88 plus bottles of history= 1 is historic. well done TOM==ALWAYS WITH PASSION, A PURE JOY T0 SEE NOW, THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Tom, congratulations on the rare American Bottle Works bottle, score! So much ground water and roots, you have the patients of a saint. So nice to see you happy and excited. Loving your new channel set up. Sure wish we lived closer, I have a couple privies that need locating😀. Take care.👍😀👏
Hi Tom, first time I have commented. So pleased you were rewarded for all your efforts in the water with that embossed soda bottle. Love your channel - from Victoria Australia.
Man i always feel for you when the water table is up and you're having to dig them bottles out of the water, nice find Tom Stay Up, and Healthy brother.....🫡🔥🔥❤️👍🏽💯
Brother Tom i laterally cheered when that soda bottle came out. Sloppy as that was all those bottles. Keep the faith Thank you for taking us along! God save our Republic!
Its great to have you back on the tube Tom you were the first guy i ever saw do it, sorry it was so blank, slick or unemboss this time, but that soda was the bomb so happy you found that after all the water, mud, and roots you were fighting. Its great to have a man like you showing the old America's good side and not so good side but it was really hard back then, thanks Tom it means alot to all of us.
Man, you are some sort of genius. I remember finding a sunken in spot when I was the kid around this pond that we used to go bass fishing, in New Hampshire. One day I started digging and I found so many bottles. It was amazing. I had a huge collection with some really good blue glass and small unique bottles. My mother made me throw it all away when we moved to Colorado. It should’ve at least been donated to the local museum, and I still regret not doing more with it to this day. I’m sure there was plenty more to dig. I’m sure it is still there.
Oh yeah, there was also an old chimney standing in the woods from where an old Homestead was. I bet that had some good stuff to metal detect around it. I bet it is still a good spot.
Hi honey im home ......did you have a good day dear ? 😮😮😮.😮😮 Great dig Tom . I hope those clothes dried out eventually. I love a good " what have i gotten myself into .
I think you need a wetsuit for some of these pits. This one was a good find even though so many were unmarked. My whole yard is up on a slight hill and wherever I dig for planting a tree or in my garden, I come across bits of pottery and glass, wire and metal objects. They dug a trench next to my yard and I’d run over and look for bottles, especially after a rain. They all date to the turn of last century. I am guessing this area was the town dump and they filled it in before building homes in the 1950’s.
In a response to a comment on an earlier video on this channel he stated he sold off his collection because he was always worried about it getting stolen while he was on the road! Now he only keeps a few select pieces he can safely secure when he is away.
Tom looking down at you it looks like your pit hole is the shape of an old bath tub & your soaking in muddy water after a hard days work in the old west!love the history of a good dig,My favorite part of digging was figuring out who used & what they used the finds for!Quite a haul guys!
Great video! And Congratulations on the "only known" example. Very, very cool. I've learned so much about my own collection that I inherited from my dad. His were mostly river bottom finds and finds when out mushroom hunting. Thanks for teaching us along the way...👍✌️
@@DebraJean196 i considered that later. One that he could afford (i have no idea what his financial situation is) probably couldn't do the job. But there are sump pumps that could easily do that.
@@jeffchandler3390I’d think the small spaces would limit the pumps he could use, plus if they’re too loud, or suck up too much too fast the logistics of up and down would make it kinda awkward. I’d like to think if he could find one that would work he’d use it. But rewatching the beginning the small space between his feet would drain pretty fast with a pump of any size, and too much power could damage the items he’s trying to salvage maybe? But I’ve really only seen industrial size pumps so I’m just guessing
You’re a historian doing what so many of us should be doing for this country.bring up the old and showing us what history looks like. More power to you, would love to join an expedition sometime. Have fun, thank you for doing what you do. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Tom, love watching your videos. You may have covered this at another time but if so please direct me to it. My question is, what do you do with what you find? I would love to see how it is all cleaned up and possibly displayed. You must do a lot of research. Where do you get the schematics you use.? Have you ever made a video of the entire process on both sides of the dig?
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums, if no one is interested we throw them back. I first use old maps/pictures to line up where buildings stood long ago. From there I use probe rods to feel for objects and compaction differences
Tom, you should join me in Washington Georgia sometime. It has Revolutionary war and Civil War history and I have access to the original city dump now on private property.
What an interesting job you have! Thanks for using such a good camera to record this. It’s like I’m in the pit with you when I’m sitting on my couch in 67 degree comfort.
