Metal Detecting And Camping On The River: Part Two

"Woke up. Fell out of my hammock. Saw bear tracks in the creek-bed." Well... more or less and I hope you don't mind the liberty I took with the lyrics. But I do find some fresh bear tracks very close to my camp this day. I also explore more river and have a VERY weird near experience with a local guy that mysteriously showed up at the river and continued to return many times. It was a great trip.
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[@Nortekj]

The chain you found was a Trace chain that was hooked to a heavy multilayered leather strap (called a Tug) on a harness for a horse, the reason for the different sizes of chain was so that they could slip one of the larger links through another of same size to shorten the chain, the link that was slipped through another was then hooked to the single tree that was hooked to a double tree to make a more shared load between two horses of different sizes and/or weight.

[@clivewarren780]

I absolutely LOVE these long videos that include camping and stuff. Truly entertaining!

[@vanceelliott2704]

instablaster.

[@R58Theresa]

I am so Thankfull for all your adventures and discoveries, PLEASE be careful!

[@joshuataft5541]

Had to watch again....i see my older comments...my leg is healed up and hoping to have a good summer with hopefully no accidents and no health issues ❤ ypur the man chigg I enjoy these

[@deltatfraidy]

Hi chig! ,I believe the lock you found has a patent stamp on it from 1860. Recently I dug what appears to be the exact same lock from a private property along the w and old dominion railroad in falls church va. The one I dug was used during and after the civil war, and was typically used for securing people's valuables on the railroad. After identifying it I returned it to the owner of the 200 year old house. Thanks for your vids

[@roberttannahill]

The first piece of brass found looks like the key hole cover off the same lock?

[@timetraveller9992]

The stranger across the river was probably wondering who the weird guy is that keeps jumping in the bushes and hiding! 🤣

[@RobertHickok]

Origin of "Pull up stakes": This phrase was first used by Virginia colonists in the early 17th century. Jamestown and other settlements were surrounded by wooden palisade stakes as a defense against marauding Native Americans. To change or expand one's residence would have meant moving the barriers too, much easier than to rebuild from scratch. Neat, eh?

[@RobertHickok]

From: idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+up+stakes

[@joshuataft5541]

AWESOME thanks for the info... really thanks

[@macbroch3756]

From the old English “Up sticks” which means take all your Brian’s move elsewhere, still used in UK today. 🇬🇧👸🏼🇬🇧

[@jimjustice581]

You do know bears like paw paws, right? They cross the river for the fruit and whatever EATS the fruit.😁

[@Seahorse1414]

Always an adventure , thank you for sharing your time and expertise !

[@joet7698]

Love your videos. Keep showing the your rusty finds. I learn about my finds from watching you.

[@KrentoTNT]

According to my book "Why we say it" you are correct on the meaning behind "pulling up stakes". Abandoning a gold claim.

[@cindyroy8541]

Why do we say kill 2 birds with one stone..just curious. Sounds like a cool book.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Me and my uncle used to make sinkers like that to grab hook suckers. We’d tie the hooks 4-5 hooks above the sinkers and put the sinker on the bottom. That way our hooks were above the bottom and would grab the suckers as we jerked the hooks across the river. Great times I miss them times and my uncle badly.

[@maryhelen1011]

That guy was SPOOKY! Looks like he's setting up rope to keep someone in prison, they'll be tied up there, only able to eat the unripe paw-paws and drink the sewer water! Probably dying from dysentery! Don't let him catch you Mr. Chiggs! I'd miss your videos like crazy! Ps. I would have hid too! All the best and stay safe!

[@hitandrepair]

Mary Helen lol nice Oregon trail reference

[@ianfritchie1157]

Mary Helen aren't you just a little ray of sunshine

[@novabigstar1509]

lol Mary ^_^

[@Waniakchicago]

You inspired me to start detecting back in 2012, and since then I've found so many things I never thought possible here in Illinois! Thanks for the great content Beau, and happy hunting

[@trackjosh]

SonicrabChicago in Chicago?

[@Waniakchicago]

In, and around Chicago

[@SHEAV_PALPAMEME]

Can I ask you what kind of equipment you've gotten at the start of your detecting-hobby? I'm anxious to start metal detecting myself one day, but incredibly professional equipment is, of course, not within my reach.

[@SHEAV_PALPAMEME]

@False Flag Alright, thanks for the info!

