I need help. There is more then I can handle.

[John 'n' W.Va]

Normally I wouldn't want any of you near me taking all my loot. I have more areas to MD then I have time. I haven't seen another MD'er anywhere. When they get done tearing down the houses on this street, they are going to bring in 20 ft. of fill dirt. I went to a new home that was built on an old lot. I could tell by the old stone wall and steps there was something old there at one time. I then did 3 other lots kind of quick. I didn't do too well today, but that doesn't mean there aren't things to find. I probably hurt myself by going too fast. Just 4 wheat's today, some clad and strange metal trash. I leave most of the trash where I find it.
Lesson on picture taking. Don't take a picture next to something yellow.

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[awhitster]

I'm getting on a flight right now.................

 

[DiggerRick]

Keep hunting and posting the great pixs!!!

 

[Uncle Willy]

Hey you didn't do to bad. Wish I was there to help you out. Depending on how many homes are to be demoed it can be overwhelming. When they cleared homes out here years ago for a new freeway ( which never got built ) the area was several miles long. I did get lucky and found a cache of silver coins which included nine silver dollars, probably buried back in the thirties or forties as the coins were wrapped in oil cloth, the precursor to plastic.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

If I could I would.

Bill

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

I could use your expertise. What area did you find the coins and how deep? Most of the homes that I have looked at are on a field stone foundation. They are real liberal about being on the properties. One worker told my dad, who lives next to all the action to help him self to what was inside the house next to him. He said it is ashame to destroy all the hard wood floors. They didn't even have any knotholes in them. It is kind of funny watching people carrying hot water heaters and other things out of the houses. While I am MDing I pick fruit off of the trees and sit in their old chairs that they left behind to take a break. If I would take the time from MDing I could load up on apples and chestnuts, but I have my priorities. Which keeps me from MDing as much as I like. Like no MDing today:sad:.

 

[John-Edmonton]

n/t

 

[Uncle Willy]

Here they salvage all the old lumber out of the houses and resell it as you can't even buy that kind of lumber anymore. It's like my old house, it's built with real two by fours and two by sixes of prime douglas fir. If you could even find that stuff anymore it would cost a fortune. There are several companies here that deal in only that. I'd be salvaging some of those hardwood floors and the hardwood trim probably inside.

I have a buddy ( in Texas now ) who built custom furniture and jewelry boxes. He would go down to the docks and pick up the shipping pallets from the orient for his lumber as they were all made of prime hardwood because that's the only kind of trees they had over there. He made some jewelry boxes for my wife and my mother and they are beautiful.

When I found my cache it was buried in the dirt floor of what appeared ( by the outline ) to have been an old shed behind the house. So check for those plus outhouse pits. The cache was only about a foot down buried in an old paint can.

Bill