I hike to a location where am early community would gather and find what was left behind. Original music by Brad Martin www.GMMD.us / greenmountainmetaldete... / green.mountain.metal.d...
The item you found at 9:38 looks like the hoof pick that I used to clean the hoof around the horseshoes on the horses that I rode. To remove stones, built up dirt or other debris. The size looks about right, I carried one in my saddle bags along with other things, like food, grain, nosebag, etc. The loop is usually oval in shape, but not always, it is designed to be easily gripped and held, so the shank is between the middle finger and ring finger.
Yaaaaay I love your vids Brad! Still my most exciting notification 😁 never knew you made your own music til the vlogs and it just adds to the experience, love from Ireland!!!
Brad, my friend. It's so good to see spring in Vermont and you out making so many people happy. It's been a long quarantine and I'm restless for the woods! Your videos always show me my true heart's desire for the wilderness. Thank you for bringing a smile to this old ladies wrinkled face.💖
Great video, Brad! Nice finds and nice nature shots! I believe that could have been a general purpose knife you found. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!
Although the buckles and lamp parts are not super exciting in themselves they are a definite time stamp to the era you are digging for those wondering why you get super jazzed about them. Its always nice to know you are not wasting your time digging up an old hunting camp from the 50's or 60's.
How anyone could give your videos a "thumbs down" is a complete mystery to me. Yours are among the very best on RU-vid, and the only reasonable explanation that I can come up with is...they are jealous of your quality presentations. Keep up the great work, Brad!
The iron piece could be a bale hook for like lifting sacks of seed or hay maybe.if they had sheep it could be used for lifting wool bales. I could be wrong I don't know if they Did that in the USA but it's something they would have used alot in the UK at the time for on the docks
At first I was skeptical that it could be bale-hook because its so tiny, but I suppose its not impossible that they made them in a variety of sizes for different tasks.
Definitely a bale hook. Latch on with 2 of those & even a bit of a girl like me could move a 110 pound bale of hay for the horses. (Ok, so I'm not "a bit" of a girl anymore... It was 55 years ago. 😏)
@@colleennikstenas4921 you know, since it's obviously hand forged & not the variety of tools we have today... It could have been used as both a good pick & bake hook. The shape is functional for both.
I'm not absolutely sure about this, but that hook-and-loop thing you found looks just like what my uncle used to use (or make us kids use) for moving haybales around for his horses. His was a lot newer, of course, and was steel instead of iron, but form follows function and some things just don't change. His steel one had a wooden bar through the loop that we used as a handle; you'd sink the hook into the bale just beyond the ties and yank it up. It worked pretty well.
Love Friday mornings! You're the best ever! Loved the video! Good finds! Just watching your video gave me a sense of things being normal again. Just loved hearing the wind above in the trees, the crackling of branches! Just a beautiful place where you live! Thank you for sharing again.... You're the rock star of GMMD!
Hi Brad, the item at 9:46 looks very much like an old hoof pick to pick the mud and stones etc out of the horses foot. I think the item at 12:47 is possibly a shoe horn ?? not sure though. Some very cool finds and right from the first era that settlers arrived which is amazing. I bet back in the day the person who lost their shoe buckle would never imagine that someone would happen across it with a strange contraption all these years later. Thanks for sharing your day. xx
Thank you Brad. A great video to start the day. Cellar holes truly hold some interesting finds. Love history, thinking about what was happening at the time the article was left/lost there.
The part on the top of the oil lamp is called a chimney and they are usually smooth clear glass, maybe with some decoration at the top. The glass you found is more likely from the part that held the oil and were often decorative with molded in features.
Brad, you certainly make metal detecting more and more interesting for me to get out and try it myself. Thinking of starting right in our backyard, as the home we live in is nearly 100 years old. Thank for being so informative. You are the only on dry land detector guy I watch.
Brad, the escutcheon, or Drawer Pull Backplate, is of the Queen Anne period, dating from the early to mid 1700's .. This style backplate was very popular and varied subtly in configuration over a period of several decades, especially with "country" craftsmen whose style in furniture varied less then the "down country" craftsmen who were more influenced with trending urban designs being developed in urban areas of the growing country.
Thank you for an awesome adventure and seeing some sweet finds ! Take care , stay safe and healthy there in Vermont ! Still doing well here in Kansas !
You might want to do a frequently asked questions video if you haven’t already. That way you can talk about criteria for identifying coins, why the artifacts are where they are, common artifacts, equipment, how you store and document artifacts, etc. - on a related note, how do you go about obtaining permission to search properties? Do you always keep what you find?
Thanks Brad...watch your video every week...We may even be related in some way...My name is Thomas Martin...My great grand fathers name was George Martin...Who knows ?
Back in the day... 50 yrs. There was a corn field in back of my house. Every spring they would drag a sled across it with horses or tractor and put all of the stones on the sled and dump them in the woods. Next spring the corn field was, again covered with stones... Frost pushed them up. On the roads (driveway) the frost often pushes stones up. You DO have band aids, hand cleaner.....
love the vid bro. you never will understand what you and your channel means to me. all i can say is thank you bro. and im glad i found your channel. until next time be safe and god bless you and your family
7:17. Notice stump has bark trail marker with log annext to it Ground work boxing living room - Or directional. ..alot around old holes homestites I notice..
The tool like object you found is called a picaroon it was on the end of a wooden rod it was used for handling logs and fire wood the tip is bent it was once straight and pointed
The one thing with the loop and it is kind of hooked looks nearly identical to hoof picks we use today to clean impacted dirt and rocks out of the bed of horses hooves. 😊
the round thing at 10.01 ..is a crewed gate lock.. i have seen these many times still in use in aberdeenshire scotland...the gate would shut and the hook bit would drop into a d ring on the post sooon as i saw it ... i thought oh.. gate hook
The building wouldn't be locked. Of course about the only thing that might be stored in it would be religious materials for their services. They would use a Door lock on a building. The padlocks, I'm guessing, would be on Boxes. Strong boxes. What a beautiful day. Thanks for sharing your mountain side with me, from the flat dessert spaces in Texas.
