This is Kenny... I'm a land surveyor and use probes to find stone boundary corners. There is a place called Ben Meadows that you can get a "good" one. There may be other links on here to find one but that's where we get them for our survey crews. I made the bag for Chigg because he inspires me with each and every video he makes and I wanted to contribute to his efforts. Making videos is a ton of work and costs lots of time and money. As for the bag making it's of interest but not an item currently. (if you read this...your very welcome Chigg, glad to see it worked out)
If I make a video about them on my channel that means i’ll start making them for people that want them. Maybe just check in from time to time. My main goal was to keep Chigg going with equipment. His videos bring a lot of people smiles, education, adventure and entertainment every day.
I’ve been in the underground utility industry for over 48 years, and this is where the “probe” originated. The industry has moved away from metal probes for a variety of reasons, the most important being an electrical strike. Today, we used a Kevlar encased fiberglass probe, which is considerable lighter than steel, stronger than steel, And more flexible than a steel, thus you can’t bend one out of shape. The tip, will be made from Brass, and have the attributes that you described on your probe. While metal detecting in the wild you may never run across a hot high voltage line, why take the chance when you can use a lighter and better probe. I can send you contact info from the Mfg if interested.
I've been digging up a old Blacksmiths shop. So far lots of horseshoes! I did find a brass Leech&Rigdon Confederate spur from the site. It made my day!
Great pouch from Wooster Ohio I live about 15 minutes north of there. The pen was awesome and what a talent! Third we get a probe lesson. Chigg all around great guy and teacher. Thanks for the great video.
just took a probe use and safety class for excavating at natural gas sites here in WVa.. Your video is better than a $300 class nothing about the prob breaking and making a shanekabob. Thanks
You know I never knew probing could be so interesting. It is really good of you to give us such a knowledgeable lesson concerning the proper methods of safety. I have no doubt that you will save lives with this. For a moment when you dug up the rail I felt like I was suddenly on, "Time Team", and wished you could dig until you had the whole darn thing dug up. You never know what you might find along that rail. Please do return soon and dig up that other hole with the brick too, because the suspense of what could be in those holes will gnaw at my brain and drive me crazy, worse than mad cow. I did really enjoy this video, especially the train whistle at the end. If I didn't know better I would think you were paying those trains to follow you around wherever you go. Are you laying tracks behind our backs, or just off camera?! LOL
I spent a lot of time tracking water mains and tiles with a probe. Be sure to check the very tip also. Bricks and tile leave orange dust on the point. Check first with utilities. Some power lines are underground. (ouch!!)
Wow, scary thought, if that probe broke while pushing so hard, very horrifying to even think about. Like I said my dad used the oil dipstick from a car, lasted him 40 years, but I don't believe he ever had to push that hard doing probes in the mangrove swampy areas!
I went bottle hunting many a time in Red Bluff Ca. We used a probe the same as yours but there was a steel bell fit to the top of the probe where it met the "T" and it helped to define rocks from glass, a pretty unique design that worked better than any other probe we used........
Really liked the video! Want to really improve your video's? Place the camera so your always looking toward the sun. When it's off to the side everything is in the shadows and a bit hard to see. Still a great video! Nice bag! Only thing I could see to improve it would to make flaps inside it. The flaps would go inward. To get things out you would take the flaps and fold them out. That way it would be hard to loose things and still easy to fill up with those gold coins and beer tabs.
I love your stuff aquachiger, you and a few other detectorists have inspired me to metal detect myself, and make my own videos! And I found 2 gold rings just yesterday! So I wanted to say thank you!
Rob Meredith very nice pen rob. Btw we may be related. My sisters name is Meredith after that part of my Va family./their last name. Gonna check out your channel. HH!
Jan Warriner most of my family is in Idaho. But it could be somehow. I was at the Edgar Allen Poe grave yard in Baltimore one time and kept getting this weird feeling to look under the church through a door window and when I did I couldn’t see anything so I kept walking around. Well I got around to the other side and had that feeling again this time the window was in better shape and I could see through it and I almost s%!t myself. I saw a catacomb that had the name Meredith across the top of it.
