Great exploring trip. Love the coffee pot and cup. Good finds. Think there are buttons and maybe a coin or two? Have a Blest Easter. T4 the adventures Charlie.👍😘➕
I love how you improvise , adapt and go with the flow of things. That was a nice old kettle and cup. Definitely would have taken that. And the swirl corner piece of that stove I would have taken home too. It's amazing how much beautiful stuff is left in old dump sites. Thanks for the hike Charlie😊
Thank you for your dedication in bringing us these exploration videos. My woods exploring began early in life and continued for about forty years. My curiosity and fascination have not lessened, thank you for making it possible to see so much!
Here in Kansas you can tell where old homes use to be because the cellars usually have cement roofs ! They're that way because of the tornados that we often have !
Very interesting trek today! So many different signs of the past. Thank you for venturing out in the cold. At least no flies, ticks, or undergrowth yet!
Hey Charlie, great exploring around. The old teapot and cup were cool. So sorry about your tri pod. I admire you keeping the show on the road on this Not Thursday Friday. Joyce ❤️🙏🇺🇸
I grew up in Southeast New Hampshire. There are some old roads back in the woods behind the house where I grew up. Old rock walls and piles of old things that people threw away or left behind. I have been living in Idaho for 32 years, and started metal detecting a couple years ago. Usually the oldest coins we find around here date to about the 1880's, so needless to say I am excited about getting back to NH this summer and hopefully finding some old copper coins.
When I was younger, many years ago now, I spent good amount of time in the woods of SE Oklahoma, and NE Texas. I learned to watch for the plants that people planted around the yards, and fruit orchards. Crepe myrtle pair tress, plume, wild strawberries, if you come across those and others, especially flowers, you pretty much knew that you were at someone's old home place. Since we don't have basements, or cellar holes here, that was a pretty good indicator. That and trees would be in a square or rectangle shape even if others were inside the boundary of others. I guess most were either brunt down, or someone reclaimed the lumber, and rocks rarely bricks on the really old places. But you rarely ever found a place standing abandoned from back then. If you did typically those were depression Era places, and you could look at the old wall boards from inside the house, and they used old newspapers, and magazines to line the interior of the homes with those things for insulation to keep the wind from blowing through the boards that shrank as the dried out from when they built it with green wood, and pulled away from each other. Even if they had used 1x2 over the joints where they butted them together, they always had gaps, and the single walled buildings got drafty, and they used burlap bags stretched, and tacked down on the floors as they were always sitting on honey locus, or boisterous de arc wooden blocks to support the beams under the houses. Occasionally real barns but mainly lean toos off the side of the houses. Then there's the old refuge dumps old pieces of metal buckets, wagon wheels, old farm equipment worn out and patched up till they just fell apart. Occasionally you would find old homemade grave stones someone had chiseled out onto sandstone limestone markers faded half knocked over, a lotta times covered briars, or black berry patches that had taken over the clearings. In the area I grew up in Texas you could wonder around in the old pastures you could tell cattle or horses use to graze there. The old barbed wire fences with bos de arc fence post would be so old the post were falling over, and the wire so rusty that it break in your hands as you went through them. But several times we found old farms/ranches that at one time been very fine places still standing barns be bit worn and leaning sideways, but homes that occasionally were great big three story places with the Victorian round staircases on each end on the houses big double hung windows, porches across the fronts of them. Just sitting the way they were the day they were left to the grass prairies. One had one of those round, I can't remember what they were called, but this one had a round room at the top of the staircases. Up there still had most of the furniture I'm fairly positive had been in it for years.. There was a pool table with red felt, leather pockets pool cues still in the racks on the walls. Several chairs with end tables between them, and the balls racked at the end of the table with the rack still around the balls, cue ball with cue laying ready to play. I bet they'd had the table lifted up from the outside through the window opening, and it was simply too much trouble to get it down. Old kitchens with wood stoves sitting there, and some even had the old well pumps in the kitchens next to the sinks. Outhouses out back behind the chicken coupes. This was in the 60's, but they didn't last long, because people were moving out there by the late 60's, and teenagers started teaching them, and someone would go out with the firemen and burn them down so kids would stop going out there because they were afraid that they'd start a grass fire that would burn forever across grasslands. Funny I hadn't thought about those places in a long long time that I'd dam near forgotten about those, and was only remembering those I'd found later when I was early 20', and forgotten about those places. Thanks for the memories Charles
I detect on the side of the road sometimes looking for old 1930s beer cans.......(and you'd be surprised how well a totally unreadable brown can will clean up sometimes)....find any?....it can be very profitable if you find something rare....even if only semi legible....
