Metal Detector valuable tool

[txdon]

This weekend the metal detector paid for itself again. So far I have found $1,100.00 of lost personnel items: two rings which my wife threw in the mud as she was falling and two pair of prescription glasses.

This weekend I was wiping my hot face with a cool wet towel and set the glasses on the tractor fender. I then got three loads of dirt with the FEL and smoothed the ground and drove 1/2 mile to the barn before I realized my vision was blurred. After looking for 2 hours and coming up blank in the foot high grass I went to the store and got new batteries for the detector and found the glasses in ten minutes. That was an exciting beep in the middle of the field.

The Metal detector is the new necessary tool for the weekend (absent minded) farmer, because looking for lost items seriously cuts into quality seat time! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Junkman]

How many bottle caps did you find before you found the glasses??? Around here, all the town commons and cemeteries don't allow metal detectors. I have a friend who has land adjoining an old cemetery and he has found a lot of coins and rings on his side of the wall. Seems that people used to sit on the old stone wall and rest during a burial ceremony and loose things. When I loose things, it is always in the house and it might be years before I find them again. I was looking in the garage for a tester, and didn't find it, but I did find my old ring of GM master keys. I haven't seen these for probably 20 years until this past weekend... 65 keys will open any GM ignition or door lock for cars from the 1930's till 1966. Wonder how much they will bring on e Bay??????
There is even a bigger set, about 150 keys, that fits Fords, but I have no idea as to the years.