03-22-2019, 01:35 PM
[#0000FF]Yeah, I tried to take full advantage of the prospecting and antiquity collecting potential of the Sierra foothills when I lived there. Did a lot of panning and sluicing...and rolling rocks in dry streambeds looking for nuggets. Found quite a few and got a HEAVY 50% price bonus for the nuggets when we sold them to a couple of area jewelers that made nugget jewelry.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Got lots of bottles and old timey items out of dumps during my years as a rural real estate agent. But my best haul was being given unlimited picking rights on an old barn full of old farm supplies and tack. Plus, we even got to sell the rights to a barn wood salvager to take the barn down.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Even better was getting fishing rights on the old ponds and cattle tanks on some of our new listings. The owners would often say "Sure, go ahead and fish it. But I don't think there are any fish in it." Most times our first checkout trip resulted in some bodacious bass and bluegills...and big bullfrogs on steroids.
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[#0000FF]Got lots of bottles and old timey items out of dumps during my years as a rural real estate agent. But my best haul was being given unlimited picking rights on an old barn full of old farm supplies and tack. Plus, we even got to sell the rights to a barn wood salvager to take the barn down.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Even better was getting fishing rights on the old ponds and cattle tanks on some of our new listings. The owners would often say "Sure, go ahead and fish it. But I don't think there are any fish in it." Most times our first checkout trip resulted in some bodacious bass and bluegills...and big bullfrogs on steroids.
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