Strange Sink Spots in the Yard Lead to a Massive Payday Buried 125 Years Ago (Extended)

[@darahdoyle3176]

How about a video explaining what you do to the bottles to clean and preserve them, and if you sell them etc? Great vids.

[@KatsWind]

I know!! I’d love to buy a couple!!

[@claytonhughes5256]

It's actually a secret these hunters don't like to divulge at times. Some don't mind. To some it's like a secret recipe

[@ninaappelt9001]

It's nice when our country is such dire trouble that we can sit and watch a man and his buddies dig privy pits and escape for a bit.

[@islanddiva3813]

I am retired so I have lots of time to watch these interesting digs!

[@DebraJean196]

Yep! I have to sit up all night with an elderly handicapped lady to be on-call if she needs to use the wash room. Otherwise I just sit. If it weren’t for videos like these and a few other creators of different kinds of shows I enjoy - all nice, peaceful shows - I’d lose my mind I think!

[@Lucky..B]

You Mean with the world and country going to shyt we can watch a Guy digging the shyt looking for glass artafacts.. I agree with You .

[@eegarim]

Don’t know how I got from Mudlarking in the Thames to digging for bottles in South Dakota, but I’m glad. Especially loving the bird sounds in the background.

[@marykunselman284]

Me too

[@islanddiva3813]

I love that you say “oh wow” to each new find!

[@whackadim2250]

Hey, Tom your videos are very relaxing and educational....We here in Texas appreciate all that you do...Thanks a million!😉

[@Ragamuffin777]

I have watched your channel for a couple of months. I have gone through every video. I just love the history and beautiful pieces you dig! Keep up the great work!

[@mrsseasea]

These 2 are so knowledgeable about this, that’s what I like about this channel, I learn so much.

[@tinaj984]

Yessss!!!! Whistling a happy tune.😁😁💖💖💖

[@soonzach4017]

This channel is my favorite channel,always enjoy your videos.

[@philipcallicoat3147]

The theme music is perfect 🕊️🌹

[@soonzach4017]

Wow, start to end . Thank you Tom.

[@fishinwidow35]

That Palmer bottle is awesome! One of those is on my bucket list.

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah we find a those every so often. i always take those little tiny ones everytime we find one. thanks for watching

[@claytonhughes5256]

Where can I buy these?

[@dgb56bgd]

Pickles must have been a real delicacy, back in the day. It seems those pickle bottles could’ve only contained one or two pickles. Thanks for sharing your adventures. Blessings.

[@653j521]

Pickles and ketchup are really easy to make. What made these so alluring to shoppers? Did they contain chloroform, morphine, and alcohol, like patent medicine? These bottles are signs of a prosperous era when money could be squandered rather than carefully doled out for necessities.

[@jamesonheche2899]

Awesome job guys! thanks for taking us along on another one of your adventures

[@trishnickles2236]

Thank you, Tom, for another excellent video. Please continue wearing gloves durung these digs; I always look away whenever you search around in glass strewn soil with bare hands! Be well. 🙏⚒

[@susancousins8766]

This was another amazing day! Beautiful bottles, jars, etc… The best of it all was the dinner ware and all of those pitchers. My goodness you did so well ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@johnlord8337]

The conical ribbed food bottles are E R Durkee of NYC salad dressings - found all over New England. Glass food bottle products were imported into the Midwest when the states were finally established, and the post-Civil War 1865-1920s railroad lines quickly transported the product (and beer and whiskey) to the local township stores.

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Tom and Jake, another fantastic backstory and digs. Great pieces of history retrieved. 👏👍😀

[@Dani-Innit]

the small cobalt blue was my favourite, what a beauty!

[@carolynsimone8647]

Awesome finds... I love the little bottles,my mother used to put tiny little rocks in them...lots of memories...love your videos...🥰🥰

[@davidm106]

I'm probably not the first person to ask but do you sell any of this stuff? Where I live it would be almost impossible to find a pit like what you're finding. Absolutely one of the most interesting things to watch.

