Medal detecting

[RubberDuck]

when I was about 10 I had an old timer neighbor who took me under his wing to teach me metal detecting
This old man had a treasure room full of goodies some valuable some worth nothing but was priceless to him.
I was always in awe looking at the cool stuff he found then I started finding my own treasures.
This hobby was put on the back burner for many years every now an then picking up the detector the man gave me to tinker.
Today is a beautiful day out got bored so dug it out cleaned up an went to my moms childhood home that we still own.
She has told me a story of a ring she lost as a kid so went looking for it.
No luck today going to try again tomorrow but here was my treasures from today.
2 1967 quarters
1 1967 dime
2 1965 nickels
2 1967 pennies
1 1964 silver dime
off brand zippo style lighter
and a tag off something from a beauty shop from Frankenmuth MI
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[hawgrider]

Pretty cool! Nice find for an afternoon. Did your mom have a hole in her pocket?:biglaugh:

[RubberDuck]

On the property where The coins were found was old mobile home.
I believe these were near the front door which would make good sense reaching in your pocket for keys an out comes the pocket change.
This was one trick I was taught if the entrance of a property is known
another is look for anbold shade tree where some one would of sat with glass of tea in the shade loosing their ciins pocket knives what have ya.

[hawgrider]

Id like to detect some old logging camps up in da mitt.

Even your sections of hardwoods at deer camp may turn up some interesting things.

[RubberDuck]

Spent a few more ours in my moms childhood home fiund several more coins a few 60s mostly 90s.
several of the newer ones found clumped together.
Found a crescent wrench if it's a craftsman wonder if I can swap it out for new one lol.
Then the best find was right next to a old walnut tree.
1934 wheat penny
Then I played in my yard found 2 90s dimes and a cool 1991 arcade coin.
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[hawgrider]

The wheat penny is a good find.

[RubberDuck]

Looks like the game token depending on condition is
$2 to $15
I got to look up the proper coin cleaning solution seems like the old man told me something about peroxide an water doing some research on it now.

[hawgrider]

Looks like the game token depending on condition is
$2 to $15
I got to look up the proper coin cleaning solution seems like the old man told me something about peroxide an water doing some research on it now.That 1964 dime you found yesterday is a keeper too.

[RubberDuck]

That 1964 dime you found yesterday is a keeper too.
I am donating that one to the Christmas pudding.

[hawgrider]

I am donating that one to the Christmas pudding.Sweet they're are getting hard to come by.

[Arklatex]

Very cool! I love old coins and have a collection myself. I've heard that some coins will lose a bit of value if you try to clean them up too much. But a toothbrush and some tarn-ex will do the trick.

[RubberDuck]

The oldest coin I have ever found was a 1864 Indian head penny I have lots from 30s an 40s.
any of the new stuff I clean up good enough to spend.
Thinking about a ultrasonic cleaner from Harbor freight for that task

[Baglady]

Great hobby. I have a cheap Walmart metal detector. Haven't used it much. We like to go hunting for indian rocks, and gold prospecting, tho we've only been once to do that.
I'm a member of TreasureNet.com There are a lot of metal detectorists on there. You should check it out.
That 1864 IH might be a key date coin. They get really excited about them. The slave tags some have found are an amazing thing to see.

[RubberDuck]

Great hobby. I have a cheap Walmart metal detector. Haven't used it much. We like to go hunting for indian rocks, and gold prospecting, tho we've only been once to do that.
I'm a member of TreasureNet.com There are a lot of metal detectorists on there. You should check it out.
That 1864 IH might be a key date coin. They get really excited about them. The slave tags some have found are an amazing thing to see.
I think I just joined that forum to pick brains about cleaning coins and artifacts.
I think my teens and 20s made this a boring hobby but picking it back up has a big pleasure and peaceful quiet time that cost me very little with possibility of good reward.
I plan to update this thread often with hunts and treasures.

[Baglady]

I think I just joined that forum to pick brains about cleaning coins and artifacts.
I think my teens and 20s made this a boring hobby but picking it back up has a big pleasure and peaceful quiet time that cost me very little with possibility of good reward.
I plan to update this thread often with hunts and treasures.

There ya go. There's a lot to learn from those folks. Look forward to seeing what you find. HH...(Happy Hunting)

[Xerographica]

Treasure hunting! So cool! Nice finds!

In the yard when I dig a hole to plant something every once a while I'll find an old marble. They aren't worth much but now I'm pretty thrilled when I find one. I have half a jar of them. It's so much fun finding them that I'm almost tempted to rebury them if I ever sell this place.

