What Will I Find Metal Detecting a Colonial Blacksmith Shop?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- My research brings me to a remote location in the mountains - here I hope to find the remains of a blacksmiths workshop from over 200 years ago.
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Hey! Burlington based bladesmith here, if you want that small blacksmith's blade reshaped, heat treated, tempered, and re-handled, let me know! I can do it for ya and make an old EDC knife.
We call them fire dogs here in the south. Good video.
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Hi Brad, down south we call those items "Fireplace Dogs"
As we do in Australia.
@@basaltplainscreationsaustr1194 and the UK
Or just fire dog
Yep fire dogs
Also known as andirons.
FUNNY STORY: I was climbing back into my truck and as I moved up into my seat behind the steering wheel...I hear cling cling clang cling...I look down to the left floor board and door seal I notice all my change fell from my pocket. Being the avid fan I am of this show i giggle and say to myself, "cool, a coin spill." I lean down to pick up my mixed collection of coins I spilled; silver colored coins first of course. Deciding to go ahead and pick up my pennies as well I noticed nothing other than two of the three coppers were wheat pennies. Definitely not as cool as your half cents or indian heads. Knowing there's very little monetary value, I still found my today's treasure. The value for me is the experience and happiness of the moment finding the treasure of my coin spill being the huge fan I am of this very humble and genuine man and his show that I enjoy so much from all the peace ✌️ I get from watching. Thanks for all you do and the moment of joy today has brought me.
The legged item looks like an andiron.
Great identification!! I'd almost bet there were 2 of the hearted ones and one broke, so the blacksmith made a replacement.. tho why he wouldn't have just fixed the broken one makes that explanation dubious..
@@HeatherNaturaly you cant fixed cast metal.
Definately andirons but these look like they were being used as scrap iron stock for new works...
The first andiron is forged, and the second one is cast. Cast iron is generally not forgeable, so it would not be there as material for other projects.
@@shakascloset1700 You can braze or weld it, or do other repairs, but I think we're dealing with a scrap iron dump.
I've been watching your vids for more than a year now, always thrilled to see a new one. I have thought about what is so appealing about them. Your soft spoken, easy manner makes me feel like I am hanging out with an old friend.You teach by sharing your knowledge with enthusiasm and wonder. And you share the joy of discovery...not simply about artifacts...but of the mountains and the forests which you clearly love. You also share the stories of people who lived in those mountains when life was so, so different than today. And what is most impressive is the value you see in the artifacts you find. It isn't about what they might sell for on EBAY. It's the stories they can tell about the lives of people who are mostly forgotten, yet were elemental in building the nation we have today.
Dropping 'pedantic' into casual conversation. Nicely done.
Over the past 65 years of Mojave Desert explorations, I have come across several blacksmith sites at old mines. No anvils, just the stumps that supported them. There were always chunks of metal like the one you first show around those stumps.
As a certified journeyman ferrier, you can’t be a ferrier without being a blacksmith. But you can be a blacksmith without the knowledge of how to shoe a horse.
Your are petty much right..I been a Blacksmith for over 20 yrs Gave up shoeing years ago...I work with Ferrier a lot and most just shoe and no smithing...So If you are learning blacksmithing also good for you.. stay with it It can be a good life..Good luck
I would think that as a farrier you would know how to spell farrier
Coffee and a new video...today is off to a great start!
Brad, the part I like about your channel best is you don't do the live digs. We all know how to dig a hole but the way you do it gives more useful content- if you follow. Stick with what you've been doing.
The hearted andiron is cast iron with the back leg broke off. Sadly, welding cast iron to iron in that era was not possible, so a new andiron was made. Why the iron one was still there, your guess is as good as mine. Great video, keep them coming.
Particularly thankful for your video today as I live in California and the state is pretty much entirely on fire. Inside days and apocalyptic skies have me feeling particularly claustrophobic. Your videos create much needed space.
Brad, I love your channel. Your voice is so soothing and your videography of the forest is beautiful. Your appreciation flora and fauna is palpable.
Your channel is special & uniquely preferable because you avoid the unnecessary “live digs”. There are plenty of live diggers out there for those that prefer. Live digging is a time/film waster. I trust your character in producing honestly found artifacts. Thanks for your individual style.
I think my grandfather called those big iron things “fire dogs”.
Yes
THANK YOU, Brad!! I know you can't always live-dig but I so really appreciate seeing them sometimes. So exciting!!
