Need a new Moderator, Any volunteers?

[Graybeard]

Our current Moderator seems to be missing from the action. He's not logged in for months: Last Active:  May 29, 2006, 09:11:50 PM   That's just too long to be gone and be a Moderator.

This forum has never really taken off and I'm already regretting setting it up. BUT if any of you have a real interest in it and will take the Moderator job and try to make this forum move as our old one did in the early days of it we can keep it.

I need someone to contact me and volunteer to moderate soon. Use PM, e-mail or post here.

[barber]

Can't be moderator, but I'm sorry this hasn't taken off too. Shoud be a lot of detectorists out there.

[RelicHound]

still need a mod for this section? I am an avid metal detector enthusiast...I guess thats the correct word to use....was never really able to figure out what we are called  lol

[Graybeard]

still need a mod for this section? I am an avid metal detector enthusiast...I guess thats the correct word to use....was never really able to figure out what we are called  lol

Yes and thanks. I've appointed you as the new moderator here.

[Ray Ford]

Glad to have a new moderator--since my time to participate has been so limited.

BTW, is there anyone out there who has had the experience, or experiences, of finding stuff in old houses that are either being torn down or renovated.  I do that/have done that some, and I always look behind base boards/mop boards that I remove.  Not uncommon to find coins.  I found an old nickel and an old dime behind the baseboards of the house from which I am now posting.  I stripped it out on the inside when I renovated it.

The mechanism for coins being behind the baseboards is this:  People would lay change on top of a chest-of-drawers or some such piece of furniture.  The coins would sometimes be pushed off the back of the piece and fall into cracks between the base boards and the walls.

The oldest extant house in Tulsa was positively identified when letters, which had apparently take a similar fall and lodged behind torn wall paper, were found.

[CannonKrazy]

I used to like digging around under old houses. Here in the south (Georgia) old houses were built high off the ground. I have found many coins that fell through the cracks in the floors.

An old friend called me many years back wanting me to help salvage the remains of his parents country store. The store had been in the family for years. It partialy burned due to a lighting strike. While removing the damaged shelves and counter tops we found many coins. When the remodeling started and a wall was knocked out to expand the store we found an old bottle of moon shine someone had wraped in a burlap sack.

[45454]

I used to like digging around under old houses. Here in the south (Georgia) old houses were built high off the ground. I have found many coins that fell through the cracks in the floors.

An old friend called me many years back wanting me to help salvage the remains of his parents country store. The store had been in the family for years. It partialy burned due to a lighting strike. While removing the damaged shelves and counter tops we found many coins. When the remodeling started and a wall was knocked out to expand the store we found an old bottle of moon shine someone had wraped in a burlap sack.

That's an interesting find.
Sure are a lot of places to find things.

[Ray Ford]

I used to like digging around under old houses. Here in the south (Georgia) old houses were built high off the ground. I have found many coins that fell through the cracks in the floors.

An old friend called me many years back wanting me to help salvage the remains of his parents country store. The store had been in the family for years. It partialy burned due to a lighting strike. While removing the damaged shelves and counter tops we found many coins. When the remodeling started and a wall was knocked out to expand the store we found an old bottle of moon shine someone had wraped in a burlap sack.

Once, when I was pastor of a small church in south-central Oklahoma, I renovated the small, vacant parsonage.  (I was living in a larger parsonage at another church--which I was also pastoring.)  This little house was on sandstone pillars with a medium crawl space.  Underneath, I found a lot of bottles:  There were whiskey bottles.  There were pop/soda bottles.  I still have a set of six of the old 10-2-4 Dr. Pepper bottles--all with the necks broken off.  I intend, some day, to cut them off and make a set of glasses.  There were snuff glasses--lots of snuff glasses.  The story was that one pastor had a dippin' wife who did not want people to know that she dipped.  She would hurl the empty glasses far up under the house in the hope that no one would know.

I got a laugh out of thinking about that Methodist pastor's wife trying to maintain the public image of a holiness lady.