looks like it. Dang it! <grin> Now I’m no expert on ranks in the military, but I do know that stripes are Privates... Chevrons are for Seargents... Bars (tracks) are Lieutenants and Captains, I think, After that I tend to get confused. Anyone out there tell me the rank this pin signifies?
Ranks are confusing to most civilians, varying from service to service and from country to country... It’s all a big secret or something. You almost need some sort of computer or code machine to sort it out... or a decoder! Yeah A decoder machine would work maybe. It just so happens I FOUND ONE! Although I don’t suspect this one would help with the military rank confusion. Still pretty neat though.
If you look closely you can see that the inner dial is meant to turn to align with whatever letter or code you are using or deciphering... Even after I cleaned it up however, the inner dial would not turn. Oh well, guess I won’t be using it to decode anything anytime soon. Another look closer?
A decoder? Definitely NOT a “usual” or ordinary kind of find at the park, cool yes, usual no. Not a Token discovery either though, I’m sure there are other decoders out there somewhere waiting to be found by others as well. There are probably tokens too though... I know, I found one of those too. <grin>
Yeah I found a pile of stuff Wednesday, and A pile of coins to go with it. I usually rinse off the coins when I get home before I sort and count everything up... kind of looks like this...
After sorting and cleaning and counting and all that bother I end up with a story, or ideas for my story, and a few pictures to share and more treasures to put aside and money to add to the vacation fund.
Over $15 this time out ! That’ll make a FINE contribution to the vacation fund indeed! Hey Wait! I’m ON vacation! <grin> I get to go back out and detect again soon! Like today! Wich I did, for a about an hour or so, but I’ll write about that and share my finds in another post, combined with what I do and find tomorrow when I go back out to feed my addiction. MUST METAL DETECT! <grin> I hope you are all having fun and get to get out and feed your addiction as well. Good luck! And as always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Greetings to all my Treasure Net friends and Fellow detectorheads. I hope you all are well and have been enjoying yourselves. I’ve been busy with a lot of procrastinated yard work and projects around the house this week. That and an overnight getaway adventure with my darling wife to Cumberland Falls (Kentucky) to attempt to see the Moonbow. For those of you who’ve never heard of it, it’s a very real phenomenon that occurs at only one place in the western hemisphere... Here in Kentucky at Cumberland Falls. You all know what a rainbow is, well the Moonbow is much the same thing only the light refracting off of the mist from the falls is from the full moon, hence the name. Anyway, we didn’t get to see it this week due to too much overcast and rainclouds. *sigh* I’ve seen it many times before but this would have been the first time for my wife. Maybe another time perhaps. We came home from our one night stay, the next morning with severe weather popping up all over, tornado watches and warnings! IN LATE OCTOBER!!!!
One actually touched down a couple of counties from where we live, but the worst we got was heavy rain. MUCH NEEDED heavy rain at that. Too bad the rain barely put a dent in the rainfall deficit here locally. The ground is very much like concrete, still. I should know, I dug a bit of it the last couple of days. In case I didn’t mention it, I’m on vacation this week, and working around watery adventures and weather and procrastinated yard work, I still managed to wrangle a couple of trips out to detect. Very VERY therapeutic indeed. I NEEDED it!My first outing to metal detect this week was Wednesday morning, late in the morning... with the grass and even the woodchips still a bit damp, and wearing long pants and long sleeves because the temperatures had fallen considerably!, I hit a couple of local parks, one with several playgrounds and woodchips and one with numerous soccer fields and baseball fields. Lots of wide open spaces and likely places for people to spill or loose change from pockets or treasures of all sorts. And I found a bunch of them! Of course there were the usual suspects to be found as well, lots of pull tabs...
It’s inevitable that you will find pull tabs most anywhere that people gather in significant numbers. And, where you have lots of wide open spaces, translate LOTS OF GRASS, the areas will have to be mowed. In that mowing lots of things other than grass get shredded and chopped up and spit out as well, cans, plastic trash, even coins now and then. I dug one Lincoln Memorial cent up that looked like it had been through the shredder more than once. Wow. It was dug up not far from a penny that had been put through and entirely different sort of mill, this one to stretch, flatten and imprint something different into the metal.
