I live in WV, in Arnoldsburg, not even a minute from the Arnoldsburg Skirmish site during the civil war. I know soldiers had to be on or cross my property & i have been wanting to go walk around my 6 acres & check it out. Ive only got my grandfather's old 80's metal detector though, it just has a dial & meter on it so i have no idea what sounds mean so i would be digging every time it made a noise, lol. I found your channel today & have been watching, the Patsy Cline one came up as a suggestion for some reason. Ive always loved digging & finding things my entire life. I also am guilty of loving old junk, but hey, who isnt?
Hey Chigg, Always a great pleasure watching your adventure's. Have to tell you, I was originally in disbelief on April 01. haha -- good one! Take it easy Beau. Be well! - Crofton, Md.
They used to have wind powered generators and a battery house that they used to store the electricity for evenings etc. Also used to make big mason jar batteries with acid and electrodes. Could order what you needed, where else, the Sears Catalog. Everyone wanted electricity before the power lines were run to most everywhere. Enjoyed the hunt.
Julie You could be very right. I saw couple hill country folk live there whole life on Mt. Top farms. All they knew. Come find out huge bunch the property belong to a land company & they make them move because Coal Company was going mine it. Very sad deal them people thought they settled land. Clean & work that property it belong to them. Some still paying rent to bottom land people & them people didn't even own the land. But lot going by kind of a settlers right law. There Dads or even grandpa's worked that same land to start with. Sadly court system did not agree with them. Very sad deal watch them people have to move with no where to go. Lucky ones had kids moved got jobs on auto factories or such. But some just didn't had no where to go. Very sad deal and days watching them people forced from there home place. I never forget watching that happen.
My hubby thinks the rectangular plastic thingys were actually what they called “a dry cell battery” used in their old communication devices, old radios for example. They were stacked together, several of them, to make up one battery.
When I was a kid, we could still find the rusting remains of horse-drawn farm equipment in the woods. It appeared that when they switched over to tractors and the old stuff had no resale value, it was just left to rust away. Maybe that's the story with your plow blades.
I found a bunch of those at a homesite in Virginia, they were medical tins with the plastic seal still around them. Mine were filled with white mush. One was still legible, I think it was a form of aspirin.
New to your channel. You're so knowledgeable and fun to listen to! I love how observant you are and the history to discover and share! Thank you for what you do! Cant wait for your next video. 😊
I found a description of the plow online. The 40DS was the plowshare of a Oliver wood beam walking plow. Of course this is what I read and can't vouch for the accuracy.
You are correct, the DS stands for deep suck and was used on a walk behind plow. Used one with my grandfather on his farm in the Shenandoah valley when I was 10.
That axle you found looks like a support truss under a house to hold it up! I’ve found them under old houses. Great to see a new video while we’re all at home brother, cheers!
Nice hunt guys. Seeing the old home sites is really interesting. Seeing what folks dropped or left behind is always enlightening, especially that possible still sight. Like the old 1860's joke, "She was only a moonshiners daughter, but I loved her still!" Thanks for another fun adventure Chigg, it's always nice to see you out kicking the dirt with Todd! Have a great day guys and stay safe!
Exciting site! That full length shotgun shell is definitely on my bucket list! I liked the iron items too. Todd has a great channel too i recently discovered. Good luck you two! Rk.
I’ve got an all brass, UMC 12ga. shot shell my grandfather sent back from the pacific in 1943. Pellets are held by a piece of shiny cardboard labeled 00buck.
I am a professional 12th Georgia button digger love your videos and don't worry about stupid people comments just have fun that's what it's all about if they don't like it don't watch and go do your own adventure enjoy hope you will continue to put out videos every once and a while good luck my friend
You're awesome, Chig & Chig's buddy! And your commenters are awesome, too. Loved your vids for years, makes me feel like I'm out there when I can't be! And hey, we just want to protect your widdle fingers!! lol glove em up!!
The quote on the belt buckle-like object is from Rupertus Meldenius, a 17th century Lutheran theologian. "In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas" (In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity). I assume it is a church-related item or maybe from a protestant fraternal organization.
Right on. Often incorrectly attributed to Augustus. A similar plaque is on the door of the national headquarters of The Grange in Washington DC. The symbols are puzzling on this artifact, almost look Egyptian or spooky alien lol, but has a cowboy style rope border. Interesting that it omits the “in nonessentials liberty” part also. I wonder if it was on a belt buckle or something.
