Mysterious Blob From The River : WHAT'S IN THE BLOB???

This is the mysterious blob of rusted iron that I found in the river not long ago. We took an x-ray of the mass that I share with you. Then I took a hammer and other tools and broke it apart.
As always this is a how to metal detecting outdoor adventure vlog that is family friendly and hopefully a fun video.
About Aquachigger:
I like to make videos that promote my lifestyle of outdoor adventure, metal detecting, yapping, searching for river treasure, SCUBA diving, exploring abandoned places, hiking, caving, caring for animals and pets, and observing the things outdoors that often go unnoticed. I keep my KZbin "Aquachigger" channel family-friendly and hope you subscribe if you like my style.
I hope to see you guys out there!
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[@aquachigger]

WHAT'S IN THE BLOB???

[@48thstateprospecting]

I tried to play husband I tried to taste the life of a simple man but it didn’t work out… so I took a souvenir her pretty little gems and brass casters…… Because I envy your normal life.. it seems that envy is my sin….what’s in the blob…what’s in the fu***** blob… I just told you…. you LIE… your a fu***** liar SHUT UP!! That’s what he wants,.. he wants you to shoot him… NO NOOOO… you tell me.. you tell me that’s not true…. Become vengeance David.. no you tell me she’s alright you tell me… become vengeance become Wrath…. That is one of the great ones from yesteryear and a very edge of your seat ending… thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼

[@SpartanONegative]

📦 A little Brad Pitt 😂 humor 😅

[@detectingpa8968]

The jewels are pieces to a crystal shandalier. My mother and grandmother have one that are made from real crystal. They to have the brass hooks in each side.

[@aserta]

The blobs is the remains of an old steamer trunk (tho normal trunks also had them). The casters are specific to them (in that vintage) and they're named "Philadelphia pattern casters". That brass curved piece is the latch that allowed you to keep the steamer locked (i wish i could find the right one, because between it and the casters, it's what itched my brain for 5 hours now). The final element that seals the deal for me tho, the multitude and variety of nails. Small, large and everything in between. And boy.. do steamer trunks have lots of nails in them. Source: i had one of these trunks professionally restored after water got to it. The nails had swollen into the wood and its entire side was messed up beyond repair. It had to be taken apart to bare materials to be remade. The restorer had to replace almost 200 nails of all varieties.

[@BuffaloBillsSon]

I do t know but I skipped to the end and you was sitting with two wheels and a pile of bashed up dirt! lol get video again! 😂

[@deplorable1-2]

The "diamonds and wire things look like they are from a chandelier.

[@intoeverything2023]

That's exactly what I was thinking, but the castor's are throwing me off...maybe a fancy lamp on wheels? IDK.

[@deplorable1-2]

@@intoeverything2023 Iwas thinking of a can full of handy junk drawer stuff that got tossed in the river

[@Laura-Kitty]

That's exactly what they are. Chandelier drops.

[@douglaskerr6813]

Castors probably from a little table

[@BrodyPetree_Thegamer_123]

Yes

[@RonAdams-h4s]

The piece of brass-what-ever it-is is a picture hanger. The wood molding ran around the top of the walls, the hanger clips onto it. The picture is suspended from it by a long wire or cord. No nail holes in the walls! I live in a 100+ year old house with these rails. Works slick. Love your videos ❤

[@j.f.christ8421]

All houses should have picture rails, very handy. The cool kids can run LED strips along them. I'm not sure that's a picture hook though, never seen one with the little "T" bit hanging off it, they're always a simple elongated "S" shape. Comment below said it might be part of a steamer trump clasp, dunno about that.

[@SST11B]

Somebody threw the kitchen junk drawer into the pile😂

[@arctiknitter]

What an exciting find! Looks like "jewels" from a light fixture.

[@j.f.christ8421]

Yup, chandelier drops.

[@rogercrawley6966]

Enjoyed this decommissioning of the conglomerate treasure blob! Thanks for sharing!

[@lavenderrainbow5041]

Your "Jewels" remind me of those faux crystal chandeliers :)))

[@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm]

Fun and different. Thank you. Thanks to your lovely wife for the X-ray. Tappy tap tap with Maxwell's silver hammer!

[@SandyWolf-]

You find the most exciting coolest things! Cheers!

[@darbysdownhomedetecting]

Very interesting 🤔 thanks for sharing chig 🤠

[@aserta]

I GOT IT! I know what this is. It was itching my brain ... why would these items be in a pile. Then it hit me. What item has casters and lots of various sized nails in one. An antique trunk. The type with the opening middle and drawers. Those have TONS of various sizes of nails in them from tacks to full sized house sized nails. And then i went online to check the casters... and sure enough, they're all over. They're named philadelphia pattern caster. That curved brass piece is also in some of these steamer trunks as well, as the latch to pull them apart.

