I agree 100%. This channel is one of my favorites. Content it awesome and attention to detail as far as video quality is second to none! Keep up the good work my friend! Cheers from newfoundland, Canada 🇨🇦
Brad the tool you found is a Mushroom Hardy the square end fits into a hardy hole in a anvil or can be used like a chisel. They were useful tools as they fill in the empty space of bowl shaped objects. They are used for planishing - in other words, they are used to smooth out small irregularities in dome shaped objects. The mushroom shape must match the desired contour of the final product. These tools are useful for making spoons, ladles, bowls, and any other object with a concave shape. Thought I would give a little history class. Great find.
The little buttons on a string: that's a technique my older foremothers would do to keep track of little buttons for future use on their hand sewn clothing. Even if they didn't match, young children wouldn't mind. Thanks for taking me places, I'll never get to see.
yeah, now that you mentioned it...my grandmother used to do that too...before any piece of clothing was decommissioned and repurposed, the buttons would be removed and tied together before being dropped into the "button box". Wouldn't want to break up a set you know. lol My wife just gives me a funny look when I sit down to remove buttons form anything before they are cut up for rags. Just have a hard time just throwing them out. lol As a kid I used to love going through her button box when I was spending the weekend with my grandmother and grandfather's place.
@@GitteEnjoyFood You are as old as you think you are. There are days, when I feel like I'm 85, and ready for the grave. Then there are days, when I do something foolish, and I feel 15, again.
It’s so great to see this channel doing so well. Aside from the obvious things that make this channel so cool like the great editing, excellent original music, and beautiful scenery, there is also the fact that there is never any goofy hype or pandering going on. This guy just loves the history of whatever he happens to find and I appreciate that so much. Thanks for all the fun vids !
Just wanting you to know that I watch your videos often, and I always enjoy them, especially when you find one of those shoe buckles. I'm so used to it now that I spot them right off (Oh and thimbles too) and my cat thinks I'm nuts, lol, coz I loudly say "hey-another colonial shoe buckle"!! And (to the cat) do you know how old that is?!" This video was cool because of the "53"--it was so big and decorated nicely. Anyway, I'm a fan and enjoy your banter, and the education I'm getting from all of your descriptions & explanations. Carry on!
Brad you always make the best videos! Thanks...the buttons on a string was a very common way that extra buttons were kept so they wouldn’t get lost. I bought an early 1800’s sewing basket that had multiple stringed buttons.
I am familiar with quarrying stone as my family was in the business of limestone. The stone in the video is formed in ledges or layers and what they did was to take a star drill bit and make holes in a straight line and then drive wedges into the stone to break it out. if you use powder it will shatter the stone and make it worthless. To remove the blocks from the quarry it is a derrick and block/tackle. As far as moving it down the road my guess is oxen and wagons. There was a lot of sweat and skinned knuckles and probably some colorful language. BTW love the videos, keep them coming.
Good accurate description of how they split the stone , i think you are talking about the method of having two slip pieces and a center piece that wa hammered in between them . The same method was / is used in England for splitting granite and other stone . Lots of evidence of it on Dartmoor in Devon
One of the many things that I enjoy about your videos is how respectful you are of others. No harsh language. Just a classy guy. Thank you for posting your adventures.
The remnants of the stone structure, the well made from the cut stone etc are amazing. Thank you for taking us along to places and the history many of us otherwise probably wouldn’t see. Beautiful country!
I decided to check out other comments before saying anything but I believe that you are right. Actually, the ones that you can still buy aren't much different from that one.
I love history and I love your show. You are metal detecting an era lost in time. Your adventures re awaken those people's daily lives for all of us to get to imagine and enjoy. Thank you.
As much as the wonderful finds you come up with, I really like the videography of your channel. The beauty depicted in such an artistic way makes me have to agree with Ms Strayhorn's previous comment that your channel is of award winning quality! I really enjoy taking a break, with your posts, from the political insanity that is so prevalent on U2be. So, thank you so much for what you do.
