I was a Gandy Dancer for a couple of years after being Honorably discharged from the Army through the Veterans representative at what used to be called Job Service. Gandy Dancer is an old school term for a Railroad Track Layer. I could drive two spikes at the same time with a spike maul in each hand. Took a lot of damned practice. The trick to hitting the spike every time, was rolling the double headed maul in each hand as you were bringing them up and around for the next swing. The rails you showed appear to me to be at least from the 1800's period and also to be mine rails. Ones used inside a mine or an area that does not require full sized rail. Hope that helped. 👍from Utah.

I found a hole in a field many years ago that turned out to be over 100ft deep. It was an old mineshaft that had been backfilled and capped but years of water flooding it had washed it out and eventually the cap fell into the hole. It remained open for years until the people responsible were found and forced to fill it properly.

Well worth exploring guys..Tennessee has one of the largest underwater lakes in the world ,along with a vast cave system.

The ActionAdventureTwins would definitely explore that cave if the owner gave permission.very interesting video.

Trepassers !! Let me tell you my houston County tennessee story. I heard gunshots and knew it was on us. So being me I go there with my 4 lb dog in tow. I saw nothing but little dog did. Hiding in the brush was a deer hunter. He was told not so nicely to leave . He came back 2 more times. The last time I ran him off he actually called police on me saying I threaten to kill him. I was arrested. I didn't have a gun but he did. Yes my land is posted every 10 ft.

I'm in knoxville, so was glad to find your channel. Love the videos.

@deer123able

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Those openings in that field remind me of a cave in Tennessee named " Indian grave point" in two of the large rooms in that cave daylight can be seen and if one further investigates the source is in a field just like that one.

Field plundering and a good many 44's! Love it that your finding early spring sinks with caves, need a few friends and the right equipment to go exploring my friend! Thanks for sharing and HH

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Erle.. I would love to if land owner will let us.

Love to see that explored. I live for this stuff!! Awesome find!! Time to call The Chigg!!

@VickieV1333

5 жыл бұрын

Lonestar Hobos I love the Chigg!!

Glad you mentioned Aquachigger, that's what I was thinking! Thanks for sharing.

Look very carefully down there. You might find a Corvette! LOL. Good Hunting from Ky.!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Lol they may be on down there you never know.

Narrow guage rail my dad was an engineer for 49 years I found a mass Chinese grave in the desert woven with it steam trains used it and some mines good find guys

Want to see you explore the cave !!

Lol I like the trespassing joke! Cool caves!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Craig!

Man... if you get in that sink hole I'll be looking for a new co-host. Lol. Good to see Will again, looking forward to being with him at DIV

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not going down there with out you.lol It's like swimming in the ocean. You always stay close to someone where you have a 50% chance of survival.

WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE YOU EXPLORE THE CAVE !!! PLEASE KEEP US UPDATED !!!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

I'm working on the next video now. Thanks for watching.

@ourcrazylife2952

5 жыл бұрын

This would be amazing!!

Only heard the first railroad lines were much thinner than the ones today. Hope you get to explore that hole in the ground. Please don't go alone and make sure someone else knows where your going. Definitely could be dangerous. Interesting video, thank you.

... looks like perfect 'sinkers' for fishing lines ; )

Great video Jeff! Take care brother!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy

If you can feel air coming out , there has to be another entrance somewhere . I think your right . Could be huge . I'd love to go in there and have a look .

Seriously had me going at the start. 🤣First time visitor, me, obviously.

@deer123able

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Colleen!

@kelly-charmainemarieflanag1098

4 жыл бұрын

Lol me too! Glad it was the cave that I was watching for! Had my heart racing and I was saying loudly 'turn around! Turn around!' Cat thinks I'm finally off my rocker. Ha! Fell off years ago!

My momma day 6 sister's 2 brothers are from sweet water Tennessee Cleveland Poe county oh how I miss the smokies be goin up real soon, look like the had one hell of a shoot out one war I wish the South won LoL,good luck nice find I detect also love it!

Call an Archaeologist ! Historic! Set up a souvenir stand and sell all that lead in lil' cases. Awesome!

That a well from a old hand dug well. The houses foundation is literally going across it. There should be some great finds in there.

