First Privy dug in 2016, Privy #1.

[hemihampton]

It's rare I get out in January to dig a Privy in Michigan. Was warm upto late December. Got out about 2 weeks ago. But then the cold moved in & hung up the probe & shovel for the Winter. BUT, Then Today it hits 50 degrees & sunny so I dusted them off hit the usual spot. Met up with a Friend of mine that lives in the big city & I probed up a storm under a sidewalk along a fence line. The sidewalk was not visable & was about 4 inches below the dirt. I feel a nice good spot about 4 feet down that felt like broken crunchy glass. SO, We bust away the concrete with Sledghammer & start digging. I find the crunchy spot but it's just a small buried pit of a bunch of little Rocks the size of a golfball, probably hundred of them. Dange it, false alarm. But I probe to the left of it & it feels good over there & start digging. I hit a bunch of white ash, then thick hard layer of clay was above that. Dig down below the white ash where all the good bottles should be but nothing. Finally I hit a whole bottle after a few shards before that. I get excited & pull it out. Then I see what looks like a 1930's crown top. I look closer & it's a ABM Slick. But then I read the bottom & it sez PJ RITTER CONVERSE CO. PHILA. After this disappointing find I fill the hole in & probe elsewhere. After about 200 more pokes with the probe I don't feel anything & tired of probing & now getting dark so hit the road. Looks like first dig of early 2016 a dud. I hope Spring time produces more then this. 7 more Cobalt blue Hutches would be nice again. LEON.

 

[sunrunner]

well Leon , the good thing is YOU KNOW there out there ,have probe will find .

 

[Privyprowlerz]

keep at it Leon. you know the drill my friend.

We find stuff in about 10% of the holes we dig.

and 80% of the stuff we take home comes from 5% of the holes we dig.

problem is, there's no rhyme or reason as to which one it's gonna be
till we dig it.

Jim

 

[Privyprowlerz]

We get a whole lot of this...

 

[Privyprowlerz]

and hardly any of this.....




such is the life of the bottle digger..

Jim

 

[hemihampton]

Last year right next to this hole, on other side of property line, I dug a privy that had a couple of good bottles. The crier was a broken American Brewing Quart beer, which was unknown & never before seen or known to exist until I dug that broken one. Would of been killer to find a whole one in this hole but you just never know what your going to find until you dig it. LEON.