Nice productive hole in the ground! Maybe you should consider picking up metal detecting for all the sites you find too. I imagine there's TONS of valuable, non-valuable, useless, unidentifiable TREASURES around there. Thanks for another GREAT video!
Wow, you've found enough liquor flasks and prescription bottles to start your own apothecary or bar yourself! Water tables are an ever-changing thing. where some places that were dry one decade, a major flood could come through and alter the topography of the river only slightly and the water table in the region could change with it. Major rivers also have underground aquafers that run along underneath them, and if some kind of construction happens or like I said a flood from a particularly wet year, can change how the underground water table can change without notice, but I can tell you the homes that had basements that were suddenly susceptible to flooding would certainly notice. that happened to my uncle out on his Farm. his basement became so commonly flooded that he simply stopped using it, installed a sump and built an outbuilding that he would use for storage for his. So this outhouse pit would have been likely dry, I can't see then using it if the water table was as high as it was during your excavation, but I could be wrong.
Because the soil has been disturbed, privies hold rain water like a bucket, that's why he's able to bail out the water, later in the summer that pit would probably be bone dry.
Bless your heart Tom having to dig in that nasty mess. Cant really see what your digging. I feel for you. You will have to have an hot shower after that . but the bottles are awesome. Love the amber bottles. They really are beautiful.❤❤❤❤❤
88 bottle of booze on the wall …88 bottles of booze…take one down pass it around 87 bottle of booze on the wall! What a dirty wet dig Tom, but amazing amount of glass. Thanks for doing all the dirty work!
This excavation highlights one aspect of American culture at the time that was of serious concern. Alcoholism was rampant in America during the 1800s into the early portion of the 20th century. So much so that the government came out with prohibition. Alcoholism was a very serious problem. it destroyed lives and ruined families. Women were sick and tired of having to deal with husbands who would spend their income on booze instead of feeding the family and the sheer number of alcohol flasks in this pit shows how much volume was being consumed. And every business was trying to cash in on it. Bars would give away highly salty foods to encourage more drinking so pickled foods were always on hand, and like you said pool halls were charging an entrance fee and then giving the alcohol to the patrons, but charged for food, but once again, salty snacks were always free, like Peanuts and salt preserved meats, as well as pickled foods. Places like pool halls and bars/pubs were everywhere. in an 1800s city it wouldn't be uncommon for a city block to have upwards of 10 or more bars, pubs, pool halls and every other sort of business that purveyed food and booze. It was a serious problem to the point that America was dubbed the land of alcoholics. Europeans and other nations around the world were appalled by the state of America's working class. Many counties would go dry and lock down any loopholes to prevent alcohol from being sold, but the business owners didn't care about these men's families but were only after the massive amount of money being generated by alcoholism. The one thing about Prohibition that was a benefit was that it brought a large amount of awareness to the public about how bad alcoholism was in America and it began to change society as religion teamed up with women's groups to make young men aware of how alcohol was ruining families and that young women were refusing to entertain men who imbibed in booze, Plus Alcoholics Anonymous was created around the same time and was enormously effective in getting former alcoholics to drop their addiction, and that same process is still an effective way for anyone with ANY kind of addiction, to end their abuse of whatever it was they were addicted to.
That's true too but it would save their life since the water would get contaminated. Alcohol was to also help clean wounds,medicine etc! It was one the gifts from the Catholic Monks which is a blessing.
The town I live in was originally designed as a dry town. At one point, there was a local bar (in modern terms it wasn't much more than a glorified shack). The women rallied behind a firebrand of a woman & went to the store and bought a length of rope. They took that rope & encircled the building, and with one mighty heave, pulled the building over! A piece of that rope is on display at our museum (which was originally a Carnegie library).
A city close to where I grew up was once in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most bars on one street. The city was North Tonawanda and the street was Oliver St.
Wow, a 10-holer! I've only ever seen the 2-holers!---Listen to that prairie wind. If you've ever listened to the soundtrack of How The West Was Won, during the intro, an immigrant bemoans he's the only good guy on the prairie, where the wind blows so hard, you have to walk sideways to keep from flying!
The prices are all over the board. Most are “recycle grade”. I once dug a military fort and got army hospital department bottles that sold for thousands of dollars
I plan to record some music of my own to put in the videos. The old music was property of UA-cam and can’t be shared on any other platforms, which limited the reach.
