$1.54 in the Playground

So today it rained and rained and rained and then finally stopped late this afternoon. After making a yummy dinner I asked Bob if he wanted to go out detecting at a school. He said SURE, he'd love to get out. We made a quick unanswered call to our detecting buddies Nadine and Steve. (No clue where they were, they never called back) and we headed out.

No one else was in the school yard, so we headed over to the playground equipment which has those lovely little pebbles to detect in. We found a few pennies, a set of diary keys and a small horse charm.

The detector started giving us all this chattering and I thought "WOW, the ground must be electrified" and we moved away to the soccer field and the detector settled down.

We detected for about an hour and found $1.54 in change and another key and some other tidbits.

It was getting dark (as it was 9pm) and Bob was hungry, so we decided to retire for the evening. :o)

JACKPOT, but got arrested 06-10-09

After eating a yummy dinner which Bob prepared (Pesto Chicken) and watching part of the news, I was really eager to get out and metal detect. We hadn't been out in a long time and I had been reading a metal detecting forum and had read everyone's awesome finds.

We jumped in the car and headed out to a public school, I didn't care that we were just going to detect around some playground equipment, I just wanted to get out there. Upon parking, we realized that we would be watched, some local people were having a baseball practice and some kids were on the playground equipment. We started detecting away from the kiddies and then they took off so we continued. WE FOUND NOTHING, not even a penny. We suspect someone else had been around as this spot had paid off really well for us in the past.

We hit a small sand box area when we were heading to the car and found only foil balls. Bob wanted to go to another school as at 8pm he really wanted to watch WIPEOUT on TV. lol The next school we drove too again had a baseball practice. "Let's go home" I said.

I then remembered that Bob had spoke to a neighbouring business owner who told us we were allowed to detect on their property but warned us that we'd probably find a lot of nails as the business before had used a lot of them.

First we started on the edge of our property. I got 3 good hits, but for some reason we couldn't locate them, the signal said 2" down yet we would dig 5" down and it would say 0" and our pinpointer wasn't picking it up. We decided to quickly head to the neighbouring business. We had a 1/2 hour before Bob's show was to start.

We first started near an old tree and located some siding. We then started near the fence and scored a dinky car and a piece of lego in the same hole. Then a Loonie, a Nickle, a couple of things we weren't sure of, and then a mini metal SLOT MACHINE, lol (No money inside) and then a Police Car dinky car (hahahaa, now you know why we titled the blog entry this way) lol Before we knew it, it was time to go in, we'll have to finish the property another night.

It was great to get out there again!

Everything we found this evening

Not sure what this is, it looks like it may open, but I can't get it to open.

Back of the above unknown item.

Close up of the Nozzle Item

Metal Jackpot machine

We Found Part Of "Bobbit" LOL!

It was a crazy morning, first we got up and ran over to mom's house to pick up the lawnmower, you see we need two mowers to cut our lawn and even with two it still takes 1 hour and 15 minutes to do so. After that, we came inside for a break and a snack and received a call from cousin Steve -- SURE we'll go detecting with you. First we all had to do some yard work, so it wasn't until closer to 3:30pm before we had a chance to get out there.

So the contest was on, who would find the first penny.

Well, after a while, Bob and I had collected four pennies and we were pretty proud of ourselves. Bob met up with Steve as he and Nadine were around the other side of the house and quickly found out we were losing as they had located a dime. LOL

MUST FIND MORE PENNIES! We kept going and found nail after nail after nail. You see, I lowered the settings on the detector to grab any signal I could get, I didn't want to pass up anything good. lol We're still learning the detector.

We had a couple of breaks in between.

I kept on going, I wasn't going to let them win. I had an okay signal and Bob was helping go through the plug and kept finding nails and was going to give up to take a break, I went over the plug one more time and there was still a solid signal, I ripped apart the plug and found my own dime. WOOHOO! We were ahead. I was having way too much fun.

Bob Sleeping

Bob munching and crunching.

How many guys does it take to dig a hole?!

Don't ask. LMAO! Nadine didn't know I was doing this. heehee! She was busy checking out the hole as she found something.


So by the end of the day, we had scored 23 cents and they had found 10 cents.

We had also located a spoon (which looks similar to this one we found on own own property) on the back it says :Victoria Silver O.S. Co.: but is in bad shape, there is a big crack across the spoon part, we found another jingle bell, as I said 23 cents in change, 3 more dog tags (1972, 1973, 1943), a chain, some sort of knobby thing, a button, a weird thing we aren't sure what it is that has dots all over it, a rusted pocket knife.... and......

Not sure what the thing below is....

Close up of the dog tags


And we found this, LOL (aka part of Bobbit), not 100% what it is from.


Well, as you can imagine, laughter errupted when Bob was digging and pulls this out and yells "I found dick" and then shortly after Steve yells "I found rusty balls" and then Nadine yells out "wanna screw? I found a screw". (GIGGLE)

UPDATED: 05-05-09 Mom found this photo on the internet, looks like we actually found part of this. :o)

Any clues what these mystery items might be? Sign below and let us know what you think. :o) Thanks!!!

Afterwards we had an awesome pizza dinner thanks to Nadine & Steve.

Until next time.... ;o)

Another Penny & A Silver Spoon 1800's?

