azsh07
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I was informed that they thought it would ship this week...apparntly it caught a bad Gold Bug.....:-o
I kinda need it as it is my only lightweight backpack weight machine. The LTD is too big odly enough but the GBSE was a nice size to collapse down and take on a hike.
We have an area near my house that was the site of heavy quarry work in the late 1600's. About 500 Irish worked lived there....alot of the granite used to build early Boston was taken from here.
Later, after the quarries were abondoned it was a small town that lasted until the early 1900's.
While alot of the known cellar holes have been hammered to death most people don't realize that these are the remnants of the 1800 settlement. The 1700 and 1600 areas were scattered throughout the woods now.
I have hiked through the woods and found quarry sites from the original 1680's and on. usually find buttons but mostly tools etc. The occasional coin will pop out but they are deep and usually alot of them are odd ones. Not the typical KGII's but french coins like the Black Dogs (SOUX), also a have seen a Jetton i think...a few Williaqm and Mary half pence....along with other a few we never did ID.
The GBSE is perfect for finding these older onmarked spots. You set the tone around 40 so that all iron is accepted and then anything above iron, or close to it, is a hi tone.
You wonder the woods and just listen. As soon as you get near colonial acitvity the iron hits will be numerous. Then I just scour the area and dig ANYTHING that is not iton as we ll as a few iron hits just to see what it is. usually nail and spikes...but gotta see em to date em.
I find so many spots like this that are lost deep in the woods.
Screw the old maps..everyone has em and has hit anything that is on a map around here....but they couldn't find something that was not marked if their life depended on it. I use maps but so does averyone else and I have gone deep deep in the woods on an ATV only to find the spot dug up....
Hope to see it soon.....will keep my fingers crossed.
scott
I kinda need it as it is my only lightweight backpack weight machine. The LTD is too big odly enough but the GBSE was a nice size to collapse down and take on a hike.
We have an area near my house that was the site of heavy quarry work in the late 1600's. About 500 Irish worked lived there....alot of the granite used to build early Boston was taken from here.
Later, after the quarries were abondoned it was a small town that lasted until the early 1900's.
While alot of the known cellar holes have been hammered to death most people don't realize that these are the remnants of the 1800 settlement. The 1700 and 1600 areas were scattered throughout the woods now.
I have hiked through the woods and found quarry sites from the original 1680's and on. usually find buttons but mostly tools etc. The occasional coin will pop out but they are deep and usually alot of them are odd ones. Not the typical KGII's but french coins like the Black Dogs (SOUX), also a have seen a Jetton i think...a few Williaqm and Mary half pence....along with other a few we never did ID.
The GBSE is perfect for finding these older onmarked spots. You set the tone around 40 so that all iron is accepted and then anything above iron, or close to it, is a hi tone.
You wonder the woods and just listen. As soon as you get near colonial acitvity the iron hits will be numerous. Then I just scour the area and dig ANYTHING that is not iton as we ll as a few iron hits just to see what it is. usually nail and spikes...but gotta see em to date em.
I find so many spots like this that are lost deep in the woods.
Screw the old maps..everyone has em and has hit anything that is on a map around here....but they couldn't find something that was not marked if their life depended on it. I use maps but so does averyone else and I have gone deep deep in the woods on an ATV only to find the spot dug up....
Hope to see it soon.....will keep my fingers crossed.
scott
