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Hi all, This week marks the start of the tear-out of the private street between buildings at the brewery. It used to be a public street dating back to the early 1800s, but sometime in the 70's it was cut off for freeway building, then made private when the brewery took over the area some years...

Hi all, They started the tearout around the brewery this week and so far they only took out the concrete curbs on one side of the street leaving about a 24" wide trench. I tried detecting it last night after work since I saw some 100 year old bricks laying around the bottom. But I was only...

Think this may be a Shan Lung series, making it a LOT older than I expected, circa 1770-1797ish.

Hi all, Had a bit of time so hit a well pounded park nearby. Lots of trash and clad, but got a sketchy iron and mid tone mix. Dug it and scored my first Chinese coin. Can anyone translate and ID it? Love to know the age! Thanks in advance.

Those look great! You can also shave and deburr the edges to get a cleaner look, or to even add a chamfer. The deburring tool has options for a variety of knife edges for various shapes. Another trick is to use a torch to just slightly melt the cut edges to remove the frosted/opaque plastic and...

The whole area is quite flat, although the land does rise a bit headed away from the fields, which are low areas, often wet or even underwater for a while in spring after the snow melts. We have the occasional small knoll or glacial mounds, but mostly flat due to the glaciers. Farther West, we...

Re: 1785 coin discussion, cellar hole continuation Instead of clogging up a post of a great coin find, I thought I would start a new thread discussing my cellar hole dilemma. The last reply was by Dell: "take pictures next time your there or anywhere really you think some very old areas are...

Hi all, Working my second job as a bartender this past weekend someone made a really nice contribution to the tip jar-a 1953 red seal $2 note!

Hello everyone, Sad to say I just saw a local landmark and business close down. In the past week the signs came down and dumpsters were filled. Today, construction crews were on site disconnecting the utilities. This old tavern in only a block from where I live, and is directly next to the old...

Just wanted to make an addendum. Seems that this particular round was set to use either a round ball or single slug projectile during the Civil War. I could only find 1 complete example, pictured below. Being a .662 dia slug, I certainly wouldn't want to see the kind of damage that would do to a...

Hello all, I went back today in the snow for about an hour to see if I could find anything more among the iron. No coins today, but I did locate a pretty rare pre CW era Sellier & Bellot 16Ga pinfire cartridge head. This could date to the CW era, but what little info I can find it looks like...

Hey all, hope you've all been hunting well! I finally got out for about 90 minutes this morning enjoying our first warm weather finally. I decided to hit a spot that's only about 2 blocks from home, which is the location of a CW muster ground, CW cemetery, and a tiny 1 room chapel/church. The...

Whelp, I was able to get out for nearly an hour today for a quick exploratory hunt around the brewery I work at. Mostly did the small grassy area at the farthest end of our parking lot where the Sanborn showed a carriage shop in 1890. Unfortunately I found it's a lot of fill dirt under gravel...

Just to drop some more info, here's what I found on the 1894 Sanborn map. The highlighted box is where the plant now sits. Most of it is either buildings or paved. 10Th street is what needs to be torn out eventually so hoping it'll get done before I stop working here. The Northern 1/3 of the...

Hey all! I wrote a while back about detecting a permission at a brewery site that dates back to the early 1800s which pretty much turned out to be a big bust. But I never thought about detecting the brewery site that I currently work. Granted there isn't a lot of open ground, but one open...

Great finds, and wish you the best of luck on the new sites. As for the screw looking thing I think that may be a vacume relief valve. Threads into a pipe or tank and if the vacume overcomes spring tension it'll pull the stem down to let air in. Used a lot on tanks to prevent them from imploding...

One other thing that comes to mind is it could be a cane cap somewhat like in the photo below and formed to the contour.

Hello Thib and welcome to the forum! Yes, that's a rope or cable thimble. Used anywhere they have premade lifting cables (or ropes), often having a lifting hook attached with a threaded clevis at the end. Shown is a modern example of a cable sling.

Hello everyone! Finally got out for a couple hours Saturday morning to my local Lake Michigan beach. First thing that appended was seeing a whole bunch of people detecting even though it was just past sunrise. There was a woman who passed me up as I was headed out and she told me not to bother...

Great post, and lots of cool hobbies everyone! Love the turning, although I've never done wood lathe stuff myself. Metal work is part of my job so never really do anything artistic. Cars on the other hand are always a favorite of mine, whether on the highway, twisty backroads, or on the track...