Met up with "Heavy D" today for a couple hours in the sweet 70 degree November temps.
We decided to hit a small town park he frequents which used to hold a little carnival and a "drinking" festival in the same spot.
Darrell had hit it before but not with a small coil...and said the trash drove him nuts.
I brought 2 of my little critters with me to use on my SE and had decided I would concentrate only on a creeping crawl through the nasty trash section.
I finally got a hit that sounded like a sick duck playing the flute with every other pass of the coil.
I cut the best plug that I could in the dry, crumbly dirt...and before I knew it Herky was crouched down and hammering through the hole.
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I caught the glimmer of silver embedded in the hard underlayer... then sifted through the crumbly chunks of dirt at the right bottom of the hole which had been shoved that way....and took a pic.
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What I found was the reason the dime was still there...an old tab and an old .38 cal casing.
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I worked tediously for another hour before getting my second high warble squeaking through the trash.
It was a jumbled mess of a sound but the small coil locked on a high silver quarter type hit inbetween the crap.
I did the best I could to cut a plug then chiseled through the rocky crumbled ground which was so loose...it just created a pile of rubble.
Once Herky saw me digging...he came over to investigate...then snubbed me with a dirty look that said "you freakin' goof...that's a screwcap"
...so I took a pic while he was mocking me.
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If you look closely though...you can see a round link or two of some shiny stuff....peeking through the rubble...laying directly on the broken glass neck of the screwcap. You can also see the old pulltab encrusted in the top right of the plug which was removed.
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Once I sifted some of the rubble out of the way... more big silver links glimmered through the chunks.
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I started getting the "shaky hands" syndromeand picked the monster piece of jewelry from the rubble.
From underneath a pulltab and laying directly on an old broken screwtop bottle...came this whopper sterling silver link bracelet.
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No I couldn't see any markings because I didn't have my glasses...but even I was smart enough to know that only sterling silver comes out glimmering like this.
When I got it home I noticed the clasp was gone and had obviously been broken off...therefor being lost many years ago.
I rinsed it off and it looks exactly like it did the day it was made...except for being broken.
I was amazed at how solid and heavy it is...weighing a whopping 54 Grams...and upon looking at it through a jewelers loop...is marked 925.
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This is one piece I think I will take to a jeweler to have repaired. It surely won't cost that much to have some type of clasp put on.
I think it would be neat to save and give to my daughter for Christmas.
If anyone tells you a small coil won't find some sweet goodies that even your favorite bigger coils miss.....take their info with a grain of salt.
If you have the patience to slow to a near crawl...are willing to work a little coil...and can tune out the outside world while tuning yourself into your machine...trashy spots can cough up some goodies.
I love this hobby
We decided to hit a small town park he frequents which used to hold a little carnival and a "drinking" festival in the same spot.
Darrell had hit it before but not with a small coil...and said the trash drove him nuts.
I brought 2 of my little critters with me to use on my SE and had decided I would concentrate only on a creeping crawl through the nasty trash section.
I finally got a hit that sounded like a sick duck playing the flute with every other pass of the coil.
I cut the best plug that I could in the dry, crumbly dirt...and before I knew it Herky was crouched down and hammering through the hole.
[attachment 179079 herkydiggingplug.jpg]
I caught the glimmer of silver embedded in the hard underlayer... then sifted through the crumbly chunks of dirt at the right bottom of the hole which had been shoved that way....and took a pic.
[attachment 179080 silverdimeinhole.jpg]
What I found was the reason the dime was still there...an old tab and an old .38 cal casing.
[attachment 179081 silverintrash.jpg]
I worked tediously for another hour before getting my second high warble squeaking through the trash.
It was a jumbled mess of a sound but the small coil locked on a high silver quarter type hit inbetween the crap.
I did the best I could to cut a plug then chiseled through the rocky crumbled ground which was so loose...it just created a pile of rubble.
Once Herky saw me digging...he came over to investigate
...then snubbed me with a dirty look that said "you freakin' goof...that's a screwcap"...so I took a pic while he was mocking me.[attachment 179068 braceletinhole5.jpg]
If you look closely though...you can see a round link or two of some shiny stuff
....peeking through the rubble...laying directly on the broken glass neck of the screwcap. You can also see the old pulltab encrusted in the top right of the plug which was removed.[attachment 179070 braceletinhole.jpg]
[attachment 179073 braceletinhole2.jpg]
Once I sifted some of the rubble out of the way... more big silver links glimmered through the chunks.
[attachment 179076 braceletinhole3.jpg]
I started getting the "shaky hands" syndrome
and picked the monster piece of jewelry from the rubble.From underneath a pulltab and laying directly on an old broken screwtop bottle...came this whopper sterling silver link bracelet.
[attachment 179077 braceletinhole4.jpg]
No I couldn't see any markings because I didn't have my glasses
...but even I was smart enough to know that only sterling silver comes out glimmering like this.When I got it home I noticed the clasp was gone and had obviously been broken off...therefor being lost many years ago.
I rinsed it off and it looks exactly like it did the day it was made...except for being broken.
I was amazed at how solid and heavy it is...weighing a whopping 54 Grams...and upon looking at it through a jewelers loop...is marked 925.
[attachment 179078 braceletinhole6.jpg]
This is one piece I think I will take to a jeweler to have repaired. It surely won't cost that much to have some type of clasp put on.
I think it would be neat to save and give to my daughter for Christmas.
If anyone tells you a small coil won't find some sweet goodies that even your favorite bigger coils miss.....take their info with a grain of salt.
If you have the patience to slow to a near crawl...are willing to work a little coil...and can tune out the outside world while tuning yourself into your machine...trashy spots can cough up some goodies.
I love this hobby
OIh well...I aint perfect.