Among several 19th century artifacts, one has a connection to the location's sad past. Original music by Brad Martin www.GMMD.us / greenmountainmetaldete... / green.mountain.metal.d...
I love your videos, no one else compares. Your thoughtful stories, your feel for the people who left your treasures behind, the quality of your character shows through. The quality of your videos, mellow music, great information, fantastic videography. Thanks for all the work you do.
Just want to say love your videos..I started metal detecting in the 1980s as a teenager. I stopped for a while then got back in to it in mid 1990s. Hunted mostly beach and water till about 2016 when serious injuries and health conditions forced me to give up detecting. I tried to get back in to it a few times..but now I am detecting as much as my health permits. Using a Garrett ACE 400 Just been doing land sites. My town in Massachusetts was established in the 1600s has Revolutionary war history in the last 2 weeks have got some late 1800s coins.. but also some 1700s flat buttons and a musket ball that appeared to be from a Brown Bess musket near a muster field used by local military. Your videos are great motivation to get myself out to hunt..thank you..keep up the great finds and videos
Thank you for these videos. I am an 81year old lady in England and I love them. To see the items and learn about the history of the area is fantastic. I worry about you being on your own out there. What would happen if you had an accident. Thank you again and please keep the videos coming.
I love the care you give to the thoughts of the descendants or owners of the whatever you find. This is one of the reasons I return to your channel repeatedly. Thank you. ❤
Amazing finding the frame to the watch works. The handle of a scythe is bent in several directions to get the proper cutting action. Nice finds & the ring appropriate for the history. I think some of the poorer people were buried on their own property.
In Norway the farmers used to think if they tossed coins on their field they would get a good harvest, so you can really find alot of coins around here🙂
The farm lands must be like underground reverse Wishing Wells! Have you found any coins. I know your family or friends or somebody you know has found some. Please share with us items found that you’ve seem!!!
@@nebbindog6126 Ya pays ya money, ya takes ya chances...'bout the same as now with some of today's fine products. :-) If the weather was usually good wherever they were doing this, they probably did, most of the time...and who knows maybe the soil needed some trace copper, or whatever.
DISCO DEVIL That makes me so happy! So the farmers tossed up one handful of coins? So you must ask the farmers for permission to metal detect and keep whatever you find, right?How often do you hunt for coins? About the coins you’ve found, are the little collections from individual farms? How many farms have you gone to and do you have farms you plan on visiting in the future? Have you found coins in different places? If so, where? Were they random places or targeted ones? So curious!
Finding that ring really brings it home about the make resident being there! Very very sad about his wife, it happened more often than we think from what I've read 😢 Life was very hard, as was the traveling. Fantastic finds with both the watch innards and the bezel 😀 That heavy button must've been on either furniture or a fancy horse saddle 🤷 Two shoe buckle pieces sitting in the dirt so close together 🤔 considering how old those are, whose to say that they aren't from the same pair of shoes 👍 Both a beautiful IHP and the V nickel, two that I've yet to find and am so anxious to!! The blade could be the blade you were hoping, it didn't quite have the right angle to it to be a scythe blade. Thank you for making my rainy Friday morning start out wonderfully 👍😀 Coffee, GMMD hunt in the forests of Vermont with Brad!!
Traveling is hard today, also. Sometimes you have to wait ten minutes to find a bathroom or a place to sit down and have fully prepared food set before you then cleaned up afterward, and if it's warm and the A/C's not quite up to snuff, well there's that, too! When you think we can jump in a car and go about as far in a day than they could in a wagon typically in a about month, and with about 0.1% the danger. Even worse, do the same comparison with a jet (another order of magnitude). Imagine what the first long distance train ride looked like to them....more or less the same percentage difference from a model T to today's jet...and that's just over land. Sailing vessels of the time were actually a pretty quick mode of travel, compared to other options...and we're not talking racing hydrofoils. There you had things like scurvy, which believe it or not was figured out and fully solved by taking Vitamin C rich foods, which was later shown by some moron to be wrong (falsely) and people started getting scurvy AGAIN...gotta wonder.
