A Strange Sink Spot Under the Sidewalk Leads to a 140 Year Old Structure Full of Old Valuables
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Excavating an 1880's well at the former site of the Huber residence in Yankton, South Dakota.
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I had a feeling it might have been a well when you said the homeowners said the pit kept sinking despite them throwing stuff into it. Once you dug down 12' and heard dirt falling into the hole, weren't you concerned that that the bottom you were continuing to dig would collapse beneath you?
It could have been drilled for the pipe to a hand pump for water supply.
It would be cool if you guys did a video where you line up the development of bottles and what you look for that allows you to, at a glance, figure out the age and methods of construction. Like what do you see that separates an applied top from a ground lip (I get from the names there is a difference in way they are made) - but what is it you are seeing in the glass down in the pit that clues you into era?
I would love that!
This video proves that your history was a lie and fabricated. Machine made bottles and so many tools found many years ago. Statues built in ancient times also proves that the people who lived during that time were not hunter gatherers but had their own technology for that time.
Awesome did very big hoard....my most interesting finds are liquor flasks from the civil war period locally made due to our sandy soil. Also poison bottles top my lost. May I suggest you tie a rope around you and secure it above to help you climb out or pulled out or both just in case and a fan to remove any harmful bad air. Love watching your videos. Be safe.
NJ Chuck
in the early 80's we were able to do digs like this in NYC , when they would dig into an hills in old neighborhoods to build new houses it would expose old wells full of all kinds of stuff. There were a lot of old dumps that were overgrown and ignored for decades , great places to dig for bottles
Awesome dig! Please, please do a video of you cleaning the bottles and showing us your favorite finds! Would also love a Q and A!
The imaging/camera work on this vid was outstanding. As crisp and sharp
as any i've seen. Great Dig !
I would Love to hear or see what the home owners thought about what you dug up 😁
When I liquidated a family members estate in 2021, they had the same 1858 mason jar. It sold for $400 to a collector.
Did you tell the property owners about the bottomless pit at the bottom of your pit?
What are they going to do about it?
This was a really fun pit, however that small hole could have become a scary moment if it had given way. Stay safe!!
Oh, now I see what you mean… get out of there Thom!
Yes you're right and you would only need to be buried just past your waist to asphyxiate, quite a few people have died like this. Horrible way to die, the diaphragm cant expand during respiration, and the person asphyxiates. Deeper than 3 foot and the sides need to be walled up!
@@TheGeezzer yes,but,, where does the hole go.. id be more interested in that.. id be into it..
never go exploring alone?
I was thinking that too as he was so deep. you will only be able to dig like that for a few years so have at it!1 open an antique bottle store. Now what are you doing with all of your finds?? All the time & effort involved, then to clean all of them for a saleable product, just so much labor for 10-15 dollar bottles at best maybe more but all of that labor.
the market is stagnant right now and everything is being marked down so hold on to your stuff until the DEMS are out of office and prosperity heats back up. few have disposable incomes to buy stuff but in 2018-19 things hit high water marks so it will come back around again------------------- store & save or unload in bulk.
Just curious, do you split your findings with the property owners, or do you give it all to them? Do some people let you keep what you find?
The amount of "medicine bottles" indicate the severity of rampant opioid addiction back in the day...☠️
At least back then they could most likely afford it, versus present day where the addicts rob, steal, etc to get money for their addiction.
I imagine it took care of their coughs!
Not all the bottles had opioids in them,there were other illnesses as well.
It’s so easy for us to judge from the vantage point of the present day, where we have antibiotics, aspirin, acetaminophen, etc. None of that was available. Injuries got worse, infections killed. Dentistry wasn’t really around. Fluoride? Lol. So if a person had pain or an injury….options just weren’t great. Before we judge, might we first inspect our own medicine cabinets and over the counter cold and flu collections, etc.? They had a very tough life.
@@maureenfitzgerald1895 very well said
Just casually skipped over the open void?! Next video?
Some nice finds, bottle collectors will be gathering outside your house pretty soon no doubt LOL!
