Trash-man strikes again!!!

[John 'n' W.Va]

I went to my great grandfather's old homestead. I was there last year and only found two coins. I thought I would give it another try since he has a cash buried somewhere. He was a self centered, quiet type of man that didn't let his wife know where he buried the cash. After he died she knew he had buried it somewhere in the garden. She had never found it. They had a small lot on the edge of town above the river. It is all forest now. There is an old junk car where the garden was and metal everywhere. I MDed inside and outside the foundation. I checked the old well and every big tree there. Nothing. It is probably under the car.
I think the big thing is made of asbestos. It looks to be half of a circle.

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If it pp smaller then a ft. I dug it. Found many old jars with the lids still on then, but they all were empty. I was happy with a coin size pp hoping to get some silver. Not one coin. I an not going to hit 20,000 coin for the year at this rate!!!

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I found a hawk gun. My dad said they were popular cap guns in the 40's.

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I got 7 targets out of one hole. I have no idea what year these came from.

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[Gunnar of bradford MN]

its time to rent a back hoe and get the job done

 

[Uncle Willy]

THe bottom two are from WWII I believe. I had one of those cap guns when I was a kid along with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry six shooters. Course we used to make our own rubber guns and cut up old inner tubes for ammo. Had a helluva time shooting each other with those puppies. Hell we made a lot of our toys, sleds, scooters, rafts for the creeks and rivers, rubber band powered model airplanes, rubber band powered boats. Can you feature these rug rats of today making their own toys?

Bill

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

n/t

 

[awhitster]

Looks like it is time for a name change. At least knowing there is a cache gives you hope.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I'd be seriously searching for that one.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

People usually buried stuff where they could look out a window and keep an eye on it. If there were fences he could have used a "post hole bank." Any old trees close to the house with deep forks or knot holes?

Some time ago a buddy of mine was called over to search a house for money or treasure that a dead relative had stashed away. He eventually found $28,000 worth of jewelry stashed inside a bedroom wall.

Another guy was called for the same reason. Out in the barn's dirt floor he dug up several sections of plastic pipe filled end to end with $20 gold pieces. People bury stuff in strange places in strange ways. You have to try to think like they did relative to the time they buried it.

My sister-in-law's father-in-law was loaded and stashed money everywhere. She went to change his bed one day, flipped the mattress over, and there was 25 grand under the mattress. He had another 25 grand or so stuffed in shoe boxes in the closet. My mother-in-law was the same way. Kept her money in travelers checks stashed all over the house, tens of thousands of dollars.

When I was a kid we had a junk man who lived in the neighbor hood who picked up junk in a hand cart he pushed all over town ( didn't own a vehicle ), bought and sold junk. WE used to collect all kinds of junk and sell to him. He lived in this ratty house stacked floor to ceiling with junk and old paper of all kinds. When he died they found $750,000 buried amongst the junk inside the house. That was in the forties and that was one helluva lot of money then, equal to many millions today. One never knows.

Bill

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

Those are some great finds there John. I'm sure if you give out the location of where that cache might be hidden you will get some help for sure.......I'd be first in line. For a finders fee of course.

 

[GaryL]

Some neat finds Trash-man, like the old cap pistol

 

[Uncle Willy]

John needs to get a "water witch" and go after it.

Bill