1st plug dug...3 nickles 2 dimes & a quarter:clapping:

[tomtowns]

Well after fiddleing with the controls a little more & listening to the different tones, response etc. I finally set it in all metal & checked out one of the interesting spots in the front yard that I had originally found with a MXT..it wasn't interesting enough to dig at the time...anyway...after pinpointing I dug a 3" round plug about 4" deep & about 3" down were all those coins lumped together...6 coins in one scoopnone were old & all clad but just the fact that my first dig was spot on for pinpointing & ID, was pretty encourageing, just as I stood up though one of my old High School friends drove up & told me One of my best old friends had died... Actually I think he committed suicide...Really put a damper on things...I hadn't seen him for a couple years because he moved to Texas...Think I'm gonna go have a drink & do a little pondering...

 

[SNOWY]

Ahh Tomtowns...

That's great about your multiple coins find;

I'm sorry that things were dampened with that sad news.

Life is a little like detecting,
we never know what's coming up next eh!

You're in my thoughts mate,
take it easy and keep swingin' that coil...

Multiple coins now, ? next eh!

HH

Snowy

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

Congrats on the multiple finds. It's a lot of fun, isn't it?

So sorry about your friend's dad. Sometime's life comes at a person and it just seems outright unbearable. One day, though, your friend's dad will be with God. (Col.1:20; 1 Timothy 2:4; 4:10).

Tony

 

[tomtowns]

No Tony it wasn't my best friends dad it was him...His Dad died years ago....Him & I were & are at the age of 55 that as the days go by more & more of us are no longer here....I think about half of us are gone already...seems that way anyway...God???I can't hide there...gotta face reality...I'm what you might call agnostic...I neither believe nor disbelieve...sorry...HH...Tom

 

[tomtowns]

Yeah, it was kind wierd though....It is a personal best for me as far as multiple coins go...But to do that & be smileing as one of my old friends drove up & gave me the news...high to low REAL quick...The good news though is the front yard is littered with interesting signals...The house was only built in 1952 so there won't be any OLD stuff here, but all indications are that there are a LOT of coins in the ground along with lots of other stuff...The thing is, is that the targets are real close together & the 10" coil is just TOO big...So I'll be looking into downsizeing a bit....Another good thing is that I WILL NOT be letting this detector go...Wish I'd gotten one long ago..I really like the way it ID's...MUCH better than my last...& with only a couple hours of learning at that...still have a LONG ways to go though...HH...Tom

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

That's o.k. tomtowns. Sorry I misunderstood you. I hope you can somehow recuperate from this loss.

 

[grumpy]

Hey Sorry about your friend, but dont count on the statement you made about nothing old because of the age of the house! I went over to a neighbors house last week 200 yds away and his house is less than ten years old and put where nothing was ever before that we know of were out 26 mi. from town too. He lost a key and was in a panic so I whipped out the machine and got a signal by his door. The digging and cusing started together, he said it would be on top of the ground stupid not four inches deep, but I h ad a signal like a blood hound had to find it to check it out. Out at 4 inches below his gravel drive base was a nice 50 - 70 Sharps cassing. Being a gunsmith myself I know that was at least 120 years old so one never knows what lies below. They might have brought in the dirt for your yard in 1950 from a old rodeo or feed lot ground for the fertilizer and hauled you in a (pardon the french) shit load of silver. Good Luck and never underestimate the underside.
Grumpy

 

[tomtowns]

n/t

 

[tomtowns]

I don't think they hauled dirt in from anywhere but will agree that you never know what wayward traveler may have stumbled past & dropped something...a friend of mine was detecting about 15 years back in another part of the valley & got a signal that he decided to dig...In the scoop of Dirt/Clay was a hard Stone/Wood looking piece of something in a kind of triangle about three inches long..along with a brass washer...he stuck it in his pocket & a few weeks later had it ID'd as a Pre-Historic shark tooth...you just never know

 

[SNOWY]

Hey Tomtowns, speedhumps are necessary...

They slow us down a bit in our busy`buzz of life,
and give us time to smell the roses!

HH

Snowy

 

[tomtowns]

n/t

 

[SNOWY]

I'm an ex- fork lift driving steel worker;
Also spent time as a sub-contracting backhoe operator.
Now semi retired ~ working two days a week selling metal detectors in a suburban prospecting metal detecting shop down here in Melbourne Australia.
An ordinary guy, I'm very much like you I suspect,
I don't go to church, but love my fellow man, and always try to do the best for other people that I bump into along the way in this life we're experiencing.
I could see that what you experienced shook you somewhat,and I just had to make contact.
Sometimes in life we need somebody to just reach out and say "hang in there buddy."

Say, isn't this internet and forum something mate!!!

I was real sad to see on the classroom forum that Pulltabby passed on.

He was one of us,he swung a coil who dug in the soil.
Keep swingin' Tomtowns eh?

HH

Snowy

 

[tomtowns]

n/t

 

[SNOWY]