Let's hear about something BIG that you found with a detector that you kept. My biggest item is a 4.5 foot diameter old steel horse drawn buggy wheel. It had a tree growing up through it, so I had to lift it way above my head to get it out. I put it against the house near a big Holly bush.
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- Thread starter Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"
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scubadetector
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Well I found it underwater while detecting but I saw it with my eyes. Its a grindstone that was in an inland lake. Its almost 3' tall with a square hole in the middle.
My largest item with a detector that was completly burried is a 5' tall boat anchor.
My largest item with a detector that was completly burried is a 5' tall boat anchor.
C. Nyal de Kaye
New member
On the Western Australian goldfields I found the metallic remains of a shaker used by the old-timers to sort the gold from the dirt.
It was approx 5 feet x 2 feet and 6 inches deep. It is like a box without a lid, something like a sluice box. No pic, sorry.
Another LARGE find in Western Australia was a huge sheet of aluminium. They are buried by mining companies to mark out areas of interest.
Their aircraft have equipment that lets them "see" the buried sheets as they fly over and thus easily recognise the boundaries, or significant parts, of their "claim."
As you may imagine, a six foot sheet of aluminium gives off quite a signal to a detector and, for a moment anyway, you think that you have found a giant nugget.
We also found a metal tyre from and old cart. It was about 5 feet diameter.
We don't bring things like these home.
It was approx 5 feet x 2 feet and 6 inches deep. It is like a box without a lid, something like a sluice box. No pic, sorry.
Another LARGE find in Western Australia was a huge sheet of aluminium. They are buried by mining companies to mark out areas of interest.
Their aircraft have equipment that lets them "see" the buried sheets as they fly over and thus easily recognise the boundaries, or significant parts, of their "claim."
As you may imagine, a six foot sheet of aluminium gives off quite a signal to a detector and, for a moment anyway, you think that you have found a giant nugget.
We also found a metal tyre from and old cart. It was about 5 feet diameter.
We don't bring things like these home.
n/t
C. Nyal de Kaye
New member
We recovered the metal tyre and the shaker box, but not the aluminium sheeting.
All these items are still over there and the tyre and box are now above the ground.
Someone will probably take them one day but we had no room for them.
All these items are still over there and the tyre and box are now above the ground.
Someone will probably take them one day but we had no room for them.
7centsworth
Well-known member
I have never kept anything big.
Sgt. Silverman
Active member
I'm with Travis on this one. If it can't fit in my pouch it's in the trash. If I had to pick something it would have to be a metal toy truck I found in York, SC. That's for the topic Mike!
scubadetector
New member
I was going to post pictures but I can't find the picture of the anchor. Here is the grindstone
So its trash if it won't fit in a pouch? LOL I like my WW1 bomb!!
So its trash if it won't fit in a pouch? LOL I like my WW1 bomb!!
C. Nyal de Kaye
New member
How do you swim UP hanging on to those dead weights?
scubadetector
New member
C. Nyal de Kaye said:
I bounce them along the bottom till I get to shallower water. LOL NOT the bomb!! It was already in water I could stand in. But luckily it was only a practice bomb. Boing, boing boing, BOOM?
C. Nyal de Kaye
New member
BOOM ... and farewell scubadetector! 
SeniorSeeker
Active member
The biggest thing I can remember finding was a large sterling silver chocolate drink mix shaker. It was popular in the 50's according to the information I found on the Internet. The company's out of business now. As I remember I gave it back to the owner of the property who hadn't seen it in years. Another item not quit as large was a brass car mirror from the 40's, with the stem missing, and I think I might still have that someplace.
Sgt. Silverman
Active member
Hey Robert... I should have mentioned that my "POUCH" is a backpack I carry around in my car. Although, the WWI bomb would have come home with me, just getting it into the house and past Alissa would be the interesting part! 
C. Nyal de Kaye
New member
At least lead has some value.
Pete in MI
New member
Got yer heart pumping big time I bet.
Ma Betty in MO
New member
Hi Mike, the largest thing I found was a very large lens off a camera while detecting a sand bar while camping in a campground in southern MO.....I took it in a cardboard box to the Club Meeting and then I don't know if I threw it away or what? But I could have gotten $$ for the metal, because it was at least a foot or more in length! Wasn't so wise in MD'ing back then in the 80's! It was the largest telescopic lens that I've ever seen but was full of sand and gravel, so maybe wouldn't have cleaned up so well...don't know as I never tried! Wish I could still go 
and digging for those hidden treasures! 
Ma
and digging for those hidden treasures! Ma