The shells were only put on a lathe for the purpose of machining the bourellet , the front driving band which rode the bore, the shell body wasn't machined. Also, the pinholes are the result of deterioration in the ground, not casting defects. Super job of removing the fuses. Very professional job!
Hi Beau, I check for new videos every day and I feel like I'm either on an exciting adventure with you or sitting in a class room learning something new for the day. I really enjoy watching you and your antics. Thank you, Jerry
Man.... I am so glad you showed these. When you found them my first wonder was.... I wonder how these will look all cleaned up and preserved. Unreal. Thanks for finding and preserving them. The button is an awesome find....I am from Louisiana so that makes it even more special for me. Thanks for sharing.
I think that you did an excellent job in cleaning up those shells, considering that they had been underwater for about 150 years. And thank you for the history and facts of these shells, I'm learning something new every time I watch your videos. Thanks Beau!
Hey thanks Beau! You answered so many questions. After I asked you on your last video when you found all these I went and looked up the guns they were fired out of. I had no idea they used so much artillery. And now I understand how all this works. Thanks.
Hey beau, me and my 6 year old love watching your videos..thanks for educating me and my boy on things we probably never woulda known..keep em coming..
+Aquachigger Thanks for the info on the shells, very interesting! Also, that button is FANTASTIC! Heh. I love history, and you make such great vids. Thanks again for sharing them with us.
I already commented some time ago about this video, but I've come back to thank you again for it. I just finished reading a book on Civil War era artillery and I have found this video to be a great help in picturing what I read.
That was a very informative video Beau! You took ten rusted blobs from the river and turned them into great looking relics and a meaningful history lesson too. The word sabot is of course French for shoe and it makes perfect sense that the device at the base of the shell would be called a "shoe." During the French industrial revolution disgruntled workers threw their shoes into the machinery to stop production. This was called sabotage and the term has stuck all these years. The button was very nice. Not much gilt had worn off before it was lost. Best wishes and HH, Dave.
To my English Artillery mind a sabot was a wooden shoe... the brass/copper band is a driving band used to provide a forward gas seal and to impart spin to keep the shell on the straight and narrow in the hope of hitting the target 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Very nice restoration on the shells brother. Cool to see them cleaned up. The mark on them is very awesome. Thanks again for an informative video. Terry.
***** The same has happened throughout history, companies have produced unreliable arms and munitions...The US army would rather have lets say 100 rounds delivered with 20 dudes than have 20 finely made rounds and 0 duds.
Good Morning Mr. Aqua, Great video schemes I must add. You are good at what you do. You inspired me to return to my youth desire to metal detect. Garrett ACE 400 was the best I could do but it is great. Thanks for the inspiration from a 66 year old kid. Terry
Hey brother, just stumbled upon your channel about three hours ago with the "I Just Found A Complete Civil War Cavalry Carbine!" video. So here I am a few hours later making this comment on your newest video that had just been posted a short time before my "discovery" (stupid pun, ah-ha-ha). All I have to say is the finds are incredible & you have another faithful subscriber. Keep it up!
Wow things i had never known. Thank you so so much Beau. Don't stop making videos. This one was fascinating. Hellova lot better than The History Channel. Thank you again.
Its always been a dream of mine to pursue marine archaeology, and your videos have got chills going down my spine. Love the videos, I instantly subscribed after watching just one. Also shows me it doesn't take a whole lot to get out in the field and start doing this yourself. Keep up the amazing vids and ill be sure to keep watching :D
I didn't realize that a single Civil War button was in the $400-500 range! Wow. As an American (and a teacher) I was interested in the history, and thought I'd check one out, but that's a good week of work for me! Love your videos and passion for HISTORY! Thanks for taking the time to share your passion by posting and hope to see many more amazing videos!
