Antique Bottle Digging in West Texas, a Hotel Privy Dig

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Some lovely bits coming out enjoyed the video

[@patriciasullivan7967]

Enjoy watching your channel from Minnesota

[@swbottles]

Thanks for watching!

[@mechi_takarasagashi]

Your video is very interesting. Great bottle digging. The small bottle is cute. Thank you for always having fun videos.

[@nickels4682]

OMG...I cannot believe what happened at the end😫😟😞 It was such a great dig and sooo much fun being there... Indeed, the video will live on...Ever thought about trying to find out who owns the land and asking for permission...you’ve already done the hard work...As always, thanks so much for bringing us along❤️

[@swbottles]

In a perfect world every vacant lot would have a sign posted with the owners name and phone number.

[@mechi_takarasagashi]

The shape and embossing of overseas bottles are very attractive. I do bottle digging in Japan, but it's interesting because there are many bottles I can't find in Japan. I'll come back again. Thank you.😍

[@lmgottschalkophile]

I really appreciate your videos. I am so sorry that this one turned out the way it did. Hang in there! Keep up the good work! Thanks!!!!!!!

[@swbottles]

Thank you, I will

[@robertsalmi3594]

We should be a team unlucky and unluckiest! I feel you brother! Come to Louisiana maybe you will do better!

[@gregsmht40]

Wow some lawmen suck. Not all but in your case definitely. 🦅🇺🇸

[@swbottles]

I've met a lot of bad cops, but this cop wasn't really that bad.

[@coyotearrowheadhunting3083]

Wow my friend. Incredible everything you got out of there. Sensational things. Incredible bottles and those two wheels too. Greetings and blessings for your next excavations.

[@swbottles]

Thank you kindly

[@JacquesTreehorn]

I like it when he takes the van on tour. Southern Searcher rocks. Dang it!

[@sharongayle5150]

The K K K bottle is from England. The Northern Mudlarks had one and did a short history on their video.

[@Corolrose1218]

I wonder if people from a hundred years ago thought, “someday the trash I’ve thrown in my toilet (privy) will be considered valuable.”

[@paulgarcia194]

Love your videos ! Just wondering if you have auctions or are you ever going to

[@swbottles]

After seeing how much the Crick Diggers make with their auctions, I might start, but it will be awhile.

[@PyroThunder]

That was a lightning rod insulator. They were used on the ground cable for lightning rods they would screw into the side of a building to run the cable down Too bad it was broken

[@PlaneDiggerCam21]

Not neccsarily broken, many were manufactured that way

[@PyroThunder]

PlaneDiggerCam true. The earliest ones weren’t perfect. Especially that type those are among the earliest hopefully he brought it home. Even the lag bolt is wanted by insulator collectors. I am one myself

[@tomfrazier1103]

Repeal in '33. I think Prohibition was in the Territories, Phillippines, Hawaii Guam? Puerto Rico had a major rum industry. I find "Federal law..." Puerto Rican rums in WWII era sites. Honolulu was an oversized Honky Tonk town "For the duration". In Hawaii missionary influence meant Prohibition was embraced and enforced here. It was sporadic in locales in Kingdom days. New England moralists are an unusually influential force in U.S. life, New England's fire eaters. The point metal is a harrow point. Another cast iron piece looked a stove leg. Scrambled context, a fact of digging life. But are you plum tuckered out? I've only dug one Christmas Coke, a Reno, dug near Lovelock. Bored cops. I wear overalls and a hardhat when digging, in theory preventing busybody calls. Policemen roll eyes at the people who call in every rustle in the bushes, but often respond. In the country, usually OK. I talk to passers by letting them know what I'm doing in their hood. Here, in the Summer of '41 the downtown municipal incinerator broke down. All town trash was taken out past Makaha and burned, mostly. The site covers acres and is far from "Civilisation". It has been dug from the '50s on. I have found a 1909 Cent, and my only Indian Head there, among other things. Rents got high, and building almost ceased, so a lot of older stuff was thrown out then. Sometime in 1946, the Sand Island (Town) Incinerator was fixed. A lot of "War workers" stayed on after the peace. Robert Wenkam, an in influential geography writer was one.

[@jerrysadventures8952]

keep video come thanks

[@kaolinwasher]

i use a metal detector to go over the dirt when done, as i put it back. in my last 30,s privy i found a 1899 V nickle. Well. that was great , Thanks for the texas dig

[@jeffhull9977]

Hello Kevin, well despite the end of this video, i did enjoy watching this video. That insulator with the weird metal spike sticking out of it. is a lightning rod insulator. I would of offered something to you for it but, everything had to go back in the hole. Too bad you didn't start putting stuff in your van like the others wrote to you on here to. I always do with the better stuff , even if I had permission from the owners to dig in a spot to find old bottles and stuff. No one is going to start to like police after a while with all the negativity you see on television and media. A lot of people here in New England are saying we could end up with another civil =type war. Anyway, better luck next time and I'm looking forward to seeing more of you digs and finds on your future videos. Happy hunting to you and take care,-- Jeffrey Hull jr. (Jeff)

[@swbottles]

I did get to keep 7 or 8 bottles.

[@jeffhull9977]

@@swbottles Glad to hear that! Hope you get to find a good place soon and keep everything that you want to. Good luck and happy hunting to you. :-)

[@miss.bottles3332]

Did you happen to get any of the good bottles to your van before?

