The Old Stone Bridge : Metal Detecting 

That horseshoe at 5:33 is for Winter use, it had studs that threaded into those four holes to help the horse get traction on ice, neat find.

Hey Chigg. I've been collecting coins since 1975. Whatever you do "Do not" clean the coin further. If you were to have it certified (encapsulated and graded) it would be identified as environmental damage which isn't as bad as being identified as Harshly cleaned which it would be if you remove the corrosion further.. If they say it's cleaned it becomes almost worthless. If identified as environmentally damaged it will be more valuable and more desirable to a collector. It would be worth thousands if it weren't dug but still a valuable find.

Truckers carry stuff like that all the time. They get around it by calling it a tire thumper which they have to use to pre-trip their truck. Thumping on the tires tells them if there is a significant pressure loss.

I died 3 minute's in forgot to tell me to hold my breath. Great video

Chigg is the Boss, truckers check their tires with clubs

This was a fun little metal detecting adventure. The horseshoe that I found looks like it has a specific purpose to me. Does anyone have a guess as to what that might be?

That coin is absolutely amazing, good job Beau.

That’s a great looking Draped Bust Large Cent. I would leave it as is.

Hey Chigger, I was an electrician by trade. The hunk of wire with tape on the end was likely just a scrap piece of copper from a construction job. We tape the ends up until it's time to make terminations, then cut the end off. The scrap piece usually gets kept by the contractor or the electrician himself to take to the scrap yard when enough built up for extra cash. I believe that's what you have there, especially since you found it under a bridge. Could have fell off a truck or dropped accidently.

Being a retired truck driver, we call those tire bumpers before your trip. You walk around and bump your tires. If somebody tries to get in your truck, you bumped your head.

Chigg, The horse shoe you found, the holes were designed to put cleets on the shoe for winter time to prevent slippage on ice or packed snow for draft horses.

A large cent, wow but even if it was a junk day I always like a river adventure. Good to see Mike out with you.

Nice large cent!

I raise my glass to the video. Cheers.

ITS A TIRE THUMP-ER USED FOR LOOKING FOR FLATS.

Fun day😅water seemed clear, love watching.

Your melee weapon is a tire thumper, or tire knocker. They are used by the trucker to test their tires to see if they have a low, or flat tire. They all have them.

💥💥💥💥That horseshoe is very common in New England. Cleats were screwed in the shoe for winter use. We also find many of the cleats with no shoe. Great hunt!

Awesome day. Thanks for taking us along.

That coin is nicer than it looked initially. I'd leave it alone.

the large cent is perfect the way it is ... Great Fine

Love all your metal detecting adventures

Lazer Beau best way ever!!

Hey Chigg, I would leave the coin as she is. That patina is earned.

Chigg’s you never disappoint with your river finds. Nice to see you and Mike out together.👍👏😀

Thanks Chigg

Fun episode chigg 🤠

Chigg. I truly appreciate each and every upload. I could only hope to be half as successful in finding relics like you do. Keep up the great work. Even if you get the occasional skunked outing!

Thanks for the video! Always enjoy watching your adventures!

What a fun day on the creek. Love that old penney.

WOW, that 1807 coin looks like it's darn near new, somebody musta dropped that in 1808, man that is nice !

Always a great video 🎉

Always enjoy your videos

Nice LC nicest I've seen come out to the water/ground. Anything more than a toothpick will damage it. And you know it.

Good find !

I love that insulator

I have found a horse shoe just like the one you found. Mine was in better shape and the holes have screw in studs for ice. I dated it around 1910 and I found it in New Hampshire where I live.

“Like meeee….. special. Not that way.” 😂😂😂

Sweet finds Chigg!!

Nice coin, Chigg. Truckers also used pipes or clubs to check the tires for their air pressure.

Tire thumper for checking low tire pressures .when you have 18 tires to check the pressures easily.

Awesome coin! Congrats!

Hey brother! I know the old truck drivers used those to check tire pressures, I'm sure it could be used for self defense in a pinch...lol

Good bad or ugly it's always a good time when you can get out and go detecting. I really enjoy the after round ups.. table talk if you will. Thank you for the videos.

Yea definitely a toy firetruck, chigg

I had to carry a club when I drove trucks, the company had everyone do a walk around and check tires and fluids and brakes before we started the truck.

I had that exact Matchbox fire truck you found (at the 4:00 mark) when I was a kid. Likely 1970’s. Blast from the past lol

The detail on that largey is amazing!

It looks like a small shoe made for winter. I remember seeing larger versions of that kind of shoe on draft horses when I was a kid. That coin might fetch between $350-$700

That copper cable wrapped I think was a fish head knocker - and they lost the grip and it went into the drink (LOL maybe a few extra beers too) 500 mill coper cable I used to install telephone equipment and that was the main DC power cable size feeding the equipment bays.

Gday Chigg snd viewers from Regional South Australia 🇦🇺

Just putting in time searching makes it worth while.

