Best title ever Beau ... Having all those old phones in the river is pretty weird .... some contractor in the 50s probably dumped them there as a quick disposal practice.
16:02 a true relic! The big wheel from a "Big Wheel" The best wheeled toy invention the market has ever given to date. I racked up so many miles (Duke's of Hazard w/sticker pack, I know, try to contain your jealousy) that I wore the wheels straight through. Out of the kindness of her beautiful heart Mom purchased me another with her hard earned money and life was sweet once more....*sniffle*...so many wonderful miles. Big Wheel...Never Forget.
My favorite video is the one where you find that beef jerky and gatorade in the river and eat and drink it that was awesome anyways another great video!
Wow! Aquatic phone graveyard! That is pretty crazy! Definitely a practice mortar. Solid cast iron. Inert. The splodie ones are pointy. My hunting spot is littered with them. Little known fact. A 54 on a. XP Deus with the target 6 inches down in red clay is a mortar. It will read non ferrous with no iron grunt. Makes you think nugget.
Batman:To the bat phone robin Robin: i think you threw our last one in the river .Really cool spot. Seems like a bit of variety.if i didn't work all the darn time i would definitely want to do exactly this .i always thought scuba diving on old recks and things was the coolest thing.kudos to you my friend. Beau stayin health and havin a peaceful but yet exciting day is where its at.thanks for sharing your adventures.
Hi I am Claire I am a person that always try's to watch one of you videos I always want to river hunt for stuff I am to young when I am older I will river hunt keep up your videos👍🏻:)
Gives a whole new meaning to the saying "My phone just died" lol. Bakerlite phones in good condition are worth a few bob, but I think I'd be leaving those sucker right there.
BOTZZ -PS3 He's not being "heavy". Show me a child under 16 that knows how to use a phone with a dial. Or, how to operate a L.P. album for that matter. Most don't realize those have music recorded on both sides. They seem to think they're like CD's. And the stylus ? Don't ask. LoL
1950-1970 Rotary dial 500 c or d telephones, single line $15-25 in excellent condition. That condition not so much. Best guess tossed by telco after breakup of Ma Bell or Telco retired employee. Or just junked as obsolete. Some can sell for up to $150, I think their sellers are on crack. The candlestick ear piece might be worth $30-50, if original and not repro. Condition helps, other wise you have paperweights.
+Hypergen 8 Scottish rivers are freezing cold full of leeches but luckily we have no water snakes. It's pretty safe because when your out in the mountains and rivers the only thing that can really kill you is yourself and other people, no mountain lions or rattle snakes here
+Hypergen 8 I know when I go wading in river/ponds I'll have leeches on my feet and ankles, same kinds that hang out on the roofs of largemouth basses mouths.
I get excited whenever I see you have posted a new video. When I get back on my feet I hope to do more detecting and now river and underwater detecting because of you!
I bet there are people who are young enough that they would not have known that those old landline phones are actually phones, if you had not told them in the video.
I love, love, love your videos. I don't know why, but they're always so calming. I've been having HORRIBLE anxiety lately and your videos always help me calm down.