Ever thought about switching to a small headed shovel instead of that cement trial. Like a foxhole shovel. I bought a small head shovel with a 5ft handle made of fiberglass, so I cut the handle down to around 22 inches and for the shovel head I marked out some teeth on the sides for cutting through roots and sharpened the teeth and the shovel head itself with my angle grinder, I also cut the teeth pattern with that angle grinder. I designed it for my metal detecting adventures and wasn’t even thing about paying $60 bucks and up for a detecting shovel.
Tom! Credit for persisting with this dig - you must have been desperate for a shower after this one, wouldn’t have wanted to be responsible for the laundry. Amazing, the lack of variety in this pit.
I concluded that it had been cleaned out based on the lack of human waste “night soil”. Way back when folks would be hired to clean these out. I was told that it was so that the groundwater wouldn’t be contaminated with human waste. They would also hire folks to clean them out when they got full, similar modern day septic tank cleaners. Some company’s would even have steam powered suction machines.
@TomAskjem. Thanks so much for responding. Makes sense, just never gave it much thought. My grand parents had an out house at times and being city kids we were quite put out with such a thing. I'm afraid they were never worried about the ground water as they were very near a swamp. But I guess the well was not close. I think no bottles ever went in the outhouse because they would reuse them. They were very poor in today's terms but raised 12 healthy children. Love those old bottle's. I collect all kinds. I Appreciate your digs.
88 plus bottles of history= 1 is historic. well done TOM==ALWAYS WITH PASSION, A PURE JOY T0 SEE NOW, THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
You're not just digging for bottles. You're digging for history, culture, traditions. Every pit tells a story.
Tom, congratulations on the rare American Bottle Works bottle, score! So much ground water and roots, you have the patients of a saint. So nice to see you happy and excited. Loving your new channel set up. Sure wish we lived closer, I have a couple privies that need locating😀. Take care.👍😀👏
Hi Tom, first time I have commented. So pleased you were rewarded for all your efforts in the water with that embossed soda bottle.
Love your channel - from Victoria Australia.
Thanks for watching!
You are very knowledgeable in the history of an area through its bottles…very interesting
Awesome video, I love that rare soda bottle. The only intact one known, I wonder what the value is... Awesome find!!!
Man i always feel for you when the water table is up and you're having to dig them bottles out of the water, nice find Tom Stay Up, and Healthy brother.....🫡🔥🔥❤️👍🏽💯
You certainly did a good job Tom. Wet and muddy. Dedicated for sure. Take care.
Thanks for liking my comment. Take care
Brother Tom i laterally cheered when that soda bottle came out. Sloppy as that was all those bottles. Keep the faith Thank you for taking us along! God save our Republic!
Its great to have you back on the tube Tom you were the first guy i ever saw do it, sorry it was so blank, slick or unemboss this time, but that soda was the bomb so happy you found that after all the water, mud, and roots you were fighting. Its great to have a man like you showing the old America's good side and not so good side but it was really hard back then, thanks Tom it means alot to all of us.
I had NO idea that you changed your channel over! I just found out! Was wondering why you haven’t posted in a month or so! Glad I found this channel!!
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Man, you are some sort of genius. I remember finding a sunken in spot when I was the kid around this pond that we used to go bass fishing, in New Hampshire. One day I started digging and I found so many bottles. It was amazing. I had a huge collection with some really good blue glass and small unique bottles. My mother made me throw it all away when we moved to Colorado. It should’ve at least been donated to the local museum, and I still regret not doing more with it to this day. I’m sure there was plenty more to dig. I’m sure it is still there.
Oh yeah, there was also an old chimney standing in the woods from where an old Homestead was. I bet that had some good stuff to metal detect around it. I bet it is still a good spot.
I absolutly love watching your videos and get excited with you when you find unique ones
Thanks for watching!
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizonswhat platform do you sell your bottles on? eBay esty Amazon
🎉 always look forward to the weekend knowing there will be a new video!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Me too
Find of a lifetime is right! The ONLY intact bottle known. Wow. 🎉🎉
Was an honor to be part of this excavation!!! That soda is amazing!!! Thank you for letting me be a part of your work Tom!! Great dig!!
HIya Sam! I'm so happy to know you got to be involved!
U the camera guy or something?
