I blame all of you for the winter

Ben · Nov 30, 2011

I would like to thank all of you guys for the very long winter I am about to go through up here in northern New York. You see, I used to go bottle hunting sparingly over the years, maybe once or twice a year. Due to a recent mid to late 1800â€™s small dump find and THIS FORUM [

], my desire to dig dig dig has become an obsession[

]. I look forward to digging my first privy next summer but man, it is going to be a long winter[:-].... now enough time on here, I need to go dig before the ground freezes solid...

druggistnut · Nov 30, 2011

Ben,
It's a definite illness we have all contracted.
If you get a hole open in the dump, put a pallet over it, with carpet or a tarp covering the hole. Put some dirt over that. You will find that your hole will not freeze and is available to dig, all winter.
Bill

VTdigger · Nov 30, 2011

I feel the same, during the winter it's down to going to antique and thrift stores and E-bay, buying bottles and while that's all good there's nothing better than digging them. though I do plan to do alot of research at the museum and library to find spots where old houses and farms used to be and hopefully I get a metal detector for X-Mas than next year I'll be even more unstoppable in my digging.

cyberdigger · Nov 30, 2011

I can only apologize to you for the FORUM part of your suffering, Ben, which I do, with semi-tempered sentiment. The "bug" is definitely contagious, and nowhere does it exist in a more highly infectious state than right here.. you are contaminated. I am sorry..
Perhaps a long snowed-in winter of cleaning and cataloging will bring you back into balance just in time for tending to bikini line '12..
Otherwise, welcome to ABN and make yourself at home.. [

]

Bixel · Nov 30, 2011

A good piece of plywood will keep your hole from freezing as well. I speak from experience!

If you want a "greener" way, take a couple square bales of straw or hay.

sandchip · Dec 1, 2011

Lord, it was in the 70s thru Saturday, and now it's been cloudy and in the 40's this week. Miserable. I don't see how y'all handle shonuff cold weather.

Ben · Dec 1, 2011

Thanks for your input guys. I like the idea about how to keep the hole from freezing, except the dump I found (which the actual date I am discovering is more like late 1800â€™s to early 1900â€™s I think) Is found along a 150â€™+ stretch of a 50â€™ or so tall hillside at a 35-45 degree angle along a river. It is sporadic little honey holes here and there. It keeps producing rare bottles (and by rare I mean, rare to my eyes and knowledge[

])

Gromit0299 · Dec 1, 2011

I consider the forum the methadone for the times when you're unable to get a fix. There's always going to be someone out there getting out to dig. We can all sit and drool.

Plumbata · Dec 2, 2011

With enough desire, you can keep on digging right through winter!

I don't know how your hillside dump is arranged, but if there are any areas where the layers are 4-5 feet deep or more and comprised largely of ash, then winter digging shouldn't be too difficult.

Although not recommended, I've dug some pretty massive caves (bottle mines [

]) which were supported by the thickly frozen top 6-12 inches, and careful digging to maintain the integrity of the internal "arch" supports. Dug a chamber a good 12 or 14 feet horizontally into a hill of ash a few years back. It was very cozy, considering the freezing temps outside.

I went out digging the past 2 days, and although the surface was touched by frost it didn't interfere with digging. Once you start to exert yourself you will stay quite warm, perhaps too warm.

myersdiggers1998 · Dec 3, 2011

I here ya Ben ,when the ground freezes up here its solid as concrete, this site gives a general fix from withdrawl in the winter months,welcome.

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