As an Australian I found this video wonderfully educational and those viewers of your, how well informed they appear to be. Your video was all content which I really appreciated. It was not endless walking and rambling, what you did you did well, thank you , I have subscribed. I love seeing videos about the U.S. Through DNA I have found cousins everywhere in the U.S. it is exciting & I want to know more about the place, your videos will assist in my total knowledge.
This is why I love UA-cam. You find these underrated channels with interesting material in niche topics with great talent for cinematography. I live in Ma, near Lexington and Concord, and can’t wait to start looking. You’ve got a lot of history in the middle of Vermont, I can’t imagine what’s around here where the USA was essentially created. This channel made me take up this hobby and I thank you for that!
The rod with the nut on the end certainly looks to me to the fixed side of a pintle hinge, still sold today as one of you viewers mentioned. And I have seen two sets of buttons tied together in the manner you showed that were a pair of cuff links for my grandfather. He was born in 1853, and lived most of his life in the mountains of Tennessee as a preacher and headmaster of a school. He kept them in a box with a nice pair that his first wife gave him for a wedding present.
Love that you got to talk with the man who takes care of the stop! Some of the history they can give you, can lead you to some fantastic new areas. Keep up the great videos Brad!
My Friday mornings are always great ones because I get to enjoy GMMD with my 1st cup of coffee 😀 All along that stage coach line is bound to have relics but we know where the abundance will be 👍 Great array of finds Brad and Andrew. Congrats on finding the general service button, Andrew ☺🎉
The item you point out at 19:05 looks like a hoof pick. Used to clean the dirt and other debris that accumulates in the hollow of the hoof or under the edges of a horseshoe. When we used to ride we carried one in the saddlebags, just encase the horse picked something up in its hoof. A great little tool to have on hand.
Brad, I enjoy every video from the intro music through your every find! I love that no matter what you find, to you and us viewers it’s just as interesting as a coin! Thank you for sharing your wonderful adventures with us! Ha! I bought a metal detector but in Colorado the ground is so hard it’s nearly impossible to dig to targets so I got s art and tried a swimming area of a mountain lake and my dog got so bored watching me dig that she joined me and we dug down 3 1/2 feet to WATER! 😂 yup! We hit it big with water so she laid in it to cool off while I sifted to find the target..a pull off can lid is what was so important! Lol I did chose to keep it in my fishing tackle box as a souvenir for the great water hole we made that day! Lol 😆 I should’ve recorded it and called it, “Goofy and Goffiers Great Water find” 😉😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Green Mountain Metal Detecting hey VT my girl is from Burlington....I drive from Manassas Va a few time a year and should bring the AT MAX next time.... been studying your approach and attack mode..... I'm in war between the states territory.....lots of CSA relics.... great vids
The cutlery handle made by The Charles Parker Co. of Meriden Ct (1869). Made a large variety of items but most notably Shotguns. High quality considered by many collectors to be the best of the American made shotguns. They also made Vises, coffee grinders, piano stool hardware among many other foundry cast and forged items. Parker marked items not gun related are also collected by the gun collectors. Some of their high grade guns bring tens of thousands of dollars. While a broken spoon isn't worth much it is really cool to find a sort of rare item from a noted CT company.
Would not have used black powder or other explosives to extract / quarry marble as this would cause far to much damage. The usual way was to drill holes then hammer in metal wedges to split the marble. A sequence or such holes and wedges in a line would cause it to split in a pretty straight line. They also used large wooden wedges, which once hammered into a crack would be soaked in water, they then expand and open the split / crack more and more. Love your vids. Good hunting.
In the part with the flooded quarry it shows the pilot holes in the stone just above the water line at the back of the quarry. It appears they began to cut more marble but had to stop for some reason, maybe the water. :)
You have such great history out there. I love hearing about the history, buildings and back stories of the people and occupations. Great finds. The extremely deep hole of dark murky water is a bit unsettling. Lol but the rock that you showed your finds on..... lower left corner of the rock looked like an alien face. Maybe that was in my head because you mentioned them. But it really looks like one. Kind of tilted to the left. Lol great finds thanks for sharing.
