Metal Detecting discussions and finds

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/arizona/az-abandoned-mansion/amp/ found this article...kinda neat, i need to go check it out

 

That looks pretty cool!

 

I doubt they say anything if i metal detect up there

 

Prolly not too many people around. Swing it!!

 

Anyone have any knowledge of blasting / explosives?

Detecting this morning in an area which has had logging and gold mining (placer mining) in its history and found this. It's about 13" long, and 3/16 square, and marked "Fuse-Well No. 11". I assume it relates to blasting, but I have no idea, and Mr. Google is not being very helpful today. Doesn't actually matter, just curious. Thought it was a length of key stock when I first pulled it up.

 

And it’s square steel? Can’t figure it out either, one of the gold mining museums may help- Mariposa has one and so does Randsburg.

 

Cool poured concrete building- that was really in back in the 20’s.

 

Square ferrous metal of some sort. Also suggested, possibly a fusible link for electrical use?

 

Oops, it’s Mariposa that has the State mining museum, Jamestown is the train museum- and the little museum in Randsburg has volunteers who know mining too.

 

Well gentlemen, FINALLY... FINALLLLLLY... gonna swing my "THING" around out in public this coming Friday morning.

I'll make sure to post whatever pics.

Chuck E. Cheese tokens used to be found quite often... I hope to find one again.

 

YEAH, I can hardly wait!!!

I plan on being on the sand by 6:30am.

Dry sand hunting is my plan for tomorrow. I'll post whatever I find.

I was gonna wait until Saturday morning because I gotta tow my truck tomorrow... long story... but yeah, tomorrow is gonna be really busy for me.

Anyways, I can hardly wait. So damn busy with work.

 

Me too, going to check out some nearby ‘gold occurrences’ and a club claim tomorrow in the San Bernardino NF.
Have fun out there!

 

I LOVE looking at HUGE ships!!! Just before I hit the sand I saw these guys coming into the Port of Long Beach. I wish I had my better camera. They were out pretty far. This guy has a "full deck". It says "Evergreen" on the side if I'm not mistaken?


I think this guy is a "tanker"?


DEFINITELY not what I was wanting. Found the quarter almost instantly and then "skunked" until towards the end as that is when I found the two dimes and the penny towards the end of my hunt. I like hitting the tire tracks left by the patrolling life guard trucks as I tend to find change along the tire tracks.


1x 1967 Quarter (my luck it's not a '64 or older)

2x dimes 2018, 2004

1x 1977 Mem

The pop tops were KIND OF "jumping" with the signal return and I just ended up retrieving them just in case they were quarters or ???

The bottle was coming back as a possible quarter so I just retrieved it anyways and actually glad I did because I kept the Vodka bottle just because it looks cool to me.

I plan on hitting the sand next weekend about a mile or two south from this location. I SHOULD have better finds (i.e. more $$$) due to higher traffic. I just like coming to this location for some reason? During summer, I typically find around $3 in mixed change, on average with a 3hr hunt. So roughly $1/hr would be the average. All I can think of is, "Jesus H people, don't need the change I guess... ???"

Finally, I was searching along the "cuts" and I just never have any luck with cuts. Plus, there was some "black sand" here and there so I just went back up to the "dry sand".

But yeah, next weekend...

 

Yes, it says Evergreen, they're a major player in the trans-oceanic container shipping game. The second ship isn't a tanker; there's no evidence of "plumbing" on the foredeck, and the house is set well forward of the stern. I think this is actually something pretty unusual (seriously!); a container ship at sea with no deck containers.

 

Hope you had luck out there?

I definitely had fun for sure!!!

HAHAHA, my arm, both of them, were starting to kill me after almost 2.5hrs of straight swinging.

 

No containers, that ship is stacked full of them.

 

The second image?

 

Thats a tanker... everything is in holds blow deck.
Edit.... he is sitting really high in the water, he maybe empty, waiting to pull into port to load up exports.

 

Ehhh, sorry, but respectfully, that's incorrect. 35 years at sea, I've seen a ship or two (million) through binoculars with exactly that level of detail & distortion. If you look at the house, it's vertical on both the fore and aft faces, and there's a little step right at the stern with just enough space between that and the after face of the house for two or three rows of TEUs. If it was a liquid carrier, the plumbing would be visible, and the house would be set farther back to allow for maximum liquid cargo forward of the plant.