[@polkcellar]

I remember you finding a great treasure of coins in the river. You just never know right? Love your historical finds and hunts. Those caves scare me though bigtime!😮

[@user-Icicleandfireball]

Stay cool, chigg, stay hydrated

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Fun to watch!

[@glennwebster1675]

👍

[@mercedithcompala8148]

This was great watching you and the mysterious blob 😮 thanks Chigg 😅

[@kathybrandt6060]

That was fun, thank you for letting us watch you do that.

[@oleradiodudea.m.4735]

Nice job with the blob!

[@7sleepy]

Beware of the blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch Be careful of the blob Beware of the blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch Be careful of the blob Beware of the blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch Be careful of the blob Beware of the blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@FoulOwl2112]

The remains of Great Grandma's bejeweled, fabric covered, rolling Knitting and Sewing Box. Or a child's Doll Chest.

[@brendageorge9024]

Those are Crystal's that hang on a Chandelier 😊

[@rawfoodwriter]

MOARRRRR!!!!

[@AnotherMN_Fan]

Nice to finally know. Suspect Lindsay helped you out! Thanks for sharing, Beau.

[@sandiscuriousthings257]

4:11 are definitely from an old chandelier. I have several and the 'gems' are all exactly like that. So cool ❤

[@BoshiYoshi]

More exciting than those treasure dig blocks you buy at Walmart.

[@PaulGadoury]

Bang, Bang, Maxwell silver hammer

[@oldbamadirt2148]

😁Now We Know 😎👍✌

[@KenzertYT]

Been dying to see what’s in this blob!

[@artsimpson3670]

Aloha Chigg, Thanks for the companionship!

[@douglasangeloni9835]

Diamond looking things are definitely from a chandelier as the last comment suggested.

[@advenzures]

👊🤩👍

[@garytracey1690]

5:10 it's the brass end to a porcelain caster wheel from a couch I've seen 100s as my dad's a master upholster here in Ireland 🇮🇪

[@pamelaromer7727]

Did your spouse say, “Another X-ray?” Love your stuff.

[@aloberdorf4579]

Before I watch any more.....that Sewing Machine Oil Can Jumps out at Me......Whoa !!!

[@aloberdorf4579]

What happened to that oi can.....I need to go to school for radiology.....LOL !!

[@haroldishoy2113]

My compliments to your wife since she must be an x-ray tech of some kind. Different films have differing speeds and sensitivities and could show more of what is inside objects like that. With the blob broken apart, it links like a conglomerate of items that may have fused together in a fire.. Many thanks for sharing with us.

[@Mandy7D7]

Lindsay is a Veterinarian and her office has an X-ray machine.

[@williamb8180]

i would really like to metal detect with you, i am bit of the armature,, live in nothern maryland.watch you all the time. i dont miss much of your Videos.

[@dfdigger3820]

Nice blob, i like the pic hanger !!

[@timmurphy5137]

The brass piece is a picture hanger that hangs from the trim

[@StarScapesOG]

That part at 7:17 looks like the broken remains of a castor just like the other 3 but in worse shape. You can see the broken edges where the arms came up to hold the wheel

[@KenzertYT]

Chigg, the x-ray picture would make a VERY cool thumbnail or element in the thumbnail.

[@aquachigger]

You may be right. Perhaps I'll change it. Thanks

[@KenzertYT]

@@aquachigger stay cool during the heat wave!

[@joeylandry4933]

The real treasure is in the journey 🙂👍

[@johntyson]

Looks like the contents of a sewing/craft kit

[@chrysanthepaxinos2839]

Yeah. Crystals are from a chandelier. I guess you haven't had to clean too many of those LOL. Nice looking at river treasure. I hang the odd, old crystal on my Xmas tree.

[@FOUNDITBURIED]

WHERES THE SILVER DOLLARS, NEXT TIME CHIGG! NEXT TIME!!

[@AndrexT]

The 'jewels' are from a chandelier. The metal thing is a picture hook. The castors are from a small upholstered parlor chair. Interesting to x-ray is first.

[@dennismorris3254]

Next time chigg

[@lisauptagrafft2010]

If the things you’re calling jewels are glass, I’d think they were on a chandelier…. maybe. ✌🏼❤️

[@mikepetrucha2774]

Your House Wren sure was chattering away.

[@lindakeller6086]

Light fixture, I clean those jewels alot

[@zzydny]

The jewels look to be crystals, likely from a chandelier.

[@WayneTheSeine]

Let's hope it is a diamond.....Uoo Uoooo....Let's call it The Hope Diamond.

[@dennismorris3254]

I remember that hunt

[@PaulGadoury]

Wow, all 5 days ago!!!

[@garynichols8186]

Maybe the jewels were from an old chandelier?

[@michaelglentz1858]

Picture hanger (Victorian era)

[@MrFriiy]

IKEA cabinet installation hardware bag, corroded on the river bottom… hahah

[@choccolocco]

Probably an old “junk bucket” full of nails and the occasional hardware. Found some neat little glass insulators in a bigger chunk once. Maybe more of a coffee can.