[@Mil185]

every old house had at least one or two, even where you live.find the old houses in your town then you're on your way!

[@michaelschuenemann3505]

That was a Brilliant Long Dig of all those Pits and YES - the Pitcher is one of my Favorites and so is that Ornate Dinnerware - this was a Blockbuster Dig - even Edison was dug up - ha ! You sounded so very Happy with Your Haul and what an Haul it was! Glad the 1894 House is still there ! Many Cheers from Australia !!!!

[@sherrysmalley4065]

Best wishes from Brisbane Australia ❣️

[@melribbonboo3378]

I have a family member who collects old bottles so I have to show them your channel. And I don't collect but now I'm watching your videos.

[@fleurjardin1012]

I love the idea of the little thumbnail photo of the restored piece as you did with the apple/peach plate. Could you do more of that?

[@junbug1029]

The 1910 bottles are very cool. My dad’s parents were married in 1910. He was born in 1919.

[@glennmurphy1820]

Great dig. Your the Best.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thank you!

[@maryleblanc4961]

Great old architecture of that old house ❤ Some really cool finds out of all those pits! And a lot of digging 😅 Keeps you in shape. 😊

[@selinasteve]

Great job again guys. Love the format and I have learned a lot from watching. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

[@madlinerose5038]

Best video yet! Thank you for making history come alive. Makes you wonder how all the he products came to that area from all over the world.

[@pattrick4040]

Just found your channel. Love it! I like that you give a brief description of each bottle as you pull them out. I actually live in Cando North Dakota, 20 miles from Leeds and know that house. Pretty cool.

[@lorienray6216]

That quill pen was a really great find, that would go right in my display case, broken or not. The last bottle would look nice with the sun shining through along with the blue bottle, tool top on another of your videos. Do you ever find coloured glass perfume bottles, did they make them as that would be something to find. I grew up with an outhouse at my Grandparents cottage, neighbours I visited as a kid! had a his and hers outhouse, they were inseparable, hahaha.

[@JonathenSilvervale]

this is one of my favorite channels, thanks for all the hard work

[@joanwolff802]

Nice variety of finds on this dig.

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

I'm just curious why there isn't more "stuff" that you find, especially if it was a pit to throw away garbage? Why is it mainly bottles, is it because other items have probably deteriorated?

[@davefagerstrom]

First! ~~ And we appreciate and enjoy your videos ~~THANKS~~!

[@tomgagliardo9353]

I think the first thing you couldn't identify is a bent gate or door latch! Great hunt love your videos!

[@beverlyd8986]

I'm just amazed by the number and variety of bottles you always find. I just would never imagine finding so many. Makes me wonder what people digging holes will find 100 years from now.

[@lindaalbano6868]

I loved the red ink bottle ,thank you

[@BestSellers2122]

I got to be the 1,000th like on this video! Made me happy. Great video. Thanks!

[@kathycronin3571]

Love the little pitcher

[@richwallace4632]

New to the channel, have you ever considered running a metal detector over the dirt to see if there are coins from the same era?

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah we used to do that from time to time, and sometimes we invite someone out to detect with us, but theres usually so much rust in the pits thats turned into powder, so it sets the detector off a bunch.. it doesnt always happen but it happens enough that we got annoyed and kinda just quit doing it. we only really ever found wheat pennies.. im sure we've missed some good stuff before, but with the filming and digging, it just got to be alot. we are thinking about getting a better detector tho, to maybe help with all the background noise. thanks for watching!

[@juneyshu6197]

Great work on Bavarian Dish! Wow.

[@iamgabriel5823]

Very fun video. Great editing.

[@michellelisinski3919]

I love love love the stuff he finds i can't stop watching these videos I would also love to see the things after they've been cleaned i try to picture them cleaned already when he shows them

[@ellenlewis9860]

Me too! Been watching all day. Haven't gotten a darn thing done. Oh well....time well spent. Fascinating

[@michellelisinski3919]

@@ellenlewis9860 lol lol you sound just like me ill get to watching something and there's gos everything else for the rest of the day I've been there several times

[@kellyschroeder7437]

Amazing !!! God Bless. What a task and what patience in digging 💙👊🙏🏻

[@georgepmr]

The Edison bulb was a killer find! :)

[@cathiwim]

We have some in original packaging-they were my husband’s great grandfathers!

