Shanks Mare gets old fast.

[2ndoldman]

For those of you who do not know that expression it means to use one's own legs. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/shanks-mare.html
And this old man
hates walking.

Ever since my old beast blew it's cylinder head I have been walking.
Lucky for me I do have some nearby areas that can be hunted.
To save weight I switched from the 17"coil to the Coiltek 5 X 10"
And once again I am blown away by it's performance on Canadian clad.
The stock Minelab coils just don't react to loonies like this one does.

Saturdays walk produced a couple of different things.
The first was another old bullet to add to the collection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.338_Winchester_Magnum

And the second was this charm.
Unfreaking believable pricing on these tiny little suckers.
As soon as you put ALE on it, the price skyrockets. http://estore-us.pandora.net/en-us/charms/?src=categorySearch&postion=top
Sunday's stroll was a drag.
On my hip anyways that is.
This is what I dumped out of my pouch when I got home.

[2ndoldman]

To give you a bit of a size reference this is that bottle that you can see there.
Walking has given me a different perspective on the stuff that I dig.
I have been recycling all of the copper and brass.
And tossing away practically all of the aluminum at the same time.
So for the next month I am going to see how much aluminum gets brought home.
This is the recyclables for the last two days. Some of you probably noticed the old lock hiding up at the top of my crap pile.
I have no idea as to it's actual age.
But it should be somewhere between 1870 and 1930.
Miller Lock Co. of Philadelphia, PA. The company existed from 1870 until 1930, and was known as the D. K. Miller Co. until about 1880. Founder Daniel . K. Miller reportedly received the first patent for a lock of this design in 1873.
Here's a link to a site with a variety of similar locks: http://www.1st-net-lock-museum.com/lp1.htm What most of you likely did not notice was the odd thing with 8 tumblers.
I initially thought that it was an odd combination lock. Cleaning did not help much with an identification as to its purpose though.
Partial cleaning showed the best of what was there.
25 6 07 GOV REV with a number 7 in the upper right. Anywho this is what the back looks like now.
Any one have any guesses?????

[2ndoldman]

On Sunday night I got a call from a friend who has the local Ring finders franchise.

https://theringfinders.com/

A lady had sold her home and closing on it was Monday afternoon at 1:30
He was up island and could I help.
The lady had lost here engagement ring several years ago and she thought that it might be in the back yard.
I borrowed the wife's car and arrived there just before 9
The back yard was not overly big. And hunted it until noon.
There was not a nonferrous signal left when I was done. Sadly there was no ring either.
Two of these things will stay in the collection. The first is quite obviously the key. And the second is the high tech west coast peace pipe.
OOPS This is probably the one thing that the homeowner didn't wanted me to find.
My walking days are done.
This afternoon I purchased another detecting chariot.
Let the good times roll.

[Havenhunter]

Nice chariot & as always a great story.

[2ndoldman]

Thank you Deb.

[chase]

Bruce with that titanium air cooled Raydiator You are ready for Colorado course Washington state is closer. Nice wheels you now have. I guess now you can say "You can now hual Brass"

[2ndoldman]

One of these days I will be hauling brass down your way so keep the wigwam open.

[BabaORiley]

Congrats on the new ride Bruce. Its is just amazing how much metal had been dropped and left in the ground. Do you keep running poundage/tonnage of how much you have collected?

[2ndoldman]

I could probably get a total of the brass, copper and lead. The aluminum and iron just gets tossed at the end of each hunt so I am clueless in that area. Safe to say tonnage is very possible.

[Scorpion68]

You're on par Bruce. Always like your posts cause it's always something different. Like the car and the language history lesson.

[Scorpion68]

Bruce - I remember my Dad using that expression when I asked him to take me somewhere, particularly when it was within walking distance - to him a couple of miles was Shank's Mare territory.

[2ndoldman]

This is fascinating Chuck, I had no idea that we had the same father.

[Scorpion68]

Ya just never know ; )

[willjo]

Another good post, always like seeing your finds and adventures

[2ndoldman]

Ditto Johnny.

[JoshinMO]

Neat Finds and Car. Look's like A Subaru, AWD?

[2ndoldman]

Yes it is. 2002

[JoshinMO]

Nice

[SDhunter]

Thanks for sharing. I have never heard that expression. It must be a Canadian thing.

[2ndoldman]

Actually if you check out that link it was in use in the USA before it came to Canada.

[SDhunter]

I enjoy learning how some of the old sayings got their origin.

[2ndoldman]

So do I Gary.

[SDhunter]

We should start a thread somewhere, where people can post some old sayings, and how they came to being.

[2ndoldman]

I saw your post on thresholds Gary. I bet that there will be a lot of replies.

[Jethro355]

I love that old half-trac...that's an awesome find.

[2ndoldman]

Thank you Jethro