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Farmer April 07, 2011 01:05AM |
A couple months ago when there was snow on the ground I was invited to a church breakfast at a rented hall. Breakfast is my favorite meal so I went. It was all young men and old timers and the food was not lacking. As we were chowing down, I over heard a fellow from my table talking about his 55 acre farm, so I asked him a few questions a detectorist would normally ask, like how old is your house and what history can you tell me about the property.
He said his house was built in the 1700's and the other house was built in the late 1600's
It was two farms years ago and he said he rents out the re-habbed 1600's house.
He said years ago he raised pigs and one time he had over 3000 on his farm, but now he grows soybean, corn and hay, "why do you ask"? he said.
I told him about my hobbie and he became very interested. At the end of the meal he came up to me and said I should come over to check out the property
I said I'd like to and he proceded to give me his address and phone number.
Last week I called Monte the farmer and he said "come on over, I'll show you around, I said "are you going to be there after lunch", he said yes.
I hurried through my chores and got there around 2 pm. We walked the property as he talked about his farm. This old timer is up beat and just a really likeable guy.
We got back to the house and he wanted to watch as I did some detecting. The back yard of his house was full of machine gun signals. I honed in on one high tone repeatable as he stood by my side, I sunk in the spade, flipped the plug and went in with my Pro Pointer. I pulled out a beautiful green 1907 Indian and handed it to him. He practically jumped up and down while slapping me on the back saying "I can't believe it, I can't believe it, look at that". After a couple more holes and junk he had to get back to work and left me on my own.
A half hour later he came out to see if anything else turned up and walked with me and bam!! I get a nice high tone in the 70's, dug it up and out comes a large cent..YESSS!! I said jees Monte, stay with me, you're good luck. He was beside himself and more excited I think than I was. Anyway, to make a long story longer I wrapped it up and asked him if I could come back tomorrow. He said come any time you want. I said "what's the earliest I can come with out being intrusive"? He said " Steve, you won't bother me or my wife, come as early as you like, you can hunt with a flashlite if you want. He said "I let a fox trapper come at all hours, dosen't matter, as a matter of fact I'll let the renters of the 1600's house know, that if the see a guy swinging a detector around the property not to be alarmed
The next day I got there at 7:30 am, parked the truck, met his lovely wife and went out to a tree line about 200 yards out. Second hole about 6 inches deep I see silver, flicked off the dirt and a thin 1785 half reale is staring at me...love this place. Before the days end, I came out with the reale, a Jersey Copper, another large cent and two more indians.....I'll be hunting that place over and over, I hope.
Monte said "this is the most exciting thing thats happened here in years".
I gotta tell ya, having that old boy light up like that was the highlight of the weekend..been smiling ever since.
He said his house was built in the 1700's and the other house was built in the late 1600's
It was two farms years ago and he said he rents out the re-habbed 1600's house.
He said years ago he raised pigs and one time he had over 3000 on his farm, but now he grows soybean, corn and hay, "why do you ask"? he said.
I told him about my hobbie and he became very interested. At the end of the meal he came up to me and said I should come over to check out the property
I said I'd like to and he proceded to give me his address and phone number.
Last week I called Monte the farmer and he said "come on over, I'll show you around, I said "are you going to be there after lunch", he said yes.
I hurried through my chores and got there around 2 pm. We walked the property as he talked about his farm. This old timer is up beat and just a really likeable guy.
We got back to the house and he wanted to watch as I did some detecting. The back yard of his house was full of machine gun signals. I honed in on one high tone repeatable as he stood by my side, I sunk in the spade, flipped the plug and went in with my Pro Pointer. I pulled out a beautiful green 1907 Indian and handed it to him. He practically jumped up and down while slapping me on the back saying "I can't believe it, I can't believe it, look at that". After a couple more holes and junk he had to get back to work and left me on my own.
A half hour later he came out to see if anything else turned up and walked with me and bam!! I get a nice high tone in the 70's, dug it up and out comes a large cent..YESSS!! I said jees Monte, stay with me, you're good luck. He was beside himself and more excited I think than I was. Anyway, to make a long story longer I wrapped it up and asked him if I could come back tomorrow. He said come any time you want. I said "what's the earliest I can come with out being intrusive"? He said " Steve, you won't bother me or my wife, come as early as you like, you can hunt with a flashlite if you want. He said "I let a fox trapper come at all hours, dosen't matter, as a matter of fact I'll let the renters of the 1600's house know, that if the see a guy swinging a detector around the property not to be alarmed
The next day I got there at 7:30 am, parked the truck, met his lovely wife and went out to a tree line about 200 yards out. Second hole about 6 inches deep I see silver, flicked off the dirt and a thin 1785 half reale is staring at me...love this place. Before the days end, I came out with the reale, a Jersey Copper, another large cent and two more indians.....I'll be hunting that place over and over, I hope.
Monte said "this is the most exciting thing thats happened here in years".
I gotta tell ya, having that old boy light up like that was the highlight of the weekend..been smiling ever since.