The chain you found was a Trace chain that was hooked to a heavy multilayered leather strap (called a Tug) on a harness for a horse, the reason for the different sizes of chain was so that they could slip one of the larger links through another of same size to shorten the chain, the link that was slipped through another was then hooked to the single tree that was hooked to a double tree to make a more shared load between two horses of different sizes and/or weight.
Had to watch again....i see my older comments...my leg is healed up and hoping to have a good summer with hopefully no accidents and no health issues ❤ ypur the man chigg I enjoy these
Hi chig! ,I believe the lock you found has a patent stamp on it from 1860. Recently I dug what appears to be the exact same lock from a private property along the w and old dominion railroad in falls church va. The one I dug was used during and after the civil war, and was typically used for securing people's valuables on the railroad. After identifying it I returned it to the owner of the 200 year old house. Thanks for your vids
That guy was SPOOKY! Looks like he's setting up rope to keep someone in prison, they'll be tied up there, only able to eat the unripe paw-paws and drink the sewer water! Probably dying from dysentery! Don't let him catch you Mr. Chiggs! I'd miss your videos like crazy! Ps. I would have hid too! All the best and stay safe!
You inspired me to start detecting back in 2012, and since then I've found so many things I never thought possible here in Illinois! Thanks for the great content Beau, and happy hunting
Can I ask you what kind of equipment you've gotten at the start of your detecting-hobby? I'm anxious to start metal detecting myself one day, but incredibly professional equipment is, of course, not within my reach.
Agreed..I detected but after I saw chig I got my own machine and it's helped me recover from injury buy getting out and detecting..also chigg seems like one hell of a guy he's one of the only dig channels I can stomach
Hey Aquachigger, Just wanted to say thanks for posting these videos. I enjoy watching even the unsuccessful water adventure trips. Keep up the good work! Makes my day watching these.
LET'S DO IT...! Made me laugh... You are easy to watch and a interesting bloke. Man you must spend so much time out and about..! You know your stuff and respect nature, I like that..
Beau, I've heard that groove referred to as a "blood groove". I enjoy everyone of your videos, even those where you find all the horseshoes. I look forward to each one you produce. Thanks. Stan
Yes and also the Crannies there tents,, it means they are going to move the camp and they YELL! PULL UP STAKES !.. BOOM 💥there you have it ,,thank you ,, have a good day..
Looooove your videos! My only complaint is there aren’t enough of them! :-). And yes, love the horseshoe finds. Since they are all hand forged, they are individual works of art! Keep up the great work!
Live the videos and great watching you on British TV any chan on some more videos of your collections and displays 👍💪 keep up the hard work and happy hunting.......
When you picked up the lock... after finding the chain... at 18:55 you dropped a native american "adze". They can be small, and were more useful then a stone ax for shaping a wood tool. The stone adze would me mounted to the top of a wood handle with raw hide. The green stone you dropped was the correct size... shape, and material for making a stone adze. You can see the shaped and ground bit clearly, just before you dropped the artifact, and kept the cheap lock ! haha Absolutely love your videos !
@@aquachigger Fine grained Greenstone was a rock of choice for axes, celts and adze, by native prehistoric people. A sharp polished "bit" edge is never naturally developed tumbling in a river. Since you held it in your hand... I guess you can call it a find !
Origin of "Pull up stakes": This phrase was first used by Virginia colonists in the early 17th century. Jamestown and other settlements were surrounded by wooden palisade stakes as a defense against marauding Native Americans. To change or expand one's residence would have meant moving the barriers too, much easier than to rebuild from scratch. Neat, eh?
18:30 Hey Chig , the chain looks like harness chain used with horses or oxen for moving loads like timber or cargo wagons. Maybe a viewer with experience using draft horses at county fairs and the like could identify it. Also my grandfather had some pieces of chain like that which went to a horse drawn plow...like the ones you've been finding in the river.
Mystery solved. At least you found the bullets and identified them. Just enjoy watching (and re-watching) your adventures and often need to view more than once to absorb at least a small portion of the information you share.
"Pull up stakes." I think you are exactly correct on that one. The fishing wier is accurate however we used to put a trap at the outlet called a Fyke. It was made of splitt saplings.
Me and my uncle used to make sinkers like that to grab hook suckers. We’d tie the hooks 4-5 hooks above the sinkers and put the sinker on the bottom. That way our hooks were above the bottom and would grab the suckers as we jerked the hooks across the river. Great times I miss them times and my uncle badly.