Just A Quick Word: 12 feet deep was too deep to work without the sides being walled up/reinforced with corrugated iron or planks. You got to stay safe out there fellah! Think: Safety First!
Sorry to say I can't watch your video. Looks very interesting, but I lost a very close friend in a dirt collapse. I never knew it was really dangerous below two feet.
Argh, I was afraid for you with that well under there!
A great dig. I really like the way you clean the bottles and display them. Beautiful. Stay safe guys. Always here.
It kills me when you pass up the shards of chinaware. I’d collect the pieces, later see if any match. They too tell a story.
Isn't this the same video you posted a day ago? 🤔 a day ago the video was 40+minutes and this one's about 29 minutes 🤔
This is part 2
Please consider some type of shoring when you dig these deep holes, especially loose dirt like this was. I lost a good friend to a cave in because of lack of shoring. Great finds. Cool history. Be safe.
did you have a look at how deep the well goes ? a string with a gopro ;}
Excelsior Sperm sewing machine oil was the blubber and fats from the Sperm whale (and one reason for whale population decline). We transitioned to using oil and gas industry lubricants.
Holy cow… you must have been exhausted after that dig. Great videos, thanks for sharing!
That hole you found is why it keeps sinking there the rain just keeps going down into that hole one day that ground is going to give way
I am amazed at how enthusiastic you were when you hit the use layer at 12'. Great work.
Doesn't really answer your initial question of why it was sinking though.
Well Tom and jake that pit just keep going on and on but it give up it's goods well done both have a good weekend Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
I’m new to your channel and I’m so enjoying every single minute of what you do.
Thank you for sharing! I was wondering do you also share some of your finds after you have cleaned them up? And with any additional information on them?
Also have you considered opening up a store and possibly selling some of them? Just some questions.
I’m sure what you’re doing is a lot of hard work so thank you and I appreciate what you’re doing. 💗
One thing that surprises me about these glass jars that you’re finding this that the food jars are so small! They seem barely one serving size.
People weren’t pigs back then.
@@chasetonga There was also an issue with storage. Without the proper food cellar to keep canned items safe temp the food in jars became un-eatable. Smaller sizes means you finished everything quicker and did not have to store longer.
Fruits and vegetable, pickles, olives and peppers were not as large in size (preferilizer, far less strains and seed types). Sometimes they’d be eating something that didn’t quite look like all the rest lol.
Doesn’t that ever scare you to be down that deep without any cribbing to hold back the sides?
Some of my ancestors came from Arnas, Sweden and my great grandparents emigrated to Rockford, IL in 1904.
So the obvious question is if this or any of the digs was an outhouse, does it still stink?
I know you are glad to get out of that pit Did they find out what the other hole was that the dirt way falling in while you were digging . Thanks for sharing all the great bottles and relics and the information about the items as well Happy Hunting 👍❤️🗝️🇺🇸⚒️
I’m curious as well!
Yeah. You left us hanging. Could be Al Capone’s actual vault.
Same , what was the sink hole
@@tonilouise4797 I believe it how Land of the Lost starts
The unanswered question. Pandora's Box?
Amazing!! Thank you for all your hard work. Always a joy, the anticipation is an edge of seater!! Great!!!
Having watched several of your videos and having seen some containers have fluid in them which I presume is ground water. I was wondering what is the oldest item uncovered which contained some of whatever the original contents were and what was it?
Another banger video! Love the history you share with us!
Dude, a bottomless hole opens up in the 12 ft deep pit you are standing in, and you keep digging without a harness??!!
How far does a coal mine go ? I don’t think I would go under that far
I wanted to see where that sinkhole At the bottom went
Tom and Jake, that was one deep hole. Awesome finds, even the old wash ringer. Great video.👏👍😀
Cool finds, would those graniteware and enamelware kettles be chamber pots?
I was thinking the same!
What do you do with these items?
DANGER ....... Digging down over 12ft without shafting the sides with timbe or metal is totally Insane. Did you know that ?? ...