Pretty interesting...lookin' forward to the "Cave" exploration...hope the land owner gives you permission!

@ronl.8733

4 жыл бұрын

Q 400 guess they should’ve fought harder for what was “theirs”

I blows my mind how lucky you all are with the Paleo, Pirates, Bushwackers but seriously to Civil War exploring in such as Carolinas, Tennessee the South plus the great soils and I loved the humidity plus my famous and well documented years amongst you all

As soon as I saw that hole I thought about Beau! I've seen springs set up like that for holding milk cans in the creek it would have had a roof over it for shade. Nice location! Plenty to see and lots of ground to cover. Happy travels! Beeps.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Beeps & Eat's Finding food & treasure.

Beautiful creek the whole area is beautiful

You said " if there was a CS buckle you would jump down into tha cave". I took it as if there was a US buckle you wouldn't jump down there. Spoken like a true southerner and Tennessean. Take care and HH. Jim aka Tennessee Gem

that river looks like a good trout creek :)

Sweet really looks previously used, some stone look manipulated

Good job.

We have many holes similar to that up here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula from the days of copper mining that was dug out n forgotten out in the woods. You can from time to time find mini old minded relics. And sadly at least once a year someone goes missing from falling off into one of these uncapped holes.when I live in Georgia and engaged in Civil War Relic hunting I found what was left of an old dugout under a large Limestone Bluff where someone has head parts of old rusted out black powder guns and bullets keep on digging remember many civilians head there household valuables in the ground do either keep it from the Union Army are the Confederate guerrillas bands...

Great video and the cave will be cool....

Hi, I'm down in Loudon Co. and we find mostly fired and dropped minie balls around the site of Longstreet's crossing at what was once Huff's Ferry area near Loudon. I do believe that to be a cave entrance and not a sinkhole... I have both on my property and this looks more like a cave.

I like how you country people talk.

Those tracks was possibly a bridge for wagons across creek. That ornamental brass was likely the base for glass on lantern.

@garyburbank4559

5 жыл бұрын

Very true couldn't have said it any better

The steel going over the creek might have been part of an old bridge crossing..It probably had wooden decking at some point.Check the cave out too.

I sure hope you get a video of that cave. I'd have a hard time not getting the gear together and doing an exploration👍

I hate them dang poaching trespassers they is thick down here in the Swamp. Felt good watching you get yours

I'd say the rails are 1880s or so ,I've found three Sherman's hair pins and they are three inches tall and have no holes for bolting. I've never weighed them but I can pick up a 14 foot rail though it is heavy . In 1850s when my rails were made they were made of iron, they have a whole different sound than steel when you hit them with a hammer or spike.

Could be some nice civil war relics in that cave -- maybe even money--I would be digging a opening and climbing in !!!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Trying to get permission for next week.

I found a two-piece scabbard tip that had a finial type piece on the end of it and wood inside of it. I believe you found a piece of one, maybe. Good video

Great video. Happy Hunting.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks adveNZures

reminds me of a story shown somewhere about 10 years ago? A guy was looking around New Mexico one time and found a hole that led to a huge underground FRESH WATER LAKE! I often wondered if it was on his property, because fresh water is hard to find anywhere?

4:00 that is buckshot. You can see the dents from the other balls around the edges as they were fired with others in a muzzle loading black powder shotgun.

I’ve explored a few sinkholes like this and the entrances are not very stable. Mostly boulders suspended in mud. Be safe.

I was thinking to myself trespassing in Tennessee, not the sharpest tool in the shed!🤪

@craigalexander3650

5 жыл бұрын

North Alabama either........................

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

Nice video TJ, the whole time I'm Thinking "Call Aqua Chigger!" then you said it LOL

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

You never know.lol

HI Jeff I was kinda waiting on this video after I saw you post the picture of Will standing by the cave opening a little while back ...nice couple pistol balls I agree with you that has to be from an oil lamp the ornate piece that the glass would fit into ... nice ... See you guys in a month .... looking forward to meeting you Jeff and seeing Will again ... see ya !

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, and we will see you soon.

im in the highland rim aera putnam and white countys...we have thousands of sink and cave in the aera... love hiking the aera...its cool to find water coming up out of the ground and then alittle ways down see it disapear back into the rocks... yall keep yer toes warm

What's that Lassie.. Will's in a well, he needs help?! Come on girl, let's go get paw.