Oh yes, the forged L shaped piece is a gate or door hanger, there will be 2 of them, one top, one bottom. The bolt will go through a post and the gate will hang via an eye on the L part. Length of the bolt part will give you an idea of the post and thus possible an idea of the gate size. Big supporting post, big heavy gate or door.
I found your question about how they used to keep the water out of the quarry intriguing! I would also like to know if anyone knows. Also, that would be cool if you come back to go check out the old hermit's homestead. Unless he packed the whole place out I'd bet you'll find some really cool stuff there. You should ask the approximate dates he was up there though. The further back in time the better!
Great video as always. I want to say how much I have learned from watching your videos. A couple of weeks ago the wife and I were hiking the site of a now gone Ironworks that had a 70 house community the company built for the workers. As we were walking the trail through what used to be the workers houses, we came upon cellar hole after cellar hole that I would have had no idea what I was looking at if not for your videos. Thanks man, and keep the videos coming.
That place was awesome! hope you go back there and find the rest of the relics! Sorry I missed you at Pound the Ground. I have a sweet find coming on my new video tomorrow. don't miss it. Thanks again for a great video. see you next time.
Still bugs up there WOW , I thought by now would have been a good freeze to get rid of most. Thanks for filming and sharing ! Nice job :-) GL and HH !!
The "tool" looks to me like a specialized wedge: the offset would make it possible to knock it under something resting on a hard surface. Maybe to split off pieces of marble to create the inside of a piece with an "L" profile?
The small tool you found looks like a clinch cutter. A tool most likely made by the blacksmith from scrap. The tool was used to de clinch the sharp end of shoe nails before pulling a shoe. Often done for loose or outgrown shoes to prevent tearing up the hoof wall. The foot was held between the knees and worked on,
Brad, absolutely LOVE the way you give us the still scenes of interesting trees, flowers, views, etc. Enjoying the scenery as you detect. Some of them would be great as pictures to hang on the wall.
Being a history lover. These videos are amazing. Showing things I know little about (buttons Ext.) My wife and I have talked about places where people have never walked upon here in the Battle Of north Point area in Baltimore. I told her about the mountains and you finding things you never think people have even been. I can safely say, I doubt there no place around here where people haven't walked upon , American or British. Keep posting your videos they are awesome and informative.
Bob down there pointed out the “L” shaped rod with the square nut on it as a gate hinge. 100% sure that is what it is. I have used them before. The part Brad dug up is the part that goes through the gate post. One at the top of the post and one at the bottom. Then an eye to fit over the stub of Brad’s part (two of them go on the gate side). Makes it real easy to just lift the gate off the post if you need to. You can buy them today at any feed store, galvanized. But no where near as cool as this hand crafted one.
Amazing as always! Thank you. I have discovered a connection between some of the relics found by detectorists which may change the way we view the past. Commonly found on sites of 150 years plus will be harmonica reeds,spoon handles and bowls along with parts and wholes of bells, yes?. It's music related.
Great stuff Brad, fellow Vermonter here, I really enjoy watching your videos. I grew up in Rutland county so I am very familiar with many of the areas you go to in your videos and have been to some of them! I like to spend as much of my time in the VT woods as possible with my kids which is why I am so drawn to your vids. Keep it up! Thanks for everything.
Nice place. Im gonna do some research around my area for stagecoach stops. I live smack dab in the middle of the us. Santi-cali-gon trails. Alot of residential areas but outskirts of the town i live in gives me hope in finding some camps and such. Great finds guys!
The tool you found looks like the same thing used on old wooden boats to push the packing material between the boards. I guess they could have made wooden buckets, water storage tanks, or something like that.
Like your wireless headphones. Got mine a couple of months ago and really enjoy them. It's so nice not having to bother with the wire when you want to set your detector aside to dig or whatever, makes it well worth the cost of the headphones. Like a couple of others said, the L shaped rod is the pin part of a hinge, still manufactured and used today, just not hand forged normally.
