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RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/10/2011 11:14:27 AM    ironmountain   Posts: 846 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline You guys are killing me over here!!!!! I have yet to find any bottles in this town..The original farm of the guy who owned all of the land in this town wayyyy back and sold it to Ford so he could build is still semi-standing....there's even a bunker that has tunnels that go to the airport and to where Ford's plant used to be. I found where the privy is because half of it is still standing...there aren't a ton of collectors where I live, if any. Even wandering in the woods I cant find crap for bottles etc.... Digger, dogs actually do pretty well on leather. If you buy the thick leather. Inlaws have that pigskin looking pretty thick leather. They've had it for 10yrs or so. Our dogs are on it when we're there, cats have been on it, people sleeping on it etc...still looks brand new...wife hates leather for some reason... I'm all packed up, ready to bike it over to the Housing Commish so I can get in,get done and hit the yard and wife calls..wants me to call the furniture store and order a sofa/loveseat we saw yesterday...so i get to do the fun stuff.... Then I can go fix computers....and MD. Have fun today!! (in reply to harold) Post #: 61

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/10/2011 9:47:11 PM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Well you got my attention with the bunker and the tunnels. I would have to check those out. That whole area sounds like good places to detect. I suspect that complex was built circa WW-2?? It was a nice day here, I finally went to the big tree out in the old farmfield. Detected around it and found a pc of a necklace with beads or something. Have to go back though theres deeper targets. I wanted to get to the old tree line we played in those trees in the 69-early 70s as kids and know those trees are now probably 100 yrs or more old. I did detect a 1965 MI license plate last year with my old BH detector near that treeline. The plate is in great shape. Cant figure how it remained there without deteriorating. So I wandered around a bit, and looked around a bit....then the detector went off. Said target 4 inches, dug nothing, the spot was still beeping. I dug and checked 4 times and was down 14 inches when it finally stopped. I scanned the dirt and found the area and carefully went thru the dirt. Then I find an old cast truck about the size of a matchbox car. Got back washed it and lightly scrubbed with a toothbrush. So, I take the magnifying glass and it says Tootsie toy Chicago USA. Started a search and Ebay netted the info. Made 1950, white paint, model 21, Wrecker tow truck. Ebay has 3 but I look and with 10 days left one like mine (theres also a red version) is up to 18.50 or 19 bucks. Might have found another winner. Just another "chance" find with the detector. I estimate that things been in the ground since before they built the subdivision in 1957. Or at least 50 years! (cant see a kid holding on to a small toy like that for say 11 years and figure in 50 years to 2011). Some days its these kind of finds I find interesting. Hope everyones finding some items. (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 62

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/11/2011 7:50:51 PM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Just some scratch change today 10 pennies and 2 dimes (one is a 1940 wheat penny) and too much scrap aluminum. Man those guys drink/drank a lot of beer. Iron ya get out yet? Like to go tomorrow but its looking like some rain may possibly spoil any detecting. Maybe Ill get a break. (in reply to MIdigger) Post #: 63

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 2:38:47 PM    ironmountain   Posts: 846 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline Digger, Tootsie toys are very collectible...especially in that kind of shape. The necklace pieces sound promising!!! trees are almost always good for hunting. The tunnels and stuff from the old Ford plant go approx 1mile to the farm of the guy who used to own all of this land. He had sold it to Ford and Kingsford to parcel out for Ford's workers. The foundation for the guy's barn is in the middle of an open field and that's where the tunnel comes out, right inside the barn... the tunnels are circa teens-20's... I'll get some pics next time I get there. haven't been out much... the other night went out after dinner, found some junk. It rained yesterday and today and the day before I broke my MD down and put it in my backpack and rode to the housing commish to fix their computers......you know those awesome "virus warnings" that you get that's actually a popup and is usually a trojan? Well my friend's wife, who works there, called me and said "oh..i had a virus warning popup and i clicked on it and installed it..." So instead of a little bit, I was there 6hrs... yesterday was the suck.. I finished at the housing commish, was going to go MD and remembered I had an appt at 11am..it was 10:30 by the time I was done..came home and it started raining about 20mins later.. Wish I could drive. I'd take an hour drive to Menominee...Guy has over 200 bottles he snagged digging an 1880's logging camp...says make an offer...might email him and have him send some pics.. need to finish housework...i'm such a good wife!!! (in reply to MIdigger) Post #: 64