Fun diggings Chig and Todd. Great site, return there with more time to spare. Chig save your fingers; use a hard plastic hand cultavator(save money on bandages). Stay healthy boys 👍😷✌🖖
I have mixed feelings about the videos he gets 10 or more civil war bullets. Its cool and all but leave a few for future generations and people like you to find
The small little flat rectangle is that you thought were bicycle pedals our battery cells. Early 9 V batteries were made the same way but they were a whole lot smaller. The early lantern batteries that had the two little screw caps on the top. They were made with individual cells just like those. So that is what you found.
I’ve been watching your videos for a longtime I’m in Wv. 5 miles outside on Inwood and 5 miles outside of Charlestown. I don’t want to be to specific but I’m sure with a little detecting you could pinpoint it down. I hunt around Berryville Va and find Amazing civil war artifacts (not what you find) Would love to see a video of Berryville someday.
Look more like battery segments from old stacked batteries out of an old tube radio. They were stacked to provide low current high voltage for radios. These were oblong as they were, not square as you mentioned.
Those many carbon square things you were digging up, look very much like the bases of batteries Chigg, I'm sure I have come across similar here in the uk before 👍🙂
Hello aquachigger I live in West Virginia and if you plan to detect in wv again I’ll say the old abandon coal camps are a really good spot which have proven to be very fruitful to me.
Those odd looking things were cells out of old dry cell batteries, They are stacked on top of each other. If memory serves me well they are from Tall one volt batteries. They were part of a set of different batteries to power a radio.
Those are carbon pucks you found are actually the guts to a radio "B" battery, they delivered between 67 and 1/2 volts to 90 volts depending on the configuration... also the metal plate with the motto "in all things Unity" is a paraphrased quote by an author named Richard Baxter and is it the motto of the Moravian Presbyterian Evangelical Church...
Chigg, 14:52 did you ever find out what those are? I’m a huge fan btw if your ever in utah I’d love to meet you. I metal detect but I’m wheelchair bound so it’s tough an it’s tough to get permission’s out here. I just upgraded to a simplex +. Funny enough I found a 1800’s Indian head cent and that inspired me to start coin collecting.
Those items that I want an ID of are the cells to an old-time battery. Congrats on all the finds! Now get a pair of gloves on before you get yourself all cut up! LOL
Batteries was charged full every Saturday night for Grand Ole Opry radio show. And Wheeling WV WVVA? Had big country radio show on Saturday nights too. I am from WV had small 4×4 Jeep ran mts tops hunting or just running around with it. I ran into old timers living tops of mt's clear from 1960's to 1990's. Yes old timers farm it yearly. Horse or Mule pulled plows. Sadly they slowly died off. I drop them off Flour, Corn Meal. Salt. Any Basic supplies they might need. And make me take quart of Apple pie moonshine or I must eat with them. If I didn't? They would take that as a personal insult, As you was trying give them charity. That was a big no no for them people. Get shot that way. But Damm good apple pie moonshine. Very nice people. I don't think most even draw SSI or any type check. Traded for everything.
The ones you find in Oz could just as easily be hard grubs, ghost moth larvae, or society grubs. Larva do look quite similar across many varieties of insect.
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I live in WV, in Arnoldsburg, not even a minute from the Arnoldsburg Skirmish site during the civil war. I know soldiers had to be on or cross my property & i have been wanting to go walk around my 6 acres & check it out. Ive only got my grandfather's old 80's metal detector though, it just has a dial & meter on it so i have no idea what sounds mean so i would be digging every time it made a noise, lol. I found your channel today & have been watching, the Patsy Cline one came up as a suggestion for some reason. Ive always loved digging & finding things my entire life. I also am guilty of loving old junk, but hey, who isnt?
The plastic coated things are cells from old batteries, we used to find them as kids in the 70's
Another great video. Always enjoy spending time with the Chigg and learning something new. Thanks for taking us along.
Hey Chigg, Always a great pleasure watching your adventure's. Have to tell you, I was originally in disbelief on April 01. haha -- good one! Take it easy Beau. Be well! - Crofton, Md.
They used to have wind powered generators and a battery house that they used to store the electricity for evenings etc. Also used to make big mason jar batteries with acid and electrodes. Could order what you needed, where else, the Sears Catalog. Everyone wanted electricity before the power lines were run to most everywhere. Enjoyed the hunt.
