What do you guys do with your junk finds?

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Is that a joke?

No. He asked about "junk" finds. Now, if he had asked about odd, interesting bits of whatzits or paraphernalia - they are all along the floor edges of my garage and out in the barn. Too gone to use but too interesting to toss away.

ALL of the chain I use when logging with my tractor was found with my detector(s). That's not junk. That's treasure.

 

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[darktower007]

Thanks for the responses folks!


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[JccEldreth]

It's all treasure! If it makes a beep, you must keep. Tee hee hee...

 

[gunsil]

I toss all trash, and to me that means rusty old pocket knives, horse shoes, rusted through horse bits, pitted zinc toys, and many other things some people think are cool and keep. Lead goes into my melting pot for fishing sinkers. I mean, I like to think I am treasure hunting, so if there is no monetary value I toss most all trash. I do keep brass bells, colonial buttons and such, but if I had kept everything I have found in 45+ years of detecting I would be inundated with all the garbage I dig.

 

[fish1on]

I would recycle my trash but in Utah recycling programs are terrible and I have very little space to store it.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

gunsil - I also recast the slugs and balls/bullets I find. Most are my own but I came across a deer-slug mine on my property where an old tree trunk had been just beyond a pull-off and must have pulled 300 slugs out of that small spot. Also a gozillion .22 LR bullets.

Surprisingly some of the balls I shot are completely covered in white patina in under 10 years. Must be something in our soil.

 

[against the wind]

Brass and copper is all I save. All keys, fittings, tubing, etc. I have 2 tubs ready to go to the scrapyard.

 

[gunsil]

gunsil - I also recast the slugs and balls/bullets I find. Most are my own but I came across a deer-slug mine on my property where an old tree trunk had been just beyond a pull-off and must have pulled 300 slugs out of that small spot. Also a gozillion .22 LR bullets.

Surprisingly some of the balls I shot are completely covered in white patina in under 10 years. Must be something in our soil.

I have found some of my old muzzle loader balls and bullets too, and also find that they get the white patina in under twenty years. I haven't shot much for a while, but I used an old home made mutton tallow/beeswax formula for covering the chambers on revolvers and greasing minies and round ball patches, I don't know if that has contributed to the white oxidation of the ones left in the ground. A lot of folks on these forums seem to think that it takes over a hundred years for that white oxidation coating to form, but it surely does not, at least in many areas if not all.

Regards, Gene

 

[Fonz]

I save it all in a chest and when it is full, I'll go bury it in the woods somewhere.

 

[ScubaDetector]

Brass and copper I keep in a 5 gallon pail until it is full. I also keep lead. Pull tabs I save for a contest. Last year I found 1351 of the critters.

Steel and iron I toss.

 

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[beendetected]

I frame some of it and sell it. I put some of it in large glass jars and sell them as desktop muses to bored executives in Manhattan. Sometimes I fake a "piece" into a "Eco-Art" show and put a stupid high price on it just to dare the rich kids to buy it! http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1410404&d=1486166957

I do the ethical thing. Always try to track down owners to return. [emoji57]


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