Exploring Abandoned Industry: Beware the Lime Kiln Pit Of No Return 

Exploring old caves and buildings is my dream. I love that I can watch someone else doing it aswell

Beau mentioned in an older video that he was in the concrete/cement business for years didn't he? It was cool to hear him mention that daffodils are a sign of a former homesite because it reminded me of something. When I was a kid we had a wooded area near my home that was full of thousands of wild daffodils and sure enough, I discovered the foundation of a long destroyed (by a tornado if the rumors were true) house nearby. My brother and I found the remains of an old stone wall near it and eventually discovered their trash-pit. We dug up dozens of the old embossed glass Clorox bleach bottles from that pit. If memory serves, they were the first generation of the screw top so probably from the 1940's. And that was just in the topmost layer so who knows what was deeper down and how old it was. Most of the bottles were even intact. Which is surprising in retrospect considering how rocky the soil in northeastern Oklahoma is. That pit is where my love of digging stuff up was born and why I still love doing it to this day though I rarely have the time. But thats why I subscribe to Beau's channel. If you cant live it, live it vicariously.

What you say is very true, beware any kind of mine shaft and such. As a kid I played in an old farming comminuty of rural san diego called "the estuary". Lot of old farms, houses, train cars, etc rotting down there in the marshlands. But make sure where you step is solid ground because one time I didn't and the ground literally cracked apart below me, it was a thin "salt" bed. Almost fell through so heed his advice, I carry a walking stick if I go down there now lol.

Springhouses are some of my favorites too. People don't realize how valuable they were/are.

this really reminds me of some old remnants of an old farm within a few 100 meters from where i live, from what i know the house was torn down in the very early 1930 - 40s, i found an intresting tool while looking around and also an old doorhinge (1800s style) it was very basic, i have found broken glas, an exposed cellar and an old rusted stroller, the thing i find most creepy is that someone made a book with information of all these local homes in the area and there was a picture (possibly of the last owners of the house) with that stroller... just a strange feeling for me to see very old things in the hands of the last owners and then you find it just like that..... forgotten and left alone for over an amazing amount of years

Another superb video my friend! You are a wealth of information & a kind spirit. Thank you for keeping our history alive by taking the time & effort to document & share it.

AWESOME! I'm a teacher, and I CAN USE THIS VIDEO in my classroom. Showing the furnace and explaining how it worked, exploring the spring house and quarry. Explaining the concrete mix using LOCAL river stone... Wow. Showing curiosity for everything you see and notice as you explore... and inspire the young 'uns to get out and do the same. Heck you even pointed out an invasive species of rose bush. Showing us the raw stone from the quarry that yields the cement... Explaining how to locate old structures in the woods... flowers and ivy. Mr. Chigger sir... I have been on many MANY adventures with you but this video... This video is the finest and most well thought out you have ever given to us. I will be showing this to about 180 students a year as long as it is up and available. I will encourage my fellow teachers to do the same. Thank you. Hopefully you will pick up a few viewers every class I teach with this. You are tomorrow's lesson plan sir.

As always, I learn more here by accident then elsewhere by intent.. (great episode man, enjoyed it).

that hole is dangerous wow,

We have one on my families property in Frederick. If you would be interested in checking it out and the property surrounding old houses and woods on properties that date back to the 1800's possibly earlier, tell me.

love any railroad and abandoned industry stuff!

The cage affair is a corn crib. Probably bought from Sears Rebuck around 1900! I shows that a farm was there at that time. The land was most likely denuded of trees due to charcoal operations. I would think that the spring house would have been developed for milk cans about that time . I started exploring old factory sites in southern N.J. in the early 60's. It was uncommon then. We did not have lime kilns there but we had irn and glass furnaces quite similar. In DC just beyond the Watergate is 2 old lime furnaces near the terminus of Rock Creek and the C&O Canal. I like all your stuff. You bring History alive. You add t the knowledge of the younger set. They will come to appreciate and help protect our History. for

Moss grows on an acidic surface on a north face. That would make a great putz for the Moravian church at Christmas. And no, that isn't the other kind of putz. That is one enormous lime kiln. The corn bin in the woods makes me kinda sad. That means that was a productive farm in my lifetime. I think those wire corn bins probably date from the sixties.

Thank you for explaining the lime kilns! I live in Newton County, Missouri. I've spent a lot of time in Granby, Missouri, Neosho, Missouri, and Joplin, Missouri. I knew Granby and Joplin have strong ties to mining. I work in Neosho and there's one road called Lime Kiln Rd or Lime Kiln Dr, that also has a bridge called Lime Kiln Bridge on the National Historic Register. I've never checked it out because I knew nothing about it, but after your video I wonder if Neosho has ties to the lime mining industry and will check it out this next week while I'm on vacation. I don't do videos yet ( I eventually want to) but if it turns out to be interesting and I do start doing videos I will definitely go back when I get a camera.

Aquachigger is the greatest explorer ever!!

Old historical ruins like these always fascinate me. I always wonder when they're built or who lived there if it was a house or something. Unfortunately there aren't many very old buildings where I live on the west coast.

