No pics, but a couple of good tips.

[Dancer]

Good while ago, I was working at a car wash. Owner wanted someone to clean out the vacuum sweepers. Being the new guy I got the job. Now I'm telling you there's some nasty stuff in there. But enough clad, other treasure to make a mud hunter happy. Friend of mine saw where a owner dumped his vacuum trash over a hill. He had good digging for a couple of week ends.
Another hunter, was hunting a old school that was heated by coal. Scratching around where they dumped the ashes, found $100 in face value silver coins.
Maybe someone will pick up something with these ideas. H- Hunting.

 

[mudpuppy]

Nice! Keep mining the old posts here for tips/hunts/finds posted from long ago...its good winter work and fun reading too...
Mud

 

[ironsight]

After a while, finding clad becomes well, boring!
I found so much clad over the years i don't know what to do with it all. Worse yet are hundreds of crusty zinclolns too far gone to wrap.
NO, i'm too dam lazy to wrap 'em all up and take it all to the bank.... besides i'm a proud self-proclaimed pack rat.
Can't imagine myself serfing vacuum dumps just for a handful of clad. uke:

The other tip might be a good one however, just how did all that silver got in the ash pile?

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

One spot I use to go too was where the car wash places would dump there
dirt/sand residues from the settling pits just walk and eyeball
the deposit and finds coins like crazy. I never detected these sites
as they were redevelop over time.

 

[mudpuppy]

Heres a handy Winter tip...if you dont like the time and expense of changing your furnace filters, leave them in their plastic wrapping! They last forever that way!
Mud

 

[Walknstik]

Once at a car wash I noticed where the owner/worker had dumped one of the vacuum tubs and it was peppered with coins mainly zincolns. People lose all kinds of items in their vehicles and when they shove those vacuum nozzles between the seats without really looking I can see jewelry items being sucked up?!

 

[Dancer]

Yep, not hard to imagine what might be sucked up vacuuming a car. Ear rings, made of g/s .

As for silver coins in the school coal ashes? Having gone to one, in those days a lot of mud was trampled into the building . Guess it a lot of things were swept up thrown in the furnace.

 

[GT 350]

When I was a preteen my older brother and I played on different baseball teams. The games where played at an elementary school, they had a big cinder block closed container with a chimney that they burned their trash in, when they cleaned out the ashes they spread them out on a bank behind the container, when it rained the ashes washed away. For weeks while my brother was playing ball I would go to that bank and find coins. We figured it probably come from the students putting their change from lunch in their lunch bags and throwing the bags in the trash.

 

[togamac]

The silver in the old ashes has me curious. I located an old school foundation in the woods once and at the corner of the foundation was a pile of ashes. I went over the surface with the detector and got nothing. I was thinking at the time that I got what I expected. I can't figure out how coins would end up in the ashes unless the teacher or janitor (did they have them then?) also dumped all the floor sweepings in the same spot. Any theories?

 

[slingshot]

I have found nearly as much eyeballing as detecting.

 

[chuck ky]

the first time i hunted a catholic church and school where they had barbecues in the summer i found some mercury dimes in the barbeque pits. someone said that they used to throw them in the fire for good luck.