Brad, I'm an old man who was into metal detecting before the advent of pin pointers. Detecting in Ohio and North Carolina, I found many treasures, especially Civil War relics in NC. Your videos take me back to my glory days and make me the feel the thrill of finding something that I use to say was ' historically significant '. One of my most interesting and exciting finds was in the yard of an abandoned house in Hamlet, NC. I was using a White's Eagle and got a great signal at 6" deep. Turns out it was an old Ponds cold cream jar ( aluminum top ) that jiggled like it was full of coins,. I thought I had found my first coin cache. It ended up being a child's buried treasure of marbles ! I still have the jar with the original ' treasure '. Long time viewer, first time commenter, thank you sir, for taking me back.
Love your story. Especially the Ponds Jar with Marbles in them. I've been detecting for 17 years and I started detecting withe with Whites Prizem 4 shorty upgraded to the MXT after my daughter and I found a ring with her Birthstone in it. Take Care
Brad, I got this tip from my late Grandpa. Find where the privy was located . The first thing a person will visit every day. Check both sides of the path from the house to the outhouse. This way your "stash" can be checked that it's undisturbed. I have found 2 "Banks" one was full of silver coin the other was a year later and I found a mason jar full of all sorts of coin AND 1 Double Eagle!!!! the star of my collection. Thanks Grandpa !!!
Love your story and excellent tip. A Double Eagle right on. I've found some excellent Coins detecting the last 17 years. I've been very fortunate. 12 Silver Dollars through the years and a 1882 5 Dollar Gold Coin. Congrats on your Coin finds. Take Care
Fun Times! You NEED to get you a sieve or sifter or whatever. You'd be surprised what non-metal items you could find. Thanks for the video. You're always so good at explaining the things you dig up. Nice goats - glad you gave them a moment on camera so they could have moment of fame. 😁
Hey Brad, That automotive valve stem cover was used on many of the cars made from the early 1900's up to the late 1920's at which time inner tube stems got much smaller, much as we see them today. Those blueberry bushes tell me there are not many deer in that area. Here in the middle of Kansas we have an abundance of white tail deer and very few berry bushes.
I love the history and stories you tell on the items you find. They’re not just things…but pieces of people’s lives. Small parts frozen in time. Then you find them.
Nice work Brad!!! We were just up your way preparing our hunting camp for archery season. I had to bush hog about 6+ acres for fields of fire. After we worked all day we decided to detect for about an hour and stumbled on a virgin cellar hole. We were both pretty beat from working but we did pull up 3 buttons and a nice Jersey copper, definitely going back soon. Take care
The photos you take of the surrounding areas are so lovely ! You are blessed to live in such a beautiful place and have the skill to capture the view for us ...thank you !
I found a model t Valve stem a couple years back I thought it was a bullet. Because of your video I now know what it is. Thank you for your historical information your videos are amazing there a great way to start my day. Thanks brad
Quite a beautiful location, and free berries!! Finds were pretty awesome as well, always so much fun playing the One Dime game. Enjoyable trip back in time with you once again!
when i was in high school we lived in castleton vermont and went to fair haven union high school where i graduated was born in conn and after vermont lived in upstate ny glens fall for awhile i love the country beautiful without a doubt the army brought me here to texas i stayed here after i got out it was to cold for me up north my family still resides in conn im the only one here i love watching your videos brings back memories as a kid i did alot of snowmobiling on the trails
Did you ever imagine your channel would be this big ? I'm so happy for you. I would like to see the kid or kids by now IDK but I bet he's darn near grown .😎 Lord God bless you and yours buddy .
Love your channel. Been following for years. Haven’t seen your son for a while now, he must be getting big! Wish you made a Green Mountain tee in GREEN. That’s Vermont’s color! Stay well. God bless.
In 1953 I was 9 years old. My parents went to an auction of a one room school house in Condit Township Illinois. It was on one acre of land with a merry-go-round of the 1880 era and two outhouses. The wood part of each outhouse had rotted away. The 2 foot by 4 foot concrete lined pit of each was still there, the 3 foot deep contents having composted since 1948. I was given the task of removing the contents of the South outhouse so it could be used as a burn pit for garbage. The North pit was assigned to my older brother for that same purpose. He completed his job in several hours, I took several days. I was looking for silver coins in each shovel full. I carefully hand sorted through each shovel full of composted human waste and found 50 half dollars, 601 dimes, and 300 quarters. Lots of nickels and copper/steel pennies. I still have them to this day and I’m 80 years old. My parents won the auction for the school house, one acre of ground and merry-go-round for $450. We converted the school house to be our home over the next 4 years, living it it when we did the work.
