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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

We don't have a problem with visitors, but we don't let anyone dig, we don't sell anything we find except for scrap metal. I would want you to fully understand what and how much we display, that is a long way to drive. Can I get contact info from you?
- digginidiot
- Post #19
- May 18, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

you are in washington?????
- digginidiot
- Post #17
- May 11, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

Yes but not a lot, as usual the user returned them to be re-filled so complete ones are hard to come by. Most we find are of a more generic nature, no town or dairys identified.
- digginidiot
- Post #15
- May 11, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

Forgot to answer your question about our goal. It's a few different things. We want to have fun, and we are. Documenting and preserving local history is important to us. In the end it is all about the thrill of discovery and what we can learn from what we find. Every once in a while we just...
- digginidiot
- Post #13
- May 7, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

yeah, hey thanks. Traditionally we hunt artifacts, prehistoric bison skulls, rocks, fossils etc etc but this has been great. It is winding down but we will go for a couple years yet. Good luck with that Montana spot, we are envious.
- digginidiot
- Post #12
- May 7, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

Have not seen the Hutch book, there is a large Iowa bottle book which includes the Ida Grove specimen. The only Michigan bottle that comes to mind immediately is a Battle Creek MI Sanitarium bottle. I am sure we may have dug others. We catalogue our embossed bottles by company or product name...
- digginidiot
- Post #10
- May 7, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

We find ourselves in complete agreement, thank you for the comment. To date, we have not gone totally public with this project but we intend to. We have cleaned up and displayed roughly 6,000 bottles and another 6,000 misc finds ie: jugs, crocks, metal signs, marbles, buttons and the list goes...
- digginidiot
- Post #9
- May 7, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

We don't usually keep many bottle fragments, but a couple years back we found a thick seam of very broken bottles, all amber. As it turns out, by counting the intact tops and by trying to read various fragments of very hard-to-read APL's, we determined there were about 350 broken bottles...
- digginidiot
- Post #5
- May 7, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

Thanks for reply. We have only dug about 40 Hutchs, many of them have peck marks where some of the local kids of yesteryear threw rocks at them. On the other hand, we have found a few that were classified as "unknowns" and we also dug a couple unknown variants of arguably the rarest Hutch in...
- digginidiot
- Post #4
- May 7, 2023
- Forum: Introductions
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Western Iowa dump digger/new member

8 years ago we bought the ground next to us and soon found out underneath it is the old city dump. We have been digging it ever since. Our research shows the dump started previous to 1890 and closed before July of 1940. There are no indications it has ever been dug, except the previous owner...
- digginidiot
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- May 6, 2023
- Replies: 19
- Forum: Introductions