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@christopherfisher1282 жыл бұрын
Can't speak for everybody else but I enjoy the "behind the scenes"material gathering and sourcing from the time period.
@asdfjkli2 жыл бұрын
Same here. But not for $10/month
@alishahird8972 жыл бұрын
I live In Iowa and my family farm has several places with different colored clay. Yellow grayish, blue grey, green grey and a brick red colored. One day i discovered this weird mold...and was informed it was for bricks. Apparently with the clay deposits on the property, back in the day, my family made and sold bricks. I even found some while cleaning out a flower bed dated from the end of the 1800s.
@LazyLifeIFreak2 жыл бұрын
Purifying clay by gravity separation is certainly an acquired skill, let alone doing it by sifting through a mesh.
@TheCryptoNaturalist2 жыл бұрын
When he said, "Thank you for coming along as we..." I was really waiting for, "savor the flavors and aromas of... woods... dirt."
@Alizudo2 жыл бұрын
@CreekDweller Clay is very rich in vitamins, minerals, and other harder to get nutrients.
@GravesRWFiA2 жыл бұрын
eating clay is not good it isn't digestible and is folk lore that can kill.
@goldilox3692 жыл бұрын
@@GravesRWFiA PICA! Yummy. 🚫
@midkiffsjoy2 жыл бұрын
The easiest way to find clay in our area is start digging post holes for a new fence. Guaranteed to find more than you want. :)
@cosmicinsane5162 жыл бұрын
So true. Had to put in a new septic system at my house, didn’t think it would be too bad because it’s all sand here. Turns out there’s a layer of clay about 6 feet down. So that was fun digging the last 3 or 4 feet of septic tank hole in that.
@Mmbohn12 жыл бұрын
OMG. I live on an island in the Detroit River. There is freaking clay everywhere. Can’t dig down 3 inches without digging into it. The Detroit downriver area is full of clay. My clay professor used to take people out to excavation sites for new houses and take up the clay from the machines that would dig the basement lol
@lerikhkl5 ай бұрын
"Clay professor", what a wonderful title! Life goal for sure 😊 I can only call myself a clay amateur 😅
@HLBear2 жыл бұрын
We used to make little bowls from clay we found at the creek, when I was a kid. The feel was so silky. Not sure we appreciated how lucky we were to have it.
@mcdoctorglock2 жыл бұрын
My daughter just did that a few weeks ago. I'll have her watch the video and I'm sure she'll go back and revisit the site where she collected it.
@karenblohm32792 жыл бұрын
That sounds like fun.
@Mmbohn12 жыл бұрын
As kids we would make dice in the playground out of the clay lol
@hermantheduckgb2 жыл бұрын
My brother's and I used to dig up clay in our back yards and build little castles/forts for our green army men.
@Platypi0072 жыл бұрын
My sister and I did that at a lake we used to go to!
@ivan555992 жыл бұрын
If there is wild clay, then there must be also tamed clay.
@davidpettinger63502 жыл бұрын
Surely pottery is the art of taming ?
@randy-98422 жыл бұрын
My first thought too. Tame Clay then Wild Clay after a few drinks ... or, perhaps Dr. Jekyll and Mr Clay???
@GravesRWFiA2 жыл бұрын
I was wondering, if he's hunting clay, can it hunt you? or is this where we get clay pigeons?
@bostonrailfan24272 жыл бұрын
@@davidpettinger6350 …that makes sense on so many levels
@sycoticpsycho2 жыл бұрын
The tame clay is what you buy in the store.
@Petibako2 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was a potter. Her works are on exhibition in the village she lived in this weekend. Glad to see you cover this topic. Cheers from Hungary
@balogh892 жыл бұрын
Greetings to a fellow hungarian! Congrats for the exhibition!
@Petibako2 жыл бұрын
@@balogh89 Szervusz! Köszi! :)
@brianhenrichs94092 жыл бұрын
Why would they exhibit her works if she only lived there for a weekend? /s
@Petibako2 жыл бұрын
@@brianhenrichs9409 We've been all wondering about that. Odd...
