Mudlarking The Mississippi River

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On my way back from driving out west, I decided to make a quick stop as I crossed the Mississippi river to mudlark and search the river banks for relics, bottles, and other treasures.
About Aquachigger:
I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
metal detecting, yapping, searching for river treasure, SCUBA diving, exploring abandoned places, hiking, caving, caring for animals and pets, and observing the things outdoors that often go unnoticed by most people who are not familiar with outdoor adventures and nature. I keep my RU-vid "Aquachigger" channel family-friendly and hope you subscribe if you like my style.
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@aquachigger Год назад

Just a little Mississippi mudlarking tonight. I hope you enjoy the video!

@brickcity9mm896 Год назад

Oh my nenith Chigg, Beware of the ferocious mudlarking beavers man......👁👃👁

@canigetachannel Год назад

Well of course we'll enjoy it! Thanks Chigg! [thumbs-up]

@mudhunter6514 Год назад

I work for the Memphis District of the CORPS if I had know you were close i have a spot on the Mississippi where you can find Mastodon and other ancient animal bones when the water is low like that.

@rawfoodwriter Год назад

Mississippi queen! 🎸🤘

@deltafreshrelics1660 Год назад

If I still lived in the Midwest on the big muddy I would be looking for the old late 16-early 1700s stuff. French fur trade. My buddies tell me it’s crazy how low everything was/is. Not sure what it’s like now tbh…

@stephenherr6541 Год назад

My hometown. Went down there when the river was down, killer for a 65 year old climbing up and down the bluff. The wooden sticks under the riprap and concrete mattress is willow mats put down many years ago. The reason you saw so many railroad spikes is that the Frisco RR had a yard there many years ago. All of the Memphis River front was used as a dump years back. Were the Bass Pro Pyramid is now was a dump and later a naval yard. I dug many nice bottles during the construction. Hope you enjoyed your vist.

@philipatoz Год назад

Yep, the dark rock in the limestone is chert - the premier knapping rock Indians (and moderns) used for making stone tools, knives, points, etc. It has a hardness factor of 7 and knapps off in thin sheets, allowing for detailed shaping and sculpting.

@jasonhuntley9927 Год назад

Those inclusions in the limestone might be chert. I couldn’t tell if it was waxy or glassy texture, but if it was it’s likely chert. Chert is similar to obsidian in the sense it’s great for making stone tools. If you Google “chert in limestone” you’ll find some images of the same thing. Yours were really striking and beautiful examples and if I were to take a souvenir it would have been one of those stones.

@deltafreshrelics1660 Год назад

Dad used to knap chert. Amongst other types of stone

@joannem3568 Год назад

Yep, I'm learning how to flint knap Flintknapping and I look for chert all the time , I rock hound too and metal detect, I have alot of hobbies 🤣🤣👍

@williambrandondavis6897 Год назад

Lol, you must be new. Maybe next time try educating Neil Degrass Tyson on physics or Michael Jordan on basketball.

@jasonhuntley9927 Год назад

@@williambrandondavis6897 thanks for sharing, five months later.

@willykanos1044 Год назад

11:52: Yhat is wat is know as a 'Bulldog Clamp'. They are used for splicing cable - wire rope - but are most often used to create eye loops in cable. They are easy to install requiring only a wrench that will fit the nuts on it. They are meant to replace crimped on connectors. Many people don't have a crimping tool so these are commonly used instead.

@davemuse419 Год назад

Dang Chigg. I live outside of Memphis and would have loved to meet you. You were right below Ft. Pickering. A union fort with over 10,000 Yankee troops during the war. I've dug plenty of relics all around that area over the years.

@48thstateprospecting Год назад

Looks like a volcanic intrusion into the limestone could be basalt (lava) or a derivative of it obsidian would be clearer and break like glass chert would be harder and flake off in sharp chunks great adventure thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

@1stAshaMan Год назад

In Tennessee limestone and chert are abundant and commonly found together. This looks much closer to chert than it does to basalt.

