Solution for dry ground digging in the south???:biggrin:

[jim tn]

Had a brief window for a little swinging early this morning so took advantage of said window. Hit an old school that was freshly mowed and dug 42 coins and a few pieces of trash in 1 hour and 40 minutes. Got and old well worn Buff nickel that is soaking. Doubtful, though, for a date. Anyway, it was 83 degrees at 6:30 and after the first couple of digs I was dripping with sweat. Ground is getting pretty dry in some spots and my solution for hopefully not leaving behind brown spots was to just lean over the hole and drip sweat over it. Then when my dew rag got soaked with sweat, ring it out over a dug hole. Keep in mind, this is just a non-scientific test. Will check these holes in a few days to see how well I "dripped" them. Drink water and stay safe. HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

That's some good fast digging in a short time! I was thinking about you Southern boys this am as the temp topped 70 at 6:30 and I was wringing sweat water hunting in those heavy waders! ...really tough duty detecting in anything higher than 50 degrees. maybe YOUR sweat leaked down into the dirt ill turn itself into a silver dime!
Mud

 

[jim tn]

Thankfully, mud, I hit one of your infamous coin spills this morning. Numbers jumping all over the scale and tones from mid to high. Thought maybe I had hit a six pack of caps and hopefully still intact on the bottles. Dug 3 quarters, 3 dimes, 3 nickels and 2 Memorials. I hope sweat doesn't turn to silver, we would have all you yankees down here if it did. You guys are probably sweating just thinking about summer hunting down here. Dig a couple good ones this weekend. HH jim tn

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

September. CCH

 

[tabman]

Jim, I wasn't thinking sweat when you stated you leaned over that hole.

tabman

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah those spills are really a lot of fun to find and unravel...of course for me its always clad, but you did get into a few old silver spills this year. Everybody should practice a little with multidenom spills, just one nickel in a herd of Q's can make for a trash signal. We've been getting some rain off and on for the past few days, but its not helping out much on the ground conditions like a fellow would think. I don't know, when the digging gets too dry, why don't you just try to bust some surface to 3-4" clad and jewelry and forget hunting deep? Or is that almost impossible to do for a feller who hates to miss silver? One of these days you might want to try water hunting, its slow and mostly boring, but it is a good way to keep cool and make the most of the season. Its not easy no matter what anybody says, but it is cool if a fellow can find a nice little swimming hole somewhere.
Mud

 

[Charles (Sabre)(Tx)]

It's been that way in South Texas for several months now. Even the Winter months are tough because of the extremely dry dirt we have. It's been over 3 years now since we have gotten the annual rainfall amount even close to what it should be. Texas droughts are pretty common but this has been one of the longest I've seen in some time. Even some of my best freshwater fishing holes have dried up and they were spring fed. Needless to say digging for coins becomes a hard working task. This leads me to the beaches more often even though I prefer digging old coins to jewelry. I kid you not when I say some of my digging tools are chisels, hammers and very sharp and long handled digging spades. Carrying water to a site just to wet a hole is no fun either...but I would if I knew for sure that the signal was a good one...but I don't.

Come on down and chisel your way to your next target in South Texas!

 

[sprchng]

103 here , but it's a dry heat. If you try to sweat in a hole here it evaporates before it hits the ground. Humidity is currently 6.8%.
Last year we had 4" of rain , roughly half the normal---so far this year we're holding @ .77".
They're just letting the forests burn now, just trying to stop structures from igniting. The smoke and ash in the last month has far surpassed the atmospheric pollution of all the cars for an entire year already and we haven't been through the dry lightning stage yet. Last figure I heard was 458 fires to date.
Thank you Mr. & Mrs. Environmentalist for "saving" our forest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mudpuppy]

Holy Bleep! I'll not complain about the heat here in Michigan again!
Mud

 

[tvr]

Jim,
If it were my sweat moistening the freshly exposed grass roots, the salt content would kill the plug and I'd eventually get banned!

Congrats on the Buffalo!
tvr

 

[Lakota]

Jim I feel your pain brother. Got a later start this year, guess the bug just wasn't biting me so bad to get out. But nonetheless got out last Sunday to the high school football field that gave up my first silver trifecta and oldest silver (to date) last year and boy that was some rough digging. Hands are still pretty tore up for the effort.

Sure could have used some rain today so this weekend would be a little more workable. Oh and good luck with that sweating the grass back to life thing hahahah

Stay safe and good luck out there guys

Lakota

 

[jim tn]

Looks like a lot of swingers have the same dilemma. I was doing a little pillaging up in Nashville this weekend and noted we had some nice rain while we were gone and temps have dropped 15 or so degrees. Gotta get out there early tomorrow morning and take advantage of this weather and moist ground. Hope everyone had a great weekend. HH jim tn

 

[longbone]

The swimming areas.

 

[longbone]

Swimming areas.

 

[jd88047]

I was at this park, it smelled like a arm pit. Someone had dug all the coins already.......I am going out at 5am tomorrow.