The purple coloring you are describing is called sca or Sun colored amethyst. It has to do with magnesium in the glass. When exposed to uv rays from the sun, it starts getting a Smokey color.... continues on until very deep purple. You can irradiate them to speed process!
You are living the dream , I myself also truly enjoy the hobby of bottle and relic hunting. Up here in Ontario Canada, there's a small village called Paris and I've been quite lucky hunting there . I've found a beautiful green crackle cream server as well as an ink bottle from the 1700s. I'll be heading back there this summer to continue my search . I also 100% agree with your views on people throwing their garbage bags and junk into the woods, it pees me off as well . Considering that we have garbage transfer stations and dumps available these days . once again I'm happy I subscribed to your channel and quite enjoy your personality and your videos .Best regards from Lloyd way up here in the north . ( not really! I'm just across the New York border ).have a great day eh!
It is one of my favorite pastimes, bottle digging.You I've also found a lot of abandoned camps like that. Some of the clothing was clean,so I launder it and donate it to charity rather than just watch it go to waste. And , some of it I wear! In my size! I once found several good cans of Alaska smoked salmon! Yum!
Awesome video. A good friend collects bottles and sells them. His collection blew my mind, he actually put two kids through college selling bottles. Wish you could see his collection. Keep your videos coming. Love your work.
my dad dug bottles for years he has a amazing collection. Iv picked up bottles here and there but I like hunting fossils, Iv found this river spot recently that during the dry season you can find all kinds of prehistoric goodies, bring on the good weather !!
I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before but it's kinda freaky how you just happen to answer things as I'm thinking them more times than I'd care to admit .This bottle dump would be a dream come true
I remember 25 years ago in central North Carolina digging bottles from an old house back in the woods. The latest bottles were from the 40's and we dug quite a few dating back to the 1870's and 1880's. I doubt such sites are as common today.
You once took us to a creek where insulators were scattered everywhere and gathered in one spot. I am an avid insulator collector and have always waited for you to take us back there. So many insulators are worth a great deal of money. Think about going there again, Beau. Thanks
hey aquachigger, new subscriber my husband and I love your show my husband does the metal detecting and I have found a new hobby, bottle digging and walking streams I very much like all the civil war stuff cool love history got a garret pin pointer for Christmas and I will be getting myself a garret metal detector at some point, you sold me on the A T pro , you just can't beat a day walking through the woods thx for the info. and entertainment Joanne & Ron
Thank you for your quirky and informative channel.its one of the first things I check out after work each night.i love the civil war and bottle hunting stuff.gotta go for now because I must attend to the campfire as we are making S'MOARS tonight.
All of your videos are just the absolute best!!!! I have been binge watching the crap out of them like crazy for the past few weeks can I learn something new every time. I have always been a huge fan and would love to meet you and go exploring with you som day. Thank you for all that you do and for who you are. Much love from Marion, Indiana ❤️😎
Nice video Aquachigger, That 1923 Coca-cola bottle was starting to be made by the date, until the next patent date. I think it was 1926 or 1929. So that was a good Coca-cola bottle find. The ones in the late 30's and all dates after 1939, weren't showing the patent dates like that. They had a weird number in the middle of the dates of numbers and letters,, Like 55, was on there for some reason, even on the 30's and 40's ones. Nice find!
Finding bottles during the summer sucks balls; best time is the winter. Anyways, I wish I could have dug in the 60s and 70s when all the town and city bottle dumps were undug. I can't tell you how many town dumps Ive found and privies just to find they've already been dug. Guess I need to go to southern WV and middle of nowhere areas where people just do heroin and don't care about bottles. Most of the stuff has been dug up already here in Pittsburgh. Found one good dump this year but it was around 1915 era. Half machine made and half hand tooled. Every dump or dig Ive found has been 1890s-1960s. All the good pontil glass is long dug around here or under cement. However, Im pretty sure I found some virgin 1870s-90s bottle dumps today along a river bank. Dug for about ten min and a bunch of 1880s bottle shards came out of the dirt and a nice intact but tiny sample bottle of Rubifoam, but it was getting dark by the time I found the dump. Going back tomorrow, fingers crossed.