Truckers carry a thumper to rap on their tires to check if one is going low on air.

We carried similar ones and they are legit tire thumper.

Awesome finds chigger. Nice large cent. Lucky you❤

Great video. Love the wrap up. Thanks as always!

Tim for the show. Beverage & snack in hand.

For the large cent, you can get a little curved burnisher with a wood handle, whole thing about 6 inches long. You have to dress the edge nicely so it doesn't scratch at all. It's not like a knife edge though, you couldn't cut yourself with it, even if you pushed it really hard. The traditional way was to rub it on walrus hide with pumice powder but you don't need to get that fancy. Practice on some memorial pennies but if you're lucky, you can peel the corrosion right off and leave the original surface undamaged. The burnisher does have a point on the end and if you happen to dig that into the metal, it will scratch and leave a bright spot. Done that a few times. I do it with brass that's gotten thick blue deposits on it. The deposit itself can sometimes change the color of the metal and it might cause pitting but more often than not, the blue stuff will burnish off and leave the metal with the normal brown oxide patina.that brass naturally turns with age. Burnishig was used to polish precious metals back in the day because it didn't remove any metal.

Love your channel.

Good adventure!

Wow awesome coin

4:12 Fire tender with ladder. The horseshoe looks like it had spikes in the raised pieces, perhaps for walking on icy surfaces or hauling logs in the woods. You can see from the lip at the front, the round bits were downwards.

Very nice finds! Thanks for showing the finds at the end .

Super nice coin!

Great adventure Chigg. The horse shoe is definitely a winter shoe for traction. They're more popular up North in Massachusetts where I am... Oh yeah Awesome coin 1807 I'm very envious... 👍🏻

Hey Chig,I think you are right about that homemade head buster, probably was used and then they chucked it off the bridge. Truckers often had an object like that and it was called a tire thumper, we could walk around the truck and thump the tires and could tell if they were low.But they could also be used for safety assistance.

WOW! That coin is amazing Chig! I'd love to see how you end up cleaning it, if you do. I'd go ahead and have it graded too!

Its a tire knocker.. all truckers have one.

We gotta start calling you Ike when you are hanging out together, so you guys can be “mike and ike.” 👍🏻

Any hunt is a good hunt in my opinion! Nice large cent!

Uncle Chiggers! I can't tell you how much I like the post video briefings on your porch! Lots of cool info and closeups. I can't wait to see what's next this summer. Any planned long haul trips? Well, now you got the Billy Club.... :)

For coin corrosion, i use a dulled wood toothpick. Gently rub the surface of corrosion like you are shading in a picture with a pencil.

horse shoe for icy conditions

Another fun video

perhaps the horse shoe was modified to put hot kettles, pans etc in the kitchen. Decorative?

That large cent is in excellent condition! Awesome find! Must've been lost when still relatively new.

That toy looks kind of like the Airport Crash Tender that QuarterHoarder dug in one of his recent videos. That tape wrapped copper is a Rabid Beaver Billy Rapper.

I have found horse shoes like that which had metal cleats bolted to them I assume for ice

Chigg, the light at the beginning looks railroad related to me. The horse shoe definitely was for ice. My electrician brother has a similar piece of cable laying next to his truck seat(copper was bringing over $3.50 a pound scrap last week) and that Largie is absolutely beautiful !!! Thanks !!!

Used to carry something similar to your blackjack it was a thumper for whacking tires to check inflation you can hear a difference an under inflated Tire

CATTLE SHOE OR OXE MAYBE.😮😊

you use the club to hit your tires. tells you if they're flat or low on air

wow your tools is amazing sir

Really awesome finds, chigg

Holes on shoes were cork...ice..so horse didnt slip...yankee shoes!!!

Horseshoe is for ice. We found those on our land too.

A tire knocker. My Dad us to carry one in his truck.

4:19, matchbox fire engine

I believe a fish club is called a "Priest" as you are administering the fish's last rights!

Of course that largie was awesome but I'm so curious about that horseshoe. I hope we get an update when you find out.

That horse shoe almost looks like an early ice/snow shoe.

That big dude from highlander dropped his sword

i guess those " pencils of Andre " should work well with that coin ? thx for the vidjeo chigg xD

Your "Sword For Giants" looks a lot like a flattened drainpipe.

I carrier a “tire knocker” in my jeep.😉

That weird iron thing Gould be to anchor another wire to something or to splice 2 wires together.

Great find on the 1807 coin, Chigg. My husband said he uses a baking soda paste to take off corrosion on coins and sometimes toothpaste works. Worth a try!! Love your adventures and thanks for taking us along!!

Thanks, Beau. Keep on doing what you're doing and I'll keep watching. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I have seen larger horseshoes like that for draft horses but never a small one .

Not to be a dick….as a marble collector, I just wanted to say that “Bennington” marbles were named for the resemblance to Bennington pottery made in Vermont, however, they did not make marbles, but they did make the Bennington telegraph insulators as Mike said.