New here. anyone from maine?
JT70
I am new to this group and also new to metal detecting. I can
remember when i was a child i often daydreamed about having a detector,
but I had to wait until i was 34 years old to finally relize that
dream. i bought a whites prizm iv last week and i am having a blast
with this unit man. i have only searched around my own home so far and
i havnt found anything "valuable" in a monetary sense yet.....but i
think the word yet has a whole new meaning for me now. i bought my home
about a year and a half ago and was amazed to see on the documents that
the origional portion of the structure was built in 1758. i imediately
said to my wife that i will have to get a metal detector sometime
soon....i mean the possibilities are endless. so far i have found
about $3.00 in modern coinage, a few wheaties, a broken old brass
make-up compact, a tiny old toy firetruck, the head to a garden hoe
(looks to be very old and hand-made), a copper thermometer guage with
no glass that seems to date to the 1890's. i get excited everytime i
get a hit. i have a few questions if you dont mind my asking?
1. i was also wondering are there more decent groups online i should
visit?
2.What do you folks recomend for great digging tools?
3.also is anyone here from maine?
i was a little dissapointed to find out that the closest detecting
club to me is about a 3 hour drive away. i was thinking about starting
a club in my area but i am so new to the whole deal i guess it
intimidates me just a bit.
nice to meet you all
thanks
JT
Honus
"JT70" <jto...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> hello folks,
>
>
> I am new to this group and also new to metal detecting. I can
> remember when i was a child i often daydreamed about having a detector,
> but I had to wait until i was 34 years old to finally relize that
> dream. i bought a whites prizm iv last week and i am having a blast
> with this unit man. i have only searched around my own home so far and
> i havnt found anything "valuable" in a monetary sense yet.....but i
> think the word yet has a whole new meaning for me now. i bought my home
> about a year and a half ago and was amazed to see on the documents that
> the origional portion of the structure was built in 1758. i imediately
> said to my wife that i will have to get a metal detector sometime
> soon....i mean the possibilities are endless. so far i have found
> about $3.00 in modern coinage, a few wheaties, a broken old brass
> make-up compact, a tiny old toy firetruck, the head to a garden hoe
> (looks to be very old and hand-made), a copper thermometer guage with
> no glass that seems to date to the 1890's. i get excited everytime i
> get a hit. i have a few questions if you dont mind my asking?
You must live on the east side of the U.S. Lucky bugger. :(
> 1. i was also wondering are there more decent groups online i should
> visit?
My buddy has a White's MXT, and he goes here:
http://www.treasurenet.com/whites/forum/
> 2.What do you folks recomend for great digging tools?
That one's easy!
http://predatortools.com/products/digging-tool.htm
I've been through more digging tools than I could count; that one's the
cat's...well, you know. It's worth -every- penny. I don't know anything
about the sheaths, though. Mine came with a leather one, and it's proven to
be quite durable.
I buy from this guy:
http://www.luckydan.com/Digger%20Catalog.htm
He's given me my best on-line purchasing experience, and I sing his praises
loudly at every opportunity. No, I'm not him. No, I don't know him. ;)
You also might want to look into getting a brass coin probe. Here's an
article that about them.
> 3.also is anyone here from maine?
>
> i was a little dissapointed to find out that the closest detecting
> club to me is about a 3 hour drive away. i was thinking about starting
> a club in my area but i am so new to the whole deal i guess it
> intimidates me just a bit.
My experience is admittedly limited, but you might find that clubs aren't
all that they're cracked up to be. I'd attend an organized hunt or two,
before you feel too bad about the distance.
@primedius.com JK
We're way up north.
Jim
"JT70" <jto...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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JT70
have you been out detecting yet this year?
JT
JT70
i ordered one of the predator digging tools today and i love the links
you posted
thanks again
JT
Honus
Happy to help! ;)
@primedius.com JK
Not yet. I have a new Tesoro Cibola on the way and can't wait to get out.
We are up near Ft. Fairfield (near Presque Isle).
Have you been out JT?
Best wishes,
Jim
"JT70" <jto...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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JT70
hi jim
yes i have been out a few times but mostly just right here at my own
place.
i have found a few cool things though. like a neat old jack knife with
flowers and birds on it. i also found an old masonic coin or token of
some sort, a wheat penny and another coin that is so bad off i have
yet to identify it. i also found about 3 bucks in modern coins so far.
my wife and i really like our new old house and so i am putting
everything i find on our property (except the obvious junk) in a
lighted display case in our living room. i am really having a good
time with this hobby. sometimes it makes me feel just like a kid
again. i also plan to start up a web page sometime to put pics of my
finds on etc.
let me know how the new detector works out for you.
regards
JT
Joe Roberts
"JT70" wrote:
> i am really having a good time with this hobby.
> sometimes it makes me feel just like a kid again.
You're right. It's something that is unique in our hobby:
... First, we have the feeling of discovery. Everything is a new
surprise, just like when we were kids.
... Then, we have the feeling of the link to our past. Everything we
find, speaks of someone who came before us. When we find something, we
wonder: who were you? and what did this thing here in my hand mean to you?
and what were you doing when you lost it? And, "I wish you could be here
today, so I could hand it back to you".
- - -
About 6 years ago I found an old iron buckle with part of a leather strap
from a harness, on an old farm in New Hampshire. Not a "great" find, but
still it makes somebody pause for a few minutes while looking at it. If
that strap broke while the old mule was pulling the plow, then the farmer
must have had some extra work to do that day, on top of all the other things
he had to do to till the field and feed his family.
Right in that area where I was searching with the MD, there was a steep hill
on an old dirt road. Back in the middle 1850s somebody had gotten killed
there when his carriage overturned, due to the steep hill. It became such
a dangerous spot, that they changed the path of the trail to take it to a
more level area. Now about that buckle and leather strap. Could it have
been from the horse and carriage that overturned there that day?
Those are the some of the things that make this hobby so unique. We're
finding discovery, and feeling our ties to history, all at the same time.
- - -
About 10 years ago a buddy and I were out with his old Compass MD. We found
a sterling silver handle and tip to a walking cane. The silver handle was
engraved with vines and leaves. It was in about 3 inches of gravel,
alongside a public walkway (in Massachusetts).
It was old. The wood from the walking cane was about gone, and it came up
as just powder. The cane's silver handle and bottom tip were in great
shape.
We wondered: How, and why, would someone lose something like that along a
walking path? It would seem unlikely (but not impossible) that they would
just set it down and forget about it. And how come nobody found it there
over the next couple of weeks or months? Didn't anybody else ever walk
that way? Maybe it was in the fall or winter, and it got covered with
leaves and snow.
Who knows? We will never know, but we'll always wonder...
- - -
Also about 10 years ago I found a large ring with about 10 keys on it. It
was down about 5 inches, in front of a town hall (also in Massachusetts). I
took it inside and gave it to a clerk in the town hall. It felt kind of
funny telling them, "in case anyone comes looking for it", because it might
have been there in the ground for 20 years.
It was behind a low brick wall. It looked like somebody had been sitting on
the wall, and the key ring fell out of their pocket.
What in the world did they do, when they found the ring of keys missing?
That's 10 keys. All of them were house or lock keys (not automobile keys).
We can only hope it all worked out OK for them.
Again, we can only wonder. Too bad we weren't around at that time, on that
spot, 20 years ago.
- - -
Anyway, it is a wonderful hobby.
> i also plan to start up a web page sometime
> to put pics of my finds on etc.
That would be great, to see what you have been finding.
Best of luck,
Joe