Absolutely awesome when you get out and explore the woods and find old home sites. The landscape is beautiful there I love being in the woods all I can. Great videos 👍👍.
In the days before piped water and fire mains, with candles, lamps, fireplaces and even wood stoves it made sense to keep structures far enough apart to prevent a fire jumping from one to the other. That and keep the horses and cattle a bit downwind
Be thankful for what you have. Aside from the few small parks and left over few wooded acres the farmers own, my county and the counties that surround me, met deforestation over 100 years ago.
Good morning everyone 😊 👍👍
Thanks for taking us along, Charlie.
Great exploring trip. Love the coffee pot and cup. Good finds. Think there are buttons and maybe a coin or two? Have a Blest Easter. T4 the adventures Charlie.👍😘➕
I love how you improvise , adapt and go with the flow of things. That was a nice old kettle and cup. Definitely would have taken that. And the swirl corner piece of that stove I would have taken home too. It's amazing how much beautiful stuff is left in old dump sites. Thanks for the hike Charlie😊
Thank you Charlie for the adventure and seeing some beautiful scenery !
Nice day for a walk Charlie great place to see the world from Texas enjoyed the opportunity to be out there with you Charlie 👍🐈🙏🙋♂️
You sure can save the scene Charlie. Thanks for all you do for us.
Thank you for your dedication in bringing us these exploration videos. My woods exploring began early in life and continued for about forty years. My curiosity and fascination have not lessened, thank you for making it possible to see so much!
Here in Kansas you can tell where old homes use to be because the cellars usually have cement roofs ! They're that way because of the tornados that we often have !
Enjoy how you try to decipher old homesteads interesting.
Very interesting trek today! So many different signs of the past. Thank you for venturing out in the cold. At least no flies, ticks, or undergrowth yet!
I agree. These exploration trips help find future metal detecting spots.
Hey Charlie, great exploring around. The old teapot and cup were cool. So sorry about your tri pod. I admire you keeping the show on the road on this Not Thursday Friday. Joyce ❤️🙏🇺🇸
Thanks for another great day in the woods 🕊️!!! Sad about your tripod 😢....I hope it is on warranty.🙏
I grew up in Southeast New Hampshire. There are some old roads back in the woods behind the house where I grew up. Old rock walls and piles of old things that people threw away or left behind. I have been living in Idaho for 32 years, and started metal detecting a couple years ago. Usually the oldest coins we find around here date to about the 1880's, so needless to say I am excited about getting back to NH this summer and hopefully finding some old copper coins.
Enjoyed watching N.T once again ✌
When I was younger, many years ago now, I spent good amount of time in the woods of SE Oklahoma, and NE Texas.
I learned to watch for the plants that people planted around the yards, and fruit orchards.
Crepe myrtle pair tress, plume, wild strawberries, if you come across those and others, especially flowers, you pretty much knew that you were at someone's old home place.
Since we don't have basements, or cellar holes here, that was a pretty good indicator.
That and trees would be in a square or rectangle shape even if others were inside the boundary of others.
I guess most were either brunt down, or someone reclaimed the lumber, and rocks rarely bricks on the really old places.
But you rarely ever found a place standing abandoned from back then.