sometimes its by accident like if you're rafting or in a river boat tings fall off. he also might be in a river closer to the ocean so this from a ship wreck get washed through the river, also he may be in a high tornado area so the tornadoes trash the rivers ponds an lakes that are around. You never really know, but yeah some people are jerks an use a river or water body as a trash can
I have a very untrained eye and I'm sure I'm wrong, but that sure looks like a 3 ringer next to that modern quarter.. th-cam.com/video/QboQNZMcyoE/w-d-xo.htmlm58s
Cool finds. Love old school heavy rotary phones. These days phones are mad of plastic or whatever and feel so flimsy. If you drop it - it is broke. Back then if you dropped it you dented the floor. Lol. That looked like a practice one- I know the base in jersey wasn’t exactly good with containing their practice ammo back in the day. Lol. So I’m sure other bases back then where the same. A farmer once brought a live ammo to the base back in the 90s. It was army but he took it to the air force my fiancé at the time was security police there - long to short they had to take it and detonate it safely. Dude drove with it on his tractor! Multiple times. He even put it on his mantle in his house for a bit before having the time to take it back. Crazy. Thankfully it didn’t go off on him. Guess it was a dud at the time it fired. Who knows. I haven’t heard any stories recently since the merger so think they tightened that up but who knows. Thankfully there are a lot of farmland by them and not tons of condos. And during war time I’m sure training is probably rushed and they probably train a ton more so mistakes are bound to happen. Thankfully it didn’t hit a house of it was a practice round. Also didn’t they practice aiming at a lighthouse on the east coast? But thought that was up in New England. I could be wrong on the location. I’m not a expert on the topic. Just interested in history and in learning what my grandfathers went threw.
I am a 17 year old. These "adults" who seem to be on a high horse due to their understanding of older technology is disgusting. They criticize the youth for petty things like that. Then they make some sort of claim like, "We built the Internet," First of all, YOU did not build the Internet. It was people far more intelligent than you. I believe that the previous generation are looking at a select few from the youth of today and basing their whole judgment on their immature actions. Then we suffer their blatant and repudiating comments. It's very, very annoying.
thats 1 way to deal with telemarketers, looks like you need to call the river janitor- hewhew I enjoy all your vids, let me know if you find my marbles.
I get a kick out of the wildlife under the water. The Bluegills are always curious to see what's going on. I wonder what those much smaller striped fish were.
Beau, I couldn't believe it when you found your Soul amidst all those phones. You didn't just toss it back did you? Tee hee : D All of those phones looked to be older than the forties. I'm thinking that there are collectors for them and they would also make great art pieces. That one would be good to set a little potted plant in for a desk or something. I know not everyone appreciates my unique way of seeing things as an art piece, but some do. Trippy about that mortar bomb. Whew! Glad it isn't my fishing hole. I would have liked a couple of those old bottles you found and left there. Sort of looked like the residence of a telephone lineman had burned down. My husband said there was a connecting rod for a car between the 1920s-1940s most likely. Wonder if the rest of the vehicle is in there. Hmm? See ya next time, my friend.
Hey Aquachigger, B-ez here, long time fan and follower, from NC. if you go back frame by frame to where you got that Musket ball you will see a botton, shank up right beside it in the rock, sorry you did`not see it.
a lot of the bells in the older phones are brass. you should still pick them up and take them when you have bucket full to the scrape yard and get money for them.
Anytime you find a circular stone in the water it could be a grinding stone, they were used to grind up a lot of different things, and they were sometimes powered by the water. They would also be powered by the wind or by horses depending on the location and available resources in certain regions.
Round picnic table? 1:47? M69 60mm Practice Mortar. 1950s Phones. More than 25c richer I think those Indian Head Pennies are worth at least 7.00$ probably more.
Back too form!!last two were lost om me mate,heh heh,i only say this cos your vids are always..sept for those 2..A1,thanks for your work anyhoo Beau,. ]your thoroughness and info are the dogs cahooners,. ]
***** I think a phone or newspaper box would probably be a "safer" thing to steal. I just can't see someone run off with a parking meter, yet alone managing to get it out of the ground...because aren't they like, cemented in the ground? I guess you could cut it off, but what would be the point? It'd be loud and then you'd be caught.
The telephones, the first ones you found were late 1930's Automatic Electrics the Northern electric is from the mid sixties. Not the first dump of telephones by a lazy telephone installers I've seen. I heard of a Airforce Colonel who went ice fishing in Alaska and caught a bunch of telephones from a pond, made him real mad as he had ordered a phone for an office and was told that he had to wait for a shipment to come in.