Ahh, the lovely 30-06, or 7,62x63 as we Europeans call it. Ever been detecting in Norway? Spot on with the eel-facts Chigg! Slippery buggers can even move far distances in wet grass. Pretty amazing creatures.
Gathering the timber and building the fences involved significant effort and if settlers later decided to move they would take their palisade with them. This was a well-enough established practice by 1640 for the phrase 'pull up stakes' to have been used figuratively to mean 'move house'. That is shown in this example, from a 1640 letter by a Thomas Lechford, who was planning a move from New England: "I am loth to hear of a stay, but am plucking up stakes with as much speed as I may."
Pulling up stakes...I was told Tent stakes Beau. If you're. Checking out an area to hunt, work or live, you had a cloth canvas tent you would take down to move. It was also a term in medieval England for pulling up the stakes that you would move your oxen or horses too. Cool eh? I've missed keeping up with you. Good to see about on the river again..
damnit boo boo!! i told you not to touch those three ring bullETS! that bear track was very cool. and maybe that guy was misleading you by those pistol bullets? draw you away from the real treasures?!! j/k damn good video Chigg keep it up bud..
The guys on 4 wheelers has a channel with a video of them watching Chigg wondering what he's doing way out there across from his secret fishing hole! He pretends to leave to see if chigg will leave but chigg won't leave??? They figure Chigg is dumping a huuuuman body and while searching for the body they find a chest full of civil war gold bars!! Chigg had been sitting on it.😉😉😉
@ 1:26 what is that big cylindrical thing on the ground at the base of the big rock? I know nothing about this kind of thing but to me it looks like a giant rusted cannon barrel or some kind of pipe.
@22:00 The groove in a blade is called the "fuller". The fuller is often mistaken for a "blood groove" but anyone with basic physics will know that the fuller actually removes flexibilty through the depth of the blade; in short It makes it like an I-beam.
Have you ever eat eal, beau? They are delicious and expensive. It is a delicacy in the Netherlands. We smoke them. Oh and btw I love all your video's it is a pleasure to see them!!
The first time I tried sushi was an eel roll. I'm a fairly picky eater and was really hesitant but my friend assured me it was good and he was right. It was amazing. It all depends on who makes it though. I've had a couple eel rolls that weren't good and borderline gross. If you like eel and haven't tried sushi eel rolls are a great first try. And a lot people don't know this, but most meat in sushi has been cooked. The menus will say if it's raw or not.
you are an interesting dude thats for sure. I identify with your desire to be away from people. Not that people are bad, their not, but thy are full of drama, etc, Nature is also full of drama but in a good way. these have been awesome video's on the river and it doesn't matter if you find lots of stuff
Horse shoes and pull tabs are great video, Beau in a bag (your hammock) getting eaten by a bear, not so good video! I'm glad you made it back all in one piece Brother!
And the baby eels are born in the Sargasso sea, for us in the UK by the time they reach here, 3000 miles plus, the eels are about 4" in length, and they do net them as they are a delicacy for some. Danny.
The chain you found was a Trace chain that was hooked to a heavy multilayered leather strap (called a Tug) on a harness for a horse, the reason for the different sizes of chain was so that they could slip one of the larger links through another of same size to shorten the chain, the link that was slipped through another was then hooked to the single tree that was hooked to a double tree to make a more shared load between two horses of different sizes and/or weight.
Had to watch again....i see my older comments...my leg is healed up and hoping to have a good summer with hopefully no accidents and no health issues ❤ ypur the man chigg I enjoy these
I absolutely LOVE these long videos that include camping and stuff. Truly entertaining!
instablaster.
I am so Thankfull for all your adventures and discoveries, PLEASE be careful!
Hi chig! ,I believe the lock you found has a patent stamp on it from 1860. Recently I dug what appears to be the exact same lock from a private property along the w and old dominion railroad in falls church va. The one I dug was used during and after the civil war, and was typically used for securing people's valuables on the railroad. After identifying it I returned it to the owner of the 200 year old house. Thanks for your vids
42 minutes of pure Chig.....
Love your videos. Keep showing the your rusty finds. I learn about my finds from watching you.
Always an adventure , thank you for sharing your time and expertise !