I love your channel and others like it.I’ve gone from growing up watching certain shows on the television to barely watching tv at all and only looking forward to my RUclips channels each week.i enjoy everything about your channel so please keep them coming.👍🏻
Hey Brad. What an awesome hunt you had especially on your family property and i really liked to cool relics and the 1899 barber dime. Have a great weekend.
Congrats on all your finds Brad. Love the 1899 Barber Dime and Padlock. The Shoe Buckle would of been amazing looking whole. Still a Beautiful piece. Congrats on all your finds Take Care Brad
Usually if there is a hole right through on the ring where the stone was, indicates that the stone was precious or at least semiprecious so the light can be seen though and makes the cut facets sparcle.
That little piece of small Baldric buckle had to come off a bridle. Saddle buckles are much larger. Thanks for the adventure! A lot of Art Deco jewelry was "paste", but still desirable and high quality. Save the setting. Get the side stones tested. Sometimes they used real gemstones as the smaller bits!
Brad get a dollar store colander made of wire screen like window screening and keep it in the car. One or two shovels of dirt from those holes would go through quick and give you a chance. If it is not directly with the ring, it is long gone and no hope, but a few minutes of checking might unite them. My screen colander is stainless steel wire mesh so easy clean and pretty durable. Came from a yard sale for cheap.
I love how you get excited about all your finds. Yes the coins are wonderful but you are just as thrilled about the small things that most hunters would call trash. Brad do you have a website to see your leather works?
Hello Brad my name is David from Redcliffe Peninsula Queensland Australia and I have been watching your shows for over a year or more now. I really enjoy your shows, and I hope to see more, when your well enough again. I have been metal detecting for nearly 5 years now, and from watching many of your out and about metal detecting shows, I have learnt some more interesting things from you, to help me metal detect much better. I came into Metal detecting latter in life, at the age of 55 years young fella, and I woke up 1 day and realise I just turned 60 last year in September 2024 lol😅Still thinking like a 20 year old Have you ever thought about doing a show on the equipment while your still under the weather some what? The kind of gear you use, and how it all works for you, especially your GoPro and other video cams, where you position them and why place them those positions!!. I hope Im not asking to much, as I use to do Professional Photography as a part time job and for the Arts a while back, and also like you, I play guitar and try to sing been in bands formed my own bands written and professionally recorded my few of my own songs etc.. Anyway besides all that, mate the camera you have on your right shoulder, I have been trying on the mini cam shoulder straps with the cams I have, not quite the GoPro but just as good I reckon. The problem is, no matter how secure I have these straps fitted, to where I want the cams fitted on either shoulder, after a little while, they tend to shake, rattle? and roll. The cams I use all have stabilisers on them, and are switched on, but they can onlly go so far. How do you keep the cams on your shoulder still enough, to minimise editing on your video editor app, and the strap you have on, are they separate or built in or part of your vest you have on.. Ok mate, you don't have to answer me straight away, only when your up to it and your mind is more clear. Just 1 other thing, the condition you have , have you considered it to be Chronic Fatigue? Check it up if your not sure you have heard about Chronic Fatigue, as your symptoms seem some what similar, to some people I know who've had it ,and some still do but have found ways to live with it. Oops do it every time ,try to write a short comment, and I give you a whole page😂 well till next time God bless ya mate and hope He makes you well soon Kind Regards from David Peacock FirstNations Down under
I enjoy watching all of your videos. I especially love when you make a connection with a find. I hope someday you’ll be able to get together with Nicola White of Tideline Art. Have you ever considered utilizing a drone to survey an area you’re going to explore? Best wishes in all of your endeavors.
What are you doing on Friday, Jim? Well, first, I am going metal detecting with my friend Brad. Oh, well, that's like fun. Where does Brad live? Vermont! Buuuut we live in Oregon. Riiiiiight we go every Friday.
Coffee and Brad. An amazing way to start a day.😊
Agree, coffee and Brad , that’s my Friday morning ❤
I jumped out of bed when I realized it was Friday!
I watch him before bed. These videos with the music are relaxing.