The phone bells are actually quite collectable. If they are im good shape and still ring when flicked by something they can be worth decent money. Especially to people who want original parts when restoring old phones.
the northern electric body is an antique and in good condition as far as i could see. you can sell them for 10 to 30 bucks a piece on ebay and the antique receiver is worth 5 to 10 bucks.
The phone shown at 6:40 looks to be a Western Electric model 302 telephone which was made around the 1940s or so. And the Northern Electric telephone shown at 10:43 looks to be a later model. Possibly 1950s-1960s.
They're all Bakelite phones. If I was to have a guess id say they were dumped after ww2 ended. Maybe used in a command centre that wasnt needed when the war ended? Cool find at any rate.
Best title ever Beau ... Having all those old phones in the river is pretty weird .... some contractor in the 50s probably dumped them there as a quick disposal practice.
16:02 a true relic!
The big wheel from a "Big Wheel" The best wheeled toy invention the market has ever given to date. I racked up so many miles (Duke's of Hazard w/sticker pack, I know, try to contain your jealousy) that I wore the wheels straight through. Out of the kindness of her beautiful heart Mom purchased me another with her hard earned money and life was sweet once more....*sniffle*...so many wonderful miles. Big Wheel...Never Forget.
My favorite video is the one where you find that beef jerky and gatorade in the river and eat and drink it that was awesome anyways another great video!
What's the video called
yeah whats that video called?
not really
+TimoPlayzz he made it up
no he didn't. That was the first vid of his i have seen
River janitor here, thanks for doing partial cleaning. Saves on my work
Wow! Aquatic phone graveyard! That is pretty crazy!
Definitely a practice mortar. Solid cast iron. Inert. The splodie ones are pointy. My hunting spot is littered with them. Little known fact. A 54 on a. XP Deus with the target 6 inches down in red clay is a mortar. It will read non ferrous with no iron grunt. Makes you think nugget.
Thanks for these videos. Love the underwater sounds. Cheers!
Forest janitor here, I'm amazed how you can just find a mortar round in the middle of the river. That is crazy to me.
I love your videos. This kind of thing really interests me. Thanks for providing!
Love your sense of humor and the type of vids you make too :)!!!
Hip hip hooray!!! Chigger is back!!! Awesome video!!!
your videos are so peaceful I love them
Batman:To the bat phone robin Robin: i think you threw our last one in the river .Really cool spot. Seems like a bit of variety.if i didn't work all the darn time i would definitely want to do exactly this .i always thought scuba diving on old recks and things was the coolest thing.kudos to you my friend. Beau stayin health and havin a peaceful but yet exciting day is where its at.thanks for sharing your adventures.
Hi I am Claire I am a person that always try's to watch one of you videos I always want to river hunt for stuff I am to young when I am older I will river hunt keep up your videos👍🏻:)
Try not to get 'carried away'!
Chig, you need to throw that on a shirt.
+Aquachigger why was there two skips when you found the mortar head
Gives a whole new meaning to the saying "My phone just died" lol. Bakerlite phones in good condition are worth a few bob, but I think I'd be leaving those sucker right there.
You find so much cool stuff man honestly love the videos
I'll bet a couple handfuls of the metal bells would make some sweet wind chimes.
Why didn't you use the phone to call the river janitor?
How? It's impossible this comment defies laws of physics
Funny
+gabriel diffin nice profile pic
+Joe Stravens profile pic from bo burnham?
+Joe Stravens song starts out like "do you ever feel sad or lonely?, have you ever felt 2 feet tall" right
Yes that was an ear piece and the round thing that you picked up was a bell. Neat stuff you are finding!!
they must be from the time of the great phone prohibition
Aww the turtle!! 🐢 So cute!
I'll bet there are kids watching that couldn't operate those phones. LoL I wonder if that newspaper box had any dimes or quarters in it ?
+Aquachigger lol bro eas up Big Fan
BOTZZ -PS3 He's not being "heavy". Show me a child under 16 that knows how to use a phone with a dial. Or, how to operate a L.P. album for that matter. Most don't realize those have music recorded on both sides. They seem to think they're like CD's. And the stylus ? Don't ask. LoL
+Charles Wilson Peale ?