[@joshuataft5541]

Agreed..I detected but after I saw chig I got my own machine and it's helped me recover from injury buy getting out and detecting..also chigg seems like one hell of a guy he's one of the only dig channels I can stomach

[@leighscott8704]

Live the videos and great watching you on British TV any chan on some more videos of your collections and displays 👍💪 keep up the hard work and happy hunting.......

[@leighscott8704]

Sorry love not live lol

[@nealyjack]

Love watching your channel. I learn so many things...and I'm an old man! Thank you for all your effort.

[@cindyroy8541]

Never stop learning sir.

[@xerravon]

The guys on 4 wheelers has a channel with a video of them watching Chigg wondering what he's doing way out there across from his secret fishing hole! He pretends to leave to see if chigg will leave but chigg won't leave??? They figure Chigg is dumping a huuuuman body and while searching for the body they find a chest full of civil war gold bars!! Chigg had been sitting on it.😉😉😉

[@skiffsumner]

Hey Aquachigger, Just wanted to say thanks for posting these videos. I enjoy watching even the unsuccessful water adventure trips. Keep up the good work! Makes my day watching these.

[@susanhamilton1922]

Good one... Good time on the river....👍👍👍👍

[@gregwright392]

I know I've said this many time before, but I love that boat! Sooo wish I could find one of those in my area!

[@harrisonmantooth3647]

Beau, I've heard that groove referred to as a "blood groove". I enjoy everyone of your videos, even those where you find all the horseshoes. I look forward to each one you produce. Thanks. Stan

[@peterscheffer3578]

Show us all the junk you get Chigg! It makes it more exciting when you find something good!

[@shamebad]

Surprised your not down in Florida working the treasure coast. After that hurricane diggin should be sweet.

[@johnramirez5032]

Ur a funny guy. Hiding in the bushes in part so no one finds your honey hole. Very entertaining!

[@TravelBackroads]

Moar!! I like to see all the horse shoes!

[@MTPatriot1787]

As long as you bring enough batteries, I would say dig and film them all!

[@blackdog.6398]

Yes and also the Crannies there tents,, it means they are going to move the camp and they YELL! PULL UP STAKES !.. BOOM 💥there you have it ,,thank you ,, have a good day..

[@cornspace]

Damn, your Kayak looks like something out of Madmax!

[@CodingToFreedom]

Now I can see him waving a sawed-off shotgun without ammunition around while going down the river :)

[@thurin84]

2 MEN ENTER! ONE MAN LEAVES!!!

[@tomseadon9965]

Kinda like a modified version of a Torpedo! Love it!

[@savagedevildog]

Great video... all great adventures... 👍

[@marcussmith7694]

LET'S DO IT...! Made me laugh... You are easy to watch and a interesting bloke. Man you must spend so much time out and about..! You know your stuff and respect nature, I like that..

[@robertadamsmetaldetecting6324]

I have always been told the groove in the sword is called the blood let

[@respectanimals2]

Great adventure , I love the hiding and intrigue, wonderful throughout

[@eddominates]

"Just stick your face down in there and ...enjoy." Solid advice for eating paw paws... and ... well, enjoy!

[@mitziwhitworth4434]

Looooove your videos! My only complaint is there aren’t enough of them! :-). And yes, love the horseshoe finds. Since they are all hand forged, they are individual works of art! Keep up the great work!

[@chelywilliams2244]

The rope you found is what the guy used to get up and down the steep bank without falling

[@MikFindersKeepers]

If you hear a banjo playing enjoy the music, if your hear two, run 🏃‍♀️

[@jeffnelson9420]

Man,I hoped the miners info was going to pay off. You still had a good day, way down yonder in the paw paw patch.Thanks for sharing.

[@masterofurdisaster]

Keep doing this kind of video. Very well done I really enjoyed it.

[@Rehsmj2012]

I love Paw-paws. They are soooooo good.

[@praugie4530]

It was really entertaining to watch chigg eat the paw paw fruit

[@stevenmajewski3870]

Maybe he did see you and thought, why is that goofball hiding behind a bush? lol

[@tim9430]

@ 16:15 I think you're right with the "furniture decoration" guess. It looks like a piece of Japanese styled ornate brass from around a drawer pull.

[@TaylerMade]

the groove is called the blood groove commonly. it stops the blade getting stuck by suction when you pull it out

[@mericaheckya7458]

That guy was probably clearing a hunting spot. Using the tree in the middle for his stand.