@@jimmylarge1148 I was that day
All I have to say is what dedication you have,Tom. Thank you for mucking around in all that muddy water, I appreciate your time and effort. ❤
Great finds! You definitely need a good pair of muck boots and a cordless pump to keep them holes manageable.
Hi honey im home ......did you have a good day dear ? 😮😮😮.😮😮 Great dig Tom . I hope those clothes dried out eventually. I love a good " what have i gotten myself into .
Hi Tom, glad you found a soda bottle. Great dig
I think you need a wetsuit for some of these pits. This one was a good find even though so many were unmarked. My whole yard is up on a slight hill and wherever I dig for planting a tree or in my garden, I come across bits of pottery and glass, wire and metal objects. They dug a trench next to my yard and I’d run over and look for bottles, especially after a rain. They all date to the turn of last century. I am guessing this area was the town dump and they filled it in before building homes in the 1950’s.
Amazing find!! Congrats!
Congrats on that rare bottle!
You should make a video of your collection! Great video
In a response to a comment on an earlier video on this channel he stated he sold off his collection because he was always worried about it getting stolen while he was on the road! Now he only keeps a few select pieces he can safely secure when he is away.
That was such fun to watch, Tom and your showers must be the best things on earth!😅😅😅❤
Gotta admit I’m glad I don’t have to clean out the shower stall after he’s done lol
Thanks for continuing your productions. I really enjoy your channel
I know the digging was brutal but the finds were great. Nice work Tom. Take care and stay safe 👍
Thank you ❤
Wow, you sure found a lot. Nice haul!
Tom looking down at you it looks like your pit hole is the shape of an old bath tub & your soaking in muddy water after a hard days work in the old west!love the history of a good dig,My favorite part of digging was figuring out who used & what they used the finds for!Quite a haul guys!
Congratulations on your ABW find! I love watching your videos, thank you so much for sharing!
So glad you found that soda, outstanding
Rough work man. Nice job Tom.
I know the water digs are super messy for you, but I really enjoy them…stuff comes out so clean!
Great video! And Congratulations on the "only known" example. Very, very cool. I've learned so much about my own collection that I inherited from my dad. His were mostly river bottom finds and finds when out mushroom hunting. Thanks for teaching us along the way...👍✌️
Phenomenal find! Thank you for sharing your passion with us.
Another great dig. Looking forward to the next one. Take care.😊😊
Wow! What a payload of amazing finds! Glad you got that one-of-a-kind soda bottle. Yay, You!! 😄💙
The soda was the pay off for having to deal with all that muck!
You should get a battery powered sump pump. It would make your digs in wet areas much more enjoyable.
i thought that.. or a gas powered one
Not speaking for Tom, but he’s responded to suggestions like this before saying that he’s tried them but they clog up almost immediately.
@@DebraJean196 i considered that later. One that he could afford (i have no idea what his financial situation is) probably couldn't do the job. But there are sump pumps that could easily do that.
@@jeffchandler3390I’d think the small spaces would limit the pumps he could use, plus if they’re too loud, or suck up too much too fast the logistics of up and down would make it kinda awkward. I’d like to think if he could find one that would work he’d use it. But rewatching the beginning the small space between his feet would drain pretty fast with a pump of any size, and too much power could damage the items he’s trying to salvage maybe? But I’ve really only seen industrial size pumps so I’m just guessing
Love the new channel. So happy I found you. Your digs are amazing!
Who would have thought all that was there except the people that put it there, thumbs up, great video
You’re a historian doing what so many of us should be doing for this country.bring up the old and showing us what history looks like. More power to you, would love to join an expedition sometime. Have fun, thank you for doing what you do. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Way to go..time for a cold one..lol
Holy Carple Tunnel!! That's one heck of a haul. Awesome 🇺🇲
Tom, love watching your videos. You may have covered this at another time but if so please direct me to it. My question is, what do you do with what you find? I would love to see how it is all cleaned up and possibly displayed. You must do a lot of research. Where do you get the schematics you use.? Have you ever made a video of the entire process on both sides of the dig?
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums, if no one is interested we throw them back. I first use old maps/pictures to line up where buildings stood long ago. From there I use probe rods to feel for objects and compaction differences
Another awesome dig
You’re amazing Tom!!
I have enjoyed watching this video.
Awesome how you find the pits. Great job thanks for the video
Tom, you should join me in Washington Georgia sometime. It has Revolutionary war and Civil War history and I have access to the original city dump now on private property.
