I will try to keep this short. ;o) I have never metal detected in my life but always wanted to, so my wife and I ordered 2 at gold’s and hoping the FedEX man would deliver today.
So here is the deal. About ten years ago I bought this old Farmstead, no one had lived here for more than 25 years before I bought it. the place has 13 structures including a house, barn, tractor shed, horse barn, pig shed ect. Completely over run with tall grass and newer trees and 27 pieces of old machinery, most half buried from years of mother nature, horse collars were still hanging on the wall. The house was ransacked over the years by kids no doubt but all of the belonging were still there, the old folks had died and their kids didn't want anything I guess.
Anywho, shortly after purchase my son and I started to clean the place up, every day was a treasure hunt finding all kinds of relics. One day as we were working a car pulled in the yard and 2 older gentleman approached us with metal detectors, come to find out they were the son's of the previous owners, grew up on the property and asked if they could meta detect in hopes of finding their fathers stashes of silver and said they would split any finds 50/50. As intriguing as this proposition was; I denied their request. through some research we found that more than 25 years of silver savings had been buried somewhere on this property. ( sound intriguing?)
We have cleaned this place up quite a bite in the 10 years since that day and now that my wife and I are getting up in age a little we thought detecting would be a great hobby starting with our own back yard. I have always heard that the old timers that did not trust the banks would hide their stashes by some old tree or fence post etc. There is still a foot of snow on the ground here but soon the birds will be laying eggs so we have been watching all the vids and doing as much research as possible.
We know there will be a massive amount of iron buried here and I can only imagine if there are stashes of silver here what they may be contained in, old jars, tin boxes, cloth or leather wrappings, ?
I have no Idea where to start looking, all of the old fence lines were most likely ripped down by the farmers who continued to cultivate the land after the abandonment, older trees may have died and are now gone.
No photos are available of that time period but we took several hundred in the first few weeks of purchase and clean up.
The above statement was copied and pasted from a metal detecting forum I frequent and is almost to the day one year old but the story has not changed just that we did get to use our metal detectors last summer and found hundreds of items; including a complete antique corn planter, axel, pocket watch, shovels, many pieces of god knows what. Still we search for the silver. many places are still inaccessible large items we moved around and now need to be removed to search. We literally filled 2 - 55 gal drums of junk.
Our Garrett AT Gold Metal Detectors, gotta love the background! ;-)
Here are some average junk finds.
Some of the better finds.
With the amount of money the kids said their dad buried, we are looking for a vault or more than a hundred quart mason jars full. Not holding my breath!! lol
I could fill an entire new thread just with pics and vids of our hunts from last year, hopefully this summer we will have more time to search and even if we never find anything of significant value it sure is a lot of fun.
The dynamite story yet to come. ;-) right now I need to get back to work before my wife beats the hell outa me.
Thanks for stopping by! Cheers - Jeff
So here is the deal. About ten years ago I bought this old Farmstead, no one had lived here for more than 25 years before I bought it. the place has 13 structures including a house, barn, tractor shed, horse barn, pig shed ect. Completely over run with tall grass and newer trees and 27 pieces of old machinery, most half buried from years of mother nature, horse collars were still hanging on the wall. The house was ransacked over the years by kids no doubt but all of the belonging were still there, the old folks had died and their kids didn't want anything I guess.
Anywho, shortly after purchase my son and I started to clean the place up, every day was a treasure hunt finding all kinds of relics. One day as we were working a car pulled in the yard and 2 older gentleman approached us with metal detectors, come to find out they were the son's of the previous owners, grew up on the property and asked if they could meta detect in hopes of finding their fathers stashes of silver and said they would split any finds 50/50. As intriguing as this proposition was; I denied their request. through some research we found that more than 25 years of silver savings had been buried somewhere on this property. ( sound intriguing?)
We have cleaned this place up quite a bite in the 10 years since that day and now that my wife and I are getting up in age a little we thought detecting would be a great hobby starting with our own back yard. I have always heard that the old timers that did not trust the banks would hide their stashes by some old tree or fence post etc. There is still a foot of snow on the ground here but soon the birds will be laying eggs so we have been watching all the vids and doing as much research as possible.
We know there will be a massive amount of iron buried here and I can only imagine if there are stashes of silver here what they may be contained in, old jars, tin boxes, cloth or leather wrappings, ?
I have no Idea where to start looking, all of the old fence lines were most likely ripped down by the farmers who continued to cultivate the land after the abandonment, older trees may have died and are now gone.
No photos are available of that time period but we took several hundred in the first few weeks of purchase and clean up.
The above statement was copied and pasted from a metal detecting forum I frequent and is almost to the day one year old but the story has not changed just that we did get to use our metal detectors last summer and found hundreds of items; including a complete antique corn planter, axel, pocket watch, shovels, many pieces of god knows what. Still we search for the silver. many places are still inaccessible large items we moved around and now need to be removed to search. We literally filled 2 - 55 gal drums of junk.
Our Garrett AT Gold Metal Detectors, gotta love the background! ;-)
Here are some average junk finds.
Some of the better finds.
With the amount of money the kids said their dad buried, we are looking for a vault or more than a hundred quart mason jars full. Not holding my breath!! lol
I could fill an entire new thread just with pics and vids of our hunts from last year, hopefully this summer we will have more time to search and even if we never find anything of significant value it sure is a lot of fun.
The dynamite story yet to come. ;-) right now I need to get back to work before my wife beats the hell outa me.
Thanks for stopping by! Cheers - Jeff
or atleast im hoping they did.
