I snapped my first digger!
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Thanks, KellyCo, for the free plastic digger-- it lasted me about a month. Ahwell-- onto a better one!
I don't mean to be inactive lately, I *have* been going out about 3 night a week, hitting the .dotcom industrial parks near me. Most of them are for lease-- no one is there! Bigbaboon.com. whoever they were (bringing large, fanged primates to your door!) yeilded about 7 coins for me-- three Jefferson nickels, two dimes, a quarter and a cent. No silver, but one of the Jeffersons was '64.
I don't mean to be inactive lately, I *have* been going out about 3 night a week, hitting the .dotcom industrial parks near me. Most of them are for lease-- no one is there! Bigbaboon.com. whoever they were (bringing large, fanged primates to your door!) yeilded about 7 coins for me-- three Jefferson nickels, two dimes, a quarter and a cent. No silver, but one of the Jeffersons was '64.
"I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
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Ugh, I can't imagine any sort of place I'd wanna detect LESS. It's a wonder you didn't get some fine addtions to your "Rebar and Gigantic Rusty Crusty Items" collection.
You ain't got no old neighborhoods in your neck o' the woods, perhaps with wide grassy sidewalk strips? How 'bout parks?
A couple of hours north, and it'll get a lot more exciting, though. I'd like to do a weekend trip at some point.
I like to "follow the bulldozers", myself, though in my area the demolition happened much longer ago (in some parts of our state it was perpetrated by a gentleman named William Tecumseh Sherman). After that, the woods reclaimed everything, until the bulldozers came in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, to clear the sites for new development. (Our "demo" sites are usually new construction sites.)
On "naked dirt" that's been bulldozed, you can also get the marbles and bottles and other nonmetallic goodies, too. Well, not too many bottles survive a bulldozing, but sometimes the tiny ones do.
Sounds like a little research is in order. Who knows, I could be wrong to sneer at your modern industrial sites- they could've been occupied by who knows what, in the past century and a half!
I tend to hate industrial areas because of the large ferrous targets, though. And I'm past the thrill of finding modern coins- to me, they're more nuisance than thrill (unless it's a clad quarter, which doesn't thrill me, but a quarter's a quarter.) But I'm just getting old and jaded.
<< <i>Bigbaboon.com. whoever they were (bringing large, fanged primates to your door!) >>
Apparently it's games of some kind. At least, that's what my server at work says, when it blocks the site!
<< <i>I *have* been going out about 3 night a week, hitting the .dotcom industrial parks near me. Most of them are for lease-- no one is there! >>
Dude, that sounds like a premise for a horror movie if I ever heard one...
Beware of dot.com vampires!
Oh, and those free KellyCo diggers are little more then toys... I laughed when I got mine. However, they do make an awesome ice cream scoop.
<< <i>Oh, and those free KellyCo diggers are little more then toys... I laughed when I got mine. However, they do make an awesome ice cream scoop.
I realize now that my biggest detecting frusteration didn't come from lack of or quality of targets but from my awful digger.. I got a new one last night--- a metal transplanter with serrated edges. I'll see how it does tonight.
My friend Ty is in that stage. He's got a $1.00 cheapo he's proud of, and I gotta admit, it's pretty sturdy for a dollar-store special.
Why, I bet it might even last him a month or two!
I can't recall what I started with, actually, but fairly soon after I bent and/or broke it, I started using a hunting knife. An expensive Randall knife that my grandfather had given me years before. I knew the Randall had a sturdy enough blade to stand up to the sod, and it did- I used it until I got the hori-hori knife I use today. Though the Randall survived its use as a digger, I fear I ruined much of its collectible value, because I used it until it went totally dull, sharpened it, then dulled it again, a couple of times. I still have it (dull as butter), but I suspect most knife collectors don't care for knives that have been repeatedly resharpened, or used to cut sod!