it's good to live on elevated land...

[butters]

...when your area's under a flash-flood warning

having said that, my soft, grey indoors slippers are wet because i went outside in them to the garage to get in our newly-delivered metal detector!
nothing too fancy, just something for fun out and around the yards and woodland.

 

[rae121452]

i've always wanted a metal detector. i live in an OLD residential area, i'm sure there is buried treasure everywhere. be sure to post something about what you uncover.

 

[butters]

i've always wanted a metal detector. i live in an OLD residential area, i'm sure there is buried treasure everywhere. be sure to post something about what you uncover.

so have i! this one was new but had damaged packaging so was being sold for $60 instead of something higher. pretty basic, with 3 little icons and beeps and warbles. i fully expect to find horse shoes, nails, broken old farming bits and bobs, maybe a few coins. H has found plenty of old arrowheads and fossils around the place, but i've no idea if we'll find anything more than old farming history

if we find anything, i'll list it here (scrap metal, scrap metal, scrap metal... ha!)

you should look online and get one, maybe for a secondhand bargain; lots of people buy these things and get bored fast with them, then they or a family member sell them off cheap.

 

[doowdniw]

Handy for finding rebar survey markers, too.

 

[Aglaopheme]

People use them in older neighborhoods where the outhouses were. Lots of folks dropped stuff while out there both intentionally and accidentally.

 

[LLCox]

I live on a hill at 3,500 ft. We are expecting to get 3 inches between now and tomorrow sometime. Look out below.

 

[InternationalFunboy]

People use them in older neighborhoods where the outhouses were. Lots of folks dropped stuff while out there both intentionally and accidentally.

Loooong exhaaaale.


"Hey, Comrade Rudolph, what is that dropping from the sky?"

"T'is rain, Tovarisch."

"Are you sure?"

"Rudoph The Red, knows Rain, dear."

 

[rae121452]

People use them in older neighborhoods where the outhouses were. Lots of folks dropped stuff while out there both intentionally and accidentally.

last year my local library had an exhibition, courtesy of the historical society, of things that had been excavated from outhouses in the oldest part of town. you sure wouldn't get away with throwing all of those things down the toilet today.

 

[thør]

There's a reason it's called the floodplain. Because it fucking floods! Don't live in the floodplain and whine if it floods.

 

[KeithD]

Yep, we're finding living just below the top of a ridge on the east side of the mountains pretty good in terms of natural disasters. The worst we've gotten is straight-line wind sheers going over us twice and landing at the bottom of the ridge on the Federal Executive Institute (which some have said was divine intervention).

 

[InternationalFunboy]

There's a reason it's called the floodplain. Because it fucking floods! Don't live in the floodplain and whine if it floods.

Awww... It might also be the loveplain. That sort thing never makes the news, but it outweighs a lot.

 

[thør]

Yep, we're finding living just below the top of a ridge on the east side of the mountains pretty good in terms of natural disasters. The worst we've gotten is straight-line wind sheers going over us twice and landing at the bottom of the ridge on the Federal Executive Institute (which some have said was divine intervention).

The wind rotors come down the mountain and smack the shit out of my house. We've recorded up to 132mph, so far. But, the water drains away.

Awww... It might also be the loveplain. That sort thing never makes the news, but it outweighs a lot.

It might be dominated by love shacks......

 

[Aglaopheme]

The wind rotors come down the mountain and smack the shit out of my house. We've recorded up to 132mph, so far. But, the water drains away.



It might be dominated by love shacks......

That is right where my head went. To the song, that is.

 

[thør]

That is right where my head went. To the song, that is.

A fun tune.....

Fun tunes are needed in these times.

 

[Aglaopheme]

A fun tune.....

Fun tunes are needed in these times.

Agreed. I’ve been creating and reworking playlists a lot this year. I had one labeled work I added a bunch of songs to recently. I popped it on the other day and had to sprint for the tablet when Dirty Love came on. It must have been a working from home playlist.

 

[thør]

Frank is always appreciated....

 

[RobDownSouth]

We had about 8 inches of standing water the other day when the tropical storm hit. Thankfully Houston has some absolutely world-class drainage, Sub-hurricane amounts tend to flow quickly into the shipping channel and or the Addicks reservoir (which is 18 feet deep and miles long).

 

[butters]

We had about 8 inches of standing water the other day when the tropical storm hit. Thankfully Houston has some absolutely world-class drainage, Sub-hurricane amounts tend to flow quickly into the shipping channel and or the Addicks reservoir (which is 18 feet deep and miles long).

was wondering if you were wearing your wellies

 

[butters]

just remembered i was meant to stick my updates in here, so this is what we found today on our first try-out with the detector:

• 2 pieces of an old file
• 2 bits of broken metal wire
• a rusted plastic handled filler spreader
• broken pair of scissors
• 8 assorted modern-ish nails
• a clip with ribbon bit still attached
• an iron part of something with a curved end
• a piece of metal that looks like the top half of a no.7
• and old, heavy metal piece with a hole and a curl which H thinks might be off some harness (kinda looks like a door hook but with a twistier end
• and the end of a winchester 12 shotgun shell

the shell end is like these, but dark with age and being buried about 6" down!
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/gaug...-122629214.jpgso, a little red plastic left on them and i believe they started producing those in the 60's?

 

[Lazaran]

.
Well it definitely works. It seems pretty sensitive.

Getting some exercise while enjoying little treasure hunts sounds like a win win.

 

[butters]

.
Well it definitely works. It seems pretty sensitive.

Getting some exercise while enjoying little treasure hunts sounds like a win win.

yeah, it's fun has 3 icons denoting types of metal, plus a depth guage and the usual sound plus a backlight. the depth guage runs from 2" or less, 2-4", and 4"+

one was sweeping, the other digging, in turns. just around the veggie garden for today. the scissors and spatula thingy were all H, he's bad for losing things in the garden and is still on the hunt for a bowie knife he lost out there decades ago, lol.

 

[islandman]

Which detector did you get?

I have a Garrett Ace with waterproof coil.

 

[butters]

just a TackLife

got it for about $60 because it was new but the original box had some damage. since it's just for fun and stuff we weren't getting a really expensive one.
this one, it can also be used underwater in streams and stuff. given the water volume our hill sees, and the streams running down to the cow pond, i think we might take it along the banks just to see
https://www.amazon.com/Detector-Adj...ocphy=1026122&hvtargid=pla-671713973184&psc=1

 

[fgarvb1]

I had one back in the '90's

Found a crap load of aluminum cans and Lead foil, barbed wire and iron ore.

Old town site of Platt Tx. where I grew up. our original Smoke house and barn was built from Lumber from the old Boarding house. My brothers house sits in theplace where the old Sloon was located.

It is about eight miles north east of Lufkin,Tx and nowhere near Huntington, Tx.

There is no trace of it now.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/platt-tx

 

[rae121452]

no ancient egyptian tomb?! i'd want my money back.