Have any of you seen The Detectorists on Netflix? I gave it 5 stars. My only complaint is that the seasons are way too short.

[RubberDuck]

Playing treasure hunter in the yard today found some modern pocket change
modern toy firetruck
allen wrench I probably chucked when pissed.
Name plate off an old Elgin mower or tiller
And cool find of the day a sterling silver ring.
It's missing some sort of a top piece but cool anyway.
with nice weather here I will be getting out to some dig sites and post up the treasures https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170409/9b9a9090bda49ea395a6cfaaa958b5cc.jpg

[hawgrider]

Nice finds. Shoot that Sterling silver ring is sweet. Clean it up and have a jewler remount something on it like a turquoise rock or something.

[Baglady]

Sweet! Silver is always good. Are you going to get out of the yard, and find someplace else to hunt?
The TreasureNet has sub forums for other folks in each state.
A lot of them hunt in local parks, which is legal as long as you fill your holes, and keep any clad.

[RubberDuck]

Sweet! Silver is always good. Are you going to get out of the yard, and find someplace else to hunt?
The TreasureNet has sub forums for other folks in each state.
A lot of them hunt in local parks, which is legal as long as you fill your holes, and keep any clad.
I have lots of places to go of family land. Few parks and beaches and some old homesteads I am getting permission from.
Just been waiting on the shitty MI weather to break. It's either been frozen or mud.

[Baglady]

I have lots of places to go of family land. Few parks and beaches and some old homesteads I am getting permission from.
Just been waiting on the shitty MI weather to break. It's either been frozen or mud.

That's great. Hopefully there will be more history on your family land, than ours. I spent a couple hours walking in one direction, (slowly) and never got a single hit! We're right on the Natchez Trace, and you would think there would be something...
But, we have found some arrow heads here and there on the place.

[RubberDuck]

About an hour in Hawgs yard and turned up 1968 Canadian penny
modern penny and a .22 mushroomed led
and some cool 1960s cast toys From Tootsie toy company Chicago.
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[TJC44]

About an hour in Hawgs yard and turned up 1968 Canadian penny
modern penny and a .22 mushroomed led
and some cool 1960s cast toys From Tootsie toy company Chicago.
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Did Hawg thank you for finding his .02 & his toys?

[RubberDuck]

I forgot about this thread mainly because looks like I might have been drinking when it got started judging by the title.
My detector was purchased by my Mom from a neighbor heavy in the hobby and she wanted me to learn it. Its a 80s Torso Silver sabre quite the machine for its day. The old man taught me a lot of techniques and ways to search for artifacts. Many of his years of experience tips and tricks sunk in and I remember them all. None of his children or grandchildren showed any interest so he gave the knowledge to me. I have used that same detector all these years and it still produces treasure but outdated for sure sure and very hard to get parts for.
The wife surprised me with a early Father's Day gift of a new Minelab 800 equinox this thing is a top tier machine and I am looking forward to playing in the dirt.
I will even go back to some old spots to see what new treasures it reveals.11322

[hawgrider]

Dayum that looks like a nice one!

[OSFG]

I think its a cool hobby and want to get into it. Its not about what you find, its about what you feel as you find whatever, working a strategy and seeing it work the way you expected (like the entrance advice...)....or at least thats my reason for wanting to do it.

[RubberDuck]

Very first find in a area I previously searched that was full of garbage was silver plated spoon. Few pennies 1 dime a ild brass button a carmex container with a glass bottom was pretty deep so definitely been there a while and just some other crap stuff. This thing has so many settings and tones I need to learn but it is sweet and a tone of depth power my deepest target I dug was about 14 inches and it sounded like it was near the surface. 113231132411325

[hawgrider]

Set it to- "silver and gold silver and gold"

That thing is pretty bad ass! It found quite a bit more than your old one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpn_hofHQuc

[MI.oldguy]

All we ever found in our yard was junk.old part of town,they buried everything....in the shitter probably.

[Deebo]

I always look at this one old adobe house site and imagine a farmer putting some coins in a mason jar and burying it.
I will look into prices, and ratings.
And no shit legit, my son found a piece of gold, slightly bigger than two grains of pepper, in a creek in Durango Colorado, BUT I dropped it..

[RubberDuck]

The man who taught me had a full jar of coins found just the way you said he cataloged all of them them put them back in the cleaned up jar and kept them displayed in his treasure room.
These Minelabs seem to be popular with gold hunters because they pick up very small amounts and are water proof.

