Getting Just A Little Too Chilly For Wet-suits....:stars:

[John-Edmonton]

Headed out this morning for another water hunt. The ambient temperature was just a few degrees above freezing, with a moderate wind. I wore my chest waders, and my neoprene gloves which extend up to my elbows. That worked just great! I lasted about 4-5 hours. I did get a brass or bronze ring, several coins and a beautiful silver ladies Victorian style cuff.

The cuff is shown below. I have it tumbling in my stainless steel shot tumbler over night to try and restore it.

 

[dgruff]

Nice finds! Especially that cuff. Where do you get the stainless steel shot at? I've heard that does a great job on silver. You know, when I was a teenager working at a slaughter house, we would take the big stainless meat hooks and throw them in a cement mixer with shredded newspaper. Let it run for a couple of hours and they would come out looking brand new. Just some useless info if anyone was needing any, lol.

 

[mudpuppy]

That is a sweet cuff! Lets see how it turned out after a tumbling! I also worked in a slaughterhouse at one point in my career, good gosh amighty!
Mud

 

[dgruff]

Ha! It was fun times at the slaughter house! Kinda gross to some, but very interesting, lol.

 

[GeorgeinSC]

John you need to take a vacation and come down to South Carolina. It is 3:50 EDT and the temp is 91 degrees. Went out for a while this morning with my son and we burned out about 1pm. He found his first silver coin. A 1941 Merc.