Unearthing History: Metal Detecting For Railroad And Civil War Treasures

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  • @aquachigger
    @aquachigger  11 місяців тому +35

    This adventure was a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy the video and can give me a like and subscribe if you have not.
    Please find Mike's UA-cam channel here: www.youtube.com/@gr8finds196

    • @drshoe8744
      @drshoe8744 11 місяців тому

      Praying that you Did Not bust up that jack body?

    • @PaulGadoury
      @PaulGadoury 11 місяців тому

      Some of those bullets look like they have been chewed up by pigs.

  • @NaterBater
    @NaterBater 11 місяців тому +21

    I love how excited Mike gets when he finds a really nice relic lol. Like a kid on Christmas morning 😂.

  • @Nav1gamer
    @Nav1gamer 11 місяців тому +15

    Aluminum track jack. Used to have to carry one in each hand and line a side of rail. They were made aluminum to lighten the load. Was a such a relief when my team got em. Nice vid. Be safe Chig

  • @johnfiorentino8677
    @johnfiorentino8677 11 місяців тому +39

    My GF asked how does Chig knows if the bullet is Union or Confederate. 😮 Well Honey, you see, if the bullet is pointing North, Johnny Reb fired it. If on the other hand, if the bullet is pointing South, a Union soldier fired it for sure. 🎉

  • @peterkordziel7047
    @peterkordziel7047 11 місяців тому +5

    That first iron item that you found right after the turkey was a railroad coupler. The way it was broken was from strain , maybe while double heading. It is a very old one, because it's split to allow a link and pin coupler to be coupled to it. Pretty neat!

  • @monomarino5349
    @monomarino5349 11 місяців тому +17

    Good chance that there is a prehistoric crab inside that rounded rock.

    • @corybailey2331
      @corybailey2331 11 місяців тому +3

      I second this. That rock absolutely looks like similar fossils I've seen. Tell him to crack it open chigg.

  • @jimrichter3487
    @jimrichter3487 11 місяців тому +3

    Thanks for bringing us with you Chigg!!! My wife sings the Aquachigger hymn throughout the day..lol….Hate to tell you but Bobbie Wobbs and Fiona are the stars of the show…!!!!!

  • @suzantonn1188
    @suzantonn1188 11 місяців тому +2

    I like Mike's rock, yes, it does look like a hammerstone and the barbed wire is definitely a keeper.

  • @paulwise6722
    @paulwise6722 11 місяців тому +1

    Good morning chigg from England, what a interesting video, the cargo on the troll train had a very popular container on back from a place in Norfolk in England MAERSR LINE also the sink hole looks very interesting ,the jack did look like cast aluminium so it would be easy to break, what a beautiful pig troft in the woods ,its amazing the interesting what you can find in these ancient woods ,I used to work in a saw mill and the amount of bullets and washing line holders we used to cut up when inbedded into the tree used to take the diamond tips of the saw ,that's fantastic that you both got fragments and bullets from the civil war ,thanks again take care ,,🇬🇧

  • @TomFromMN
    @TomFromMN 11 місяців тому +5

    Will Mike ever trust you again? LOL! You still have to pull his chain when you get an opportunity. It's always fun to watch you two. I'm no longer amazed when you identify farm equipment as you are an encyclopedia. Who needs google when we've got Beau. Gonna start calling you the Chigglopedia. As always, another adventure that i appreciate your sharing.

  • @terrencebuller7676
    @terrencebuller7676 11 місяців тому +5

    Hello Chigg, the jack you found, Iam pretty sure is aluminum railroad jack. My dad was a big collector of railroad items and had several jacks like that. 👍

  • @dougalexander7204
    @dougalexander7204 11 місяців тому +5

    I like it when you’re detecting with Mike. He’s is no longer a Padawan. He’s knowledge with common sense, and can haul you out if you get bit by a rabbid black mamba rattle moccasins.

  • @JustPlainSteve5372
    @JustPlainSteve5372 11 місяців тому +5

    Thanks for the Adventure Chigg!

  • @OhioMetalMaven
    @OhioMetalMaven 11 місяців тому +1

    Mike definitely found a hammer stone. Fantastic hunt. Thanks for taking us along. ✌🏼❤️😊🍀

  • @relicrat
    @relicrat 11 місяців тому

    Wild hogs in the field? Fun hunt. Thanks for sharing!!!

