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<p>[QUOTE="johndo, post: 300513, member: 4534"]Who's digging graves? you make it sound like he's going deep enough to pull their gold teeth out. </p><p><br /></p><p>1. So lets say that you have a landscaping contract to care for the cemetary and you have some graves that are overgrown with weeds and need to dug out, so you dig them out throw them in your wheelbarrow and on your way back to the truck some coins rattle out of the root balls, would you keep them or go back and replant the coins. 2. Same scenario and with the chance of having metal (rebar, wire, nails etc.) in some of the overgrowth and knowing what could happen if it was to get hit with the mower blades, wouldn't be safer to detect the area to rid all potentially life threatening hazzards and if you were to find coins, jewelry or the like, it would just be a bonus.</p><p>Did he say that the cemetary had been registered with the historical society, imo if it hasn't, detect it, you know if anybody that is involved with those type of organizations the chances of any or all the findings, if there are any wouldn't get to the proper places. jmt[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johndo, post: 300513, member: 4534"]Who's digging graves? you make it sound like he's going deep enough to pull their gold teeth out. 1. So lets say that you have a landscaping contract to care for the cemetary and you have some graves that are overgrown with weeds and need to dug out, so you dig them out throw them in your wheelbarrow and on your way back to the truck some coins rattle out of the root balls, would you keep them or go back and replant the coins. 2. Same scenario and with the chance of having metal (rebar, wire, nails etc.) in some of the overgrowth and knowing what could happen if it was to get hit with the mower blades, wouldn't be safer to detect the area to rid all potentially life threatening hazzards and if you were to find coins, jewelry or the like, it would just be a bonus. Did he say that the cemetary had been registered with the historical society, imo if it hasn't, detect it, you know if anybody that is involved with those type of organizations the chances of any or all the findings, if there are any wouldn't get to the proper places. jmt[/QUOTE]
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