Brad, I'm an old man who was into metal detecting before the advent of pin pointers. Detecting in Ohio and North Carolina, I found many treasures, especially Civil War relics in NC. Your videos take me back to my glory days and make me the feel the thrill of finding something that I use to say was ' historically significant '. One of my most interesting and exciting finds was in the yard of an abandoned house in Hamlet, NC. I was using a White's Eagle and got a great signal at 6" deep. Turns out it was an old Ponds cold cream jar ( aluminum top ) that jiggled like it was full of coins,. I thought I had found my first coin cache. It ended up being a child's buried treasure of marbles ! I still have the jar with the original ' treasure '. Long time viewer, first time commenter, thank you sir, for taking me back.
Love your story. Especially the Ponds Jar with Marbles in them. I've been detecting for 17 years and I started detecting withe with Whites Prizem 4 shorty upgraded to the MXT after my daughter and I found a ring with her Birthstone in it. Take Care
I enjoy how you can make common "junk" into a neat story. It makes me feel better about my velve stem covers.
Every Friday morning, the 1st thing I do when I open my eyes is check to see if your video posted! I love them! Don’t ever stop! 😊
You dig up history and human stories, not just metal. Thank you!
Brad, I got this tip from my late Grandpa. Find where the privy was located . The first thing a person will visit every day. Check both sides of the path from the house to the outhouse. This way your "stash" can be checked that it's undisturbed. I have found 2 "Banks" one was full of silver coin the other was a year later and I found a mason jar full of all sorts of coin AND 1 Double Eagle!!!! the star of my collection. Thanks Grandpa !!!
Love your story and excellent tip. A Double Eagle right on. I've found some excellent Coins detecting the last 17 years. I've been very fortunate. 12 Silver Dollars through the years and a 1882 5 Dollar Gold Coin. Congrats on your Coin finds. Take Care
Fun Times! You NEED to get you a sieve or sifter or whatever. You'd be surprised what non-metal items you could find. Thanks for the video. You're always so good at explaining the things you dig up. Nice goats - glad you gave them a moment on camera so they could have moment of fame. 😁
Hey Brad,
That automotive valve stem cover was used on many of the cars made from the early 1900's up to the late 1920's at which time inner tube stems got much smaller, much as we see them today.
Those blueberry bushes tell me there are not many deer in that area.
Here in the middle of Kansas we have an abundance of white tail deer and very few berry bushes.
I love the history and stories you tell on the items you find. They’re not just things…but pieces of people’s lives. Small parts frozen in time. Then you find them.
Your post are one of the best on RUclips 👍...
Nice work Brad!!! We were just up your way preparing our hunting camp for archery season. I had to bush hog about 6+ acres for fields of fire. After we worked all day we decided to detect for about an hour and stumbled on a virgin cellar hole. We were both pretty beat from working but we did pull up 3 buttons and a nice Jersey copper, definitely going back soon. Take care
The photos you take of the surrounding areas are so lovely ! You are blessed to live in such a beautiful place and have the skill to capture the view for us ...thank you !
I found a model t Valve stem a couple years back I thought it was a bullet. Because of your video I now know what it is. Thank you for your historical information your videos are amazing there a great way to start my day. Thanks brad
Really enjoy your photography
Quite a beautiful location, and free berries!! Finds were pretty awesome as well, always so much fun playing the One Dime game. Enjoyable trip back in time with you once again!
More than Half the time I have no idea what day it is unless I open RUclips and see Brad at the top of my feed. Happy Friday everyone!!
Thanks, Brad. Always great heading out with you!
I never knew what that cap was. Found several I thought it was a messed up screwdriver handle. Thank you. Blessings
Wherever you found them you should go back and dig everything you will be happy
Great day!!
Great finds Brad
i could not wait to get off work today to see if you rang my bell. thank you Sir.
Thank you Brad, I also loved the goats they are real pretty. Awesome finds., and bonus berries to take home.
Good Morning and Thank you for sharing Brad : )
when i was in high school we lived in castleton vermont and went to fair haven union high school where i graduated was born in conn and after vermont lived in upstate ny glens fall for awhile i love the country beautiful without a doubt the army brought me here to texas i stayed here after i got out it was to cold for me up north my family still resides in conn im the only one here i love watching your videos brings back memories as a kid i did alot of snowmobiling on the trails
Well made video. Great background music, narration, and editing as well.
Your efforts are appreciated
Did you ever imagine your channel would be this big ? I'm so happy for you. I would like to see the kid or kids by now IDK but I bet he's darn near grown .😎 Lord God bless you and yours buddy .