  • @UnhingedHarry
    @UnhingedHarry 10 місяців тому

    Another most awesome adventure

  • @hillbilly3331
    @hillbilly3331 11 місяців тому

    Love it! I love findind civil war relics,i have a permission in the Shiloh battlefeild area,and I've found some things, your videos help me to know what to look for and the identity of bullet calibers. Good hunting sir, and thank you.

  • @johnnyphillips9735
    @johnnyphillips9735 11 місяців тому +2

    Another aquachigger adventure you know it's a good one

  • @TomFromMN
    @TomFromMN 11 місяців тому +1

    Okay, have to get myself ready to watch a nice long video of you and Mike. Have to go get my beverage and a little snack. Movie time! Thanks, Beau.

  • @scottnyc6572
    @scottnyc6572 11 місяців тому +1

    Intentions in the ground can be old gravesites that weren’t marked.Lots of signs of death on that land..

  • @michaelkullas9239
    @michaelkullas9239 11 місяців тому +1

    Fun video! Lots of cool content and you and Mike make quite the duo! Definitely should make the best of list for 24! Thanks

  • @brodiedavisalmostprimitive1262
    @brodiedavisalmostprimitive1262 11 місяців тому +2

    Love those big trees

  • @richardwarnock2789
    @richardwarnock2789 11 місяців тому +4

    There a wild fossil in that rock x-ray first could be worth a lot fellas!

  • @lavenderrainbow5041
    @lavenderrainbow5041 11 місяців тому +2

    22:04 - there should be a fossil in there. You may want to split it to see what's inside :)))
    EDIT: a UA-camr by the name of Yorkshire Fossils finds these types of 'stones' all of the time. When he splits them, there is usually an ammonite in it (curly type of shell)

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому +1

      Even if so.... it's an Indian artifact and much more rare.

  • @TeamLynchBMD
    @TeamLynchBMD 11 місяців тому

    Thanks Chigg for taking us along on another adventure. Love the Civil War items and possible indian artifact. Grew up playing around old railroad tracks, always cool finds around the tracks

  • @guycleveland3897
    @guycleveland3897 11 місяців тому +2

    When you dig those civil war bullets that have been used by both the north and south, there is a way to tell which side used it. When you dig it and it is pointing north, it was used by the south, and if it was pointing south, it was used by the north. Obviously.

  • @twindiggersminnesotapamandpat
    @twindiggersminnesotapamandpat 11 місяців тому

    Great adventure guys, nice relics recovered. 👍😀👏

  • @jimmyrichardson8133
    @jimmyrichardson8133 11 місяців тому

    I like that Duffs beer...lol

  • @rickyb2200
    @rickyb2200 11 місяців тому

    Well you both found some C.W. relics so not skunked . Good video thanks Chigg.

  • @670tazman
    @670tazman 11 місяців тому

    Love the videos ❤. Makes my day better all the time

  • @slimwantedman6694
    @slimwantedman6694 11 місяців тому +1

    Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

  • @richardklapka5147
    @richardklapka5147 11 місяців тому

    I liked the shell frags & case shot. That cat? skull musta been a bobcat or? No house kitty's got fangs like that, right?

  • @barbarafritchie2000
    @barbarafritchie2000 11 місяців тому

    Thanks for another adventure.

  • @stevebroadway3713
    @stevebroadway3713 11 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing! 👍

  • @gregkoch8455
    @gregkoch8455 11 місяців тому

    Item a 8:15 is an old railroad jack. I used to be a Foreman on a RR construction crew.

  • @davidbelton2086
    @davidbelton2086 11 місяців тому +2

    The rock looks like a limestone geode .

  • @MrJudder413
    @MrJudder413 11 місяців тому

    I love how exciting Mike gets. Your hear goes pitter patt and Mike's hands go flappy flapp 😂. Seriously though he's a good digging partner chigg

  • @DanO12345
    @DanO12345 11 місяців тому

    Looks like a hammer stone for sure. The railroad jack is definitely aluminum. Made that way to lighten the load.

