• Metal Detecting / Treasure Hunting discussion : How to, tricks/tips, your finds, equipment, fuck bot
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Its currently at 404 Dollars, of you are interested in any other items from the military feel free to Pm me and give me a set price and i can do my absolute best to find them (WW2 only please) I cant get any pictures since its listed on e bay but here is the page. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/German-helmet-M-38-Fallschirmjager-Commando-Wehrmaht-/280803338223?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5564370491111366661&autorefresh=true[/url] [editline]13th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=ewitwins;34195338]I actually [B]LOVE[/B] iron ore, because I have a mini-foundry in my backyard and it's fun to make stuff out of shavings and the bits of ore I find.[/QUOTE] what kind of stuff do you make?
[QUOTE=urundeadmom;34195881]Its currently at 404 Dollars, of you are interested in any other items from the military feel free to Pm me and give me a set price and i can do my absolute best to find them (WW2 only please) I cant get any pictures since its listed on e bay but here is the page. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/German-helmet-M-38-Fallschirmjager-Commando-Wehrmaht-/280803338223?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5564370491111366661&autorefresh=true[/url] [editline]13th January 2012[/editline] what kind of stuff do you make?[/QUOTE] I wouldn't bid on that helmet, I think it's a fake.
[QUOTE=urundeadmom;34195881]Its currently at 404 Dollars, of you are interested in any other items from the military feel free to Pm me and give me a set price and i can do my absolute best to find them (WW2 only please) I cant get any pictures since its listed on e bay but here is the page. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/German-helmet-M-38-Fallschirmjager-Commando-Wehrmaht-/280803338223?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5564370491111366661&autorefresh=true[/url] [editline]13th January 2012[/editline] what kind of stuff do you make?[/QUOTE] Honestly, because I practice archery as a hobby, mostly arrowheads. I never really thought about making anything else. Any suggestions? Nothing too complicated, because I'm severely lacking in tools :v:
I like to search on beaches. I found a few earrings and some other jewelry a few years back. However you'll be finding a LOT of garbage, too.
[QUOTE=ief014;34196761]I like to search on beaches. I found a few earrings and some other jewelry a few years back. However you'll be finding a LOT of garbage, too.[/QUOTE] It's the same when looking for ww2 stuff, most of the times it's just shrapnel. I bought this beauty today!
[IMG]http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w419/MEINDL89/25.jpg[/IMG] Decided that I'm going to east Germany/Poland this summer, the stuff you can find there is just ridiculous.
What about "Winbest Sharp Edition Metal Detector by BARSKA" metal detector. It seems significantly lighter, a tad cheaper and has good reviews on Amazon...
Bumping this thread because I'm finally starting this shit. Have a Garrett AT Pro and a pointer coming in a couple of weeks, just in time for the Finnish summer season. Have made some custom overlaid maps of my city, some from the 1800s (to check where fields used to be at) and some from the 1950s (the aerial pictures from that time are amazing for finding areas of interest). Can't wait to dig up all those bottle caps.
Awesome thread. I had a detector when I was young but got rid of it, I've always wanted to get into it again but the only thing I have locally is a fort from the war of 1812 that had an Indian siege battle but there's a property on it now sadly.
never thought this was going to get bumped again :v: Nice setup Orkel, research is always the most important thing but sometimes just going to a random field/forest works too. [editline]2nd April 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Ajacks;47436761]Awesome thread. I had a detector when I was young but got rid of it, I've always wanted to get into it again but the only thing I have locally is a fort from the war of 1812 that had an Indian siege battle but there's a property on it now sadly.[/QUOTE] Just buy one and look up old settlements or villages nearby, bet you'll find something!
[QUOTE=kirederf7;47442088]never thought this was going to get bumped again :v: Nice setup Orkel, research is always the most important thing but sometimes just going to a random field/forest works too. [editline]2nd April 2015[/editline] Just buy one and look up old settlements or villages nearby, bet you'll find something![/QUOTE] The research helps a lot. For example I can see from one of the 50s air photos that there was a road going through a nearby forest, but it's completely forested now. I think it'll be one of my first places to try out the detector. Lots of places where houses and fields existed too, that are forest now.
I want to take a detector round to the plugged up mines in my town and see if there's anything on the outside. Shame they collapsed them intentionally in the 20s and supposedly they weren't even cleared out first. Someone transplanted the tracks and two mine carts that were left outside to display in front of their store. :v:
Will be checking out this area in the near future: [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1428361922.png[/img] There's still half a meter of snow that has to melt away before it can happen though. Maybe next month.
Huehue [t]http://i.imgur.com/qXnpVA8.jpg[/t] Snow depth has dropped from 55 to 45 cm in the past few days, still a while to go before I can try it out
Took out the detector out for the first time today, at a nearby park that had some areas free of snow, quite muddy though. Glorious spoils were dug up. Three bottle caps (left one at the site) and two rusty nails from the park, and a weird, dense ball of rust from my grandmother's yard that is currently soaking in vinegar for the next 2 days so I can see what the hell is beneath it all, it's surprisingly heavy for its size. Might be some kind of old valve from back when the house was built (in the 1920s). [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1428934728.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1428872748.jpg[/img] I'm gonna be rich
damn thats a great detector!
Man I wish I could hit some of the places you guys get to go to. I have a dirt cheap($120) detector. And I live in the middle of Pennsylvania. About 95% of my finds are nails and screws. My "best" finds are large iron bars/ties I found next to the one river. One almost looks like about 3/4th of a pickaxe head. Any suggestions on where to look in rural areas?
