Hi everyone, I do not know if this is where to post this so if not please move it. How many people hunt farms or farm sites and what is you success rate on good finds compared to how much you hunt them? For some reason a lot of people in my neck of the woods think they are not worth hunting because farmers never had or carried money. even a lot of the older people around here think the same way. With all the finds I see on here I just cannot agree with that logic. What is everyone's success rate on farms or best finds or best days? Thanks all and HH.
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opinions wanted on hunting old farms
- Thread starter pointer80
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My favorite locations I hunt them 90% of the time. On the year I have taken over 100 silver,over 100 Indian heads, 3 large cents and 44 old nickels shield, V and buffs. If you have permission on them by all means go also find out where they once were as well as old schools and Church's and hunt those fields as well HH Dave
John - Maryland
Member
The money I found at the old farm site dates around 1913-1915. After some discussion and scratching our heads, on why money was buried under a tree? It may have to do with what was going on at the time which was WW1. It's possible who ever buried it may have gone off to war and may have been killed never to retrieve it. We can only guess.
E-Trac-Ohio
Well-known member
We live in a very rural area and I hunt around a lot of old farms - found some real nice finds at many of them !
Look at the Mathematics -
If an average of three or four people live in a house for 100 - 150 years or more - they worked on the farm and they walked to their fields, barns, driveways, mailboxes, etc. - thousands of times.
Add all this up and you can pretty much count on the fact that someone living on the farm ... lost some coins and relics.
As far as Farmer's not having much money - I'm sure your right in some cases - but regardless of your income ... everyone drops coins.
After you've hunted the yard and walkways at a old farmhouse - try hunting the most direct paths from the house to the Outbuildings, Clothes Line, Mailbox and Fields.
Try to figure out where the Outhouse was located and where a old Clothes Line could have been years ago - ( look for eyelet lags or big nails in older trees approx. 6 to 8 ft. up the tree).
Also, many years ago people would put money in their mailbox's if they wanted the Mailman to leave Stamps - I remember my parents doing this in the 1960's .
So be sure to hunt the path from the house to the mailbox and around the mailbox itself - I've found a lot of silver dimes this way.
Good Luck!
Look at the Mathematics -
If an average of three or four people live in a house for 100 - 150 years or more - they worked on the farm and they walked to their fields, barns, driveways, mailboxes, etc. - thousands of times.
Add all this up and you can pretty much count on the fact that someone living on the farm ... lost some coins and relics.
As far as Farmer's not having much money - I'm sure your right in some cases - but regardless of your income ... everyone drops coins.
After you've hunted the yard and walkways at a old farmhouse - try hunting the most direct paths from the house to the Outbuildings, Clothes Line, Mailbox and Fields.
Try to figure out where the Outhouse was located and where a old Clothes Line could have been years ago - ( look for eyelet lags or big nails in older trees approx. 6 to 8 ft. up the tree).
Also, many years ago people would put money in their mailbox's if they wanted the Mailman to leave Stamps - I remember my parents doing this in the 1960's .
So be sure to hunt the path from the house to the mailbox and around the mailbox itself - I've found a lot of silver dimes this way.
Good Luck!
I have had better luck at old farm sites than anything else. My first seated dime came from an old farm house. I have been lucky enough to find something at everyone I have hunted. It will range from a couple coins an trinkets, to lots of coins. I stopped at one old farm house to actually ask about ownership of a different piece of property. The little old lady who lived there was very friendly and said her house was built in 1876 and I was welcome to hunt her yard if I wanted. It tuned out to be one of my best places yet. Found 113 wheaties from the front yard. Also managed a seated dime, buffaloes, a few injuns and a couple mercs and rosies. Most of the wheaties came from the front of the house all the way to the road at a depth of about 3-4 inches. What I found was a brick walk way from the front door to the road that was covered up with a bout 4 inches of dirt. Not all houses are loaded, but what finds I do manage seem to be good ones. I had another house that produce 5 eagle buttons from a civil war uniform. I am guessing that they discarded the jacket back I the day and the buttons were what were left. Even if they did not carry money, it is still worth a look. You never know what is there. Hunt every old farm or home site you can. I think you will be surprised.
there is one guy who does podcast, can't recall his name, but he preaches that old farms are no good for old coins! I laugh everytime he says that in posts.....I mean come on........in 4 yrs with the etrac I have over 600 silver, over 500 indians, large cents, 2 centers, thousands of wheats, and I PRIMARILY hunt farms, just like Etrac-Ohio said, regardless of how much money you own, EVERYONE drops coins, it is just TRUE!!!!!!!!!!
Mark in S.E. IA
New member
In the spring and in the fall that's all I do is hunt farm fields that once had a house or 1 room school house there. Last Sunday I was MDing a field and found a 1853 Seat half dime, 2 IH's and 2 Wheat's. Tonight I was working another field and found 2 IH's, 2 wheat's and a German stove token from the early 1900's so yes it's worth checking out those fields that use to have a farm house, 1RSH or a church.