Digging out a power line leads to the discovery of long-forgotten artifacts

[@npdesign8202]

Tom, I bet most people don't know that you also collect antique horse buggies and restore cook stoves and can talk about just about anything old. Wish you would share some of that here on this channel!!

[@cferguson3368]

There is one video I found accidentally years ago where he talks about a buggy he is repairing. It was interesting. Agree, content on those topics would be great!

[@nancywindbigler6434]

1. We'll get this thing opened up 2. This pit is loaded 3. This is the Holy Grail 4. This pit is done! Ideas for T Shirts!

[@nancychannel8513]

We'll get this filled in

[@Noble4Truths]

I have only recently rediscovered you. If i understand things correctly, you have control over this channel....unlike the previous one. You look so much happier! I am very glad for you!!!

[@npdesign8202]

Even after 40 some bottles you still hold each Ketchup up with reverence!🙃 I never get tired of seeing you bring up the next thing!

[@653j521]

In Britain would it be ketchup or brown sauce/A1? Both have Worcestershire. Heinz's version was minus alcohol (perfect for Prohibition states) and plus vinegar. "A relatively new company called Heinz introduced its famous formulation in 1876, which contained tomatoes, distilled vinegar, brown sugar, salt and various spices. They also pioneered the use of glass bottles, so customers could see what they were buying."

[@Beanieweenieable]

I love your slow easy delivery and patience…you seem to love all things old and respect them. I do too and that’s why you are gaining a steady following I’m sure. God bless!

[@tammyfreeman6802]

Hi Tom, so nice to see your smiling face. Love hearing you get excited about your finds. ❤

[@robinwelander6780]

Hi Tom , all those light bulbs reminded of A story about my grandmother who was born in the late 1800's . She told my mother to make sure she put A bulb right back in if she took one out because the electricity would all drain out . LOL ! Please keep on with your awesome videos !

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Good one! There were actually warning signs on some hotel rooms about it having electric switches in them. They were really afraid of electricity when it first came out, like it was a health hazard or something.

[@dhanson4698]

Tom, the best to you and yours. Just found u a couple months ago, and by your voice, realized, had seen u before. Been working in kitchen, listening , and look when hear u get excited. As a kid, growing up in southern W.V., back in the sixties, finding a new dump site, made the day!!!

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@carolynsimone8647]

Awesome finds...so enjoy your videos...🥰🥰

[@1978JonBullock]

Tom it's good to see your own channel growing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@louyeo6571]

Always happy to watch one of your videos Tom - unbelievable number of ketchup bottles, I couldn’t help chuckling as more and more kept coming out!

[@TomAskjem.]

May have been a record number haha

[@DebraJean196]

Just loving how much happier you sound in these new videos. I don’t know if it’s because you took a break from digging, or because of a change in circumstance, or some combination, but it’s wonderful to hear you sounding so much more lighthearted and enjoying yourself. As much as I enjoyed your other videos, your “new attitude” makes these even more fun!

[@betsywarner2773]

I'm just amazed that after digging 2000 pits over 2 decades, you still find items you've never seen before.

[@TomAskjem.]

It never ceases to amaze me that there’s still new things to learn about this.

[@tammyaskjem9871]

That was a loaded pit! Every dig is different! Another fantastic vid, Tom! Thanks for taking us on the dig with you!

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@kapok7228]

Whoever had the local ketchup account was making bank! As always, a great dig and video, Tom.

[@patty4091]

The cooking must’ve been bad if they needed all that catsup! 😂 lots of bottles found. I’m glad you continued with your channel, I like to watch you did in your stinky old holes! 😂

[@adventureandglass]

They had a hard time keeping goods from going rancid back then.. so they masked everything with sauces ketchup mustard.. whatever they could do to cover the taste.. 😊

[@laurelyoung-canaday9439]

Hi Tom. Your one of my favorite KZbin. I gotta tell you that I really appreciate the knowledge you pass on, not to mention the fabulous finds. You are always respectful and professional, which is also much appreciated. That being said, do you ever think about posting an auction with your finds? I for one, would be VERY interested. Thanks again Tom, for all you do.😊

[@TomAskjem.]

I have some pieces that I would sell, I just haven’t had much free time. I have a couple projects coming to a close, though so I may be able to get an online store going.

[@DetectoristLorraine]

Tom! Your bottle knowledge astounds me!

[@Hamingja6266]

Always a great day when Tom has a new video up! Especially so when they are the hour long + videos! 😊🎉

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@DebraJean196]

@@TomAskjem.it’s our pleasure, believe me!