That chape with the heart is probably the prettiest one I've seen anyone pull out of the dirt so far 😀 great save; as is the fireplace piece with the heart also 👍👍 Congrats on finding your Draped bust ☺
Love the fungi shots Brad
Always look forward to Friday morning. Loved that shoe buckle.
Love the videos. Brad, your videography skills are as good as any professional. The content, the camera work, the music, the narration are near perfect.
Good Morning Brad. Thank you for sharing your finds.
Still love watching your videos; great finds or not. The history and the research you do in advance, and the great views of nature. Keep up the great work"
another great video brad . my sister has a house in upstate new york from 1760 on the property was a blacksmith shop . i have been detecting and getting tons of iron hits , i was getting upset about pulling lots of trash out of the ground . but you taugh me today not to give up and you never know . thanks again for all the lessons and videos
I love the fact that I get to watch you go to places so amazingly beautiful. I know my body would never allow me to go. I adore nature and Vermont it would seem is a magical beautiful place! Thank you for what you do and sharing the cool stuff you find! I love seeing what people find metal detecting and while some people want you to show every find, I am partial to watching you because you only seem to show the good stuff you find. I believe the Vicks works, you (or I haven't seen you say that you have tried it) never came to a conclusion for your thoughts? Love your respect of nature and the land, the desire to work with the land owners(not always an easy feat) your desire to share history of the area, the things left behind that have a story of it's own. I love that your treasure hunts are always to find the ultimate prize of something like gold but that just like this video your love for the simplest every day things like shoe buckles, shows to me the man behind the camera, joy in simplicity is awesome! Always wishing you safety from from the bug to the bears!
Great stuff. I felt like I was there with you getting excited at every find. Thanks
Amazing finds. The piece of iron that you found look like it was ''hot cut'' on an anvil by a black smith. The smiths and farriers, sometimes the same person, would often get their bulk iron delivered that way. Also, locals would bring in scrap iron from broken plows, etc. and trade for work needed. Maybe attach a small magnet to your shovel handle? Good hunt. Many more to come, I hope.
Very cool digs! The ❤ shaped buckle is so pretty! The owner will be pleased! Have a Great Blessed week Brad!!👍👍😘
I believe that tool was used for tanning hides scraper
Those big Iron thing is fire dogs with a rotisserie right in front fireplace with a big old wild turkey on it that traps about 80 years old or more I love watching your show man I'm a single Hunter to I usually look by myself the foothills of the United States of Alabama
yes I thought that too
That was my thought too. Tanning blade.
Agreed on the tanning tool...:)
People in the south, Appalachian region call them dog irons. I have seen some from the early 1800s that are still being used today.
I grew up in Colorado in the 50s & we had a set in our fireplace
I’ve been following your channel for quite a while. I’m embarrassed to say I just noticed the metal detector separating the mountain peaks in your opening logo! Ha!!! Very cool. I’m not the most observant person.
Then I'm not observant either, because I didn't see it until you mentioned it. LOL
@@kathyf3656 me either. I'm going back to look.
Count me in, I never noticed it either. I'm not embarrassed though, when I lose something it's usually staring me in the face and I don't see it. LOL!!
Ditto for me! 🥴
Nice hunt Brad! Coolest shoe buckle I have ever seen! GL&HH
Recently found your channel & I have been enjoying all of your videos. You’re an American archeologist & so knowledgeable on colonial history of Vermont. Also, I just admire how expressive your hand gestures are. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
Thank you Brad for all the fun!
With hearts being on some of the things you found, could the family name have been Hart? Just a thought. I enjoy your videos and all of the nature shots you show. I miss so badly the woods I used to live in. Thanks for posting. God bless you.
Hello. Love Vermont. Glad things are going well. Thanks for the live dig. None of them are boring. Have a great day.
I detected a 1650 blacksmith shop. Tons of iron, horse shoes, and one swage that fits in the hardy hole of an anvil. We determined that the swage may have been used to manufacture splitting feathers. Pretty cool. Great first find Brad! All I found was iron, iron and more iron.
Great stuff Brad. I hope you go back to this site again.
I had the chance to search the woods near my family's ancestral home and I found my great-great grandfather's blacksmith shop! I didn't have a metal detector, but I dug around with a sharp stick and then with metal objects which I dug up.
I found a few horse shoes and mule shoes, as well as pony shoes, a broken plow point and a half dozen jagged, triangular, hand sized iron plates which were later identified as being teeth from a harrow (a device pulled behind a mule to make furrows in freshly plowed ground).
I returned to my grandparents' house nearby, happy with my treasures but puzzled by the number of whole and broken mason jars, some with lids, that I had found at the old blacksmith shop.