Have fun next week! Wish I could be there! Another awesome dig! I think you should have kept the top to the lightening bowl, I think it's rare to have them together, lol! All the very best and safe travels next week!
Aquachigger, when going through these old dump sites keep in mind stirring up dust. There is a high chance that asbestos is mix in. Although when it comes to asbestos, it isn't short exposure that is bad, it is prolonged exposure.
i love your videos i wait every spring and summer to go bottle digging and metel detecting i have a wall 50 feet long full of bottles and jars i have dug.
that westing house part is a nice find, I wish i could find a bottle dump like that by me but there just wasn't enough people in the area back in the day or its been developed.
Anywhere there are Dec 25 Cokes, good places to dig. Oh, went inside a fast food place today and was wearing my green Chigg's Army T-Shirt. A guy in his late 60's or so recognized the Chiggs and we had some good conversation about MOAR!!!!!
You're missing the top and bottom metal half shells for that Lightning Arrestor, if you had both with a name plate from Westinghouse they go for up to as much as $200. Joseph Slepin helped improve them, he died in Dec 1969 was born in the late 1800s. He worked at Westinghouse for 40 years improving Lightning Arrestors, Fuse Boxes, etc.. They handled I believe 12kv of energy, similar to what you got in states back east for your roof top in case lightning struck. The Benjamin Franklin family still sells them to residents for protection. When I was in PA we had lightning all the time on hot summer nights and they always were hitting your backyard or taking out another tree on your property.
I've recently found an old bottle dump on a friend of mines land. She gave me permission to dig. Your vids are so inspiring. Youre very handsome as well 😉
One of the women I use to work with repairs antique stain glass windows. She told me that red glassware before a certain date actually contains GOLD to achieve that color in the glass. Sadly I can't remember the years . I'm sure I could Google it, but there's the idea for ya at least to be on the lookout for. :D edited for my spelling mistakes... :D
We have a really neat insane asylum near me that used the gully behind the hospital as their dump. digging back there is like a 100 year old time capsule!
Hey Aquachigger, Love your channel and videos. I live in California I found a bottle down by the mokelumne river.A ponds extract with 1846 on the bottom of the bottle. It has some kind of cut stone in the middle of the lead spout. Either crystal or glass I cant find another one like it on the internet. 171 years old there's a picture of it on my channel
Hey Chigg, do you remember the video where you were in a small creek and found a bunch of embossed Hagerston bottles? I was drooling over how old and perfect they were. You were just like "Oh so what" and left without cleaning them out. Man that looked like a sweet spot to me.
I didnt realize how long this video was untill i saw the potato. haha. no need to worry, i love your videos. Wish I knew about some cool areas around here I live. Looks like an awesome hobby!
Holy crap dude. I've been watching you for some time, about when you had 100,000 subscribers. I stop watching you for a couple months and I return and now you have 600k!
I bet the patent date on the Coke bottle is Dec 25, 1923 ... a "Christmas Coca-Cola" bottle - which is a nice collectible. The bottles with the Xmas date were produced from 1928 to 1938.
Apart from all the cool digging I love how you manage to implement internet jokes into your videos. I wish Las Vegas wasn't a couple light years away from Germany, I would love to shake hands :)
Is it comical, or ironic, that Chig would complain about a person leaving a pile of trash on top of a trash pile??? lol funny to me. Great vid, thanks again Chig
Show us the bottom of those Christmas Cokes! Only one I've dug is a Reno, up near Lovelock, there are some super rare Cokes from Central Nevada. My Reno is one of " About 70 known", nice though.
The purple coloring you are describing is called sca or Sun colored amethyst. It has to do with magnesium in the glass. When exposed to uv rays from the sun, it starts getting a Smokey color.... continues on until very deep purple. You can irradiate them to speed process!
I know this comment is 3 years old, but that is genuinely interesting. I love comments like this, thanks!
@@Natasha___. Manganese, not magnesium. Just to clarify.......