@Petibako2 жыл бұрын
@Ben Kenobi May God bless you!
@happymack66052 жыл бұрын
Our area has heavy red clay soil, but the huge clay deposits in the creek are gray and high quality,free of debris. Summer fun is had while tubing; we stop and cover ourselves with the wonderful clay and let it dry. ‘Float by beauty bars’
@carrief17592 жыл бұрын
That sounds like Tennessee. Our other nickname should have been red clay state. lol
@enverse2449 ай бұрын
@@carrief1759nah, that belongs to North Carolina. Y’all are mostly nice though
@agimagi21582 жыл бұрын
I love how lovingly Jon speaks about this little river! Clay hunting sounds like a lot of fun!
@winfieldjohnson1252 жыл бұрын
That is NOT a river....A river is navigable.....Think about it.
@agimagi21582 жыл бұрын
@@winfieldjohnson125 Ok sorry, english is not my first language. Stream then, I guess
@gearandalthefirst70272 жыл бұрын
@@winfieldjohnson125 Did you understand what they meant? This is a youtube comment section, not a textbook (although I think most textbooks aren't even that pedantic)
@winfieldjohnson1252 жыл бұрын
@@gearandalthefirst7027 Lol, I guess I had that coming....By way of explanation; My Mother was an English teacher back when you were expected to actually learn in school. I can get touchy about these things.
@RicArmstrong2 жыл бұрын
I live in south west Pennsylvania and there's a bunch of old furnaces around from the early 1800's where they made glass. Sometimes you'll be in the mountains and just stumble across one.
@babytater332 жыл бұрын
I'm from the same area! There are certainly a lot of good deposits around and I've run into some old work areas too. Fascinating to think about what it was like
@TheMichigami2 жыл бұрын
there's a couple towns left in the area named after the furnaces they were built near too, the old iron, glass, and ceramics furnaces you find sometimes get preserved in parks but usually its just a mysterious weird chimney of stone forgotten in the middle of the woods and we always got yelled at not to go near em. its fun explaining to people not from the area why so many places have "furnace" included in the name between the ancient colonial industries and the coal and coke works everywhere.
@mountainmanfab2 жыл бұрын
lotta those old furnaces in central pa as well tho at least there they were mainly lime kilns
@lyra21122 жыл бұрын
The cinematography in this video is stellar! The reflection of sky on water, the leaves on stream bed. I feel like I just had a nice walk in the woods with my friend Jon 🌳🌳😊🌳🌳
@joshuasutherland66922 жыл бұрын
Townsend I don't think you have the faintest idea of how absolutely stoked I am to see a vid on the process of gathering artisinal clay.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87212 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize it was possible to get this excited about the process of gathering clay.
@GeorgeMonet2 жыл бұрын
I wish people would stop overusing the adjective "artisanal." Especially in areas where it does not apply.
@bunnyslippers1912 жыл бұрын
@Cambron Gabaree Well, his name is really Jon, not John.
@TheOtherBill2 жыл бұрын
@@GeorgeMonet It's a trendy word right now. Sort of like "infused". It'll go away as soon as people get tired of it being overused.
@joshuasutherland66922 жыл бұрын
@@GeorgeMonet Sorry I was just gathering artisanal vocabulary from the inner reaches of my brain folds :)
@petrus42 жыл бұрын
Jon, as an Australian, and therefore someone from a country with the reputation of having some of the most dangerous animals on Earth living there, I would like to offer you a small, but very important piece of advice. Under no circumstances should fingers be inserted into small, unknown holes in the ground.
@beth87752 жыл бұрын
A crawfish hole isn't particularly dangerous. Noodling for catfish can be though. Our most dangerous fauna are rattlesnakes and snapping turtles. Well, bobcats, but those are rare.
