Does anyone search crawl spaces under houses ?

[rifleman]

Here in Arizona, not too many houses have crawl spaces, but remembering back when I was a young one. I used to drop coins through a hole in the floor in the laundry room. This was about 50 years ago. We lived in the eastern part of the US at that time. I wish I could go back to the old house now. I'm betting there are quite a few coins under those crawl spaces. It might be a pain in the butt to get under some homes with not much room with your detector, but it could pay off big time.

John K

 

[Digger]

I've visited about this with a couple of my detecting buddies. Frankly, I'm not big on crawl spaces. But many of the older homes around here had dirt floors in the basement. And guess where the kids played on rainy days and in the winter? Same place the old man buried his stash! Might be worth checking those out in your neck of the woods. HH Randy

 

[nugget71]

A patch left untouched is a patch wasted I say! Good luck if you go for it.
Cheers!

 

[John LA]

They got snakes in them crawl spaces.

 

[Beale]

I used to hunt old bottles under crawl spaces. I got stuck once. I was glad I had a friend along. I do not like tight spaces now, Beale.

 

[RonNH]

I do carpentry and on some jobs, I have to replace floorboards on a porch, so while I have them up, I always swing my detector under there. Once I found an Indian in great shape but that's about it. As far as crawling on my belly detecting, I'd have to say no way. There are too many easier spots to try !! Ron

 

[silvernail]

In ARIZONA ??!! No Way. Too many noxious critters..

 

[dgsdowell]

I'm a plumber by trade, and brother I live in crawl spaces daily, just last week I saw the tip of the bottom of a bottle, I lifted it right out of the soft dirt and it is a very nice cork top whiskey bottle. No makers mark as of yet identified. I used to swing on a porch swing at my grandmas house as a kid with plenty of cracks big enough for coins to fall through. I hunt a lot of vacant lots where houses once stood and sometimes can identify where the proches were and I seem to always find good pieces under where the porch once was.

 

[steelheadfever]

You won't see me in any crawl space anytime soon. I do not like spiders. HH Dennis in Idaho

 

[kris]

Send the dogs under first LOL
kris

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[rifleman]

I used to work for the phone company and went under houses on a regular basis in S Kalifornia. The spiders didn't bother me too much, but I did run into a rattlesnake once and the houses where dogs went under the house could have you scrambling out from under the house doing a $2.00 strip tease. Nothing worse than seeing your arms get black with hundreds of flees. Thinking back to all those 50 year plus coins under the old house that I grew up in makes me wish I could go back and look.

Good hunting, John K