I showed them to my grandmother, who laughed and told me that her grandmother had long suspected that her husband made moonshine at a blacksmith shop that he had hidden in the woods. Those jars were the proof of Grandpa's other occupation! It seems that Grandpa really was a rounder!
I returned to the location to show it to my cousin, who had a metal detector at home. He found a lot more objects that were made by our great-great grandfather, as well as more mason jars and lids. Grandpa must have had quite a side hustle going!
My great nephew was very excited about my finds and since I have no children to pass them to, I gave him all of those objects from Grandpa's blacksmith shop/still. He was thrilled to own something his four times great grandfather had made a hundred and fifty years before.
I would say that with the nails / screws still in place on the hinge you found that it was in use in a building. Great video once again 👍👍👍
I'm amazed that beautiful shoe buckle chape survived and yet the buckle frame didn't. The andiron is a very personal find as well, if only it could talk, the stories it would tell. Thanks again for the pin pointer holster Brad, the attention to detail and the quality of your workmanship is amazing! - Dave
brad back in the day some farriers were also black smiths my grand dad was one. he lived till he died with a piece of steel that flew out of his forge red hot into his leg. yes thats what killed him eventually . great hunt .
@The Maineiac got blood poisoning this is back when men like granddad were stubborn i ok thing.
Very nice finds, especially the shoe buckle. Congratulations.👍👍😀🇺🇸
I always enjoy the trip up the mountain in Vermont. Hope to see you next week...
What a beautiful, delicate buckle. A wide variety of objects and it always makes me wonder what people will find 200-300 years from now.
I like when you show scenery
Please keep doing a couple of live digs per video. If you dig up a piece of scrap, that’s okay, it shows the reality of metal detecting. Love your videos, very educational.
Brad, You are quite correct in your original statement on Ox shoes.The Oxford Dictionary says "farrier, noun: farrier; plural noun: farriers. a smith who shoes horses. Wiki says "Historically, the jobs of farrier and blacksmith were practically synonymous, shown by the etymology of the word: farrier comes from Middle French: ferrier (blacksmith), from the Latin word ferrum (iron).[1] A farrier's work in colonial America or pre-Industrial Revolution Europe would have included shoeing horses, as well as the fabrication and repair of tools, the forging of architectural pieces, and so on. Modern-day farriers usually specialize in horseshoeing, focusing their time and effort on the care of the horse's hoof. For this reason, farriers and blacksmiths are considered to be in separate, albeit related, trades."
Cheers Brad from Aust.
Thanks Brad for showing the photo of the shoe buckle...what a beauty. And yes I was very nervous when you were cleaning the trap and thank you for NOT showing every dig...as much as I enjoy watching you dig that would make it too long and sort of painful...i'm afraid. And I also appreciate the extra background on the people and the places you detect. Really great stuff. Mike in sunny Florida
I love the settings of your hunts! Forest detecting is awesome. I noticed some huge black cherry trees in your video, they usually don't get that big up here in Canada so it's cool to see them.
That large rack looking thing that you dug up is called a log peavy! It's so you could progress down a log and saw at it without it laying on the ground. And then when you were done you just lowered the log back down with that handle, moved it up another section, pivot the end of the log up with the handle and start sawing again.
Brad...great vid again!
You don't need to live dig...your presence, explanation and info does the job!
See you on the next...!
Good video Brad.
Hi Brad🙋🏻♀️Wow lots of really cool treasures 👍🏼 Happy hunting and good luck on the next one☺️
The items at 12 minutes in are identical to the fixtures we had in our fireplaces growing up, and were used to lay the firewood across between two of these.
Scraper looks like something you would use to move coals around with or cleaning out ash
A lot of very cool fun stuff.
Another great site. Cool old andirons.
Awesome video. Love the explanations for each find. Thanks for sharing. *Chris*
you would make a great history teacher greetings from Canada
Beautiful show! Keep on hunting!!!
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Always a great video Brad. I can only dream of hunting locations that you do. Thank you for sharing!
Love how down to earth and history oriented your channel is! Kudos!
I think this was a FANTASTIC hunt Brad! Very nice variety of artifacts. I’m guessing the unidentified object may have been used in the process of tanning; separating the fat layer from the skin? (I have no idea actually, just a guess off the top of my head!) Thanks for taking us on another entertaining adventure 🤗
Thanks Brad. Enjoyed the hunt!
*love* that you did the live digs again!! I've missed them! Very awesome finds!
