Ronstar
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Spent Wednesday thru today camping at a Forest Service CG. In the 1920s it was a logging camp where the logs were brought down by steam locomotive to a large camp. Boxcars were lined around the meadow as sleeping quarters, mess hall, etc. There supposedly was a turnstile there where they could turn the locomotive around and send it back up the mountain.
The avatar I have now was a ring I found with the F5 back in 2013-14. I also pulled a 1924 wheatie but not a whole lot of other good stuff. Most people who bring detectors hit the main picnic area and leave. The larger meadow has tufted grass humps and plenty of gopher holes. I decided this trip to wander the meadow and see what I could find.
Day two was an inordinate amount of 22 rimfire bullets and some larger caliber. So the next day I worked the opposite end of the area. I was slowly just swinging where ever the least amount of grass humps. Suddenly I hit a slamming 87-88 hit on the F75 and the meter was liking something round so in I went at a target at 8”. Pulled the plug and nothing reacting in the hole, but plenty of buzzing in the plug in my hand!!
The soil was pretty loose so it was easy to just pull in apart, c’mon big ol silver coin! Nope, busted up old pocket watch! Kinda fell apart as I pulled the plug apart but what there was left of it came out and came apart. I did not find the clock face or any glass but I do not think it had a cover on it either. I got all the metal pieces out of the plug and still not intact. Im thinking this was a working mans watch with an open face. My first pocket watch!!
A few feet away I started getting a lot of 70-80s hits but I was pretty sure it wasnt coins. I dug quite a few pieces of a two-man saw or sometimes call it a Swedish Fiddle. In the middle of all that I pulled up a cast iron splitting wedge too!!!
Not a lost hope hunt, just different “gold”.
Anybody have a site that identifies what the style or era of the saw might be?
The avatar I have now was a ring I found with the F5 back in 2013-14. I also pulled a 1924 wheatie but not a whole lot of other good stuff. Most people who bring detectors hit the main picnic area and leave. The larger meadow has tufted grass humps and plenty of gopher holes. I decided this trip to wander the meadow and see what I could find.
Day two was an inordinate amount of 22 rimfire bullets and some larger caliber. So the next day I worked the opposite end of the area. I was slowly just swinging where ever the least amount of grass humps. Suddenly I hit a slamming 87-88 hit on the F75 and the meter was liking something round so in I went at a target at 8”. Pulled the plug and nothing reacting in the hole, but plenty of buzzing in the plug in my hand!!
The soil was pretty loose so it was easy to just pull in apart, c’mon big ol silver coin! Nope, busted up old pocket watch! Kinda fell apart as I pulled the plug apart but what there was left of it came out and came apart. I did not find the clock face or any glass but I do not think it had a cover on it either. I got all the metal pieces out of the plug and still not intact. Im thinking this was a working mans watch with an open face. My first pocket watch!!
A few feet away I started getting a lot of 70-80s hits but I was pretty sure it wasnt coins. I dug quite a few pieces of a two-man saw or sometimes call it a Swedish Fiddle. In the middle of all that I pulled up a cast iron splitting wedge too!!!
Not a lost hope hunt, just different “gold”.
Anybody have a site that identifies what the style or era of the saw might be?
...love the old finds, great hunt!