@MyBoomStick12 жыл бұрын
Depending on where you are, that advice is either useless OR can save your life. In Indiana he’s safe
@guardofmartyrs2 жыл бұрын
Who or what bit you
@GiraffeFlavoredCondoms2 жыл бұрын
@@MyBoomStick1 You're never safe anywhere there are snakes. I live in Ohio, we've got pretty similar wildlife to Indiana and we absolutely have venomous snakes and spiders and turtles that will easily take your finger off and small animals that WILL bite you, rabies is also very real. You're never completely safe in the wild like that, no matter where you are
@Servoengr2 жыл бұрын
I would have to agree with the comments above from the wonderful country of Australia, and from the great state of Ohio. Disagree with Indiana. You have cow tipping there. Very dangerous. And just forget about the desert SW of USA, with scorpions, centipedes, and their other friends.. Sadly, this is where the great videos of this channel meets with the 21 century. If no one visits there often, there are probably other reasons. Proudly from the great state of Illinois.
@TeacherBeesABCs-123s2 жыл бұрын
Just moved to Kansas, while trying to start a garden noticed our whole yard is a giant brick of clay!! The kids had fun making pottery 😜
@dennisperusse38372 жыл бұрын
Try making a raised garden box , that should be the easiest way to start. Best of luck in it. :)
@poursomebeeronit2 жыл бұрын
Welcome home. Kansas is a good place to be.
@bunnyslippers1912 жыл бұрын
Yep, we have a *lot* of clay here in Kansas. Great for pottery, not so great for gardening. I remember my neighbor looking at the soil in my little garden patch as I complained about all the clay. He informed me it was "good black soil" and I should be glad to have it. I never did get him to understand that it wasn't "good black soil," it was "heavy, badly needing more organic matter and some sand, pain in the butt for gardening, black clay". I even showed him how it balled up when squeezed and he informed me that all good soil did that. Poor guy had never gardened in his life, but he was an expert in his own mind. There's a brick factory about 30 miles west of where I live that has been making bricks out of local clay for generations. Not far from where they dig the clay for bricks is a salt mine, also formed by that shallow inland sea that deposited all that clay.
@garethbaus54716 ай бұрын
I live in Kansas this is accurate, at least in Eastern Kansas. If you try refining the clay your leftover material is much closer to being good soil. Raised beds are a great option if you don't need large amounts of refined clay.
@supersloth46352 жыл бұрын
In my youngling days, my great-grandmother once took me to my great-great-grandfather's clay source and showed it off with great pride. I hadn't the sense to appreciate it back then, but I do now.
@sinisterthoughts28962 жыл бұрын
knowing the land and exploring it in ways most folks never realize, such as studying soil composition add tree varieties is always fascinating. I grew up in the woods and found most people never notice all the subtle differences around them. frontier pottery sounds pretty cool, and the pieces you guys offer are quite nice.
@WGSen2 жыл бұрын
The positive vibe of your videos always makes me feel good. Thank you for sharing your experiences and the history and skills involved with so much passion and love!
@Durrdalus2 жыл бұрын
Watch out!! There's a green plastic bucket stalking you!
@k.r.35982 жыл бұрын
You want plenty of easily accessible, thick clay? Come to NE Ohio, specifically to the suburbs of Cleveland. Pick any patch of ground and dig down a few inches. Underneath that, you'll find as much thick, smooth clay as you could ever use. Please, take as much as you want...!
@Eezyriderr12 жыл бұрын
If You're ever in Fredericksburg, Va., let me know. I know a spot on the Rappahannock river her that has TONS of near commercial grade artist clay. A lot of artist here know about it. The stuff goes several feet deep just under the water surface (often only inches deep in summer), easy to harvest.
@epstiendidntkillhimself14352 жыл бұрын
Right there🤣
@not_your_raccoon2 жыл бұрын
Any chance you would give coordinates?
@Eezyriderr12 жыл бұрын
@@not_your_raccoon Be damned careful. They're is old rebar from the old dam they blew up in the early 2000s. Don't want in if the water isn't clear as glass. That garbage will impale you. Stay upstream from the historic marker at the old dam site.