***** , Mr. Aquachigger, you my friend are a treasure! Questions: • How much does a functional shell way? • Were they dropped because of there imperfections? • I've only seen you find one piece of shrapnel. It would be neat to see the side by side comparison of the "before and after" results, could you show that? • Just curious, do you go to shows and display your find • Do you have your own little museum for the public? Only been watching you for about three months and love your vids. I'm retired and a bit disabled here in Oklahoma. Love getting out in nature with you. Getting better at holding my breath.
Beau, amazing finds, you did a great job preserving those things. You said that they were not the best looking shells but I think that it just gives them character. Keep up the great work!.
Great find!!! Thought you'd like to know in munitions talk fuze is a device for initiating the explosion of high-explosive shells, bombs, shrapnel, mines, grenades, etc; and contains high explosive, which can only be detonated by a high explosive compound faster then the speed of sound, a fuse is a device for communicating fire to low explosive compounds, gun powder, flash powder or combustible material...
I think the brass ring is called the driving band. It’s purpose is to engage the barrel rifling. The firing charge expands the driving band into the rifling. I remember a sabot to be a discarding shoe that surrounds the projectile. The sabot keeps the projo centered and protected and fires from smooth or rifled barrels. I was in rocket artillery so my gunnery is rusty… but that is what I remember from the small amount of gunnery I had. Nice video.
Nice find Beau! Remind me the British one Ihave found and the picture I send to you. Mine had timer fuze in brass could explode in time delay or by hurting a target circa 1870-90. Some had powder right inside and some had lead ball and the powder in the bottom.
I believe what you're calling a sabot is more correctly called the driving band - a ring of soft metal like brass or copper that engages the rifling. A sabot encases the (usually smaller caliber then the barrel) projectile and drops away when fired.
Beau, great video and educational. Awesome confederate shells. From what I see behind you in the beginning of your video looks like a pretty cool relic room! You should give us (Your fans) a updated video tour, What do you say?
Shells came out great! Thanks for taking the time to explain how they worked. Would love to hear what that mark indicates. Wow on the Button! Where's that video!? W.
I was about to stop the video when I saw the pelican button. I'm a Louisiana boy and recognized it immediately. Anyone born and raised in the bayous knows that symbol!!!! Thanks for sharing it!!!!
There are two fuses used in munitions, the fuse with an s is one that is ignited like you see on television or fireworks, the fuze with a a z is used with current munitions such as grenades that you actually pull the pin on and if i remember correctly its a m201a1 fuze..
Beau, your videos are amazing! Please to tell, have you ever found any shells that could be IDed to a particular unit, gun, etc. based on a primary source? A friend of mine in Burkittsville has a fragment of a Blakeley found on his property that was IDed to Chew's Battery, as it was the only battery with that piece....plus!......he has a copy of a letter written by one of the crew ( I forget what number man wrote it) explaining that the gun fired but a few shells before a particular recoil sent the piece violently into a boulder, damaging it, thusly rendering it inoperable.
Thanks for sharing that info. I learned some things I did not know even though I am a civil war reenactor on a cannon crew.I really need to pack up my AT Pro and the motor home and hear East.
Been watching your newer videos.......man! Is there a difference in your "video persona" I guess? Not saying anything bad......personally I think your adorable! Very informative video, glad they came up on my TH-cam, wasn't expecting to see these. Thanks Chigger!
another great video mate, good to so your relic room in the background. PS could you please give a tour of it all so i can get some ideas how to display my items
Yes, please explain the fuse vs fuze thing :) Still a really cool find. The imperfections actually make this find even more awesome as it tells the story of just how desperate things were getting for the Confederate site near the end of the Civil War. That they'd lathe and shoot shells with such obvious flaws is quite shocking. The unreliable fuzes also explain for me why you'd find so many fired shells which are still intact, as they're supposed to explode into fragments. How many of these shells (this type and/or others like it) would actually have the fuze successfully ignite the black-powder inside, you reckon? 25%? :)
When my husband was a kid, he and his father were into living history and they had a bunch of Civil War cannon balls around the house. My husband was bowling with them in the yard. His father told him that the cannonballs were still live and to bury them back in the woods so that no one would get hurt. He later discovered that the fuzes were worth money and asked my husband where he had buried them. Being a kid, he couldn't remember. So, somewhere in Jessup, Md. are a bunch of buried cannon balls.
