Discovery: Lightning Blasted Tree, Silver, Treed Owl

[@aquachigger]

One last video from my S.C. trip. I hope you guys like it. Let me know. Thanks for watching!

[@dark_knightGLP]

Bird Flu...be very careful. Don't touch it.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Technically..... Lighting goes from ground up..

[@philstevens8950]

Any video you put out is top notch. Love them all Thanks Phil

[@AndrexT]

Billy's chisel might be for breaking ice blocks.

[@MD-NWWI]

I think you might need to upgrade to that Deus 2 Billy is using. Looks like it really likes silver and buttons!

[@Katelittlewolf]

We would have been killed if we were standing there when the lightening hit , but we weren't! lol. You are such a delight!Your enthusiasm, Chig! You are like the Steve Irwin of forest, trees, caves, and desert wildness! Never stop being who you are! :)

[@raynin]

The nature, the humor, the history, the Chigg. Nuff said.

[@williamhurt8512]

@ 8:30 that big chisel had a long handle and it's called a "slick", it's for shaping hewn lumber............these low country adventures are really making me homesick for my past upbringing...............................

[@neillh]

Thank you Chigg for taking us along on another adventure 👍

[@russharrison8524]

Been watching your channel for years...your videos are always good

[@aquachigger]

Glad you like them!

[@andrewterry1801]

Great vid , never stop being you and never stop giving us this amazing content , you are like the history teacher we never had 😊

[@aquachigger]

Thanks. I'm glad to have you along.

[@Katelittlewolf]

really you are Chig, the history/ botany/ biology teacher we all wished we had !

[@LondonRednek]

capt Billy seems like such a kind soul, having met you in Derby UK, I understand why you would get on well.

[@cdd4248]

Exactly my first thought about Billy- nice man.

[@Katelittlewolf]

Yes Capt. Billy does exude such calm, kindness, peace, if there were a rises afoot, Cpt Billy I would want you there.

[@sharoncarter6081]

Owl stuffed in tree, werid stuff. Yes we love the sound of Freedom. 🙏🇺🇲🛩🛩🛩

[@helenburke9507]

These are great videos, love to find out what happened to all of the birds. Thank you for sharing and posting these ,

[@johnramirez5032]

Hi chigg! Thanks for video. Cant believe there are still locations to dig.

[@ewach51]

Tell Billy thanks for a few minutes hanging in the south...so miss southern peeps! U too Bubba, thanks

[@richardwarnock2789]

That Silver Buckle is repairable Beau, Billy!!! Very nice Fines probably more there!!!; )

[@denniskrcek1780]

I really enjoy all you videos. I’m just getting started in metal detecting. And you supply some great ideas. Thank you. Denny.

[@aquachigger]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@dougalexander7204]

Thank you Capt Billy. Most awesome site.

[@marygarner5249]

HELLO BILLY AND CHIGG GREAT FINDS

[@Katelittlewolf]

What a clear, direct lesson in what lightening can do! I think it is the best I have seen. That poor owl - or whatever ! how weird ! ... and why WERE there lots of dead large birds in the area? Ominous! The silverbuckles and buttons, that's fun, these folks were not paupers! And the stuff is sweet. Cool planing tool !

[@ashmaybe9634]

Could be someone is shooting them or poisoning them, they usually end up on the floor though in that case, not stuck in tress. Depends where they fell I suppose.

[@robertcribb3859]

A lot of neat finds with Billy the last few days thanks for taking the geezer along

[@phillipfritz7014]

Nice pic of you and Billy @ 10:23

[@mikepetrucha2774]

The dead bird was a Red-tailed Hawk.

[@denniswhittaker9845]

Hello Billy 🤪👍

[@normawinton6832]

Watchout for samsquich! They stuff animals up in trees as big as deer! Billy found some nice pieces! 👌

[@michaelkullas9239]

Good stuff! Enjoyed the colonial finds. Thanks

[@jessiep2471]

Love the video and adventure, thanks Chigg!

[@michaelfike7542]

Lighting goes up you can tell by the wood splinters being raised from the bottom to the top.

