Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
There is a new development on the National Hurricane Center Map, and it is close to the Treasure Coast.
I checked a few models on windy.com and didn't see anything that looked like it would affect us much. It looks like South Florida will be getting some east winds, though nothing big, and North Florida will be getting west winds. We are kind of in the middle. Here is what NHC says about it.
1. Near the Windward Islands (AL95):
A tropical wave located just east of the Windward Islands is
producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms
while moving quickly westward. Some slow development of this system
is possible during the next day or two before it moves into a region
of unfavorable upper-level winds. Even though development is
becoming less likely, locally heavy rains and strong gusty winds are
expected across portions of the Lesser Antilles during the next day
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| Source: Youtuber Relics and Rings. |
The MDT was priced at just under $2000 on the Kellyco site.
Notice that each detector seemed be a little different and they had different strengths. One was iron avoidance, one had better target ID, and one seemed to have more depth.
The difficulty with these types of tests is that you are on one type of site. If the soil conditions were different, the results could be different, and if the settings were changed, the detectors might perform differently.
Typically, only one set of settings for each detector is being tested, and given all the choices, there are many possible ways to set up each detector. Nonetheless, such a test can give a feeling about a metal detector's effectiveness, but only in that one type of setting.
The fellow was testing in a setting similar to where he hunts a lot.
I'll get into some other implications of this test some other time.
I've talked about the difficulties of testing metal detectors before.
Here is one post on the problem with air tests.
And here is a post on test gardens.
You'll find more if you search the treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com blog site, which is still getting hundreds of views daily.
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I posted a stoneware foot warmer that I found a few days ago. I cleaned it off enough to see the hallmark including the label Western Stoneware on a maple leaf.
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| After Some Cleaning the Western Stoneware Mark Was Visible. |
Foot warmers were filled with hot water or coals or something. The one I found has a small hole, I presume for adding water.
In 1906 the Western Stoneware Co. was formed by the merging of seven different stoneware and pottery companies, these companies were now known as Western Stoneware Co. Plants One Through Seven. This new company kept the same style of maple leaf logo that the Monmouth Pottery Company had used previously. It just seemed to fit as the city of Monmouth is known for it's maple trees and is often referred to as "Maple City". Many of the early Western Stoneware vessels such as crocks and jugs were marked with the maple leaf logo that now read: Western Stoneware Co. Plant 1 or 2 or whatever number of the seven plants that had produced it.I don't think of the Treasure Coast as being where you'd find a foot warmer, but it does get nippy occasionally.
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Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net