@not_your_raccoon2 жыл бұрын
@@Eezyriderr1 oh wow wasn’t expecting it that far upstream, but the dam being there for a century… it makes sense. Found some pics of the sediment there after they blew it. Fascinating. Thank you for the warning
@Eezyriderr12 жыл бұрын
@@not_your_raccoon Yeah man. From the traffic circle on Fall Him it's about 1 mile, just past the old dam. The crib dam was there since about 1867-8, then the Embry dam replaced it. Plenty of time for the kind of sediment that forms clay.
@mismutt882 жыл бұрын
We had a beautiful blue clay deposit on the land where I grew up, it was so beautiful
@JamesRPatrick2 жыл бұрын
Interesting timing, I'm in the middle of processing my own batch of clay.
@PierreLucSex2 жыл бұрын
What kind of water do you use ? Rain ?
@dreadfulspiller87662 жыл бұрын
I was just in Taos on a day trip and I saw how cool the adobe buildings were including the church of san francisco de Asis and how every year they have to apply the adobe mixture and I was wondering if you would touch on frontier life in the southwest in the 18th century.
@constitutionalcarpenter5412 жыл бұрын
Taos is awesome!
@The1Mustache32 жыл бұрын
I helped dig a footing for the short side of a barn. It was 20 foot long 18 in wide 18 in deep, the area I was tasked to excavate was clay once you got 6 inches in...thick pure clay. A potters dream.... I took me two days with a shovel, pickax and wheel barrel.
@debbralehrman59572 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jon this is good information. In school we just got it from the bag on the table. I loved working with it.
@prettybyaccident2 жыл бұрын
I have never clicked a video so fast! The more I get into pottery the more I am interested in harvesting wild clay and doing my own pit firings. It's such a deep rabbit hole to fall down in!
@earlshaner44412 жыл бұрын
Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures and history
@GMan-hk7uu2 жыл бұрын
Awesome timing, I've been looking into wild clay recently.
@chickennuggetscoon69002 жыл бұрын
Youll find me in the burbs
@leannemori96882 жыл бұрын
What is wild clay?
@leannemori96882 жыл бұрын
@CreekDweller thank you so much for the kind explanation.
@GMan-hk7uu2 жыл бұрын
@CreekDweller yep, I just moved and the soil in my new yard is very rich in clay. Can't wait to make bricks and pottery after processing some of it.
@oregonbassboss982 жыл бұрын
Another wonderful video, Jon. So informative and educational. I truly have so much respect for what you are doing. You took an idea and ran with it and look at the success. Congratulations on a job more than well done.
@Bangalangs2 жыл бұрын
The best part is that he probably knew where all those deposits were beforehand, but he gave us several examples of places to look for clay.
@renebrock41472 жыл бұрын
I live south of you, Jon, along White River and Indian Creek. Lots of wonderful clays of several different types. In fact, there were at least 5 different potteries in a town called Shoals, about 15 miles south of me. The flood of 1913 put an end to most of them.
@tundramom2 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel a few days ago and I am SO glad! Thank you so much for making all of these videos.
@matttypes26952 жыл бұрын
The mosquito on your forehead was killing me
@sebastiancervantes68095 ай бұрын
I feel like this is important to learn about. Clay is so essential. For bricks bowls plates. Stoves/ ovens its extremely heat ristant and ceramic is incredibly durable. I appreciate the video.
@jennylynn821732 жыл бұрын
What a delightful adventure! Thank you for bringing us along! 😊
@AlecCapel2 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing!! Just been researching this subject so I can do my own pottery!
@airenthusiast10712 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I need today! A relaxing video.
@georgecampbell22792 жыл бұрын
Your brick making video is one of my favorites. Clay is so amazing! Ceramics in general are in our everyday life!
@martiaseques2 жыл бұрын
I feel bad for Jon when he gets to the river, a mosquito flies to his forehead and I can't shake it off or warn him.
@Sandbowls2 жыл бұрын
I know right? I wanted to warn that poor mosquito before it met the wrath of Jon. Hope it made it out ok.
@martiaseques2 жыл бұрын
@@Sandbowls he'd savor the flavors and aromas of death.