You are living the dream , I myself also truly enjoy the hobby of bottle and relic hunting. Up here in Ontario Canada, there's a small village called Paris and I've been quite lucky hunting there . I've found a beautiful green crackle cream server as well as an ink bottle from the 1700s. I'll be heading back there this summer to continue my search . I also 100% agree with your views on people throwing their garbage bags and junk into the woods, it pees me off as well . Considering that we have garbage transfer stations and dumps available these days . once again I'm happy I subscribed to your channel and quite enjoy your personality and your videos .Best regards from Lloyd way up here in the north . ( not really! I'm just across the New York border ).have a great day eh!
Speaking of digging in a dump I need to clean out my tool shed too. :)- Nice dig.
Yes! Bottle dump time! I hit these when I go back to the farm in ND and love it.
The way you conduct you videos makes me feel like I'm really there with you! Nice job
I like how Beau says, "bartles."
And don’t ever change that, Chigg.
It is one of my favorite pastimes, bottle digging.You I've also found a lot of abandoned camps like that. Some of the clothing was clean,so I launder it and donate it to charity rather than just watch it go to waste. And , some of it I wear! In my size! I once found several good cans of Alaska smoked salmon! Yum!
Awesome video. A good friend collects bottles and sells them. His collection blew my mind, he actually put two kids through college selling bottles. Wish you could see his collection. Keep your videos coming. Love your work.
coke bottle was my fav! oh and the potato lol
Keep diggin Chigg! Thanks for the adventure!
That's a good-looking Coke bottle, and I like the little cork-top bottle and lightning arrester (whatever that is!).
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This is my favorite past time. I look for old bottles and sell them, easy money. good stuff.
me and my 5 year old love watching your videos you rock he loves treasure hunting
my dad dug bottles for years he has a amazing collection. Iv picked up bottles here and there but I like hunting fossils, Iv found this river spot recently that during the dry season you can find all kinds of prehistoric goodies, bring on the good weather !!
I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before but it's kinda freaky how you just happen to answer things as I'm thinking them more times than I'd care to admit .This bottle dump would be a dream come true
Diggin' for bartles!
Wow shot show! That sounds like so much fun! Congrats!
I remember 25 years ago in central North Carolina digging bottles from an old house back in the woods. The latest bottles were from the 40's and we dug quite a few dating back to the 1870's and 1880's. I doubt such sites are as common today.
You once took us to a creek where insulators were scattered everywhere and gathered in one spot. I am an avid insulator collector and have always waited for you to take us back there. So many insulators are worth a great deal of money. Think about going there again, Beau. Thanks
hey aquachigger, new subscriber my husband and I love your show my husband does the metal detecting and I have found a new hobby, bottle digging and walking streams I very much like all the civil war stuff cool love history got a garret pin pointer for Christmas and I will be getting myself a garret metal detector at some point, you sold me on the A T pro , you just can't beat a day walking through the woods thx for the info. and entertainment Joanne & Ron
One time I found aspirin bottles still in boxes sold back to Bayer they were Quite happy about that they survived buried in the ground in 20's
Thank you for your quirky and informative channel.its one of the first things I check out after work each night.i love the civil war and bottle hunting stuff.gotta go for now because I must attend to the campfire as we are making S'MOARS tonight.
Love your video's. Respect from Ottawa Ontario, Canada
All of your videos are just the absolute best!!!! I have been binge watching the crap out of them like crazy for the past few weeks can I learn something new every time. I have always been a huge fan and would love to meet you and go exploring with you som day. Thank you for all that you do and for who you are. Much love from Marion, Indiana ❤️😎
The potatoes is just silly Aquachigger humor lol!
you rock i watch your vids all the time
Nice video Aquachigger, That 1923 Coca-cola bottle was starting to be made by the date, until the next patent date. I think it was 1926 or 1929. So that was a good Coca-cola bottle find. The ones in the late 30's and all dates after 1939, weren't showing the patent dates like that. They had a weird number in the middle of the dates of numbers and letters,, Like 55, was on there for some reason, even on the 30's and 40's ones. Nice find!