You're content inspires me so much Chiggs! please keep up the hard work :)

Very cool! You and share a love of old interesting structures, places, and items. I grew up in Roswell Georgia which was a home to several cotton mills before,during, and after the Civil War. Lots of cool old ruins and home sites to explore. I may start making some videos as you have done to share my experiences.

I really enjoy your videos regardless of what you're showing/looking for! Lots of stuff we don't see in my part of Canada! Entertaining and educational!

I love these historical-site videos. More please! I hope you go back there with your metal detector. That pit was scary, maybe you could throw some tree branches across it. That spring water looked so good, was it safe to drink?

Great video! Scary hole. Do you ever notify someone about those exposed holes so they can be covered or filled in for safety reasons? I wouldn't even know where to begin with something like that.

I like what you do its part of history you talk about and hold abandoned structures and stuff

I can't believe you were in that spring and didn't tell me to hold my breath. Now I dieded.

Where is the metal detector? I hope the next video is where you use it on the place! the workers may have lost some things when they got drunk after work...

Dude I chuckled a lot...."oh give or take a thousand degrees". Epic man!

Lime stone fed streams are the cleanest in the Eastern U.S. which is why central Pennsylvania has bunches of great trout fishing. Trout only thrive in clean, clear, water.

Great old site. I appreciate the education. Thanks for doing this. Cheers,

You are an inspiration. And i congratulate you in your succes. Hope to one day hunt together, be it in your neck of the woods or even better in mine. See ya tomorrow. Gl and hh.

Hey Chig. Enjoyed that, thank you. Speaking of strange noises, have you ever heard the different ear blasting noises that peacocks make? Now there are some scary weird noises for you. Cheers.

Loved this one. Learned some things. I was thinking the pipe was an artesian well instead of a spring at first. This makes me want to get out of the house (finally warm and sunny) and go explore the CCC Camp a mile down the road. Haven't done it in the three years we've been here.

When you put that feather on your head, first thing I thought was turkey mitts. In the south you don't want them in your yard. They carry mitts and ticks...good video.

That’s so cool to see all of that still standing. Most of your videos of these are after they’re already gone so it’s nice to see them.

Love this guy and the way he makes his video he goes you wanna do take a look and like hell yeah then he says let's go take a look

So that's where the water sound effect at the end of your videos came from! :o

Thanks for making it fun to learn different things , good vid

I really enjoy your videos where you explore old structures and historic places and explain what you're exploring, when it was built and why and other fascinating information. I live in Lancaster County, Pa. which is know for it's limestone and there used to be a lot of those old lime kilns around when I was a kid but a lot of them have been destroyed for the stone they were built of. The first farm I worked on when I was 8 years old (I'm 65 now) had some old kilns on it and I asked the farmer I worked for how the kilns worked. He didn't know how they worked as he had never seen one being used and none of the neighboring farmers knew exactly how they worked either. It's sad how quickly knowledge is lost once it's no longer in use.

the cage is a corn crib.. must not be that old or it would have been lumber or logs.

I love all the places you find and you give a little bit of history about it. It's like History 101 with Professor Chigg (LOL) Keep up with the good videos and happy hunting! Makes me wish that I had a metal detector!

I love watching stuff like this when ever I come across old buildings or what not I always gotta check them out cool to see what's on the other side of the us too

yep it's a corn silo, The klinker was probably from coal used in the fireplace at the home site, it was available but not as good as the Ohio valley coal. as you can see.

corn storage silo

Sweet video my friend! Keep up the good work!

Chigg! You start making moonshine! You've got clean water and you can make a still🤣

Corn crib. Also really love your videos like this one with the little tidbits of local history. Anybody can read about world history but it's the little obscure local stuff you really have to dig around for that I've always found most fascinating.

love the train at the beginning and I like that you found this

It's a samsquanch trap.

These things can be found up and down the area where I live, including some that are still in operation. Another has been converted into a park where I learned a lot about the wonders of urban exploration.

I've noticed daffodils as well and put two and two together and realized they're probably growing near where a home once stood. I like to try to spot them in the spring on commercial properties. A local small store has some growing on the side of the property. I tried digging some up for transplant (with permission) and they were more than two feet below the surface. I gave up after two feet. Behind the same store is some ornamental shrubs growing in the woods. Based on those, the house probably last stood on that property in the 1950s. That store was built in the 1970s, so it's possible. Due to the depth of the daffodils though, they might have been planted in the early 1900s, or maybe during the build of the store, they somehow moved them deeper with excavation equipment, which I don't really see how.

your an awsome dude love ur videos most interesting thing out there..underrated

Awesomeness! I love the history involved!!!!

feather in my cap and call it macaroni. lol it has been so long since i have hear or song that. Awesome

love your videos!

Wow at the very least someone could put up fencing around the holes! Thank you for the awareness.

Thanks for showing us the kilns., was pretty interesting to learn about.

that Moss with the water is cool

I really liked the tips in this one!! thanks Chigg!

very cool. i grew up in an area with the first hydraulic cement mill in southington ct. blue limestone. great episode.

