DETROIT 9/29

[cowseatmaize]

ORIGINAL: baltbottles

We beat through a solid 6 foot thick layer of rusted steal filings and lathe millings thrown into a 5foot diameter brickliner. It took us 12 hours to get down 18 feet most of that was spent chipping through the rusted steal layer with a breaker bar and pick axe. This stuff looks to have been thrown in the pit about 1920 or so when they filled it in. We hit a clay cap under this layer with a little bit of use layer squishing up the side but the age wasn't that good 1910ish. But it eats the probe so hopefully it gets older by the bottom.

Chris

You should have got one of those GIANT magnets for lifting cars. It probably would've pulled out like a cork. [][]

 

[sandchip]

Can somebody post a picture of a breaker bar so's I can make or get me one?

 

[RICKJJ59W]

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[yaledigger]

i showed up kind of late yesterday and did something really stupid and i learned an HUGE lesson in the process. i went seaching in an old building next to where Tom and his boys were digging..well i went into a dark room and fell into a big hole in the floor full of water and hurt my ribs real bad. what a dumb mistake, now i will not be able to dig for weeks now.

 

[hemihampton]

Yaledigger, sorry to hear that. Did you see Liberace's Piano in back of Building. Is this the one in Question.? LEON.

 

[Plumbata]

Interesting dig(s) and great pictures, keep them coming!

ORIGINAL: yaledigger

i went into a dark room and fell into a big hole in the floor full of water and hurt my ribs real bad.  what a dumb mistake, now i will not be able to dig for weeks now.

OUCH! That is pretty terrible. I've done a decent bit of urban exploring and have put myself in dangerous situations like that before. Some of the holes in the floor I've seen were so deep that you would be unable to escape if ya fell in. Once i climbed up to the top level of a chemical/grain elevator building only accessible by a rusted out external ladder. It was pretty scary then, and there's no way I'd do it again now. If the thing snapped off I would have fallen 80 feet onto dumped concrete rubble. No way you'd walk away from a fall like that. Also, in that top level was an open silo pit that descended below ground level. Couldn't see the bottom even with flashlights. Scary. That same day i ended up stepping on a nail (thankfully a clean fresh nail from a packing crate) which pierced the joint of the big toe on my right foot. Took ages to heal properly. Gotta be careful in places like that.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

I almost fell in an elevator shaft once in an old abandon Mansion . It was a hunted mansion in Philadelphia. I was lucky to get out with my life.

 

[mctaggart67]

Hope for your speedy recovery. Back in high school a buddy of mine fell through the main floor of an abandoned farmhouse. Two good things came of this: 1) he was okay because, for whatever bizarre reason of physics, the floor gave way evenly in a circle around him, so, not being pitched in any direction, he landed upright, 2) he landed in a basement lined with shelves loaded with fruit jars, including a Beaver midget (facing right), a couple of Burlington quarts, and around 200 Crowns of varying sizes. I think he and I probably got more injured from loading up the car with these treasures.

 

[historyhunter]

Better luck next time! Don is the man with the beautiful Holly and Fenton stuff if I recall.