Found another drained lake in Iowa, Lake Geode. One drawback -- it was built in 1951. But that still gives a decent time span for flat tops and early tabs. And it has the thick black can-preserving muck I so adore. No cone tops yet. Cans were metal detected about 10 inches deep. Pics below are from two trips this month. Holding back best pics and details for Rustlings but I'm picking up a few regional brands and oddballs. Going again this weekend. Blackhawk beer?

that looks totally fun,

@canhawk Great stuff.....look forward to seeing some of the finer details in the Rustlings........

Some come out like this, very clean, lids are there, but no seam, Galvanic corrosion common to lake cans

Like Rusty Jonesin Steve, Jeff has a knack for these lake bottoms. Good stuff my friend!

Awesome!

No show stoppers yet but still digging and finding different variations and brands. Also found another cool reel and a tackle box. Steve Rusty Jonesin joined me for a day but the excessive heat index 105 curtailed our effort and drove us out after about 5 hours.

Can hole and gear

Drewrys tab from Chicago in the hole

Had a great time out mud trompin again with my buddy Jeff, just to darn Hot!
As Jeff mentioned, It's just so cool being out on drained lakes. I love it.

Another potential opportunity for some Iowa cans,... I still need an Urchtorff
Really not much can wise for me this trip, found a bunch of other stuff, two knives, a multi-tool,
I brought home another anchor( I should get a boat)

I also dug this cool old glass marble reflector, made in Chicago, by King Bee, circa 1938.
when I dug it, It looked like a rock, it took a week of soaking in citric acid
and chipping and scrubbing to clean it up. It says on it" INDESTRUCTABLE "...still works.

Looking forward to a return trip.
Rusty

If you guys had seen Steve's reflector come out of the mud, you would hardly believe the 'after' picture he posted here! It was a lump of mud and caked mineral, with one or two of the reflector marbles showing. Nice clean up job. The lake was built in 1950 but the park was established in 1937.
Anchor made of window weight inside plastic cleaner bottle
Steve comes off the lake to join me in the shoreline shade
Rough trip from South Bend

I sold some similar reflectors on Ebay and got $50 and up. They apparently were used on WWII military trucks, dunno if that's why they have value or what.

iggyks wrote: ↑Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:51 am I sold some similar reflectors on Ebay and got $50 and up. They apparently were used on WWII military trucks, dunno if that's why they have value or what.

iggy,
Yeah, when trying to figure out what I had I, I found a forum for guys restoring WWII cargo trailers called "Ben Hur" trailers.
The ones used on these are a later design with a narrower flange and only two mounting holes, maybe that style is more sought after.?

One of the first roads in Iowa, the Agency road 1830's, that led out to the Indian Agency from Burlington passed through here and was Re-routed when the lake was created. You can still see parts of the road and the concrete support of the bridge that once crossed the creek. I found the reflector between the shore and the bridge support. So I speculate that this was once mounted on a bridge post...? But who knows.

Hey Jeff,
I hope you kept that Drewrys...that's cool!

That Drewrys mountie can did not hold together.

50 shades of Mountie....


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I had an orange and a yellow coat mountie; As kids in 70s lower Michigan, we thought the yellow was an Atlantic fisherman and the orange was a fireman.

Growing up in Michigan about 10 miles from the Ohio border...soil conditions were so bad that flats that were only 15 years old were toast.

Rusty Jonesin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:36 pm b23.jpgB21.jpg

@Rusty Jonesin Steve is that a camera shaped like a bottle that snapped the image.....great stuff...always love hearing about the finds as long at it doesn't mean I ever have to go back through that path of weeds you tried to me try to navigate through only to discover we could have driven down to the dam....

Atlantic Fisherman, I like it, I thought I had a yellow one, couldn't find it.

Keith, you mean these little weeds? http://www.therustybunch.com/phpBB3/vie ... 11&t=28598