The untold story in these videos is the sheer physical labor required. Gridding, probing, digging test holes that don’t pan out, then, after the dig, backfilling and grading. The top-notch camera work and video production is an effort in itself. I’m in my 60’s and can’t do it like I used to. Love your stuff, Tom.
@@kapok7228 same here I am 65 & my prime digging days started about when I was 25 & ended when I was about 55.Those were the days my friend we thought would never end (as the song goes)!Enjoy digging vicariously thru Tom!
Tom your channel is the best. What a lotnof work you do to find, travel, dig and the video process in and of itaelf is pure professional and artistic. We just enjoy your shows so much! Thanks for all you do!
5:45 pm 29/06 here in Brisbane, Australia. We enjoy your videos so much and are always amazed at your finds - especially the unbroken crocks, seltzer bottles, lamps/lanterns/light bulbs, china, toys, dolls, novelties/curiosities like the Frozen Charlotte miniature doll in the glass tube, etc. Thanks Tom! 🙏 ~~Blessings~~
Tom, three incredible digs. The cast iron kettle was awesome. Too bad there was so much water and packed clay mud. There could have been other items that could not be seen. A great mixture of embossed bottle from the third privy. The age was amazing . Such hard work with all you do to present us fabulous videos. Take care.👍👏👏😀
You’re a good man, Tom! Can’t imagine the smells you dig through finding those treasures. So glad you can stand it because I LOVE to watch your content!❤
Tom, you never fail to impress!!! Love your videos!!! Hats off to you for crawling around in 120 year old poop water!!! Got to do what you got to do!!! Wish I could go digging again too!!! God bless my friend & stay safe!!!!
Thank you for your hard work, great filming and bottle facts that are second to none! I feel guilty having a good cup of coffee, enjoying my ac and watching your amazing work on this video! Thanks again, cant wait for the next one!❤❤❤
Good Morning from Louisville, Kentucky. Tom, I get all kinds of anxiety watching u sift thru mud lol. Love the bottles with the glass corks. Its fascinating to see what u will find.
That suction is something else. Wonder if a bigger trowel in this case would help to give you more leverage. Great video. One has to admire your dedication to your craft with you excavating in a muck hole 😀 .
Greetings I was waiting for another treasure video... here you are, a new 🎉 youtube channel. Great Looking forward to more digs bringing the past AMERICANA to the future.
I hate those newer, deep, wet, and smelly outhouses. There have been exceptions but usually I get maybe a few keepers out of them. Usually not worth the amount of smelly dirt I had to throw out.
I wondered when you'd comment on the aroma---uff da!---I loved the look of those cathedral bottles, and that surprising blue poison.---I never realized just how old Hamms was. It was my Dad's choice in the 50s.---That newspaper clipping creeped me out.---How to explain all the window glass?
What states do you get to dig in, and is upstate new york, which is the adriondeck area where you can see blue mountain, in your area that you might travel to, our house was built in 1836 and we just took down the barn and found all sorts of treasure including 3 different old guns and numerous bottles and other items that are from the beginning of our home, we have a big depression in our yard that is between the house and barn, let us know if you might be interested in something like this
I'm very surprised you didn't wear waders while doing these. Considering that the first was messy, the second was worse with the water and then the third become a bog, I would have definitely donned the waders after seeing the water issue in the second one. As with all of your digs, rare finds are a wonderful treasure with these pits. I bet you go through shoes like a kid in a growth spurt. LOL The ending cleaning up items (though it would have been nice to see all of the finds like that) were beautiful. They would easily be interesting artful pieces in a collector's home.
Someone asks ,"can you dig it?" You can definitely reply YES I CAN ! Such a unique and interesting pastime. Your passion and enthusiasm is obvious. Everyone should have something in their lives that sparks that ,ever exploring child ,still living in each one of us ! And who among us doesn't miss playing in the mud (I know not out house mud) to each their own !!❤
❤Tom your amazing to dig in all that mud and water. Love those hutches and the eye wash one. I bet it really smells good. I bet you cant wait till you soak in a hot tub.❤❤❤❤❤
Tom , I'm Rob. I grew up in a small town east of Atlanta. Mom liked old bottles and exploring the ditch across the street that was growed over i found a first edition hutch that appeared that someone drank all the coke put the top on and tossed it in. It was stuck firm in the clay and rain had rotted the top so rain had kept it perfectly clean. Find of a lifetime right. Mom sold it for 4 grand and left my dad so it was my fault they divorced. Shes about to pass and i want to sell the bottle she held onto, a Baltimore memorial corn for the world whiskey flask in honey amber. 1000 for you even though its worth more , its mint just like my hutch just no cork. Let me know i want you to get it.
Leisy Peoria!! I just had one at an estate sale I held in Peoria Illinois. Whiskey City Diggers, aka Drift Roberts priced all the old bottles for me. That bottle is far from home!!
It would be interesting to see if there was a tornado or some similar weather event that hit this area in 1910-1920 that would explain all the broken window glass.
I don't know....there seems to be alot of broken glass if a place burned or even if it was torn down. Windows can blow out when a building is burning and usually when demoing a building they don't care if the break the glass or not, but it would be interesting to explore the tornado avenue 🤔.
That bottle with the odd lip, I think goes into a condiment holder. I can't think of the name for it. It held oil, vinegar, and things like that. That bottle would have had a glass stopper.
Tom pretty awesome what you find. Im fairly new to your channel have you or can you show a video of some of the bottles and item you have kept cleaned up?
Do the pits smell worse for you when they are wet like that Tom? I've always been curious about that for you. (Well you just answered my question...LOL)
What is the best way to recommend a dig site? I’ve been sending one suggestion several times to your old FB page, but never got a response that it was ever read.
You need waterproof gloves, some good thick ones! Medical or even those ones that veterinarians use that go up the arms!😁 Some great finds! You fought the water table well & bravely. 😂
Tom why don't you wear plastic coated gloves especially when it is cold your finger will not freeze - just interesting you wear the cloth or canvas gloves.
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums. If there isn’t extreme historic significance or monetary value and no one wants them, we’ll throw them back at the end of the dig
Tom left the channel it's sort of dead, but I go back to the last video on the channel to steer people to the new channel. Every couple of days people will be in the comments asking where he is.
No; nothing would live in the ground that long. I’ve dug over 1,800 pits in the past 18 years. Only a few times I’ve been sick from the dig. One time was West Nile from mosquito bites, another times from E. coli in the groundwater and one other time I got a bad cold while digging in the rain. None of those were directly related to the contents of the pit, though.
@@TomAskjem. Thanks for the information. Rumor had it that Denver was afraid to relocate grave in Chessman Park because they were afraid it might trigger smallpox since a lot of the people buried there had died of smallpox. Thank you for your videos I really enjoy them.
For the algorithms...... However don't post so early! Algorithms put your video through a viewing trial.. If your audience isn't awake to view like or comment. It won't be promoted as much. Most successful RU-vid channels post around 530-600am MST
Hi did you get kicked off your old channel because you kept repeating videos or you describe every bottle or bit of crap which is a bit boring after a while ?
The Murphy Brothers Hutchinson soda bottle is a holy grail among soda bottle collectors. Dakota soda bottle collectors specifically. Only a handful have surfaced over the years.
