Mark in S.E. IA
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Sat morning I started off the day trying to track down the owner of a old school that's a field now on the edge of a small town but I didn't have any luck tracking him down. Then I went to park and the soil was real sandy with a lot of pea gravel so I had to lower the Sens to get the Xterra to run a lil more stable. I was there for about a hour and only found 1 wheat so down the road I went. The next place I stopped at was so CLEAN. I think somebody lived close to this place and slowly clean this place out, he dug everything that beeped. The next school I stopped at was closed and sold to somebody. It had KEEP OUT signs all over, oh well, off to the next town.
The next town I went to had less then 50 houses with a good size school that sat on a lot that was almost a block wide by almost 2 blocks long, huge wide open area. The school was closed but it had a Rec center and city hall in the building. I started at the track just south of the school building. I figured the old football field was inside the track, WRONG. I was inside the track area for almost a hour and their was NO pulltabs, NO rusty bottle caps, NO nothing, lol. I go behind the school and it's so big back there that their could of been a football field back there, easy. I wonder around back there and it's pretty much clean back there too except for a lil canslaw here and there.
I'm, along the back fence area and I get a good signal jumping between a penny and dime a good 6" deep and it turned out to be a Merc. WOW, their is a old coin at this place, lol. I've been there for a good 1 1/2 hours and I bet I didn't swing my coil over 8 clad coins and some canslaw. I start doing a grid pattern in that area and about 15 min's later I found another Merc and a wheat in the same hole, things are looking up, lol In the next half hour I think I found 2 more wheat's and then it just goes dead for a real long time. Along the north side there was 2 rows of walnuts tree's and I've been eyeing them the whole time I'm there but figured they have been beat to death by all the ppl that has MDed this place and this row of tree's is over a half block block long. I started at the far end of them and get about a 1/4 of the way down and get a nice signal beside a tree and it turned out to be 2 Merc's in the same hole, I was happy now, lol. I get a lil ways away from that tree and I was looking back at it and noticed there was a good size branch about 8' up that went straight out from the tree about 5' before it curved up. I'll bet money when that tree was smaller a kid was swinging upside down from that branch and lost those 2 Merc's out of his pocket, back in the 50's. By the time I got to the end of those tree's I found a Buff and a wheat in the same hole, another Buff and a silver ring. I sure called that wrong about those tree's. I figured they would be picked clean. After working the row of tree's it was getting late so I wondered my way back across this big open area to where my car is parked and about 30 foot from my car I get a good penny/dime signal that was real deep and it turned out to be a nice Barber dime a good 9" deep. That was a nice surprise and my last coin of the day.
It was a tough day but I got some nice keepers.
Also in the picture is another Barber dime. I found that Thur night after work at a street tear out that I have been working on an off the past 2 months. They did some more scrapeing between the sidewalk and curb.
Thanks for looking
The next town I went to had less then 50 houses with a good size school that sat on a lot that was almost a block wide by almost 2 blocks long, huge wide open area. The school was closed but it had a Rec center and city hall in the building. I started at the track just south of the school building. I figured the old football field was inside the track, WRONG. I was inside the track area for almost a hour and their was NO pulltabs, NO rusty bottle caps, NO nothing, lol. I go behind the school and it's so big back there that their could of been a football field back there, easy. I wonder around back there and it's pretty much clean back there too except for a lil canslaw here and there.
I'm, along the back fence area and I get a good signal jumping between a penny and dime a good 6" deep and it turned out to be a Merc. WOW, their is a old coin at this place, lol. I've been there for a good 1 1/2 hours and I bet I didn't swing my coil over 8 clad coins and some canslaw. I start doing a grid pattern in that area and about 15 min's later I found another Merc and a wheat in the same hole, things are looking up, lol In the next half hour I think I found 2 more wheat's and then it just goes dead for a real long time. Along the north side there was 2 rows of walnuts tree's and I've been eyeing them the whole time I'm there but figured they have been beat to death by all the ppl that has MDed this place and this row of tree's is over a half block block long. I started at the far end of them and get about a 1/4 of the way down and get a nice signal beside a tree and it turned out to be 2 Merc's in the same hole, I was happy now, lol. I get a lil ways away from that tree and I was looking back at it and noticed there was a good size branch about 8' up that went straight out from the tree about 5' before it curved up. I'll bet money when that tree was smaller a kid was swinging upside down from that branch and lost those 2 Merc's out of his pocket, back in the 50's. By the time I got to the end of those tree's I found a Buff and a wheat in the same hole, another Buff and a silver ring. I sure called that wrong about those tree's. I figured they would be picked clean. After working the row of tree's it was getting late so I wondered my way back across this big open area to where my car is parked and about 30 foot from my car I get a good penny/dime signal that was real deep and it turned out to be a nice Barber dime a good 9" deep. That was a nice surprise and my last coin of the day.
It was a tough day but I got some nice keepers.
Also in the picture is another Barber dime. I found that Thur night after work at a street tear out that I have been working on an off the past 2 months. They did some more scrapeing between the sidewalk and curb.
Thanks for looking
represent a tough day, what does a good day look like?.....uh , forget I asked, I would just get more jealous
Seriously, great job sticking with it and not giving up!
