Be observant!

[Pyledriver]

So about 5:30 I suddenly realized I had nothing to do on this lovely 100 degree evening. Fishing? Yeah, I need to hit one of my spots anyway (I fish some KILLER ponds). But wait, I just got my new 705..and my buddy just moved into a new place in the country not far from where I fish! I loaded the fishing gear as a formality really, and headed out to recover the fabulous treasures that surely must be just waiting for ME with my XTERRA to find them!! This would be my second visit to the property. The first visit was mostly to see the 'new place' and catch up with my buddy after not seeing him a few months. I took note of the layout, noticed that the new house was apparently sitting where the old farmhouse had been, noticed the old treeline that was a fencerow in front of the house, spotted what may have been an old well but really grown up with five foot tall weeds. A good spot!! So with high hopes and my new whizbang beep, dig, sell, retire machine in hand I got started! I played with the settings a bit trying to get a feel for my new toy, er TOOL. Wow, this thing is smooth! Swings well, kinda talks softly too me instead of screaming at me like my others sometimes did. Right off the bat I found a modern penny. Then a pulltab, another, a chunk of lead, a chunk of copper pipe, another pulltab, etc. etc. I had my threshold turned up so I could just hear it, and noticed that there's a ton of ferrous trash in this yard judging by all the 'blanks' I heard. After 2 hours of not finding anything good I decided to swing along the treeline/old fencerow. I hunted that about 20 minutes, cussing the fact that the dirt was so humped up around the tree bases....WAIT A MINUTE! The yard had been GRADED down about 8 or so inches before the new house was built!! How had I missed that on my first visit? I have a landscaping business and that should've jumped right out.. So, tail firmly tucked, I came home, took a shower and made this post. I'm sure there's still a couple treasures to be found there, but I'm really thinking all the good stuff was graded and dumped into a ditch somewhere. :blush: Sometimes you don't really see what's in front of you!!

 

[Digger]

Good reminder! Now, go find that ditch where they dumped the dirt! There is bound to be some old silver coins doing this...... HH Randy

 

[Pyledriver]

I'm hoping it's at the back of the property. I haven't walked back there all the way yet (tall grass and poison ivy), but I did notice an area where there were large limestone 'boulders' that almost looks like a pond dam. According to google earth, there's no pond there, but some sort of berm. I need to get a good look at it but didn't feel like bushwacking my way back there last night. I'll be in that area again today though and you KNOW my Xterra will be with me!

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Wait a minute, you say that your finding pull tabs right? Then the old coins should still be there because their below the pull tabs.

 

[Pyledriver]

I agree about the pulltabs, but these are the modern pop-top type, not the old beavertail type, which has me wondering how old they really are. I'm not ruling anything out, but really just kicking myself for not noticing that the place had been graded. I guess what I think about there is that most of the easier targets were probably removed.. After sleeping on it though I've decided I'm gonna hit it again with a buddy and see if we can just go 'all metal' and clear out as many targets as we can. After that (or during that process) I think if there's anything good there to be found, we'll get it! Of course, if the graded off dirt is really piled up there in back, we'll be hitting that pretty hard as well!