Goatweed and Brambles

Garball77 said:

....

Is there any way to hunt this terrain, or sometimes do you just have to let Mother Nature win?

Click to expand...

Is it year -round now, with that level of vegetation ? Or is it only seasonal ? If it's seasonal spring growth (go figure , we're in spring right now), then : Just come back in very-late fall, eh ?

But if it's year-round vegetation/growth, and you suspect goodies under the canopy, then a technique my hunt partner and I have adopted is: Brush wackers. That's a weed-wacker with a blade adapted. We have both gas powered and a battery powered unit. That for half an hour, then rake back all your spoils, and : Presto: Clear ground

Tom_in_CA said:

Is it year -round now, with that level of vegetation ? Or is it only seasonal ? If it's seasonal spring growth (go figure , we're in spring right now), then : Just come back in very-late fall, eh ?

But if it's year-round vegetation/growth, and you suspect goodies under the canopy, then a technique my hunt partner and I have adopted is: Brush wackers. That's a weed-wacker with a blade adapted. We have both gas powered and a battery powered unit. That for half an hour, then rake back all your spoils, and : Presto: Clear ground

Click to expand...

warning personal experience here...make sure it is not poision ivy...no matter how much you think you are covered up, no matter how much you played in the stuff over the years with no reaction whatsoever.....it won't end well

Tom_in_CA said:

Is it year -round now, with that level of vegetation ? Or is it only seasonal ? If it's seasonal spring growth (go figure , we're in spring right now), then : Just come back in very-late fall, eh ?

But if it's year-round vegetation/growth, and you suspect goodies under the canopy, then a technique my hunt partner and I have adopted is: Brush wackers. That's a weed-wacker with a blade adapted. We have both gas powered and a battery powered unit. That for half an hour, then rake back all your spoils, and : Presto: Clear ground

Click to expand...

Seriously considering taking the bush hog down there, but I don't even know if their tractor runs

Garball77 said:

Seriously considering taking the bush hog down there, but I don't even know if their tractor runs

Click to expand...

I would only resort to such measures, if there were pretty certain odds of more goodies hiding under heavy vegetation.

At the spot where we first hatched this idea, is where we'd already pulled several 1840s-60s seateds. Yet could only hunt perhaps 20% of the area (on narrow deer trails that lace through the area). Everywhere else was covered by dense thick bramble bushes type tumble-weed type bushes. Given the history of the location we had a strong suspicion there was more. Heck, just forcefully pushing our coils under overhanging brush would sometimes net an added signal or two. So we hatched the idea of invest in brush wackers. Lotta work, but it gave us more period coins

I'm actually dealing with a very similar site right now. I just cant get into what I consider to be the best parts of the site because of all the overgrowth and underbrush. It has prickers Galore and I usually walk out of there with a couple ticks on me. There are several old foundations including that of a large barn. Maybe it would be good to chop down the area with a machete in late fall before the first snowfall, and then hit it in early spring before it all grows back again. I was going to take some photos of that site with my little drone a few days ago to share on the Forum....but I can't seem to find my little drone.

Just to give an idea, these daffodils and flowering bush are in the middle of the woods about 75 ft from the barn and house foundation. Until about 20 years ago someone was living in a trailer on the property also. Seems to also be an old Root Cellar a few feet to the right out of the photo... or I was thinking it could have been the steps to an even older house although I do not see any evidence of a foundation. A few feet from that I have found some old stuff while digging including glass pieces.

If only there was a way to combine a detector and a weed eater.

I have an 1800s homesite (w/cellar ruins) near me but it is so overgrown with thorn bushes I cannot even think about detecting it. Maybe someday it will get cleared.