Quick Cleaning Iron Civil War Relics From A Recent Adventure
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- In this video we crack open the iron infused cocoons of some very interesting Civil War relics. I also explain many aspects of collecting and preserving these artifacts. I get a little long winded with a story or two but decided to leave them in. The facts I talk about in the stories are true to the extent I remembered them at the time. "Don't quote me on them" ;)
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Beau, don't feel bad explaining the historical events. I love the stories, the way you tell them is very interesting. As a European who knows alot about WW1 and WW2 I love to hear about the Civil War from a fellow relic hunter, lol. Don't hesitate next time
The civil war here in America is very interesting..same with the revelutonary war . Now adays in America it's considered not proper to even talk about it.. were going throughr some weird times where people cry over anything..lol . Cheers.. happy hunting
@@joshuataft5541 "Considered not proper to even talk about it."
Half the country wants to confederacy to rise again, and the opposite side, more progressive, is still interested in the era for its civil rights.
The black sand was probably left over from the casting process and was used to create, as others have suggested, a "dead blow" effect. Makes sense considering the shell is pointed and looks to be designed to penetrate instead of explode.
Snarkapotamus- You are partially correct! Rifled artillery projectile, Dahlgren design, Federal manufacture, blind shell with brass cap, lead cup sabot, rifled boat howitzer, 3.4 in.
Projectile was manufactured in the Federal arsenals following the design of John Dahlgren. The pattern employed a lead cup sabot with a groove in the middle on which greased twine was affixed, this to lubricate. The bottom of the projectile was cast with five ribs onto which the lead cup sabot was affixed. In addition four raised ribs were placed on the side, which were slightly wider than the rifling grooves in the cannon and designed to guide the projectile through the bore, but without catching on the grooves. These projectiles were cast with a cavity, the casting sand was usually left in the core, unfinished hole was plugged with a small brass plug, giving it the effect of a light bolt. This was probably intended as a transitional measure to test the pattern, the shell could be drilled and fitted for fuzes at a later time. These "blind shells" never had an explosive charge, the black substance sometimes found inside is foundry sand from the mold for the core.
Hey Beau! I, and I would imagine many of your followers, would love to see how you drill the exploding artillery shells. Love your videos, keep'em coming!
I love these archaeology style videos ! felt like I was right there with yah!
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing so much of your knowledge re: the Civil War, it's battles, and the weapons. I could listen to you tell us about the engagements for hours. Telling us about the Dahlgren shell was incredible Thanks, Beau.
MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER......................Great reference, and yep shows our age Mr Beau! Brushy Brushy!
Oh my...we're ole became old ;-)
Glen Pierce hi Glen it's Karen aka silly wish from Pattys G Team and Omargoshtv I really enjoyed your visit to Florida hope you come back again soon. Would love to see you again!
I feel like I'm in a kindergarten class during the best show and tell ever. The end tapping and busting iron crust is sooooo satisfying. I'm calling you the chiggfessor lol
Hey Chig! Thank you for the video. Great finds and a terrific presentation. If I had to make a guess at your sand, I'd say it is most likely from the casting process. Some probably stuck to the inner walls after it was pulled from the mold and eventualy it has fallen away. I bet if you had several shells to open up, you would be able to measure several, very different weights. Cheers!
If you were my history teacher I would of had an A+
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It likes opening up a geode stone for the first time. You never know what you’re going to get, lol
You sure give us flatlanders a good lesson in relic recovery and preservation.
Really loved this video... so interesting!!
Please do more like it
Beau and maxwell saving the past one whack at a time.
Thanks for showing us this. I really enjoyed seeing part of the preserving process.
Chigger, this was my favorite episode ever! Learned so much, thank you for saving our history.
Very cool !! Thanks for sharing. Look forward to many MOAR !!!!!
I love seeing history being saved. Thank you for what you do.
Amazing, thank Beau !
Fascinating history lesson. Thanks
Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication Chigg!
You make great videos sir! I love history like you and I can watch this stuff all day
My family came from England in 1649 to Middletown ct. My ancestor Nathaniel bacon was one of the first 23 settlers. I've had family in every single war on American soil. One happened to even receive a medal of honor for capturing a south Carolina regiment flag in the revolutionary war!
Way way cool! Thanks for sharing.👍
Awesome demo, Beau. Thanks for sharing.
I would of thought they were just rocks! Wow! Thanks Bo!