The axle under the house foundation was from the first 1800's mobile home. 🤣
Covered wagon 🤔
Julie
You could be very right. I saw couple hill country folk live there whole life on Mt. Top farms. All they knew. Come find out huge bunch the property belong to a land company & they make them move because Coal Company was going mine it. Very sad deal them people thought they settled land. Clean & work that property it belong to them. Some still paying rent to bottom land people & them people didn't even own the land. But lot going by kind of a settlers right law. There Dads or even grandpa's worked that same land to start with. Sadly court system did not agree with them. Very sad deal watch them people have to move with no where to go. Lucky ones had kids moved got jobs on auto factories or such. But some just didn't had no where to go. Very sad deal and days watching them people forced from there home place. I never forget watching that happen.
My hubby thinks the rectangular plastic thingys were actually what they called “a dry cell battery” used in their old communication devices, old radios for example. They were stacked together, several of them, to make up one battery.
Great show Sarge.. I'm on the southern end of them Appalachian mountains foothills
Looks like you and Todd had a great day. Always enjoy these adventures.
Thanks. It was fun.
When I was a kid, we could still find the rusting remains of horse-drawn farm equipment in the woods. It appeared that when they switched over to tractors and the old stuff had no resale value, it was just left to rust away. Maybe that's the story with your plow blades.
I found a bunch of those at a homesite in Virginia, they were medical tins with the plastic seal still around them. Mine were filled with white mush. One was still legible, I think it was a form of aspirin.
I cover my eyes when you're digging with your bare hand. The axle is great!
daily uploads distract me from the boredom of the plauge. Thanks!
Shadow lol👍
I really appreciate your putting up these videos while we are all stranded. Many thanks.
New to your channel. You're so knowledgeable and fun to listen to! I love how observant you are and the history to discover and share! Thank you for what you do! Cant wait for your next video. 😊
I found a description of the plow online. The 40DS was the plowshare of a Oliver wood beam walking plow. Of course this is what I read and can't vouch for the accuracy.
You are correct, the DS stands for deep suck and was used on a walk behind plow. Used one with my grandfather on his farm in the Shenandoah valley when I was 10.
Hi Chigg Hi Tod love all your videos 😁
That axle you found looks like a support truss under a house to hold it up! I’ve found them under old houses. Great to see a new video while we’re all at home brother, cheers!
DEFINITELY looked like a very cool place to dig. Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE see ya on the next
The badge with the words says " In things Essential, Unity, In all things Charity" is a St, Augustine saying.
👍👍😷😷 Was a pretty good day guys I'm glad we found some good stuff awsome I'll see you guys on the next one
Nice hunt guys. Seeing the old home sites is really interesting. Seeing what folks dropped or left behind is always enlightening, especially that possible still sight. Like the old 1860's joke, "She was only a moonshiners daughter, but I loved her still!" Thanks for another fun adventure Chigg, it's always nice to see you out kicking the dirt with Todd! Have a great day guys and stay safe!
Found some cool relics and artifacs! Nice button too!
Exciting site! That full length shotgun shell is definitely on my bucket list! I liked the iron items too. Todd has a great channel too i recently discovered. Good luck you two! Rk.
Let’s try it this way. Chigg, please, don’t wear gloves. They just get in the way and you can’t feel what’s in the dirt. Eh?
I’ve got an all brass, UMC 12ga. shot shell my grandfather sent back from the pacific in 1943. Pellets are held by a piece of shiny cardboard labeled 00buck.
Those things were pretty rare when I was a kid, (a long time ago). I had a couple in my collection.
Thanks for the entertainment Mr. Chigg.
In Minnesota those grubs turn into June Bugs. We dig them for fishing, Bass go crazy for them.
Best bait for anything. It like a natural response.
Thank you from Canada for the vids. These are more enjoyable then that tiger king lol
Really enjoyed the video, keep them coming and be safe out there.
14:30 you found the tomigotchi graveyard
Photo negatives of decreased? Common after and during Civil War when bodies weren't returned for services.
The beetle grub was a larva in the Scarabaeidae family, likely a Hercules Beetle, the largest on the east coast.
Your song is absolutely the best!!
Greatly enjoyed the video.
Always a pleasure watching your very interesting and fun adventures!
