That long stick with electric cord is a civil war selfie stick

It's a handbrake from the roof of a boxcar. Brakeman would ride the roof and apply as the train crest the grade. It's probably pre-1930's, although not too uncommon into the 40's. It's cast iron if you didn't know already.

I just turned 50. From now on...I'm going to tell people "l"m not getting older. I'm getting great patina."

30 minute video from Aquachigger? The perfect way to end the day!!

@renylcollado2507

6 жыл бұрын

jumpergirls yup

Funny about the bicycle seat! That is off a early 60s Sears Tandem bike and they are terrible to sit on!!! :) I am a big vintage bicycle guy so I recognized that piece immediately! :)

@theqwacker7731

8 жыл бұрын

Are you sure I'm pretty sure it's off a shwin bike

@chadsimmons6347

7 жыл бұрын

have you ever found any meteorites in a stream ?

@dicksplatts007

7 жыл бұрын

i thought it was a old tractor seat from the 20's they often had the same style

@angelicaleder

7 жыл бұрын

so it WAS a bicycle made for two!

@gregsgarage1465

7 жыл бұрын

You are correct! :)

love the videos,keep it up. I'm disabled and can't get out to do what you do,i so enjoy the finds and history lesson that your finds give. thank you for the great information

@steveclark4291

5 жыл бұрын

I'm disabled too and enjoy his videos also ! Here is a few others that you might check out ! Green Mountain Metal Detecting , WWII2HISTORYHUNTER & Stealth Diggers are a few . They explain what they find history wise .

the railroad brake wheel is so cool. love that the "spokes" are curved like that, shows you its meant to take force in only one direction...

4:52 Yes! It belongs to either a wooden boxcar, around 1890s or a boom car or caboose's hand brakes around 1890s?

@sudriansignalman9387

8 жыл бұрын

wrong, it would have to be before the 1890's, because that style of brake wheel came off of a 1860's-1880's car because in the 1870's they made the air brake, and those brake wheels were changed in the 1880's

@bigallan7181

8 жыл бұрын

The gaming blue engine Thanks!

@sudriansignalman9387

8 жыл бұрын

+BigAllan #InternetNiceGuy your welcome

@bigallan7181

8 жыл бұрын

The gaming blue engine :D

"yep that's poison ivy" *Grabs it*

@skylarhurst3215

8 жыл бұрын

not hating, just thought it was funny

@niasayles3251

8 жыл бұрын

+skylar hurst ikr

@itspandito

8 жыл бұрын

XD

@itspandito

8 жыл бұрын

atleast he was wearing gloves

@griffparker1466

7 жыл бұрын

i cringed hard. im super allergic haha

That was great. A bit of nature and some relics, a perfect video.Thanks for sharing your adventures, its gonna be a great year.

this is such a great and underrated channel. Love the videos, and I'm glad you're uploading them. Thank you!

"That's a pair of balls now isn't it look how slick they are." Aquachigger 2016

@capnjbobo6108

8 жыл бұрын

I laughed pretty hard when he said that...

Amazing scenery! Thanks again, Beau!

I think I learn more from watching your videos than I do watching the nature channel. thank you for sharing. your videos always brighten my day.

Did i ever laugh at your laugh when the snake went in the water,you make my day every time Beau,Live long and prosper!!

please let there be a cleaning vid of those awesome cannon balls can't wait to see how they look all cleaned up and in one of your displays.

@92RADLO

8 жыл бұрын

+mikes hobbie's and random stuff Agreed X1000

love the journeys you take us on, the turtle is probably just full of eggs I've found snapping turtles in that condition! thanks

Nice finds Beau! Those are going to look great all cleaned up.

Yeah, that snake would be the end of my day..."Headin' back to the truck now!"

ah the first signs of summer, wild aquachiggers rummaging through the streams. so glorious

@timothywhite8130

8 жыл бұрын

quite majestic if i do say so myself

@tyrantatocomrmagicarp5750

8 жыл бұрын

+Aquachigger it is and its around 75-130 years old

@beaniebaby6899

8 жыл бұрын

+Aquachigger do you watch Aphmau

@beaniebaby6899

8 жыл бұрын

+Aquachigger love your vids 8D

@KyrinSolaq

6 жыл бұрын

LOL

Its amazing what's out there to be discovered. WOW!

love the longer vids. I watch them while falling asleep good way to mellow out and enjoy a hunt

What an awesome hunt! Those canon balls look in amazing condition with the straps and all.....very nice :D

When I saw that this video was a half hour long I got so damn excited! Love it!

Definitely a rail car brake wheel. Old for sure. Great find!!

Another great Volg Chig, Can't wait till you get back on the rafting rivers and find those treasures.

That's correct It's a vintage brake wheel from either one of the cars or from a caboose

I have been asking for longer videos so thank you thank you thank you.

