Journey into the Forgotten Past: Old Mill Exploration

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  • Опубліковано 16 гру 2024

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  • @granddad-mv5ef
    @granddad-mv5ef 11 місяців тому +3

    Yep, Pennsylvania is a beautiful state. If we could just get rid of the danged jagger bushes! Shawn, that was truly a Herculean effort. Which I totally enjoyed, love a good adventure. I am wishing you, Jerry and your families a Merry (and restful) Christmas!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      The jaggers are the worst! lol. Thanks for watching and so glad you come back each week. We always look forward to your comments. Funny thing….looked up Hardy Boys books and saw there was a book about the lost mill. 😁 quite fitting here.

  • @mona2046
    @mona2046 11 місяців тому +1

    I can't get enough of this content guys; these are adventures that I only dream of going on. Thank you, Shawn & Jerry, for this amazing content 💖💖 Great decision to walk the creek, Shawn, that footage was amazing!!!!!!! 👍👍

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      See. The road less traveled sometimes pays off 😁😁😁

    • @mona2046
      @mona2046 11 місяців тому

      👍😁💯@@detectingpa8968

  • @Pnasuta
    @Pnasuta 11 місяців тому +2

    Great video - really enjoyed seeing McConnells mill - I seen a lot of time on the hillside across the creek from the mill climbing and crawling in the rock crevasses. The old mill foundation was cool, I do remember the PA jaggers - those thickets are tough. Keep up the great videos and have a Merry Christmas.

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for watching! One of the kids wanted to climb in and out of the rocks as well, but rifle season was in for deer and we didn’t want to disturb anyone. Not even sure you can hunt within those boundaries though. Merry Christmas!

  • @jerrydineen2827
    @jerrydineen2827 11 місяців тому +1

    Shawn I always enjoys whatever you and Jerry post. Saturdays are worth waiting for now!! lol

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed! We try to improve our videos and add new stuff every week….trying different things. Hope you have a wonderful Holiday season!

  • @anjanettealexander3993
    @anjanettealexander3993 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful scenery. Breathtaking!!

  • @jaydigshistory36
    @jaydigshistory36 Рік тому +3

    Im glad you posted this. These past couple hunts I did I'm reluctant to post because there was nothing really exciting to talk about, just a handful of neat things. Love the history lesson you guys provide too. Stay safe out there! Enjoy the New Year! Merry Christmas!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  Рік тому +1

      Sometimes the adventure is all that comes out of the hunt. The advice I can give you is to record everything. We always say that we would rather have the clips and not use them than need the clips and not have them! Merry Christmas to you as well!

  • @mona2046
    @mona2046 11 місяців тому +1

    I am definitely ready for an adventure!!!!!!! Merry Christmas, Jerry & Shawn💖🎄💖🎄Watching now...

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      Merry Christmas Mona!!

    • @mona2046
      @mona2046 11 місяців тому

      Happy New Year!!!@@detectingpa8968

  • @anjanettealexander3993
    @anjanettealexander3993 Рік тому +1

    And your cardio health must be great! Thanks so much for the adventure!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  Рік тому +1

      Oh we huff and puff on these adventures. lol Thanks for watching!

  • @ltgray2780
    @ltgray2780 11 місяців тому +1

    I live just a ways North of there. Haven't been to in years, due to a severe disability. Thanks so much for sharing. You've brought a smile to a grumpy old man's face. Great memories. Have a blessed and Merry Christmas, and a prosperous New year. (And many more videos).

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Thanks! We hope everyone gets something from our videos. Glad we could take you back. Even if one person enjoys the video we put out is all that matters. Merry Christmas!

  • @nettesusan
    @nettesusan Рік тому +1

    Love this video! Keep ‘em coming.

  • @nicdunn9834
    @nicdunn9834 Рік тому +2

    Great video Shawn, I love the way you both bring a touch of history to your videos. Love y’all’s adventures keep them coming.

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  Рік тому +1

      Thanks! Jerry and I love doing this. Great comments like yours keep us motivated!

  • @wildmandigging3486
    @wildmandigging3486 11 місяців тому +2

    Enjoyed the video buddy was glad to be along for the adventure hope ya have a merry Christmas God Bless and happy dirt fishin…Virgil

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      Thanks Virgil! Glad to see ya every weekend. Hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas as well!

  • @leesmith2798
    @leesmith2798 11 місяців тому +1

    🌲🌲🌲🌲Merry Christmas to both of you and your family's! Another great video. Love the drone work, history, and Adventure!!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Thanks Lee! Hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas. Enjoy the New Year as well!

  • @john-bl9cm
    @john-bl9cm 23 дні тому

    Way to go man keep exploring!

  • @shawnathon60
    @shawnathon60 11 місяців тому +1

    been there many times,, beautiful!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      It’s definitely a beautiful location.