[@lois4329]

Hi Tom, Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge! Since starting this channel you seem so much happier/lighter. The iron piece you said you weren’t sure about…just before the 30 min mark looks like a piece from a small fire grate. I grew up with a Franklin stove as our source of heat and the piece reminded me of one of the foot pieces. Just a guess. Being an immediate thought….love watching the digs and the history 🎉😊 Lois

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks!

[@not_old_yet]

Every time you say you noticed a sunken area, I get both excited and flummoxed-I don’t know if I could ever train myself to be so observant! Thanks for another fascinating dig

[@winifredjones300]

Hi from Australia 🇦🇺. Thanks Tom love your channel and you’re always good value. Whatever you dig up, it’s interesting. You show the love to everything. Do you do your own laundry 😂 and if it’s extra muddy do you just throw it out .. especially the gloves? Curious. PS we call ketchup.. Sauce. That’s tomato sauce. We have HP brown sauce by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.

[@Mrhalligan39]

Fried ketchup, boiled ketchup, ketchup kabobs, ketchup scampi, ketchup sandwiches, ketchup salad….

[@maureenfitzgerald1895]

@@Mrhalligan39 ketchup on eggs, deer, prairie chicken, squirrel, rabbit, buffalo more likely

[@Mrhalligan39]

@@maureenfitzgerald1895 Ketchup on ketchup?

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

Thank you for sharing this great educational experience 👍🎉

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Great digs! Got to thinking some of those bottles have been buried as long as some peoples lifetimes, ie: the bottles were buried, a person was born, the same person died, then you came along and dug it up. Gives you a different perspective on how long some of that stuff has not seen the light of day. Keep on digging!

[@davidnelsen5922]

If you could show photos of the hotels or floor plans, it would bring it to life. Thanks!

[@GabrielSeigel]

Sir Digsalot... we have missed you...we were getting worried... your back and we are happy... thanks for the vids...2 more to go...most excellent...

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@tonybrowning5371]

Great dig! The iron piece could be a buggy step maybe.nice load of sodas.🤙🏻

[@aicirtkciub9167]

I've never been so entertained by ketchup bottles before waiting for the final tally. ❤

[@captjeff2321]

Thank you for video .. Was happy to see you dry in these! God save our Republic!

[@FloCreasy]

In all your years of digging what is one item you have not found but would like to dig up?

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Good question!

[@TomAskjem.]

A whole example of the Dakotas oldest known bottle: a cobalt blue soda from Fred Schnaubers bottling works of Yankton, Dakota Territory (1869). I’ve found many pieces of them over the years

[@lindamccolley]

Thanks for another fascinating video!

[@deloradeabel8487]

I have a Burnetts Cocanain hair product bottle is it the same maker as the Burnetts bottle you found?I was watching on u-tube the other day there is an incandescent light bulb like the ones you find that has been working for 105 years!Its never been touched or cleaned,pretty cool!I also found 30 years ago an embossed dark green Palmers perfume bottle with a metal crown top!Great dig guys!

[@stephenhands1763]

Excellent dig as always, just miss seeing the old advertising for the various companies you uncover, but obviously that adds time to the editing, and you would rather be digging up more history. Don't blame you, I'd be digging every day, love the channel, keep that trowel going.

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching! I plan to include the ads in future vids, likely once the digging season winds down. It definitely adds a lot of time editing.

[@thepirhomancer9745]

Love the longer videos, but then we're birds of a feather so I may be biased! 😆 👍

[@karendavis7988]

It is good to see you so happy! You deserve it.

[@pattimessenger6214]

Another great dig! Thanks for sharing!

[@fishinwidow35]

Interesting light bulbs this time. Love the little blue bottle.

[@kennethsmith2952]

Ha Tom, I've doing some catsup-up on your videos, and right now I've got catsup coming out my eyeballs.

[@TomAskjem.]

Hahahaha

[@40shellyfish]

A boot scraper? Nice dry dig this time😂🤩with a side of katchup🍅

[@JeanStAubin-nl9uo]

I've never heard of a Schram canning jar. I like the cobalt blue cosmetic jar. Nice dig!

[@judygriffing1276]

I really enjoy your videos and thanks to you, I am quite adept at telling which ones are ketchup bottles! 🙂

[@roybal1975]

Okay they showed the Snow White trailer and they totally gave into the fans!🤣🤣🤣 She was like I don't need no man, and they showed her with a man holding hands, damn made me bust out laughing...

[@lisacassells3828]

Amazing hall. I miss all the glass we used to have.

[@alanatolstad4824]

Bottle hunters don't seem impressed when finding ketchup bottles, but they're my favorite!---Interesting trivia about the Watkins bottle line! I wonder when that feature stopped. My family used to buy Watkins, Jewel T, Fuller Brush products, often from door-to-door salesmen.---Train tracks across the street...travelers drinking the booze during their stop over? And maybe a bakery in town that provided baked goods for why there wasn't more in the way of baking evidence?---The sound quality today was intense, felt like I was right there in the hole next to you!---How many bottles came home with you! And how many was the property owner interested in keeping!---And as always, the birdsong in the background, since I can't be there to hear it for myself.

