Metal Detecting with Minamik
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@minamik I feel like this thread is actively making me smarter (:
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Day 9: 5 coins, some little gear thingie, 2 attachments for a water hose, the top to a broken cork top bottle, loads of bits/bobs, and a really weird little fossil.
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Day 10: I didn't find an awful lot on this hunt, so I put some of the interesting coins I got from a lot sale of foreign coins for my collection in the picture too. The M from someone's mailbox, a chunk of iron, a lead tire weight, and a silver plated badge that says "Captain School Safety Patrol" on it.
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Day 11: Some coins, a lead sinker, and a few bits and bobs.....plus something gross that I also saw...
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@minamik Nothing gross about a crawfish... unless he’s dead. Looks kinda dead :(
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@billy They freak me out, lol. And yeah, unfortunately this little fella was deceased.
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Day 12: The Great Iron Horde....and a beer can I actually hadn't heard of before, lol.
We're about caught up...but this is where these low volume hunts are about to come to an end! Stay tuned!
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@Minamik I'm not gonna lie... this has become one of my favourite threads on the forums! Thank you for sharing :)
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@burup It only gets better from here! Glad you're enjoying it.
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@burup Came here to say the exact same thing....and look at today's score
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Oh, oops. Forgot to mention, someone said that big piece of iron might have been off a stove or something.
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@minamik clearly a cowboy belt buckle! Lol
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@tokyoslim Funnily enough, someone actually suggested it was a belt buckle, until I told them just how big it actually was, lol.
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Day 13: So, this takes place about 2 weeks ago. I take my metal detector down to the woods. I found a few shotgun shells and a modern penny, so I head back home, a bit disheartened. I decide to swing the detector around in the yard until it gets dark and I find another penny and another piece of an old cap gun.
The next morning, I head to a different woods, and almost at the very back end, my detector starts going crazy. There are signals everywhere! Soo, I dig one of them, it's just a rusty piece of iron...but next to it is a broken bit of bottle....Curious, no?
Well, it doesn't take me long to realize I've stumbled upon an old bottle dump! And to this day, I'm still busy digging it up.
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Day 14: More bottle dump finds.
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Day 15: Cleaned up the cup from the bottle dump, and brought home some of the iron that I was too afraid to put in the bag with glass bottles. The first one is probably the door from a stove or furnace, and the last one is a shovel head. And a little lead disc that has writing on it. I believe it says "Turner MFQ CO Kokomo, IN"
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Day 16: It's like the Giving Tree, but a bottle dump.
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I believe that Cream of Kentucky was a bourbon.
A bottle that still has part of the State of Indiana tax thingie on it.
A lead rooster
The back to a pocket watch.
A creepy sailor boy
A dog
A 1-handed Scotsman
A bottle of Certo, I think it was used to help the gelling process when making jams and jellies.
The back end to an old timey firetruck. The part that makes it look sort of like a train, was a big tank where the water was stored.
And a bottle of Lee's Creo Lyptus. Guaranteed to cure cough, bronchial asthma, croup, and whooping cough. It contained creosote and eucalyptus. Yum!
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Day 17: Not much to show for this one.