@PaleOranges Год назад

I'm so happy to see that you got to do this. If I want to watch anyone do this, it's you. Keep being awesome chigg

@aserta Год назад

The wood under is either a previous stabilization effort or a settling layer for the rocks and concrete above. Being that they didn't work with uniform items, maybe they decided to use the wood to slowly give it time to set in. Seems to work, if that's the case, the "sheet" is very uniform. Textbook river erosion barrier.

@drshoe8744 Год назад

Didn't they use old Railroad Ties for that, that would explain all the Spikes too?

@onemanswrld Год назад

Seems like a fine line at times between "artifacts" and "trash".......

@kevinallman6700 9 месяцев назад

It's wonderful spending time by the river anywhere. I'm lucky enough to live on the Wirral so I have the Mersey one way and I live about a mile from the Dee. Another fantastic video,many thanks 👍

@JD-ps6od Год назад

Those clamps are Crosby clamps. Used to tie a cable end back onto itself. While using them, “never saddle a dead horse!”

@aquachigger Год назад

That makes sense. Thanks

@TheMinuteman1964 Год назад

a friend on mine used to work o the dredges on the Mississippi. he says they would dredge up mammoth tusks quite often

@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630 Год назад

Chig, want to stop in and wish you and Lindsey the happiest 2023 possible, and all your four footeds, too. You are such an uplifting, heartfelt, encouraging man and everything you post lifts the spirit. You helped me get through a VERY VERY difficult dark year, and have a better world view and hope to come out the other side. Looking forward to your posts in 2023 !!

@aquachigger Год назад

Thank you so much!

@biinkyreed8013 Год назад

Happy New Year🎉🎊🎉 Looking forward to seeing more great videos in 2023

@groundskeeper5292 Год назад

Hope you're doing a bit of detecting too, while you're out there. Glad to see you back ! Have a great trip and a happy new year!

@ElizaGatchell Год назад

Chiggin in Memphis!

@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630 Год назад

Well this great mudlarking! The grand old Mississippi ! ! It's just sad to see her so low.

@winkmirror2 Год назад

こんにちは♪・Hello, I enjoyed your videos again this year. thank you.👍

@rikspector Год назад

Chigg, I think I could enjoy boat watching where you were. A lot of fascinating history floating past. Cheers, Rik

@slimwantedman6694 Год назад

Good morning from Southeast South

@atuuschaaw Год назад

About 400 yds. south of the railroad bridge is the old French Fort which the confederate army renamed Fort Pickering. Basically a redoubt built into ancient Chickasaw mounds. The union army took Memphis in 1862 and enlarged the fort to hold over 50 gun emplacements down the Memphis bluffs. The union fort covered almost two miles of river front on the bluffs. From the mounds north to Beale St., so you were walking prime historical real estate. Glad to have you stop by! 😉♥

@oklahomanativeexploration7546 Год назад

That rock in the limestone maybe flint or chert.

@ericbohn5268 Год назад

The cable clamps you were finding were part of the mat used for errosion control. The concrete mats are together by cables. Corp of Engineers go out and place the mats on the river banks.

@dougalexander7204 Год назад

The mighty Mississippi and the humble Aquachigger.

@j.b.4340 Год назад

I larked in Baton Rouge, at low water. I found a tan gunflint, musket vent pick, canister, pipe bowl fragments, bone buttons…

@matthew7creeks266 Год назад

I find some lovely driftwood on The Missouri River.

@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630 Год назад

Wonderful video !

@Materialworld4 Год назад

That is one hell of a cover photo Aquachigger, damn man, you are having way too much fun, But I am glad to see it Pal.

@aquachigger Год назад

lol..thanks

@danielbrewer6528 Год назад

Probably copper cable clamps for the old wood planks. Cables rusted away and the copper and wood stayed preserved

@neillh Год назад

Thanks for sharing another adventure 👍

@alabamadixiediggers4714 Год назад

Super nice view of the MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI RIVER. And your 100% right on not able to Metal detect an Corp of Engineers ran water way. Same rules down here on The Chattahoochee River and Lake Westpoint. You can look for relics but you can't pick up any or take with you. Considered Federal lands. Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE see you on the next.