Have you brought an excavator in? Message me on Facebook when you get the chance
Congrats! on the find!! Stay well. See ya next time!!
As always fun to get muddy😊
What an interesting job you have! Thanks for using such a good camera to record this. It’s like I’m in the pit with you when I’m sitting on my couch in 67 degree comfort.
incredible!
Love your work and your videos Tom
As always great video
omg , you can do it sir we belive in you lol, what a mess 1:24 mins into the post. good luck LonnieRay p.s. don't drown
Great history finds...love that soda...!!! 🥰🥰
Thanks for all the effort Tom! ♥
What an absolute great discovery. Congratulations.
Thanks for your current video 😊 UK.
As always an amazing dig.
Awesome hole you had there. Congrats
Nice productive hole in the ground! Maybe you should consider picking up metal detecting for all the sites you find too. I imagine there's TONS of valuable, non-valuable, useless, unidentifiable TREASURES around there. Thanks for another GREAT video!
Great dig Tom and crew! thank you
What a wonderful dig! Too bad you have to deal with all the groundwater.
Wow, you've found enough liquor flasks and prescription bottles to start your own apothecary or bar yourself! Water tables are an ever-changing thing. where some places that were dry one decade, a major flood could come through and alter the topography of the river only slightly and the water table in the region could change with it. Major rivers also have underground aquafers that run along underneath them, and if some kind of construction happens or like I said a flood from a particularly wet year, can change how the underground water table can change without notice, but I can tell you the homes that had basements that were suddenly susceptible to flooding would certainly notice. that happened to my uncle out on his Farm. his basement became so commonly flooded that he simply stopped using it, installed a sump and built an outbuilding that he would use for storage for his. So this outhouse pit would have been likely dry, I can't see then using it if the water table was as high as it was during your excavation, but I could be wrong.
Because the soil has been disturbed, privies hold rain water like a bucket, that's why he's able to bail out the water, later in the summer that pit would probably be bone dry.
*WOW* That wasn't just a Honey Hole... that was a HOLY HOLE👏👏
Bless your heart Tom having to dig in that nasty mess. Cant really see what your digging. I feel for you. You will have to have an hot shower after that . but the bottles are awesome. Love the amber bottles. They really are beautiful.❤❤❤❤❤
88 bottle of booze on the wall …88 bottles of booze…take one down pass it around 87 bottle of booze on the wall! What a dirty wet dig Tom, but amazing amount of glass. Thanks for doing all the dirty work!
That’s good history Tom the pit tells the story riding in to the pool hall that’s cowboy / pioneer times yep thanks good video
This excavation highlights one aspect of American culture at the time that was of serious concern. Alcoholism was rampant in America during the 1800s into the early portion of the 20th century. So much so that the government came out with prohibition. Alcoholism was a very serious problem. it destroyed lives and ruined families. Women were sick and tired of having to deal with husbands who would spend their income on booze instead of feeding the family and the sheer number of alcohol flasks in this pit shows how much volume was being consumed. And every business was trying to cash in on it. Bars would give away highly salty foods to encourage more drinking so pickled foods were always on hand, and like you said pool halls were charging an entrance fee and then giving the alcohol to the patrons, but charged for food, but once again, salty snacks were always free, like Peanuts and salt preserved meats, as well as pickled foods. Places like pool halls and bars/pubs were everywhere. in an 1800s city it wouldn't be uncommon for a city block to have upwards of 10 or more bars, pubs, pool halls and every other sort of business that purveyed food and booze. It was a serious problem to the point that America was dubbed the land of alcoholics. Europeans and other nations around the world were appalled by the state of America's working class. Many counties would go dry and lock down any loopholes to prevent alcohol from being sold, but the business owners didn't care about these men's families but were only after the massive amount of money being generated by alcoholism. The one thing about Prohibition that was a benefit was that it brought a large amount of awareness to the public about how bad alcoholism was in America and it began to change society as religion teamed up with women's groups to make young men aware of how alcohol was ruining families and that young women were refusing to entertain men who imbibed in booze, Plus Alcoholics Anonymous was created around the same time and was enormously effective in getting former alcoholics to drop their addiction, and that same process is still an effective way for anyone with ANY kind of addiction, to end their abuse of whatever it was they were addicted to.
That's true too but it would save their life since the water would get contaminated. Alcohol was to also help clean wounds,medicine etc! It was one the gifts from the Catholic Monks which is a blessing.