@jeffreygraf33582 жыл бұрын
Here in southeastern Wisconsin every small town has/had a clay pit. Their last use was for drain tiles.
@MrMCKlebeband2 жыл бұрын
did this myself recently, without any real knowledge... i just knew a species of plant that loves swampy areas, and i figured there must be a rather pure layer of clay for the area to be this swampy all year long... so i dug about 3 feet, and et voila pure grey clay, just contaminated with a few rocks and sand, but with actual chunks of pure grey clay that brake apart like pure clay does... in this kinda tacky way.. the plant i knew is known as "himalayan balsam" this stuff grows everywhere here but the area i choose to dig was a large field of it with dead trees in between.
@lyra21122 жыл бұрын
Bonus Saturday episode! 😍 Wild Clay hunting even better for this geologist! I loved every second! laughing at much I was geeking out on the clays you were finding. Great descriptions of depositional environments!
@NetTopsey2 жыл бұрын
Always a pleasure to watch. Always learning something new. Thanks for the content, and for the escape.
@Jagjustlisten2 жыл бұрын
This is simply the best content on youtube.
@RVM4512 жыл бұрын
Doggone Friend! You ran me nuts standing by that broken limb by the Creek! I always make an effort to snap off this kind of sharp eye-level branches-maybe save someone from poking out their eye some day...
@Lurker19542 жыл бұрын
More than fifty years ago, my Junior High School Art Teacher brought in a big lump of off-white stuff ((if the light hit it right it was actually a very faint blue). She broke it down, saturated it with water and strained it through a pair of nylon stockings. It produced some nice looking clay. I think she used it for pouring into a mold.
@revy10632 жыл бұрын
I really do love your videos, so relaxing to watch, calms my anxiety.
@archterkan7462 жыл бұрын
Seeing you walk through the woods like that raises an interesting question from me. Where colonists really that good at picking out and avoiding poison ivy in the underbrush? It seems I get it every time I end up walking through woods.
@nberounsky2 жыл бұрын
I love that you’re still posting after all these years
@ByronWatts2 жыл бұрын
My grandparents house had a hand dug cellar that was clay. I occasionally used some of it when I was young but we never fired it. I never thought much about why it was clay. At the time, the area that we lived in was almost entirely sand, so going to Grandma's house was noticably different.
@ZipZipInkspot2 жыл бұрын
Super enjoyed this adventure,, and learning about stream eddies and clay deposition. Can't wait to hear more. Remember doing exactly this as a kid, looking for clay in the walls of streams. It was always exciting to find it. Usually a deep gray and slick.
@tropifiori2 жыл бұрын
In Virginia, if you dig a hole anywhere you hit red clay. We have almost no topsoil except in bottom land. The bricks for Monticello came from the soil excavated from the basement.
@francis-fr5bb2 жыл бұрын
the camera quality at 2:48 is stunning! the light is captured perfectly & its like a period piece, everything's so clear.
@MegaJdalton2 жыл бұрын
Just head over to Claypool, Indiana!! Jokes aside, thanks for all you do! It would be so difficult to make sense of the old cookery texts and such without a visual guide.
@TocsTheWanderer2 жыл бұрын
The town/area I live in used to be completely covered in a swamp in the 18th century, but they dug some streams out to drain it. I noticed when remodeling my yard that there is a massive amount of clay, just about a foot underground.
@donnacarmean43032 жыл бұрын
Looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for hunting wild clay!
@5roundsrapid2632 жыл бұрын
I grew up on the Gulf Coast, and remember finding multiple colors in a river there. Blue, green, orange, red, you name it.
@olderendirt2 жыл бұрын
I live on the remnant of a Great Lakes glacial ridge with multiple springs and a creek not too far downhill. It doesn't take long when digging to get beyond topsoil to a grey layer and yellow layer. I also have a home kiln as a ceramicist so I'm especially interested in whether it's usable for something. Primitive birding stones were found on the property and the one I still have looks and feels fired, but whether it was made here I have no idea. Thanks for sharing this video. It's very interesting.