Rarely do I watch a video on here and instantly realize the person is as real as you can get. However that being said I feel this is one of those guys. He is very informative in his comments. And just so laid back. The watch , the Ring. wonderful finds. God bless you friend and stay safe.
I always appreciate your content because of the background preparation you do for the sights. I hope you and the family are safe and healthy sir. Say hi to Eddie for me. I looked up the Serial Number on the pocket watch, if I read it right, its 977165, it was made between 1894-1900 in Jersey City New Jersey.
I read the same thing. Read that company made a lot of common "low end" pocket watches and was known for their ad "The watch with the worm in it" referring to the style of spring working the watch. Cool find!
Woke up to two inches of snow this morning in the NEK with more on the way tonight. Old Man Winter just won't let go this year but Summer will soon be here. Cheers!
May 8th and expecting more snow tonight. (Done with snow,,,you jinxed us) What a weird year. So far 2 camping trips cancelled by Virginia and West Virginia. Stay safe and detect on!
Round here those kind of rings were also used against gout and arthritis back in 19th century. People believed that those rings help the symptoms. They were made out of copper zinc alloy if I can remember correctly.
You have me hooked with your stories & wonderful finds, sometimes I watch for hours, you’re so knowledgeable in history & especially coins! Love watching your videos & your music has grown on me!! Ha!
I always used to carry a pocket watch back when I cared about what time it was, and I can't tell you how many of the things I've lost over the years. The little D-shaped bails that you hook the watch chain to always break. Then when you climb up onto a wagon or dump rake, they fall out. Great video as always, Brad! The live stream with Eddie was fun too.
My son In Plainfield complained to me yesterday that they were expecting snow. Guess your March spring was short lived! Love your videos, reminds me of VT while I'm in 80 deg, sunny FL!
Good morning Brad !! I hope all is well with you and your family during all this COVID19 crap. Great video today as always. I really liked the pocketwatch. Very cool to find both parts.
Light dusting here in N. Mi. this morning. Great video. Heart-warming and nice finds. Ha, I loved it. Ya, steer a horse. Makes a lot of horse sense. So good to see video. I was on your live chat a bit ago that was great as well.
I have found several brass wedding bands in US Civil War camps that closely resemble the one you found. Supposedly, the army discouraged the soldiers from wearing their gold bands, so that the gold could not fall into the hands of the CSA, in case of capture, or worse. Good work on your videos!
As always love your opening and your music. The watch turned out to be a great find with both parts. The wedding ring find was incredible with a sad note thinking about the loss of his wife. But as always I loved your video . Loved the drone shots, just makes my Fridays! Thank you for taking so much time to research and being a wonderful historian! Still the top to me!!
Thanks for taking the time to remind everyone about the people who lived in these area back then. Videos just keep getting better. Sounds like an extended detecting season this year.
As always, a treasure of a video! The ring does look a bit large for a woman, but it could be that woman’s hands were bigger then because of all the hard labor of every day life.
Thanks Brad...! Great finds and recovery of a Family's once lived life there in the Forest's of VT. It's irritating when people comment on things they think were gruesome or it involves death. Like you said not everyone is buried 4" below ground where a relic is found and if foul play or accident the victim calls on authorities to investigate.....! Times were hard in those days, think about it..! No grocery stores or supper markets, no cars & trucks, no gas stations, no electricity or central heat or Air Conditioning. One had to raise they're own food & veggies... can things to get through the Winter, no refrigeration stuff soiled unless Smoked or salted, those were tough times...! =)
Brad when you know the name and the back story of the land owners do you ever try to locate the cemetery they are buried in? It might add to the story .
I think that many times a forgotten or unwanted garmet is the button source. It is wonderful to bring these things to the light again. Thank you Brad for all you do.
Another fun episode. Thank you for providing such soothing content brother. I love that you can keep me entertained without a bunch of hooting and hollering. Of course, I enjoy a little of that too sometimes.
