I'm a digger.

[Sean of the Thread]

I dig for everything. I love it and have done it for years but I reserved it mostly because seriously who digs for shit that's not gold and wouldn't get made fun of?

Anyways as most of you know I quit giving a flying shit what people think.

I'm on a new playing field now up here in NY. Got me a book from way back and found an old mill location long gone that I'll keep digging at for a bit.

Only spent an hour really today but I found something I can't figure out. It's ceramic and has some sort of metal underneath and radiating waves with holes on the top. I thought torch or heating element at first but the holes don't go all the way through.

I'mma keep on diggin' on. Because I like it. (so fuck you if you don't)




This is my old book I found for reference to locations to dig in and the thingymajbobber I dug up today.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/Japgross/th_100_0854.jpg (http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/Japgross/?action=view&current=100_0854.jpg)

Where I found it pretty much.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/Japgross/th_100_0846.jpg (http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/Japgross/?action=view&current=100_0846.jpg)

[Sean of the Thread]

and ignore the date. 1/08 means that I changed the battery eight days ago.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/Japgross/100_0853.jpg

[Stanley Burrell]

I pick my nose and try and hook up with rich bitches.

I'm about to break out the shovel and gardening hoe for the 91080298193th time, but, it's sort of more because I either have to turn soil or, as it seems right now, remove a lot of earth near some windows.

Edited to suck my dick: Thanks for reminding me, btw.

[Sean of the Thread]

Shit you just reminded me they've commisioned me to do the f'n garden here as well.

Fuck.

[Stanley Burrell]

Yeah.

[Tisket]

You'd probably really enjoy metal detecting if you like digging. Detectors can get a bit pricey though. I know two hobbyists that just live for the weekends when they can go look for lost metal objects.

[Sean of the Thread]

I just can't figure out wtf this thing is.

[Back]

ITS FROM A UFO CRASH SITE!!!

[Sean]

You'd probably really enjoy metal detecting if you like digging. Detectors can get a bit pricey though. I know two hobbyists that just live for the weekends when they can go look for lost metal objects.

How old are you...

[Archigeek]

What kind of mill was it from: saw mill, flour mill, paper mill? That would help you figure out what it is. My first thought is that it's an insulator, but the pic is too small to really tell what it is.

[Sean of the Thread]

I can't afford the detector route obviously. Thus why I'm using gardening tools (and two big ass shovels you can't see).

[Sean of the Thread]

What kind of mill was it from: saw mill, flour mill, paper mill? That would help you figure out what it is. My first thought is that it's an insulator, but the pic is too small to really tell what it is.


Lumber mill that we know of.

I can take some more pictures later and of course I'm going back to dig more tomorrow anyways.

**edit Insulator was my first response as well except for all the metal going through it. Looked like a hub or something. Other than the metal it's ceramic.

[Cephalopod]

It's a hotplate some college students discarded in 1855. You can use it to cook ramen.

(cool hobby, though)

[Tisket]

How old are you...

I didn't say I was into metal detecting. The people we know who are though are in their late forties/early fifties.

I do admit that I gave it a whirl once a few years ago though. Dug up a bunch of worthless stuff and never tried it again. I have a short attention span.

[radamanthys]

what does the back of that thing look like?

[Nieninque]

Do you collect coins?
Or do magic tricks?

[Delarock]

What's with the bug picture? Looks like some sort of stonefly.

I'm into fly fishing. And trapshooting. We all have awesome hobbies.

My girlfriend's dad just went panning for gold in Maine.

[Drew]

Personally I would say "I'm an amateur archeologist." Just sounds better than "I'm a digger".

[Celephais]

We all have awesome hobbies.
Mine's magnets.

[radamanthys]

What's with the bug picture? Looks like some sort of stonefly.

I'm into fly fishing. And trapshooting. We all have awesome hobbies.

My girlfriend's dad just went panning for gold in Maine.

Definitely some sort of Plecoptera.

I've been known to wield a rod and reel from time to time, myself. Mostly the Delaware and some various upstate NY pools, but I've hit the Gaspé as well.

I collect hobbies.

[Ceyrin]

It's probably an ash tray.