[@timetraveller9992]

Ma Man ! You are Brilliant Beau ! X

[@michelestaples5547]

Pulling up stakes...I was told Tent stakes Beau. If you're. Checking out an area to hunt, work or live, you had a cloth canvas tent you would take down to move. It was also a term in medieval England for pulling up the stakes that you would move your oxen or horses too. Cool eh? I've missed keeping up with you. Good to see about on the river again..

[@the.tricky.outdoorsman]

Woo, a Doors reference! Great video mr. Beau

[@Das_Vert]

Lindsey was gonna make you a nice pan of brownies for a homecoming gift, but she couldn't find her damned pan!

[@terryladouceur2651]

Chig the CLIFF CLAVEN of the river a plethora of knowledge.

[@shootthemoon6072]

37:41- That's what she said. I know; I'm sorry. 😊

[@jimgriffiths9071]

I'm pretty sure that was young noggin over there filming a couple of coin spills, and a badge or two. I prefer your horseshoes beau!

[@lewis8422]

You know someone is a true gem of a person when they casually flick some potential gold back into the river for a prospector to find

[@artistfoxooak]

Earliest reference was Jamestown abd then Witch Trials era, where to protect community from Native Americans, fences were pole stakes, and if family had a guilty tried witch as a member, they were forced to "pick up stake walls" easier than recutting and stripping new logs.

[@jasonwatson3255]

Let’s see that boat !!

[@Dan01554]

And the baby eels are born in the Sargasso sea, for us in the UK by the time they reach here, 3000 miles plus, the eels are about 4" in length, and they do net them as they are a delicacy for some. Danny.

[@icondonnied]

I don't mind the horseshoes.. Keep digging, baby!

[@jimkey920]

"Pull up stakes." I think you are exactly correct on that one. The fishing wier is accurate however we used to put a trap at the outlet called a Fyke. It was made of splitt saplings.

[@sourcreamking]

Ahh, the lovely 30-06, or 7,62x63 as we Europeans call it. Ever been detecting in Norway? Spot on with the eel-facts Chigg! Slippery buggers can even move far distances in wet grass. Pretty amazing creatures.

[@killerlalu1]

Too late! Too late! I quoted you already!!!! 😁💜

[@BruceGordon925]

Not so strange, I hid on you at one time. ; ) On the Opequon. The guy you heard maybe was getting Paw Paws.

[@IJmond2014]

Have you ever eat eal, beau? They are delicious and expensive. It is a delicacy in the Netherlands. We smoke them. Oh and btw I love all your video's it is a pleasure to see them!!

[@cabooseabs6864]

The first time I tried sushi was an eel roll. I'm a fairly picky eater and was really hesitant but my friend assured me it was good and he was right. It was amazing. It all depends on who makes it though. I've had a couple eel rolls that weren't good and borderline gross. If you like eel and haven't tried sushi eel rolls are a great first try. And a lot people don't know this, but most meat in sushi has been cooked. The menus will say if it's raw or not.

[@joestevens8975]

at 34 min.... that could have been a blown up canon end

[@pa19335]

I laughed out loud when you dove into that pop paw and it was all over your face.

[@amysellsdallas]

Cue the banjo music 🎵

[@marymisdom3955]

Do you ever think about the missing 411 stories by David Paulides where people just disappear from wilderness areas? Or what about sasquatches?

[@ianfritchie1157]

mary misdom sasquatches aren't real

[@joewallsmonsterhunte]

Squatch are very real.Flesh and blood! Seen them many times.

[@dirtfisher4383]

joe walls sr ,.. um ,.. no you didn’t

[@backwoodz_va]

Pay your taxes ​@@dirtfisher4383

[@steveroush4147]

It is possible that the horse shoe is from a heavy duty farm horse, not quite the Clydesdale but still a substantial size work horse.

[@thomaswilliams6155]

you are an interesting dude thats for sure. I identify with your desire to be away from people. Not that people are bad, their not, but thy are full of drama, etc, Nature is also full of drama but in a good way. these have been awesome video's on the river and it doesn't matter if you find lots of stuff

[@missmaryhdream6560]

I do love these videos. The noise of those crickets 🦗 lol. ❤️

[@chintasrvvegankitchen7761]

Google says it means "Gathering the timber and building the fences involved significant effort and if settlers later decided to move they would take their palisade with them. This was a well-enough established practice by 1640 for the phrase "pull up stakes" to have been used figuratively to mean "move house". Smile!

[@michaelguenther6379]

Pulling up stakes means to Move away, leave one's home, job, or country. For example, We've lived here for years, but now it's time to pull up stakes. This expression alludes to the stakes that mark property boundaries. [ Early 1800s]

[@solosearcher]

42 minutes of pure Chig.....

