I Know Where, But It's Deep, What Now?

[Dejure]

Sounds more like the state of confusion to me. Why so deep? Maybe trying to outdo Oak Island? Get one of those guys that do the dowsing.

I am guessing he went that deep in case the corner of the field got converted to irrigated field. That deep and it's not going to be dug up by a mowboard plow or disk. Too, PVC pipes laid for orchards are only down a couple feet.

 

[Dejure]

Methinks there might be more to this story than meets the eye. How well do you know this guy? He is supposedly the person who buried them? For what reason did he say he buried them to begin with? Is he known to be a bullsh#&$tter at all? It doesn’t make much sense to bury something of supposed high value without a sure fire way of retrieving them. This is in the US? Britain? Somalia? Not some old guy just looking for companionship and yanking your chain? As said already, he should have a very good idea where they are within a few yards. Rent a mini back hoe for the day and dig that area up since it’s a field, won’t take but a couple hours to excavate a large area down to 3-4 feet. He didn’t blabber about it to someone else and it’s all gone already? That’s the issue with these treasure fables, you don’t know for sure if it IS there or ever WAS there. Kinda like that one show on TV….

That he buried stuff I know for fact. Like I mentioned, I knew where a small, regularly accessed stash was.

Too, I helped him dig up some guns he buried when he thought the ATF types were going to confiscate them. He did a rush job and the nickel plated 357 looked worse for the wear but was operational. Others buried with it fared a bit better, but were starting to show signs of having been hastily buried ten years earlier.

So, yeah, he buried stuff. And I've never known him to be a BS'r on such matters. Stupid, yes. A BS'r, no.

 

[GLASSHOPPER1955]

You can tell when you hit disturbed soil, the probe will be much easier to get into the ground than somewhere that has never been touched. That's probably your best and cheapest option. Guys use probes to find old outhouse holes from over a hundred years ago. They work...

Yep! I've been bottle hunting for over 50 years now, and I can tell by wiggling the probe, the difference between a glass bottle (smooth), a brick (rough and scratchy), and a crock (between a brick and a bottle). And yes, disturbed ground is much easier to probe into. BUT we don't want a point on the end like the one pictured above. That would ding a bottle easily, damaging it.

 

[Dejure]

Yes, disturbed ground CAN be easier to probe, or not. In this case, the not is probable. It was in the corner of a 100 acre field where the irrigation circle didn't reach. That corner was fenced in and 17 head of cattle trampled it, year after year for close to twenty years. For a while, around 120 cattle trampled it, because they had to get into that pen to get water.

The effect of cattle trampling it would have had the same effect as tamping ground for construction sites.

 

[Connecticut Danny]

Next time the guy buries a cache I suggest placing a flattened aluminum can or two one foot below the surface above the cache.

Great idea after he drinks two cans of beer.

 

[treasureguy56]

Its a show that caters to all of us Treasure Hunters , Maybe boring at times , maybe even repetative but at least its not another " Boy gets Girl Show " ....... !