@aquachigger Год назад

Right on

@Chillville_Escapes Год назад

HEY! Your best find was that bone handle toothbrush by far! You didn't even look at it. Way better than that 60s wine bottle or whatever.

@cyberleaderandy1 Год назад

Always seems crazy that the rules to "protect" artifacts actually end up destroying them by stopping people removing and preserving them.

@bammerbiff1621 Год назад

Yep, I'm under the Iron Fist of the TVA where I am in North Alabama. I pretty much leave the Native American artifacts where they lie but I pick up everything else. Plenty of history getting trampled under foot by people who don't know what they are looking at. Just had a 58 cal mini ball fall out of the mud banks a few weeks ago. If it weren't for Chig, I wouldn't be looking for white objects amongst the shells.

@williambrandondavis6897 Год назад

To enlighten you, it’s mostly if not all due to an agreement that the federal government made with native Americans to protect relics, burials and land the native Americans believe is sacred and should not be disturbed.

@wormwoodrandoms3919 Год назад

Why do I have the feeling that somehow that bottle made it magically in your truck

@jimjustice581 Год назад

We can only hope.👍

@AdamosDad Год назад

Only certain construction projects, like dams, levees and such are under the purview of the Army Corp of Engineers. You can keep most things found or fished from the river.

@mikewinings4120 Год назад

It absolutely floors me you didn't know what that cable clamp was,well,I guess we never know it all,lol,love the Chigg!

@derekmorse8171 Год назад

I wonder if that big old champagne bottle, was from a big old paddle steamer, some card sharp threw overboard after a big old win at poker hahaha?

@jeannemackenzie4404 Год назад

That dark green bottle has what is called a kick up or push up base. I have one I found years ago out in the desert in the northwest corner of Utah. I cannot find an actual date except before 1920. So, it is over 100 years old!

@bmattison Год назад

I did archeological work just across the river from where you are in the late 80s when I had just moved to Memphis. Some old steamships on that sandbar downriver just below those two bridges. I found a shot glass from the 1800s and held onto it till this year when a cat knocked it off the counter and shattered it. I also found a human femur on that sandbar. It was determined to have washed out from an old grave.

@scottd6389 Год назад

That U shaped bolt is used to crimp wire together..love your work chig!!

@hamshackleton Год назад

5 minutes 10 in, that little clamp thing is possibly a radio aerial mounting clamp, or a cable clamp.

@OutdoorsygalO Год назад

I think the clampy looking thing is from cables (from shoreline structure or from boats). It’s always interesting looking along shorelines and surprising what can be found.

@barbarafritchie2000 Год назад

Thanks for sharing.

@SwanseaTitanFan Год назад

Back in the 70s as teenagers we used to mudlark the Mississippi bank in the old Jefferson Barracks dump. We found hundreds of 3006 round and then they fenced it off after kids found some pineapple hand grenadines.

@John859595 Год назад

Army Corps of Engineers doesn't have the authority to make laws. There must be something higher up the chain that they're basing their opinion on. It should all be challenged. This is our land, and those agencies work for us. If I want to go collect trash on a river bank, I'm going to regardless of their opinion.

@aquachigger Год назад

Trash is okay as long as it's not "old" trash.

@John859595 Год назад

@@aquachigger as if the average person is going to know

@AldoSchmedack Год назад

@@aquachigger If it is their land (US Army Crops of Engineers) can't do much BUT if it is state or Federal it is not theirs but public. But I wouldn't dig much or they could say it is "changing things." Could get an opinion from police and ask as they are one responsible for prosecuting. Also remember if no signs then you didn't know ;-) Some people are pesky and some actually helpful. Lock 10 has lots of trash but it is cold as heck there right now I bet.

