grumpyolman
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I got a call from the 4-H animal person at the local county fair. This morning when the kids were cleaning the stalls one of them lost a set of keys somewhere in the wood chips they were using to 'refresh' the animal pens. The problem was, these keys needed to be used to get into a car to get somebody's seizure medicine. This 4-H person remembered me and my metal detecting addiction and called and asked if I wouldn't run out and do a search. Meanwhile they were planning to either break into the car or try to get medicine from a local resource.
I arrived and saw that where the keys were last seen was not a place to search. All the wood chips had been removed, by a bunch of kids with wheelbarrows, and spread out in two different barns. I needed to search the animal stalls to find the keys because that's where the woodchips had been spread.
It's kind of strange swinging the coil between the legs of a cow, dodging the udders, while squeezing between two other animals. (I hadn't gotten to the goat barn yet). One cow kept putting her head down when the coil came near her feet. I stopped swinging the coil; she sniffed it, and everything was OK after that. I wouldn't have done that in some other places but these animals were super tame as they were kid's pets. I was paranoid about spooking the animals and might be the cause of animal panic and somebody's pet getting hurt. I quickly learned that was not an issue.
The animals definitely thought I was something strange at the fair and so did all the people watching as they walked by. I searched for about 10' and then someone saw the keys laying under the chips in an area I hadn't hunt yet. It felt good to offer the services of a metal detector to some folks who needed it. I got two passes good for admission for the duration of the fair. Kind of a different twist to the 'help people find something metal' that wasn't jewelry. Jim
I arrived and saw that where the keys were last seen was not a place to search. All the wood chips had been removed, by a bunch of kids with wheelbarrows, and spread out in two different barns. I needed to search the animal stalls to find the keys because that's where the woodchips had been spread.
It's kind of strange swinging the coil between the legs of a cow, dodging the udders, while squeezing between two other animals. (I hadn't gotten to the goat barn yet). One cow kept putting her head down when the coil came near her feet. I stopped swinging the coil; she sniffed it, and everything was OK after that. I wouldn't have done that in some other places but these animals were super tame as they were kid's pets. I was paranoid about spooking the animals and might be the cause of animal panic and somebody's pet getting hurt. I quickly learned that was not an issue.
The animals definitely thought I was something strange at the fair and so did all the people watching as they walked by. I searched for about 10' and then someone saw the keys laying under the chips in an area I hadn't hunt yet. It felt good to offer the services of a metal detector to some folks who needed it. I got two passes good for admission for the duration of the fair. Kind of a different twist to the 'help people find something metal' that wasn't jewelry. Jim
Thx for sharing your story..Have fun at the Fair!