@ringneck3467

5 жыл бұрын

Are you in a snake area? Careful messn round a cave,watch yourself.

You need to call the chigger he loves caves and sinkholes!!

The cut with the rails over it looks awful long for just a bridge over a creek. Reminds me of an old Mill race. Used to funnel the water through the "race" to speed it up and power a grist Mill.

With all that Moss growing you could be here in Ireland . Great video Thanks

@heikkidtw5992

5 жыл бұрын

Alot of the states resemble Ireland, in certain regions...and thats a good thing..👍🍺

Holder for the glass top on a old days oil lamp my dad owns a few plus I grew up going to antique sales a lot with my dad and grandma

I love the cave area and it would be beautiful if you shored up the rocks and made stone steps. I wonder what's further inside? Cool mystery!

@andrewjackashley6409

4 жыл бұрын

All you geniuses ever heard of a bunker?

My gggg grandfather owned 1000 acres in Rogersville, Tennessee in the early 1800s. Union took over the city during the civil war. Would love to have permission to search for old items on the ancestors Homesteads. Although, I wouldn't know what the heck I would be looking at.

that last piece looked like part of an old coal oil lamp. the round decorative part at the base that holds the chimney. thats my guess...

The cave looks very promising for exploring and looking for artifacts. Do it right, with a team and equipment and historian from the college. The important thing about the air flow is it means there is another entire entrance. Thanks for your curiosity. Post it here when you go back there.

Nice interesting video about history in your part of the USA. Thks for sharing. Watching from British Columbia Canada.

@deer123able

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dennis!! Come listen to Diggin with seven and I every Thursday night at 8 pm eastern standard time on Relics Radio on spreacker.com

GET IN THAT CAVE BOY!

Wow, that was quite the cave! You did the right thing by not going in there. It looked like the overhang of rocks really wasn’t safe. The rails looked real old. I wonder why they would want to cross there? Maybe because of the spring during the civil war? Thanks for sharing your adventure! 😊

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

That was one of the old roads in 1780s/1860s.

@OutdoorsygalO

5 жыл бұрын

Cool! No wonder! You may really have a treasure trove waiting for you.

Something tells me you need to get down in there. So what are you waiting for,COME ON LET'S GO!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

It will be soon

@waynedavis2505

5 жыл бұрын

@@deer123able I'll just be over here..

Cool video! Thank you for sharing!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Buddy

I just subscribed to your channel. Ray from Spring Hill, FL.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub.

Kind of looked like a place battle plans would be drawn up. Probably met up with some trenches. Nice ambush spot. Dunno. But the rocks on top appear to be placed by man.

Better peel that open and get to investigating it. LOOKS interesting!!

I've seen the rail before, those are street car rails I've seen them in Franklin Tennessee and Nashville.

Raccoon says " ow ..quit throwing those rocks"

Kinda looks like mining track. Seen similar in silver mines in NM.

Stay away from those ground holes, you never know when there is going to be a cave in. The bridge is interesting. Even if the rails are only 100 years old the stone abutments could be older. The bridge superstructures tend to rot and get replaced much more frequently than the abutments. To date the rails, you will have to check the webs(vertical part) for the manufacturer and date. The date is only occasionally stamped but, the manufacturer is usually there. Happy Hunting.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard! As soon as Seven get's down here we will get one or two of them rails.

@richardross7219

5 жыл бұрын

@@deer123able I hope that you aren't planning to take those out by hand. They will be heavy enough to hurt you. Removing the beams may also destabilize the rock abutments. Good Luck, Rick

@KB4QAA

5 жыл бұрын

I think those rails may be iron instead of newer steel rails. Check the sides of all the rails for stamping of the Maker or Railroad and date.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

I'm going back Monday to look.

gosh i miss the mountains 😢 stranded in LA. good people, good memories

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

LA? Hope you get back to the mountains soon buddy.

@mikolavision

5 жыл бұрын

many years passed ... nobody left, mountains cut down or on fire, aint young no more... but awesome memories huck finn woulda been jealous hehe

I just happened to find your channel and subscribed as I love watching these kind of videos ! Do you research any of your finds as I love learning about stuff ! Thank you for a great video !