When they first started using shells that exploded with mortars, They would have to light the fuze on the shell and then touch off the breach to send it on its way. Could be a problem if the propellant charge didn't fire well or at all. They later learned that enough burning gunpowder was present to usually get the fuze ignighted by just firing the mortar. I read a story about this when I was in highschool.
Very interesting!!! I have always wondered how the fus(z)e would ignite during firing. Were there different way for the fuze to ignite aside form this? I also didn't known about the makers mark either. Thanks for showing these. I really enjoy the tours of things in your relic room! I actually would be interested in the explanation of the spelling of fuse. Also have you ever tried igniting any of that powder??
I'm sorry, but that brass part is called a "driving band," it is so the shell engages with rifling. a sabot is for rounds smaller than the bore your shooting out of.
Well I'll be damned! I just learned something new. That has to have evolved though - and possibly 2 ways into the modern driving band and also the obturator since the ring on your shells seems to function as both. Thanks Beau!
Man I'd love to get my mits on one of those!! What an AWESOME FIND Chigger!! I was saddened that you don't sell some of your finds or doubles.....I'd buy one forsure!!
The shells were only put on a lathe for the purpose of machining the bourellet , the front driving band which rode the bore, the shell body wasn't machined. Also, the pinholes are the result of deterioration in the ground, not casting defects. Super job of removing the fuses. Very professional job!
Hi Beau, I check for new videos every day and I feel like I'm either on an exciting adventure with you or sitting in a class room learning something new for the day. I really enjoy watching you and your antics.
Thank you, Jerry
if possible, could you one day just show your collection of everything youve found? it would be crazy interesting! keep up your awesomeness man
35 years of learning distilled in 6:52- Well done and "Thanks" from America's online classroom!! GL and HH in 2015!!
Man.... I am so glad you showed these. When you found them my first wonder was.... I wonder how these will look all cleaned up and preserved. Unreal. Thanks for finding and preserving them. The button is an awesome find....I am from Louisiana so that makes it even more special for me. Thanks for sharing.
Very Excellent One! You Explained the Fuse Functionings Very well!
Still amazing! Thank you very much for what you do...
Love all the general information you share about your finds!
A very nice button for sure. Retaining the gold gilt so sweet. Congrats to you, Terry.
Loved it. Fascinating. Thank you
I think that you did an excellent job in cleaning up those shells, considering that they had been underwater for about 150 years. And thank you for the history and facts of these shells, I'm learning something new every time I watch your videos. Thanks Beau!
Hey thanks Beau! You answered so many questions. After I asked you on your last video when you found all these I went and looked up the guns they were fired out of. I had no idea they used so much artillery. And now I understand how all this works. Thanks.
Man beau, those are beautiful shells! What a piece of history each one is, love them! That LA button is a beauty too, nice find!
Hey beau, me and my 6 year old love watching your videos..thanks for educating me and my boy on things we probably never woulda known..keep em coming..
Chigg you are the man I swear you should start your own metal detecting class
nice cleaning! very interesting speech about shells and fuze
regards from Belgium
+Aquachigger
Thanks for the info on the shells, very interesting! Also, that button is FANTASTIC!
Heh. I love history, and you make such great vids. Thanks again for sharing them with us.
I already commented some time ago about this video, but I've come back to thank you again for it. I just finished reading a book on Civil War era artillery and I have found this video to be a great help in picturing what I read.