Oh yeah... I found another one of those foreign coins from up north... a Canadian cent. No bother Eh! Along with the “usual suspects” of trash and pull tabs and what not, when you detect an athletic field of most any kind, you will find hardware. Hardware like rivets, screws, washers, studs (shoe cleats) buckles and... well you get the idea, and yeah, I found a little of everthing.
Of course you’re going to find other stuff than just metal while detecting parks and playgrounds, if you keep your eyes open that is. I call them “Eyeball” finds... but then so do a lot of people on here. <grin> Some of my eyeball finds for this trip were “usual” finds, like the soda caps or “brownie points I call them”, toys or toy parts... like plastic firepower! Unusual finds might be the ARM that I found. Just sitting there in the grass waving at me as if to get my attention and or flag down a ride like some disembodied body part. Guess there’s a Mr. (or Mrs) Potato Head out there somewhere wringing his or her one lone remaining hand wondering where this thing is. Why it’s enough to make someone lose their marbles... and someone did... and I found one of them too. They were probably so shook up that they couldn’t even keep a grip on their phone or palm stylus. Yep... I found that too.
Speaking of losing things. Someone was rewarded for their dedication and determination for losing 10 pounds... or was it 10%... weight. They got a little “award” keychain and everything. Unfortunately those keychains aren’t very well made and they tend to break apart and get lost. Only to be found by a metal detectorist some day. Yep, we detectorheads have that little niche locked up... speaking of locks... yep, found one of those too. It’s a tiny little lock, like maybe off of a diary or something. <shrug>
Hmmm... I found a lock... I found a keychain... or part of one anyway, but I didn’t find any keys this trip. I did find a WHOLE CAR though!
Yeah, it was a bit small, and very dirty, but it cleaned up pretty well don’t you think? And a convertible no less! Woo Hoo! Now if I only had a little bling, and a cute gal to ride in it... Well I did find some “bling”, but it’s not much to speak of, one very very cheap earring, One “whatzit” perhaps a key fob or something, and one military rank insignia pin. There was a soccer pin in there too... and it’s NOT gold, just looks like it. Dang it! <grin> Now I’m no expert on ranks in the military, but I do know that stripes are Privates... Chevrons are for Seargents... Bars (tracks) are Lieutenants and Captains, I think, After that I tend to get confused. Anyone out there tell me the rank this pin signifies?
Ranks are confusing to most civilians, varying from service to service and from country to country... It’s all a big secret or something. You almost need some sort of computer or code machine to sort it out... or a decoder! Yeah A decoder machine would work maybe. It just so happens I FOUND ONE! Although I don’t suspect this one would help with the military rank confusion. Still pretty neat though.
If you look closely you can see that the inner dial is meant to turn to align with whatever letter or code you are using or deciphering... Even after I cleaned it up however, the inner dial would not turn. Oh well, guess I won’t be using it to decode anything anytime soon. Another look closer?
A decoder? Definitely NOT a “usual” or ordinary kind of find at the park, cool yes, usual no. Not a Token discovery either though, I’m sure there are other decoders out there somewhere waiting to be found by others as well. There are probably tokens too though... I know, I found one of those too. <grin>
Yeah I found a pile of stuff Wednesday, and A pile of coins to go with it. I usually rinse off the coins when I get home before I sort and count everything up... kind of looks like this...
After sorting and cleaning and counting and all that bother I end up with a story, or ideas for my story, and a few pictures to share and more treasures to put aside and money to add to the vacation fund.
Over $15 this time out ! That’ll make a FINE contribution to the vacation fund indeed! Hey Wait! I’m ON vacation! <grin> I get to go back out and detect again soon! Like today! Wich I did, for a about an hour or so, but I’ll write about that and share my finds in another post, combined with what I do and find tomorrow when I go back out to feed my addiction. MUST METAL DETECT! <grin> I hope you are all having fun and get to get out and feed your addiction as well. Good luck! And as always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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and nice finds 8) 8) especially the car restoration 
amazing effort and Thanks for the entertaining thread ! That rain will certainly help with the future digs . Good hunting , 
d aWg