Another great day out with you😊,thankyou.
Wow what a little slice of heaven your family has there. Looks like a great day there. Thanks for sharing.
Slaymaker locks were around in my youth. Late sixties gym class we had to have our own locks. They were a lower cost low end lock though.
I love Friday afternoons when I can come home from work grab a beverage and there you are. Great video. ✌️♥️🤙
Nice 👍 finds Brad as usual !! Love you're videos !! See you next Friday !!
haagroll from Virginia ....💙
Love your channel. Been following for years. Haven’t seen your son for a while now, he must be getting big! Wish you made a Green Mountain tee in GREEN. That’s Vermont’s color! Stay well.
God bless.
I have a green Green Mountain tee, so he used to carry them. It’s long sleeve.
Always look forward to the days adventure
I totally agree with everyone! A Friday morning with Brad and coffee! Whooppee! All the horse items make me smile to today! ❤
Key to metal detecting…. Like real estate. Location location location.
5:00 am, and I am ready. Got a fresh pot of coffee, and metal detector Brad. Should be a good day.
Guten Morgan Brad.😊 I hope your day is as amazing as you are.😊
In 1953 I was 9 years old. My parents went to an auction of a one room school house in Condit Township Illinois. It was on one acre of land with a merry-go-round of the 1880 era and two outhouses. The wood part of each outhouse had rotted away. The 2 foot by 4 foot concrete lined pit of each was still there, the 3 foot deep contents having composted since 1948. I was given the task of removing the contents of the South outhouse so it could be used as a burn pit for garbage. The North pit was assigned to my older brother for that same purpose. He completed his job in several hours, I took several days. I was looking for silver coins in each shovel full. I carefully hand sorted through each shovel full of composted human waste and found 50 half dollars, 601 dimes, and 300 quarters. Lots of nickels and copper/steel pennies. I still have them to this day and I’m 80 years old. My parents won the auction for the school house, one acre of ground and merry-go-round for $450. We converted the school house to be our home over the next 4 years, living it it when we did the work.
I love your channel and others like it.I’ve gone from growing up watching certain shows on the television to barely watching tv at all and only looking forward to my RUclips channels each week.i enjoy everything about your channel so please keep them coming.👍🏻
I love these old places to detect! Keep on digging, and I'll catch you on the next. ✌️ 😊
Amazing that you’ve already found so much on family ground. A blessing for sure.
Your videos are always so beautiful. Love watching you dig up the past.
HEY! Gooooood morning Brad!!
Absolutely love your channel. Your editing skills are top notch and the commentary is always interesting. Keep up the good work.
THANK YOU BRAD........... 👍 🙏>>>💚
Best detectorist channel on the web! love it bro
Very nice to find such traces of history on your own family land, must be lots more to discover. Happy hunting!
Hey Brad. What an awesome hunt you had especially on your family property and i really liked to cool relics and the 1899 barber dime. Have a great weekend.
I’m impressed by your knowledge of horse related items you find. Kudos😊
Great Adventure Brad!!! Keep them coming 👍
I LOVE your videos! SO professionally done, so beautiful and it's exciting seeing everything you pull out of the ground.
Great adventure Brad.
Once again a great video, looking forward to next week .
Keep up the great content Brad! Have a GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND!☺️👍🐿
Awesome, interesting hunt Brad‼️
Always a good watch thanks
Getting ready for a day of flying in Bristol Bay Alaska. Great way to start my day, thanks Brad.
Happy Friday!! Excellent video! Cheers Brad😊
Nice variety of finds Brad!
my week is now complete
Beautiful B roll as always!
Holy crap. That valve stem cover was awesome. Honestly I never paired enough attention to the wheels to notice that before.
Congrats on all your finds Brad. Love the 1899 Barber Dime and Padlock. The Shoe Buckle would of been amazing looking whole. Still a Beautiful piece. Congrats on all your finds Take Care Brad
Happy Friday Brad. Some different era finds, but still great. T4S. Nice you got to go visit your surroundings.👍😘
Very nice Brad!! Good luck in the hunt!! JJ
Great finds as always. Love that button. Thanks for sharing!!!
Awesome finds Mr Brad!
Thank you Brad ❤️🇨🇦
Great finds!
Great finds.
It's so beautifully green there.
Usually if there is a hole right through on the ring where the stone was, indicates that the stone was precious or at least semiprecious so the light can be seen though and makes the cut facets sparcle.
great stuff Brad thanks
Nice place and finds!