@Mark_Nadams2 жыл бұрын
Around our area to find clay all you have to do is walk anywhere between the two mountains and look down at your feet. We have two types lighter tan and medium grey clays. If you happen to hit the rare area with dark rich soil from the forest just dig down a foot or so and there is the clay again. The stream that cuts through the mountains deposited the clays over the years. When I was a kid, I used to make plates, cups and mugs to play with and ashtrays for my parents to use out of clay. Now that I am an adult, I curse it because I'm trying to grow a garden in it these days.
@DrDingsGaster Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Michigan and there's a river that empties into Lake Michigan in South Haven that has a hugeeeee deposit of clay. It's a grey clay but it's high quality and I couldn't help but take some home. Wild clay is great!
@Imaweiner272 жыл бұрын
What a great share. Thank you John!
@GiraffeFlavoredCondoms2 жыл бұрын
I remember digging holes as a kid and finding _massive_ chunks of beautiful bright orange clay all the time, I thought that's what all dirt was just like. I lived near Vermillion, Ohio, which was named after the same clay deposits that are a beautiful vermillion color. Even living like 20 minutes away now, the soil isn't the same
@papajeff54862 жыл бұрын
The clay that I’ve found was always associated with shale. The shale could be split for multiple fossils of ferns and plants. Texas
@wildgingerliving2 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful, thank you!
@TacoSallust2 жыл бұрын
I am definitely strapping in for this journey!
@charlesdrew39472 жыл бұрын
Pot holes are called that for a reason. Potters would dig clay where they could and the side of the road is very handy.
@Bildgesmythe2 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for a wonderful video!
@HB-622A2 жыл бұрын
This video reminds me a lot of the show Survivorman, with the self-filming, the walk through the woods, and the expertise of finding what you need in nature.
@boscoalbertbaracus13622 жыл бұрын
I’ve been wanting to use some clay from around me here in Tennessee for a while now, this might have finally goaded me into digging some up and throwing it in the kiln!
@enjoyer87002 жыл бұрын
I was doing my laundry 15 minutes ago and I hung up that exact shirt! Lol
@ashleyhavoc19402 жыл бұрын
Here in my local area of Ky, its easy to find a white or red clay in creeks and lake edges. There's a 500 acre place called 'Red Banks'. Only scrub will grow because of the super high clay content. It took my uncle 4 years ro get a patch conditioned for a garden!
@coreymerrill32572 жыл бұрын
That looks like you may be able to find some flour gold there. It will settle on dense clay layers as well as bedrock.so find a few friends to process what you dig up, getting to the clay . That would be cool and interesting seeing a bunch of old shaker boxes and long Tom's made from wood ,on site.
@4philipp2 жыл бұрын
I’m planning on digging out a root cellar on my property in a couple years or so. That might be a great time to look d’or clay as well.
@b_uppy2 жыл бұрын
One of the most common ways to discover clay was when you buried someone. Different soil strata can occur fairly close to the surface. After a foot or 2 of digging you may find glacial till or pure fine clay with no rocks. It was something to note. Burials happened quite often in the New World and they may have discovered useful soil quickly that way. BTW the tree is a huge factor in preventing streambank erasion...
@robertl.fallin70622 жыл бұрын
Befor excavating machinery burying people had its problems !
@b_uppy2 жыл бұрын
@@robertl.fallin7062 Thank heavens for heavy equipment!
@1959jimbob2 жыл бұрын
There is a huge vein of yellow clay AND blue clay that is on my family's land back in Georgia. We used to get 5-gallon buckets of the stuff and pretend we were creating pottery masterpieces all the time when I was growing up. The land also has an enormous supply of quartz. Much quantity of white, clear, and even pink. I don't know if there is any connection to the clay, but nevertheless, it's all right there.
@dwaynewladyka5772 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another excellent quality video. I would also like to know how they made glaze for pottery, in the 18th century, in North America. I'm sure you will cover that subject at some point. Cheers!
@davestelling2 жыл бұрын
Another wonderful, interesting episode! That's one handsome shirt, my learned friend...