Your one of those people that no matter what videos you put out it would probably be a good watch, heck you’d make knitting interesting. Bo does time team 👍.
Noticed on the credits...Im related to a Bill Kisner! Never heard that name anywhere else around here so it jumped out at me! From Oklahoma! Pretty cool coincidence!
thank you for all the great tips and advice I am going to definitely apply those when I go out and dig I've been watching quite a few of your videos on the metal detecting and the probing of the soil I appreciate all of the things that you do for everyone that that watches and is new to the Hobby and trying to get into all these things I found a bottle dump and I'm going to definitely use your Technique and see that if I actually have found what is truly a a bottle dump and see how much deeper that this actually is also my name is Richard and I am with three Aces metal detecting Three Aces being myself and my two children we are all going to be using Garrett ace 300 250 or 400 we just have the one at Garrett ace 300 right now but we're actually with all the change that we find we're going to purchase the next one and the one after that with the change that we found along the way wish us luck thanks bud
The top also serves as a scratchy noise maker when it goes thru a privy loaded with 1898 SC Dispensary bottles. You can fill it when it punches thru the broken pottery and glass in the pit or privy.
I love the train whistle you added at the end that made an awesome unexpected ending... LOL,LOL You maybe might think about getting yourself some of them there surveyors marker flags. the 18" wire ones would last you quite some time. That way when you find a spot you want to mark to go back to. You just mark it with a flag... I know y'all use sticks and stuff y'all find laying around near by. But sticks can get walked on or kicked out of the way. but a wire flag people notice. Also if friend might just happen by and want to help give you a dug. You can simply tell your mate to start to dig over by the flag marker. I know I know the chances of a mate coming out to help you dig for just because he has nothing better to do are about 1 out of 75 but you never know... But you know for sure where your mark is when you flag it... And if it be a field the farmer don't plow then chances are good the if you didn't have time that day to dig your hole because maybe you got rained out. You can go back out and there be your flag and you can jusrt start digging without having to refined the spot... Just a thought... Be blessed... BBE..
i have a ground probe 4ft long the handle is fiberglass as is the rod with a metal tip these are used in the telephone industry ,if the metal tip hits anything energized you won't get electrified so when probing use extreme care
Thanks for sharing that info. I remember all the hunts being dung at the fall JGD, and I found it intertesting. Now I have a better idea on how to approach probing for huts....if I decide to give it a try.
I want to know what the rails are. What a fascinating find! Love the pen. I do love a fine writing instrument. Nice bag as well. I have two treadle sewing machines.. wonder if they'd be able to handle making something like that.
We use these at cemeteries to make sure there isn’t someone buried where we are about to dig. Older sections have poor records so you need to be certain. Our probe has a movable handle that you can use to “hammer” the probe into the ground.
I really want to see what you find Chigg when digging up that old rail. Perhaps because of the clay it was just a narrow gauge system to fill carts etc. Won't know till you can get to it. Great vid, the best of the recent ones, apart from the Chipmunk holding a hoard of gold which is why you managed to detect it! :-)
It's a good DIY project. On video the rod looks 3/8". Then all I'd need is a "T", two pipe nipples and a plug. Behind my house there used to be an old dairy farm from the late 1800's. One barn is still standing but the other one with the cows is gone now. The one still standing is barn #16. The owners name and barn number was painted on the barn. It can hardly be read. In that day Charles Herbst was buying up barns during the depression. Research on the guy....he was a taylor. I thought that was sort of strange. Where does a taylor get that kind of money? Another subject for research but I'm sure to find nothing on that.
Question ? does a lot of rain high water table affect the use of the probe ? Is it best to let the field dry out first before probing for old privy or bottles ? Or is the void disturbed earth noticable regardless of being wet or dry ??
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This is Kenny... I'm a land surveyor and use probes to find stone boundary corners. There is a place called Ben Meadows that you can get a "good" one. There may be other links on here to find one but that's where we get them for our survey crews. I made the bag for Chigg because he inspires me with each and every video he makes and I wanted to contribute to his efforts. Making videos is a ton of work and costs lots of time and money. As for the bag making it's of interest but not an item currently. (if you read this...your very welcome Chigg, glad to see it worked out)
if you decide to make more let me know
If I make a video about them on my channel that means i’ll start making them for people that want them. Maybe just check in from time to time. My main goal was to keep Chigg going with equipment. His videos bring a lot of people smiles, education, adventure and entertainment every day.
