Hey Tom, thanks so much for sharing your digging adventures with us! I appreciate how knowledgeable you are about each piece that comes up. I can tell you've been doing this a long time. So fun to watch each piece being revealed!
Great dig Tom! I have been binging your digs while I have been sick so I want to thank you for entertaining me! I can't wait for a new instalment! Take care!
So interesting! I was just reading "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, last night and noticed a reference to an ironstone plate (Almanzo was making pancakes and serving them). Seeing the artifacts you dig up makes these stories so real and personal. Thanks for filming your hard work, I hear you huffing and puffing with the effort. You're a great man!
I agree wholeheartedly. I have read Wilder's series over and over since childhood, and Tom's videos make the stories set in DeSmet and in Kansas come alive.
You got some nice finds, Tom! I'd like to see you find a privy from the early 1800' s. Maybe some pontiled historical flasks. That would be sweet! Good luck, brother!
I grew up digging on the iron range of Minnesota... Logging camps were a score and finding turn of the century dumps close to cemeteries was common. Venture north "History in a bottle" Showed my famous Aurora seltzer 💪😎
Quite a dig. You sounded worn out. Good stuff though!!! It would have been so interesting to have been at that restaurant and listened to what people had to say,see what they were eating. We have a pretty good idea what they were drinking, there weren't any coffee or tea cups.😅Take care out there,from Ky.😊
I love your videos. Thank you for introducing me the old glass bottles. I enjoy the increased knowledge of modern history you provide. FYI sputum is pronounced spyootum.
I don't know how, but BTP popped up in my suggestions, and I was hooked. It's not often, but these pits that go deeper than your height makes me really nervous. I worked a few scenes involving trench collapse and they were pretty rough. Be careful man. I need more of your videos.
Great video. Love every bit of this hobby…… just my opinion…What I do is lower the legs to the canopy. Have it lower to the ground. Regardless. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing dig Tom!! Do you have someone helping with recording and pulling out dirt and bottles? A behind the scenes video would be really great to watch! It would have been very interesting to hear the count on each type of bottle. There were endless extract and med bottles.
Since you stated that the walls want to collapse, could be dangerous, have done this a few times before, I guess people don't need to keep telling you what you already know. But on the other hand it shows they care 😀. Great dig! On to the next pit!
I always love your videos! You’re absolutely my favorite channel on YT, hands down. Coming from a Northeasterner, I thought you might want to know that “Chesebrough” of Vaseline fame is pronounced “cheese-bruh”! Keep up the fantastic work, can’t wait til the next 😊
I remember my grandmother tossing all her stuff over the fence. And my great grandmother at the creek bank. Wish i had legs and knees to dig it out. We are restoring the old homeplace that was a 2 story log cabin they added onto in the 1920s. Cabin built by pioneers in 1796. I know there's bound to be some old pits....😍 Itching to metal detect that ground. Love all your videos. But i have a question...can you get sick from digging in old out house holes? 🤔
The brass rail was the footrest at the bar. Haven't seen a bar having this feature in years. Last one I remember was in Jacob Wirth's bar in Boston, it was opened in the 1870s. And what a 🍺 bar!
Tom Tom Tom, I still think you need a small metal detector, what if you’re not getting the coins or even metal containers. History boy history. Love watching your videos. Love the bottles. Can we buy them?
I plan to buy a detector at some point; I haven’t had much free time to sell anything lately. I’ve been running myself ragged. The new channel is coming along g though so I can’t complain too much haha
I chuckled at your pronunciation of sputum (should sound like spew-tum)!---You have so many new subscribers, I suggest it's about time you demonstrate how you get up out those really deep pits!---I'm trying to picture the scene...the grocer orders lots of extract to meet the needs of his customers, who are boldly coming in, furtively coming in, to purchase his wares? I like to try and imagine history in action, & I can't quite bring that image to my mind!
Some guy was saying about digging the Allen tavern back yard ited be neat to find things from ebenezer or secrets I wonder why a space was under chimney or if there could have been tunnels
@@TomAskjem. not as early as the one from Vermont 1804 the tavern was built think ebenezer born same it’s probaably not the magical hidden societies or something with tunnels or infrastructure hidden I’m hoping if there was a cave under the side of hill and hidden rooms or something would be amazing I know it was just on side of muddy hill with a spring in basement not like the tunneled in where the water was coming from 🥱it had a behive chimney was a artifact to me show how to make a oven chimney system then it got covered over after I sold it he went on to invent torpedos or something and Allen tx was named after him to sit there and find his old Toys or something from 1800 would be neat as I worked I found all 1900s debris and items on surface when the old beam house was demo I saved what I could
Hi Tom, lots of bottles, were they used to disguise the content eg liquor? So many extract bottles, just for baking? Amazing to find 3 intact plates so far down, it does make you wonder how and why, I got a bit worried as the sides caved in, its a very dodgy position to put yourself in, take care and thanks for the dig, I bet you spend hours in the shower afterward, cheers!!!👍👍💪🙏
What happened to showing the Patreon supporters at the end, like myself? Some superb finds in this massive dig. I bet you were totally worn out in the end. I find it a little funny and disturbing that cobalt blue was used for the poison bottle, then later was used for Bromo. Is that a hint that Bromo was a poison? LOL
I’m not involved with the Patreon or the old channel. If the old Patreon is still going I recommend cancelling the subscription. I haven’t been able to get a hold of Jake so I don’t know what’s going on with any of it. He locked me out; that’s why I started the new channel. I’ll be starting a new Patreon as well.
Excellent dig Tom !! I'm absolutely addicted to your videos and enjoy them immensely!! The knowledge you have "blows me away" to use your verbiage. As others have said I truly hate it when you say "this pit is done" Have you had any digs in the state of Missouri? Lots of history here. Thanks for a great dig Tom. Your voice is so soothing to listen to 😊❤
did they ever eat hot sauce back in the day? i know they had ketchup worstershire sauce, and probably mustard, and relish and picked vegetables, but any known brands of hot sauce? they must have had salt and pepper too, but I feel bad for past generations if they didn’t have tabasco sauce!