Beau, you certainly deserve every one of those finds. 6 snakes, poison ivy and Lord knows what else is lurking in that murky water....you're either extremely brave & fearless or a little crazy. :)

@beauwolfe4049

6 жыл бұрын

Debi Sher hey tr hats my name

@roydriver74

5 жыл бұрын

Beau Wolfe it doesn’t say ur name so shut up

@jimtom1115

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe all three! Only man I know that can find a needle in a haystack..

@larryy6467

3 жыл бұрын

Naaa none of the above. Hes a treasure hunter we all do it!

Nice video ! I worked in an old paper mill for about 10 years & the machine had those wheels on them to hand turn the rewinders. It had dates on the machine from 1875!!

I love exploring rivers, I use to do it all the time in my teens

That noise scared the crap out of me just watching can't imagine what it was like standing there!! LOL

Great find Beau. I love the cannon balls. I can't wait to see them cleaned up. Good video.

@auntal3482

5 жыл бұрын

Tennessee Gem and

I find stuff for the railroad a lot, but it's never old, we found a signal flare once, which was pretty cool

cant wait to see them all cleaned up!

I really enjoyed that video Beau. With a slick pair of 24lb balls who needs bamboo that big lol. Congrats nice find. G

When you’ve had one water moccasin come straight at your face as a kid fishing on the bank. You pretty much never go into this type of water ever again. So I’m glad you do so I can watch.

Great vid mann,back in your element,way cool!!.

Killing me over here. Good hunt.

Love your vids! Really interesting! Be good to see you in England again soon!

So great to watch and thanks for sharing. Greetings from WW2HH

Those 24's were Awesome! And yes, train brake wheel! Nice finds👍

At 2:38 that's a 2-gang external outlet box with conduit and wire still attached to it.

@dcmccart25

8 жыл бұрын

Read exterior not external and you're bang on. 1 vote.👍

@johnmyers130

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. That's a two gang box with explosion proof switch plate. Why it's in the river I have no clue...

Great video man! Love when you do the long adventure type ones like these.. No way I would be so clam around the snakes! Lmao!

@OldSchoolGamer1981

8 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Buoyant turtle ;P

@itspandito

8 жыл бұрын

i dont know. i would be pretty clam. DUDE THAT SHOULD BE A NEW THING! Im so clammy. #ClamFOURLYFE

another great video love the whip poor will at the end it takes me way back to when I was a kid growing up in the country. just don't hear them in the city

the turtle had a big chunk taken out of him, but he looks healthy though!!!!! you kill me, funny stuff!!!

@tommywright7196

6 жыл бұрын

DiggerDano i know it i don't think i would feel to healthy it i had a big chunk taken out of me

the first thing with the wires was a old door bell chime you can see the plungers on the side ! keep em coming! and that is a break wheel for RR car!

Congrats on the 32 pounders. They are beautiful. I am hearing rumors you are in double digits in shells already. Can't wait for more artillery videos.

Beau, you can't possibly imagine how much I appreciate your rational view on snakes. Some other people on here have absolute hysterics over the most harmless of snakes, and I think it's bloody ridiculous. I like snakes, and won't even harm the poisonous ones, unless absolutely necessary. Kudos and props to you!

Nice find, for some reason my first guess on the wheel was one of these old hand-operated sewing machines :) These cannon balls would make a nice decoration if put into a globe stand.

@CodingToFreedom

8 жыл бұрын

***** Guess that's what it takes to sew leather :)

@gregorym9591

8 жыл бұрын

+TrashureSeeker Those were also used on all kinds of large water valves, steam valves etc etc. Having said that where he was and a old train past thru there it might have been removed from a train manual brake system.

i love your videos and more the long ones

The box with wires at the very beginning is a fire alarm bell but the bell was missing. Great vid....

Like you said, what a pair!

Awesome video!!!! A cracking pair of Balls!! ;) You'll have to show us them when they are cleaned up. +Aquachigger

That box is an electrical device, it's an Explosion Proof Switch Box.... utilized in areas where there's flammable powders, liquids, gun powder...etc... Ya know, people go to Florida and stop at the Alligator Farm just over the State line. They usually buy a baby alligator and take it home. Once it grows up (huge) they can't keep it anymore and they let it go in sewer/catch basins, rivers, creeks, brooks..... usually from NJ & NY.....!

I do not know what that sound was but it made me jump lol... great work thank you for the videos

Hey Beau, The item at 29:03 looks like a broken crank handle from a fishing reel. Outstanding Video! Thanks!

the wheel you found with the cannon balls is a break wheel that was used before the 1950's, that's before railways converted to diesel locomotives and stopped using break wheels (which were converted to the F.R.E.D.s which are the little red lights at the back of the trains now a'days)

The electrical bit you grab out @2:40 is most likely a neon sign transformer. I play with those a lot making Tesla coils and I've seen some older ones. They usually don't fail unless they've been submerged in water for a few years.