I’ve been in the underground utility industry for over 48 years, and this is where the “probe” originated. The industry has moved away from metal probes for a variety of reasons, the most important being an electrical strike. Today, we used a Kevlar encased fiberglass probe, which is considerable lighter than steel, stronger than steel, And more flexible than a steel, thus you can’t bend one out of shape. The tip, will be made from Brass, and have the attributes that you described on your probe. While metal detecting in the wild you may never run across a hot high voltage line, why take the chance when you can use a lighter and better probe. I can send you contact info from the Mfg if interested.
hello, do you have the contact info? i like to buy a kevlar one.
What's the scoop on these Kevlar probes pls message back!!
I've been digging up a old Blacksmiths shop. So far lots of horseshoes! I did find a brass Leech&Rigdon Confederate spur from the site. It made my day!
Aquachigger saved many lives! No one ever should have to die from ripping out their own guts with a rod of spring steel!!!
Clayton Smith 😁
Great pouch from Wooster Ohio I live about 15 minutes north of there. The pen was awesome and what a talent! Third we get a probe lesson. Chigg all around great guy and teacher. Thanks for the great video.
Loved the video, very educational
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probe and bottle vids are fun, too!
I'm also from Wooster OH, and you pronounced it correctly. "Book, not boot"
Thanb you Chigg I did learn something. Safety is Great to talk about.
I find this stuff pretty fascinating. So often we have no idea what’s right below our feet. It’s awesome to uncover it.
Yes, that pen is ULTRA-COOL. These probes are essential for bottle hunters!
just took a probe use and safety class for excavating at natural gas sites here in WVa.. Your video is better than a $300 class nothing about the prob breaking and making a shanekabob. Thanks
Hey I live 30 minutes away from Wooster Ohio. Nice bag Kenny from Wooster
I'm in Orrville! Small world lol
Could be Worcester, Mass
VERY INTERESTING & INFORMATIVE
Thanks for the demonstration.
That digging bag/pouch is fantastic!!
You know I never knew probing could be so interesting. It is really good of you to give us such a knowledgeable lesson concerning the proper methods of safety. I have no doubt that you will save lives with this.
For a moment when you dug up the rail I felt like I was suddenly on, "Time Team", and wished you could dig until you had the whole darn thing dug up. You never know what you might find along that rail. Please do return soon and dig up that other hole with the brick too, because the suspense of what could be in those holes will gnaw at my brain and drive me crazy, worse than mad cow.
I did really enjoy this video, especially the train whistle at the end. If I didn't know better I would think you were paying those trains to follow you around wherever you go. Are you laying tracks behind our backs, or just off camera?! LOL
Thank you. You're always there to cheer me up.
Kenny should sell us those things.
I spent a lot of time tracking water mains and tiles with a probe. Be sure to check the very tip also. Bricks and tile leave orange dust on the point. Check first with utilities. Some power lines are underground. (ouch!!)
Don Osborne wtf is a fox doing on TH-cam...i only say ouch when they pull it out
Wow, scary thought, if that probe broke while pushing so hard, very horrifying to even think about. Like I said my dad used the oil dipstick from a car, lasted him 40 years, but I don't believe he ever had to push that hard doing probes in the mangrove swampy areas!
I went bottle hunting many a time in Red Bluff Ca. We used a probe the same as yours but there was a steel bell fit to the top of the probe where it met the "T" and it helped to define rocks from glass, a pretty unique design that worked better than any other probe we used........
Great video, something new I’ve now learned about , I like that , cheers
GREAT INFO BEAU AND VIDEO
Great video enjoyed watching
Really liked the video! Want to really improve your video's? Place the camera so your always looking toward the sun. When it's off to the side everything is in the shadows and a bit hard to see. Still a great video! Nice bag! Only thing I could see to improve it would to make flaps inside it. The flaps would go inward. To get things out you would take the flaps and fold them out. That way it would be hard to loose things and still easy to fill up with those gold coins and beer tabs.
