Metal Detecting Rivers: Searching a Colonial Era Iron Furnace

[@LincolnLogCody]

Man I gotta tell you Im loving these daily vids. Watch them every night when Im eating dinner. Very interesting stuff!

[@aRustyPatina]

Great video! To think of all the labor it took to construct those bridges and the subsequent time for them to erode, truly amazing. Water Always Wins.

[@patriciadunn6602]

Love the water flowing ,so beautiful.. Has to be fun whether you find a lot or not..

[@john24gold1]

nice work again mate gotta give u props, always learn something from your videos Beau! working on my river recoveries! have safe holidays , all the best!

[@jeffwilkes4508]

Beau . At least you got a coin . Lol it's something . Don't think I would like driving across that bridge the way it is ! Lol a crack !! Thanks for sharing

[@mbalars1]

I just want you to know I live my life vicariously through you :-)

[@LeonardFShanerJR]

Frame 6:50 that is a coil spring from a Freight car truck . Great video! Len.

[@CatalinaThePirate]

LOL. One of the things I love about +Aquachigger 's videos is that he shows interesting things, like how there were so many different bridges built to cross over this creek. Heh. Don't miss the end, yiu will ROTFL! ;)

[@CatalinaThePirate]

LOL! One of the things I love about +Aquachigger 's videos is that he shows interesting things, like how there were so many different bridges built to cross over this creek. Heh. Don't miss the end, you will ROTFL! ;)

[@userunavailable3095]

Those iron furnaces were often located along streams in the colonial era because they had a water wheel to power the bellows for the blast. Later on, steam engines freed them from that need, and they were often put up on top of mountains to be nearer the ore deposits and the trees from which they made charcoal. The Eastern Kentucky mountains were denuded making charcoal for iron furnaces. I think a lot of what you are finding there is slag and iron "blooms."

[@MrDevlin350]

Thats pretty scary that they are claiming that bridge support is safe,I don't see how that is possible.I guess some day they will find out at the expense of lives. Great video's,I love the river hunts !

[@GasserGlass]

I miss these OLD Chigg videos

[@databaseexpert]

Found nothing? You found a Washington Quarter Dollar! Get ready for retirement baby! :D

[@vicsmotos3702]

Everyone's having a hissy fit about that bridge but have obviously never been to Pennsylvania

[@vin-r8602]

I kinda like the 55 year old Beau better than the 45 year old Beau. More Swag and Finesse.

[@fluoridekid]

A day's hunting without any luck, but the potential was there, just not for you on this occasion. Beautiful surroundings though. GL & HH for your next hunt :D

[@gravediggermaxvabeachva]

still beats working - sunshine and fresh iron .....should be air....: - ) been hunting almost everyday and god it has been slow for me - exercise i call it good luck on your next adventure

[@WildDigger]

Wow what interstate is that? I want to stay away from that bridge till it is repaired.

[@mcslyver5310]

hey Chig, if you look at the vid at abt 2:50 that first piece of pig iron almost looked like it had a face on it, would be the only thing i would have kept.

[@caleb4367]

You should post a video of your collection. I'm interested in seeing your mass collection!

[@normanhirtle3180]

EEEEEW why for you lick the lens? LOL Cool area there. I think they need a couple more bridges though. ;-) GL & HH

[@KatsFateAtHand]

I'm young (13) and this really seems fun and intresting to me, i'm going to start doing this and see if i have any luck - Katie

[@cjventer9055]

that piece of pig iron looked like it had the features of a face on it

[@Mercules77]

A mass collection video would be saweet.

[@MrD3VO]

any clue what year they did the furnace work there?

[@Micsnutty]

Hi Beau. Regarding the cracked bridge support... Is that on a river that floods much, or had it sometime recently to your recording? Reason I ask is because when I saw something similar on a bridge structure as a teen, I told a friend's dad who worked with an engineering firm that did, among other things, evaluation of structural integrity. He had me show him the spot, and he looked at it & said that more modern bridges use concrete type non-structural layer on the pillars and that it can crack or chip off safely, indeed should in the case of an impact, like trees in fast floodwaters, and as long as the actual support portion isn't damaged, it's fine, and when they do regular maintenance they'd likely patch it with more so it could do it's job and crack or whatever leaving the structure intact. The way he explained it, it sounded equivalent to modern 'crumple cars' that are designed to take damage in order to reduce damage to the passengers. No idea if that actually makes sense, or if he was just telling me what I wanted to hear, but for whatever its worth, that was what I was told, and the damage on your bridge looked pretty similar. Anyway, thanks as always for taking the time & effort to share your videos. Always enjoy them. Hugs from Canada. Micki

[@Micsnutty]

+Beau Ouimette Cool (having been in that kind of biz). I'm sure you'd have a much better idea than I would then, since I was basing it off old second-hand info. Heck, I don't even know if having an ... impact layer... is even a real thing. If it needed repairs then I hope it's since been fixed. Have a great day! (& thanks for answering so many comments!!)

