disapointmenting finds so far at 200 year old oak

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

I finally got to search , by the big oak tree and was disapointed for shure i guess my imagination got the best of me , reality was harsh i started getting beeps as soon as i put the detector to the ground --22 shells lots of them i must have recovered a full hand full ,and nails ohh nails its seems over the years many a deer stand was built in the tree and i found 1970s pop tabs and one old iron somthing but no coins no treasure the only thing i found was disapointment -- but it is the disapointment s that make the finds when they come so gloriuos if i found treasure all the time i would not be very thankfull its better to go down the roughand rockey road first because when it gets paved you really value it maybe thats why God allows suffering so that we will be thankfull andvalue heaven after all was not lucifer that great angel created into perfection ?almost like a rich kidd and the splenders and perfections of heaven whear not enuff for him he wanted the throne of God he felt he was getting a bad deal from God but in his lust he fell and lost it all as did adam and eve who also had a perfect wourld given to them whith no paine or sorrow but how could they have known what they had how could they be thankfull for it God gave them thousands of trees to eat from and only one they could not well they lost it all-- we are born into a fallen world a hard wourld of suffering and pain and hardships we will value heaven and be thankfull for it someday but i would have it no other way or i to would be arogant like lucifer i to would be like adam and eve so the more disapointment in finds the better it will be when i find somthing Good the nails and 22 shells and tabs are all preperation for the gold

 

[tabdog]

Too bad you didn't find a pot of gold.


There does sound like a lot of activity at that tree.
There may be something there if anything dates far
enough back. If they had tree stands there very long
ago, they must have lost coins.

If it is like around here, tree stands were less common
in past years. But you never know. The thing to try to
do is date the trash. Or that's what I do to try to find
old hot spots.

HH,

 

[dahut]

You succumbed to the greatest ailment of the detecorist, I call it "gottahave-itis." You hear it all the time, best summed up like this:

"Oh, it's gotta have something good there - it's OLD!"

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way - there are no guarantees. But there is yet hope; read on.

Metal detectors have been in common use since the 60's. That's forty years + of people just like you, eager for treasure. You and everyone else have seen that tree. It is like a magnet. Did you really think you were the first to imagine something might lurk beneath it's boughs? It's highly likely that someone just plain beat you to it. Diligently search around it of course - I found a Barber Half under and equally old oak, secreted away, deep up UNDER the roots.

But ask yourself, "Why is it there? What went on around it, that it wasn't cut down and remains in the midst of a new growth woods?"

This means to expand your vision to include what was happening 100 yards, 200 yards, 300 yards or more in all directions around it. The same tree that gave up my barber half was at a busy crossroads that went back to Spanish colonial itimes. The area around it was ripe with small pockets of treasure, all at some distance from the tree itself.

This is called "fringe searching" and once you begin to practice this, you will find yourself in new territory. Those same detectorists that have pounded that tree for four decades may not have looked beyond the drip line of the tree itself. They may not have gone the extra mile to learn details about the fringe. It is a rare detecting day that doesnt have me shoving off into the brush the search the fringes of some more easily accessible spot. This is what the smart detectorist does - He first learns the earth itself, then what man has done upon it. Finally, he learns precisely where these activities took place.

Add your anecdotal lore to some research with maps and gain a detailed knowledge of the tree's surroundings. MN, "Le Etoile du Nord," has had a long history going back to the earliest explorers. Much of it has been recorded. Chances are that oak has grown up in the middle of other happenings, now swept beneath the snows and leaves of the passing ages. Learn about them and you may find yoursef on a productive bit of dirt that no one else had the vision, or perseverence, to uncover.

 

[GoldenRoyBoy]

My father planted a tree; it grew as high as Heaven. My father passed on. I spent many a day, many a night beneath that tree or hidden, playing in its branches. I searched the world for gold always returning home, to that tree. I searched the soil beneath; finding nothing. I watched the leaves come and go a hundred times. One day resting, I fell asleep beneath that tree. My soul climbed that tree, to Heaven.

GRB

 

[Pap]

that pretty much is great advice for almost any area, old or not so old.
Pap

 

[GRAY GHOST]

...and probably one of the best iv'e ever read. i am well known for making similar posts, and considered myself almost alone, until today. i can easily see where even the most experienced of us could benefit from reading your posts. the whole post just flows so well, and is so informative. thanks, and hh,

 

[GRAY GHOST]

hi gunnar, keep looking, that pot o' gold is out there somewhere. if it wasn't, then why are all of us grown people out there looking for it? don't forget, that pot o' gold comes in different shapes and sizes too. don't let one disapointing hunt affect the next. tommorow is a new day my friend. good luck, and hh,

 

[dahut]

Thanks and its my pleasure. Ive been detecting for some time no; might as well share some of it, eh?

 

[tabdog]

Nice post David.

That is how to make a potential site pay off.

It takes persistence and/or tenacity to pull good targets in sites now days.

It may be some simple little thing that was over looked. But you have to

do the investigation to find it.

I have found few sites that have not been well hunted. Look for them.

There is no way to know what happened there 150 years ago without

persistent investigation or dump luck.

Both those require looking to find.

HH,

 

[tabdog]

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