[QUOTE=Lunakrypt;47526085]Man I wish I could hit some of the places you guys get to go to. I have a dirt cheap($120) detector. And I live in the middle of Pennsylvania. About 95% of my finds are nails and screws. My "best" finds are large iron bars/ties I found next to the one river. One almost looks like about 3/4th of a pickaxe head. Any suggestions on where to look in rural areas?[/QUOTE] Ask your neighbors for permission and search their yards, especially if they're old houses What detector do you have exactly?
[QUOTE=Orkel;47526909]Ask your neighbors for permission and search their yards, especially if they're old houses What detector do you have exactly?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.kellycodetectors.com/products/all-purpose/na622-pilot/1st-texas-pilot?gclid=CjwKEAjw9bKpBRD-geiF8OHz4EcSJACO4O7Th6PPRdV_iEy5FM7yUmsCmNWWou7DRtcwK4E5UlSPxhoCn7_w_wcB[/url] My wife got it for me on our second anniversary. I remember when I was younger I had one of those bright orange Radio Shack specials. I found a ton of old tools and cool stuff with that. It is very hard to pinpoint with this one.
[QUOTE=kirederf7;47524212]damn thats a great detector![/QUOTE] only once I learn to use it properly (ノ￣ー￣)ノ From what I've used it so far though, it seems like a damn fine machine. I need to figure out the whole business with ground balancing and iron audio/discrimination and all the various audio cues to separate bottlecaps and nails from actually good stuff, but that's gonna take time and practise and lots of digging in the coming weeks and months. I had the iron audio completely off before, so the bottlecaps kept ringing up as coin signals. Weather is going back to winter tomorrow with practically a snow storm approaching my city, so no digging for a while. I really am not expecting to be able to dig more until early next month or so, which sucks.
Yeah that sucks, I really want to use my detector more.. You'll be learning to hear the right signals soon enough though, I only discriminate small iron signals.
Was surprised to find out a nearby field/forest area had melted, so I took my detector there. Overall spoils. I also found 10+ bottlecaps, and a WW2 era empty rifle shell casing, but I gave those to my relative's kids that were enthusiastic about the whole treasure hunting thing so no pics of those. [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1429396855.jpg[/t] Aluminium spoon handle with some snazzy looking engravings [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1429387346.jpg[/t] An old lead weight for fishing purposes, was found at about 20cm depth near a pine tree [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1429433450.jpg[/t] This is the bottlecap of the glass bottleneck in the overall picture, it's from the 1940s [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1429385265.jpg[/t] A neighbor was interested in what I was doing on the field, so he came and talked to me about the history of the place (he was about 70 years old). Apparently during WW2 the spot I was digging at had a sawmill, built in the early 1900s. The Russians tried to bomb the shit out of it during the war, so the depressions in the ground nearby were actually old bomb craters. At the sawmill's area I found a lot of iron trash like door hinges and the valve shown in the overall picture, and shitloads of red brick fragments from the building. The old dude said that there used to also be a stable near the sawmill, and some people a long time ago had found horseshoes and stuff. Still no coins though!
Went out again today. I found a spoon. I'm pretty sure it's made of sterling silver! Checking it with the AT pro also gives it a metal ID of 79, which is smack dab in the middle of "silver cutlery". I'm still in the process of cleaning it up from the heavy tarnish, so the silvery glint is only visible in some areas (mostly the handle, but also in the spoon itself after some hard scrubbing). I'll let it sit in the cleaning solution overnight and see if I can scrub the rest off tomorrow [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429586799.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429564441.jpg[/img] Almost got a heart attack when this emerged from a clump of soil: [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429541213.jpg[/img] After cleaning it up, it turned out to be a toy ring, it's made of some cheap metal with a very thin transparent plastic coating on the outside (the lighter area in the picture), and it even has some green glitter under it. So much for gold treasure, but getting any kind of ring on my 3rd time detecting ever, is pretty damn fun. Near the ring I found a Toyota car key, probably not that old, guessing 10-20 years or so, but it was corroded enough to snap in two (see the crack) with very little force applied: [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429520809.jpg[/img] Also found a dozen bottlecaps, several nails, a copper door hinge, and a 20 cent coin (€ cent) from 2001. First coin finally acquired!
Awesome, good signals give a mad rush, can't wait to start again!
Visited a park that used to be a farming field from 1910-1960 10 Finnish mark coin from 1953, surprisingly good condition [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429708833.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429701655.jpg[/img] 50 Finnish pence coin from 1991 [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429666753.jpg[/img] 10 Finnish pence coin from 1997 [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429722830.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429676949.jpg[/img] Nokia battery from 2004 (was in the depths for some reason) [img]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1429678732.jpg[/img] The coins haven't been cleaned properly yet, just with water. The pences should be much nicer after an acid bath Also me [t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1429683805.jpg[/t]
I shall post my normandy finds from last year, it was a pretty cool trip!
Its really interesting how wood will just rot off the firearms, and leave the barebone parts behind. The bolt actions especially. Any of you ever find any dogtags, or identification stuff?
I found a STALAG dogtag once, still have it.
1 Finnish pence/penni coin from 1963. Uncleaned as of now. Tiny as fuck, the size of my pinky's fingernail. [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430196643.jpg[/img] 1 Portuguese euro coin and a 10 cent Finnish coin both from early 2000s. [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430220645.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430227034.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430223222.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430181054.jpg[/img] A ~20 year old toy car. Spooky [img]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1430224798.jpg[/img] [editline]27th April 2015[/editline] 1 penni coin after 2 hours in vinegar, the text is more readable and it's gotten closer to its original color: [img]http://i.imgur.com/w31WPSm.jpg[/img]
Found this cheap pendant yesterday: [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430410028.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430395262.jpg[/img] Also fuck [t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430392155.jpg[/t]
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