[RubberDuck]

Haven't had time yet to bust out the detector at the new place yet found some cool old treasures laying around but today after playing with my new leaf blower I uncovered this .
Any thoughts? I am coming up empty on cement wheels with a metal band.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210322/ce2239d47b4d15a83348a54151d8c813.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210322/89d2e6c4f5bfbfa13a442ddc49b49f2d.jpg

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[Innkeeper]

Interesting like nothing I have seen before and we have found some weird things when I was surveying.


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[bigwheel]

when I was about 10 I had an old timer neighbor who took me under his wing to teach me metal detecting
This old man had a treasure room full of goodies some valuable some worth nothing but was priceless to him.
I was always in awe looking at the cool stuff he found then I started finding my own treasures.
This hobby was put on the back burner for many years every now an then picking up the detector the man gave me to tinker.
Today is a beautiful day out got bored so dug it out cleaned up an went to my moms childhood home that we still own.
She has told me a story of a ring she lost as a kid so went looking for it.
No luck today going to try again tomorrow but here was my treasures from today.
2 1967 quarters
1 1967 dime
2 1965 nickels
2 1967 pennies
1 1964 silver dime
off brand zippo style lighter
and a tag off something from a beauty shop from Frankenmuth MI
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How cool. I been an avid enthusiast of that hobby since the early 70s. Have had countless hours of cheap good healthy exercise while finding mostly pull tabs etc. I am too lazy to dig deep. I am a coin shooter..lol. I work the schools and playgrounds etc. Its getting to where kids dont carry much change so I best swing to artifacts. lol.

[RubberDuck]

A treasure hunting metal detecting forum I am on made the suggestion that they may have repurposed a steel wheel found this pic of a wheel with same pattern. Now for what purpose we may never knowhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210323/e82ded75daea73646919abddf31b8e2c.jpg

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[hawgrider]

A treasure hunting metal detecting forum I am on made the suggestion that they may have repurposed a steel wheel found this pic of a wheel with same pattern. Now for what purpose we may never knowhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210323/e82ded75daea73646919abddf31b8e2c.jpg

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Yeah the wheel band looks similar.

[RubberDuck]

Suggestion was made maybe he made like a grist mill for animal feed.. I would say that's plausible.

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[hawgrider]

Suggestion was made maybe he made like a grist mill for animal feed.. I would say that's plausible.

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That just might be it.

Here is a grist mill grinding wheel.

https://i.imgur.com/0dcDIvP.jpg

[SOCOM42]

Haven't had time yet to bust out the detector at the new place yet found some cool old treasures laying around but today after playing with my new leaf blower I uncovered this .
Any thoughts? I am coming up empty on cement wheels with a metal band.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210322/ce2239d47b4d15a83348a54151d8c813.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210322/89d2e6c4f5bfbfa13a442ddc49b49f2d.jpg

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Cheap wheel weights for old steam tractors?

[hawgrider]

Cheap wheel weights for old steam tractors?

By the look of a few pictures on the www. that's a good possibility too.

[SOCOM42]

By the look of a few pictures on the www. that's a good possibility too.

Grist mill plates were not made from concrete, way too soft,

also they do not have any other holes other than the axel hole with assorted drive cuts or a square central

hole.

Plus they are cut on an conical angle for the ground product to come out,

the upper plate has a depression almost matching the bottom,

but with larger clearance in the center for the product to move into it.

The ones around here are made from granite, hard as hell.

There were a lot of water driven grist mills around here from the 18th and 19th century.

[Inor]

Do they do any mining in your part of Meatchicken?

We have a couple of old wheels from a mining cart that look very similar to yours minus the cement.

[hawgrider]

Do they do any mining in your part of Meatchicken?

We have a couple of old wheels from a mining cart that look very similar to yours minus the cement.

Copper mines in the U.P.

[RubberDuck]

Playing around found more tractor parts this was work getting this out of the ground took about 30 minutes. Then the youngest found possible meteorite. I have playing around amateur detecting for 30 years and have not found anything like these rocks before.
They also have a slight magnetic pull.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210404/d81a0c2ce54d131c2ee4bcc3ca7bda99.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210404/aa5f852fd3ccf995ca2c3ae2a4e92bb6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210404/7bb7d55a6b5cf84fa2f35cd6a28618d5.jpg

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[SOCOM42]

Could be lodestones from the look of them.

[RubberDuck]

Found this photo online the big wheel could be from a either a hit and miss motor from tractor or pumphttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210405/12d581dbe380aec5c5887bcd68a7b9d1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210405/b2118f195da9fbb8a17481e200fcb805.jpg

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[stevekozak]

I should look into doing this if I ever get time.