C. Parker on the handle is for : Charles Parker Meriden CT. the maker of fine shotgunsalso. Good hunt and another great location. Thanks! Jeff in Oregon
Well im a 40 year young ontario Canadian man that's almost gone through all your videos what will i watch when ive seen all your vids thanks 4 so much excitement
Enjoyed watching. Nice hunt and relics. Those stacked stones at the quarry were amazing. Suprising they were still there after all these years and not used at some point. Thanks for sharing the hunt and finds. GL, HH and take care.
Sometimes they would drive an iron tool down into a block of rock & then drive two wooden wedges into the resultant hole back to back & then they would pour water onto the wood. They would do that in several places along a line. Once they had wet the wood they would leave it maybe overnight & the wood would swell & split the rock. Have seen rocks split like that on Dartmoor U.K.
Grape Cream of Tartar. This is the white powder left in the bottom after wine has been fermented. It is used in giving fast rise to flapjacks and the like.
Poss on hand hammered hand tool was used to clean out horse hoofs when packed with mud and all kinds of hard items , your crank handle looks to be a steering link for larger wagon !
You have such a great talent!! In my humble opinion you have an award winning channel!! Chime in if you agree.
Thanks so much, Teresa!
I agree 100%. This channel is one of my favorites. Content it awesome and attention to detail as far as video quality is second to none! Keep up the good work my friend! Cheers from newfoundland, Canada 🇨🇦
Yes indeed, I watch and enjoy all the adventures.
Brad the tool you found is a Mushroom Hardy the square end fits into a hardy hole in a anvil or can be used like a chisel. They were useful tools as they fill in the empty space of bowl shaped objects. They are used for planishing - in other words, they are used to smooth out small irregularities in dome shaped objects. The mushroom shape must match the desired contour of the final product.
These tools are useful for making spoons, ladles, bowls, and any other object with a concave shape. Thought I would give a little history class. Great find.
Oh wow. You helped me learn something new today as well. Thank you 👍
Great info, thanks
Wow! At 72 it seems there is still something for me to learn out there. Nice information.
Thanks for the info, David!
Cleaning a horse's hoof?
The little buttons on a string: that's a technique my older foremothers would do to keep track of little buttons for future use on their hand sewn clothing. Even if they didn't match, young children wouldn't mind.
Thanks for taking me places, I'll never get to see.
Objective Observer ......mine too!! 😬
yeah, now that you mentioned it...my grandmother used to do that too...before any piece of clothing was decommissioned and repurposed, the buttons would be removed and tied together before being dropped into the "button box". Wouldn't want to break up a set you know. lol
My wife just gives me a funny look when I sit down to remove buttons form anything before they are cut up for rags. Just have a hard time just throwing them out. lol
As a kid I used to love going through her button box when I was spending the weekend with my grandmother and grandfather's place.
Objective Observer Even me grow up in the 70-these in Norway used to have clothes with different buttons 👍🏼❤️🤗I feel old🤣
@@GitteEnjoyFood You are as old as you think you are. There are days, when I feel like I'm 85, and ready for the grave. Then there are days, when I do something foolish, and I feel 15, again.
It’s so great to see this channel doing so well. Aside from the obvious things that make this channel so cool like the great editing, excellent original music, and beautiful scenery, there is also the fact that there is never any goofy hype or pandering going on. This guy just loves the history of whatever he happens to find and I appreciate that so much. Thanks for all the fun vids !
Thanks so much for the very kind words!
Just wanting you to know that I watch your videos often, and I always enjoy them, especially when you find one of those shoe buckles. I'm so used to it now that I spot them right off (Oh and thimbles too) and my cat thinks I'm nuts, lol, coz I loudly say "hey-another colonial shoe buckle"!! And (to the cat) do you know how old that is?!" This video was cool because of the "53"--it was so big and decorated nicely. Anyway, I'm a fan and enjoy your banter, and the education I'm getting from all of your descriptions & explanations. Carry on!
