The item with the blade is a guillotine. It may have been used for sorghum, which most farms grew for syrup, or for some other kind of plant matter like straw or flax. Simple and efficient.
Same thought here. My uncle had one on his farm, but he had it set up to do chickens. They'd reach over to peck the grain and ......He didn't like to chase them around the yard. Especially when all us kids were over.
The guillotine we used had a moving blade. I have a heirloom cabbage slicer, however, that looks much like this. My Grandmother used it to make sauerkraut. Missing are the backing board the cabbage was pressed against, and the “float” that protected your hand and surrounded the head.
My guess would be sauerkraut too... when you cut the head off a chicken it's usually not that big of a production. Guillotine seems a bit over the top?!
@@jeneaneherzog4626 All i know is before he had that set up, he'd use a axe and the chicken would go running across the yard headless squirting it's blood all over. He decided it was a little traumatic for our sisters. So he came up with that.
Very interesting. A couple of weeks back, one of Brad's finds was a buckle which had a patent #1783854 for a William J MORSE of Attleboro, Mass. Was wondering if you know of a possible connection to this Morse?
Samuel Morris was born February 7, 1784 in Dublin New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth college in 1811. He married Chloe Carol of Croydon New Hampshire in 1827. They had at least one daughter and possibly another daughter. Samuel died January 1, 1865 in Croydon and is buried there. Chloe was born in 1803 and died in 1900. She lived her later years in Boston with her daughters family.
Brad have you ever watched the Ghost Town Living channel ? He owns a former mining town in California and invites everyone there to metal detect. I would love to see a collaboration between your channels.
The second saw blade is for a wooden bow saw. If you don't already have a copy of Eric Sloan, a reverence for tools, look at a copy. He was a historical artist specializing in early American life. Mike
Without closer inspection, the "hammer" looks like the movable jaw of an adjustable wrench. Early wrenches made by smiths were locked with wedges because screw threads were a pain to cut by hand. My guess would be prior to the 20th century.
exactly, the small notch at the bottom is where the adjusting nut rested against the movable shaft..I have several like it from late 1800s, early 1900s..now just find the rest of it!😉
Thank you Brad for another great day exploring Central New England's fields and farms looking for artifacts of our past .. Croydon, N.H. is very familiar to me having traversed the roads of New England, New Hampshire in particular, in search of my passion, Antiques, (above ground) .. I have driven by the Samuel Morse House innumerable times while "on the hunt" for my next great discovery .. Thanks very much for sharing your day in Croydon at the museum, you're a gracious host and commentator. I always look forward towards the next adventure on Friday morning.
At 7:20 Before elastics in socks, city men had "garters" for their lower legs to hold their socks up with clips like this. Country men had boots to fold their socks over the top.
I think your big bladed flat item is for making slaw or sauerkraut from cabbage! There was usually a square box of1-3inches depth for holding the cabbage safely, which probably didn’t survive.
Still working on all your previous vid's. Like the ground and aerial shots. Enjoy the history, old stories and overall style of your work. Never been to Vermont, but you make it seem familiar. Very entertaining and well produced. Thank you.
Greg, have been a Brad fan for years. As a metal detectorist myself who does You Tube videos of my hunts, I flat out believe Brad makes THE best produced and edited detecting videos on YT. And....his music ROCKS- which he makes all himself in his basement studio! Welcome to the channel. Rob / FlThunder!
Hey Brad, I believe wrist watches came into fashion in the early 1930’s. I have a friend who’s grandfather worked at the Waltham Watch Co from 1927 until they shut their doors in 1977 and we have talked about watches. I think the idea of a wrist watch started in WW1. The military simply had watch makers add straps to pocket watches so artillery bombardments could be more easily timed.
My understanding is that they first became popular in WWI among artillerymen. Up to that point they had been considered effeminate but when they started using precisely timed artillery barrages across a wide front it was much easier to glance at your wrist than to dig out a pocket watch.
I'm thinking the blade tool may be a slaw cutter, for making cole slaw from cabbage. The thing you called a little hammer is the top jaw to an old style adjustable wrench.
The dates on the Woodrow Wilson token were his birth and death years. They were made in the 1930s and also came in Cracker Jacks boxes. You can buy on eBay for, anywhere from $5 up to $20.
Part of the little shovel I think was broken off where the handle would have been attached. Cool token. Nice watch pieces & buttons. Interesting iron pieces.
Brad, another great video! Thanks for sharing your experience at this unique permission. We all have our favorite types of permissions to detect. It's at these locations where we are most comfortable and feel at home. It's the true detectorist who can translate their skills to other locations on which they might not be as comfortable. Again, nice job! Jim Parry, Backroads Metal Detecting
Greetings from Norway! 🇳🇴Regarding the part of the iron you found: I believe it is the inner part of an iron. People used a hot soldering as heating method. Usually it was a little door in the end of the iron, where they could put the hot solder inside.
That iron piece without a handle is the insert of an Ox Tongue iron. That bit would be heated directly in the fire or stove. Then it slides into the iron body and a little door would click shut to hold it in there. Check out a page on here by " my mechanic " or " my mechanic insight" he saves old tool and he has a whole video for an Ox Tongue Iron. And that slider thing might be a sliding door for a grain bin or silo? And the wristwatch frames are probably around 1920-40? When pocketwatches went out of style a watch was worn around the neck and then on the wrist. Watches moved west across the US with the railroad and watches slowly went from the pocket to the wrist as schedules became important with the railroad. Good funds Brad. Drink Bit***s.