BOTZZ -PS3 BOTZZ -PS3 ?
+Charles Wilson Peale?
Partytime all the time drink till you get bubbles in your spine!
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1950-1970 Rotary dial 500 c or d telephones, single line $15-25 in excellent condition. That condition not so much. Best guess tossed by telco after breakup of Ma Bell or Telco retired employee. Or just junked as obsolete. Some can sell for up to $150, I think their sellers are on crack. The candlestick ear piece might be worth $30-50, if original and not repro. Condition helps, other wise you have paperweights.
Outstanding beau !! Always fun too watch. Thats it ,OK great! See ya !
I wanna do this but I'm spooked of snakes and leeches. :0
American/Canadian Freshwater leeches don't really suck human blood, and snakes stay away from humans, so your pretty much good if you live over here
+Hypergen 8 Scottish rivers are freezing cold full of leeches but luckily we have no water snakes. It's pretty safe because when your out in the mountains and rivers the only thing that can really kill you is yourself and other people, no mountain lions or rattle snakes here
+Hypergen 8 stay brave. . .
+Hypergen 8 I know when I go wading in river/ponds I'll have leeches on my feet and ankles, same kinds that hang out on the roofs of largemouth basses mouths.
watch brave wilderness newest vid about leaches, then u wont be afraid of north america leaches
Phony river. "Hello 1950's? We found your phones." Wow! A newspaper box! PS. I'm missing the earpiece/reciever to my old wooden box phone.
I fail to understand how that many phones wound up in the bottom of the river, confusing.
Yeah same here🤔🤔
People probably drop them while boating
Cell phones, yeah, but those were all giant old style house phones.
hipsters boating maybe? :D
Haha could be.
I get excited whenever I see you have posted a new video. When I get back on my feet I hope to do more detecting and now river and underwater detecting because of you!
Do other people hold their breath when he says to or is it just me
I do
Same
I do too Lol😊😊😁
i do too
I do haha
Jeez that turtle scared me at 16:18, thought it was a catfish
did they flood the phone company
i just got my at pro bundle. so excited! great videos by the way
I bet there are people who are young enough that they would not have known that those old landline phones are actually phones, if you had not told them in the video.
I love, love, love your videos. I don't know why, but they're always so calming. I've been having HORRIBLE anxiety lately and your videos always help me calm down.
the phones wire were curly so that means they are not that old
ILUMANATI
I love all those old bottles!
sad how rivers are used as trash cans
at least we have the river janitor's to clean them.
sometimes its by accident like if you're rafting or in a river boat tings fall off. he also might be in a river closer to the ocean so this from a ship wreck get washed through the river, also he may be in a high tornado area so the tornadoes trash the rivers ponds an lakes that are around. You never really know, but yeah some people are jerks an use a river or water body as a trash can
+Shania Felte your really cute whats your snapchat
+INKDgaming none of your business and its my girlfriends picture
+Shania Felte you want to do what?
I bet someone was using that training mortar as a boat anchor. :) That is strange about all the phones!! Wow! What in the world?
I have a very untrained eye and I'm sure I'm wrong, but that sure looks like a 3 ringer next to that modern quarter.. th-cam.com/video/QboQNZMcyoE/w-d-xo.htmlm58s
Thought it was a bullet too!
ya i saw that too
it looks like a bullet to me 2
Loved the flow of the video and felt like I was there with ya. Great stuff!
16:03 WTF is that
looks like a wheel off of a childs wagon..you can see the rubber tire if you pause it
Nukelyfe™
+Glenn Reis for real
Thanks for posting a new river vid! It's so bizarre about the phones, and spread over a long period of time!
Can u be shirtless in one of ur vids??
Uh, wtf!?
I'm sure he could, if he wanted too.
he doesn't want to break the internet.