[@TomAskjem.]

We were offered to keep them all but decided on just the sodas

[@alanatolstad4824]

@@TomAskjem. I'm surprised you didn't take a few of the Grand Forks bottles. You must already have a glut of those!

[@kevinbovin7856]

Omg love all the sodas.....nice finds

[@daviddarrall9384]

Welcome back. Prefer this than Paris! ! 😊 UK.

[@manderson3231]

That small blue bottle, I believe is Larkin Soap from Buffalo NY. I have the same bottle with a paper label on it.😊

[@kathyastrom1315]

Tom, what’s the best way to send you info about a possible dig site? My great-great-grandmother had a restaurant in Hilger, Montana, in Fergus County. The building block also had a hotel, drug store, and barbershop according to the 1916 Sanborn map. It was built in September/October 1911 and burned down on June 6, 1931. I have the names of the current property owners of the plot and those adjoining it, and a photo of the building from 1915.

[@TomAskjem.]

Feel free to send info to my email [e-mail] Thanks!

[@kennethstickney8819]

The flavoring extracts were possibly used in concocting cocktails instead of all being for baking purposes. Ketchup to help mask foods, extracts to mask alcohol.😮

[@beverlyhanlon8376]

Sorry Tom, but I had to laugh at all the ketchup bottles. I liked all the light bulbs. Always a good unit. Thanks for all the work you do. ❤

[@HobbyMoose79]

Tom, so what lets you know how big to make the hole? Seems like you could really dig big holes if you wanted to. I would love to just dig and dig. Always loved the dirt. Awesome bottles today. ❤❤❤

[@dawnminard218]

I always love these types of videos because it really is a time capsule back to the history Of that area❤

[@alanknight7817]

At 10:00-10:02 there was a really nice spoon loosened up but just got scraped away, hope you saw it with the loose dirt. Love to see all that is found not just the glass jars?

[@melindawhite5198]

Love your videos Tom

[@lidymaehoward6726]

That little white squat container was a deodorant bottle and it was called “Fresh”. My momma used to use this type deodorant.

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Neat to see what you found!

[@andrewbroderick5702]

Another awesome dig

[@highlandcattlefarm6930]

a piece of a fireplace grid that held your firewood into place

[@wgrillojr]

That's what I thought as well.

[@alanatolstad4824]

Me too!

[@DWilt1969]

Great video Tom. 👍

[@oilerfreak]

26 minute ish is either a boot scraper for a doorway or maybe a small decorative part for a fireplace front.

[@maureenfitzgerald1895]

@@oilerfreak I’d bet on boot scraper

[@davidabramson3020]

It appears to be the front piece of the fireplace log basket.

[@dannmccord1923]

Really nice bottles. The blue bottle was pretty. Nice sodas. ❤❤

[@stephentaylor1637]

Dig quicker Tom ! More Vids 👍💂💂👀 UK 👍

[@lyndamac1058]

Classic comment.. A bulb in the shape of a bulb... love it 🤣

[@TomAskjem.]

A classic bulb shaped bulb haha

[@jonniewalker6925]

Always a pleasure to watch you dig, but I was wondering when you were gonna say something about the silverware that seem to be a lot of it in there that you missed

[@TomAskjem.]

We had a few pieces that were fairly crusty. I found a couple silver plated spoons the other day in an 1880s pit in Grand Forks. I’ll be cleaning them up and posting them on my FB. They look fairly ornate

[@oilerfreak]

This is a good drinking game video, every time you say ketchup we take a drink!!! That has to be the most you have ever dug on one video!!

[@adventureandglass]

Man you dig some cool bottles.. 😊

[@DarjeeLiArts]

I love the little added things like the moonshiners smashing the 13s! What IS the standing record for ketchups/sodas/liquor in a single pit?

[@Spikedgriffon]

From the soda pit to the ketchup pit. Still watching hope you find more as you dig down

[@susananthony2366]

Hi Tom, do you think their might be an old menu some where in the towns history records or maybe someone who collects town history? It would be great to see pictures or other ephemera of the places you dig.

[@terrencebuller7676]

Great program Tom, never saw so many ketchup bottles, is it a record for a pit? Take care and stay safe. 👍👍👍

[@TomAskjem.]

Either this one or a restaurant pit in Kansas

[@gregsabo6371]

Must be some shitty tasting food at that place if they went through that much ketchup

[@ClaudiaVogl-f6j]

The food must have been awful to need this much ketchup!!!!