The stranger across the river was probably wondering who the weird guy is that keeps jumping in the bushes and hiding! 🤣
I laughed at the chain find. I kept thinkin hes gonna pull that chain and find a plug on the end and the river empties..
The chardster 4ever 😄
boy ur thinking too much.....take a rest
That guy was SPOOKY! Looks like he's setting up rope to keep someone in prison, they'll be tied up there, only able to eat the unripe paw-paws and drink the sewer water! Probably dying from dysentery! Don't let him catch you Mr. Chiggs! I'd miss your videos like crazy! Ps. I would have hid too! All the best and stay safe!
Mary Helen lol nice Oregon trail reference
Mary Helen aren't you just a little ray of sunshine
lol Mary ^_^
You inspired me to start detecting back in 2012, and since then I've found so many things I never thought possible here in Illinois! Thanks for the great content Beau, and happy hunting
SonicrabChicago in Chicago?
In, and around Chicago
Can I ask you what kind of equipment you've gotten at the start of your detecting-hobby? I'm anxious to start metal detecting myself one day, but incredibly professional equipment is, of course, not within my reach.
@False Flag Alright, thanks for the info!
Agreed..I detected but after I saw chig I got my own machine and it's helped me recover from injury buy getting out and detecting..also chigg seems like one hell of a guy he's one of the only dig channels I can stomach
Hey Aquachigger, Just wanted to say thanks for posting these videos. I enjoy watching even the unsuccessful water adventure trips. Keep up the good work! Makes my day watching these.
LET'S DO IT...! Made me laugh...
You are easy to watch and a interesting bloke.
Man you must spend so much time out and about..!
You know your stuff and respect nature, I like that..
Love watching your channel. I learn so many things...and I'm an old man! Thank you for all your effort.
Never stop learning sir.
I know I've said this many time before, but I love that boat! Sooo wish I could find one of those in my area!
Ur a funny guy. Hiding in the bushes in part so no one finds your honey hole. Very entertaining!
Great adventure , I love the hiding and intrigue, wonderful throughout
Beau, I've heard that groove referred to as a "blood groove". I enjoy everyone of your videos, even those where you find all the horseshoes. I look forward to each one you produce.
Thanks.
Stan
Yes and also the Crannies there tents,, it means they are going to move the camp and they YELL!
PULL UP STAKES !.. BOOM 💥there you have it ,,thank you ,, have a good day..
Keep doing this kind of video. Very well done I really enjoyed it.
Looooove your videos! My only complaint is there aren’t enough of them! :-). And yes, love the horseshoe finds. Since they are all hand forged, they are individual works of art! Keep up the great work!
Moar!! I like to see all the horse shoes!
You do know bears like paw paws, right? They cross the river for the fruit and whatever EATS the fruit.😁
Surprised your not down in Florida working the treasure coast. After that hurricane diggin should be sweet.
@ 16:15 I think you're right with the "furniture decoration" guess. It looks like a piece of Japanese styled ornate brass from around a drawer pull.
I laughed out loud when you dove into that pop paw and it was all over your face.
Good one... Good time on the river....👍👍👍👍
Man,I hoped the miners info was going to pay off. You still had a good day, way down yonder in the paw paw patch.Thanks for sharing.
I do love these videos. The noise of those crickets 🦗 lol. ❤️
Show us all the junk you get Chigg! It makes it more exciting when you find something good!
As long as you bring enough batteries, I would say dig and film them all!
Great video... all great adventures... 👍
Live the videos and great watching you on British TV any chan on some more videos of your collections and displays 👍💪 keep up the hard work and happy hunting.......
Sorry love not live lol
love your outdoors detective work, keep it up my friend, you are a living INDIANA JONES !
"Just stick your face down in there and ...enjoy."
Solid advice for eating paw paws... and ... well, enjoy!
When you picked up the lock... after finding the chain... at 18:55 you dropped a native american "adze". They can be small, and were more useful then a stone ax for shaping a wood tool. The stone adze would me mounted to the top of a wood handle with raw hide. The green stone you dropped was the correct size... shape, and material for making a stone adze. You can see the shaped and ground bit clearly, just before you dropped the artifact, and kept the cheap lock ! haha Absolutely love your videos !
Quite possible, seems like an awfully soft stone for such a tool though.
@@aquachigger Fine grained Greenstone was a rock of choice for axes, celts and adze, by native prehistoric people. A sharp polished "bit" edge is never naturally developed tumbling in a river. Since you held it in your hand... I guess you can call it a find !
