First silver - a sad tale

[LarryK]

I don't post often, but I read everybody else's stories of success.
I've owned my XS about 3 1/2 years but only get to average about 1 hour a week if I'm lucky, usually at a small park near my house. I've found a class ring which I was able to return, and a wedding band with no markings so I guess it's mine. But I've never found any silver, UNTIL THE OTHER DAY. It's not much, a 1945s (I think it's what they call a micro s) in good shape and I found it in my own back yard. This is the sad part of the tale. I am building a patio, and I found the dime with a roto-tiller. Luckily, it wasn't damaged. Now I wondering, should I take my roto-tiller to the park?? Maybe I could find more silver. What do ya think? Good idea or bad?

Larry

 

[minelab marcus]

I have often thought that would be the best way to sort through the trashy areas.
Congrats on your silver! There is more out there.
HH

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Congrats on your first silver find............ I have to say that I think it would be a very bad idea to take a roto-tiller to that park by your place or any other park for that matter. There are plenty of guys out there that make a big mess digging plugs and not filling in their holes correctly and I'm not accusing you of doing this. My point being that these guys give all of us a bad name and more areas to hunt like parks are being shut down to metal detecting because of these jerks!! Taking a roto-tiller to a park would be suicide and only common sense should come into play here and if you want to keep going back to that park you better keep the roto-tiller at home. HH.

Eddie

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Shame on you Marcus for saying it was a good idea to take a roto-tiller to a park. You were kidding I hope?

Eddie

 

[LarryK]

Hey Eddie,

I hope you realize that I was kidding about the roto-tiller in the park.

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Okay Larry.............You got me that time........... No offense taken I hope. You just never know though Larry. Some idiot could read something like this and one day will read "Guy caught in a park with a roto-tiller"............

Eddie

 

[Frank in NH]

n/t

 

[Huntur]

buried a nice test garden and then could not find my coins, they are still in the back yard! I spent 2 weeks in my back yard and found 3 pennies while all the neighbors watched, then while raking leaves I found a nice silver quarter laying on the ground while they were looking onI have had a hard time living that one down

 

[Ocean7]

why we're swapping tales... back in 80's I told my wife to bury a SLQ for me in the backyard. We'll she did and then I went looking for it.
Nothing. I searched and searched. Finally one day I asked her where the heck she buried it. Well she buried it about 8" deep where a coal cinder pile had been and on "edge". Never found it!

That soil was so loamy and filled with cinders - it's probably at 16"
deep mark now. In case you don't know, most detectors will sound off on coal cinders esp. VLF machines.

then I was digging a hole for a garden about 15 feet away and found a half dollar at about a foot deep. So I figure that I got a 100% return on my investment. true story - go figure!