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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Good tip. Thanks.
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Hi, Leon. I have dug up some modern beer cans, but nothing old, as of yet. Maybe I'll find something in this new spot I found. And I still have, yet, to dig out a very deep gully with lots of trash in it. I don't even know where to start there.. Good talking to you again and I'll let you know...
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Update: I didn't realize it had been so long since my last post. Sadly, I never really made much more progress into my dig. The hole just got too deep and tossing shovels of sand out of a 12 foot hole is tiresome to say the least. I just got worn out. So that hole sits for now and slowly fills...
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Thanks, rich. I try to be cautious and am always aware. Never heard of a tripod well wheel. Will have to look into that. We have a lot sand here in East Texas. On higher elevations it can be quite deep, but varies depending on location. Once you get past the sand, the clay is quite dense and...
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Thanks. I don't know if I'm brave or stupid, but I keep digging. It's been really hot and humid here the past few days. I got out and dug earlier in the week, but think I over did it a bit. It's taken me a few days to recover. I usually don't get out in the heat, but I had noticed the walls had...
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Hi, RCO. Yeah, that's why I keep wanting to dig. I want to get down to the bottom and see what's there. I know I won't quit until I reach the bottom. If I come out good, that's great. If not, there's a few other places I can try out. It's all on my property so I don't have to go far. In the...
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Happy to see another digger by us!
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    PM sent!
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Leon, I think I may have a few that are not the ordinary Duraglas & Owens. They're mostly clear, smaller ones. I just don't know enough about them so I can't be for sure exactly what I have.
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    Hi, nhpharm. Most of the embossed soda bottles I have found were broken. The ones that did survive are more than likely after 1900. I don't know enough about pharmacy bottles to know if I have any or not. Do you have some examples? I assume pharmacy bottles are not the same as medicine bottles?
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    I think you're spot on with the bottle dating. I may have a few that are a little older according to the bottle dating website, but that could be my inexperience or just plain wishful thinking. I'm hoping the deeper I get the older they'll get. It's just really slow going; especially the deeper...
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    I carried most of that dirt from the gully with the bottles in it up to where I'm digging the pit out. I still have bucket fulls of dirt that I need to go through. No telling how many more bottles are in those piles of dirt. I have piled up the leftover sand from the pit in another area. I need...
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    10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?

    That seventh pic is the area where the gully is. I actually dug more bottles from that area than I have gotten from the deep pit I'm still digging. I have dug out a lot more bottles since taking these pics. I have a good size box with more than a hundred small bottles. Hardly any of these...
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