Tortured myself again....70 lbs of iron hauled out

lumbercamp · Apr 9, 2009

I was out at 2 lumber camps 1 2/10 mile back in the woods and spent 5 3/4 hr. digging there. The individual items weighed 30 lbs and the wheel weighed 40 lbs...16" dia.. This wheel came from a log loader and was at the end of the boom which loaded the logs onto the cars. I found 2 of these today. My first since I started in '72. I plan on going back for the other wheel at a later date. And the bottle. The top is broke off, but is still a neat find...Griscom's Bone Marrow Liniment. The old photo shows the wheel at the end of a loader. A cable ran over the pulley wheel to pick up logs.

Gypsy Heart · Apr 9, 2009

Nice finds!!!!! Next trip try digging for smaller and lighter items ...LOL

Detectingfreak · Apr 9, 2009

Very nice bottle! Man thats a lot of iron! My dad would flip if I were bringing all that in the garage! He hates me bringing bottles home none the less. Anyways Happy Hunting

lumbercamp · Apr 9, 2009

Yeah Gypsy, I've been terribly depressed for the last couple years since you won the rust contest. I figure if I hoard all of this rusty iron, I will be after your title. I left tons of iron in the woods today...horse shoes, axe heads, broken grab hooks, cast iron stove parts, pieces of chain and a lot of non descript iron.

Happy Harry · Apr 9, 2009

OH MY Aching Back!!! I don't think that I could carry out that much Iron. Would have to be real selective as to what I carted out. Nice relics! HHHH

Karinus · Apr 9, 2009

Lumber camps are great places to hunt..
cool wheel.

Woodland Detectors · Apr 9, 2009

I love it! Great old photo too!

allen · Apr 10, 2009

quick question, what do you plan
on doing with all that iron

John (Ma) · Apr 10, 2009

Some interesting finds though. You never know what is hiding in the iron either.

scrounger d detector collector · Apr 10, 2009

once helped a buddy roll a giant lumbermill sawblade out. about 4 1/2 dia.i was in my 20s then and it was tough.lots of briars,some uphill and a block long swamp. took 5 people to load it into a truck when we finally got it to a road.

lumbercamp · Apr 10, 2009

Allen, I spend all summer cleaning the iron that I find in my fall to spring digs and will display them in my "museum".
Scroung, I would love to find a circular blade from a sawmill. Just this past weekend a friend told me he found one years ago from a mill that ran until 1913. Only it wasn't that large.