I did enjoy this video! Thanks!
Nice finds, thank you for sharing
That was great, thanks so much for sharing with us....and i like listening to your stories...very interesting....
Enjoyed all the info in this video. Thanks Beau
I am impressed. Very nice indeed!
Hey Beau, you probably already found the answer to the sand question, but here it is anyway- Rifled artillery projectile, Dahlgren design, Federal manufacture, blind shell with brass cap, lead cup sabot, rifled boat howitzer, 3.4 in.
Projectile was manufactured in the Federal arsenals following the design of John Dahlgren. The pattern employed a lead cup sabot with a groove in the middle on which greased twine was affixed, this to lubricate. The bottom of the projectile was cast with five ribs onto which the lead cup sabot was affixed. In addition four raised ribs were placed on the side, which were slightly wider than the rifling grooves in the cannon and designed to guide the projectile through the bore, but without catching on the grooves. These projectiles were cast with a cavity, the casting sand was usually left in the core, unfinished hole was plugged with a small brass plug, giving it the effect of a light bolt. This was probably intended as a transitional measure to test the pattern, the shell could be drilled and fitted for fuzes at a later time. These "blind shells" never had an explosive charge, the black substance sometimes found inside is foundry sand from the mold for the core.
Awesome finds inside those those crusticles! Thanks for the video.
Very educational. Ty🤓👍👍
I believe the black sand inside the shell would be the equivalent of a dead blow hammer if the projectile is going forward once impacts the target the sand would also move forward in the shell and makes a solid impact it will not bounce off like a solid projectile for example take a regular hammer and hit a piece of Steel it will bounce take a dead blow hammer that's full of iron pellets you will hit the target and it will not bounce
Very cool thanks!
I love watching your shows. You're smart, I love all the information you have in your mind about all your finds. You would be a great teacher.Nice work and thanks for all the great shows.
Another great video.THanks Chigg
Very interesting, enjoy watching your videos!
great video, love hearing the history , great work Chig
The weight of the black sand and it's hardness when the shell hit would slam into the nose area causing it to fragment with more velocity.
Really great restore video!
Thanks Beau,👍
learned more from you than all my 3 1/2 years of high school. thank you.
I love these stories and objects from the past!
Really cool, thank you Chigg!
What a fun video and very educational. I loved the mysterious blobs, that turned into treasure. The Maxwell's Silver Hammer reference was just too funny and sure takes me back too. Thanks again for a moment of calm in a sometimes stressful world.
I am so glad I found your Channel! You are absolutely amazing, and I could listen to you forever! Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge that you have.
Very interesting, thanks
most informative videos on the hobby thanks for the tutorials!
another great video , thanks
Just saw this, I found it fascinating, Thanks
Aquchigger you need to make some more videos like this one and finding the shells again I love this video Iv been a subscriber for a long time now but I like this kinda of videos you made hope you and your wife are doing good besafe and we love you all
I never fail to learn something new from your videos. Thanks
Man you find so much cool stuff. Thanks for the stories and info. Youre the man👍👍
Educational, as usual...and enthusiasm.
awesome episode Beau . look forward to the next one
Much respect Mr. Aquachigger.
24 of those,and you got yourself a Christmas calender .
Thanks for the video. You never bore us with the bonus information.
Great educating video! Than you.
Awesome video Beau! You are a great teacher. I have learned so much watching your channel!
Fantastic vid Mr Chiggles. Great info,thanks for sharing with us.
Good video Chig thanks for the lesson
Cool seeing you open them up. Great history lession
Good videos very interesting thanks keep them coming
That was freaking awesome dude! Thank you.. absolutely fascinating.. I love your channel
Those things are like the acheology kid toys from dollar stores. Those with little stones or plastic dinosaurs inside. But those are for adults
Great vid and history!
So enjoyed this! Such enthusiasm and revealing the objects was great to watch :)
Love the video man. I learned a lot from it keepem coming
Iron Easter eggs lol ready wash your haaaannddss!!!
Chig with regard to the ball canisters, the grounds of a police academy I attended early in the 1970's incorporated an old pre-World War one fort which was still administered by the Australian Army.
The fort originally had massive 6" muzzle loading naval guns mounted in revetments on the parapet and the magazines for the guns deep underground had been converted into a military museum that contained relics from the Boer War through WWII.