Your videos are amazing!!!
I just love your channel!!
always enjoy your vids keep them coming happy digging
Ken UK
I love bottle dump diving!
What a great place to explore.
Can you make a video talking about the dead bodies or body you have found
THAT WOULD BE COOL
Stupid or Bumb ya please
noooooooooooooooo
Stupid or Bumb that's a pretty sensitive subject he might not want to talk about it
RedStone Junior hey
Finding bottles during the summer sucks balls; best time is the winter. Anyways, I wish I could have dug in the 60s and 70s when all the town and city bottle dumps were undug. I can't tell you how many town dumps Ive found and privies just to find they've already been dug. Guess I need to go to southern WV and middle of nowhere areas where people just do heroin and don't care about bottles. Most of the stuff has been dug up already here in Pittsburgh. Found one good dump this year but it was around 1915 era. Half machine made and half hand tooled. Every dump or dig Ive found has been 1890s-1960s. All the good pontil glass is long dug around here or under cement. However, Im pretty sure I found some virgin 1870s-90s bottle dumps today along a river bank. Dug for about ten min and a bunch of 1880s bottle shards came out of the dirt and a nice intact but tiny sample bottle of Rubifoam, but it was getting dark by the time I found the dump. Going back tomorrow, fingers crossed.
I collect bottles to!!!!! u are so cool ,your videos inspired me to search for bottles😀
the legend is back...
Have fun next week! Wish I could be there! Another awesome dig! I think you should have kept the top to the lightening bowl, I think it's rare to have them together, lol! All the very best and safe travels next week!
Nice finds bud.. I like the blue glass bottles best..
Aquachigger, when going through these old dump sites keep in mind stirring up dust. There is a high chance that asbestos is mix in. Although when it comes to asbestos, it isn't short exposure that is bad, it is prolonged exposure.
nice lil beard Chiggs! I really like this guy :) he looks nice and friendly
Diggin' Chiggin' diggin' :)
i love your videos i wait every spring and summer to go bottle digging and metel detecting i have a wall 50 feet long full of bottles and jars i have dug.
There's a fish in the percolator!
Sorry Aqua.... Exploring Alabama done beat you to that hillside. 😄 Nice finds.
You make cool & interesting videos. Good stuff!
What I like with bottles is the ones from my child hood because now everything is plastic and call me crazy I now want the glass bottles. 🙃
trash! trash! trash! bottles! bottles! bottles!
great vid. Chigg!!~
that westing house part is a nice find, I wish i could find a bottle dump like that by me but there just wasn't enough people in the area back in the day or its been developed.
Anywhere there are Dec 25 Cokes, good places to dig. Oh, went inside a fast food place today and was wearing my green Chigg's Army T-Shirt. A guy in his late 60's or so recognized the Chiggs and we had some good conversation about MOAR!!!!!
You're missing the top and bottom metal half shells for that Lightning Arrestor, if you had both with a name plate from Westinghouse they go for up to as much as $200. Joseph Slepin helped improve them, he died in Dec 1969 was born in the late 1800s. He worked at Westinghouse for 40 years improving Lightning Arrestors, Fuse Boxes, etc.. They handled I believe 12kv of energy, similar to what you got in states back east for your roof top in case lightning struck. The Benjamin Franklin family still sells them to residents for protection. When I was in PA we had lightning all the time on hot summer nights and they always were hitting your backyard or taking out another tree on your property.
I've recently found an old bottle dump on a friend of mines land. She gave me permission to dig. Your vids are so inspiring. Youre very handsome as well 😉
Nice video man. I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing
Well done nice video liked that lightning arrester also.. Take care and happy hunting ... BigfootDigger
did good. i got 2 good jar's last week. $20.00. keep up the good work. and have a good day.
at 16:30.. the bottle you are guessing at looks like the OLD pine Sol bottles. or a similar cleaning liquid.