💥💥💥💥@3:58 That valve stem cover. You mean people were parking their cars on the lawn even back then? WTF?
That little piece of small Baldric buckle had to come off a bridle. Saddle buckles are much larger. Thanks for the adventure! A lot of Art Deco jewelry was "paste", but still desirable and high quality. Save the setting. Get the side stones tested. Sometimes they used real gemstones as the smaller bits!
I found a colonial shoe buckle piece at Digstock a few months ago and it's from the 1700's.
Brad get a dollar store colander made of wire screen like window screening and keep it in the car. One or two shovels of dirt from those holes would go through quick and give you a chance. If it is not directly with the ring, it is long gone and no hope, but a few minutes of checking might unite them. My screen colander is stainless steel wire mesh so easy clean and pretty durable. Came from a yard sale for cheap.
I love how you get excited about all your finds. Yes the coins are wonderful but you are just as thrilled about the small things that most hunters would call trash. Brad do you have a website to see your leather works?
❤ your videos, look forward to watching each week. Great finds and loved the goats. Have a great weekend
That button was beautiful!
10:20 The double S indicates it is a Slaymaker Smith padlock from the iron railroad days. My guess it early to mid 1900s.
Hello Brad my name is David from Redcliffe Peninsula Queensland Australia and I have been watching your shows for over a year or more now. I really enjoy your shows, and I hope to see more, when your well enough again. I have been metal detecting for nearly 5 years now, and from watching many of your out and about metal detecting shows, I have learnt some more interesting things from you, to help me metal detect much better. I came into Metal detecting latter in life, at the age of 55 years young fella, and I woke up 1 day and realise I just turned 60 last year in September 2024 lol😅Still thinking like a 20 year old
Have you ever thought about doing a show on the equipment while your still under the weather some what? The kind of gear you use, and how it all works for you, especially your GoPro and other video cams, where you position them and why place them those positions!!. I hope Im not asking to much, as I use to do Professional Photography as a part time job and for the Arts a while back, and also like you, I play guitar and try to sing been in bands formed my own bands written and professionally recorded my few of my own songs etc..
Anyway besides all that, mate the camera you have on your right shoulder, I have been trying on the mini cam shoulder straps with the cams I have, not quite the GoPro but just as good I reckon. The problem is, no matter how secure I have these straps fitted, to where I want the cams fitted on either shoulder, after a little while, they tend to shake, rattle? and roll. The cams I use all have stabilisers on them, and are switched on, but they can onlly go so far. How do you keep the cams on your shoulder still enough, to minimise editing on your video editor app, and the strap you have on, are they separate or built in or part of your vest you have on..
Ok mate, you don't have to answer me straight away, only when your up to it and your mind is more clear. Just 1 other thing, the condition you have , have you considered it to be Chronic Fatigue? Check it up if your not sure you have heard about Chronic Fatigue, as your symptoms seem some what similar, to some people I know who've had it ,and some still do but have found ways to live with it. Oops do it every time ,try to write a short comment, and I give you a whole page😂 well till next time God bless ya mate and hope He makes you well soon Kind Regards from David Peacock FirstNations Down under
nice hunt Brad!
Thanks for the video
That Barber dime is nice and a box of blueberries is just icing on the cake, right?
As always, i enjoyd your video.
Solid pennywort.....cutting the grass too short. 😋
I love this channel
You had a good day🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I enjoy watching all of your videos. I especially love when you make a connection with a find. I hope someday you’ll be able to get together with Nicola White of Tideline Art. Have you ever considered utilizing a drone to survey an area you’re going to explore? Best wishes in all of your endeavors.
That etched dandy button is 😍
I never miss your Fridays. Wish a would take time to learn my detector instead of watching videos.
It's a great idea you have to cover the shaft of your machine I purchased a D2 a month ago and with the price of it I need something to protect it .
What are you doing on Friday, Jim?
Well, first, I am going metal detecting with my friend Brad.
Oh, well, that's like fun. Where does Brad live?
Vermont!
Buuuut we live in Oregon.
Riiiiiight we go every Friday.
Thx for the video
Marshall over at "Wrist Watch Revival" might possibly be able to get the watch running just a suggestion ✌️ Napa California
Nice 1899 dime!
Blueberries are my favorite
The padlock may have been made by 'Slaymaker', a common manufacturer of padlocks from years past.