Mukurogirl
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Well I'm a Pennsylvania digger and live in an old township call Shadegap which is two hours away from Philadelphia. I'm 15 years old and I fell in love with bottle digging just at the beginning of this past summer. It's sort of like a family tradition on my father's side. My father's father took my dad bottle digging. I'm told it was easier back then. You just walked into an abondoned building and came out with boxes of corkers.
Not so now. We have alittle over one hundred fifty bottles in our collection. Most of which we dug out of old dumps. It's usually just my father and me. Which is good father daughter time since we don't have many shared interests. Anyways I already know I don't have any expensive bottles in my collection. We are going after the illusive Burnt Cabins Bottling Company bottle....a blob top. We live less then a few miles from the town of Burnt Cabins and you'd tihnk when you're digging in the area you'd find a burnt cabins bottle? Noooooo
It's a farm area all around here so no fancy stuff to pull up. Now after doing some research and checking around the internet. I discussed Privvy digging with my father and after a few months of not gathering any really old bottles...heh he kinda caved in. I'm saying that the -really- old bottles are in the privvies. My father and my father's father..hell great uncle Short have dug up damn near every inch of Shadegap which makes it hard for us to find good dumps. -No- one has every privvy dug around my areas. Wellll you'd have to agree we have a better chance of pulling up atleast a few bottles out of an old privvy rather then searching for dumps and discovering the broken bottles from people having shot at them.
Sooo we just had our probe made by a family friend and I'd appreciate any tips you can give us. We're curious as to how privvy digging is done. Most of the privies around our area are no more then 5ft deep,but they moved the privies often. I know this because my father's father...my grandpa ran the shit truck(septic truck) and my father used to help.
Not so now. We have alittle over one hundred fifty bottles in our collection. Most of which we dug out of old dumps. It's usually just my father and me. Which is good father daughter time since we don't have many shared interests. Anyways I already know I don't have any expensive bottles in my collection. We are going after the illusive Burnt Cabins Bottling Company bottle....a blob top. We live less then a few miles from the town of Burnt Cabins and you'd tihnk when you're digging in the area you'd find a burnt cabins bottle? Noooooo
It's a farm area all around here so no fancy stuff to pull up. Now after doing some research and checking around the internet. I discussed Privvy digging with my father and after a few months of not gathering any really old bottles...heh he kinda caved in. I'm saying that the -really- old bottles are in the privvies. My father and my father's father..hell great uncle Short have dug up damn near every inch of Shadegap which makes it hard for us to find good dumps. -No- one has every privvy dug around my areas. Wellll you'd have to agree we have a better chance of pulling up atleast a few bottles out of an old privvy rather then searching for dumps and discovering the broken bottles from people having shot at them.
Sooo we just had our probe made by a family friend and I'd appreciate any tips you can give us. We're curious as to how privvy digging is done. Most of the privies around our area are no more then 5ft deep,but they moved the privies often. I know this because my father's father...my grandpa ran the shit truck(septic truck) and my father used to help.