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RE:GOLDEN FINDS
- Thread starter DUCTMAN
- Start date
Golden
Member
Thanks Joe. We've had huge storms at this particualr beach and couldn't pass up the oportunity to see what we might find. Got out today to the same beach and had some success again. Will post the photos as soon as I clean our finds! How's the detecting going Joe? Have you found anything else at the old site since your last post?
HH Angela (Golden)
HH Angela (Golden)
No I have not thanks for asking,I believe I'm frustrated with that spot,just lots of junk,people really held on to their precious items very well back then,I am also not spending the time there like i should,but I did get a fix on a 150+ year old boarding house I can hunt looking forward to that,I wish I had the oceans around here to hunt,the sand is so much nicer for digging,I have been doing alot of research in my area and found two old towns that dont exsist anymore,the boarding house is in one of them,I dont know how I am supposed to hunt in the woods,it's so hard with all the debris,but I know there is history from the 1830's burried in them,finding spots to hunt is half the battle,I think If I keep at it I will find at least 1 really nice object,persistance is the key!!HAPPY HUNTING.JOE
P.S (MAYBEE SOMDAY I CAN MD AUS, I HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER OUT THERE)
P.S (MAYBEE SOMDAY I CAN MD AUS, I HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER OUT THERE)
Golden
Member
That's great that you have family in Australia Joe! It'll give you an excuse to visit the land down under! There are some great detecting spots, both beach and on the goldields, so you wouldn't run out of detecting areas, and the rules are more lax in some areas too for treasure hunting. Are you very far inland, fromt he beach? The old site you mentioned here could very well be very promising. A 150 year old site is certainly worth checking out. What's your weather like over there at this time? It's blowing a gale here, very cold and windy where I live in Victoria. The beach we detected all those keepers in the previous post, is about an hour's drive from me, so it's not too far fortunately.
HH Angela (Golden)
HH Angela (Golden)
Hey golden,hope I'm not bothering you,but I found out my Aunt lives in vic Melbourn(hope i spelled that right?)last name Gesch,she is actually my great aunt!!.Hit the old boarding house about 2 three hour days,found lots of old nails,which reg high 30's in all met?one old wooden button by chance from sifting my dirt,seems like it's going to be one in a million to find and old coin,everywhere in the yard registers on the md with half of those hitting 30 and up,I just dont know which ones are worth digging before other ones?I still dont have all the sounds pinpointed yet I'm sure that will help when the numbers are the same but a diff pitch.very troubling when non-fer read produce nails and other rust(very old rust),seems like high screech rust metal, maybe high solid pitch is better?need some proff advice.THANKS, JOE
Golden
Member
Gidday Joe! How you doin"? Wow, so you have a great aunt who lives in Melbourne! I know Melbourne fairly well, having lived and worked on the city years ago.
As for the nails that read 30 plus, they often will. Generally they give a slightly lower pitched tone to a coin, but with practice, you'll learn the differences in pitch for a coin to a nail. But, having said that, I've sometimes thought a nail was a coin. One thing I have found is that as you dig down closer to the target, the pitch can also change, become more clarified as you near the target. But generally a good high pitched sound could mean a coin. Or another great relic. I've also found that a lot of your relics like cast iron objects eg. irons, etc, will give a lower end of the scale pitch, like a medium tone or signal, or a mellow tone. But I'm detecting in All Metal Mode, in ferrous tones of course. I much prefer to detect with ferrous tones and signals. I feel I get a better idea whether or not I'm listening to the signal for a relic or rubbish. You know, some of the nails are very interesting collectors pieces, like the hand forged ones which between one and two inches in length, have four flat sides, and a flat top head. These were usually cast by a blacksmith. Then there are the common roofing mails, with lead heads on them. Then there were the horse shoe nails, nails from hobble boots, and saddles. they all make for interesting relics, from a time when they were hand forge individually, and not manufactured as in a production line. Often, we take these relics for granted, but there's a story behind everything we find on an old site. I've got quite a collection of different sized hand forged nails.
HH Golden
As for the nails that read 30 plus, they often will. Generally they give a slightly lower pitched tone to a coin, but with practice, you'll learn the differences in pitch for a coin to a nail. But, having said that, I've sometimes thought a nail was a coin. One thing I have found is that as you dig down closer to the target, the pitch can also change, become more clarified as you near the target. But generally a good high pitched sound could mean a coin. Or another great relic. I've also found that a lot of your relics like cast iron objects eg. irons, etc, will give a lower end of the scale pitch, like a medium tone or signal, or a mellow tone. But I'm detecting in All Metal Mode, in ferrous tones of course. I much prefer to detect with ferrous tones and signals. I feel I get a better idea whether or not I'm listening to the signal for a relic or rubbish. You know, some of the nails are very interesting collectors pieces, like the hand forged ones which between one and two inches in length, have four flat sides, and a flat top head. These were usually cast by a blacksmith. Then there are the common roofing mails, with lead heads on them. Then there were the horse shoe nails, nails from hobble boots, and saddles. they all make for interesting relics, from a time when they were hand forge individually, and not manufactured as in a production line. Often, we take these relics for granted, but there's a story behind everything we find on an old site. I've got quite a collection of different sized hand forged nails.
HH Golden
beachguy777
New member
I couldn't resist the chance to throw in two old "reiterated" stores about old, flat sided nails. My first flat sided nail I found was at a National Park, called Yosemite, here in California. Back in the early 70's, I had an old Bounty Hunter, in a camp site in the park and I was looking in the sand by the side of a lake we were camped at. One of the rangers at the time roared up in her jeep and jumped out and said: You can't use that metal detecter here, this is a National Park, and this is an old site where a fort from the 1800's once was. Well, if you can believe it, I "almost" got an attitude with her, but she slowed me down real quick when she said, if you persist, we'll take away your metal detector and give you a huge fine. That stopped me!!!! I just didn't realize how serious it was to be digging up artifacts in a NATIONAL PARK. How stupid is that, but now I know, or at least I thought I knew. The other time I found a "square nail" as we sometimes call them was in the state of Nevada at an old mining town, where a park ranger told me earlier I could be fined up to $3000. be thrown in jail and have my car confiscated. Well, I thought I'd be slick and go to a very remote mining town and hunt for stuff. I got so scared after I found one square nail, I packed it up and hauled ass out of there. Too scarey for me. Marc Trainor.
beachguy777
New member
Ductman, just stay with it. I do have the nice beaches, but they don't have 130 year old stuff out there, unless, I get rediculously lucky, so stay with the program and you'll succeed. Just don't give up and take it slow and methodically and you will be posting some of the stuff that we all dream of. Marc.
beachguy777
New member
How ya doin' Ductman! You've got the right detector, I believe, just stay with it, and I can't remember if you have Andy Sabisches book called Mastering the Quatro. I can't say enough about the info you can get from that book. It's truly the bible for the Quatro. If I were you I'd try hunting in Ferrous mode and notch out or in what numbers your interested in or just go in all Metal and read the numbers but set the all Metal to use the ferrous audio. I forget how to do that, at the moment, but it explains it in Andy's book, not in the owners manual. I think with the higher pitched sounds on the higher conductivity stuff through the ferrous mode you can discern things a little better. Marc.