Brad you always make the best videos! Thanks...the buttons on a string was a very common way that extra buttons were kept so they wouldn’t get lost. I bought an early 1800’s sewing basket that had multiple stringed buttons.
I agree Lisa
I am familiar with quarrying stone as my family was in the business of limestone. The stone in the video is formed in ledges or layers and what they did was to take a star drill bit and make holes in a straight line and then drive wedges into the stone to break it out. if you use powder it will shatter the stone and make it worthless. To remove the blocks from the quarry it is a derrick and block/tackle. As far as moving it down the road my guess is oxen and wagons. There was a lot of sweat and skinned knuckles and probably some colorful language. BTW love the videos, keep them coming.
I was thinking, that to get those blocks that big and squared, using powder would have shattered them . Hey thanks for the inside knowledge teri.
Good accurate description of how they split the stone , i think you are talking about the method of having two slip pieces and a center piece that wa hammered in between them . The same method was / is used in England for splitting granite and other stone . Lots of evidence of it on Dartmoor in Devon
One of the many things that I enjoy about your videos is how respectful you are of others. No harsh language. Just a classy guy. Thank you for posting your adventures.
Thanks Stephen!
The remnants of the stone structure, the well made from the cut stone etc are amazing. Thank you for taking us along to places and the history many of us otherwise probably wouldn’t see. Beautiful country!
The Zipper is a belthook👍👌
Nice vid 😁
Greetings from switzerland🇨🇭
I believe the long iron piece is likely a gate hinge that would go through a post where the nut is. Love your videos here in Michigan.
I agree Bob
Positive on that being a gate hinge. I've seen a lot of being used . And smaller one in old barns. 😊👍
Yeh, spot on its for hanging a gate we find loads of them here in New Zealand. My grandpop used to call them gudgeon pins.
Pintle hinge.
The long thing is a gate crook, it would go through the gate post and the eye on the gate/ door would go over it. Basically half a hinge
I decided to check out other comments before saying anything but I believe that you are right. Actually, the ones that you can still buy aren't much different from that one.
I love history and I love your show. You are metal detecting an era lost in time. Your adventures re awaken those people's daily lives for all of us to get to imagine and enjoy. Thank you.
As much as the wonderful finds you come up with, I really like the videography of your channel. The beauty depicted in such an artistic way makes me have to agree with Ms Strayhorn's previous comment that your channel is of award winning quality! I really enjoy taking a break, with your posts, from the political insanity that is so prevalent on U2be. So, thank you so much for what you do.
As an Australian I found this video wonderfully educational and those viewers of your, how well informed they appear to be. Your video was all content which I really appreciated. It was not endless walking and rambling, what you did you did well, thank you , I have subscribed. I love seeing videos about the U.S. Through DNA I have found cousins everywhere in the U.S. it is exciting & I want to know more about the place, your videos will assist in my total knowledge.
This is why I love UA-cam. You find these underrated channels with interesting material in niche topics with great talent for cinematography.
I live in Ma, near Lexington and Concord, and can’t wait to start looking. You’ve got a lot of history in the middle of Vermont, I can’t imagine what’s around here where the USA was essentially created. This channel made me take up this hobby and I thank you for that!
Thanks so much!
I love your show all the history you unearth and the knowledge you have Please keep up this work
Great video. Wish we could have hit the home sight again this year. Fingers crossed togo soon.
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Green Mountain Metal Detecting will do asap!😃
Hi, Brad, love your videos! The buttons on a string is a common way for seamstresses to keep a set of buttons together.
I agree Dawn
The rod with the nut on the end certainly looks to me to the fixed side of a pintle hinge, still sold today as one of you viewers mentioned. And I have seen two sets of buttons tied together in the manner you showed that were a pair of cuff links for my grandfather. He was born in 1853, and lived most of his life in the mountains of Tennessee as a preacher and headmaster of a school. He kept them in a box with a nice pair that his first wife gave him for a wedding present.
As always great moments shared here and thanks for doing that. Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter.