One of the women I use to work with repairs antique stain glass windows. She told me that red glassware before a certain date actually contains GOLD to achieve that color in the glass. Sadly I can't remember the years . I'm sure I could Google it, but there's the idea for ya at least to be on the lookout for. :D
edited for my spelling mistakes... :D
Thank you for an interesting video, Chigg 😀👍
We have a really neat insane asylum near me that used the gully behind the hospital as their dump. digging back there is like a 100 year old time capsule!
Jessica Aitken are you by Detroit area?
Joanne M actually im in central IL but i grew up in michigan!
Yaaay!!! Chigg's back!!!
Hey Aquachigger, Love your channel and videos. I live in California I found a bottle down by the mokelumne river.A ponds extract with 1846 on the bottom of the bottle. It has some kind of cut stone in the middle of the lead spout. Either crystal or glass I cant find another one like it on the internet. 171 years old there's a picture of it on my channel
always enjoy your vids
What is the oldest bottle you can estimate that you have found?
thanks chig. Love watching your videos. been addicted and it drives the wife nuts lol.
Aquachigger wow!
The end was funny, A POTATO lol
Me and my grandpa use to hunt for bottle all the time when I was young
enjoyed the video thanks for sharing
Hey Chigg, do you remember the video where you were in a small creek and found a bunch of embossed Hagerston bottles? I was drooling over how old and perfect they were. You were just like "Oh so what" and left without cleaning them out. Man that looked like a sweet spot to me.
Just discovered your channel. Love it. Great job!
I didnt realize how long this video was untill i saw the potato. haha. no need to worry, i love your videos. Wish I knew about some cool areas around here I live. Looks like an awesome hobby!
I love your youtube channel and seeing all the stuff you do. more water stuff once it's warm again
you and nuggetnoggin are the funest diggers to watch. i just got reinterested in bottle diggin for fun and extra $
Holy crap dude. I've been watching you for some time, about when you had 100,000 subscribers. I stop watching you for a couple months and I return and now you have 600k!
love your videos. keep it up buddy.
I bet the patent date on the Coke bottle is Dec 25, 1923 ... a "Christmas Coca-Cola" bottle - which is a nice collectible. The bottles with the Xmas date were produced from 1928 to 1938.
Great bottle hunt :)
Keep up the good work.
Apart from all the cool digging I love how you manage to implement internet jokes into your videos. I wish Las Vegas wasn't a couple light years away from Germany, I would love to shake hands :)
Good stuff Chigg.
Another great video and i hope your situation have improved.
You need a "tater fork" to go along with that bottle digging...... and the tater!
Hey Chig that last find was left there by Sir Walter Raleigh !!
I would still look out for that green paint because in old times arsenic (poison) was used as a green pigment
The autovalve thing is a cap to an insulator on the old power lines in the early 20s.
Love you videos. I would love to have your autograph and that of nugget noggin. Sadly I cannot go to the show. I hope y'all have a great time.
Love the red tater.
"Dodged another bullet" lmao 😂
Is it comical, or ironic, that Chig would complain about a person leaving a pile of trash on top of a trash pile??? lol funny to me. Great vid, thanks again Chig
A lightning arrester? Dude, those are pretty cool.
Chig you should hang the lightning arrestor on the wall so you can read it. Very cool.
Looking forward to shot show footage! Hope you can get some metal detecting in around old mine entrances etc. good luck man!
Great video!
Your Vids Are Interesting And Have That Adventures Experience
Do you have any tips on finding bottle dumps?
Hey aquachigger I'm a big fan I've been here since 21k
You should definitely do some camping videos! With the wife and dogs? Who else agrees with me?
Aquachigger keep it coming yeeehaw
love the videos!
11:30 The whole time I was saying to myself I hope he doesn't get cut from broken glass.. That's cool that you will be with Nuggetnoggin
@16:30 a Listerine bottle?
Show us the bottom of those Christmas Cokes! Only one I've dug is a Reno, up near Lovelock, there are some super rare Cokes from Central Nevada. My Reno is one of " About 70 known", nice though.
Haha, Good show man.
my dad is an engineer and he find tons of bottles for me while they dig the foundation. Lots are milk bottles