[@rockreader4298]

Yah did it again, Beau/Chigg. Another detecting Adventure with strange and unexpected finds. Sad : ( and curious about the dead birds. Congrats to Billy on his silver finds.

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE

[@davemorgan4746]

Wow dang chigg you and Billy take care of business nice job!!!

[@EZDiggin]

Some nice relics on the day

[@maxprophet2401]

8:18 A slick, for debarking logs usually. I'll buy that one if it's for sale.

[@aquachigger]

Thanks. I left it with the property owner.

[@nicktasker4287]

Waw Chig Thanks for educating us

[@rickyb2200]

Nice finds Chigg

[@coindigger5392]

Billy sniffing out the silver, way to go.. a pleasant day out with him hunting I'm sure .

[@ashmaybe9634]

I didn't even know people put silver buckles on their shoes, I can't imagine! Nice dig Chig, thanks.

[@markellis9967]

The "chisel" object looks like a peeling spud for debarking logs.

[@mwdjr3158]

Fantastic videos Gig!

[@smithwesson3771]

Thank u chigg for the great vid as allways but remember we need more lol..nothing but love brother stay safe

[@jameswarner6899]

Great finds

[@insaturnsringzz]

AWESOME finds!!!

[@barbarafritchie2000]

Awesome.

[@drshoe8744]

Here's a little info for ya. The big tree struck by lightning will most likely die now, because just under the bark, the first inch is where the water is sucked up into the limbs, which is why lightning followed it perfectly straight to the roots. My grandpa lived on top of a mountain in N.C. and nailed insulators to trees to run his electric fence, and it would get fried due to lightning hitting the trees and following the fence wire.

[@oldbamadirt2148]

Comeing Up With The Good's. 😉👍✌.

[@madamecampsalot6384]

Cool place, great video. Thanks, Chigg!

[@mariannerogers3702]

Thank you!

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@victorharness8293]

8:35 That may be a timber framing 'slick'

[@andymuskopf8473]

You can still buy all brass Shotgun hulls but that's an old looking primer

[@scottsluggosrule4670]

Once saw a nearly perfect 20 ft 4x4 stuck in the ground at 45 degree angle. It was on top of a mountain.. it had been blasted out of a nearby tree by lightning.

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Interesting hunt!

[@connorsrelicsandtreasures9862]

I loved your videos. I found colonial artifacts and Civil war relics in the Berkshire's mountains and Charleston SC. Also are you joining captain Billy in Maine to metal detect.

[@brodiedavisalmostprimitive1262]

Poor bird! Wood gouge, for making rectangular/square holes.

[@swampshoveldetecting5088]

Great vid from Gods country 👍

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey Chigg and Billy

[@christopherbrewer9368]

I would say Hawk on the bird.

[@Objective-Observer]

Game in High Places- cats will do that. There is probably a bob cat out there.

[@aquachigger]

Never thought of that. I'm sure there are bobcats there.

[@sylviajones3355]

I know a rancher that found a small calf in a tree that was brought up there by a mountain lion.

[@Objective-Observer]

@@sylviajones3355 Oh, yes, the really big cats are best known for doing that; leopards and jaguars in particular. I wasn't sure that a Florida Panther [mountain lion, puma, etc] would get that far north. I didn't think that size of wild cat was common in S.C. But Bobcat, yep. Those are pretty much nation wide.

[@sylviajones3355]

@@Objective-Observer I agree, but the incident that I was referring to was far west of S.C.

[@Objective-Observer]

@@sylviajones3355 Thank you, for clarifying.

[@billyazprospector]

One of the reasons I lived further southeast was for detecting civil war! Found some stuff from a skirmish out by Santa Fe years ago!

[@rubyredlopez4]

Loved it, but what in Tar nations is happening in those woods 👀

[@jimschafer9196]

Interesting find in this area, maybe the lightening bold broke out and hit other trees, causing death the the animals.

[@damonhart1268]

theres only one critter that i know of that hauls its dinner up a tree.......big ol kitty

[@rikspector]

Chigg, Where's all your silver and gold!!! I'm still hoping for you!!! Cheers, Rik

[@zekesgirl100]

Possibly the birds were also killed in the lightning strike.