I love your show! But, hunny.... I'm so afraid the hole is going to cave in on you! Dig carefully. Add shoring if you need to. 👀😌❤️
This pit is remarkable, I really get a sense of who the family was. Very cool.
Geez, who would have thought that I would know so much about a complete stranger. That man loved his drink and his ketchup and his intestines paid the price for it apparently.
I was just going to let you know that Buster Brown is a rich boy, not a girl. I've seen you find two Buster Brown items and you called him a girl. He was ads for shoes. Back then that was a hair style for boys, well-to-do, boys with the fancy jacket and pants. Love to watch your digs. Watch a little every night. My Father and brother use to dig outhouse in Nevada. I really appreciate you putting the history up above, and the item description below. Such fun to follow you!😁
9 feet on that pit..Wow, did you find any Chinese Coins or Porcelain? Hahaha...you know, digging to China. ;)
Do you use electrolysis to get the rust off of metal finds?
Congrats on the oldie Mason Jar...very nice!
Absolutely FANTASTIC as I LOVE stuff like this Tom! HOW do you find these "TREASURE" Pits? I wouldn't even THINK about doing this at 76+, but to WATCH these video's really get's my TREASUE JUICES going!!! GOOD LUCK in the Future!!!
My home 1900 row house in City of Boston has this old trash pit w steal lid in a corner of my bckyard too burn trash yrs bck, iv yet too tap into it but I'm guessing each of the surrounding row yards probably have the same, now I'm curious, keep u posted if lucky finds👍🏻
I would love to take a time machine back there and tell the guys in the 1800's that in the future there will be a young man who digs through out house pits for a living, to find what he calls "Treasure" lol I can only imagine the looks on their faces! Maybe in the future people will dig through our garbage for treasure?!
I couldn't just hang out in a close quarters hole I would be claustrophobic and think the hole was going to fall in on me
Me too😮
Man that is some dangerous business. Many men have died due to cave-ins working below the surface without a trench box.
Remarkable. Would have been interesting to lower a fiber optic camera into the void below the 12' mark! To use an abandoned well(?) for a privy and trash pit seems none too wise to me in terms of surrounding groundwater contamination. and as a result the likely, contamination of whatever the residents newer water source/well on the property became. 'Short term' and, 'out of sight, out of mind', without any regard for the interconnectedness of things, seems to have been how things were done at the time. Is it any wonder that folks purchased so many 'patent'/ quack medicines? They likely felt like crap and were sickly pretty frequently, in no small part due to such sketchy hygiene practices(like fecal and garbage contamination of the water!) and then, all the bogus cures they ingested and gave to themselves and their families to try and feel better. (never mind kerosene lamps giving off headache inducing fumes every night, and heavy metal glazes on the pottery, and lead based paints applied to many surfaces in the house) Lots of those whisky flasks in there too. Staying slightly inebriated all the time was still another way to feel 'better' I guess! Good video
I just found your channel on RUclips this morning. I really enjoy your content. I collect old bottles like what you find. I would love to have one of those Warners Safe Cure bottles. Also, a couple of the smaller medicine and extract bottles. Would that be possible? Thank you!
Maybe the workers were drinking while they dug the original outhouse pit. All the English bear bottles! Wow. My workers have done the same thing; nothing changes.
My mother spelled Ketchup as Catsup. I remember in the 70s, learning to spell it this way in elementary school as well. Must be because the other brands were spelled catsup. Then by the 80s, we students all just started spelling it Ketchup. In the 70s, she bought the brand she grew up called Catsup. Then most bought Heinz by the 80s.
ketchup, beer, pharmacy bottles by the dozen. i guess people liked their fast food, booze, and drugs way back then, too.
How deep did this pit go...?
Great video, you have a new follower. As deep as this pit was, were you concerned about possible cave-ins? Du you have a helper topside for safety? How did you remove the dirt from the pit? How did you extracate yourself from the pit? Thanks
People back then used only small amts, and drank small amounts as those are all small bottles, whether its a food product, drinking product, perfume or an oil. If those people came back and dug up our garbage, they'd think we were giants with massive stomachs.
