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Hunting wishing wells..
- Thread starter EZdiggins
- Start date
Some of those old wells are actually cisterns. They are just water containers.
They got the water from roof run off.
I had a friend that moved into an old house that had a cistern. Him and his
father cleaned the bottom of the cistern with buckets, hauling the muck out.
I asked if I could metal detect the muck they threw on the ground. It was full
of coins. I got a pocket full of old silver coins and my friend would not take any
of them. He was glad for me to keep them.
That was great, and somebody els did all the work for me.
HH,
They got the water from roof run off.
I had a friend that moved into an old house that had a cistern. Him and his
father cleaned the bottom of the cistern with buckets, hauling the muck out.
I asked if I could metal detect the muck they threw on the ground. It was full
of coins. I got a pocket full of old silver coins and my friend would not take any
of them. He was glad for me to keep them.
That was great, and somebody els did all the work for me.
HH,
treasurefiend
New member
Man I think about the movie "goonies" at least once a day, when the find the wissing well, coins all over the floor and walls. Or Al Bundy, when he goes into the malls fountians and takes all of the money...Some day im gonna find me a wishing well. Some day...
devildog3rd
New member
People throw all kinds of stuff in wells especially old ones.
Coins, UFO parts, bodies etc. you name it. It's probably there.
Coins, UFO parts, bodies etc. you name it. It's probably there.
DirtDiggler
New member
What kind of equiptment did they use to bring the muck up? A friend and I are trying to figure out a way to bring up the top layer of mud at the bottom of a well / cisterns.
[quote tabdog]Some of those old wells are actually cisterns. They are just water containers.
They got the water from roof run off.
I had a friend that moved into an old house that had a cistern. Him and his
father cleaned the bottom of the cistern with buckets, hauling the muck out.
I asked if I could metal detect the muck they threw on the ground. It was full
of coins. I got a pocket full of old silver coins and my friend would not take any
of them. He was glad for me to keep them.
That was great, and somebody els did all the work for me.
HH,[/quote]
[quote tabdog]Some of those old wells are actually cisterns. They are just water containers.
They got the water from roof run off.
I had a friend that moved into an old house that had a cistern. Him and his
father cleaned the bottom of the cistern with buckets, hauling the muck out.
I asked if I could metal detect the muck they threw on the ground. It was full
of coins. I got a pocket full of old silver coins and my friend would not take any
of them. He was glad for me to keep them.
That was great, and somebody els did all the work for me.
HH,[/quote]
treasurefiend
New member
The only equipment they had back in the day was a Strong Back & A Weak Mind....
GRAY GHOST
New member
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GRAY GHOST
New member
i got the same thing going on. really. an old mansion - actually old brick ruins - i found out in the woods [i made posts on it] has a round brick well, about 20 feet deep and dry [i think] as a bone. its about 30 inches inside diameter, and the cistern is right next to it. the house has yielded up coins and artifacts dating from the 1830s. ive hunted the place twice, and its still a work in progress - real trashy. so its gonna take me some time. i didnt even think about going into that old well until i saw your post! so im considering a few things...just thinking out loud...are the walls stable enough, so they dont collapse inward, a real consideration, could i plausibly rig up my detector with rope and catch a couple swings on the bottom to make sure there is something in there worth going into the well in the first place? would it help [if the well is dry] to wet it down beforehand? that might make it easier to collect items. what about a safety harness rig and lowering tripod? the ideal way to do it would be head first, right? im just thinking out loud, but trying to make good suggestions at the same time. if you could find a good way to pull it off, that would be interesting.
In the town I grew up in there was a wishing well in the town park for years (years before me) and when I was about 12 or so they removed it. I want to go back and hunt around that area for the coins that were tossed and didn't quite make it into the well....might be a pipe dream, but there could be some goodies there if they haven't been sucked up already.
the oxygen may be replaced by some heavier gasses.
Don't go in by yourself.
Have a harness that will work if you are unconscious.
Have some one or two someones, that can pull you up.
Don't enter a hole to help an unconscious person without outside air.
I have entered many enclosed spaces. Nothing ever happened. Doesn't mean I wasn't scared.
I never took many precautions until I worked for the City. I was lucky. Many have died.
Cisterns can be any shape.
Sometimes slow producing wells would have a cistern to increase water supply.
The ones that look like wishing wells are usually hand dug and close to a house to catch roof
run off. They used charcoal and sand in wooden barrels to filter the water. They were usually
bottle shaped. Narrow at the top and wider as they went down. They are either rocked or bricked.
The bricks and or rock work may be falling in.
It's a real chore. Just imagine the folks that built them.
HH,
Don't go in by yourself.
Have a harness that will work if you are unconscious.
Have some one or two someones, that can pull you up.
Don't enter a hole to help an unconscious person without outside air.
I have entered many enclosed spaces. Nothing ever happened. Doesn't mean I wasn't scared.
I never took many precautions until I worked for the City. I was lucky. Many have died.
Cisterns can be any shape.
Sometimes slow producing wells would have a cistern to increase water supply.
The ones that look like wishing wells are usually hand dug and close to a house to catch roof
run off. They used charcoal and sand in wooden barrels to filter the water. They were usually
bottle shaped. Narrow at the top and wider as they went down. They are either rocked or bricked.
The bricks and or rock work may be falling in.
It's a real chore. Just imagine the folks that built them.
HH,
Depending on how deep the well is, they used to make hand augers that were designed to have sections of threaded pipe added to the handle so you could dig a well 15-20 feet deep. Maybe one of those would work for lifting out the muck in the well. Especially if it was narrow.