Origin of "Pull up stakes": This phrase was first used by Virginia colonists in the early 17th century. Jamestown and other settlements were surrounded by wooden palisade stakes as a defense against marauding Native Americans. To change or expand one's residence would have meant moving the barriers too, much easier than to rebuild from scratch. Neat, eh?
From: idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+up+stakes
AWESOME thanks for the info... really thanks
From the old English
“Up sticks” which means take all your Brian’s move elsewhere, still used in UK today.
🇬🇧👸🏼🇬🇧
It was really entertaining to watch chigg eat the paw paw fruit
18:30 Hey Chig , the chain looks like harness chain used with horses or oxen for moving loads like timber or cargo wagons. Maybe a viewer with experience using draft horses at county fairs and the like could identify it. Also my grandfather had some pieces of chain like that which went to a horse drawn plow...like the ones you've been finding in the river.
Thanks for part II.......Loved it...
Mystery solved. At least you found the bullets and identified them. Just enjoy watching (and re-watching) your adventures and often need to view more than once to absorb at least a small portion of the information you share.
According to my book "Why we say it" you are correct on the meaning behind "pulling up stakes". Abandoning a gold claim.
Why do we say kill 2 birds with one stone..just curious. Sounds like a cool book.
Ma Man ! You are Brilliant Beau ! X
"Pull up stakes." I think you are exactly correct on that one. The fishing wier is accurate however we used to put a trap at the outlet called a Fyke. It was made of splitt saplings.
Me and my uncle used to make sinkers like that to grab hook suckers. We’d tie the hooks 4-5 hooks above the sinkers and put the sinker on the bottom. That way our hooks were above the bottom and would grab the suckers as we jerked the hooks across the river. Great times I miss them times and my uncle badly.
Woo, a Doors reference! Great video mr. Beau
Chig the CLIFF CLAVEN of the river a plethora of knowledge.
I dont have to hold my breath anymore! I bought me a snorkle!!!
Ahh, the lovely 30-06, or 7,62x63 as we Europeans call it. Ever been detecting in Norway? Spot on with the eel-facts Chigg! Slippery buggers can even move far distances in wet grass. Pretty amazing creatures.
Too late! Too late! I quoted you already!!!! 😁💜
That is a sword tang! nice find! ....KEEP ON ROCKIN IT!..Auquachigger..........................
Damn, your Kayak looks like something out of Madmax!
Now I can see him waving a sawed-off shotgun without ammunition around while going down the river :)
2 MEN ENTER! ONE MAN LEAVES!!!
Kinda like a modified version of a Torpedo! Love it!
Good video, Beau. Lots of variety today!
You know someone is a true gem of a person when they casually flick some potential gold back into the river for a prospector to find
Gathering the timber and building the fences involved significant effort and if settlers later decided to move they would take their palisade with them. This was a well-enough established practice by 1640 for the phrase 'pull up stakes' to have been used figuratively to mean 'move house'. That is shown in this example, from a 1640 letter by a Thomas Lechford, who was planning a move from New England:
"I am loth to hear of a stay, but am plucking up stakes with as much speed as I may."
nice 👍
Not so strange, I hid on you at one time. ; ) On the Opequon. The guy you heard maybe was getting Paw Paws.
Pulling up stakes...I was told Tent stakes Beau. If you're. Checking out an area to hunt, work or live, you had a cloth canvas tent you would take down to move. It was also a term in medieval England for pulling up the stakes that you would move your oxen or horses too. Cool eh? I've missed keeping up with you. Good to see about on the river again..
Sometimes more bad than good. Keep up the positive attitude ol kid.
That’s how I got hooked on your vids. U don’t give a Rats about anything!
damnit boo boo!! i told you not to touch those three ring bullETS! that bear track was very cool. and maybe that guy was misleading you by those pistol bullets? draw you away from the real treasures?!! j/k damn good video Chigg keep it up bud..
Great stuff! Look for more coins!!!!
Maybe he did see you and thought, why is that goofball hiding behind a bush? lol
Awesome finds yet again!
Beautiful stretch of river, indeed. I'm surprise you never caught me out there, 10 - 15 years ago, looking for relics or fly fishing the smallmouth.
I love Paw-paws. They are soooooo good.
