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RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/25/2006 9:41:41 PM    billm   Posts: 5 Joined: 10/12/2006 Status: offline I have been following this thread and can't believe the quality of the bottles you've managed to recover.  People dream about sites like this.  Congratulations and Thank you! for sharing your info and pictures.  You've certainly sparked my imagination. _____________________________ billm (in reply to akronmarbles) Post #: 61

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/26/2006 7:43:08 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline thanks BillM, I was worried I was putting up too many posts. Akron I'd be honered to dig with ya sometime. I know where the factory was but none of their dump sites yet. I have a good idea of where they may be though. If you get a day come on down. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to billm) Post #: 62

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 7:59:22 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Well, it's now, the 26th of October. I just finished from scratchin' around for a few hours. I have a pit opened up, 10'x9' maybe not sure. I hit bottles and other debris in pockets all over the place as you will see by the pics I post. I think I am on the top of the bottom, for lack of a better term. I am @ 8' plus just hit water. There is a shallow layer of clay and brick, then the probe drops in another 4'. the floor then seems to be brick haven't found any sides. Probably because they continued to dump in the yard up into the late 20's maybe early 30's. I found a prohibition soda by John Bueler. Who'd pre-prohibition beer bottles I have found more than 10 of on the property. I also probed next to my present hole and found what seems to be another deep void. I could go on but I'm tired. I'll put up a few pics of the hole. Oh yeah and my diggin' site cat, Digger. Just after I took his picture and named him, he dug a hole and took a crap next to my pit. Oh yeah I was getting worried and put up a small barricade out of briars and vines, to keep anyone from wanderring into the "pit". In this pic I'm sweatin' pretty bad. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 63

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:04:15 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline this is a picture of my buddy Charlie. He just about fell through probing for the next area to dig. He's comes to this website occassionally. He's been into old bottles for more than 30 years. dug alot of nice holes over the years. He's my coach. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 64

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:06:37 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline By the way that is a 6 foot probe in to the hilt. Here he is probing a hole to the east of the pit.It seems to be hollow too. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 65

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:09:02 PM    bottlenutboy Posts: 2293 Joined: 10/10/2006 From: Bordensprings, Ala. or Esom Hill, Ga. Status: offline well that appears to be a rather large pit how do you find one where do you start probing i havent dug a privy before and was thinking about trying it _____________________________ http://www.geocities.com/cleburneslim/index.html?1170417418125 http://www.freewebs.com/bottlenutboy/forsale.htm Spencer (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 66

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:11:51 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline here the probe is at the bottom of the bottom. About 3' or better to another layer of brick. Right here there seems to be a cap of clay and brick. The hole fills with water from 7' or so down. I figure it is a total of almost 10 feet to the actual hard bottom. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 67

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:14:11 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline bottleboy this whole yard is fill from 4 feet deep to 10 feet deep. last pic. This is the "Pit". This is the barrier I built to keep that vagrants out. There is a fence across the front of the property. Attachment (1) < Message edited by zanes_antiques -- 10/26/2006 8:24:01 PM > _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 68

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:16:05 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Oh yeah, Here's a few more bottles I found there. Somebody on this property enjoyed peppersauce. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 69

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:21:00 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Last pic. hope y'all aren't sick of them. This one if of trash and a slew of Uneeda Beer's from Wheeling, W.Va. Three Steuben Brewing botlles from Steubenville, Ohio also. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 70

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:45:44 PM    DiggerBryan   Posts: 893 Joined: 12/3/2004 From: Ohio Status: offline Are you digging for bottles or building a bomb shelter?   Seriously though you must be moving some major dirt. If you ever need an extra set of hands I'd be more than glad to help. _____________________________ Life is easy with your eyes closed. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 71

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 8:58:38 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11468 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Holy crap thats a big hole. You ever read the story of the pit at Oak Island? Keep digging until you hit treasure or china, whichever comes first. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to DiggerBryan) Post #: 72

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/26/2006 9:02:20 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline come on up Bryan I'll be there awhile. I'm afraid I'll miss something. I got a little water- bailing to do now though. That's gonna suck. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 73

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit (story continued) - 10/27/2006 6:46:14 AM    digdug Posts: 1000 Joined: 11/4/2004 From: Atlanta Status: offline Can you run an extension cord to the site?  I bought a cheap pond filter pump at Home Depot this summer and pumped water out of a few holes I had been digging. Worked Great!   We have another wet site to drain and we may borrow a generator and bring the pump.  I'm getting to old to be doing the bucket brigade thing. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 74

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/27/2006 6:58:25 AM    bigdinthedump   Posts: 31 Joined: 9/24/2006 Status: offline niiiice finds man....!!!!!! I bet you were smilin when you hauled out that Drakes (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 75

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/27/2006 10:02:08 AM    swizzle Posts: 3583 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline That one pic looks like your digging around the privy? They must have been really drunk to keep missing the hole like that. I wouldn't worry about posting to many pics. 4 pages and your still getting postive replys? You got a good...a great thread started and I'm looking forward to seeing more myself. Anyone else feel the same? I think what you are doing is great and I hope you can keep up the good work. May the bottle gods shine down on you and reveal a hole filled with rare pontils (all whole and near mint). I for one feel the need to thank you for giving us all hope and starting this great thread. Swizzle (in reply to bigdinthedump) Post #: 76

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/27/2006 10:40:43 AM    capsoda Posts: 9823 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Well said Jason, Me too. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 77

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/27/2006 12:29:51 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Thanks Swizzle that compliment gave me "Goose-Bumps". I'd be lyin' if I said I wasn't proud as a peacock.By the way that brick structure sticking out into my new hole is an old cistern. I dug it out first before going around it. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 78

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/27/2006 2:20:34 PM    capsoda Posts: 9823 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Proud as me..... Warren Peacock!!!  _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 79

RE: Motherload!!! Day Two of trash pit - 10/27/2006 5:34:50 PM    bottlenutboy Posts: 2293 Joined: 10/10/2006 From: Bordensprings, Ala. or Esom Hill, Ga. Status: offline nice finds looking forward to more pictures if you decide youdont want any of those bottles i may be interested in them let me know _____________________________ http://www.geocities.com/cleburneslim/index.html?1170417418125 http://www.freewebs.com/bottlenutboy/forsale.htm Spencer (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 80

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