Love that you got to talk with the man who takes care of the stop! Some of the history they can give you, can lead you to some fantastic new areas. Keep up the great videos Brad!
I’m an arrowhead collector but I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep the excellent videos coming!! 👍👍
My Friday mornings are always great ones because I get to enjoy GMMD with my 1st cup of coffee 😀 All along that stage coach line is bound to have relics but we know where the abundance will be 👍 Great array of finds Brad and Andrew. Congrats on finding the general service button, Andrew ☺🎉
The item you point out at 19:05 looks like a hoof pick. Used to clean the dirt and other debris that accumulates in the hollow of the hoof or under the edges of a horseshoe. When we used to ride we carried one in the saddlebags, just encase the horse picked something up in its hoof. A great little tool to have on hand.
Another Friday is here as is October, the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
agreed!
Your odd bolt assembly is a barn door or gate hinge. Great spot! Nice finds! Thanks for the video!
That stone wall from the barn is just gorgeous
Brad, I enjoy every video from the intro music through your every find! I love that no matter what you find, to you and us viewers it’s just as interesting as a coin! Thank you for sharing your wonderful adventures with us! Ha! I bought a metal detector but in Colorado the ground is so hard it’s nearly impossible to dig to targets so I got s art and tried a swimming area of a mountain lake and my dog got so bored watching me dig that she joined me and we dug down 3 1/2 feet to WATER! 😂 yup! We hit it big with water so she laid in it to cool off while I sifted to find the target..a pull off can lid is what was so important! Lol I did chose to keep it in my fishing tackle box as a souvenir for the great water hole we made that day! Lol 😆 I should’ve recorded it and called it, “Goofy and Goffiers Great Water find” 😉😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a neat place and I also love the guitar licks in the background music
Thanks Ronald!
Green Mountain Metal Detecting hey VT my girl is from Burlington....I drive from Manassas Va a few time a year and should bring the AT MAX next time.... been studying your approach and attack mode..... I'm in war between the states territory.....lots of CSA relics.... great vids
The cutlery handle made by The Charles Parker Co. of Meriden Ct (1869). Made a large variety of items but most notably Shotguns. High quality considered by many collectors to be the best of the American made shotguns. They also made Vises, coffee grinders, piano stool hardware among many other foundry cast and forged items. Parker marked items not gun related are also collected by the gun collectors. Some of their high grade guns bring tens of thousands of dollars. While a broken spoon isn't worth much it is really cool to find a sort of rare item from a noted CT company.
Would not have used black powder or other explosives to extract / quarry marble as this would cause far to much damage. The usual way was to drill holes then hammer in metal wedges to split the marble. A sequence or such holes and wedges in a line would cause it to split in a pretty straight line. They also used large wooden wedges, which once hammered into a crack would be soaked in water, they then expand and open the split / crack more and more. Love your vids. Good hunting.
Interesting
In the part with the flooded quarry it shows the pilot holes in the stone just above the water line at the back of the quarry. It appears they began to cut more marble but had to stop for some reason, maybe the water. :)
You have such great history out there. I love hearing about the history, buildings and back stories of the people and occupations. Great finds. The extremely deep hole of dark murky water is a bit unsettling. Lol but the rock that you showed your finds on..... lower left corner of the rock looked like an alien face. Maybe that was in my head because you mentioned them. But it really looks like one. Kind of tilted to the left. Lol great finds thanks for sharing.
Oh yes, the forged L shaped piece is a gate or door hanger, there will be 2 of them, one top, one bottom. The bolt will go through a post and the gate will hang via an eye on the L part. Length of the bolt part will give you an idea of the post and thus possible an idea of the gate size. Big supporting post, big heavy gate or door.
I agree Rich
I found your question about how they used to keep the water out of the quarry intriguing! I would also like to know if anyone knows. Also, that would be cool if you come back to go check out the old hermit's homestead. Unless he packed the whole place out I'd bet you'll find some really cool stuff there. You should ask the approximate dates he was up there though. The further back in time the better!