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 3:23:34 PM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Yes, you do seem to get pegged down with projects that keep you away from the md. Surely you will hit it big one day too. I was wondering what you found out about your silver ring with stone? Real silver? diamond? estmate value? Details man, details!. That thing was interesting. That rain always comes when you have some free time. I have some things to do, but hoped to swing by that garage sale again today (lady said last load was mon nite). Yesterday I went to the fairgrounds but they rangers were there. They opened it (after decades of NO hunting) to deer hunting and I couldnt get in to md. Said deer hunting is open Mon-Tues each week til Nov. I want to go today (in the 60s here) mding, but I looked at the radar and we have a storm front coing from the east. Winds picked up 10-20mph leaves are coming off the trees quick. Going to be bare if we get this 3-4 days of rain. Probably have to go for a few hrs at a time with the rain, or maybe get lucky and go around the area. Well, your handiness around the house is valuable instead of paying for it. Behooves one to learn some home repair Ive got the (carpentry/cement/electrical/siding/drywall/insulation/plumbing/painting/roofing/general repair ect) Mom did teach us all to sew/iron/laundry and so forth. Always good to know how to take care of things. Man of all things...Im sittin here typing and praying mantis looking bug (small about an inch long) just nailed me, I thought it was a hornet. I dont know if those sting or not but that thing just pulled a 1/4 inch stinger out of my right arm. well, if I kick the bucket good luck and carry on! (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 65

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 4:43:28 PM    Dugout   Posts: 1742 Joined: 1/27/2008 Status: online In my opinion, you guys should be putting up a few more pictures....please! (in reply to MIdigger) Post #: 66

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 5:33:04 PM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Dugout, I just have to learn the steps. I have a digital camera. Just need to sit down one day and get this set. I like the picture side of the forums too. Neat to see what something looks like as just descibing it doesnt do. (in reply to Dugout) Post #: 67

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 7:03:33 PM    appliedlips Posts: 3506 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline Nice post! I have been out quite a bit lately with limited time to privy dig. Doing curb strips and yards mostly and digging a bunch of silver lately. Dug my first seated half dime a couple weeks back and two walker halfs, 4 silver Washingtons and 13 dimes( mercs and Roosevelts) over the weekend. A couple of tokens were my favorite finds however. A year ago I paid $650 for a used Minelab explorer Se and have no regrets and have paid for it more than once already. As far as its slow recovery speed, it is not an issue. All the spots I have are normally trashy so any detector should be swung slower. The key is, that slow or not it recovers coins in spots I have gridded off and hunting thoroughly with other machines. Not just deep stuff either. _____________________________ LOOKING FOR PONTILLED OR EARLY SQUAT SODAS FROM HIGHLAND,ILLNOIS.. (in reply to MIdigger) Post #: 68

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 7:46:15 PM    Dugout   Posts: 1742 Joined: 1/27/2008 Status: online Pictures are also a great way to document what you found and where you found it, so maybe you can remember, when you can't remember any longer  . Maybe I just forget too fast. (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 69

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 8:27:02 PM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Well, priorities Dugout...I finally found out that but that nailed me is called an assasin bug. Let me tell ya that thing smarts quite a bit, swellings pretty bad so I have an epi-pen for bees and I used it (not sure if the sting or where I got overly excited on my swing down to use the injector and gave myself a charlie horse Ive had for a while now is worse). So might be a bit before I go detecting again and its bite is in the arm support area of the detector on my right arm. Maybe I can swicth to lefty and still go. Just hope I dont get the parasites (Chagas disease) so going to call the doc for blood tests. Never even heard of these little pests. Nice finds ther Al... lots of nice silver for sure. As you were saying about paying for the machine I am almost there myself in just a couple months. Been pretty lucky. (in reply to Dugout) Post #: 70

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 10:31:52 PM    riverdiver   Posts: 629 Joined: 6/27/2009 From: The Lake Sunapee region of NH Status: offline I got out monday and hit the local HS ball fields and school perimeter. I wont even show you the coins because everything else was so much better...I recovered all sorts of jewelery and it strikes me as a virgin site because this was all recovered in 4 hours. I even got jewelery from the grassy areas in the parking lot medians. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Will dive anywhere, anytime for awesome old glass (except in ICE WATER)...Matt aka Lucky! (in reply to MIdigger) Post #: 71

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 10:33:21 PM    riverdiver   Posts: 629 Joined: 6/27/2009 From: The Lake Sunapee region of NH Status: offline Here is the silver stuff... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Will dive anywhere, anytime for awesome old glass (except in ICE WATER)...Matt aka Lucky! (in reply to riverdiver) Post #: 72

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/12/2011 10:37:57 PM    riverdiver   Posts: 629 Joined: 6/27/2009 From: The Lake Sunapee region of NH Status: offline And lastly a mix of stuff both silver and gold and some plated stuff. I cant wait to go back! I love the gold plated lighter, I think these kids are rich brats to be losing items like this. I went to this spot because the HS sits on the original fairgrounds from the 1800's so I was hoping for older items but I am not complaining with this haul at all. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Will dive anywhere, anytime for awesome old glass (except in ICE WATER)...Matt aka Lucky! (in reply to riverdiver) Post #: 73