[@russriley3005]

those castors are probably from an old dresser. I have similar casters on some of my older furniture

[@Vault57]

5:10 was an old brass wheeled furniture caster... minus the brass wheel. 5:53 I have seen casters like those on the antique oak bases of the board room chairs at a university. It's pretty normal for the 1920s ‐ 30s.

[@PaulGadoury]

Those casters would be destroyed if anything larger than a newborn baby was put on it.

[@ashleyod1346]

We have the same light fitting in our hallway, circa 1970’s

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey Chigg

[@pilkpulk8284]

Looks like you found a fancy oil lamp....

[@dartmart9263]

Isn’t there a less violent way to shed all the rust away from the blob? Some solutions or electrolysis perhaps?

[@sabatino2561]

looks like part of glass part from an old chandelier parts.

[@sethpark777]

I'd venture to guess that this was a "junk jar" that sat in the shed collecting spare odds and ends, and nails pulled out of boards for when you might need them again! It shed its glassy coffin in the river.

[@zipshed]

I was kind of hoping we would see more like old 20 dollar gold pieces!

[@jbh666]

Could be a home made toy car? Jewels as headlights?

[@chuckjenkins4348]

I think the blob was a jar filled with casters and small nails and brads and other little items when the lid rusted away the jar filled with water rusting all the items together and eventually the glass broke and the rust clod fell out and sat till Chigg found it many many years later and those are small furniture casters I have the same ones on my antique hutches. Sorry Chigg no silver dollars but that could very well happen!!!

[@wanderwoman4695]

Somebody's junk can got washed into the creek. What fun!😅

[@ibyt33]

the jewels you fond came from a old lamp, i know because my mom had one.

[@mumurioste790]

Those caster might have came off of an old singer sewing machine I have one at home and it looks just like it

[@adrianpurvis9092]

Thats so cool, you have probably been asked this a million times, but have you ever found fragments or a whole torpedo that General Gabriel J. Rains invented??

[@beyondborders9159]

The jewels are from a chandaleer i hd to clean my grandma's all the time I hated that crap lol. The casters are from a victorian table.

[@carolwilliams9143]

Costume jewelry, part of

[@antystein]

It looks like it was a magnet that collected all those pieces and by the time they were all fused together the magnet disintegrated.

[@GailBrum]

Next time Chigg.

[@craig8164]

I saw a metal detector coil in the X-ray

[@RAMelloh-ij5sl]

Used to be a tin can full of VJ (valuable junk).

[@werner.x]

Well, could have been another Antikythera mechanism. Probably next time 👍

[@greenalien3857]

Lol nick nack and a paddy wack lol your funny.

[@sandiscuriousthings257]

You know how everyones papa had an old coffee can full of nails, screws, and assorted important-ish stuff in his shop? I bet thats exactly what that is. The can was forgotten and got rusty and someone just discarded it. Lol maybe?

[@andreamills5852]

As seen on Chigg TV "The Tetanus Bedazzler" ? I guess the radiation from the☢ x-ray loosened everything up for you .

[@uk82punkz]

you found the missing parts for the Antikythera mechanism!

[@Rom3_29]

I would have tried first boiling that blob in a pot of water. That way baked dirt would have loosen up.

[@Hawk89gt]

the xray looked suspiciously like a metal detector…

[@redr1150r]

Some ones junk bag, or perhaps a long disintegrated carboard box full of junk ?

[@williamburdon6993]

My guess is it was junk in a can or jar that got rusted into a blob. the jar broke or the can fell apart and there you go.

[@scottlambert2949]

That's part of a chandelier and a picture hanger

[@carlgruver695]

I found a heavy crustacean item in the sea with my detector soaked it in vinegar for a week to break up crustacean when a 1693 silver coin was inside but it was paper thin

[@bearmetalforge4464]

The glass peices are from a lamp or chandelier

[@garrisonh]

Makes me wonder what the story was that caused this little blob to come together.

[@jim10221]

I bet it was a coffee can full of stuff from pops work shop that got thrown out

[@franklubbock8400]

I wonder if its the contents of a old coffee can that someone kept their odds and ends in. and somehow ended up in the water.

[@20greeneyes20]

The round like clear glass are crystals from an amtique chandelier or a table lamp. I wrote before I watched so I may be wrong or I may be right. I will see....🙄 The thin wire on the cut crystal gems its what they hung from on the lanp or chandelier. I have crystals lamps that's how I know. 😉

[@dailydoseofnews4828]

Great stuff ! Been wondering

[@joshdavenport5787]

I'm thinking all of that stuff was sitting in a jar together or something

[@bravewave2084]

Corundum.

[@gregoryrowe7657]

Looks like parts from a busted chandelier

[@MrAmptech]

I think those were part of a lamp

[@thomasandbethanygriffith892]

Could it be a civil war IED? 😅