It's great to have you out in the woods again...so the poor man loses his wife in a tragic accident. And 100 or so years later you start finding his personal belongings in the woods, grief can do strange things to a person no matter what century you're living in. Thank you for your efforts and your Insight that makes what you do so enjoyable for the rest of us
The ring is a fake. If it was the real thing, he'd have disappeared in an instant, leaving only dents in the leaves where he walked. and he'd have adopted a stoop along with a creepy voice muttering something about 'the precious'.
whooo hooo i’ve been counting the months til spring! bring on the awesome content and adventures! love love love this channel. #1 green mtn, #2 hoover boys, #3 aquachigger.
The size of that is a sickle rather than a scythe; that is a Straight Bit, and from the large size it is for a "cold blood" draft horse such as a Percheron, Belgian or Shire. Nice finds, enjoy your videos
Looked to me like a brush blade for a scythe. Grass blades were longer and thinner but to cut thick weeds (like goldenrod) and even small bushes they used a shorter, thicker blade. That is what I use when I do the ditch in front of my house.
Wow , to see that ring and knowing a little history about the people who lived there made me sad ! Thank you for the adventure and seeing pieces of history ! Take care , stay safe and healthy out there ! Still doing well here in Kansas !
I have been a bit distracted the last 10 months or so, haven't had time to watch your videos. Now that I have some time I will try to catch up. That scythe blade is really cool. My son and I could most likely make it usable again. We have been quarantined on the farm since the Pandemic started so have not been able to get out to detect at all. Our gear is all stored away even though it has been a pretty mild winter so far. The ground isn't even frozen which is pretty rare for north central Nebraska. We have been pretty busy homeschooling the two still in school and luckily the program we have them inrolled in leaves us lots of time and also gives my only son credit for the time we spend in the smithy. We have also been doing lots of jewelry making and Native crafts. Once we can go to powwow again we will have lots to sell. That will make the people who attend very happy as our stuff is highly coveted and we always sell out the first few days. I am really looking forward to getting out again with the detectors when it's safe to do so. I just turned 58 and my son turned 16 4 days before my birthday. My health issues have been very limiting this season but once it starts getting nice again I plan to do as much digging and exploring as possible. Our area is not as rich in old stuff as yours. Nebraska colonization doesn't go back as far so we are lucky when we find anything over about 150 years old. This was originally Norther Ponca Tribe land and we have to be very discrete about any Aboriginal finds because if it gets out the state tries to get control of the area to do archeological digs. My wife and kids are Ponca so we collect what we can and donate it to the tribe's cultural department. If its a large area we let them know first so they can figure out if it's Ponca connected then take the appropriate action. Anyway it's good to be able to get up early and sit quietly with my coffee and catch up on your videos.
Hi Brad... always great to open up YT and the first suggestion is GMMD... thanks for taking us along for the ride. Truly amazing that you found both parts of the pocket watch... I have found a few brass rings, all old farm finds, and it just screams... hard-working, knuckle busting pioneers scraping by. Thx again, Scotty.
Incidentally, I was asked by an investigator to search for a long dead (20 years) body because the person who died was known to have been wearing a large watch and a class ring the night that he disappeared. They used cadaver dogs to locate potential spots and asked me to search each one with my detector. It was about a 5 acre site and I was surprised that there were 3 spots I was asked to search. The investigator told me that is was almost certain that bodies had decomposed within the last 150 years at all three sites. He said the dogs were able to detect bodies that old with extreme accuracy. He also said that dead body sites were fairly common. I wasn't able to find the watch or the ring.
Loved the image of the giant whole tree pick-up-sticks, followed by (I hope) a deer femur. I found that same bone while camping in a very remote area of Wisconsin. The whole time thinking "Oh, please don't let this be a human leg bone!" Assuming the pocket watch is almost all brass, would you consider throwing that in your ultra-sonic cleaner?
Brad I have to say I really enjoy your videos. You are very well spoken and very clear. If you don’t know something about a item you ask. You research the sites and are very informative to your audience. Keep up the good work and thank you for your videos!
I could detect the emotions behind the Wedding Ring discovery considering the unfortunate carriage accident,involving the Man's Wife passing . A good man You are Sir, I enjoy Your Stories So very Cool , God Bless