  • @puppyeyes9368
    @puppyeyes9368 11 місяців тому +1

    You are such a pleasure to watch. So real, nothing phony about this site. I really like the historic feel I get from these segments. Do you carry a weapon. You could run into wild animals in that kind of terrain. I'd hate for you all to be a snack for the mountain creatures. Thanks for the intertainment. Made for an awesome watch. God bless. Merry Christmas And a fantastic New year. Nora

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching and the wonderful comment! We try and keep things as real as we can. The only weapons we carry are knives. The animals are more scared of you for the most part. 😬

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Also- merry Christmas!!

    • @leesmith2798
      @leesmith2798 11 місяців тому

      I always tell my wife that she'll know a coyote tried to attack me when I come home with a coyote fur cap and mittens

  • @heritagerelichunters9922
    @heritagerelichunters9922 11 місяців тому

    I truly enjoyed your adventurous videos

  • @carolyaster5466
    @carolyaster5466 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you, Shawn, for your efforts on the hillside. And thanks for including McConnells Mill! There was a movie with Christian Bale that was filmed there, "The Pale Blue Eye". Thanks for all the history and the great videos. Merry Christmas! ✨️🎄

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      No way! We will have to check it out. Never knew that. Merry Christmas Carol!

  • @mona2046
    @mona2046 11 місяців тому

    Down the steep hill on wet leaves? 😱NOPE!!! 👍Shawn...

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      It was actually better footing somehow than dry leaves.

    • @mona2046
      @mona2046 11 місяців тому

      Looked a little slippy coming up? All I know is I'd still be rolling😆Thank you both for taking me on awesome adventures💖💖@@detectingpa8968

  • @randomadventures2.0
    @randomadventures2.0 11 місяців тому

    Just found you channel beautiful Mill and Covered Bridge. I hit the sub button!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Hey thanks for coming! Random Adventures….love it!

  • @richardklapka5147
    @richardklapka5147 11 місяців тому +2

    #1 always have a compass. #2 stop and look behind yourself every 100yds. Things look different when your trying to get back, because you don't have eyes in the back of your head. ( or just listen for traffic noise,lol. I heard it.) Rk. Wear some orange so you don't get shot & helicopter will see you easier if hurt. I liked the little waterfalls, beautiful. Rk.

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Thanks for the tips! Also thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed. Happy Holidays!

  • @nepahistoryandarchaeologys8623
    @nepahistoryandarchaeologys8623 11 місяців тому

    That looked like a nightmare trying to get through those pickers and shrubs! Can't imagine how that looks in the summer! Cool story and history though, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Merry Christmas to you as well!
      Those thickets were nasty. Glad we don’t always run into them! Lol

  • @barbaragravely920
    @barbaragravely920 8 місяців тому

    Got a good idea for ya Snake chapped pants are great going thru no mans land jus where animals go.Deer, Wolves, foxes , rabbits,horses, and snakes along with spiked bushes. Love the amazing footage of life well lived .

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  8 місяців тому

      I thought about getting thorn proof pants. lol. Wouldn’t mind getting something though to protect against bites. They just can’t be really heavy. Sometimes we walk miles to homesites in the woods.

  • @roballison3281
    @roballison3281 11 місяців тому +1

    Nice hike ! Wondering if there's a tick problem where you are and how you deal with it if you do. Happy Holidays !

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      There definitely is. This year didn’t seem as bad as most years though. Normally we just pick them out and watch for signs of Lyme. If you find them quick enough, no worries! Happy Holidays!

  • @darrylyusko8342
    @darrylyusko8342 9 місяців тому

    Now you're swinging in my neck of the woods. I skipped school at McConnell's Mill as a teenager. Loaded w/ natural caves created by the glacier. Im too old to hike like you guys but, I carry an ole-man tripod chair w/ me. I've been hunting along the George Washington Trail for the past 2 years in search of my elusive "GW" silver button. Then, I'll retire my coil...

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  8 місяців тому

      My son loves McConnells Mills because of all the big rocks. Awesome place for sure!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  8 місяців тому

      Keep searching for that button. You’ll get it. I’d pass out if I dug one. 😂

  • @keepdigginmetaldetecting
    @keepdigginmetaldetecting Рік тому +2

    Let’s go!

  • @mona2046
    @mona2046 11 місяців тому +1

    Sometimes the path of least resistance is falling 😆😅...

  • @ducttapedigger7811
    @ducttapedigger7811 Рік тому +4

    Proposed to the wife near that life preserver 30 odd years ago.

  • @daprimitives
    @daprimitives 5 місяців тому

    I live about 20 minutes from McConnell's mill. I have 3 or four places within 10 minutes of there I have been trying to get back out to with my detector

  • @LeoBower-p2c
    @LeoBower-p2c Рік тому

    Will do my friend

  • @WayneAYost
    @WayneAYost 6 місяців тому

    That bridge looked like the Emlenton bridge.