Great finds!

Very cool to find old-school cans with that triangle punched hole

great hunt A C. the hook and the balls are grreat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two nice cannon balls, Congratulations on a nice find.

You honestly just cracked me up at that snake part

That first square thing is a rusted outdoor light switch. Those pins with the flat knobs on that one end are the switches. Push in to turn on and pull out to turn off.

This reminds me of a River close to us. It’s deep in Civil war heritage. However, I’ve never seen so many snakes!

Nice finds and the video was good, especially when that hissing noise sounded off. I jumped out of my skin. Snakes lol

17:25 Swan mussel we call then in the UK, still present in some clean/unpolluted rivers an they can produce pearls.

huge fan of what you're doing!!!!!!!!!!!

I was smiling and laughing with you when you found your balls how cool great find!

Ouch poison ivy! Have had my fair share in with poison oak while gold panning.

Ya . Chig remember, it's not the snakes you see, it's the ones you don't. That are under water just waiting. I don't remember this location, if you've ever searched here before. Very beautiful location, thanks for taking me along. Awesome finds.😊

@aquachigger

10 ай бұрын

Thanks. This was a long way from home and only dug there once.

We see the wild Aquachigger in his natural environment of river hunting

Great finds Beau

that was a water moccasin on that log, keep a watch out for them! please lol this is like the only channel i watch

Not only are your videos fascinating and stunning to see but you also can make me laugh.Until the end I was wondering how in the heck you were going to haul that stuff outta there .Please keep up the good work.Wishing you.safe and prosperous adventures.

@candysantillo3325

8 жыл бұрын

Oh,yeah!What on earth was that loud hissing noise?

@candysantillo3325

8 жыл бұрын

+Aquachigger it sounded alarming but not totally unfamiliar.Thank you for responding

That electrical thing looks nice!

Great video Aguachigger! :)

Toooo many snakes for me 😱👀 Awesome video as always HH

Man oh man. You sure are brave!

THAT BOX WITH THE WIRES IS A TRANSFORMER

At 3:00 minutes that big heavy thing you found looks like a pin out of some heavy equipment tracks

@ninjaalfie9075

8 жыл бұрын

I actually think it is a bomb?....

@mkianni2

7 жыл бұрын

pipe bomb. It was my job to make them for the mafia in the mid 80s.

@thekingsilverado9004

6 жыл бұрын

They also use the same sort of pin on the heavy track hoes as slave roller I know It's my job to make em where I work...

must be nice to find that good stuff & i know its not easy thanks-4-good-upload (chigger)

Man, ever since I subscribed to your channel I've been amazed at how much stuff is in the creeks and rivers even after several hundred years. I wondered why they hadn't been found before.......and over time the answer has come to me. Beau, few people have the balls to wade around in mucky streams where you can't see the bottom and are constantly thinking about snakes, dead animals, dead whatever, snapping turtles, quicksand etc. It's like I never could understand how some divers can do so in water with zero light or visibility..even salt water where sharks and all sorts of other nasties are lurking. So I guess you've got a much bigger than average pair........because after watching your videos I know it's not that you have no imagination as to what could go wrong LOL!

the heavy thing is a pin.. probably off an excavator or tractor arm.. groves on the end are for retaining rings of some type.

Wow. Your house must be AMAZING!!!! 😁 Nice

The box you find at 2:55 is a weatherproof switch box. It would have two switches in it and the knobs sticking up at the top is what works the switches inside.

I'm French and I love your videos !

That heavy cylinder you found looks like a pin used on crane booms. The booms are removable for transportation and anytime there is a modern bridge you can guarantee there was a crane there.

Glad I can watch you do this because one thing I don't do is snakes.

Nice finds at the end there. :)

OMGOSH I could NOT even get into the water just seeing a snake in the water!! Your not ever afraid?!?! OMG noway!! Been watching your vids for a while, I have a lot more to go, thanks for the vids!! Linda

3:05 looks like a roller from an expansion joint on a bridge (anyone seen a bridge nearby?) though it could be a link pin from a crane or large plant.

Love your videos! :)

You are correct, that is a railroad handbrake off a caboose. A rare one too most where 5-6 spokes very few where 4.

nice finds and you got enuff snakes their to make a nice pair of boots to

That bamboo was awesome. Your balls are going to clean up nice, they are in great shape.

I have that exact same Buck knife at 20:00, still in the original box and leather cover. Its late 70s.

The little box with the wires is an explosion proof pair of switches, of the type used in oil refineries, or gas works. It is meant to contain a explosion caused by a spark in flammable areas. Have fun.

I am surprised you didn't encounter an alligator in that brick structure. Looked like a perfect place for a gator to call home.