[@eatmelily]

Thanks for part II.......Loved it...

[@tim9430]

I think that lock is a keeper. I think that yellow rope means someone probably delivers something there to a boat.

[@shikaryoushi]

love your outdoors detective work, keep it up my friend, you are a living INDIANA JONES !

[@mercedithcompala8148]

I love horse shoes ❤

[@canadianphil421]

Fuller is right 😀👍

[@outlawMrTuff]

good hunt!! broke the branches to mark the spot so he could find it later... my thought..

[@Vault57]

18:30 Hey Chig , the chain looks like harness chain used with horses or oxen for moving loads like timber or cargo wagons. Maybe a viewer with experience using draft horses at county fairs and the like could identify it. Also my grandfather had some pieces of chain like that which went to a horse drawn plow...like the ones you've been finding in the river.

[@JanVafa]

It's one of your fans!

[@wewanttobefree41]

the big thing you found with what looks like three shafts out of the top of it is a dynamite detonator box

[@andrewbarlow8937]

The dude was looking for a Campsite for his kids . He was me . Dam it !

[@grizz1108]

Sometimes more bad than good. Keep up the positive attitude ol kid.

[@robertboucher2258]

damnit boo boo!! i told you not to touch those three ring bullETS! that bear track was very cool. and maybe that guy was misleading you by those pistol bullets? draw you away from the real treasures?!! j/k damn good video Chigg keep it up bud..

[@davidedey3300]

@22:00 The groove in a blade is called the "fuller". The fuller is often mistaken for a "blood groove" but anyone with basic physics will know that the fuller actually removes flexibilty through the depth of the blade; in short It makes it like an I-beam.

[@jameslandon4126]

Correct, it reduces weight and increases the rigidity.

[@uhfnutbar1]

thank you for the video sir ,,, nice and long ,,, some times long is more :)

[@randlerichardson5826]

I’ll never forget them times neither. Kids nowadays don’t know what they’re missing.

[@mudglass4253]

Love the Doors reference

[@oldguysdoingstuff6216]

Hey Beau, you should post unedited video and edited highlights perhaps? Hours of video and bloopers for Chig aficionados!

[@timetraveller9992]

Having fun is the most important thing !

[@Primal-knowledge]

When you picked up the lock... after finding the chain... at 18:55 you dropped a native american "adze". They can be small, and were more useful then a stone ax for shaping a wood tool. The stone adze would me mounted to the top of a wood handle with raw hide. The green stone you dropped was the correct size... shape, and material for making a stone adze. You can see the shaped and ground bit clearly, just before you dropped the artifact, and kept the cheap lock ! haha Absolutely love your videos !

[@aquachigger]

Quite possible, seems like an awfully soft stone for such a tool though.

[@Primal-knowledge]

@@aquachigger Fine grained Greenstone was a rock of choice for axes, celts and adze, by native prehistoric people. A sharp polished "bit" edge is never naturally developed tumbling in a river. Since you held it in your hand... I guess you can call it a find !

[@ThatOldBiddy]

I thought "pulling up stakes" refered to the stakes on a tent. I now see others have heard of that also. Thanks for another great video.

[@BobSaget-et6ln]

Journey to 900k subs... be we make it before december

[@ednafruchey7386]

Eating that wild fruit might get you a case of Hershey squirts and Manbearpig can pick up your scent in a heartbeat. Remember all ways have a towel when you go treasure hunting

[@MerAngel12121]

Beau, The brass decoration, I'm thinking was used on a the front of a jewelry box or piece of furniture, maybe from the nineteen fifties or sixties era.

[@jeremyclayton283]

The groove in the blade is called a fuller.

[@gigglygigglygoo69]

Beau They have beaten their swords back into plows

[@BFagan]

Beautiful stretch of river, indeed. I'm surprise you never caught me out there, 10 - 15 years ago, looking for relics or fly fishing the smallmouth.

[@TreasureHuntingSWPA412]

Don't worry, he's just burying a body

[@A_Goat]

Ha, thanks for the laugh.

[@jjcaron72]

Ricky lives!!!!!!!

[@philurmom7559]

TreasureHuntingSWPA thats the best way to hide a body. Post it on youtube

[@mr.rogers9319]

He's just checking on his grow

[@Jls75]

He was pickin paw paws

[@TaylerMade]

eels are extremely good eating.. smoked eel is a taste sensation.