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  6 місяців тому

      This bridge is nicknamed “the jumpers bridge”, and you can assume how it got that name unfortunately. Not in Emlenton though.

  • @baystateplugflipper7061
    @baystateplugflipper7061 11 місяців тому

    I spent today doing the exact same thing, not easy. Anyway, we have an old park in town that was terribly over grown for years until a homeless guy accidentally lite the woods on fire, burned up 5 acres to the dirt, the detecting was amazing after😅

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      lol that’s a pretty funny story. There’s always a silver lining! Haha.

  • @philipcallicoat3147
    @philipcallicoat3147 11 місяців тому

    Have you guys visited Chads Ford or the Brandywine ???

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      No, we haven’t but we looked it up and looks like a great place to visit. We might have to go this summer. Thanks for the suggestion.

  • @shawnmechling
    @shawnmechling 11 місяців тому

    Loved the adventure. Just wish the gristmill paid off bettter. Next time!!

  • @MetalnMatt
    @MetalnMatt 11 місяців тому +1

    I am out of breath watching you do this. Be careful out there. Take care!

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Thanks Matt! We take precautions. Hope you have an amazing holiday!

  • @ducttapedigger7811
    @ducttapedigger7811 Рік тому

    You could make a crop circle in those weeds

  • @davidgraham8658
    @davidgraham8658 Рік тому +1

    I know where there are several old mill sites

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  Рік тому +2

      You need to ask Santa for a detector and get out there to find the goods! 😁😁

    • @davidgraham8658
      @davidgraham8658 Рік тому +1

      @@detectingpa8968 Did years ago. The one across the road from where I grew up still has the rock walls

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  Рік тому +1

      Love seeing those cut stone walls in the woods.

    • @leesmith2798
      @leesmith2798 11 місяців тому

      If your asking Santa, might as well go for it and ask for a Deus II.@@detectingpa8968

  • @rogerreed3024
    @rogerreed3024 Рік тому +1

    It's funny, people ask if we work out. If they did what we do.

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  Рік тому +2

      And how many times do we hunker down and stand back up. The holes we dig. We could have dug an Olympic sized swimming pool by now! lol

    • @rogerreed3024
      @rogerreed3024 Рік тому

      @detectingpa8968 for sure. Love the videos and keep up thr good work

  • @leesmith2798
    @leesmith2798 11 місяців тому

    @0:25 I noticed Shawn holding the RC2 next to the water without a neck strap? Safety Sam would be very disappointed. I love you guys but your taking too many risks.

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      lol! You’re not lying. When I was getting those shots with the drone and the camera, all I could think about was dropping them down off that ledge.

  • @williamstewart1378
    @williamstewart1378 Рік тому

    my legs couldnt do all that hiking lol

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  Рік тому +1

      It was the steep hillsides that was the worst. Would have been an easy hike if not for that. Lol

    • @williamstewart1378
      @williamstewart1378 11 місяців тому

      i have bad legs i go in the woods but i have to be careful cause i might not make it back lol. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
      @@detectingpa8968

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      Merry Christmas to you as well!

  • @ducttapedigger7811
    @ducttapedigger7811 Рік тому

    McConnell mills?

  • @williamhughes1631
    @williamhughes1631 6 місяців тому

    Been there with my detector and it is not and easy place to do.

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  6 місяців тому

      Did you find anything? Must have been a well known spot to detect. Wiped out!

    • @williamhughes1631
      @williamhughes1631 6 місяців тому

      @@detectingpa8968 I found gold ring and some other jewelry and clad but haven’t found anything else in a long time other than a lot of trash.

  • @williamburns7426
    @williamburns7426 11 місяців тому

    Meaning no disrespect but Not sure why you bring a metal detector. Your video's seem to be of hiking lately

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому +1

      It’s the journey to the sites buried in the forest. Our channel isn’t about hopping out of the pickup and detecting your neighbors lawn. Thanks for the comment and Merry Christmas

    • @leesmith2798
      @leesmith2798 11 місяців тому

      As a detectorist, I love the adventure aspect of this channel. It's the journey, not the destination. I look forward to these every Saturday! Keep up the great work! Lee

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      @@leesmith2798thanks buddy! 😊

  • @joesanders5939
    @joesanders5939 8 місяців тому

    27 min of just talking nd walking

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  8 місяців тому

      It was 45 minutes. Be glad I edited it down! LOL

  • @douglaskerr6813
    @douglaskerr6813 11 місяців тому

    They make a thing called a machete for chopping thir bushes you complain about the bushes I'll trade you I live in Philadelphia

    • @detectingpa8968
      @detectingpa8968  11 місяців тому

      A machete is on the Amazon wish list. Hard pass on Philly. Been there, didn’t like it. 😂