That was a very informative video Beau! You took ten rusted blobs from the river and turned them into great looking relics and a meaningful history lesson too. The word sabot is of course French for shoe and it makes perfect sense that the device at the base of the shell would be called a "shoe." During the French industrial revolution disgruntled workers threw their shoes into the machinery to stop production. This was called sabotage and the term has stuck all these years. The button was very nice. Not much gilt had worn off before it was lost. Best wishes and HH, Dave.
To my English Artillery mind a sabot was a wooden shoe... the brass/copper band is a driving band used to provide a forward gas seal and to impart spin to keep the shell on the straight and narrow in the hope of hitting the target 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Very nice restoration on the shells brother. Cool to see them cleaned up. The mark on them is very awesome. Thanks again for an informative video. Terry.
The holes in the case are probably why it was tossed aside. Gunner saw they were defective.
Anyone can say "Poor quality control" Until they are rushing arms out the door to try and supply a civil war...
***** The same has happened throughout history, companies have produced unreliable arms and munitions...The US army would rather have lets say 100 rounds delivered with 20 dudes than have 20 finely made rounds and 0 duds.
@@redtobertshateshandles 128th or 13th PA comes to mind, as well as the 7th Illinois
Thoroghly enjoyable and educational videos Beau! Keep em coming!
Thank you Chigg, love your educational videos like this :)
Nice bunch of shells and the button looks pretty darn good too ,and the have the guiding on it too pretty nice !
Thanks for the info. Been watching your vids a while and always enjoy.
OMG THAT ROOM IS AWESOME!!!
Very interesting history lesson...thanks so MUCH! I have subscribed!
Very nice Beau. Congrats on the shells and the rare button. GL&HH
That's awesome thank you for preserving our country's history!
Awesome...great lesson on how they work. Thanks!
I'm a Civil War buff so loved your video. Thanks for posting it.
Good Morning Mr. Aqua, Great video schemes I must add. You are good at what you do. You inspired me to return to my youth desire to metal detect. Garrett ACE 400 was the best I could do but it is great. Thanks for the inspiration from a 66 year old kid. Terry
Your videos are awesome man. That's pretty neat how you found all those shells in one day.
I Loved this video! Always enjoy learning about our history. Thank you for all the information that you share with us!!!
I think they came out beautiful !!
Great informative video !!
Keep @ it and HH !!
What a great year! Thanks for taking us along!
Very informative Beau! Always like your videos and learning new things. Thanks so much for taking the time to do so.
Beau, thank you once again for an excellent video. It's great to learn about the civil war items you find!
Hey brother, just stumbled upon your channel about three hours ago with the "I Just Found A Complete Civil War Cavalry Carbine!" video. So here I am a few hours later making this comment on your newest video that had just been posted a short time before my "discovery" (stupid pun, ah-ha-ha). All I have to say is the finds are incredible & you have another faithful subscriber.
Keep it up!
very very interesting beau, I appreciate you explaining everything.
Wow things i had never known. Thank you so so much Beau. Don't stop making videos. This one was fascinating. Hellova lot better than The History Channel. Thank you again.
A great follow-up video Beau, interesting and informative. That button is in amazingly good condition too, nice find.
All the best for 2015.
Its always been a dream of mine to pursue marine archaeology, and your videos have got chills going down my spine. Love the videos, I instantly subscribed after watching just one. Also shows me it doesn't take a whole lot to get out in the field and start doing this yourself. Keep up the amazing vids and ill be sure to keep watching :D
Dagum bo,this is awesome, and look at your room,full of stuff,i could spend all day, looking at the stuff
Thanks for explaining how the shell/fuze works. I really didn't know anything about them before this video.
I didn't realize that a single Civil War button was in the $400-500 range! Wow. As an American (and a teacher) I was interested in the history, and thought I'd check one out, but that's a good week of work for me! Love your videos and passion for HISTORY! Thanks for taking the time to share your passion by posting and hope to see many more amazing videos!
Good job Chig.saw your vid when you found them.awesome days hunt for sure.