Most likely, a pump of some sort. Pumps have been around for centuries.
Great knowing the history and beauty of each location. Nice finds. Thanks Brad and Andrew.
Cool finds! The matching buttons were so pretty! Another awesome video
Love it!! - great finds and history. Keep it up my friend...Onwards and Upwards
Best thing to start out my birthday with. Is a new one of your videos!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Great video as always. I want to say how much I have learned from watching your videos. A couple of weeks ago the wife and I were hiking the site of a now gone Ironworks that had a 70 house community the company built for the workers. As we were walking the trail through what used to be the workers houses, we came upon cellar hole after cellar hole that I would have had no idea what I was looking at if not for your videos. Thanks man, and keep the videos coming.
So glad to hear that Lloyd, thanks for watching!
That place was awesome! hope you go back there and find the rest of the relics! Sorry I missed you at Pound the Ground. I have a sweet find coming on my new video tomorrow. don't miss it. Thanks again for a great video. see you next time.
Thanks a lot, maybe I'll see you next year!
Awesome guys it’s a time traveling adventure to watch what you find.👍🏾
Good morning Brad and Andrew !!! Some very cool finds today. I love to the two large identical buttons. Very nice find.
Good search gentleman. Some very nice discoveries, congratulations. Looking forward to your next episode.
Still bugs up there WOW , I thought by now would have been a good freeze to get rid of most. Thanks for filming and sharing ! Nice job :-) GL and HH !!
Thanks! Videos are 2 months behind
Thanks for keeping your integrity and that of your sites. Keep em coming
Central TX ranch I grew up on was once a mule train station. Love to go back with a detector
Wonderful‼️GOOD TO HAVE A NEW FRIEND🤩
Another enjoyable video with your equally enjoyable music and nature shots.
As always, compelling viewing - lots of great finds and unearthed history! Liked the pretty Indian Heads... Happy hunting!
Thankyou for showing us your finds.
As always great show and great finds! Sorry I missed you at pound the ground! It's really pretty in your neck of the woods!!
Thanks Wes, maybe next year!
I love the beauty of the country side you are in.
As do I!
Imperial Standard made bobbed overalls.Those are the closure buttons from above the waist pockets. Two per side.
The object with an eye on one end and hook on the other, looks like a tool for cleaning dirt and or debrie out of horses hoofs.
The "tool" looks to me like a specialized wedge: the offset would make it possible to knock it under something resting on a hard surface. Maybe to split off pieces of marble to create the inside of a piece with an "L" profile?
Really enjoy your adventuresome spirit. Such a treat to share history with you.
The small tool you found looks like a clinch cutter. A tool most likely made by the blacksmith from scrap. The tool was used to de clinch the sharp end of shoe nails before pulling a shoe. Often done for loose or outgrown shoes to prevent tearing up the hoof wall. The foot was held between the knees and worked on,
Cool video this week. Nice finds.
I absolutely love your videos, the scenery is breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you for making Fridays the best day of the week. 🙋❤🌄
Wow I wish this was a longer video
Hey Edward, nice to meet you and nice finds! I still love the music that starts at the 12:49 mark.
Brad, absolutely LOVE the way you give us the still scenes of interesting trees, flowers, views, etc. Enjoying the scenery as you detect. Some of them would be great as pictures to hang on the wall.
Thanks so much, Milton!
Always enjoy your videos. Love the camera work and editing.
Man, these places are AMAZING! Got room for me in your backpack? 😎☺️
Being a history lover. These videos are amazing. Showing things I know little about (buttons Ext.) My wife and I have talked about places where people have never walked upon here in the Battle Of north Point area in Baltimore. I told her about the mountains and you finding things you never think people have even been. I can safely say, I doubt there no place around here where people haven't walked upon , American or British. Keep posting your videos they are awesome and informative.