[@erickmischke38]

You need to come to New England, and dug 1700’s and 1800’s bottles!

[@margoadias]

FYI, there are many people that revise doll heads, body parts, such as arms legs just the heads even. Just sayin incase you hadn’t thought of it. Also the broken bottles that are rare or special can be cut and polished and made into a drinking glass or container to put brushes in! Thank you for your videos, I truly enjoy them.

[@luanncolistro879]

Great digs !!!

[@terrancemiller8350]

Now that was fun, the flared tool top food jar in the second dig was very interesting to me. Tom your hand have alway interesting to me and now that Jake is showing us his hands what a nice addition and get him helping dig what a pleasant treat now that's what I call partner's and what a 3 dig video, so enjoyable. You young men keep up the good work, the one pit I was getting a bit closerfobic but you survived, it was a pleasure to watch you two do your thing, be safe and take of each other, love ya much. Afriend.

[@williamfoster7165]

thats like a 40-50 year span of items you found in those pits, basically some families entire history buried in that yard

[@andygulick6085]

great digs as always

[@jorahmormont1154]

ah I remember these videos. its nice to see them all in one, because it really gives you a nice scope of what a single location can encompass.

[@nancywindbigler6434]

I love your channel!!! I'd like to know if all your digging is lucrative. Keep up the good work its totally fascinating to me!!

[@melissafedele6568]

Awesome finds😊

[@peggybaxter8480]

Wow some great finds! Thank you!

[@SaltwaterSean]

Love this!!

[@christhompson4270]

Great finds, please check the nib on the bacalite pen as sometimes they were made of gold. Cheers for sharing 👍👏❤️

[@kathycronin3571]

Beautiful dinnerware pieces

[@mountainmanpicker]

New Subscriber here. Great videos!

[@connieholley1124]

Orange Crush bottle, wow! Now to find a Grapette. The embossed soda bottles so nice and finding the perfume/toiletry bottles. Was that the first Listerine? Thanks Tom and crew. Will pass on the Hamlin Wizard Oil.

[@lakeslad29]

Just found the channel, looks awesome, a couple of things to make watching more enjoyable, wear a body mike if poss the audio is poor,and i love to hear your descriptions, also tell us more about the dig sites, how you found them, your research, permission to dig etc, keep it up cheers

[@pameladowdell8571]

I really love watching your videos. It is so interesting seeing all the different bottles that you find. You are so knowledgeable . How many years have you been doing this?

[@gypsygirltarot2451]

This is fascinating! New sub!

[@ritahartline1422]

Our country is a privy pit without the pretty bottles!😂

[@marykunselman284]

We’ve got the best country on this Earth the very best

[@jnancy-pants3957]

There are people who repair dolls. Remarkable transformations. They might be interested in the doll heads and parts you find. Even if they are partly broken. Just a thought😊

[@kentsenatore5354]

hey Tom! you probably hear this question all the time but, what do you do with all your bottles?

[@johnlord8337]

Video 59:00 That is a very special and small (super rare, potentially unlisted) Heinz ketchup bottle (sampler size) - needing a proper ID with base embossing and bottle number .... $100-300 bottle right there.

[@janecroft4896]

Beautiful house, just love it❤

[@joycemusgrave161]

Pop's here. You should cut the transfer ware and make mosaic trivits.

[@truthseeker2900]

Tom, I noticed that only one plate dated from the earliest days of the house. Will there be another video from this property?

[@susanschley4265]

Awesome fines

[@millymcbee]

the depth and shape of this hole makes me think it was probably the pit of an outhouse, which were often used as garbage dumps. The canning may have held home brew or homemade moonshine. :D

[@653j521]

Why make your own when everyone in these towns is buying bottles of the good stuff?

