Finally a find on a hunt!

I actually find something on a treasure hunt other than a pop tab or nail! CAUTION: this video has lots of movement, if you are pronte to dizziness or motion sickness, beware. ;)

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[mjhgmh6469]

Just watched your video...Was that Lake Superior? It sure does look a lot like Marquette Michigan. I do a little relic hunting in that area. Lots of history near the lake but I usually run when I see junk like that.

[annmackin]

It is Lake Superior, but on the South shore in Wisconsin. :)

[toiceborn]

Just so you know, those railroad spikes could collectibles :) If they have numbers on the heads, they're call "date nails". (you'll see two digits of the year they were made). Rare ones can fetch a pretty penny. You may be overlooking treasure in what appears to be trash :)

[annmackin]

Thanks toice! I will take a look at them the next time I am down there. I never noticed a number before, and there definately wasn't one on the one we kept for the last video, but I definitely did not look at all of them.

[rcaldwell1973]

you could take a bucket and pick up the railroad spikes and turn them in for scrap and make a little cash

[DrLsw]

damn lol take all the spikes and bring them to the scrap yard!! get alot of money from all that metal

[guns4good]

Yeah, you all should definitely take totes of metal out of there... that scrap is worth money.

[LEARNTOPLAYCRAPS]

@annmackin I find railroad date nails from the late 1800's in old cowboy and sheep herder campfires that are everywhere in the desert southwest. You find old parts from cast iron stoves, too. They burned up the old railroad ties for camp wood (not too healthy) and the old date nails are in the ashes and strewn around the pits. Mine are from the old DRG&W rail head near Cisco, Utah..West Water Canyon. I saw and touched a US gold dollar from 1853 the other day with a bite mark in it! Too cool.

[sparklekirby]

@annmackin dudet you could claim that car if the owner doesn't come after it in about 2-3 months.

My grandfather did that once.... and gave it to my mom. It was already so messed up so she'd allow them to scratch there names in it. lol You could atcually own the car and sell it.

[Hollrobb]

@stonereflex ,I have a friend that hauls junk to sell and what he does is gets an old car and over time fills it up with small iron/metal things until he cant get anything more in it and then hauls that to the scrapyard.

[stonereflex]

@Hollrobb lol surprisingly not too too much, that stuff is heavy... 15$ a trip lol? and you're cleaving up the surroundings and uncovering areas that noones detected before...

[Hollrobb]

@DrLsw ,maybe $40 a ton, Do you know how many bucket fulls it would take to make a ton?lol

[edmm976]

women cant find coins they find junk like there husbands!

[daroofa]

Most scrapyards won't accept railroad related scrap without a permit from the railroad company. They don't want people out tearing up existing tracks just to make a couple bucks. Check with your local scrapyard before hauling in a bucket of railroad spikes.

[WildMikeCan69]

If I was you I would have collected all he railroad spikes and sold them.

[firewoodguy2009]

collect any metal you can find turn it in to cash

at the local scrap yard