Who Needs A Metal Detector-Interesting Story

[RLOH]

My area of the country has had rainfall that is far above normal. As a matter of fact, the April rainfall totals were a record. I hunt a very old fairgrounds that has a half my mile track with a five foot high fence surrounding it. The groundskeeper sprays weed control along this fence to it is bare dirt. I have tried to get a small coil close to this fence, but I can't seem to get closer than 12 to 15 inches. One day in mid April when I finished detecting I was walking back to my car and I was following the fence. The heavy rains had eroded foot deep ruts every couple of feet and I was noticing these ruts when I saw a disc laying under the fence. It turned out to be a silver war nickle. I set my detector down and retraced my steps back to where the fence ends at the road. I slowly walked and looked. In the three hundred foot arc of the fence I found four more coins. Two wheats, one Indian, and a clad quarter. It seems like we have had a heavy rain four or five times a week and every time I go detecting there, I check the "fence". I have found at least one coin every single time I look. The heavy rains are washing topsoil off with every rain. Yesterday I had three inches of rain in one hour and hopefully it eroded enough soil to get down to the seated coins. The rains have also exposed several old Indians around the water and drain hookups. They also spray weed killer around these so there is bare soil. I have had trouble trying to use my detectors around these water hookups because over the years the hundreds of people detecting purposely throw their junk up against the pipes. Maybe I am wrong with this assumption, but what I see are hundreds of pull tabs, bottle caps, slaw, light bulb bases, and hunks of rusty iron. I have been detecting so long that I subconcsiously look down at the ground all the time. I embarrass my wife by looking for and finding coins every place I go. R.L.

 

[D&P-OR]

R.L.----You're a man after my own heart!! ------I do the same thing---looking down at the ground for coins where-ever I go.-----Doesn't embarrass my wife though--I got her into m.d.ing some years back and she's just as bad as I am (maybe worse) at going around looking at the ground for coins.-----I guess you can call us all "ground gawkers"! ------She's always also looking out the window for places to detect when we're driving to--guess that's good, cause I gotta keep my eye on the road at that time. ------------Del

 

[Mike Hillis]

The real question is, "did you beep when you picked them up?"

Good story and tip!

HH
MIke

 

[Craig]

Great Post I too am always scanning the ground where ever I go. It's amazing what you can find without a detector !

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Talk to a mailcarrier sometime and if he-she is honest....they get a tip once in a while in dropped coins and my first cousin now retired over the years found folding money and even a couple of gold rings...Heck in the last week found a few coins and a gold filled ring walking the dog....As far as the missus after 47 years just pretends we are not together

 

[Elton]

I think you just gave RLOH a nick name.. "BEEP BEEP" .... LOL

 

[RLOH]

Elton, I worked in school maintenance-custodial for over 20 years. Looking down comes naturally to me. I use to put every cent that I found in a coffee can. At the end of the year I would cash it in. Though I did not keep real accurate records, I do remember having several years of 100 dollars plus. Now for another secret. There is much money to be found in coin returns of paper and vending machines. Just last week at the super market I was walking past the Coinstar machine and as I checked out the rejected coin return, I almost had the big one. It was loaded with bent, dirty, and Canadian coins. I usually discretely stick my finger in as I walk by,but I had to use two hands on that score. Talk about embarrasment, not me, but my wife. You got to laugh at how some people like me. R.L.

 

[Elton]

Sounds like you do pretty darn good looking down too. ( [size=x-small]PS.. I do it too[/size]) LOL

 

[norman maassey]

Elton, I worked in school maintenance-custodial for over 20 years. Looking down comes naturally to me. I use to put every cent that I found in a coffee can. At the end of the year I would cash it in. Though I did not keep real accurate records, I do remember having several years of 100 dollars plus. Now for another secret. There is much money to be found in coin returns of paper and vending machines. Just last week at the super market I was walking past the Coinstar machine and as I checked out the rejected coin return, I almost had the big one. It was loaded with bent, dirty, and Canadian coins. I usually discretely stick my finger in as I walk by,but I had to use two hands on that score. Talk about embarrasment, not me, but my wife. You got to laugh at how some people like me. R.L.

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One thing about a CoinStar is they also kick out Silver coins Too.