***** , Mr. Aquachigger, you my friend are a treasure!
Questions:
• How much does a functional shell way?
• Were they dropped because of there imperfections?
• I've only seen you find one piece of shrapnel. It would be neat to see the side by side comparison of the "before and after" results, could you show that?
• Just curious, do you go to shows and display your find
• Do you have your own little museum for the public?
Only been watching you for about three months and love your vids. I'm retired and a bit disabled here in Oklahoma. Love getting out in nature with you. Getting better at holding my breath.
Beau, amazing finds, you did a great job preserving those things. You said that they were not the best looking shells but I think that it just gives them character. Keep up the great work!.
Great find!!! Thought you'd like to know in munitions talk fuze is a device for initiating the explosion of high-explosive shells, bombs, shrapnel, mines, grenades, etc; and contains high explosive, which can only be detonated by a high explosive compound faster then the speed of sound, a fuse is a device for communicating fire to low explosive compounds, gun powder, flash powder or combustible material...
***** how much would one of those be worth?
I think the brass ring is called the driving band. It’s purpose is to engage the barrel rifling. The firing charge expands the driving band into the rifling. I remember a sabot to be a discarding shoe that surrounds the projectile. The sabot keeps the projo centered and protected and fires from smooth or rifled barrels. I was in rocket artillery so my gunnery is rusty… but that is what I remember from the small amount of gunnery I had. Nice video.
It is, but it was traditionally called a "sabot" back then. It's in the military manuals as such.
Thanks so much.Very informative and it answers a lot of my questions
That's awesome and interesting...best of luck this year!
awesome I am glad you showed us what they looked like after you cleaned the up ,I loved the video when you found them.
2:34 I was a machinst , We always called the dimple a center, We made them with center drills . Others might call it some thing different
They are called "lathe dimples" in the artillery collecting world.
Nice find Beau! Remind me the British one Ihave found and the picture I send to you. Mine had timer fuze in brass could explode in time delay or by hurting a target circa 1870-90. Some had powder right inside and some had lead ball and the powder in the bottom.
Good video. I can see the early machining practices and ideas in all those pieces.
Nice Beau those shells cleaned up really nice and that rare button is cool lot of gilled on it congrats HH&GL in 2015
I believe what you're calling a sabot is more correctly called the driving band - a ring of soft metal like brass or copper that engages the rifling. A sabot encases the (usually smaller caliber then the barrel) projectile and drops away when fired.
Great video. Very interesting information. Keep it up.
Very cool, great follow up, great information. 2015's off to a good start for you, hope it continues.
Excellent video, Beau. I had wondered in the past why you were spelling it fuze. I'll be waiting for that one. Again GREAT video. Thanks!! 57
Enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing!
Beau, great video and educational. Awesome confederate shells. From what I see behind you in the beginning of your video looks like a pretty cool relic room! You should give us (Your fans) a updated video tour, What do you say?
Shells came out great! Thanks for taking the time to explain how they worked. Would love to hear what that mark indicates.
Wow on the Button! Where's that video!?
W.
I was about to stop the video when I saw the pelican button. I'm a Louisiana boy and recognized it immediately. Anyone born and raised in the bayous knows that symbol!!!! Thanks for sharing it!!!!
Very interesting explanation.A good detection video needs this type of follow-up.
great video....you are very knowledgeble!
Great information Beau, thanks for sharing.
The shells turned out beautiful and this was a VERY interesting video. Good luck on the upcoming year and I hope you get more buttons like that one.
There are two fuses used in munitions, the fuse with an s is one that is ignited like you see on television or fireworks, the fuze with a a z is used with current munitions such as grenades that you actually pull the pin on and if i remember correctly its a m201a1 fuze..
I learned a lot from this video. Thank you.