Or, if it wasn't an ash tray, it looks like it'd make a good one now.

[Cephalopod]

Mine's magnets.

Perhaps you can answer a question for me, then.

HOW THE FUCK DO THEY WORK?

[Ceyrin]

You put your ash in it, and it keeps you from getting your ash all over everything.

I'm sure your ash is just as dirty as mine.

EDIT : Oh, wait, you weren't asking me how ashtrays work.

[Enitocin]

I totally thought this thread was going to be about gold-digging.
Young hot lady marries rich old dying guy. You've fooled me yet again, thread title.
This isn't over.

[Bobmuhthol]

You changed the battery 7 days ago.

[4a6c1]

Digging as a hobby is awesome. IF YOU HAD A JOB (do you have a job? If so please disregard the bitchiness).

I said what any friend should say. Now I will tell you what primal activities I take part in when I am not bringing home the vegeebacon. In evolutionary order.

Monkey - I hit things with primitive tools. (This is sometimes called golf/tennis.)
Neanderthal - I strut in public while presenting my assets for the perusal of the other gender in an attempt at finding a biologically superior mate.
Homo erectus - I put things in the ground and try and grow them.
Homo sapiens - I kill things. Ok, paper things. Ok, ok. The outline of paper things.
Wimminkindz - I read. I think. I reason. I problem solve. And then buy things.

The end.

Keep posting pictures of the stuff you find.

[Cephalopod]

vegeebacon

You disgust me.

[4a6c1]

Ahahahaha. I DISGUST YOU?!

Ok Mr. Sausage Starship Enterprise.

You ruined spaceships for me. Seriously.

[Tisket]

She forced me to forward the Enterprise pic. Sorry Nachos. I don't do well under torture.

[Danical]

Mine's magnets.

Like milk steak too?

[Celephais]

Like milk steak too?
With a side of raw jelly beans.

[Methais]

I'm a fapper.

[Jayvn]

I used to dig for dinosaur bones in my yard... I was like 7... I would still do it if I really thought I'd find dinosaur bones...

[Celephais]

I used to dig for dinosaur bones in my yard... I was like 7... I would still do it if I really thought I'd find dinosaur bones...
I built the calvinosaurus when I was a kid out of a soup can, some cups and some plastic fork/spoon.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070108184948/candh/images/6/6d/Calvinosaurus.jpg

[Sean of the Thread]

Digging as a hobby is awesome. IF YOU HAD A JOB (do you have a job? If so please disregard the bitchiness).

I said what any friend should say. Now I will tell you what primal activities I take part in when I am not bringing home the vegeebacon. In evolutionary order.

Monkey - I hit things with primitive tools. (This is sometimes called golf/tennis.)
Neanderthal - I strut in public while presenting my assets for the perusal of the other gender in an attempt at finding a biologically superior mate.
Homo erectus - I put things in the ground and try and grow them.
Homo sapiens - I kill things. Ok, paper things. Ok, ok. The outline of paper things.
Wimminkindz - I read. I think. I reason. I problem solve. And then buy things.

The end.

Keep posting pictures of the stuff you find.

I "may" be employed. I was hired last week at the factory pending doctor exchange of my prescription details. My peepee test was positive for benzo so they sent it to the lab and are now doing the fax back and forth for the doctor shit.

I should start this week. 2nd shift 12.50 an hour I think. I have an interview may 20th as well with LL Bean which I would really love to land.

[Sean of the Thread]

Also since yesterday I've been digging history about here and it's amazing shit. This was once one of the most important hubs in the NORTH EAST.

That thingymajig I dug up was under the bridge almost. That bridge has been washed away in 1875 and rebuilt. The bridge is less than 50 feet from the third mill in NY State. The mill was also a "landing" for the boats in the era. I took a picture of what is left of it on the shore line. * (also two dams)

I can see the bridge and old mill from this desk. The picture I found of the mill and hotel was from 1814 was literally taken from our yard. I'll post pictures later today if I'm not lazy.

I was wrong it wasn't a saw mill. It was a grist mill. 50 yards north was a saw mill I THINK so far. Trying to figure that out.