Huntin' the old farm house was frusterating!

kiyote

I went back home to Ohio to my parent's farm house in Middletown, Ohio, that was build in the mid 1800s. I didn't bring my detector but used my brother's Ace 250 while he used his White's MXT. It rained on and off and we were never able to do more than a couple of hours of detecting. The area around the farm house is really trashy! The only items of any interest were a Hot Wheel's car (On my top ten want-to-find list) and, without a detector, an Indian grinding stone. (Those things are all over the farm)

I'd like to go back with my CZ-3D, which I'm a lot more familiar with. My oldest brother showed me two foundations on the farm where old homesteads from the early 1900s stood but I had no chance to do anything around them than dig up nails. The Ace 250 was beeping like I had found Fort Knox but I think I just need to get familiar with that model.

gargoyle62

But at least you were able to get out and detect a little bit. I wonder if lots of trash is a common theme around old farm houses? My parents house was also built in the mid 1800's - in central/upstate NY - and had various uses over the years from what I've been told (square dance hall, farm house and just single family dwelling). I did some detecting around the grounds with a lower end detector - an old Bounty Hunter - and dug up a ton of trash. I did find a green 1919 wheatie but that was it. I couldn't even attempt to dig anything on the small strip of lawn on east side of the house as the detector never stopped beeping the entire length - approx. 15' x 50'

Keep us up to date on future outings

ricko

Old home sites are usually very trashy, they need to be gone over many times to remove the nails, etc. Most will yield a few old coppers and the occasional silver once the junk is removed. Cheers, RickO

ricko

Oh yes, one thing that can help. Buy one of those new, rare earth magnets (neodymium), large, and drag the ground... it will remove a tremendous amount of iron and speed up the hunt. Cheers, RickO

kiyote

Good idea, Ricko! The Ace 250 was going: "Iron, iron iron!" all over the place.