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/13/2011 1:39:45 AM    ironmountain   Posts: 846 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline AL-- nice find on the Walkers...I love those coins. Still haven't found one yet...my favorite coin would be a peace dollar..so cool looking... The explorer SE is a great machine and 650 is a sweet price! that's the main one my buddy uses and he loves it...great for digging super deep silver and trashy areas......the only time you have to go snails pace with minelabs is when they null over junk and people dont wait for it to reset... Digger-- sounds painful! Son had martial arts today at 4. I asked him if he minded if I just rode there with him (it's across the small lake behind our house) and went back to the park where I found the 1877CC..there's a huge pine tree a bit further down from where the pavillion used to be..and it sits right next to a super flat area that looks like something was built on it at one time...small slope on all 4sides and a 100'x100' square/rectangle flat area...if it's not raining tomorrow I'm taking my MD with me to the park when I take daughter to the bus stop...lunchtime I'll hit the park behind the house... I always knew Fishers were sensitive, but man... Today was swinging slooooow and overlapping and only covering 1' or so and I must have been hitting full size cars underground...Kept getting 00 hits...normally that means a huge hunk of metal that's junk...once in a great while it's silver...but when you put your coil 1' in the air and still get signal that bounces? yah..junk..happened alot today.... On the other hand, I had a constant signal that bounced from 45-48...All the rings I've found were in the 44-48 range..so I dig it all....Old style pull ring tabs ring up in that area also......so I dig and dig and 8" down it was hitting on the strip of metal on the old style pulltabs..i was pretty impressed... The ring is just base metal...looks nice and is heavy, but I let it soak and now it's gold with pitting and spots on it...so just another piece of jewelry to go in the pile... RD--that's a sweet haul...all of the sparklies are nice! if you ever decide to sell it off for melt etc..hit up ARA...they over 90% of melt, and if there are stones in the jewelry they will sometimes make you an offer on them or send them back. Dugout--when I stop finding bucksaw hunks/car trim & guages/foil/bottle tops/pop tabs/beer cans/can slaw and various other metals...I shall post pics...The park across the street I'm hunting is 100yrs old and has so much iron that I have to run 3 bars of sens..vs full 5 because it just chatters like crazy every few feet...even when i disc iron out... I'll see if I can find the pic of the 1911... the front. found this at the park across the street on one of the first nights i started hunting it...since then...all junk and maybe 25 cents worth of clad. Attachment (1) (in reply to riverdiver) Post #: 74

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/13/2011 1:41:08 AM    ironmountain   Posts: 846 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline backside...most of the coins (that aren't zinc) that I pull out of the ground are in this shape or better...I've found coins from the teens and they have great detail on them.... Attachment (1) (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 75

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/13/2011 8:35:16 AM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline RD great finds. Wondered why we hadnt heard from you in a while! Nice, very nice! We got some rain last night, waiting to see how it goes. Figured on hitting that fairgrounds area or some other places with my friend today. Hes still a newbie but loves doing this very much. I get a kick out of watching him dig and then so carefully and slowly sift for the coin. Might dig a spot for a while to and see if we can pull any bottles. Glad to see everyone is still pulling items. The pics are always great. I must get to that myself. Good luck everyone. Rich (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 76

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/14/2011 2:32:05 AM    ironmountain   Posts: 846 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline Rained all day long...So I sat and watched tv with the dogs today. No "chores" today. If it's nice out tomorrow I'm going out all day. I was all set today, grabbed my gear when daughter and I were leaving, get outside and had to turn around to put it all back... (in reply to MIdigger) Post #: 77

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/15/2011 9:06:06 AM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Iron, pretty much same here. Everythings holding. We have rain, 30mph winds and its in the 50s. Great duck hunting weather (I dont hunt anymore). Looks like todays a recon mission if it lets up I have a few places I can check out. Drove by the boat launch yesterday (duck hunters and others lose lots of change in parking lot). Only one hunter I talked to, shot a pr of spoonbills and a nice goose. Need to check the shoreline over there lots of fishermen too. Found a Daredevil spoon with some line attached last time. Maybe get out tomorrow if the weather clears. (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 78

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/15/2011 10:00:41 PM    ironmountain   Posts: 846 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline i haven't been out all weekend...raining yesterday with 50mph winds..and today, wet out and still same winds...so..wife finished painting the kitchen and I tiled a new backsplash in..it looks pretty cool, for this old house...i'll get some pics..i'm probaly sending your copper out beginning of this coming week (as long as weather is nice so i can bike to the post office)...if it's nice tomorrow, i already told wife i'm going all day and i might need her to haul me around...going to check this small park out too..it's on a corner, maybe 100yds by 100yds...sloped with a small bit of woods behind it...woman who's lived here all her life said back in the 60's it was still a swampy dump..so going to MD it and maybe poke some holes in the woodsy area.... (in reply to MIdigger) Post #: 79

RE: So where are the detector reports?? - 10/16/2011 8:13:51 AM    MIdigger   Posts: 766 Joined: 3/3/2010 Status: offline Well, its not raining and its not blowing this morining. Might be able to get out for a while today. When the sun gets up I am sure it will warm up a bit. Almost sounds like youve done a complete remodel of the interior of your home. From your descriptions it sounds nice. That area you live in sounds like a great area to live in, and Mding and bottle digging sound good up there too. Some time Id like to go back up around the old deer camp and md and see what I can find. May go to the fair grounds again today and look around the grassy parking lot area (where Ive found the silver coins). Good luck today, and dont put health at risk riding a long distance on that copper. (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 80

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