+0909asd0909 let's go
btw, he is shirtless in plenty vids, just doesnt y'know, show off his body
Cool finds. Love old school heavy rotary phones. These days phones are mad of plastic or whatever and feel so flimsy. If you drop it - it is broke. Back then if you dropped it you dented the floor. Lol. That looked like a practice one- I know the base in jersey wasn’t exactly good with containing their practice ammo back in the day. Lol. So I’m sure other bases back then where the same. A farmer once brought a live ammo to the base back in the 90s. It was army but he took it to the air force my fiancé at the time was security police there - long to short they had to take it and detonate it safely. Dude drove with it on his tractor! Multiple times. He even put it on his mantle in his house for a bit before having the time to take it back. Crazy. Thankfully it didn’t go off on him. Guess it was a dud at the time it fired. Who knows. I haven’t heard any stories recently since the merger so think they tightened that up but who knows. Thankfully there are a lot of farmland by them and not tons of condos. And during war time I’m sure training is probably rushed and they probably train a ton more so mistakes are bound to happen. Thankfully it didn’t hit a house of it was a practice round. Also didn’t they practice aiming at a lighthouse on the east coast? But thought that was up in New England. I could be wrong on the location. I’m not a expert on the topic. Just interested in history and in learning what my grandfathers went threw.
I am a 17 year old. These "adults" who seem to be on a high horse due to their understanding of older technology is disgusting. They criticize the youth for petty things like that. Then they make some sort of claim like, "We built the Internet," First of all, YOU did not build the Internet. It was people far more intelligent than you. I believe that the previous generation are looking at a select few from the youth of today and basing their whole judgment on their immature actions. Then we suffer their blatant and repudiating comments. It's very, very annoying.
thats 1 way to deal with telemarketers, looks like you need to call the river janitor- hewhew
I enjoy all your vids, let me know if you find my marbles.
Brilliant hunt & vid Chigg, thanks for sharing!
Can you please do a Q&A segment soon? Keep up the vids!!!!
Yay.You're back.I have been waiting for an upload.Thank you +Aquachigger .
I get a kick out of the wildlife under the water. The Bluegills are always curious to see what's going on. I wonder what those much smaller striped fish were.
Good hunt Chigg...
Those little telephone ringers could make a nice wind chime
as a fellow metal detectorist from The Peoples Republic of California love the videos!! Looks like you have a lot of fun, kudos......
I absolutely loved your Thames River mudlarking videos 👍
yeah wow they're going back later than I thought looks like the earpiece to a candlestick phone
Beau, I couldn't believe it when you found your Soul amidst all those phones. You didn't just toss it back did you? Tee hee : D All of those phones looked to be older than the forties. I'm thinking that there are collectors for them and they would also make great art pieces. That one would be good to set a little potted plant in for a desk or something. I know not everyone appreciates my unique way of seeing things as an art piece, but some do. Trippy about that mortar bomb. Whew! Glad it isn't my fishing hole. I would have liked a couple of those old bottles you found and left there. Sort of looked like the residence of a telephone lineman had burned down. My husband said there was a connecting rod for a car between the 1920s-1940s most likely. Wonder if the rest of the vehicle is in there. Hmm? See ya next time, my friend.
More of the best! Thanks as always.
Hey Aquachigger, B-ez here, long time fan and follower, from NC. if you go back frame by frame to where you got that Musket ball you will see a botton, shank up right beside it in the rock, sorry you did`not see it.
a lot of the bells in the older phones are brass. you should still pick them up and take them when you have bucket full to the scrape yard and get money for them.
Cool video - as usual! :) One could make a pretty cool windchime or rain-chain with all those bells from ALL those old phones! Neat stuff!
Beau, Some of those unbroken phone bodies and the ear pieces, especially the cylindrical one are worth money to phone restorers and collectors.
finally not a boring video
some of the phones you showed were made from Bakelite , 19 30s - 1940s, a few looked like 1950s types , not a bad find .