Prohibition was also very beneficial for the Kennedy family.
The town I live in was originally designed as a dry town. At one point, there was a local bar (in modern terms it wasn't much more than a glorified shack). The women rallied behind a firebrand of a woman & went to the store and bought a length of rope. They took that rope & encircled the building, and with one mighty heave, pulled the building over! A piece of that rope is on display at our museum (which was originally a Carnegie library).
Prohibition was greatly influenced by religion.
A city close to where I grew up was once in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most bars on one street. The city was North Tonawanda and the street was Oliver St.
Great job
Wow, a 10-holer! I've only ever seen the 2-holers!---Listen to that prairie wind. If you've ever listened to the soundtrack of How The West Was Won, during the intro, an immigrant bemoans he's the only good guy on the prairie, where the wind blows so hard, you have to walk sideways to keep from flying!
😊🎉🎉 good. Job
Glad I found your new channel. Dude, who does your laundry? That was one messy dig.
I usually spray everything off with a power washer before putting them in the washing machine haha
Brilliant
cool!
I was glad to see you enjoying your Spa day with a nice mud bath. Lol
Tom what are the prices you get for these bottles
The prices are all over the board. Most are “recycle grade”. I once dug a military fort and got army hospital department bottles that sold for thousands of dollars
So, booze and pills? Not much has changed 😅 Thanks for your content, I started digging NJ when I was a kid. Keep on.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. There's a bunch of places falling down here, too.
I miss the old music 😢
I plan to record some music of my own to put in the videos. The old music was property of UA-cam and can’t be shared on any other platforms, which limited the reach.
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizonsI'm totally good with no music. I don't live in a soap opera.
😂 you just said water table! That answered that! 😂
Ever thought about switching to a small headed shovel instead of that cement trial. Like a foxhole shovel. I bought a small head shovel with a 5ft handle made of fiberglass, so I cut the handle down to around 22 inches and for the shovel head I marked out some teeth on the sides for cutting through roots and sharpened the teeth and the shovel head itself with my angle grinder, I also cut the teeth pattern with that angle grinder. I designed it for my metal detecting adventures and wasn’t even thing about paying $60 bucks and up for a detecting shovel.
Could all those blank flasks/bottles be reused? If so, what kind of cap would fit on them in this day & age?
Corks would definitely be the way to go
a little bit of a mud bath, love the finds. what do you do with the bottles
Tom you need a pair of waders & a sump pump for these wet digs.
Do you have a website to buy some of your bottles? I would like to purchase some from this video if possible
Not yet. Still hoping to start a site where I sell some of the finds
With the number of Rx bottles and liquour flasks someone was feeling no pain.
Amazing dig
Hello I am new to your channel, I have a question about your finds what do you do with your finds?
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums
Is there such a thing as a battery powered pump that could work for these pits that are so watery? I suppose if there is it would be pricey.
Could we start a fund to get him one? :)
12v pumps are relatively inexpensive, problem is keeping them from getting plugged up with dirt ect.
Drill adapters now a days
Do you recommend outhouse baths?
Whoot Whoot another Tom video and @crickdiggersinc live auction! I just love Saturdays! 😊❤❤❤
Are the metal parts farming equipment??
You need to add an oversize strainer so you can dip out the bottles for a pit like this one!
Tom! Credit for persisting with this dig - you must have been desperate for a shower after this one, wouldn’t have wanted to be responsible for the laundry. Amazing, the lack of variety in this pit.
Tom, I'm curious with all the bottles you found in that pit, why do you say it's been dug before?
Hope you had a great thanksgiving.
I concluded that it had been cleaned out based on the lack of human waste “night soil”. Way back when folks would be hired to clean these out. I was told that it was so that the groundwater wouldn’t be contaminated with human waste. They would also hire folks to clean them out when they got full, similar modern day septic tank cleaners. Some company’s would even have steam powered suction machines.
@TomAskjem. Thanks so much for responding. Makes sense, just never gave it much thought. My grand parents had an out house at times and being city kids we were quite put out with such a thing.
I'm afraid they were never worried about the ground water as they were very near a swamp. But I guess the well was not close.
I think no bottles ever went in the outhouse because they would reuse them. They were very poor in today's terms but raised 12 healthy children.
Love those old bottle's. I collect all kinds.
I Appreciate your digs.
Would a sump pump help with the groundwater issue? Or is that not practical where you do your digging?
Amazing how many of those not embossed