125 Year Old Underground Vault Full of Old Valuables Collapses While I'm Inside 

Others have tried to tell him. Good suggestion.

Soil types vary from place to place. Clay loam soils are relatively stable where sandy soils are very weak, I totally get your point.

Just fyi - soil collapses and cave-ins occur in mere seconds. Back in 1986, I (as the project superintendent on a very large construction project) and a soils engineer were down in a 6' deep by 30' long by 12' wide foundation excavation while the soils engineer was 'checking bottom' prior to setting the reinforcement steel. The excavation was for a large retaining wall foundation, and on one side of the cut stood a 25' high back-sloped bank. While the soils engineer was probing the bottom, I was watching the exposed face of the bank and started noting very thin spiderweb cracks starting to form, I turned and yelled at the soils engineer who spun around and looked and then yelled to get out. We climbed out via the access ladder and no more than fifteen seconds later, 75 cubic yards of soil collapsed off the back-sloped bank and into the excavation. We would have been instantly crushed to death had we not been alert. That excavation, together with the back-sloped bank beyond, was located in adversely-bedded shale and clay soils. Stay safe!@paulthrash6710

He is actively trying to win a Darwin Award. You just cannot fix stupid. He has been told several times and still just doesnt get it.

Sounds like an OSHA "competent person" on the job here. I was one on a job with sand and high water tables. We used trench boxes and had to work around high tides. I was happy to be trained, but not happy with the added responsibility.

I was wondering the same. I wonder if he's going to sell them or make a museum? 😊

He gives some to town historical societies to homeowners if they want done, and the rest idk.

Do you have a store where you sell the bottles?

I was thinking the same

I think another question for Tom would be how does he find these locations? He never reveals that either.

Yes!!! So mucky and uncomfortable, such stoic diggers, whatever the conditions.

Better than I'd be, for sure. At best, I'd bring a small pump. At worst, I'd fill it back in.

You really "dig" these videos?? 😅😅😅😅

@@danielknepper6884 He apparently does! Because "They're so down to earth" 😅

Lol 😆

Have you ever considered doing a few minutes of research using a search engine. I spent 2 minutes with Google and found enough interviews and articles to keep me busy all afternoon. Now I can answer every question asked in this comment section and then some. Don't be afraid to do a little work on your own in place waiting to be spoon fed the answers.

Train station.

Or tell him to get the hell out of that unsafe situation... Really dumb idea being in that deep and in those conditions. Add to that, being exhausted and making really bad decisions near that end. Like digging horizontally under the wall, then ripping it apart to then have it nearly collapse on him, only to immediately continue... If I was his friend, I'd tell him to stop taking such stupid risks. This guy is gonna die in a hole one day

How I say how can you dig in a place with all that "Crap"? Just be honest please!😮

oh wow, thank you! glad you found us, and welcome to the channel!.. just be warned.. some of our videos from early 2022 are a little rough!

I just found your videos and all ready have watched several,,, very, very interesting. Always the same guy in the pit,,, you should take turns.😅

​@@BelowthePlainsNot sure where all you go to dig but I own an old stagecoach stop in Colorado built in 1871 that has both a cistern and hand dug well that are filled in. I've always been curious as to what's inside them. You're welcome to come dig them out sometime.

I was thinking the Very Same thing, or Even Rings, jewelry, lost in the "Black Hole".....I know I've lost several keepsakes, even While using Truckstop bathrooms. I would invest in a Very Reliable Hand Held Metal Detection Device, Can Imagine What You Maybe Missing.....

​@@debraperkins4448I lost my car keys in one of those automatic flush toilets at a gas station!

😆😂😉 better not go to KFC!

Have you ever found a body

@@janisoconnor6881 Not yet.

😮😂

It was. Clorox came in brown glass bottles. I have a few

Full on hazmat suit wouldn't get me down there!

Or in Canada, Australia,...people do get homesick. Portland, OR was founded by people from Portland, ME. Woonsocket, SD was founded by people from Woonsocket, RI.... The exceptions to homesick settlers using the same name were towns named by the railroads or canal companies. It was normal for them to more or less stick a pin in a globe, or to reference ancient civilizations, hence, Leeds, Berwick, Norwich, Penn, Rugby, Surrey, Tunbridge, and York, ND, Odessa, TX, Memphis, TN, Havre, MT, Cairo, IL, Syracuse, Rome, Utica, and Carthage, NY,.... And there is the fashion of putting the word New in front of a name, New England, New York, New Amsterdam, New Mexico,.... People named places for a wide variety of reasons other than repeating a name that had been used before, but harking back is very common in taking over and settling new territory. You colonize, you claim the right to rename everything you see and who cares what the natives think? I find it hard to believe that surprises you. You do know you had an empire, right? "There are 18 places in the world named Leeds! Leeds can be found in 5 countries throughout the world. In some countries the place can be found more than once. For example America and United Kingdom. America has the highest number of places called Leeds, spread across 12 regions. The majority of the cities named Leeds can be found above the equator. The northernmost place is in the region Leeds in United Kingdom. The southernmost place is in the region North-West in South Africa."

E yup chuck from Barnsley s Yorkshire thaz reight tha noze

So true!

@@653j521 I live on the Isle of Portland, the original Portland that started it all 😂

.......wanna buy mine ?

@@georgehays4908 how much?

He said that he sold a lot of them to finance writing a book in one video.

Yes!

This is a digging channel.

@@Mark.Watson No…… it’s a “what they want to make it channel”

@@Mark.Watson😂