aloldstuff
09-28-2014, 04:00 PM
Some of you may know this but 4 weeks ago today I had a second total hip replacement. Been bored out of my mind sitting at home recuperating. I contacted Rob about getting in some detecting and he was game, bad knee and all.
Now I still cant bend so I adjusted some of my detecting tools. I took a yardstick and duct taped my pin pointer to it and then attached some string with a loop to it. took my shovel and attached the string again with a loop. The third piece of equipment was a grabber so that I could grab the string and pick these items up. Now this is some desperate measures from a desperate guy.
Sunday morning who do I see coming down my driveway but Tim (massdirtfisher). The three of us used to do a lot of hunting together then our schedules got out of sync. Rob arrives and we pile into my car and off we go.
We stopped at a farm and Rob got us permission to do the field across the street. It was okay walking but I was waiting for that "signal" so I could try out my gear. Well the set up worked but was definitely a PITA. Rob was watching me and I thought he was gonna bust a gut he was laughing so hard. I found nothing but junk there but Tim got himself a pocketknife.
We left there and stopped at some other homes but nobody was home. Still driving around and we saw two guys working on a tractor at a farm. Pulled in and the homeowner was very nice. Informed us that people had been there before with there detectors but we all know "no place is ever hunted out". He gave us a little history about the property and we decided to just do the front lawn (small).
Between the 3 of us we got 31 wheat's of which Tim got 17, Rob 8 and I six. I had decided to not dig any items here so I told Rob and Tim that I would locate the item then they can dig it and keep it. I just wanted to swing the detector. Well they refused to keep any of my finds. So at the end of the day I had the six wheat's, earliest being 1917 and a 1947 rosie.
It was a great time being out with Rob and Tim again and looking forward to doing it again.
Thanks for reading and HH
Now I still cant bend so I adjusted some of my detecting tools. I took a yardstick and duct taped my pin pointer to it and then attached some string with a loop to it. took my shovel and attached the string again with a loop. The third piece of equipment was a grabber so that I could grab the string and pick these items up. Now this is some desperate measures from a desperate guy.
Sunday morning who do I see coming down my driveway but Tim (massdirtfisher). The three of us used to do a lot of hunting together then our schedules got out of sync. Rob arrives and we pile into my car and off we go.
We stopped at a farm and Rob got us permission to do the field across the street. It was okay walking but I was waiting for that "signal" so I could try out my gear. Well the set up worked but was definitely a PITA. Rob was watching me and I thought he was gonna bust a gut he was laughing so hard. I found nothing but junk there but Tim got himself a pocketknife.
We left there and stopped at some other homes but nobody was home. Still driving around and we saw two guys working on a tractor at a farm. Pulled in and the homeowner was very nice. Informed us that people had been there before with there detectors but we all know "no place is ever hunted out". He gave us a little history about the property and we decided to just do the front lawn (small).
Between the 3 of us we got 31 wheat's of which Tim got 17, Rob 8 and I six. I had decided to not dig any items here so I told Rob and Tim that I would locate the item then they can dig it and keep it. I just wanted to swing the detector. Well they refused to keep any of my finds. So at the end of the day I had the six wheat's, earliest being 1917 and a 1947 rosie.
It was a great time being out with Rob and Tim again and looking forward to doing it again.
Thanks for reading and HH