Very interesting. I like it.
Yes please go back and dig up that rail and the brick base. I'd love to get a piece of that rail!!
I love your stuff aquachiger, you and a few other detectorists have inspired me to metal detect myself, and make my own videos! And I found 2 gold rings just yesterday! So I wanted to say thank you!
Had a blast out there with you and I got to learn something!
Rob Meredith very nice pen rob. Btw we may be related. My sisters name is Meredith after that part of my Va family./their last name. Gonna check out your channel. HH!
Jan Warriner most of my family is in Idaho. But it could be somehow. I was at the Edgar Allen Poe grave yard in Baltimore one time and kept getting this weird feeling to look under the church through a door window and when I did I couldn’t see anything so I kept walking around. Well I got around to the other side and had that feeling again this time the window was in better shape and I could see through it and I almost s%!t myself. I saw a catacomb that had the name Meredith across the top of it.
That pen is awesome. I love great craftsmanship.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AQUA CHIGGER!!!!!!! YOU INSPIRED ME TO START METAL DETECTING. PLEASE RESPOND 😄
Wow , thanks! Now I know how to use the probe I found that some bottle diggers left behind.
I loved this tutorial. MOAR!
Your one of those people that no matter what videos you put out it would probably be a good watch, heck you’d make knitting interesting. Bo does time team 👍.
Great video!
Noticed on the credits...Im related to a Bill Kisner! Never heard that name anywhere else around here so it jumped out at me! From Oklahoma! Pretty cool coincidence!
Great job. Thanks for sharing your Chigg Wisdom with us.
Man i really really enjoy the Knowledge you share on you're video's. Thank you for going the extra mile.
thank beau! I like
Great video
thank you for all the great tips and advice I am going to definitely apply those when I go out and dig I've been watching quite a few of your videos on the metal detecting and the probing of the soil I appreciate all of the things that you do for everyone that that watches and is new to the Hobby and trying to get into all these things I found a bottle dump and I'm going to definitely use your Technique and see that if I actually have found what is truly a a bottle dump and see how much deeper that this actually is also my name is Richard and I am with three Aces metal detecting Three Aces being myself and my two children we are all going to be using Garrett ace 300 250 or 400 we just have the one at Garrett ace 300 right now but we're actually with all the change that we find we're going to purchase the next one and the one after that with the change that we found along the way wish us luck thanks bud
That bag is pretty intresting
nice informative video. thx
Very interesting
I’ve made a lot of those pens. Great gifts !
The top also serves as a scratchy noise maker when it goes thru a privy loaded with 1898 SC Dispensary bottles. You can fill it when it punches thru the broken pottery and glass in the pit or privy.
Good Vid! Very educational. Thanks! Keep'em coming.
When Beau does a training video there always seems to be a real train!
Coinucopia LMFAOOOOO!
Job well done my friend! Thumbsup for you:)
I love the train whistle you added at the end that made an awesome unexpected ending... LOL,LOL
You maybe might think about getting yourself some of them there surveyors marker flags. the 18" wire ones would last you quite some time. That way when you find a spot you want to mark to go back to. You just mark it with a flag... I know y'all use sticks and stuff y'all find laying around near by. But sticks can get walked on or kicked out of the way. but a wire flag people notice. Also if friend might just happen by and want to help give you a dug. You can simply tell your mate to start to dig over by the flag marker. I know I know the chances of a mate coming out to help you dig for just because he has nothing better to do are about 1 out of 75 but you never know... But you know for sure where your mark is when you flag it... And if it be a field the farmer don't plow then chances are good the if you didn't have time that day to dig your hole because maybe you got rained out. You can go back out and there be your flag and you can jusrt start digging without having to refined the spot... Just a thought... Be blessed... BBE..
You and those darn trains! Haha
Lovely pen
I like vids like this. Anytime I learn something I'm happy. Keep it up.
