For the first time since my surgery this past spring.A friend called me and told me he had lost a large iron pin off his Cat while doing some land clearing in a small area in town,he asked if I would try to find it for him.This was about a week ago when the temp was over 100 outside.
I agreed to try and late that evening found me in the area-I figured it would be fairly easy to find-UNTIL I started swinging the coil and found that the area he lost it in must have been a scrap yard at one time! There most have been hundreds of pounds of scrap steel pipe,busted up cast iron and other metal objects just a foot or less under the earth.
After about an hour of digging it I was drenched in sweat and had all I could take.I never did find the pin but did find this old fire axe with part of the handle still attached.I was very rusty but not pitted as bad as you would think. I have spent the last week cleaning it up-first by a good soaking with WD40 followed by a wire wheel and then a belt sander.It actually cleaned up pretty well.
Over the years I have found many old axe and hatchet heads usuaslly at old farm and cabin sites.The firemans axe is a first and it was found in the middle of town.
I have been back a couple more times and still habven't found the pin or anything else of interest-it has just been too dang hot to stay with it for long.
This has certainly served to rekindle my interest in detecting and proves again that you never know what you will dig next!I hope to hit it a lot harder this fall and winter than I have been able to do for the last couple of years.
I agreed to try and late that evening found me in the area-I figured it would be fairly easy to find-UNTIL I started swinging the coil and found that the area he lost it in must have been a scrap yard at one time! There most have been hundreds of pounds of scrap steel pipe,busted up cast iron and other metal objects just a foot or less under the earth.
After about an hour of digging it I was drenched in sweat and had all I could take.I never did find the pin but did find this old fire axe with part of the handle still attached.I was very rusty but not pitted as bad as you would think. I have spent the last week cleaning it up-first by a good soaking with WD40 followed by a wire wheel and then a belt sander.It actually cleaned up pretty well.
Over the years I have found many old axe and hatchet heads usuaslly at old farm and cabin sites.The firemans axe is a first and it was found in the middle of town.
I have been back a couple more times and still habven't found the pin or anything else of interest-it has just been too dang hot to stay with it for long.
This has certainly served to rekindle my interest in detecting and proves again that you never know what you will dig next!I hope to hit it a lot harder this fall and winter than I have been able to do for the last couple of years.