@AldoSchmedack Год назад

@@aquachigger Note this I just found too: "The Friends of Pool 10 is a volunteer organization dedicated to the cleanup of the sloughs, backwaters and islands of the pool. Its first annual cleanup was in April 2007." My arguement is "it can't be old if it is maintained and this all floods and washed debris all over." Can't factually argue with that at all. Can a guy email USACoE or even DOJ?

@Fried-Pig-Nipples Год назад

@@John859595 agree 100%. Before I learned from chigg that there are certain areas of the Shenandoah and Potomac river that you cant remove historic relics from the banks, I would have been filling buckets. Now that I know, my conscience wont let me. Way to go chigg!🤔😁

@sambender8459 Год назад

Good to see you still out there I hadn’t heard nothing or seen any of your videos for quite a while. Happy new year.

@aquachigger Год назад

Been posting 3-5 videos a week for many years now....lol.

@terrygrossjr83 Год назад

There use to be a rail yard on the bank, before the bridges where built they would ferrie railroad cars across the river.

@randywalker9083 Год назад

The thing with the two nuts is a cable clamp for wire rope

@andymuskopf8473 Год назад

I certainly hope that you went back and picked your bottle up after you stopped filming.

@paulwise215 Год назад

Good evening chigg I hope you and your family had a great Christmas, your little dogs probably got spoilt , that little clip you had found are wire cable clips , where are your gloves 🧤 what a beautiful place,I wish I was born in America plenty things to do vast country , great interesting video, large barges,the tugs look as tho going to sink

@jimjustice581 Год назад

As a friend once said, “Ya gotta move stuff around. Nothing is going to jump out and say, ‘Here I am!’.” Flip some of those rocks over.

@aquachigger Год назад

But then you are searching by moving things on Federal property. That's a crime.

@baysideauto Год назад

Cable clamps sir , my dad brought those home from Bethlehem steel here in Baltimore

@juliusdelacruz5395 Год назад

that place has a lot of history waiting to be dug up...

@normawinton6832 Год назад

I don't think they would care if you took the bottle Beau. Your cleaning up the river!

@jbone12 Год назад

Next time you come through Arkansas chigg hit me up! I have tones of places next to the Mississippi to hunt on the Arkansas side! Found several civil war relics!

@jbone12 Год назад

We have around 500 acres of private land we metal detect lots of farm fields

@anthonyiocca5683 Год назад

What a fun day on the bank of the mighty Mississippi. It looks like a disaster area. If not for all that debris you would be walking in deep mud. Better to use a small boat to cover more bank area. Anyway, have fun…

@conrioakfield414 Год назад

At 5:13, that's called a Crosby. It's a cable clamp for rigging.

@Graysail0r Год назад

Those 'things' are for clamping cables, probably on boats. lol.

@badapple65 Год назад

I understand they have no problem with you Metal detecting the grounds of GRACELAND while there. Elvis lost a couple of rings worth 40k each while practicing Karate on the rear lawn.

@oh-duh Год назад

Go see the train bridge across the Mississippi at Louisiana, Missouri 👍🏻

@friendshipranger Год назад

That’s the Harahan Bridge near WREG- channel 3 in Memphis. The oldest bridge in Memphis.

@curtismyrick9715 Год назад

Lived on the upper Mississippi in Wisconsin there was a paddle boat that went down loaded with silver. Wish I still lived in the area would love to do some detecting.

@endgovernmentextremism Год назад

Reporting in. Lark that mud!

@securityteam1697 Год назад

Magnet fishing, Chigg.... at that to your bag of tricks.

@securityteam1697 Год назад

That scrap metal can add up for a tank of gas... you might not have the room for that though.

@TheMijman Год назад

He used to do that heaps when kayaking rivers

@rangocary5228 Год назад

Man I’m just 2hrs from Memphis would love to meet u maybe one day I been wanting to to Memphis to look around I have seen all the great finds ppl have found couldn’t because of work maybe one day If the water doesn’t rise

@aquachigger Год назад

I'm 10 hours from there myself.