That copper ring with those set screws is part of an electric ceiling or porch light.....
With square nails?
At 10:10 look at the beautiful blue sky. What a awesome day to metal detect
Thanks for an awesome video. I love your enthusiasm. It really helps with this isolation. Stay safe
Wv here as well. So many of those old homesteads around. I'm still hoping to find that mason jar of good coins lol. Looks like a baby copperhead..
I am a professional 12th Georgia button digger love your videos and don't worry about stupid people comments just have fun that's what it's all about if they don't like it don't watch and go do your own adventure enjoy hope you will continue to put out videos every once and a while good luck my friend
You're awesome, Chig & Chig's buddy! And your commenters are awesome, too. Loved your vids for years, makes me feel like I'm out there when I can't be! And hey, we just want to protect your widdle fingers!! lol glove em up!!
Great video. Nice long one too. Didn't even notice the wind. Thank you
Thanks for sharing- I’m new to your channel and I really enjoy your videos. Especially the Patsy Cline house! Thank you! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
The quote on the belt buckle-like object is from Rupertus Meldenius, a 17th century Lutheran theologian. "In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas" (In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity). I assume it is a church-related item or maybe from a protestant fraternal organization.
Right on. Often incorrectly attributed to Augustus. A similar plaque is on the door of the national headquarters of The Grange in Washington DC. The symbols are puzzling on this artifact, almost look Egyptian or spooky alien lol, but has a cowboy style rope border. Interesting that it omits the “in nonessentials liberty” part also. I wonder if it was on a belt buckle or something.
@@rustyaxelrod I think you may be on to something. It could be a Grange item.
The plow blades you found chigs were from a walk behind plow . Nice finds
Fun diggings Chig and Todd. Great site, return there with more time to spare. Chig save your fingers; use a hard plastic hand cultavator(save money on bandages). Stay healthy boys 👍😷✌🖖
What part of wv was you at
Second!!!
* Plus, I finally found my first civil war bullet! It's a .44 Colt Army Pistol bullet.
I have mixed feelings about the videos he gets 10 or more civil war bullets. Its cool and all but leave a few for future generations and people like you to find
Shooting one is awesome! My late dad had a Italian reproduced one and it was amazingly accurate..
I love watching videos with you and Todd. You are always laughing. Please wear gloves Chiggs.
Hi Chigg,
Love your work, those little blocks are cells for a battery and the larvae looks like a Rhino Beetle👍
The grub you found, looks like Beetle larva, possibly a stag beetle. And the mystery objects, looked to be part of batteries.
June bug larvae.
@@dsloop3907 Thats definitely incorrect
@@jimmyjones6298 yep, pretty sure you're right. Definitely looks like a cicada larvae
I had a rabbit pen, and those look just like the larvae that were in the soil under the rabbit pen. Chickens loved them.
@@dsloop3907 too big
Yes, definitely a Mountain Snallygaster. ..
Happy Easter & stay healthy.
The small little flat rectangle is that you thought were bicycle pedals our battery cells. Early 9 V batteries were made the same way but they were a whole lot smaller. The early lantern batteries that had the two little screw caps on the top. They were made with individual cells just like those. So that is what you found.
Great video Chigg be safe out there and GOD BLESS
I just love that song!
Good job boys!!!!! Be safe out there!!!!!
Love that cannon axel I recently found one and two wagon wheel Boxing's , yeah heavy to pack out lol. Good video.
wonderful, love your videos, thanks
Nice digs, you guys are on some good sites!
I’ve been watching your videos for a longtime I’m in Wv. 5 miles outside on Inwood and 5 miles outside of Charlestown. I don’t want to be to specific but I’m sure with a little detecting you could pinpoint it down. I hunt around Berryville Va and find Amazing civil war artifacts (not what you find) Would love to see a video of Berryville someday.
Great Video and stay well
That is a great place! I do love the relics! Stay safe & HH🎧⛏
West by God Virginia! I love my home sweet home!
😊👍
👍 A great pile of relics 👍
Hey Chigg nice digs! Stay safe and glove on!😁😁
The bicycle pedals you found are the inside packing of P9 and P10 Battery's..It was used to run the portable radio's with .
Battery bases from the big square Ever readay batteries.
Look more like battery segments from old stacked batteries out of an old tube radio. They were stacked to provide low current high voltage for radios. These were oblong as they were, not square as you mentioned.