Love this video!! Please go back when it's frozen that would be so cool!

Fascinating! Found a old kiln in Western NC once. Near our families mica mine.

Very interesting...thanks for sharing!

I love theses video's I know lots of places like that near where I live and I always go back after watching these videos and its like exploring a whole new place

A silo! I would love to find "wild" iris or daffodils! I'm into my flowers in my yard. I know I can get them at Home Depot or wherever, but from the woods......heck ya! Very interesting site! Thanks!

great video, you should come back and detect there, see if there's anything else kicked out by the groundhog.

This is a late correction. Don't mean to be a know it all but I would like to help you out here because its an interesting process. The kilns were used to make what is known as quick lime. it was accomplished by layering lime stone with coal. In order to be useful it must be at least 50% calcium carbonate, the fewer impurities the better. Once the kiln is lit it must reach a temperature above 2,500 deg. F. once this temperature is achieved it must be held there for quite a while, in the case of your kilns there (probably close to 50 ton capacity) they would burn for four or five days. Care must be taken because the gasses from the kiln are extremely dangerous (mostly carbon monoxide). After the calcination processes is complete the kiln is allowed to cool and the quick lime is removed. Quick lime is a very dangerous chemical. It is very caustic and is exothermic when combined with water. Quick lime is not good for mortar and must be slaked. Slaked lime is produced by combining quick lime in small amounts to water. This must be done slowly because of the tremendous amount of heat produced in this process. once the lime is slaked it may may be used for mortar often called Portland cement.

you have no idea how badly i want to explore old abandon factories or old cave I want to do this so badly it looks like a lot of fun

Used your video for a pizza timer, those ovens still work!

Its a corn crib.....love your adventures.....

I don't care if I'm first to comment. Thanks for the adventures Chig. Always be sure to take your detector along, cuz ya never know what you might find in the middle of nowhere. Invest in a new pinpointer if you can afford it, dang does it make recovery times so much shorter. Back to my main point. Thanks for the adventures.

corn crib .

We have a stone here and it probably is in other places as well. We call it Cotton Rock. It is snow white and very light weight. If it is tossed on a fire it will explode. My late father in law told a tale of walking to school, building up a fire and tossing cotton rocks on just to hear them explode. He said they tossed on too many and spent the day behind trees because to come out would have meant getting hit by an exploding rock.

In Wales there is a caravan site in Tenby called Kiln Park and when u drive through the site you'll see massive kilns

I’m watching this on one IPad and the Mars InSight Landing on my tower. History old and new!

Nice video. I learned some things. I will be inspecting ground hog dirt piles from now on. 😊

Cool video, that buzzard at 5:36 might be a turkey. hard to tell cause feathers are wet.

So what was the fence thing?! Ugh, now I have to go read comments and see who knew. lol Interesting video! : )

I remember this place 30 yrs ago when I was a kid.

Reminds me of ruins near scuppernong springs in Wisconsin

Am I the only one that thought beau was going to get pushed in the Kiln? Sssspppooooooooooky!

I work at a cement mill. We make clinker and grind it into cement. I can get you some clinker to see what it looks like in todays world.

Ok you make me feel claustrophobic!

I don't know where these kilns are, but lime is also a key ingredient for making iron. Ag lime would not of required firing. They did use it for insect control in some situations though.

Never new that lye came from stone love the videos

Love the History

My inner codger really wants to yell at someone to turn that damned spigot off.

Another educational video from Professor Aquachigger! Always wondered how that stuff was made. You live in a pretty cool area to explore. Was lime all they mined here? Any gold or silver?

YOUR THE BEST

great video love them loads keep up the good work and don't forget to hold your brrreeeeaaattthhh!!!!!!

You thought about diving in the flooded lime pit.? Might be some good bottles.

It looks like the top to a Federal Signal Thunderbeam RSH-10 tornado siren.

hey man let's go detecting and get the swing on find some treasures!

I love how educationally entertaining his videos are

You're from Minnesota?? No shit! Hey buddy! :D I'm from Saint Paul but it's so cool to see some of your sites. I'd love to know where they actually were lol I'm sure you've been down the Apple River about 1000 times but what's the most bizarre thing you've ever found on a dive?

Oh thanks a bunch for the closing sound clip - now I have to go pee! 😣

Chigg, If reincarnation is a reality in any sense of the word, then I truly hope that I come back as your best friend at some point. LOL that sounds better in my head... Anyways, awesome work brother! I join your adventures during work breaks.

would love to see you metal detect the area around there if you can get permission to do so. keep up the great adventure videos Beau .

The moss may be growing because its more moist but its also as likely it grows because its getting more usable light

Love it Mr,Chiggles

did any of y'all just want to drink from the pipe ? I've done that spring houses before and wow the best on the planet.

have you noticed a weird glitch in your videos? the fps glitch at 10:02 is an example of what I'm talking about

I've seen something like that before, my dad said it was an old corn silo. It was used to hold the corn they got from the fields. Can you tell me if you saw a corn field near there, thanks Mr.Chigger