Good vid, cool and interesting place to hunt.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks hank6997

Cool! Waiting for you camera view of the inside of the cave!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Soon

Great finds! Cool cave! I was thinking that same thing about Aquachigger! Thanks for sharing!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy

Mom: why you watching a man find bullets at 8pm Me: you wouldn't get it

@deer123able

4 жыл бұрын

lol..Thanks for watching.

Looks like many years ago they dumped rock over it. I have these on my farm in KY.

Hello guys just subscribed also fromTenn.We found a cave something like that in our woods we could see down in it but something we may need oneday .

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

I would love to have a cave on my property, and yes we all may need a cave one day.

The narrow gauge rails across the stone bulkhead construction looks like either the remains of a mill or the start of a mill that was never finished. It is too wide to be a roadbed. You should construct a small diy water turbine in the stream!

At 5:45 wouldn't that wedge be the piece that holds the barrel to the stock on a rifle of the Civil war era? Just a uneducated guess I'm not an expert but I do have two flintlocks and that what the wedge looks like to me .

Those beams look like repurposed railway track

Of course,I only have the clarity of the video, but around the hole, the stones appear to be cross stacked .much like the ones by the ridve.

The ornate piece of brass you guys found toward the end of the video is part of an old lamp mantle. :).

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Wow finding those things like that I would have to sit and imagine being there at that time dream world

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

We do all the time, and would love to know who the last person to hole it was.

More than likely owners of plowable fields where C.W. action took place. Usually would toss metal and trash left behind into holes like that. So it wouldn't interfere with plowing.. Dig into that dirt built up in the hole might reveal something. I'd love to be there when that happens

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

In this field the owner had a flat tire on his combine and found a part to a civil war bayonet had stuck in his tire

All interesting finds

I hate that when that happens. I caught a trespasser Last Summer on a permission I had. Got his license plate number gave it to the property owner and he had a Sheriff go and talk to the guy and tell him not to come back. Cool cave!

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!! It is bad... I'm just glad it was Will.

@tommyturner6677

5 жыл бұрын

Go at nighttime

Goddamn walk a little faster the trespasser gonna get away...(Heart rate increases)...😬. Oh their friends. SON OF A...good one

It looks like narrow gauge rail that was used before the civil war.

Ooowee!I'd rent an excavator &dig that circle of holes out to open it up for clear view of the cave opening.how exciting

@speleokeir

5 жыл бұрын

Vandal! Absolutely no need for an excavator, you'd trash it.. There's loads of room to get down there without needing to dig. Trust me that isn't a tight entrance by caving standards. Assuming the landowner gives permission I'd be down there like a rat up a drain-pipe! Looks like other people have been already, there's signs of use around the entrance.

Was it AquaChigger, lol? He sure loves detecting and caving! 😜

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

I love his caving videos.. well all his videos.lol

Icehouse...? My mom told me that when she was a kid, she used to go cool off in the ice house. It was a shed that was built over a stream, that kept things cool for them in the summer. Probably not, but that was the first thing I thought of. Ever go back to the hole in the ground?

@tombob8193

5 жыл бұрын

Dose he even read this thing

Get a few remote controlled item's and send them down into the hole.

If your outta Tennessee there's pretty good chances that ground cave probably moves a distance. But your landowner probably will have you signing a release before you do anything.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

He probably will, but that's okay.

There should be a stamp on the railroad tracks of the years that they were made

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

I'll look this weekend.

oh boy would i love to explore that cave...

OMG! That was Owl Bridge!

I don’t know the area but from the stone work it looks like that creek may have been much higher in the past. Especially during a heavy rain. Its possible it was used to cross horses or animals. That metal, which looks like railroad tracks, would have been covered with wood so the owner could cross horses, cattle or any farm owner back over. Im sure horses could cross that and cows too especially if they were spooked by lightning. But it would be harder to get them to cross back over hence the bridge. Where the road is now was probably the property line, so they would most likely have had a fence there. Or it could have been used for power for that old house. Not the little cinderblock thing but the one he pointed to on the top of the hill that was pretty old, I couldn’t see it. But they may have used the water to turn a water wheel which could generate enough current to have lights.

@deer123able

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks John