Hunting an 1860's farm Sunday

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi guys, I'm hunting an old farm on Sunday, dryland, I was told to look for the strangle in a tree branch where a string may have been tied as a marker, also along the fenceline under the main posts, if its a shotgun door house to check within 30 paces out the back door for where the outhouse's have been. Any other ideas that could be thrown my way? Would love to hear them if there's any suggestions.

Jon

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

If you know where he was sitting at the table in the kitchen looking out the window
if there any kind of reference point where he could keep a watchful eye
on that location may be worth a look see there.
Chicken coop where he'd hide cache squawking of chicken is like alarm.
Check inside the house loose boards, fireplace.and window moldings

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Ty Joel for the good ideas, I had not thought of these, have you ever detected farms?

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

I've had some go at those a bit.Mostly the house was gone.
Did one a few years back with a friend who had knowldege of a farm house
where the man hid some stuff. We were not sucessful in that hunt.
The place we thought the cache was turned out to be full of tincans and junk.
We also had a short window to detect.
Another one I know was friend detecting around old farm buildings.
He did inside an old forge where part of the floor was wooden .
He got a stong signal pulled some loose boards and found a old tobbaco tin
filled with oil ,full of nickles.
That one I saw as all the nickel were dark from the dark oil.

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi Joel and thanks again for the ideas. The property I'm hunting was owned by a prosperous family in that area, I was told by the current owner that the family owns about 6 adjacent farms. Back in the 60's the then owner who was kin of the other farm owners was found in the barn, hung himself. Apparently the property went right up for sale as the others in the family now figured it was cursed. It was also said it's never been detected. So ya never know I spose.

 

[John-Edmonton]

You are on the right track....just keep looking.

 

[M_d_in_guy]

today we hunted the farm for a good 6 hours, trash and beeps and trash and beeps all over, foil and foil plates metal etc. Every place the coil hovered it was busy. I did find a beautiful belt buckle thats about 3 inches long by 2 wide, stanped on the back was SOLID NICKEL, steady 85-87. There were 5 other buckles found, not a single coin tho, one 303 casing, a punched heart wine goblet silver plate. We'll be going back again between now and next wednesday. I could not believe the trash everywhere. Got a lot of 80-90+ VDI giving up some copper and brass fragments of different things. Iron audio really helps to determine what to dig. So there'll hopefully be a better hunt next time lol. Happy hunting.

Jon

 

[Joe Dirt]

Jon, My favorite places are the shade trees or stumps and clothes line.Then the paths being barn,mailbox,driveway,well,spring. Paths are always most direct and easiest way. Try and figure out the kids play area.We all remember these spots. Also the veg garden spot due to lots time spent there bent over working and every farmhouse had one. I hope this helps and good luck. Joe.

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Ty so much Joe for the ideas, it makes sense all of what you offered, I'll be trying it all definately, ty again.

Jon

 

[Maxwedge]

IF YOU HAVE TIME, I WOULD DIG EVERY SIGNAL. A MASSIVE JOB, I'M SURE. GOOD LUCK-MARK

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Thank you Mark for the advice.

We were back at it for another 6 hours yesterday, lol again the detector all over the place with tone and grunts. Come to find out most of this farm is about a foot of soil +- on bedrock, most of the tones are from the excessive iron in the rock. We worked the fields with a few artifact finds. The most interesting to date there is between the house and the big cedar ten feet away. In progress a double metal cover, old steel roof and a zinc plated sheet about 4 feet square laying flat, 10 inches under the grass, one day this week we are going to continue the dig. Crossing fingers. Not a single coin has been found yet. It was confirmed as well that the property has never been detected before. Cheers everyone and maybe this thread will have a success story soon.

Jon

 

[fongu]

If you get a large iron hit, you might want to dig. some people hid their money in large cast iron pots. I read about a farmer that stashed $50 & $100.00 bills under cans he nailed onto fence posts. He nailed the cans to the post on the side to keep water from seeping into the top and ruining his money. This was common back then and protected the post from rot from the water and didn't cause any questions. After he died, someone was replacing fence posts and discovered the money. Another hiding place was post hole banks. They would leave the barb wire stapled to the top of the post and cut most of the staple away on the bottom and leave enough to hold the wire and when they made a deposit or withdrawal, they simply lifted the post out, did their banking and put it back in the ground. Several caches have been found using ultraviolet lights to show where areas had been dug into the ground or adobe buildings. This would come in handy where cash money was hidden in something besides metal that wouldn't show up with a detector.
Treasure hunters manual #7 mentions this. It also works around fireplaces and walls, floors and ceilings. Be careful with uv lights because some of them are dangerous to the eyes. Longwave is okay without the special glasses, but shortwave will burn your retinas.
Shortwave come with special glasses to wear when using. Good luck and happy hunting.

 

[upnorth]

The human imagination never ceases to amaze me, in regard to hiding places. I read about some old fur traders burying their goods then making their evening fire over top of it. Amazing.

 

[mudpuppy]

n/t

 

[M_d_in_guy]

I was talkin to an old guy lol, .................back when I was just a teen. I remember him saying that often what they would do is with the paper money they would hide it behind the paper wrap labels on certain cans. He said there was a place at his farm house, stone, that he once owned and he had a little spot behind one of the keystones, or as others had at their place standing soldiers(rows of brick as lentils above window and door openings. I guess the possibilities are endless.

Thanks to all the ideas on this one for everyone to remember.

Cheers and HH

Jon