I've watched your videos for several years because I find them so fascinating and enjoyable. But what really catches my attention is your skill at recording the scenery. Just brilliant
Hi Brad, I'm new to these U-tube things but I like your site. Good video pictures, not jumping around & you seem to enjoy sharing with "us" your finds. Thank you!
Oil can lids paper cardboard cans with tin lids!. I remember them back in the 60s. I know they were even before then! 1800s to 1960s Then plastic quart jugs were the thing. I even remember recycled oil that were cheaper than new oil. Was in a white jug with orange writing on it! Don't remember the name now.
That swimming hole and creek are stunning as a background. Tampa is not near any semblance of a place like that. When I watch you I can smell that summer. Thanks for the blessings ☺️
Leave the nail! Richfield Corp. Was bought by ARCO in 1966 so it's likely pre-1966. I must comment on the quality and flow of your video. I see the evolution of your skills. The timing and wonderful angles and visually stimulating choices in shooting are a delight! Great content served well! Crack on!
I like your voice. It's a very calming voice, you're not screaming or yelling into the mic about what you found. You are mellow and very cool about your finds and I am impressed with your professional demeanor. Keep up the good work, you're doing just fine.
Brad! First of all Thank you for bringing me along with you on you adventures. I am a 57 year young man. My son is 11 because of you, we started metal detected together as a father and son duo, which has brought us super close. Thank you for sharing your passion with my son and I. I look forward each Friday for your new upload. God bless you sir.
Brad, you've chosen a beautiful stream in the woods of Vermont to explore, thanks for sharing with us. The purple Transferware dish fragment commonly dates from the mid-19th century, and very probably is of English origin. The decoration was transferred from a painted design to the still soft, unfired soft paste Potter's material, commonly an ironstone mix or another form of clay based material before firing the object in a kiln. Many times you would find an over-lapping of designs on finished products of that period. Good day, pretty spot, and treasure to bring home.
Old oil cans were all tin, then they went to a sort of waxed paper and foil can with metal top and bottom like what you found. I remember my dad buying oil for the farm up till the late 70's early 80's in paper cans. Then the plastic bottles.
You got it mate . I too recall those containers... back when i was 7-8 yrs old i think it when they started to use only plastic . Ah how times flies eh :)
Great hunt! You can soak the dime in CLR and it will slowly loosen the rusted concretion. Scouted some old county parks yesterday for a possible fall hunt and at the second one I found a 14k white gold ring.
Nice! Starting my morning with Iced Coffee & a fresh GMMD in Vermont! To me your most fascinating finds are the ones in your home state. Thanks for the great content.
Perfect way to start my Friday! Coffee and Green Mountain Metal Detecting adventure! Great finds! I love finding those pieces of glassware with designs 👍🏼 see ya next week!!!
You sir are a cross between Mr. Rogers and Steve from Blue's Clues, you have the most soothing voice for your video. We love watching, keep up the great work.
Arrive early my friend... hopefully you will always find valuable objects in your adventures.. greetings from the Indonesian natural resource digger..🙏⚒️⛏️❤️🇮🇩
What a beautiful spot man! The stuff that comes out of these old swimming holes always blows my mind. Loved the video. Sending you and your family the best!
I see that some folks are familiar with some of the history of Richfield Oil. But I'd never heard of it, so I decided, just for giggles, to do a little bit more research, and came up with this bio: • The Richfield Oil Corporation was founded in 1905 and went into receivership in 1931 as a result of the Great Depression. • Consolidated Oil Corp bought Richfield's eastern United States operations in 1936. (Those gas stations would later be rebranded as Sinclair stations in 1943) • Cities Service Company (now known as Citgo) acquired the majority of the stock and brought the company out of receivership in 1936. • Consolidated Oil Corp (now Sinclair) and Rio Grande Oil (controlled by Consolidated Oil Corp) and Cities Service Company (now Citgo) agreed to a merger between Richfield Oil and Rio Grande shortly after. • On February 23, 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army attacked the Richfield Oil tanks in the Ellwood oil field, near Santa Barbara, California. This was the first attack on continental America during the war. • Richfield Oil sponsored the Autopia attraction at Disneyland from 1955 to 1970. • The company merged with Atlantic Refining to form Atlantic Richfield Corp, later known as ARCO, in 1966. • After selling Atlantic Refining to Sonoco, ARCO was purchased by BP in 2000.
excellent finds in the stream. I myself would leave the metal on the dime and the hinge may have been from a basket as the rivets look to short for wood. Great content and love the scenery and your music.
Interesting finds with 2 silver rings. I like the basket weave one. There has to be more rings & coins in the swimming hole. People get wet & lose rings. Great location.
Great hunt brad !! Im a water hunter and love this video :) If you go back there. Check those banks up as high as floods would of brought it up to. I find a lot of goodies high banking :)
River hunting is where it’s at we just had a spot turned out to be a old Yacht club coins everywhere! We had 6 silver halves oldest was a seated close to 50 silver coins so far mostly barbers SLQS v nickels Buffalos mercury dimes some Washington’s Indians two barber half’s 3 walkers crazy!!!