[@zackholtz7826]

Civil engineer here. I'd say that crack is definitely of significant concern. 1) it's definitely active, showing progressive cracking up and down the column, and 2) all that rebar is exposed and rusting. It looks already rusted. Only going to get worse if they don't repair

[@RustyHaloMetalDetecting]

I couldn't find anything at the iron furnace near where I grew up, and it was shelled during the civil war!

[@RustyHaloMetalDetecting]

+Aquachigger you're preaching to the choir about that one! ugh!

[@SIG442]

Odd, I will garantue you that with the next big flood there will be problems there if not a full collapse. The state really needs to get off their rear ends and do something about it. This could cost lifes. But glad that at least someone is doing something about such things when seen. To few do that, so big plus for you on that.

[@trhinehart32]

i have a good place to water hunt but never tried it so i got the AT PRO wher do u get the magnets for your pick .i love your video keep um coming

[@DigginDeepSouthLA]

Thumbs up

[@tomharrell1954]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. I don't believe that "perfectly normal" one dam bit. I think that is dangerous as heck. I have never seen a pier that was like that. I live in Florida with lots of bridges. The DOT keeps them up. I fish a lot and see the piers. The DOT wraps them and fills them with concrete if they become cracked.

[@tomharrell1954]

knot heads

[@CsokisMorisz]

***** The iron corrosion products that form on steel have much greater volume than the metal that is consumed in the corrosion reaction. This increase in volume around the bare steel rebar exerts great disruptive tensile stress on the surrounding concrete. When resultant tensile stress is greater than the concrete tensile strength, the concrete cracks, leading to more changes by allowing rain and chlorides direct access to the steel bar. Corrosion cracks are usually parallel to the reinforcement and are quite distinct from transverse cracks associated with tension in the reinforcement caused by loading. As the corrosion proceeds, the longitudinal cracks widen and, together with structural transverse cracks, cause spalling of the concrete...... so it is normal :)

[@MississippiTreasureHunter]

Great vid hope you get gold an silver next hunt.

[@grittykitty8005]

They said it was " Perfectly Safe "

[@lucasmurdy163]

Hi from Canada

[@charleswilder2985]

Not quite true; you kept the quarter, right? :-)

[@verasmayhem]

You threw away that clad quarter? Lol

[@MadisonMainedetecting]

I hope you at least kept that quarter. Better luck next hunt.

[@caseyall3917]

That is scary.

[@trhinehart32]

o and by the way you are invited to go anytime its in the Shenandoah valley its allot of water to detect

[@skunkman1998]

Hmmmm! Perfectly safe?

[@caseyall3917]

Yep

[@blal07]

you have concerns of what living things ur gunna happen upon in these waters alone? i get sketchy just watchin you under water man, not familiar where ur from but i suppose u know what could be in there or you would have a second hand available for safety love your vids

[@blal07]

lmao you got me having the fever man, but i don't care for the unkown in the water. i wear glasses n rarely seen under the waters in Pictou County where i'm from' and one of those big snappers wouldn't make me feel any more at home if he were to grab hold. lol call me a wussy if ya want.. but if i could see better underwater with even a mask maybe but still not unless the waters clear as the water in the corner store. cant wait for more..ant your siamese bullet is sweet, old and great to see. Smokin find bro

[@rustylord_met2132]

+Beau Ouimette something is gonna kill yea, might as well be something fun.

[@didymusdaniels]

You know there are schools that buy iron ore samples. Grade school kids get a kick out of sticking magnets to rocks like those on this video

[@rustylord_met2132]

i told my mother about how cool iron ore was.... next thing i know im slaving over a forge fiting horseshoes.

[@SIG442]

8:14 as son of a carpenter I can tell you that is NOT save at all for all that weight. Think you should call in the media and show them this, this will have to get fixed or the bridge needs to be closed! Few more hits like that and the bridge WILL collapse. They should build a arch bridge without pillars here, less chance of damage to the bridge then. To bad you did not find much usefull this day.

[@Hobgoblin1975]

first Seriously though, you could take some of that junk and sell it for scrap

[@jimkey920]

"Normal"? Strange evaluation.

[@blal07]

normal and perfectly safe hahahahahaha omg im a baker i bake breads pastries n rolls for a living hahaha and that dosen look safe at all i cant believe thats what they said to you. i see your concern man nd they shud look into that for sure.

[@sethcarroll2554]

their is no way that that is safe

[@infidel6608]

Axle spring from a train car

[@jaydenhill985]

I got 187 sivle war bullets and you are so cool

[@MsKindaSorta]

Ew! 🤪

[@TubeThisProduction]

good enough for a government job.... give it time they will have union workers down there spending more time looking at it then fixing it lol

[@viviandaniela1157]

Por que você joga de volta ao Rio o que não lhe interessa? Por que não guarda para jogar no lixo? why do you play back to the River metal that found and do not interests you? why not guard metal that found and plays in the trash?