After two weeks of winter, snow and sub zero degrees I was sure the digging season was well over, but suddenly the weather changed. A few days of heavy rain and plus degrees removed all the snow and thawed away the ground frost allowing me to get back out to the forests!! Full of joy and fresh brewed coffee I jumped into the van and took off towards a site I wanted to continue searching. The days are really short now here north so there wasn`t much time to loose. I turned on the Fisher and began my little trek through the relatively thick birch forest towards a clearing further in. This place had been a collection point for vehicles after the war and it is signals everywhere so after a while I just gave up getting up on my feet after checking a signal, I could just walk on my knees and crawl between the spots needing to be dug.
On my way through the forest I saw tracks from a few elgs and most of the day I could hear them behind the tree line a few hundred meters away, I really hoped they wouldn`t come over my way and luckily they stayed between the trees and left me alone.
I tried to dig every signal so in the end I had built quite a pile of rubbish, but a decent pile to bring back home as well. The first find was a lug wrench and then part of a lamp and a OVT clasp. I dug out a dinged up Notek lamp, it wasn`t too damaged so I was quite happy with that find. Then I found a hood panel from a vehicle, and another large unknown to me vehicle part. Next to a shovel I found a rear Notek light part and I hoped to find the rest of it but instead I found the bottom part for the first Notek. The next signal was another vehicle panel of some sort and then I found a holder for a small variant of a vehicle fire extinguisher, which I actually found one example of here earlier this season. Then I went on to search through a long ditch where it was very much rubbish but also the best finds of today spread out through it. When I filled it back and began preparing to go back home because of lack of daylight left I had dug up two more complete Notek lamps, and these two looks like they might clean up nicely, and I also had a small vehicle flag frame!!
The weather report isn`t very promising but as long as it is possible I ll do my best to get out doing some more digging before the real winter kicks in :)
On my way through the forest I saw tracks from a few elgs and most of the day I could hear them behind the tree line a few hundred meters away, I really hoped they wouldn`t come over my way and luckily they stayed between the trees and left me alone.
I tried to dig every signal so in the end I had built quite a pile of rubbish, but a decent pile to bring back home as well. The first find was a lug wrench and then part of a lamp and a OVT clasp. I dug out a dinged up Notek lamp, it wasn`t too damaged so I was quite happy with that find. Then I found a hood panel from a vehicle, and another large unknown to me vehicle part. Next to a shovel I found a rear Notek light part and I hoped to find the rest of it but instead I found the bottom part for the first Notek. The next signal was another vehicle panel of some sort and then I found a holder for a small variant of a vehicle fire extinguisher, which I actually found one example of here earlier this season. Then I went on to search through a long ditch where it was very much rubbish but also the best finds of today spread out through it. When I filled it back and began preparing to go back home because of lack of daylight left I had dug up two more complete Notek lamps, and these two looks like they might clean up nicely, and I also had a small vehicle flag frame!!
The weather report isn`t very promising but as long as it is possible I ll do my best to get out doing some more digging before the real winter kicks in :)
Lug wrench.
Part of a lamp.
OVT clasp.
Dinged up Notek lamp.
Hood panel.
Not sure what this big and heavy part is.
Broken shovel.
Rear Notek panel.
Fire extinguisher bracket.
Bottom part of the Notek lamp.
Another vehicle panel.
Mystery part.
Internal and bottom part of a Notek lamp.
The second front Notek today:)
The third front Notek:)
Internal and bottom part for the last Notek:)
The vehicle flag frame.
All the Noteks from today. Very happy with this haul:)
Barbed wire from the wartime.
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