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Treasure located near Leon Springs, Texas..............

I am confident that there are some great treasure stories, or adventure stories up there where you live. Tell us about some of your metal detecting stories, especially show us some of the old coins that you have found. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
Los of snow here and no detecting for a while to come. Wish that we had those spanish signs and camps up here.

Ah well... we make do.

Many thanks for a GREAT story.

Fair winds

Micheal
 
what the pile of old shells were on the bluff? Is it possible they were hunting off the cliffs from the high point. I know out in South Dakota we went to a few spots where there were piles of buffalo bones at the bottom of a big bluff. I guess the Indians would drive them over it and, well, there is meat, clothes etc. I wonder if the military would hunt the same way. Do you know what the shells were from, like say old Sharps rifles etc? Sounds like a really great spot to explore more, except for down in the smelly cave. To many possibility's there and most bad. Interesting that a lot of stories down that way are of old wagon trains, stage coach or bank robbery's and up this way most seem to come from the sea, with treasure being brought ashore for safe keeping. A lot of the little islands around the coast here have stories associated with them. One thing for sure, wagon train, Military conflict, pirates from the sea, they all make great reading and keep some of those dreams we had a skids alive. This is the time of the year for them, fire crackling, pot of stew on the stove, liquid refreshments of choice... It all works for me.... Thanks for post, good reading....... I sure would love to roam those areas down there...

Up late tonight, pretty good snow storm going on out there. Banking the wood stove in case we loose power while we are asleep. My wood stove has a fan distribution set up that feeds all the rooms thru duct work. I don't like to let it run if we might loose power. Those ducts are long runs and get pretty hot. if its running hard like it has been all day. Small fires are fine, but you need to be up to tend them. I just kick it over to the oil and deal with it in the am.
Here is a shot of my wood furnace. It is oil fired also that lights the wood. Wood is primary on it oil, gas, electric or coal is secondary. I have the wood, oil, coal or electric setup.


Geo-CT
 
Is it computerized? Are these type heaters common up there in New England? Kelley (Texas) :)
 
I guarantee you that sooner or later you will run across a hidden treasure around one of those foundations of former homes. You would be amazed at how many folks back in the early 1900's through the 1950's had a great distrust of banks and hid their money on their property. Every so often, something would happen that prevented the hidden money from being retrieved and it is still there today, awaiting someone to accidentally find it. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
This is a big planet, and a fellow has only so much time to cover ground! Thanks for taking us along on this ride, Kelley!...
Oh, and Geo, thats a mighty fine looking firebox you have there! sure beats a 55 gal drum with a waste oil drip system!
 
Fred I've been thinking about that cave and there must be a way to smoke those "buzz tails" outa there.

It sure would be an adventure to check that one out,

CJ
 
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George that is quite the heating unit you have there.

I'll bet it keeps your home a lot more evenly heated than my old Jotul Comby used to keep mine.

I went to oil fired hot water baseboard after 21 years of wood burning.

I cleared a lot of dead-fall timber for local landowners in those years.

I've kept it as a back-up heat source and if the price of oil keeps climbing I may be forced to tune up the old chain saws and burn wood again,

CJ
 
The like the trunk lines to run uphill and you pull off the filters in front and that cover so it will flow just from the heat rising. It works ok on small fires but not with big fires....Just gets to hot. Ponds are all frozen here this time of year, way up on a hill, fire department would never get back in time to save anything but the concrete cellar. I just try and eliminate some of the x factors along the way. I run the generator and have all that, but I find also If I just run it about 75 in here all day, and heat everything, basement all the rooms, they store up a lot of that extra heat and I can leave it all off until the next morning and no chance of anything going wrong. Day break, I get back with the program. I'v built a lot of wood stoves myself that require nothing but it makes the basement hot and the rest of the place so so..... I would do it like that if I had to, did for a few years, but this unit really makes the entire house comfortable. Its 150,000 btu unit and does a find job. There are a lot of them in this area. They are built out in Minnesota... This is the second one I've had. They came out with one with a stainless heat exchanger so I purchased it and still have the old one. I want to use it in the garage or thats the game plan, but the body is telling me that it may not be up to the task anymore. Time will tell.... If your interested seeing how they work go to their link at Wood Furnace

I have the Eagle II unit.....You leave the oil set where you want it, once wood dies off the oil kicks in...Come morning , toss in the wood, the oil will fire it off , so as its going it drops out....

Geo
 
Maybe 75-100 feet from the house.. My bro-in-law has one. It will take up to 4 foot long logs and he only stokes it once every two or three days. It also reduces the risk of fire when the boiler and fire are that far away. It keeps his house nice and toasty and with the water lines 3 feet below ground and insulated, the heat transfer is very good too.

Fair winds

Micheal
 
built a big one like you speak of. He loads it with about anything once its going.. big stuff, stumps..He also ran the piles to his mothers home, his garage and home and his big paint shop where he paints and works on old Grey Hound type bus rigs. He buys htem and strips them clean and builds new coaches for people. He does a great job and has a steady stream of clients either redoing there old ones, or having him build a new one. He has done a lot of them for bands from New England.....This outside boiler does the job and then some.... I coould be wrong but I think he said he has a 1000 gallon tank for the water off of it. All you see above ground is the big boiler. Much of it is big boiler plate. They have really put the screws to most people wanting to put them in now around these parts. A lot of people complained about all the smoke when they are idling to the point they passed new laws last year, on them. Real strick...

Here are some of them for New England... OWB laws

Geo
 
very cool collection of artifacts there:thumbup:
The folks here are all motivated by good treasure stories like yours and any time you have more info or another it would be great to hear about! I think i would be mighty tempted to run a hose from the exhaust off a Quad or truck into your "rattlesnake cave" for an hour and get on in there:biggrin:
If that is not an option, a 20 lb propane bottle left just inside the entrance with the valve cracked a bit for a while then set off with a rifle shot would work well i reckon;)

Sorry i am late to the conversation here, life has got in the way of my online time lately.
 
Hi there.... I'm pretty new to texas moved down here because of the Army. Orginally from New England. I picked up the hobby of medal detecting from an early age. would it be possible sometime to meet up and explore this military camp site together?
 
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