Hi, Brad. It's Fri 11:25pm atm here in NZ, so your video came at the right time. Once again that stream has offered up more amazing treasures.. coins, a watch, hinge etc. The first ring was really delicate looking and the second ring had such a beautiful design. Thanks for sharing 👍🏽 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
When I moved to Vermont 7years ago. I found an old settlement with 2 cellar holes. From the way it looked, looked like no one has ever disturbed it. One day I'll go back with a metal detector.
Watching your last two videos reminded me of a brook that my mother remembered going to as a kid back in the 1930s, I found many Wheaties and silvers mostly along the paths that followed the brook from swimming spots to swimming spots
With the modern stuff buried, and the older stuff is on the surface... that tells me the old stuff is washing down the hill. Yes, I would search the hill side for structures. The pottery is a common pattern found in the early twentieth century; however, that stuff was produced up to WWII, so it can be difficult to date. What a Cool day, all puns intended. Thanks for bringing us along.
You know Brad it’s nice, once in a blue moon, to see you doing a modern hunt for (a) change.😂 Yes keep it that way but still cool. Also, your oil can top brought back memories when I was in my teens cutting lawns. I used an old full can of 20W50, with the metal top from the 70s, to run a dying lawn mower. It’s motor burned through 30 weight like crazy but 20w50 slow the burn rate and I got the last penny out of that mower. Watching you channel since you had 10,000 subs or less. Anyhow, thank you for your interesting coin hunt videos. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😄
Once again I couldn’t agree more when you pulled the plate fragment out of the river I couldn’t help but wonder if somebody didn’t have a home site close by because of the water access great minds think a like😆😆😆
Of course, the numismatic value of any coin you find will be negligible, yet it still makes me cringe a little at the thought of using pliers to free them. :o
Try a magnet on that oilcan lid, I think it is ferrous (iron) not aluminum. Those have not been used since the mid-eighties or so. They were a card/paperboard tube about six to eight inches deep, opened the way you see the one was opened that you found...also with proper oil can opener/spouts ...they plunged in, opening a hole and remained fixed as a pouring spout till you removed it.
Hi Brad - my guess on the lock plate is that it was attached to a leather strap. The rivets don't look long enough to go through the sides of a wooden box, hence my thought that it was anchored to a leather strap. Perhaps the guess someone else made about a picnic basket might be pretty accurate, with the strap keeping the top of the basket closed.
It reminds me of the latches used on foot lockers, which were often made of thin steel that those rivets would have been long enough to pass through. The sheet steel was not very strong, and may have rusted and broken away from the sturdier latch mechanism.
People used to drive into and sometimes over the woods and mountains,,,oil can top and iron latch for a trunk that sat back bumper circa 1925? possibly be auto related? Thinking that Timex might "tick" again,,,thank you and stay cool,,,
I think that latch may have been used on a Victorian picnic basket! It's not a real heavy trunk latch! That ring is going to look good on ur pinky finger! Have a great week Brad!! ❣️💕💙💜❤️
Good afternoon Brad, just discovered your channel. I’m guessing you are from the ‘west coast’ ( as us Kingdom ‘RRS refer to anyone west of Barre). I’m sure you have plenty to explore over that way but I have property over in Essex County and there is an old mill foundation and washed out dam on my property , if you find yourself over that way you are welcome to come detect the the ruins. Quite a bit of old cellar holes in the area as well. Reach out anytime . 🌴⚓️
Hello from Germany. You found an old Timex watch and I found a youtuber named Wristwatch Revival. Would'nt it be nice to see this old watch working again? Try to contact him. Eventually we will see this watch again. Regards Thomas
Knowing you I am sure you have done some research on this area. You mentioned picnic areas. There could possibly be some along there being that it was a local swimming hole. But you are on the right track. My question is...what was up above the swimming hole?? Might give that area a shot and see. Either way this is a cool place to hunt. Thanks for the video. I hope you go back to this place once in a while I have a feeling you just might find a real honey hole with a lot of coins and items piled up ;-)
When we lived in Key West, we were at the beach, my boyfriend was metal detecting, got a great signal, dug over a foot down, took a while, finally, only to find a grill, somebody buried. Bummer. Thought he had a great treasure
The larger silver ring is most likely hand made. You just twist the wire then flatten and the most put a black patina on it by putting in liver of sulfur then buffing the higher spots back to silver.
That is pretty much all I hunt and I have got trimes on surface and 4 large cents just laying on rocks and also dug modern alum cans @ Over a foot deep!
Richfield oil corporation was founded on October 14 1936. there were four companies in different states but the Richfield oil corporation of New York was in New Hampshire.
That's interesting (and a little bit peculiar). Oil companies were often confusing, especially after the Standard Oil Trust was busted up by the Federal Government. That led to a whole bunch of regional companies, some of which later merged again.