  • @ActivistOfArchaeology
    @ActivistOfArchaeology 11 місяців тому +1

    love the vids man , keep up the good work

  • @jpannon8500
    @jpannon8500 11 місяців тому

    Hallo🖐, did you and Mike look at the sinkhole you found?

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому +1

      I forgot, but I'll be back.

  • @jalpa9642
    @jalpa9642 11 місяців тому +1

    What happened to the underground opening u found....? Did you two check it out..? =)

  • @andruw-tz6ez
    @andruw-tz6ez 11 місяців тому

    Love the videos. What is the thing at 25.19 in the video with the diagonal ecthings? Possibly a lead thimble?

  • @dennismorris3254
    @dennismorris3254 11 місяців тому

    It's funny chigg every think you found I did today .I did not find a fragment peice

  • @13bravoredleg18
    @13bravoredleg18 11 місяців тому +2

    I’ve used aluminum railroad jacks to raise and level houses…

  • @lisapainter1723
    @lisapainter1723 11 місяців тому

    Please go out west love those vids

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому

      Probably not until the fall. Really want to go though.

  • @darrenbrisson4336
    @darrenbrisson4336 11 місяців тому

    No claustrophobia here hahahahahaha 😂 🤣 😆 😅 😜 🙃 😂

  • @dustinnocks1188
    @dustinnocks1188 11 місяців тому

    Last one of those Duff RR Jack I had ,sold it for $350. It was in excellent condition though

  • @signal98
    @signal98 11 місяців тому

    Rail jack👍

  • @ducttapedigger7811
    @ducttapedigger7811 11 місяців тому

    Excellent video

  • @Jerreinemy
    @Jerreinemy 11 місяців тому

    that jack is cast alluminum

  • @MadBomber01055
    @MadBomber01055 11 місяців тому

    Definitely a hammer stone

  • @markwat
    @markwat 11 місяців тому

    Railroad jack!, worth over a 100.00 after oiled up and workiing i got six of them and jack sunken porches up with them

  • @hardyakka6200
    @hardyakka6200 11 місяців тому +1

    That rock is a grinding stone people pecked the edges so that it wouldn't slip while they were grinding grain. That rock has polished surfaces. Some women would have used that making flour.

  • @conspiracycracker5254
    @conspiracycracker5254 10 місяців тому

    I have a feelin that rock used to be in a cos stomach.

  • @chrisexplores619
    @chrisexplores619 11 місяців тому

    Im first! Heck yeah Chigg! Dig em all

  • @johndaut2838
    @johndaut2838 11 місяців тому

    Railroad jack, some people call them house jacks

  • @jayrob280
    @jayrob280 11 місяців тому

    That’s a 350 to 400 dollar railroad jack all day long $$$$

  • @user-Icicleandfireball
    @user-Icicleandfireball 11 місяців тому

    268th like, another adventure, so awrsome

  • @SolidStateSoul
    @SolidStateSoul 11 місяців тому

    Never seen barbed wire like that before.

  • @lancegraham9870
    @lancegraham9870 11 місяців тому

    first i wanted to say did they put that tunnel there so animals could cross underneath without getting hit by the train and also isnt there a law about if its railroad related items u cant take the item if its next to the tracks

    • @Audioobscure
      @Audioobscure 11 місяців тому

      Tunnel for drainage and farm use

  • @aguadigger
    @aguadigger 11 місяців тому

    🦃⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • @tonyhype2593
    @tonyhype2593 11 місяців тому

    Looks like a node. Might be a fossil in that round rock. Or maybe an Indian tool

  • @joanhawkins8552
    @joanhawkins8552 11 місяців тому +1

    Poor Mike. 😂

  • @Vault57
    @Vault57 11 місяців тому

    8:15 Aluminum or magnesium. Either way, scrap it.

  • @Snowball_Philodendron
    @Snowball_Philodendron 11 місяців тому

    Dead things dont bother me, i would probably be in the bones collecting them 😂

  • @namleets57
    @namleets57 11 місяців тому +1

    Aluminum simplex jack

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 11 місяців тому

    Hey Chigg and Mike

  • @andrewjackson6903
    @andrewjackson6903 11 місяців тому

    Northfoking way, man. Railroad that is😂

  • @670tazman
    @670tazman 11 місяців тому

    I love trains

  • @midwestjuan2263
    @midwestjuan2263 11 місяців тому +1

    I miss the words “hold your breath”

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому

      Soon. Still too cold and the rivers are very high.