@MrMann703 Жыл бұрын
Going to go dig some grey river clay after supper, stumbled onto a nice deposit, will be easy to process. I took a large coffee can of sandy soil from the same river a year ago and practiced separating the clay from the soil, made a fired little change dish out of it
@iowafarmboy2 жыл бұрын
This is really interesting! Looking forward to see the results.
@natviolen40212 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful place to live. You are very privileged, Mr Townsend.
@epstiendidntkillhimself14352 жыл бұрын
Definitely want more videos like this an will have to check the website.
@kiowastew2 жыл бұрын
You should come to Oklahoma. You can literally just reach over to the banks and scoop out a big handful of red fine silty clay. You can pull wheel barrows of it out.
@CanalTremocos2 жыл бұрын
Ah man, that is gorgeous clay on the thumbnail. I'm so jealous if it doesn't need one week of decantation to get it like that.
@pattysherwood70912 жыл бұрын
We had clay deposits on our farm in Dover NH, and it was said that years ago there was a small brick mill near the brook. It was only a foundation hole scattered around with bricks in my lifetime. And you can see where the land was dug out in areas. We would dig the clay and play with it when we were kids. And a few miles away was the town of Gonic. Short for the Indian name Squannamagonic. I think it means land between the waters. There was a huge brick yard there that operated into the 1980’s.
@Baker11ification2 жыл бұрын
I wish you were in Missouri. We hit some clay East of KC that I think you would love and I’d give you as much as you could take. Great video love you guys!👍
@rustybayonet16642 жыл бұрын
Here in the swamps of Northern Michigan, We have no problem finding Clay. The Grey type.
@blackjack96122 жыл бұрын
I think these are my favorite videos you do
@jannellchandler63992 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Love this😊
@g3heathen2092 жыл бұрын
I remember finding a large clay deposit on the shore of the Connecticut river around deerfield. I wonder how many people came down to get clay over the years.
@thecatguy43012 жыл бұрын
Your show is so cool. Thanks.
@kimfleury2 жыл бұрын
Interesting that you scout various locations nearby to one another, yet they have different types of clay. I once lived in a drained bog bottom that was below an ancient waterfall at the edge of a pre-ice age lake. And before the waterfall cut back, the land I lived on was at the bottom of the lake. I tried to do some gardening there, only to find wet clumped gray clay. Actually twisted a muscle in my neck using a stand up claw weeder because the clay was so clumped. It went down as far as we ever dug. It was fertile, but hard to work. A different clay field was once in Sarnia, Ontario, as I've mentioned before. It produced a distinct yellow brick, not quite like any color I've seen elsewhere. It was such a popular product that everyone who had land along the deposit made good money mining it for the brick works. But it was just a small deposit that ran out by the 20th century. What struck me from this video was your description of the creeks playing a role. It occurred to me that when I looked at old maps of Sarnia, there was a small river running through the area where the clay field was. That river is long gone, but I didn't find info on the disappearance. It seems to have disappeared around the same time as the clay fields were depleted. So this is especially interesting to me. I can tie it in to just about everywhere I've lived, or lived near.
@pottersjournal2 жыл бұрын
Ha, ha, very nice. A little of the geology and how it deposited. Then all the fun of the hunt. Making me really wanna get on the trail for summa that wild clay.
@mrMacGoover2 жыл бұрын
Best to have a iron rod that is the same as what's used to hunt bog iron, when you can slowly push the probe slowly down through the top layer you know a thick sticky patch of clay lies below.
@claydonious24182 жыл бұрын
This vid is right up my alley
@skaneverdies2 жыл бұрын
Fond memories of an art camp in historic Chester Springs, PA, where we sourced, sculpted, and fired our own clay.
@deltonmcclary73412 жыл бұрын
Love the video sir!! Are you going to get into the types of food folks made during Samhain? That'd be great!
@vincentgibson30492 жыл бұрын
Come around here in Williamsburg VA all we have is clay 😂
@duxdawg2 жыл бұрын
I've done this. It is very satisfying to make everything myself according to the old ways.