Bob down there pointed out the “L” shaped rod with the square nut on it as a gate hinge. 100% sure that is what it is. I have used them before. The part Brad dug up is the part that goes through the gate post. One at the top of the post and one at the bottom. Then an eye to fit over the stub of Brad’s part (two of them go on the gate side). Makes it real easy to just lift the gate off the post if you need to. You can buy them today at any feed store, galvanized. But no where near as cool as this hand crafted one.
Amazing as always! Thank you.
I have discovered a connection between some of the relics found by detectorists which may change the way we view the past. Commonly found on sites of 150 years plus will be harmonica reeds,spoon handles and bowls along with parts and wholes of bells, yes?.
It's music related.
But you already know...yes?
Great stuff Brad, fellow Vermonter here, I really enjoy watching your videos. I grew up in Rutland county so I am very familiar with many of the areas you go to in your videos and have been to some of them! I like to spend as much of my time in the VT woods as possible with my kids which is why I am so drawn to your vids. Keep it up! Thanks for everything.
As usual great finds filming and music thanks Brad 🇬🇧👍
Thank you! Great show!
Nice find Andrew, you were out with one of the best guys in the hobby! Great effort!
Great mostly unknown historical site, with good finds & new friends.
Nice place. Im gonna do some research around my area for stagecoach stops. I live smack dab in the middle of the us. Santi-cali-gon trails. Alot of residential areas but outskirts of the town i live in gives me hope in finding some camps and such. Great finds guys!
Cool digs! You should ask to go back!! Have a diggin good weekend!!😁😁
Always enjoy the videos! Best detecting UA-cam channel out there. Can’t wait to get my T-shirt!
The tool you found looks like the same thing used on old wooden boats to push the packing material between the boards. I guess they could have made wooden buckets, water storage tanks, or something like that.
that one piece is a gate hinge. as always great video. I love Vermont your videos could be travel videos thanks brad
Like your wireless headphones. Got mine a couple of months ago and really enjoy them. It's so nice not having to bother with the wire when you want to set your detector aside to dig or whatever, makes it well worth the cost of the headphones. Like a couple of others said, the L shaped rod is the pin part of a hinge, still manufactured and used today, just not hand forged normally.
Amazing country and scenery, thanks for the opportunity to see this
Always great to see you out there
What an awesome site, and great recoveries. Thanks for taking us along.
Good day for sure, enjoyed the trip to the stagecoach stop!
Man these videos are just awesome! Gotta love that beautiful state.
Thanks Brett!
C. Parker on the handle is for : Charles Parker Meriden CT. the maker of fine shotgunsalso. Good hunt and another great location. Thanks! Jeff in Oregon
Well im a 40 year young ontario Canadian man that's almost gone through all your videos what will i watch when ive seen all your vids thanks 4 so much excitement
Enjoyed watching. Nice hunt and relics. Those stacked stones at the quarry were amazing. Suprising they were still there after all these years and not used at some point. Thanks for sharing the hunt and finds. GL, HH and take care.
Another great hunt, God bless you and your new friend
Thank you for another adventure and seeing pieces of history !
That was such a awesome place!!! I am sure you could spend a week there and it would still give up her history!!!
Great comments on the finds! More pieces for the puzzle.
Another excellent adventure, keep them coming😊👍
Sometimes they would drive an iron tool down into a block of rock & then drive two wooden wedges into the resultant hole back to back & then they would pour water onto the wood. They would do that in several places along a line. Once they had wet the wood they would leave it maybe overnight & the wood would swell & split the rock. Have seen rocks split like that on Dartmoor U.K.
Grape Cream of Tartar. This is the white powder left in the bottom after wine has been fermented. It is used in giving fast rise to flapjacks and the like.
Poss on hand hammered hand tool was used to clean out horse hoofs when packed with mud and all kinds of hard items , your crank handle looks to be a steering link for larger wagon !
pump out the Quarry water, and metal detect the hole.
Awesome finds.
Those little buttons could of been cuff links, Vermont sure does hold a lot of History, love the moss, great music, tfs.
Nice finds today. I always look forward to your adventures.
Great finds!
Really enjoy the scenery (context) footage you provide!