 

[norman maassey]

Sounds like you do pretty darn good looking down too. ( [size=x-small]PS.. I do it too[/size]) LOL

In the Navy I stood a lot watch a at sea and I Learned to use the outside of my eyes Sight to look for thing like airplanes. ships. or things that Do Not belong. After I use to doing it I found it real help for Hunting coin and animals, things laying in the road, coins or rings any where! Still not be looked it funny by those around me. One more thing I can see movement faster out of the corner of my eyes then I can looking right at it

 

[jmaryt]

hey!..money's money!..it all counts!..just sayin!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[JimGilmore]

I think we whom detect all keep our eyes open for coins ans such on the grund. I have picked up crushed silver rings in parking lots and coins where ever I walk. I know that while I was just going to a local resturant and a movie before I bought the detector to hunt here in NY I would on average 1 coin every day I walked. Even picked up a dollar bill blowing along a curb on trip walking.

 

[w6pea]

Elton, I worked in school maintenance-custodial for over 20 years. Looking down comes naturally to me. I use to put every cent that I found in a coffee can. At the end of the year I would cash it in. Though I did not keep real accurate records, I do remember having several years of 100 dollars plus. Now for another secret. There is much money to be found in coin returns of paper and vending machines. Just last week at the super market I was walking past the Coinstar machine and as I checked out the rejected coin return, I almost had the big one. It was loaded with bent, dirty, and Canadian coins. I usually discretely stick my finger in as I walk by,but I had to use two hands on that score. Talk about embarrasment, not me, but my wife. You got to laugh at how some people like me. R.L.

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One thing about a CoinStar is they also kick out Silver coins Too.

That is true,

Years ago while I was at Balboa Naval Hospital. I went to a payphone (do you remember them). Anyway I called my Grandmother in Los Angeles and told her I was going to there for Thanksgiving, I remember I put all kinds of change in the phone. Anyway when I hung up the phone it started clicking and you remember how the sounded when the coins went in, well I not only got what it cost me to call her but I also got back an obscene amount of change. I got back enough money to pay for my bus ticket to LA and back to San Diego. You know of course Grand Ma and family gave me back all of what it cost Ma Bell Telephone for my bus ticket and cab fare. Of course us poor military guys didn't make any money back then.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

w6pea that sounds more like a slot machine than a pay phone

 

[norman maassey]

In the Winter of 1979 I was stationed abroad the U.S.S. Dahlgren LG 43. We were tried in at Philly Naval Station Pa. It was 8: 00 to 8:15 in the morning and just a few degrees above O with a strong wind blowing down the river from the North. The Quarterdeck ( QED) was also on the Fan tail/ Helo deck of the Ship. The QD shack was just big enough for the Officer of Deck (OOD), Petty Officer Of Deck (POD). MASSAGER OF Watch and a Telephone to stand up in. Standing four watch in good weather was hard. Just out side the QD Shack there was a roll of Cola Machines.


Back then I did not drink coffee at all. Pepsi was my thing. There was no Dr. Pepper on the East Coast at that time. Working inside the heated spaces of the ship I never wear coat just lite thermal under my work uniform. Now Pepsi time. I knew I could work my way along the inside the ship to the closest point to the QED. Dash out, drop my quarter, push a button, grab my drink, claim a nickel and turn and run. Back inside a Heated space in what 90 Seconds flat. No Problem

The God Were Not on this Sailor side, First of all there had been a ice and snow. Jumping out of the hatch and tying to close it at the same time causes me to fell twice before I did got it closed. Almost fell two more time getting to Coke Machines,. By this tine the ODO and POD are Born looking . The ODO is the only officer on the Whole that I Can"t Get a long with ( We Hate Each Other). Now he is outside the shack chewing out. Tell me to stop F--k--g around before I hurt myself. My fingers are hurting from one of my falls I was having trouble pull coins from pocket. The coin findly went down the hole. I pushed my button. My Pepsi came out then Here came my change. All I could think of was getting back inside. That was when I hear the Second Pepsi drop. and I said to great Two for One.

As I reach down to get it I was looking OOD right in the Eyes. He ask me If had put more money in the Machine a thrid drop out. The machine give up all it had to give and was still tyring to give more, Two hours later when some one from the base got there to fix it. It was a Hour before I could con someone to go below and get me a coat That was How I came Patty Officer Of the Pepsi Watch.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[RLOH]

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[Wayne in BC]

did sumbuddy move it here? Stories are good any time.

 

[Micheal_R]

n/t

 

[Mtnmn]

Like many of us, I'm also a ground watcher and it does pay off. Last year found a fifty and two twenties while doing so. Found the rightful owner of the twenties and gave the fifty to a needy family in our church.