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Went out detecting yesterday.

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Rick N. MI

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It was 49 in northern Michigan. I hunted with the Gold Bug Pro with the 5x10 coil. In the fields the ground was froze solid. So I went to a cellar hole in a Red Pine plantation. The ground was so soft I could dig pushing in with my hand. It was surprising quiet with not much iron trash. Didn't find any coins. I was very happy with the GBPro ver 3 and the 5x10 coil. We were digging deep targets in the soft soil.

Rick N. MI
 
He was using an Advantage.

Would like to know what the iron thing is. It looks like a tool. It's rounded on one side and flat on the other and the hook is beveled on the round side.

Rick N. MI
 
How did you like the 5 x 10 coil? Also post that picture in the Whatsit Forum too. I would like to know too.
 
I love the 5x10 the short time I've used it. I do believe it is going to be my main coil on the GBPro. I would say about 1" less depth than the 11" coil. The coil was great with the sticks and branches on the ground not getting caught up in them.

Rick
 
Great nice finds...... :teknetics: its killer on coins too
 
I think it's a good possiblity it was used for peeling bark. I don't think it could be a fascine knife even though it looks similar. I think the fascine knives are sharp on the edge also. This tool is only sharp on the front.

Rick N. MI
 
It looks like a fish or deer gutter.
 
Cool finds, Ive found allot of those tableskirt clips as well. I think the tool is a skinning knif one side cuts a maesured deapth to cut just through the hide then as your pulling the skin away you cut the between fat layer with the rounded edge.
Good luck!
 
How long is that thing? If its real long, like a machete, it would be perfect for skinning white pines for building a log home. Irregardless, thats a cool design for a custom machete type tool, sharpened on both the round and flat side of the blade as well as in the hook. Rick, nIce work there for January!
Mud
 
The blade part is 4 1/2" long and to the end of the handle it's 10" and it's broken at the end. The width of the blade is 3". The hook on it could have been used to pull on the bark. I think it could very well have been used in the lumbering days of Michigan. It was found 1 mile from the the lumber town called Wildwood. All of Michigan was lumbered off in the 1800's and a lot were White Pines. There were a lot of lumber towns in Michigan that have died. In it day they were booming.

Thank you everybody for helping identify the tool.

Rick N. MI
 
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