olfart
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After lurking for several days, thanks to Vlad's help I'm now a certified member of the forum!
My first detector was (and still is) a D-Tex Tiny Tex I bought new in December 1971 as a gift for my dad. He passed away the following June, and I inherited the Tiny Tex. Since then it has seen periodic service for such things as finding my wife's wedding band in a pasture where we'd been mud-wrestling calves, locating property boundary markers, even finding a few hundred ring-pull tabs and bottle caps. The Tiny Tex now has a new roommate, a Bounty Hunter Time Ranger. The learning curve is somewhat steeper on the Time Ranger than the Tiny Tex, but I'm making progress.
We live on 35 acres of heavily-wooded land in northeast Texas, and we've been told there once was a one-room school building on the north end of our property. An old well and a storm shelter seem to support that story. There was another old well near where our present well is located, and I'm betting there was a house near the well. The place was covered with trash when we bought it, and we had to have a bulldozer come in and bury most of it so we'd have a clean place to put a house. That's going to make life interesting when I start trying to find the old house site. I may have to bush hog that whole area to reduce the briars and bushes that grab at everything that passes.
I'll keep you posted if I find anything of interest at either site. So far I've found a washer, a bullet, a grommet and a bucket of nails, and that's just in our yard.
My first detector was (and still is) a D-Tex Tiny Tex I bought new in December 1971 as a gift for my dad. He passed away the following June, and I inherited the Tiny Tex. Since then it has seen periodic service for such things as finding my wife's wedding band in a pasture where we'd been mud-wrestling calves, locating property boundary markers, even finding a few hundred ring-pull tabs and bottle caps. The Tiny Tex now has a new roommate, a Bounty Hunter Time Ranger. The learning curve is somewhat steeper on the Time Ranger than the Tiny Tex, but I'm making progress.
We live on 35 acres of heavily-wooded land in northeast Texas, and we've been told there once was a one-room school building on the north end of our property. An old well and a storm shelter seem to support that story. There was another old well near where our present well is located, and I'm betting there was a house near the well. The place was covered with trash when we bought it, and we had to have a bulldozer come in and bury most of it so we'd have a clean place to put a house. That's going to make life interesting when I start trying to find the old house site. I may have to bush hog that whole area to reduce the briars and bushes that grab at everything that passes.
I'll keep you posted if I find anything of interest at either site. So far I've found a washer, a bullet, a grommet and a bucket of nails, and that's just in our yard.
aboard!