Hi there. My husband and I watch your videos and love them. My husband loves the shoo-fly bottle is one he really likes. Im wondering if you sell them?
Kim
Loved this dig. WOW at least 12 feet. There are just times I would like to tell you, "what's that" when you just go on digging. Sure wished you would have found out where that deep hole went. Was it an old well covered by several outhouses over the years? There might have been more treasures at the bottom of that deep hole.
I love the older bottles. Where i live would be perfect to find some but….i dont have your expertise. We have maps and stories dating back into the 1880’s
Wow that was a deep pit. Lots of great finds. Funny how words change over time too. Catsup bottle. Happy to see the ground didn't collapse from the well while you were digging. Never know what you will uncover in these pits. Love the soda you found from Iowa. Take care and best regards to everyone.
I tell other utubeers that dig priveys ya doing it wrong watch below the plains!!!
The amount of glass bottles in this pit indicates that there wasn't a trash pickup service or a recycling program! They just used the contents and threw it away! If they had either, then the bottles probably wouldn't be there! A lot of history is found only because they did different things with their waste problems back then!
I love that clay pot
Oh my God I can't believe you decided to dig around that hole, with me thinking it could collapse beneath you at any time. Good thing you didn't have the local police watching you dig. They would have immediately pulled you out by your hair if they saw that hole.
Alcohol and prescription drugs. 1910 rocked!!!! 🤣
It would be nice to put the approx value of the items along with the descriptor you provide. Very fun and interesting show.
This looks like a disaster waiting to happen! How dangerous is this and also I can just about imagine the stench! Does it still smell like an outhouse? Burn pit? I'm curious
No evidence of drug addiction. Many local drugstore bottles held castor oil and other meds as indicated by labels. Many druggist sold their own generic meds.
Boy the pit is really loaded. So many cool bottles and other cool stuff. Tom you do a good job digging . love your videos. Just to see all those awesome bottles
A well infront of the house makes sense. Probably was a well.
Much healthier to have a well than recycled waste water with added chemicals.
Ya know what I wish, I wish you would tell us the value of the bottles you find. It would be interesting to know....
Question? What do you do with the bottles?
This is my question-I was looking for an Etsy store or something
i got very curious what possibly could have been in that opening in the bottom i was hoping you would open it up a little more and look down there?? might have been burried treasure ?? never know good vid thanks
What was up with the void space?!?!
Seems that early family may have been fairly well off, that they could buy lots of products.
We need a Q A bud
That was a nice haul you pulled out of that pit. You should've got your long probe to see how far that hole you uncovered goes down
Entertaining dig, thanks maybe sometime a tutorial of the different types of tops
Was it a well or an outhouse pit? And did you investigate the hole on the bottom?
Considering the depth it was almost certainly a well, the hollow spot he found was only a narrow channel probably to tap into the water source and fill the well.
Do you utilize things that are too broken for value? Make jewelry etc?
The sinkhole is why the pit is so deep (it didn't start that deep) and why the homeowner had to keep throwing dirt on top to keep it level
Is there any concern of old bacteria’s/ virus’s or germs stirred up in the soil if those latrines?
great watching this pit keep on going for 12 feet... you must be very fit
When you are down that deep, are you concerned about a cave in? Be safe, love the videos!
I deal in vintage China, I wish you would show more shards of china.
It appears to me that the people loved their drugs, their booze and their ketchup.
Fantastic You All. Your finds are incredible. Thank You !
Whoever lived there sure was in the alcohol and drugs!
What about the 'sink hole' you found and ignored...?
Very cool dig. So much stuff !
Love that you can hear church bells in the background!!
The amount of Citra of magnesium and Castor oil bottles indicates that someone had constipation problems 😂
Probably from all the medicine bottles of opiods
You know pain meds constipate you
@@charlesblack2523 that's what I said
Looks like the place to go drink was in the shitter. No one gonna bother you.
Wow - 12 ft. deep. That's something!.
Someday a real archeologist will see this video and curse you.
Would jibed to have heard more about the small hole to the “bottomless” pit!
I hope the owners of the land you dig on supply you with food and drink.