Beau, your videos are amazing! Please to tell, have you ever found any shells that could be IDed to a particular unit, gun, etc. based on a primary source? A friend of mine in Burkittsville has a fragment of a Blakeley found on his property that was IDed to Chew's Battery, as it was the only battery with that piece....plus!......he has a copy of a letter written by one of the crew ( I forget what number man wrote it) explaining that the gun fired but a few shells before a particular recoil sent the piece violently into a boulder, damaging it, thusly rendering it inoperable.
Thanks for sharing that info. I learned some things I did not know even though I am a civil war reenactor on a cannon crew.I really need to pack up my AT Pro and the motor home and hear East.
Awesome!!! Thank you!!!!👍👍👍
Thanks, I learned something - again. Keep up the great videos.
Thanks for the information about the shells also like the button at the end. Looking forward seeing your videos in 2015.
Thanks for taking some time to share their history. Beautiful shells despite their poor quality iron - gives them some character.
Beau, a really informative video. I'm wondering if the foundry mark @ 3:47 is a palm tree, representive of the state of S. Carolina ?
man beau another awesome video thank you for sharing with us you have a relic room to die for.. keep up the good work thank you and happy hunting..
Awesome work fella😁👍
Been watching your newer videos.......man! Is there a difference in your "video persona" I guess? Not saying anything bad......personally I think your adorable! Very informative video, glad they came up on my TH-cam, wasn't expecting to see these. Thanks Chigger!
You are my metal detecting hero!
another great video mate, good to so your relic room in the background. PS could you please give a tour of it all so i can get some ideas how to display my items
Yes, please explain the fuse vs fuze thing :)
Still a really cool find. The imperfections actually make this find even more awesome as it tells the story of just how desperate things were getting for the Confederate site near the end of the Civil War. That they'd lathe and shoot shells with such obvious flaws is quite shocking.
The unreliable fuzes also explain for me why you'd find so many fired shells which are still intact, as they're supposed to explode into fragments. How many of these shells (this type and/or others like it) would actually have the fuze successfully ignite the black-powder inside, you reckon? 25%? :)
Thank you for your answer. I'll be looking forward to learning more :)
Thanks for the video, very interesting!
When my husband was a kid, he and his father were into living history and they had a bunch of Civil War cannon balls around the house. My husband was bowling with them in the yard. His father told him that the cannonballs were still live and to bury them back in the woods so that no one would get hurt. He later discovered that the fuzes were worth money and asked my husband where he had buried them. Being a kid, he couldn't remember. So, somewhere in Jessup, Md. are a bunch of buried cannon balls.
When they first started using shells that exploded with mortars, They would have to light the fuze on the shell and then touch off the breach to send it on its way. Could be a problem if the propellant charge didn't fire well or at all. They later learned that enough burning gunpowder was present to usually get the fuze ignighted by just firing the mortar. I read a story about this when I was in highschool.
I always wondered how they worked. Thanks
Great history lesson !!!!!!..thanks for sharing
very nice finds and explanation
Very interesting!!! I have always wondered how the fus(z)e would ignite during firing. Were there different way for the fuze to ignite aside form this? I also didn't known about the makers mark either. Thanks for showing these. I really enjoy the tours of things in your relic room! I actually would be interested in the explanation of the spelling of fuse. Also have you ever tried igniting any of that powder??
I'm sorry, but that brass part is called a "driving band," it is so the shell engages with rifling. a sabot is for rounds smaller than the bore your shooting out of.
Thanks for the information !
Well I'll be damned! I just learned something new. That has to have evolved though - and possibly 2 ways into the modern driving band and also the obturator since the ring on your shells seems to function as both. Thanks Beau!
that button was more than cool freakin awesome
Great vid man, thanks for all the info.....learned a lot!!
Really interesting, many thanks.
Beau Ouimette, that is a very sweet looking button. I hope you had a very fruitful year and more to come.
Man I'd love to get my mits on one of those!! What an AWESOME FIND Chigger!! I was saddened that you don't sell some of your finds or doubles.....I'd buy one forsure!!