[@danielburgess7785]

Wrong place, wrong time, for that red-tail.

[@thomasknapp6403]

Poor Red tail hawk .

[@Mag_Aoidh]

I bet it’s Bubo taking a nap.

[@williamburdon6993]

Billy took you to the honey hole last time and you found all the great stuff, this time he sent you off into the dead zone, hes' been there 100 times in the last 10 years

[@MrDknuckle]

Sam Squinch indeed brother

[@NeilSmith-p7n]

hi beau, i wonder if you could encase deeply rusted artifacts like the hoe in a clear, hard epoxy resin. that would prevent any pieces being able to flake off and prevent any further oxidation. i have whole animal specimens encased in clear epoxy resin and they don't decompose at all. just an idea.

[@aquachigger]

Depends. If the rusting is deep, only electrolysis will preserve it. I guess you could encase it think epoxy in a block and it would at least keep its shape.

[@NeilSmith-p7n]

@@aquachigger might make an interesting paperweight at least. it's a shame to see those majority-rust relics go to waste.

[@SeventhEve]

Red-tailed Hawk. Maybe a local far has some bird flu and all these predatory/scavenger birds died stealing the chickens?

[@scottbeaty7697]

i have seen where a farmer poisoned a dead calf to kill coyotes and in turn it killed many hawks, owls, fox and any critter that ate of it. they where thick along the edge of woods where they flew up after eating and died. it was a sad sight!

[@kyle1120061]

How do you keep from getting ate up with poison ivy all the time?

[@icevoss9917]

Do you guys in the US have the bird flu again?

[@joannem3568]

Off point. But that's some nice looking soil, white sand with plenty of black dirt. In Michigan it's good to have our color sand , tan with black dirt. 👍 just I notice soil. Sorry.

[@aquachigger]

Yep, I'm a bit of a soil man myself.

[@joannem3568]

@Aquachigger some day my husband and I will get over there to the east coast and on my bucket list is to find a 3 ring mini ball on land or in stream, maybe take in a antique bottles and glass show ,, thanks for always taking us along on your adventures, chigg. 👍😊😎🇺🇸

[@miriammcdade3077]

Great finds!

[@raynin]

1st

[@TheSportsBoffin]

I actually find it interesting when you find shotgun shells and more modern ammo that is post Civil War.

[@jamescrabtree4358]

West Nile Virus might be killing the birds. the health department would wantto check those birds.

[@48thstateprospecting]