Been a digger now for about 3 years here in Charleston SC.. Im wanting to start digging privies. Thank for the great info
Love the videos
Always like your videos always something interesting 💝oh !a hardy LOL at the roundy square nail 😂😂😂😂
This was very cool. Good info & interesting!
i have a ground probe 4ft long the handle is fiberglass as is the rod with a metal tip these are used in the telephone industry ,if the metal tip hits anything energized you won't get electrified so when probing use extreme care
Thanks for sharing that info. I remember all the hunts being dung at the fall JGD, and I found it intertesting. Now I have a better idea on how to approach probing for huts....if I decide to give it a try.
I want to know what the rails are. What a fascinating find! Love the pen. I do love a fine writing instrument. Nice bag as well. I have two treadle sewing machines.. wonder if they'd be able to handle making something like that.
That was a very interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
Great information.
"Howdy Chig, Nice Pen And A New Belt Pack, Christmas Has Come Early For You. "
Nooooo ... want MOAR!!!!!!!
Love this one ..... And can't stop laughing about you and the damn trains .....lol
Great information, thank you!
I like it , I live in the Sacrament Ca area, no civil war stuff here but a lot of old homes and places to dig Thanks Mike
oh man, how could you not dig that out? i would be all over it. i couldn't go home without knowing what was down there
We use these at cemeteries to make sure there isn’t someone buried where we are about to dig. Older sections have poor records so you need to be certain. Our probe has a movable handle that you can use to “hammer” the probe into the ground.
A fellow wood turner. Rock on dude.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Great info...thank you!!
I really want to see what you find Chigg when digging up that old rail. Perhaps because of the clay it was just a narrow gauge system to fill carts etc. Won't know till you can get to it. Great vid, the best of the recent ones, apart from the Chipmunk holding a hoard of gold which is why you managed to detect it! :-)
a very interesting video, well done :)
Love this. Very interesting.
built a lot of houses over the years, I have seen houses from civil war era used some railroad track as a lintel or a threshold
thanks Beau you just could have saved some bodies life there cheers Darren
Man, you always remind me of Richard Dean Anderson (Col O’Neil) from Stargate SG1. Not in any kinda bad way. Get some, MacGyver!
So funny my thoughts exactly . Thank you for another grate video.
Train figures. Great video man.
If that piece of iron is a length of track it’s too large to be Civil War era. The rails used back then were much smaller in height.
I wue the bottom half of a c.b whip antenna...Threaded to a metal handle.....transmits sound and feel better....
Very interesting sr. Thanks for share.
Found this video very interesting. Would love to see more. Would also love to!see you dig around the brick area you discovered
Great video thanks for the info and a very nice bag too
That was a very nice pen also
Very interesting tutorial.
Wooster Ohio? I'm in Orrville about 5 miles from there.
See you in Jefferson, Texas next weekend.
Always a good watch Beau. Atb
You are blast to watch keep yup the fantastic videos im just now getting into the hobby i got a garret ace 200 finding alot of farm junk in indiana
Those probes are used in old cemeteries to locate graves.
archaeology also using ground-penetrating sonar radar for mapping the floor or possible building site.
Ever since the colonostomy I just avoid anything that's got the word probe in it. But for chigger I'll make this one exception.
It's a good DIY project. On video the rod looks 3/8". Then all I'd need is a "T", two pipe nipples and a plug. Behind my house there used to be an old dairy farm from the late 1800's. One barn is still standing but the other one with the cows is gone now. The one still standing is barn #16. The owners name and barn number was painted on the barn. It can hardly be read. In that day Charles Herbst was buying up barns during the depression. Research on the guy....he was a taylor. I thought that was sort of strange. Where does a taylor get that kind of money? Another subject for research but I'm sure to find nothing on that.
Thx for the tips!
The steel is probably made from the leaf spring suspension, or just regular springs but leaf springs are easier to work with.
Super Awesome!!!!! Gotta get me a pen
Try giving it a push into some southern Arizona soil.....
Maybe thus just me but does Mr. CHig look like Richard Dean Anderson?
Question ? does a lot of rain high water table affect the use of the probe ?
Is it best to let the field dry out first before probing for old privy or bottles ?
Or is the void disturbed earth noticable regardless of being wet or dry ??