What an awesome opportunity. I love this kind of experience. I wish I could do this for a living. Working grounds of historical significance. Like when they get torn down or saved. Just to be able to help preserve anything from that time and have them display it. Great job Brad.
That iron very likely had a handle. The blacksmith might have heat welded it, molten onto the cast piece. That would corrode away to nubs. I like that find. It may have ironed his clothes 👍🏻 That little hammer looks like it would fit into a slit of an anvil? I'm guessing, but, I think you're onto a blacksmith shop from Morse's time?
Hey Brad! love all your videos, long time follower. Today i was at a local small museum and they seem to have lost a time capsule on the property . The curator asked me to have a look, So naturally I talked to my lifelong friend who is just as addicted to metal detecting as us. Asked him to come give me a hand. Pretty stoked to have this opportunity, as there will be a new museum built on top of the location and ground breaking will start soon. wish i could be there and monitor the excavation, but i have to work.
I liked the Presidential token! LOL. Some nice finds Brad, very cool you got to do the grounds of a museum. Working on that here locally! Another fantastic hunt and expertly made video. ATB Rob / FlThunder
Nice digs at the old Morse house. I'm hoping for similar luck at an old 1870s Stimson haunted house this week, and will also donate all objects back to house
Looks like a toy shovel, fireplace ones were much bigger. There would have been a metal flange that has broken off the top of the blade which would have wrapped around a wood handle. The groove left is there for strength.
The frame with the blade looks like it is rugged enough to shave wood into box sides, shingles or other repeatable wood pieces. the two screws standing up would have adjusted the thickness, Nice heavy rails to keep it accurate. A nice pre-cardboard item. Nice hunt as always :)
I looked up Samuel Morse and although he was an important person in the area, he wasn't THE Samuel Morse (of Morse code fame), who also, for a time lived in New Hampshire. That other Samuel Morse had an ancestor from Wiltshire in England and perhaps they shared this same family root. That ancestor, Anthony Morse, arrived in New England in 1635!
@@mjrippe It turns out there were a number of famous people called Samuel Morse over the centuries! I just presumed it was the Morse code inventor at first and was puzzled when Brad didn't mention that!
Wrist watches for men did not see common usage until after World War I. So, after 1918. The first ones were developed for usage by a man by attaching a leather strap to a pocket watch. Prior to that women wore a wristlet. Which was much like a charm bracelet with a small clock attached. All these years later those beginnings are still evident, A man's watch is more task at hand specific. A woman's more a piece of adornment. Cool find, though.
Wristwatches became a thing around the time of WW1. Being as it was difficult to withdraw and replace a pocket watch in the heat of battle to for coordinated charges, soldiers began to develop methods of strapping them to their wrists. Today these can be found on eBay.
Great homestead finds from the past from different occupants! Shows the history of homesteading from long ago! I thought there would be some clad finds as well seeing there's still history being made there! Good finds for the Museum that will display well...
Hi, Brad. Great finds as usual especially the 'chopped' coin. April's ironing find was very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Stay healthy and safe 👍🏽 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Also that sprocket is from a bicycle. It’s known as a skip tooth as the chains has less links. Even 1950’s bicycles had 1” links and skip tooth chains.
First, I don't tend to say that ☺️ A toe tap is still on my bucket list!! So is a Largie though. It's cool that you were called to hunt the historical location with April 😃. Several finds that everyone else had missed, cool 👍
the bent spool with the gear seems like it could be a spool from an old fishing reel, or some piece of machinery that would have held a spool of some yarn or string
Hey Brad thanks for all the great video's you give us to enjoy you find the greatest things hopefully i can get back in to it . i lost the bolt rhat holds the coil on when i was moving maybe some day but thanks again .
If you look at any modern regular long-handled shovel you will see where the groove on your shovel head comes from. your shovel head is just a piece it is missing the part that wraps around the wood shovel handle.
Large triangle frame looks to be from a rototiller. Small hammer looks like a early adjustable wrench. The large item with reversible blade looks like a cabbage slicer.
My ex-husband's family are from the morse line and I do believe that they populated there in that area there's probably definitely some connection to the morses in Mansfield Massachusetts or all of New England
The slicer thing is for like bread or bagels and the shovel had a metal handle that was part of what you found was not riveted or anything on was all made in one piece
I can't recall the specific name, but some irons used to be hollow with a lid. Some made of brass or copper, some made of other metals. They were heated by filling with hot coals, or a large piece of metal that was heated on a fire or range. I think the 'iron' you found is one of those fillers and that would explain no sign of any hint of attachment / handle. They were lifted from the fire / range, to put inside the iron using tongs.
Edit.... After a look on Google, I think what I was trying to describe is called something like a clothes box iron press. Certainly if you search for that, you'll get various images of the sort of thing I meant.
There were irons that didn’t have handles… they were heated and than put into a caddy that was the part that came in contact with the clothes… if you would like to see examples check out the SueMe RU-vid channel. She did a series on the history of ironing!
Historically, men did wear corsets also. I am sure the Historical Society will be happy with those finds. Did colonial money maintain the Farthing equivalent?
Woodrow Willson had a twin brother. Before he was Prez. They had a falling out & never spoke again. I'm decent of the brother. The "iron" could be a doorstop. The lg frame w/blade maybe a paper cutter.
Good hunt! Your small hammer is part of an old pipe wrench. I think they did use them like a hammer when it broke. I have found several that looked like they had been used as a hammer.