If you did typically those were depression Era places, and you could look at the old wall boards from inside the house, and they used old newspapers, and magazines to line the interior of the homes with those things for insulation to keep the wind from blowing through the boards that shrank as the dried out from when they built it with green wood, and pulled away from each other.
Even if they had used 1x2 over the joints where they butted them together, they always had gaps, and the single walled buildings got drafty, and they used burlap bags stretched, and tacked down on the floors as they were always sitting on honey locus, or boisterous de arc wooden blocks to support the beams under the houses.
Occasionally real barns but mainly lean toos off the side of the houses.
Then there's the old refuge dumps old pieces of metal buckets, wagon wheels, old farm equipment worn out and patched up till they just fell apart.
Occasionally you would find old homemade grave stones someone had chiseled out onto sandstone limestone markers faded half knocked over, a lotta times covered briars, or black berry patches that had taken over the clearings.
In the area I grew up in Texas you could wonder around in the old pastures you could tell cattle or horses use to graze there.
The old barbed wire fences with bos de arc fence post would be so old the post were falling over, and the wire so rusty that it break in your hands as you went through them.
But several times we found old farms/ranches that at one time been very fine places still standing barns be bit worn and leaning sideways, but homes that occasionally were great big three story places with the Victorian round staircases on each end on the houses big double hung windows, porches across the fronts of them.
Just sitting the way they were the day they were left to the grass prairies.
One had one of those round, I can't remember what they were called, but this one had a round room at the top of the staircases.
Up there still had most of the furniture I'm fairly positive had been in it for years..
There was a pool table with red felt, leather pockets pool cues still in the racks on the walls.
Several chairs with end tables between them, and the balls racked at the end of the table with the rack still around the balls, cue ball with cue laying ready to play.
I bet they'd had the table lifted up from the outside through the window opening, and it was simply too much trouble to get it down.
Old kitchens with wood stoves sitting there, and some even had the old well pumps in the kitchens next to the sinks.
Outhouses out back behind the chicken coupes.
This was in the 60's, but they didn't last long, because people were moving out there by the late 60's, and teenagers started teaching them, and someone would go out with the firemen and burn them down so kids would stop going out there because they were afraid that they'd start a grass fire that would burn forever across grasslands.
Funny I hadn't thought about those places in a long long time that I'd dam near forgotten about those, and was only remembering those I'd found later when I was early 20', and forgotten about those places.
Thanks for the memories Charles
I live in the country with a creek less than 50 feet behind my house, it's national geographic around here
I detect on the side of the road sometimes looking for old 1930s beer cans.......(and you'd be surprised how well a totally unreadable brown can will clean up sometimes)....find any?....it can be very profitable if you find something rare....even if only semi legible....
Absolutely awesome when you get out and explore the woods and find old home sites. The landscape is beautiful there I love being in the woods all I can. Great videos 👍👍.
Why wasn’t there a new episode on stealth diggers yesterday.
The dig season hasn't quite started in NH😉
In the days before piped water and fire mains, with candles, lamps, fireplaces and even wood stoves it made sense to keep structures far enough apart to prevent a fire jumping from one to the other. That and keep the horses and cattle a bit downwind
You did a great job with the busted tri-pod.
Interesting exploration. I hope you'll go back again and do some swinging, and look for the dump.
Awesome vid!! Awesome finds 😁🤓
Love your videos Charlie. But it's too bad they don't have a leg to stand on. 🙂
Looks like a new place to explore with detectors!!
Not the cold. ChiCom built tripod !
LFOD !
so cool thanks for sharing
More bipod action 😮
have you ever run into a bear?
It would be really fun to have a metal detector in there
Be thankful for what you have. Aside from the few small parks and left over few wooded acres the farmers own, my county and the counties that surround me, met deforestation over 100 years ago.
Lol heck yes I do. Every field every woods. My wife is sick of hearing about it.