[@alanatolstad4824]

I'm originally from North Dakota & can tell you that we use ketchup a lot! Those bottles are my favorites (but I do NOT put ketchup on my eggs!)

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

Food might have been blander back then, and they needed the ketchup for taste. Spices and seasoning were also used a lot.

[@alanatolstad4824]

@@thecatsmeowfromny Salt & pepper were the only spices in any northern kitchen of my youth. Every restaurant has ketchup bottles on the tables! When we first moved to Albuquerque for Dad to get his Master's, we learned about Mexican food by first eating canned refried beans & canned tamales. Then we lived next door to a Hispanic couple who introduced us to the real things, and I just kept trying new foods over the years. When we made our version of enchiladas at a family gathering at the Farmstead in ND, my paternal Grandmother was willing, but my Grandpa wouldn't eat anything spicier than black pepper!

[@denigong9708]

You know it would be really cool. Have somebody restore those light bulbs back to working order

[@TomAskjem.]

Using larger filaments. I read the main reason light bulbs don’t last is because the filaments are too thin.

[@nickt7658]

Tom? Rock on bro!

[@jonischleif5353]

You should make glasses out of the broken bottles, like Adventure of Archeology does. They are cool.

[@BonnieMiller]

Hello Tom, I have a few questions, about your digging, can you tell me about the pro rods? I am just wondering if I may be able to find anything in my backyard, where can I get these pro rods?

[@davidabramson3020]

Never seen an addiction to ketchup quite this serious.

[@joanijimison7397]

I am wondering with all those ketchup bottles, did they have mustard back then ?? Always enjoy watching too see what you find and when it was made and how it was. The history so interesting.

[@shannonsullivan1968]

I’m thinking the piece of metal you dug in the first pit might be part of a fireplace grate.

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks!

[@monicaashley9874]

I think that iron bit is part of a step to a truck, car or wagon.

[@JeffreyLee63]

I'm happy for you finding those sodas it's been a while. I was thinking you may have said "IT'S ABOUT TIME", it is cool tho

[@roberta5278]

You should tell us what you do with all the finds and photos of the establishment that was there in the day.

[@TomAskjem.]

Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums. If no one is interested we throw them back. I’m hoping to add more details in the vids this winter once the ground freezes. Things have been a bit chaotic lately.

[@willmarotta4525]

I would kind of expect the hotel had an electric light plant. I don’t think alternating current power plants were until 1918. So this would be DC power

[@2packs4sure]

There you are,,,,,,, what happened to the old channel ??

[@TomAskjem.]

We shut it down due to ongoing disagreements. All of my digging vids will be posted here from now on.

[@2packs4sure]

@@TomAskjem. ok,, I'm subscribed

[@winifredjones300]

Doubt we’ll be digging up the plastic bottles of today in 100 years with as much enthusiasm.

[@nancywindbigler6434]

The long metal piece looks like an andiron out of a fireplace. Usually a pair to hold wood logs.

[@BacktheBlue60]

I can just picture it.... A guy walks into the joint and says, I'd like a bottle of ketchup with a soda chaser! Lol😂

[@breakallegro]

Usually the use of ketchup back then was to make older or bad meat more palatable, so they either regularly served poor quality meat or just had a bad cook.

[@ronrowe8168]

I really like your videos but it just amazing you don't break more bottles shoveling around with that trowel

[@lisag9145]

I wonder if people that early in the 1900s used beer flats to carry their beer home .

[@bessiewilson1784]

I wonder if they had a lot of tramps around making hobo soup. Ketchup & hot water

[@DeborahKEgolf]

Did you break your record on Ketchup Bottles, so many. Liquor, ketchup, relish. Sounds like a Baseball Game.😊❤

[@bethcorey6022]

I’m surprised that the tips on most of the lightbulbs are still in tact after all these years in the pits❤

[@thumbalinamom]

With the amount of ketchup bottles you found they were either drinking it or reusing them for moonshine… Lol

[@JosephChick-ce6zx]

With all the ketchup bottles, makes me wonder how good the food was at the restaurant? 😂

[@michaelstrobel9783]

My observation of the many soda bottles: I'm guessing that some young rascal would go in to the storage- guzzle a soda and get rid of the evidence the pit. Did those bottles have some sort of return for deposit? You will have to answer that for me.

[@653j521]

He has said many bottles did, so the broken ones were thrown out.

[@Ari-jj9op]

They must have made great fries at that restaurant, sheesh that's a lot of ketchup.

[@barbaber8131]

The odd unknown iron object looks to me like what sets in front of the fireplace

[@jodybishel6556]

I need to look up old hotel restaurant menus to see what they were dumping all that ketchup on.

[@wintuwarrior5266]

What do you do with the bottles?