Some people love those old hinges for decorating. They may be worth bringing back with you.
Brad, The unknown, three footed piece of iron is an Andiron .. One side of a pair, probably with Penny Feet.
Great channel thanks for sharing the time traveling journey.of history
Nothing short of a great day.
Awesome finds. Enjoy your videos.
Nice window into the past ! 🇺🇸👍
The"" tool"" you found at 11 :10 could have been a hide scraper for prepping hides. The trap you found earlier was what we called a jump trap. Onedia was a trap brand in years past,looked like a model they sold used back in the 60s
It's pretty amazing that the iron relics you are finding have very little rust on them. I don't know if that's to do with the climate or the content of iron that the blacksmith was working with. I'm a detectorist here in Michigan and the majority of iron relics I find I have to do electrolysis and a good bit of sanding and soaking in metal rescue before they become display pieces. Obviously this is a very precipitation heavy place with all the Great Lakes
Brad, another great video with interesting finds. I'm enjoying your music. Fyi...I bought a Garrett PRo and am learning the ropes of metal detecting. Thanks for the lessons and inspiration.
Could the mystery item with a handle have been a hide scraper?
That's exactly what I thought it was.
Tomorrow i go to the coast for 3 days to detect the braces and this week i found a vintage car wheel rim on an old farm. i LOVE your videos!!
I would say the andirons would have a rod through both holes & you could hang a cooking pot from the rod. Very nice pieces of American history & that shoe buckle wow. I hope you continue finding these home sites in the mountains.
Very interesting day!
Brad, I’ve had the (dis)pleasure of detecting a site that had a blacksmith shop on the grounds... when the homeowner informed me, my heart sank. While I was excited to unearth early to mid 1800’s relics, I knew when I got close to the blacksmith site as the Max sounded off like I was in a Pennsylvania steel mill. I dug chunks, bits and chunks of slag for hours before backing off. I gave it a shot, trying to remove the iron that was possibly masking non-ferrous targets but it was relentless. Live to swing another day. Great content Brad... best detecting channel by far.
Nice finds Brad!
Another great video thanks Brad
Nice video as always Brad. There was a time when the old chunk of steel you found was highly desirable. It is called low background steel because it was made before the first atom bomb was dropped. Low background material was used ( and sometimes still is) in Geiger counters and other sensitive equipment. I have a piece about the same size as yours that came from a cellar that dates to the late 1700's - underneath it was a Hibernia coin dated 1747 - always pays to check the hole a few times! We can still get a shovel in the ground here in Nova Scotia but once freeze up comes we go to the salt water shorelines.
Love your channel it’s more like your a teacher . I have learned a lot.
Awesome finds
Nice job Brad!!!!!
Good morning Brad !! ALL great items today. I really enjoyed that heart buckle and the fireplace items. Have a good day and stay safe !!
Very cool and as a Blacksmith 20 yrs( no not a TV smith),,Really enjoy this video
Brad interesting finds love your videos 📹
Great find with the shoe buckle. Love the ❤️ on the buckle.
Awesome finds. I live In an Victorian home. Andirons abound. Thanks for a great video. Chuck in NJ
Hello brother,nice to meet you🙏
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Brad..bout time for another tour of the Martin museum..you should have a lot of items to display and discuss..maybe a streaming to get real time questions and answers..have Eddie as the moderator..or Mike..he could be the bouncer tho...
That “spoon tool” may have been for pouring molten lead into tight places.... My son and I went out panning for gold yesterday here in South Central Alaska. Our weather is spectacular this week also but snow is coming.
What timing! Just yesterday I re-detected a yard in my (Mobile) neighborhood that goes back pretty far, and I believe it was occupied by a smith of some sort. There are blobs of lead everywhere, and a whole shelf of it just under the topsoil, under the gigantic live oak tree, a solid slab about 6' X 6', as if a big cauldron-full was spilled there. What I found yesterday was a 1918 paper carrier badge in amazing condition, and a tiny lead dog about the size of a Monopoly game token, but not that dog, ha.
I never knew what an andiron was. I assumed it was a name for fireplace tools. Very cool find! I suspect yours are in fact a 'matched set'. The owner possibly replacing a missing one with one he'd made. Excellent vid Brad.
I think that the blade/paddle thing could be a wafer peel. But it appears to be too thick possibly. The first andiron is really a great piece! Awesome video and finds!
Always a great hunt with you. Thanks Brad
Well done, your videos are well done and very informative.
Always love the educational component to your videos. Well done as always. I believe the iron piece was used to remove flesh from hides.