[@swbottles]

Yes

[@TobagoBo]

10:45 is a part of a bar mower.

[@andrewm3932]

That metal spike peace is a sical off of a bean head for a combine from the 30s

[@PlaneDiggerCam21]

That glass thing attached to the wire is a lightning rod insulator. They are pretty rare and some can be very valuable. Aqua ones can be worth around $30 or more with the bracket. Hope you were able to take it. If not at least now you know for the future.

[@sonnypate6808]

Cop is a bottle digger or has a friend who is. It'll be real easy for them to re-dig that hole now.

[@jxavier3876]

Maybe

[@swbottles]

I doubt it, I offered to put the bottles in his car and he said NO, bury them.

[@countrydirtkid4451]

The really good stuff goes in my truck right away.

[@outsiderramone2782]

Whoa, bad news - but good video! I was hoping you scored some rarity Christmas Cokes.

[@swbottles]

You and me both!

[@bruceritchie4382]

Dude, no way. I believe it was you who told me that it was a good idea to put special bottles recently dug in your van. I do it every time I dig. Just in case. I often dig a no permission property and if I find something I like, off to the van I go. It's pretty much habit now. Better safe than sorry. I really enjoyed watching you pull so many awesome bottles out and those two wheels were really cool too. Hope your future digs end in a much more favorable outlook man. See ya on the next Kevin

[@swbottles]

Well, I did get some of the good one's put away before he showed up.

[@jxavier3876]

SOUTHERN SEARCHER which ones?

[@markballard8606]

Scott, what is that hand tool you are digging with. I can't find it sold anywhere.

[@swbottles]

I invented that tool, I call it a single prong scratcher. I will tell you more when I see you again.

[@coledudley8686]

I’m in Texas, do you want to try dig together? I’m always looking for digging buddies

[@swbottles]

Darn, I was just there a month ago. Maybe next Winter.

[@Whocares.........]

Well done, thanks for that! Sorry about that jerk cop, there’s some in every town! Has that happened before?

[@swbottles]

A few times.

[@jerrybaldwin7543]

Easy to fix ask for permission i have been subbed for a long time i love the content just ask for permission if someone pulled up on your lot and started digging you would lose your mind and call the cops

[@jerrybaldwin7543]

That does suck but why don't you get permission before you just start digging seems like that would save you a lot of time and trouble can't be mad at the cops for doing their job

[@swbottles]

I'm not mad at him, I know he could have made things worse for me.

[@animhaxx]

All that hard work to waste

[@UrbanDKaye]

Cool pit. Love the stomeware master ink. GL&HH

[@canadianfloormasters]

Wow that sucks about the cop! I always make multiple trips to the car for just that reason. It's getting that you can't even do something fun and a dumb ass cop has to ruin it.

[@swbottles]

Well, I agree but that cop wasn't as bad as a lot of cops I've had to deal with.

[@sedoragreen8028]

Sorry but why not get permissions before you waste so much time and energy? Ridiculous.

[@swbottles]

Well at least I made $50 from the video being on here for a year.

[@billnoi]

Man, go back another time and grab those bottles.

[@swbottles]

No, I got a few of them, most of those are too common to worry about.

[@waso122463]

If it wasn't for bad luck you'd have no luck. Yet there were a few surprises in that hole. The Southwest is a weird place people had different habits is what I see as to why the differences in the strata of a hole. The twenties and thirties had people from all over moving through these areas. Some were big into holding onto things as to repurposing them. The thirties and especially the forties saw much of this including recycling metal can. I am not sure about bottles though.

[@jxavier3876]

I am a sucker for cottage of magnesias a you found a nice one. It’s

[@Paulvbc]

That’s really too bad you had to throw it all back! Same thing has happened to me in most of the western states; watch out for BLM land too (Bureau of Land Management not Black Lives Matter!)- The Feds will confiscate anything over 50 years old! You should find out who owns that lot, get permission, and go back to get those goodies! You could take your time & sift the dirt too; probably find coins, tokens, and marbles!! Best of luck thanks for the videos!

[@BulletsandButtons]

Paul F We call them Big Land Monster. They are the worst in Utah.

[@ff441980fredcrowe]

That’s a lightning rod insulator

[@Travelling..Bottle..Digger]

Damn dude, too bad you hadn't been loading them into your car intermittently.

[@swbottles]

Well, I did get a few.

[@scotturquhart4311]

Very few broken bottles!!

[@debbiemitchell6055]

OMG, I was so happy for you and wanted to say it was so cool, how you stayed so positive through all the bad and good finds! I would have just said " with a HUGE SMILE, yes I have permission, why are you asking? Is there a problem?" Cops need to really stop harassing you it is So OUTRAGEOUS. I bet you felt sick to your stomach, and said "OH NO"! Bet he goes back and digs it up with his kids. I HOPE YOU BROKE THE COKES AND OTHER VALUABLE ONES IF YOU DIDN'T GET TO SNEAK THEM OUT!

[@jerrybaldwin7543]

No he just needs to go about it the right way and he wouldn't have to lie

[@georgiaware3248]

Did U put it all back? I am so sorry it happened, 🤬 great video

[@johnsmalldridge6356]

Ah, the life of a renegade bottle digger.

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

There's one cop in every town who has to be Billy Badass...sorry about this, man!😊💖

[@jerrybaldwin7543]

God for bid the cop is doing his job and he was trespassing

[@drunkdunc8738]

WTF? KKK LOL