Fast_Dave
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- Superior, WI
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- Minelab Explorer, White's 6000, Fisher Aquanaut
Watch and fob, silver half & quarter
It got all the way up to 50 today so I got out to a park that we've been pounding for years. It sits on a bluff overlooking the river, with almost vertical slopes dropping about 20 feet from the park to the path along the riverfront. Due to remodeling, the park itself has never been very lucrative but the slopes are a goldmine. The first slope gave up three wheats from a single spill before going quiet on me. Then I decided to try another slope where we've found very little in the past. It's so close to vertical that you have to literally hold a tree with one hand and swing your machine with the other. On top of that, the path from the old concession stand runs right along the top, so people threw their pulltabs over the side for years. In some places it's a solid carpet of tabs. I was about a third of the way down on my first sweep when I got an earblaster signal. I figured I had a pop can but decided to dig it out anyway. To my suprise, I pulled up a complete pocketwatch with part of the leather strap still attached. When I scanned the hole, I got another earblaster, and I knew I had a fob too. That's a first for me. I've found watches and I've found fobs, but never together before.
The next signal was a nice solid coin sized target and I pulled up a '42 Washington quarter. That was quickly followed by a wheat cent. I was in an area of wall to wall tabs when I got the faintest blip of a decent signal. I dug out half a dozen tabs, but there were still too many to lock on or pinpoint. I figured I'd take my best guess and dig it out, thinking it was just a wheat anyway. I wound up with egg on my face when I popped out a large silver disk. A careful wash revealed a '35 Walker. Just about then the wind switched and the temp dropped 10 degrees in as many minutes, so I packed it in. I figure the rest of the summer is gonna be spent digging out all those pulltabs to get at the coins underneath.
When I tried to ID the fob, it looked like the Caterpillar D9 fob, a fairly cheap type. It wasn't until after I'd cleaned it with steel wool that I realized it was a Caterpillar Diesel fob. The last one sold on Ebay went for $50 and had 18 bids. I guess it doesn't matter, they're both going in the shadow box anyway.
Good luck detecting and good finds to everyone!
It got all the way up to 50 today so I got out to a park that we've been pounding for years. It sits on a bluff overlooking the river, with almost vertical slopes dropping about 20 feet from the park to the path along the riverfront. Due to remodeling, the park itself has never been very lucrative but the slopes are a goldmine. The first slope gave up three wheats from a single spill before going quiet on me. Then I decided to try another slope where we've found very little in the past. It's so close to vertical that you have to literally hold a tree with one hand and swing your machine with the other. On top of that, the path from the old concession stand runs right along the top, so people threw their pulltabs over the side for years. In some places it's a solid carpet of tabs. I was about a third of the way down on my first sweep when I got an earblaster signal. I figured I had a pop can but decided to dig it out anyway. To my suprise, I pulled up a complete pocketwatch with part of the leather strap still attached. When I scanned the hole, I got another earblaster, and I knew I had a fob too. That's a first for me. I've found watches and I've found fobs, but never together before.
The next signal was a nice solid coin sized target and I pulled up a '42 Washington quarter. That was quickly followed by a wheat cent. I was in an area of wall to wall tabs when I got the faintest blip of a decent signal. I dug out half a dozen tabs, but there were still too many to lock on or pinpoint. I figured I'd take my best guess and dig it out, thinking it was just a wheat anyway. I wound up with egg on my face when I popped out a large silver disk. A careful wash revealed a '35 Walker. Just about then the wind switched and the temp dropped 10 degrees in as many minutes, so I packed it in. I figure the rest of the summer is gonna be spent digging out all those pulltabs to get at the coins underneath.
When I tried to ID the fob, it looked like the Caterpillar D9 fob, a fairly cheap type. It wasn't until after I'd cleaned it with steel wool that I realized it was a Caterpillar Diesel fob. The last one sold on Ebay went for $50 and had 18 bids. I guess it doesn't matter, they're both going in the shadow box anyway.
Good luck detecting and good finds to everyone!
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