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Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 8:56:49 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Seems like ages since I've posted anything about a dig, but it's just too darn hot to dig down here this time of the year.  But I still try to do a little now and then. I knew about this place for a long time but never got a good hole started.  Nothing but head-high johnson grass and kudzu grows on the bank of this small creek.  Well I got enough courage to take on this jungle and try to get a good hole sunk down in this place.  Here's a photo of what I have to go through to reach the creek. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. Post #: 1

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:02:29 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Here's a view of the creek below.  Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 2

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:07:07 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline About a foot under the very black, rich topsoil is a layer of ash, which is very dry. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 3

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:14:52 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline About three feet down, there's a layer of soda bottles.  Piles of broken glass. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 4

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:17:58 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline More broken sodas Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 5

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:20:47 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline It's getting dark, so I put on the head-light and continue digging.  Hope you can see the different layers in this photo. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 6

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:24:09 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Finally a whole bottle. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 7

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:27:55 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline This is one of those ribbed, slug plate bottles.  Night shot, so not a very good pic. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 8

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:30:03 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline The NuGrape was the whole bottle. Here's a next daylight photo. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 9

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:32:20 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Here's the base.  San Antonio, Texas Attachment (1) < Message edited by logueb -- 8/11/2009 10:19:53 AM > _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 10

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:37:53 AM    judu   Posts: 316 Joined: 7/7/2009 From: greenville sc Status: offline man, thats a great spot. looks like it would fun.....keep us informed on what comes out of there..... (in reply to logueb) Post #: 11

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 9:42:37 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline This bottle has the March 9, 1920 patent date embossed.  Did a little googling and located the original patent by Chapman Jay Root.  Hope to do more digging here.  So if you guys and gals are interested, I'll post more pictures as the dig progresses. I got home around 9:30 PM.  I had my cell phone on silent mode and missed three calls.  Wifey about ready to send out a search party.  Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 12

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 10:30:24 AM    mr.fred Posts: 2367 Joined: 4/11/2009 Status: offline Great finds-looking forward to more updates-----like that dump site----out of site-out of mind----keep it a secret-------------You should tell me----just incase you forget where it is----------------------Fred. < Message edited by mr.fred -- 8/11/2009 10:32:18 AM > _____________________________ Ah! Yesterday when i was young!!. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 13

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 10:55:31 AM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Thanks guys for the replies.  Mr. fred I'll do even better, If you ever find yourself in this neck of the woods jest gimme a holler and I'll take you there.  Nothing would be better than digging with a fellow forum member. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to mr.fred) Post #: 14

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 10:59:57 AM    mr.fred Posts: 2367 Joined: 4/11/2009 Status: offline I might take you up on that someday--------where are you? _____________________________ Ah! Yesterday when i was young!!. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 15

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 12:31:40 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Fred, I live down here in Georgia below Augusta.  Lots of  small TOC dumps, but nothing like the digs you guys have up North.  Still, I like to dig wherever I can find a spot that's out of the way. It's getting harder and harder to locate good dig sites.  So much of the land is being leased to Hunting clubs and getting permission gets harder and harder.  _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to mr.fred) Post #: 16

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 1:22:23 PM    pyshodoodle Posts: 2801 Joined: 8/3/2008 From: Lehigh Valley PA Status: offline Would the trip to the dump be considered a "Death March"? _____________________________ HONESTY IS NO LONGER PC. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 17

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 1:33:13 PM    mr.fred Posts: 2367 Joined: 4/11/2009 Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: pyshodoodle Would the trip to the dump be considered a "Death March"?    Good  question Kate _____________________________ Ah! Yesterday when i was young!!. (in reply to pyshodoodle) Post #: 18

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 1:55:06 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Just goota be tough to dig dumps down here. I'm nursing a left arm that's swelled up real bad and has some fever in it.  Hoping it's just horse fly bites and not spider bites. 90+ degree temperature with high humidity puts you soaking wet in about a half hour. Then the sweat  triggers the horse flies, yellow flies, black flies, gnats, skeeters and other pest.  Then you have to constantly watch out for snakes, cottonmouth, copper head, copper bellies, and rattlers.  Then hope that you don't run into a pack of wild dogs or wild hogs on the way back to the truck. But the worse part is when you make it home and face the wifey.  She is giving me heck about the arm.  _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to mr.fred) Post #: 19

RE: Digging Past Dark - 8/11/2009 2:04:28 PM    mr.fred Posts: 2367 Joined: 4/11/2009 Status: offline Dang!-------think i will pass on that---.Best of luck to you------If i want to half kill myself i call    Joethecrow--------         Watch yourself-----Fred _____________________________ Ah! Yesterday when i was young!!. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 20

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