Old Miner Don

Impressive set of tools. Those buttons ARE beautiful!

When I lived in Portland Oregon I had a small house built in the early 50's. It was in the NE part of town and most homes were the same vintage in my neighborhood. We had water meters that were well past the sidewalk on the home owners side of it. I was told by more than one person that the city never installs water meters on home owners property. So basically the home owners property starts just past the water meter. But many people don't realize that and mistakenly think they're property starts at the curb. But it doesn't. In most older neighborhoods there's a strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk and people maintain this as if it's their own. Which is nice of them and probably something the city wants them to do. But the actual property line starts behind the water meter, which has 2 or 3 feet of grass between it and the sidewalk and then the grass strip between that and the curb. And a lot of confusion can come up if you just jump out there and start detecting. While in Portland I belonged to Monte's (R.I.P.) detector club and we discussed this many times and the best way to go about it. A hardhat and safety vest never hurt anything lol. I don't recall Monte saying anything about asking permission but he wasn't stupid about it either. He nicely educated more than one homeowner about metal detecting in the grass strips and he would show them where their property line was. But he was never arrogant or rude and if the homeowner just really pitched a fit he would just move on. He always carried a loaner detector and many times he offered to let the homeowner use it and he would give them a quickie lesson. Monte loved that. Another thing is Monte was a expert at pinpointing a target and using a screw driver type probe to find it and he would pop it out of the ground after widening out a little slit above the coin. Of course he had a lesche digger but hardly ever would he cut a plug in someone's lawn that I know of. He never carried a shovel but had his cane and his detector all the time.

Are you sure someone didn't sneak into the house while you were gone and take your jewelry? You told no one about the hidden stuff before you left?

Say what?!?!? You had an argument with the Steve that owns this website? I can't imagine what the problem would be, unless he thinks... Well I will just let it go for now because I don't really know what the argument was about. I just hope you can get to feeling better soon and I suppose Steve didn't tell you to quit telling the story of what happened or else you would have told us readers "good bye". Like I have told you before I can keep a secret. PM me anytime you want to and you better because I want to know what ended up happening in 2002 and especially about Jacob. Remember you promised a picture of him. God bless you too man.

Thank you! We'll see.

SOLD!!! How much?

Wish you could describe the floor better. 4th floor apartment would have a poured concrete floor I suppose. Like a high rise. Why is there dirt on top of that concrete and how deep is the dirt? Sounds like that's probably where the coins will be hidden is in the dirt. And the boards above the dirt will have nails holding them down won't they? Which means the detector will be sounding off on the nails. How big is the gap between the bottom of the boards and the top of the dirt? When I read your question I was thinking that you need a crowbar AND a detector. You obviously will have to remove some wood flooring to recover anything buried in the dirt. After you locate it of course. It's just a bare wood floor correct? Check out the floor very carefully and you just might be able to find the wood that grandpa removed many years ago. Good luck and please let us know what happens!

So I'm wondering if this is where Jacob takes his exit?

Anything new happening with this?

Nice gold on that claim!

I forgot to mention that the reason I recommended Two Toes channel is because he does lots of gold metal detecting on exposed bedrock and in crevices which is exactly what you said that you would like to start doing with the gold medal detector. He is very successful at it and I don't think anyone explains and teaches better than him. In addition he has many well done videos on sluicing and gold panning as well as high banking etc.

I'm curious if you intend to use the detector for underwater sniping. Fully submerged. You may want to consider the SDC 2300 because it's submersible to I believe 10'. Two Toes uses the SDC 2300 for all of his gold metal detecting now. For years he was a big fan of the TDI. He has one of the best gold detecting/gold mining channels on YouTube. Sorry that I don't have a lot of advice. I'm still learning.

Any idea how many hours on the detector?

Did you notice that you have a choice between green and blue? I'm looking at the website now.

GhostMiner Posted 8 hours ago June 8 2000 Part One June of 2000??? Are we going back in time now?

That put a grin on my face too!

Wow nice gold! That's worth getting wet for lol.

You gotta do something. Those 3 guys ain't going away lol. I'm wondering what they're connection is with the mountain. Are they hippie tree huggers or simply some crazed local madmen? Strange how much they want to stop the mining. I would think that they would be a little more respectful of the mining crews ability to STOP them. Plot twist: They aren't actually real. They are the ghosts of three dead hooligans from the 1930's. That's why the bullets they were firing didn't hurt anyone or make a thudding noise.

I agree man. Time to hire some gunslingers.

They got Sarge killed in Mexico. And he for sure didn't deserve that.

I think for sure that the sound of the Thompson firing would have woken up you guys in camp. Only question is would Jacob have fired warning shots or simply eliminated the threat. I realize you're position of course. In the 1930's it was a completely different world. In Jed's days probably nobody would have gone looking for three guys that never returned home. In 2002 it's a good chance those three guys had family members that would have filed a missing persons report. And if people knew what the three guys were up to and where, then you and your mining crew could really have a problem on your hands. So you would have to be digging a deep hole in the middle of the night and make it look really good too lol. You would probably be okay as long as nobody brought the search dogs up. Wink 😜

Those are really cool! What kind of coin is the bug coin? If somebody made that out of a nickel they are flat out a 1st class engraver.

You didn't learn much from Jed and Sarge lol.

Saboteurs in '02? I would have loved to have been with you guys and riding shotgun.

Wow! Beautiful coin man.