Anytime you find a circular stone in the water it could be a grinding stone, they were used to grind up a lot of different things, and they were sometimes powered by the water. They would also be powered by the wind or by horses depending on the location and available resources in certain regions.
Aquachigger: My fans are what put food on my plate 😊
Guy: TH-cam isn't a real job
Aquachigger: *CHIGGERED*
Looked like a flat button to the right of the musket ball at 19:47 in.
I love these kinds of videos Aquachigger do more plzzzz
Round picnic table? 1:47? M69 60mm Practice Mortar. 1950s Phones. More than 25c richer I think those Indian Head Pennies are worth at least 7.00$ probably more.
Back too form!!last two were lost om me mate,heh heh,i only say this cos your vids are always..sept for those 2..A1,thanks for your work anyhoo Beau,. ]your thoroughness and info are the dogs cahooners,. ]
When that turtle popped out there it startled me lol
I even saw Maxwell Smart's shoe phone.
Those dial face rotary phones are from the 1960's to 1980's
I may be sick as of now, but im always happy stayin home from work, layin in bed with my dog named bo, and watching good ol beau.
You found a pair of M69 mortar rounds and didn't keep them??? Great vid, AC!
Coll finds!
The one bottle around 15:00 reminds me of Orval. Though hard to imagine how it would have wound up there
Also, that was probably a solid steel practice mortar, ive had a few of those in my collection.
Looked as though there was a huge stone "Mill wheel" or ? underwater just as the video started.
Thanks for sharing your experience,
Yes it was near a old sump maybe, but yes years back and even now some use the river as a dump.
Oh he uploaded *grabs popcorn
13:11 looks like a old padlock at the 11 o clock mark, u passed over.. killer vid!!!!
the 90s called they want thier joke back. jk love the vids!
I'd go back and take a look at that newspaper box. Probably has some coins in it still.
+Aquachigger I thought you thought it was something else lol
***** I think a phone or newspaper box would probably be a "safer" thing to steal. I just can't see someone run off with a parking meter, yet alone managing to get it out of the ground...because aren't they like, cemented in the ground? I guess you could cut it off, but what would be the point? It'd be loud and then you'd be caught.
one ringie-dingie, two ringie dingie...
The telephones, the first ones you found were late 1930's Automatic Electrics the Northern electric is from the mid sixties. Not the first dump of telephones by a lazy telephone installers I've seen. I heard of a Airforce Colonel who went ice fishing in Alaska and caught a bunch of telephones from a pond, made him real mad as he had ordered a phone for an office and was told that he had to wait for a shipment to come in.
Seems they were not Smart Phones lying in the river...
man I love watching your videos thanks for providing me entertainment
Rural telephone companies use to dumb old product in water or fill in pot holes.
The phone bells are actually quite collectable. If they are im good shape and still ring when flicked by something they can be worth decent money. Especially to people who want original parts when restoring old phones.
It's a 60mm mortar practise round. Bumb no explosives. A keeper.
What became of the mortar shell? Did you burry it or did you call the police?
the northern electric body is an antique and in good condition as far as i could see. you can sell them for 10 to 30 bucks a piece on ebay and the antique receiver is worth 5 to 10 bucks.
Wow so interesting with that bomb! I'm shocked
The phone shown at 6:40 looks to be a Western Electric model 302 telephone which was made around the 1940s or so. And the Northern Electric telephone shown at 10:43 looks to be a later model. Possibly 1950s-1960s.
Am i the only one that things these videos are awesome?
Nice video Aquaman. like watching them
What Camera are you filming with?
They're all Bakelite phones. If I was to have a guess id say they were dumped after ww2 ended. Maybe used in a command centre that wasnt needed when the war ended? Cool find at any rate.
Wow attention magnet fisherman bomb below!
Doin great! Ever make sculptures out of the stuff? really awesome videos! thanx for keepn'it up!!
love this type of video, keep them coming.