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Wheat's, mercury, war nickel, token, ring, Satellite dish

John 'n' W.Va

John 'n' W.Va

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There is no doubt I have more homes to detect then I have time. I am not waiting for them to demo the houses. If I see the power lines cut from the house I MD it. I did this one house today. There is one on each side of it and I am taking a picture from the yard of another. This house I think is from the late 40's, but there were older houses in the area and sometimes the older house was torn down to build the newer ones. I can see the house that I use to live in from here when I was in grade school. I know the area well. Same street one block away a friend of mine found a cw canon ball in his garden. Anything here is for the taking. Need a satellite dish?

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I found this wheat with a nail in the same hole.

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The soil was good here. I found this 1941 mercury 6" down. Then I checked the hole and there was a nail in it also. Explains why I had a hard time pp'ing it.

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Most of the old coins were deep. When I swing,sometimes I get the signal only once if it is deep. If I get any signal I check the depth by pp'ing it. I get the signal in pp but it is faint. If it is 6" or more I dig it no matter what notch it hits on. It doesn't work well if there are hot rocks or a lot of trash in the area. 1941mercury, 1943-p war nickel.

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Ring or not? It is beveled on the edge's. It hits on nickel/foil and is real jumpy. It wasn't rusty, so must be stainless. There are no markings on it and no seam.

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I found five wheat's oldest was 1946. $1 token from Menter clothes, what ever that is. Another brass nozzlel. Copper bracelet, play money, handle to an old clock or is it a gas valve handle? Miscellaneous metal. I dug a lot more, but I leave all trash where I find it. When the house comes down, they grade the area and they build the road. You won't know I was ever there. I bring some of it home for closer investigation. Oh yea, I found some cool marbles. Ever since I was young, I have found these large clear/ green marbles with fishers on the surface in this area. Lots of them. Also found an old horse shoe, hit on cent. I thought it might be container of coins.

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Great finds! Hey, that round thing sure looks like a ring! If it looks like it could fit a babys finger - it's a ring! Good job!
 
Hey you're cleaning up bud. Keep at it. Hard telling what you will scrounge up. The ring could be stainless or if lost more recently - titanium.

Bill
 
[quote Uncle Willy]Forgot to say old bud, I'll take the satellite dish. :)

Bill[/quote]

That's great!! I'll help you take it down, then we'll do a little MD'ing together. You can show me a few pointers and then I'll have you over for supper. What do you like to eat? I'll have my wife make it for you. Tell me when you are coming and I will have the spare room ready for you. We'll have a great time!!
 
Boy John, looks like you have found a plethora of goodies around those houses. Good luck.
 
[quote Uncle Willy]Hey you're cleaning up bud. Keep at it. Hard telling what you will scrounge up. The ring could be stainless or if lost more recently - titanium.

Bill[/quote]I'll put my money on stainless steel.
 
Nice collection of goodies as usual. What are they doing with these houses again? When? I know you've said it before but I forget.

Chris
 
[quote cwilk]Nice collection of goodies as usual. What are they doing with these houses again? When? I know you've said it before but I forget.

Chris[/quote]

They come in with a track hoe and smash the house with the bucket. When it is all smashed to the center, then they load it up in trucks and haul it away. What ever you want, you can unofficially have. If there is enough surrounding dirt, they grade it all level. If not they bring in fill. I always like to go back after they grade. I follow the black dirt trails they leave. The fill is light colored. There is a lot more trash after they grade, but I don't have to worry about getting deep. Trash separation is my only concern. I find much older coins after they grade. They say most finds are in the top 6". Maybe, but the oldest and best finds are deeper. I would love to have a detector that would go 20". Than the ID would be good for 10" and I could cherry pick what I wanted.
 
What is going to replace the houses? A mall? A highway? An off-ramp? How many of the houses were occupied when they started this project?

Chris
 
[quote cwilk]What is going to replace the houses? A mall? A highway? An off-ramp? How many of the houses were occupied when they started this project?

Chris[/quote]

A 4 lane hi-way and a few off ramps. The house I just MD was to be an off ramp. A few hundred. I think I have them all to myself. The workers know me and they said I am the only one they see detecting.
 
I believe ya when you say your fit, that's a power o' diggin' there.
I'd be knackered after that lot.
These merc dimes are still fascinating to look at, I think the're the most beautiful coins.
Good luck with the street although I don't think you need it, looks like you and your Ace are one.
(just an extension of your body):hot::hot::hot:
 
I used to have a detector that would damned near go that deep. It was a Fisher 441 - straight VLF - no discrimination. Drove me nuts hunting with it. I dug a hole 14 inches deep and found the head of a nail. After that I parked it and then sold it. Would have been great for relics and nuggets. In fact it was a favorite in Australia.

Bill
 
I'll eat anything that ain't still breathing. :rofl: Hey I'd love to pop down and give it a whirl but ain't in the cards. I hunted a freeway right of way many years ago and made out like a bandit. If some of the houses go back far enough look for caches. I found one buried in the dirt floor of what used to be a shed that had been demoed and hauled off. There were nine Morgan silver dollars plus a pile of smaller silver coins in the cache. I danced quite a jig on digging that puppy up. Keep your eye out for stuff like that. Back many years ago a lot of people didn't trust banks and squirreled away money everywhere. A few years ago my sister-in-law was making her father-in-law's bed and went to flip the mattress and there was 25 grand laying under it. She hauled him down to the bank and made him deposit it. Then days later she found another 25 grand in a sho boxin the closet.

To bad you can't search the inside of the houses. People buried and stashed money everywhere. I had a buddy of mine who was called by some people to come search the house of a relative of theirs that had passed who had a habit of stashing stuff. He found $28,000 worth of jewelry buried behind a bedroom wall. When I was a kid we had this old guy in the neighborhood who collected and bought and sold junk for a living. His house was stacked floor to ceiling with bales of newspapers, magazines, junk of all kinds. When he died they went to clean that mess up and found $750,000 stashed inside. That was in the forties and that chunk of change would be equal to about ten million bucks today This old boy didn't even own a car and lived like a pauper. He walked all over town pushing a steel-wheeled cart picking up junk. So it pays to poke around.

Another detectorist was called out to this farm to search for a stash left behind by a deceased relative and he located it buried in the dirt floor of a barn - several four foot sections of plastic pipe, full end to end with twenty dollar gold pieces. So keep that nose out in front of you bud. You never know what you might scrounge up.

Bill
 
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