Over the years after WWII recreational SCUBA divers found several 'canisters' of grape shot on the sea bed out in front of the old fort and some wound up in the museum.
My daily fatigues incorporated polishing brass on WWI vintage breech loading Vickers naval guns salvaged off an old destroyer so I had an occasional opportunity to browse in the museum.
The salvaged grape canisters consisted of steel or iron plates attached on the sides a bit like a wooden barrel with similar ends and the whole shebang was riveted together with hoops top and bottom.
The interior of each canister apparently contained steel balls with a central explosive charge fused with intent to disperse them at distances predetermined by an optic range finder located in a low cupola on top of the parapet.
These are my favorite types of video content!
#ChiggHistory love it!!! Please do more educational videos like this Beau.
Outstanding video!!!!
I am so thankful for your making these videos. I have learned so much about the Civil war i would never know without them.
Thank you so much
Loving these
Very interesting, learned a lot
Another good one, Professor!
Your hammer... “Maxwell”. Adorable. 👍
Always interesting seeing how to do on some relics
Thanks for your video with soooooooo much knowledge from start to finish about the life of a cannonball
Very cool video and always a pleasure to watch your content Aquachigger
Very interesting cleaning process
Thanks for teaching me along with all of your other viewers a history lesson!
That's amazing! Great video !!
Glad you enjoyed it
Interesting to learn from your Videos Mr.Chiggs
thank u for showing me all of the stuff
Thank you. Tons of free knowledge. Mt. Dora, Fl
it sounds to me that the sand is to act the same way a dead blow hammer works very effective!
Not to play know it all, cause on that shell, I am clueless! I would assume the sand was filler, nothing more. Google Pilasier shell. Ca. 1870s it was invented. It solved all the armor piercing problems they tried to solve in weird roundabout ways during the US CW. The Pilasier was cast nose down, and the nose was rapidly chilled in the mould with water. It was hollow base, with a filler plug, but the charge in the base ignited by friction and compression. Then Boom! After it penetrated the armor...Maybe the cast it with the hollow base thinking it could contain a bursting charge and be base fused and the Navy said no. It seems similar to the Pilasier Shell explained in Ian V. Hoggs The Illustrated History of Ammunition. The Pilasiers were put to great effect in the War of The Pacific.
interesting but not relevant to this shell. listen closely to chig the sand is just that sand not gun powder. the sand acts as a secondary impact device to pierce thru a surface that has flex. it keeps the shell from bouncing off
My thoughts exactly!
☼ Heirloom reviews ☼ Very relevant! As this is an 1860s attempt to do what the Pilasier shell would go on to do in the 1870s. Kinetic energy punches holes in armor, and kinetic energy is all about weight, mass, and velocity. If that shell had been cast solid, of iron, it would penetrate better than a lighter shell, cast hollow base, filled with light weight "black sand" ( foundary slag) base fusing was dangerous until the 1890s so my theory is, that was why they cast it hollow base, then filled it with silica slag when the USN rejected the idea of a based fused armor piercing shell. Light weight behind heavy weight doesn't increase kinetic energy, and the goal of the Navy's of the earth after the introduction of ship armor was a safe shell that would punch through using kinetic energy, then detonate, to destroy what the armor was protecting.
The sand in a dead blow hammer acts to absorb shock. So maybe Admiral Dalghren had the idea of shells not bouncing with shock absorption, but, the banded Brookes on Virginia had been proven against wrought iron thicker than Monitor's.
They left the solid shot at home that day.... oh well.
I'm a new subscriber from Idaho. Just want to thank you for sharing your videos. Very cool and informative. Thanks again and please keep them coming!
great video thank u
I don't know about the rest of you but I love it when chigg does these kind of videos there better than national geographic chigg will probably never read this because it is so old but please keep it up chigg they are really informative thanks for going through all the trouble it looks like a dirty smelly job
I have missed your long videos. Thank You ^^
Wow,very interesting !
Great!!! Tutorial videos. On preserving those cast shells. Love your videos Beau. Happy hunting. Happy New year. 2018 is going to be awesome!! Hold your breath!!,!
This was a BLAST!!
So, Beau, that is the explanation from all these magnetic stones you can find by magnet fishing. Thanks, again a lil' bit wiser!
Thanks chigg.
Don't hit your thumb! Great informative video I have learned so much from your knowledge of civil war relics and your narrative on how you are getting these cleaned. Thanks so much
Great stuff