@@marihewson4195 You are both pretty much right.
Mark's Adventure Channel Correct they would have been held together with a paper wrap
Woohoo...Chigg
Hi Tod😁
Mary Garner hey there. I gotta video releasing tomorrow...we have fun discovering these old mountain homesteads.
And then one day he was shooting at some food and up through the ground came some bubbling crude. Oil that is black gold, Texas T.
watching again today, good the second time 2 years later.
I found a bunch of those at an old house site too. Still not sure what they are
14:17 what you have found as has been mentioned is cells of a battery
Battery cells.
I was looking for this comment thank you
Brilliant I love your show, thankyou 🙋♀️ keep umm coming boys
The squire carbon blocks are battery sells from a big squire battery some had brass flat connector later they had like round springs for connectors.
Those many carbon square things you were digging up, look very much like the bases of batteries Chigg, I'm sure I have come across similar here in the uk before 👍🙂
Terrific adventure 😅
Another great video!
Nice! I live in Fairmont, WV
Thick rectangular objects are most probably cells from a dry battery, you stack them together to get the right voltage.
They are 1.5v per cell.
Never saw any that size but they look like huge versions of the cells that make up old "B" batteries. Some cheap 9V batteries still use that design.
Hey man thank you for the video I enjoyed it
Hello aquachigger I live in West Virginia and if you plan to detect in wv again I’ll say the old abandon coal camps are a really good spot which have proven to be very fruitful to me.
I L💚VE All your Videos!! Thanks so much🍀
Those odd looking things were cells out of old dry cell batteries, They are stacked on top of each other. If memory serves me well they are from Tall one volt batteries. They were part of a set of different batteries to power a radio.
14:17 what you have found as has been mentioned is cells of a battery pack
Those are carbon pucks you found are actually the guts to a radio "B" battery, they delivered between 67 and 1/2 volts to 90 volts depending on the configuration... also the metal plate with the motto "in all things Unity" is a paraphrased quote by an author named Richard Baxter and is it the motto of the Moravian Presbyterian Evangelical Church...
Sweet video!
Master of detections👏
June bug grub. They are great bait. Love axe heads.
Cool music jam on
Chigg,
14:52 did you ever find out what those are? I’m a huge fan btw if your ever in utah I’d love to meet you. I metal detect but I’m wheelchair bound so it’s tough an it’s tough to get permission’s out here. I just upgraded to a simplex +. Funny enough I found a 1800’s Indian head cent and that inspired me to start coin collecting.
Those items that I want an ID of are the cells to an old-time battery. Congrats on all the finds! Now get a pair of gloves on before you get yourself all cut up! LOL
Dave Mork You are correct sir, I remember them.
Have not seen those things for years!!
Take care, be safe👍
Agree, I think they are zinc on the outside and carbon in the middle and they stacked them up.
Batteries was charged full every Saturday night for Grand Ole Opry radio show. And Wheeling WV WVVA? Had big country radio show on Saturday nights too. I am from WV had small 4×4 Jeep ran mts tops hunting or just running around with it. I ran into old timers living tops of mt's clear from 1960's to 1990's. Yes old timers farm it yearly. Horse or Mule pulled plows. Sadly they slowly died off. I drop them off Flour, Corn Meal. Salt. Any Basic supplies they might need. And make me take quart of Apple pie moonshine or I must eat with them. If I didn't? They would take that as a personal insult, As you was trying give them charity. That was a big no no for them people. Get shot that way. But Damm good apple pie moonshine. Very nice people. I don't think most even draw SSI or any type check. Traded for everything.
Cheering for you to get that GW button
@7:38 - you can restore that file. Just wire brush it off and put it in a pan of vinegar overnight and it should turn out sharp as new.
18:41 looks like a Scarab larvae, they must be common because I find them in NSW, Aus
The ones you find in Oz could just as easily be hard grubs, ghost moth larvae, or society grubs. Larva do look quite similar across many varieties of insect.
19:07 "in things essential unity and in all things charity" granger movement. 1880s.
Best place to LIVE!
before I put on my glasses I thot the title read, "wanted by god, virgins"...
That's my story I'm sticking to it 😆
Hey Chigg and Todd
Those squared oval things at 13.45 look like cells from a nickel-cadmium battery.
I thought they were old snuff containers. I vaguely remember an uncle that carried one of those in his shirt pocket.