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Found a dump site

Volksman

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I was detecting this property where there are a couple old foundations and found this dump. I dug through it some but didn’t find anything too old.
I didn’t dig real deep because in the area that I dug there wasn’t anything a foot down.
I found 2 license plates, a ‘51, and a ’59, a toy tractor body, and a big smashed up excavator. No good bottles.
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There was also this big Chandler pump from Cedar Rapids. I didn’t think to look at what was on the handle but there was a 21 on the body. The base is broken and part of the base is missing.
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I find a lot of those 50s and later dumps. If you have a probe you might poke around there for some older dumps.

Hey that pump would still make a nice display piece in the yard, broken base or not. You just don't find many out in the wild anymore. I saw one once at an old farm site and returned a week later to get it and someone else had found it and sawed it off clean and skadaddled with it.

GL&HH.
 
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The pump is way cool. We found one just like it at a hidden hilltop one-room schoolhouse site back during a thaw last January in Mich. Laying horizontal. Really heavy too.
 
I find a lot of those 50s and later dumps. If you have a probe you might poke around there for some older dumps.

Hey that pump would still make a nice display piece in the yard, broken base or not. You just don't find many out in the wild anymore. I saw one once at an old farm site and returned a week later to get it and someone else had found it and sawed it off clean and skadaddled with it.

GL&HH.

The older foundation is further back on the property so maybe the dump is behind it. I’ll check when I go back.
 
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