  • @ericfairchild5431
    @ericfairchild5431 11 місяців тому

    Duffs!

  • @williamcrawford7982
    @williamcrawford7982 11 місяців тому

    Perfidy POTATO, hahaha 🥔

  • @advenzures
    @advenzures 11 місяців тому +1

    👊🤩👍

  • @dustyrusty6840
    @dustyrusty6840 11 місяців тому

    Was waiting for the sink hole, but you didn't show it.

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому

      Forgot it, but will do a video on it soon.

  • @LeoBower-p2c
    @LeoBower-p2c 11 місяців тому

    Railroad jack

  • @robertreese2600
    @robertreese2600 11 місяців тому

    Turkey's spurs weren't that big. Probably a couple years old. Cool though.

  • @mikhailkalashnikov4599
    @mikhailkalashnikov4599 11 місяців тому

    I'd guess aluminum alloy.

  • @robertchase8504
    @robertchase8504 11 місяців тому

    Duffs🍻

  • @JOECorsoNova
    @JOECorsoNova 11 місяців тому

    Anyone know what mikes channel is called? Thanks

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому +1

      The link is in the pinned comment.

    • @JOECorsoNova
      @JOECorsoNova 11 місяців тому

      @@aquachigger thank you!

  • @BruceGordon925
    @BruceGordon925 11 місяців тому

    Shepherds

  • @kimandherman
    @kimandherman 11 місяців тому

    Chig that jack could be worth more than a grand on ebay 15 ton are 1,200 to 1,400 please dont scrap it😢😢😢

  • @JBVance-jq7gm
    @JBVance-jq7gm 11 місяців тому

    Titanium steel

  • @charliem5332
    @charliem5332 11 місяців тому

    What battle???

  • @leannkennedy6568
    @leannkennedy6568 11 місяців тому +1

    Howdy

  • @nickydepalma739
    @nickydepalma739 11 місяців тому

    A fossilized Serpent Egg .

  • @bkilpatrick68
    @bkilpatrick68 11 місяців тому

    That’s a raccoon skull

  • @raynin
    @raynin 11 місяців тому

    Long story, but im recovering.

  • @670tazman
    @670tazman 11 місяців тому

    I wish you could come to my house and metal detected my yard the house has pillers under it. So it's old

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 11 місяців тому

    Chigg I’ve noticed that you breathe awful hard when you barely walk much sometimes. That’s the way I done before my triple bypass surgery November before last

    • @johnfiorentino8677
      @johnfiorentino8677 11 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, seems to happen as we age 😂 I breath hard just watching ya'll dig.

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому +3

      randlerichardson5826 I don't think many people 1/2 my age could keep up with me. I don't saunter and am healthy as a freaking horse according to my Doc.

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 11 місяців тому

    It’s aluminum

  • @barbarafritchie2000
    @barbarafritchie2000 11 місяців тому

    Was that thimble and not a bullet? It looks too pretty.

  • @TheStwat
    @TheStwat 11 місяців тому

    :)

  • @48thstateprospecting
    @48thstateprospecting 11 місяців тому

    17:32 over your right shoulder in that tree is civil war artillery you can see where it hit the tree the round hole….. and the tree almost broke that’s why it’s leaning…. Or is it?….. back to the vid…

  • @darrenbrisson4336
    @darrenbrisson4336 11 місяців тому

    Ive seen bigger dog kennels

  • @mercedithcompala8148
    @mercedithcompala8148 11 місяців тому

    Liked everything...except that cat skull...yikes

  • @kc6671
    @kc6671 11 місяців тому

    Coyote kill

  • @erictaylor5577
    @erictaylor5577 11 місяців тому

    yeah smash it for the .30 cents a lb instead of selling ia rail jack for 50 or 100 bucks or up lol thought you were quicker than that

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому

      Even in a broken condition? Plus shipping will be a bear, no?

    • @erictaylor5577
      @erictaylor5577 11 місяців тому

      Google em … people pay

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  11 місяців тому

      Took care of it. Thanks