[@andreeelliott2943]

So these people drank a lot of beer and ate a lot of pickles. 🤔

[@DebraJean196]

Always amazed when paper labels survive

[@DebraJean196]

Creepy doll head indeed. Especially with back missing lol

[@robertunderwood3393]

Tom what do you do with all your bottles. Display them?

[@SamSlugg456]

Imagine the Zillow listings back then haha; 5 bedroom, 3 outhouse

[@johnlord8337]

Check those "pickled bottles" which are tall pearl onion or olive bottles for embossed base H J Heinz No. (bottle number) or a singular centered high bottle number (not a mold number) and they will be in that period of Heinz machine made (1905-1920ish) era bottles.

[@johnlord8337]

Video 1:14 Another special Heinz bottle that focus and clarity unable to fully see Heinz embossing and bottle number - needing a proper ID. Possible $50-100 bot. Machine made in the (1905-1910) period at Heinz Glass Plant Sharpsburg PA.

[@SamSlugg456]

Dude I’m new here but you should do a live dig if you haven’t already! That would be so sick!!

[@marywilson4103]

Enjoy your digs very much. I have a stupid question. How in the world did they remove those pickles from those jars?that

[@kennethstickney8819]

Pickle forks😀

[@sallybutton6237]

Pardon my ignorance but what does “tooled top” mean please? I’m new to this type of excavation & I’m trying to pick up the lingo..thanks! 🙋🏻‍♀️🇬🇧

[@johnsnow6586]

Comment comment comment thanks for sharing

[@joycemusgrave161]

Pop's here. Have you ever shown any of your bottles cleaned up.

[@carolkerylow1586]

Are these bottles that you find worth anything?

[@andrewchase7684]

Man those plates are super cool! I'm pretty sure that blue one was Chinese

[@Mtlmshr]

I’ve asked this before, where is your museum going to be and when can we expect to be able to go and visit it? Please tell us that you are going to do this or already have done this?!?

[@maureenfitzgerald1895]

I believe previously he told us that much is sold to finance the work. Betcha he surely keeps some of his most favorites!

[@Mtlmshr]

@@maureenfitzgerald1895 and those are the bits that everyone wants to see anyway, his vast knowledge of the area and what it’s all about along with those things is what a great museum should be all about, don’t you think?

[@maureenfitzgerald1895]

@@Mtlmshr for sure

[@alanatolstad4824]

I loved that huge liquor bottle, and honor to Lilly! Ah sad, that broken ruby flashed pitcher. I collect that stuff, have >100!---I just saw on the computer this morning that North Dakotans drink more beer per capita than all the other states!---Hopefully, anyone who has seen Finnian's Rainbow can recall the Senator having an anxiety attack & yelling for his bromo seltzer!---thanx for the plate insert! It makes me happy that you get excited about finding the pieces of ornate dinnerware!

[@michaelbartley9499]

the glass "Pitcher" is a pressed glass vinegar cruet, it had a glass stopper

[@karengordon8682]

I think you guys need to invest in a small digger but love your videos cheers from Sydney Australia

[@junbug1029]

Do you sell or donate the bottles?

[@joesantoro4964]

Every time that instrumental music kicks in I am expecting Mike from That Chapter to pop out and start telling us about the latest true crime story.

[@kathleengresty4987]

You’ve probably been asked loads, but why do you use that stick to dig with instead of a trowel? It doesn’t seem particularly efficient or controllable.

[@miked-ec9jn]

A wood stock is less likely to break glass compared to a metal trowel. 😊

[@loucilehall9281]

Looks like good rich soil

[@bobkirk942]

Damn finding a whiskey bottle in the privey and they were drunk and thrown it away full !!!

[@dai-nippon_digger]

1:52, that sure looks like a coin in that dirt. Nice green patina too. Wonder what that would've been.

[@sunrunneroldbottels223]

back east most beer bottles are embossed, out there in the Midwest there mostly plan that's strange .

[@SamSlugg456]

Dude I want to come dig with you sometime! I have none of the skills but I’ve got a shovel and all of the talent haha