The guys on 4 wheelers has a channel with a video of them watching Chigg wondering what he's doing way out there across from his secret fishing hole! He pretends to leave to see if chigg will leave but chigg won't leave??? They figure Chigg is dumping a huuuuman body and while searching for the body they find a chest full of civil war gold bars!! Chigg had been sitting on it.😉😉😉
I'm pretty sure that was young noggin over there filming a couple of coin spills, and a badge or two. I prefer your horseshoes beau!
When you are in a remote are like that, you can't be too careful. I've been legally fishing before in remote areas and I have been shot at twice.
I love seeing the horse shoes 😊 but you could probably dig up anything and id still enjoy your video! 😉
thank you for the video sir ,,, nice and long ,,, some times long is more :)
Dang I would be behind you picking up all that scrap metal lol, keep digging and hold your breath...
Lindsey was gonna make you a nice pan of brownies for a homecoming gift, but she couldn't find her damned pan!
Hey Chigg, just want to say I love your vids. keep em coming
the groove is called the blood groove commonly. it stops the blade getting stuck by suction when you pull it out
LMAO! eating pawpaw with your dirty digging glove still on! brilliant!
Ok i gotta ask...WHAT IS A PAWPAW? Canada here
Ok nm. He addressed it. I didnt want to just delete until you saw. Do they taste like mango. Looks kinda like one..minus the pits
Baking pan lol, Rusted River Cookies! Tetanus Treats! YUM hahaha
Love me some paw paws! I was out there with my wife bagging dozens of them by the C&O canal last fall!
Love watching your videos
Beau, my wife and I love your videos. Do you ever worry about stepping in a live beaver trap etc?
@ 1:26 what is that big cylindrical thing on the ground at the base of the big rock? I know nothing about this kind of thing but to me it looks like a giant rusted cannon barrel or some kind of pipe.
Awesome i love it. I would sleep in that river
Thanks for sharing your adventures and your knowledge with us. Curious as to your water craft , what is it?
Hey Chigg !! Your vids are so awesome !
Reddielocks I
Huhhh, Hi ! Do i know you ? lol
Hi Beau, how strange I wonder what he was up to. Lovely video and I hope you didn't get too full up with paw paws lol. xx
I must have missed what your food disaster was, Beau. Great vid, I really love the extra time. Be safe:)
The rope you found is what the guy used to get up and down the steep bank without falling
Yes we want to see everything you dig to hear the signals the detector gives on diff stuff.
@22:00 The groove in a blade is called the "fuller". The fuller is often mistaken for a "blood groove" but anyone with basic physics will know that the fuller actually removes flexibilty through the depth of the blade; in short It makes it like an I-beam.
Correct, it reduces weight and increases the rigidity.
chig! is there not a day 3? and what happened to your food? genuinely interested
"I'll tell at the end of the video". we will never know. lol.
hi i come from Tonga and i live in new Zealand and ve been told the eels from here all go to Tonga and back. I absolutely love watching your videos!
Having fun is the most important thing !
Have you ever eat eal, beau? They are delicious and expensive. It is a delicacy in the Netherlands. We smoke them.
Oh and btw I love all your video's it is a pleasure to see them!!
The first time I tried sushi was an eel roll. I'm a fairly picky eater and was really hesitant but my friend assured me it was good and he was right. It was amazing. It all depends on who makes it though. I've had a couple eel rolls that weren't good and borderline gross. If you like eel and haven't tried sushi eel rolls are a great first try. And a lot people don't know this, but most meat in sushi has been cooked. The menus will say if it's raw or not.
you are an interesting dude thats for sure. I identify with your desire to be away from people. Not that people are bad, their not, but thy are full of drama, etc, Nature is also full of drama but in a good way. these have been awesome video's on the river and it doesn't matter if you find lots of stuff
Horse shoes and pull tabs are great video, Beau in a bag (your hammock) getting eaten by a bear, not so good video!
I'm glad you made it back all in one piece Brother!
Hey Bud, you forgot to tell us all what happen to your food.. I wish I was close and could have brought you some provisions, I feel bad for ya...
And the baby eels are born in the Sargasso sea, for us in the UK by the time they reach here, 3000 miles plus, the eels are about 4" in length, and they do net them as they are a delicacy for some.
Danny.
I thought "pulling up stakes" refered to the stakes on a tent. I now see others have heard of that also. Thanks for another great video.
I have always been told the groove in the sword is called the blood let