Well chig you better get comfortable for this one back when I was 19 I was teaching rowing and canoeing merit badge at a scout camp the area was notorious for lightning strikes during storms so everyone would gather at the main Ramada during them to take head counts on one bad rainy storm the kids from campsite 15 said their scout master was missing so me and another guy ran all the way up the hill to campsite 15 (probably 600 yards ) when we got there the guy was slowly taking sleeping aga off the line that were airing out and the first thing I noticed was a partially collapsed canvas tent (the old ones with the wooden stakes at front and back and a screw on the top of the stake the eyelet in the canvas tent went on) well the wooden pole was shattered in the middle and partially collapsed I asked the scout master if he was ok and he said I think I got struck by lightning… one minute I was taking sleeping bags down the next thing I knew I was lying on my back and the rain was hitting me in the face… he turned to take the last sleeping bag off the line and that’s when I noticed a 1 inch wide black streak running down the back of his yellow rain slicker and I replied yes I think you were you need to come down to the Ramada with everyone else and get checked out so we headed back down to the Ramada when we got back there it was still raining and there was a giant Ponderosa pine tree probably 4 feet in diameter about 20 feet from where I was standing all the sudden there was a bright white light and I hit the ground as fast as I could the next thing I heard was an extremely loud tearing noise that sounded like 1000 phone books being ripped in half at the same time then a couple of pops and then nothing I looked up and everybody else had hit the ground as well I looked at the pine tree and there was a 6 inch wide 6 inch deep gash running down it were all of the bark and part of the tree had been removed there was no thunder as I was too close to the strike to hear it everybody got up and miraculously nobody had been hit by the lightning or the shrapnel that came off the tree next to the tree was an out house building and it was smoking so I walked over and was looking around the outside of it and up at the top it had wire mesh for vents That was attached with nails all the wire had been welded to the nail heads then I walked inside and the first thing I noticed was holes in the concrete that Were cone shaped There were three of them but I could not see any pieces of the concrete anywhere upon further inspection I noticed the toilet paper it was on a piece of metal pipe so it could roll And sticking straight out from it horizontally From the middle of the roll was shredded toilet paper it’s stuck out from the roll approximately 8 inches and went from a half dollar size at the roll out to one piece of toilet paper at the end of it we figured the lightning had exited off the pipe and threw the roll the quartermaster ended up putting it in his shop as a souvenir was the craziest thing I ever saw and it was definitely weird that there was no thunder the scoutmaster ended up being OK and when we went back to the campsite to check it we found 3-8inch diameter pine trees that had grown up really close to each other and we could see where the lightning head skipped down each one of the trees then traveled to the screw in the top of the wooden dowel for the canvas tent and probably hit him in the back of the slicker. There was one other incident that year that was kind of strange a group of kids and the scoutmaster were out doing the wilderness survival merit badge where you sit for an hour and write down all the wildlife you see they happened to be sitting on top of the canyon edge and when they were done and got up to leave the kid reached for his water bottle and went over the edge of the canyon he fell straight down 80 feet onto the rocks at the bottom we figured he was dead we hurried back to camp and grab the repelling gear (they had a ropes course with safety harnesses and repelling gear to help you get up to the top of the course without dying) so we took it over there and repelled into the canyon the kid at the bottom was alive😳 and all he had was a broken ankle (the ankle with the shoe on it ) his other foot was missing the shoe and we searched and searched and searched because he wanted it but we never found it anywhere he had to be carried a mile up the canyon to where we could get him helicopter access to be taken to the hospital and he ended up just fine we even went back to look for the shoes some more but still never found it anyway if you made it through the novel this far just wanted to say thanks for the reminder of days long passed nice finds for you both thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼

[@ashmaybe9634]

Wow lucky kid. Not many people survive that kind of fall let alone with just a snapped ankle.

[@chucktaylor302]

That lightning will kill the tree in time

[@SolidStateSoul]

Maybe the owl got hit by lightning. 🤔

[@advenzures]

👊🤩👍

[@adrian_b]

We had Bird Flu kill thousands of birds over here in the UK last year. Really creepy walking the beach with dead Gulls scattered everywhere 😐

[@FOUNDITBURIED]

I'M WONDERING IF A LIGHENING STORM CAME THREW AND KILLED ALL THEM BIRDS! JUST A THOUGHT. WHAT YA THINK?

[@MARKLOCKWOOD2012]

as your joke Mr. Chigg it died’d it’s going to it’s on the way out

[@oleradiodudea.m.4735]

Bird flu?

[@mrj10101]

Bigfoot in those woods 😂

[@MARKLOCKWOOD2012]

ads i think or thunk what billy found

[@jimmyfiggs6293]

That's George Washington's tooth.

[@lenoraeaton]

.🌟☺👍👍

[@lakedog7313]

Birds may of died from lead poisoning, if this is an area hunters use.

[@jphillips4371]

I was always told if you go into a woods where the animals and birds are dead to leave cause there’s something evil in the woods that kills or drives the animals away.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Sams Squinch done that I’m sure of it

[@reelingminnesota2855]

Sounds to me a landown/farmer is poisoning problem animals and the birds that will eat dead things are getting secondary poisoning...that or it's the bird flu that's hitting the waterfowl right now. But that random dead armadillo with the vultures on it in one of the other episodes makes me think poisoning.

[@RaceCar21]

Hello

[@sampavadore6709]

Bird flu...

[@randlerichardson5826]

That tree will die now

[@dark_knightGLP]

Bird Flu...be very careful. Don't touch it.

[@discoveringkeyserfarm]

Keep the videos coming Chigg! We'll have to get you over to @DiscoveringKeyserFarm at some point

[@FOUNDITBURIED]

VERY COOL FINDS YOU GUYS WOW!