@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630 Год назад

🥰

@Koi-addict33 Год назад

You would enjoy doing this where I live in UK lots of stuff going back to the Vikings can be found

@aquachigger Год назад

I've detected in the U.K. many times. I even have a History U.K. TV channel show doing it....lol.

@Koi-addict33 Год назад

@@aquachigger that's cool what parts I'm in York

@aserta Год назад

11:00 whoa, those barges are hauling a$$. :)) I though you were supposed to slow down near bridges...

@terryhawkins4295 Год назад

The item after the porcelain door nobe was a cable clamp

@historylooker7 Год назад

Cool 😎

@MARKLOCKWOOD2012 Год назад

even with steady rains it would takes months to get back to normal. not all of the mighty Mississippi is navigable barge traffic has slowed and a lot have canceled contracts till further notice.

@MCB9537 Год назад

Cable Clamps.

@thurin84 Год назад

looks more like cement larking lol. those tugs just look so top heavy.

@MrVongurt Год назад

Missiyisippi pretty legendary! Rio grande next?

@cdd4248 Год назад

I have always thought working on a Tug Boat would be a great job- there are probably song lyrics somewhere with the same sentiment!

@richardwarnock2789 Год назад

Every state has regulations County has thiers then federal regulations they make books yearly lots of rules you being Tennessee may vary from Mississippi I live in Mississippi found old guns rifles back in the 60's when river almost looked like a creek ask people then nothing now could be different 🤔 One thing for Sure the Mud was thick and Stinky!!!; ) as for those cool rock could be plants or Dino shale coal maybe

@theodorerooseveltcharlesto1555 Год назад

That was u shaped clamp for wire rope.

@danallen3031 Год назад

I think the bottle you found that was intact was a bottle of Moet &Chandon White Star

@robfarnam938 Год назад

Whiskey bottle and table leg... Concrete your in my wayy...

@TreasureNorway Год назад

The steel thing with two nuts is for locking wires like wire stopper😅

@W1se0ldg33zer Год назад

I looked around on the internet and did find pages of Army Corps of Engineer rules and regulations. Lots of things about boating, camping, camp fires, making too much of a disturbance, fishing, swimming, barges, where you can moor, locks, dams -- nothing at all about metal detecting or mudlarking.

@DL-by8el Год назад

Those were battery cable juctions

@ColinHarperSummerson Год назад

Beau , it looks much like hematite that's within the rock

@snowballil3133 Год назад

😀💙

@hardyakka6200 Год назад

That looked like mudstone or shale chigg.

@TheOldKid Год назад

U bolt with two nuts is a cable clamp.

@DirtDynasty Год назад

Took one out of Rileys book

@raynin Год назад

I was taking a nap.

@windyhillfoundry5940 Год назад

Does that mean I have to return all the relics I found in Vicksburg 25 years ago

@johnpappe3289 Год назад

That bottle may have contained juice at one time now it contains sludge.

@christopherball7937 Год назад

You need to hit the sandbars

@dizzysquirrel7292 Год назад

Hiya Chig. I hope you have a Happy New Year. I do have a request if you release a video on January 1st. My sisters birthday is on January 1st and I would be very thankful if you gave her a shout out. Her name is Michelle

@austinbradley3411 Год назад

I live in lower st.bernard parish along the Mississippi River and detect it all the time and no one says anything.

@aquachigger Год назад

"yet"

@antoniosanturri6799 Год назад

Thats bottle a relic and not just trash? I see them all the time..

@richardcarter3406 Год назад

Propeller washer for outboard motor

@goatgoat639 Год назад

Be very very careful, if you are on the Arkansas side. The Arkansas Archeological Survey has managed to get some extremely harsh laws passed with felonies as the first offense. Make sure you are on private property and above the high water mark of any river or stream.

@aquachigger Год назад

That seems to be the way things are heading all around.