Hey all!

Let's start with GOOD FRIDAY -- we called my mom up to see if she wanted to come over and help us detect our yard again and see what kind of goodies we could find. She was nice enough to bring over some Timmies and Muffins. We sat inside and had a great conversation and then headed outside. Bob had to go meet with some people about being in an upcoming movie/tv show? and Mom and I headed outside to detect. We played around by the ruins and didn't find anything except nails and then headed out to the backyard where we scored a nice 1951 penny. We played around some more and found more "garbage metal". It got really cold outside with the wind so after about an hour Mom decided she should head for home and I went inside to do some laundry. Bob came home shortly after and I headed back outside to try again and found more scrap metal. I then came across a "good signal" close to the house and found a pipe. Bob brought out the camera and took some photos.

Last night we decided to watch some video's on how to actually use the MXT properly. Whoops, I guess I didn't have it set correctly, so this morning we decided after running around in town and before we had to go back into town for dinner to meet up with Bob's family that we would detect for about an hour near the "Ruins". This time Bob used the detector and he scored this nice find -- a spoon that displays on the back Nevada McG. C. Co. -- which I tried looking up on the internet and only located a Fork that someone else had for sale who claims it is from the 1800's -- if that is actually true, then that would make sense since the rocks we found in the yard which we were told was from a house built in the 1800's before it burnt down in the 1900's.

The spoon was found approx. 4" - 5" under the dirt. It is the size of a Serving Spoon. It is discoloured and Bob tried cleaning it with toothpaste and an old toothbrush and did find some silver colour in one spot that cleaned up. It did ring up in the 80's on the detector which is a silver reading. We'll need to research it some more.

Hoping we can get out there tomorrow.

NOTE: received a message from Climac on the Canadian Metal Detecting message board stating that MCG might stand for"'McGlashan, Clarke & Co.', a manufacturer of silver plate in Niagara Falls, Ontario and Muncie, Indiana from 1837 to 1910"

YING YANG in the School Yard - 03-22-09

After a lazy day of doing nothing (bad us, as we were suppose to be cleaning) the phone rang after lunch as Steve wanted to go detecting when Nadine arrived home from work after 5:00pm. They came over to our house after 5pm and we headed out to a school yard. Bob and I had been there before and this was Steve & Nadine's first time.

Since it was later in the day and the sun was setting, it was getting really cold.

Steve & Nadine headed off to the playground equipment while Bob and I headed off to the baseball diamond where we had found a ring a year before. Junk Junk Junk all around - pop tabs, foil, everything but money. lol


Finally we scored a penny and then some dimes and a few more pennies. We finally found a Ying Yang charm. 36 cents in change was our total.


It was getting colder and dark. We looked up to see Steve alone. Where on earth was Nadine?


We headed over to Steve to find out poor Nadine was freezing and had gone to sit in their truck.

We compared our finds.


They had found Dinky Car Wheels, the end of a pencil, bret, paper clip, zipper pieces, a round piece of metal and 25 cents in change.

We ended our evening by picking up Subs at Subway and Coffee's at Tim Horton's and coming back to our house to hang out and watch TV.

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LOST by one Penny! 03-21-09

After a shopping trip in the morning to Ikea we had made plans to meet Steve & Nadine at Steve's parent's property to do some metal detecting. Steve's family had owned a whole bunch of property including the site we were on for many many generations.






This was the original house on the site which was built in the early 1800's


This is the same house which was demo'd in 2006 as the property was sold and new houses were being built.

We had tried metal detecing there last year when nothing was on the property. SEE HERE


Steve's parents live on another section of the property that wasn't sold so they gave us permission to detect.

We split up and Bob and I headed towards some trees in a section that an old road had been prior to a second house being built on the property. Basically, all we found was junk, junk and more junk. Junk mental, nails and old container lids, etc... They were all found 2 - 3 " down.

We met back up with Steve & Nadine for a break as Bob was getting hungry.

This is what Steve & Nadine had found up to this point. (Not including the sunglasses)

Yes, they had found one penny. We had not found any money.

We split up again and located some bullet casings, but Bob said they weren't old. We then started detecting around a bar and located a very rusted licence plate that we couldn't read the date to. We headed towards the largest tree on the property and again found a bunch of garbage including the remains of an old toy truck.

It had been 4 1/2 hours and we regrouped. They still had no found any more money and we hadn't. Wow, we lost by a penny!

No worries, we had a lot of fun trying to find treasures. Not sure if Bob and I did pass up anything good as we are still trying to figure out our MXT.

We got home and I asked Bob if we could detect our yard as we had been told a house on the property was originally built in the 1800's and burned down. We were shown by the previous owner where the stones that it was built on were in the ground. We started detecting around there and it was so junky sounding, lots of clicks and blips. I finally had a solid hit, we dug and came up with black burnt wood (from the fire?!) along with some nails and a 1959 penny, all in the 4" range.

Bob was getting cold so he unloaded the car and I went into the back yard. Again lots of blips and clicks, but finally found another solid hit. It produced a file of some sort? I detected for a few more minutes and came up with some other odds and ends.

By now I was feeling very chilled. I decided to go in and we had a snack and watched A HAUNTING which Steve & Nadine had kindly recorded for us.

Better luck next time for us!