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I'm quite the amateur metal detector, so I decided to start small with my yard. Back yard turns up nothing except an old refrigerator magnet. Front yard, however, turns up something much more. Last year in spring-summer 2016, I was metal detecting the same spot with my (literally) $10 metal detector. It can't decide if it's a can, a coin, or a nail. I decide to dig it up anyways. Guess what I find. Broken pieces of a mason jar. Now, fast forward a year, and I have my brand new metal detector Christmas present. I sweep it over this area, and it starts screaming all the way from silver dime to silver dollar. However, I did not have any usable hand trowels at the time, so could not dig it up. Waiting to buy one, and waiting for the ground to warm up... just thought I'd share. So hyped!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sounds interesting! Keep us posted!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Roy , you got me all excited thinking you found a jar full of old coins , and then you say " I forgot my digging trowel ", waiting for the ground to warm up ! Dang man that's torture .  |
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United States
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I would be out there with a blow dryer thawing the ground.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very interesting and exciting. I hate frozen ground, but then it thaws and turns to mud which makes a real mess, problems problems  |
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United States
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 Hope it's a pile of silver!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Yeah, it kinda stinks that I have to wait, but it ain't much good digging with a rusted over shovel that bends..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'll see if I can get a metal detecting trowel in the next Amazon order. |
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United States
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I'd be out there with a soup spoon and a lighter! You must be from one a them sissy states  |
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Canada
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If I were you I would have gotten a pick and break up the icy ground to get my treasure. The agony of waiting is too much for me. So close, yet so far away.....
Where I live this winter a blow dryer wouldn't work it would take too long.
Edited by CanadianNumismatist
01/26/2017 01:07 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would be out there with a blow dryer thawing the ground.  Exactly!
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01/26/2017 12:49 am
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Canada
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Anyone who thinks that a blow dryer would be effective on frozen earth has never dealt with it before. Heat would be sucked away faster than it could be put in.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I got out last weekend. Michigan, soft ground temps in the 50's.
Got my first detector back in '74, and have thousand$ wrapped up in equipment.
If I were hunting an old yard, and had a large silver or gold cache come beneath my coil, it would probably be passed up. Anyone guess why? (No, not because I'm crazy.)
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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How about one of those big kerosene heaters with fan and deflector blowing down on the signal site . Then the heck with the rusty trowel just use a regular long handle shovel .  |
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If I were hunting an old yard, and had a large silver or gold cache come beneath my coil, it would probably be passed up. Anyone guess why? Let me guess, you would mark it and return at night to excavate without being seen...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I might try and dig it up with the shovel I have over this weekend. It's been raining lately and the ground is quite soft. Will update on descision.
Edited by RoyCoinBoy
01/26/2017 8:41 pm
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