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Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 4:48:28 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Come with me as I share my bottle digging trip today. Woke up and checked the weather report for the day and it was going to be a nice warm -15C or +5F for you americans :) Perfect! Throw on some boots, grab the gloves, find the "touque", shovel, pry bar, pick axe, and head on out. Stop at the store and get some drinks and munchies. Arrive at the parking spot and grab all the gear I could carry. Going to have to make 2 trips to bring it all. What a workout just walking to the spot about 400 meters from where the truck is parked. The snow is really deep over my boots in some spots! Nothing like wet feet all day! Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 4:51:02 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Finally got to the old digging spot I have been working over the summer. It has been a very good place to find bottles. Over the summer I probably pulled 500 bottles from this hole. Still have yet to find the bottom of it. Looks like im going to have to do some shoveling just to clear out the spot. Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 2

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 4:52:46 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Whew that is a lot of snow to dig out of there but I am almost done and can start to see into the back of the hole. Keep on digging! Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 3

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 4:55:01 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Almost done digging. I can stick my shovel in there now. Not much room to dig though. The top and bottom of the ground are frozen solid. Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 4

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 4:58:38 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Grab the pry bar and start smashing the bottom layer as best as I can to start clearing out the hole and make more room so I can get to the back of it and start digging. Manage to break through the 7-10 inches of frozen ground on the bottom and that gives me some room to be able to start shoveling out the bottom of the hole and ge tto the back. Wow, look at all that glass in there just waiting for me! Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 5

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:00:17 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Too bad I can't just start digging in there, it is frozen solid as well. How am I going to soften all of the frozen stuff up? Here is one way to do it :) Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 6

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:01:52 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Should have brought some marshmellows and weiners for lunch.. Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 7

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:03:10 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Might as well crawl in the hole and warm the frozen fingers while I am waiting for the ground to thaw. Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 8

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:04:30 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Breaktime! Time for some nurishments while waiting for the fire to go out! A real Canadian Barley breakfast! Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 9

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:06:13 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Allright now we are getting there, digging is going very good. Finding some nice bottles now! Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 10

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:07:36 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Damn I broke my shovel! Have to walk all the way back to the truck to get the other shovel. Will have to be easier on it next time. :( Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 11

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:09:44 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline It is pretty warm in this little cave I have made, maybe a bear will enjoy all the hard work I did here. Hope the roof doesn't decide to come down on me! I'm starting to get really deep. I can almost stand up in my hole now and I am 6'6". Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 12

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:10:39 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Yep, really deep. How am I supposed to get out of here?? Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 13

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:14:36 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9804 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline Wow...good job....It's great to have a spot like that! Hope you got some good stuff for your efforts. Thanks for sharing. _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 14

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:16:03 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Time to get going, gather up all of the good finds and start the walk back to the truck. I was able to find about 15 really nice keeper bottles with embossing on them today and about 100 really nice bottles that were just blanks. There is starting to be a good pile of blank bottles left there for the next future diggers that find this spot. Finally make it back to the truck and take the gloves off the frozen hands to find this.. I wonder how that happened? And that's it for my dig today! That's how I do it up here in Northern Ontario. 10 feet of snow? Im still going diggin! :) Hope you all enjoyed and thanks for coming with me on my dig today! Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 15

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:22:36 PM    woody Posts: 3646 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline Nice blister... _____________________________ Woody (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 16

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:22:51 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11898 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Cool ! I mean cold! lol I didn't probe out any pits this winter,but I have a newer one to open up soon.Its a cinder liner. Good to see the weather didn't stop you,thats the way to do it,all year round ! _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 17

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 5:48:21 PM    edndlm   Posts: 195 Joined: 11/20/2004 Status: offline Awesome ! That is truly hardcore diggin' eh? _____________________________ Always want Embossed Cures especially labeled with contents & box ! Have dozens of cures for sale or trade at all times ! I have over 1419 different Cures looking to upgrade many less than perfect ones ! Also Port Jervis NY & Deer Park Brewery Items ! (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 18

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 7:22:50 PM    Brains   Posts: 799 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: online I aspire to be that extreme one day, well done. (in reply to edndlm) Post #: 19

RE: Hardcore winter digging with Cryptic - 12/24/2010 7:48:36 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9804 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline Can you show us some of your finds? _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to Brains) Post #: 20

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