That’s some quality iron sitting out there 120 years.

I work for Jekyll island authority and if you have never been it should be on your to-do list. There is alot of history on the island that is very interesting. The easiest way to get to the old cannon torrents is to park at the end of Macy Lane and its not so far of a walk through the woods. If you park at st andrews park its a good hike. In the direction that the cannons was pointing there is a US geological survey marker and there is also a geocache location here as well. One thing you want to be sure of is to watch where your walking because there are big diamondback rattle snakes all around in this area. Some of the diamondbacks have gps trackers in them so that the wildlife department can locate them.

Whoa! You know they're deep in the woods because there's no graffiti on 'em. VERY interesting! 👍

I would love to metal detect for history there!

Can you picture the recoil on those guns... And think about all the hurricanes those emplacements have been through and they're still there. We don't build things the way we used to.

1:10 Classic “Explorer finds what’s he’s looking for” moment! Keep up the great videos and thanks for taking us on this adventure

That's an awesome find

Another cool video Chris! Thanks for giving the historical facts and pictures to go with your finds! It definitely helps to give us a different perspective!

Always great vids, Chris! And, again, I really appreciate the back story you provide to educate us on your finds! Look forward to more! :)

Great find....! Thanks for making this video.....I love this kind of historical / abandoned stuff.

Chris, this is probably not a typical comment but I wanted to say thank you for making these videos. My life has been in utter chaos for 11 years and I used to enjoy doing the things you are now enjoying. Therefore, watching videos like those you make, help me escape reality for a few minutes, thus helping me maintain my sanity for at least one more day.

What a testament to the brilliant mix of metals in order to create a nearly rust-resistant iron. Can't find that nowadays. The state of preservation is remarkable, especially in such a humid climate. Great work.

Wow! Those are big! Those old photos were really cool to see.

Just finished watching all of your videos on both channels! Love your stuff!

From watching your videos about this island, I desperately want to go explore it now! I love all of your videos. Keep up the awesome work!

Thank god there's a good history channel on KZfaq 👊🏻🤙🏻

What a beautiful piece of history and not distroyed.

Wow Chris a amazing video and for being that old they are in fantastic shape. Great find. Keep putting out fantastic videos.

This a really good video, and an interesting piece of history. This is something I didn't know of, it's really cool to learn something new watching these videos. Great job! Thank you for making it

Great find Chris ! they are two awesome pieces of history and maybe someone will get them out and then everybody will enjoy them.

Just stumbled upon your channel today, and it's already my favorite exploration channel. Keep up the great work! :)

That is so cool! Thank you so much for your videos. They're so interesting and informative.

It's always fascinating to see such things sitting there for over a hundret years, completely intact and no one knows about them. I mean clearly somebody does and they're not small so ... I dunno I'd expect something like this to be more frequented. Amazing find btw. It's so cool how nature absolutely reclaims what once was nature in the first place.

Amazing!! Thank you for sharing this.

Can you imagine it back then! All open fields, no ingrown trees! Yo can still see remnants of the lubricant oil they used to rotate the cannons around! It survived for a little over 122 year's! That's amazing! Very cool video man!✌😎👍

Great video! Nice that you study the history and then shoot video. Makes for great watching!

Dude your videos are awesome! You do your research and make every adventure compelling

Really interesting piece of history. I also like the way you "tell the story" of what you investigating.

Nice little piece of hystory, wouldn't it be awesome to learn all the history that many of the woods and forests holds...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Your video content is amazing and so clear. 👍

Awesome video Chris, can't believe how good of condition them placements was, after being out, open to the elements, amazing, but I'm intrigued, what took the longest, finding the gun placements or the mountain bike ha ha, just think, if you hadn't found it, maybe someone would have used it for a video on KZfaq in a few years 👍, good job buddy

You never disappoint, Chris!

So cool definitely goin on my list of places to explore.

That’s when they made good steel. Awesome find. Thank you.

very cool chris thanks

really amazing! you are a true explorer in every sense of the word!

Great vlog. I live on the mainland from Jekyll Island. Enjoyed seeing this again.

That’s an awesome find. Thanks for making a video so we can all see.

The journey to find the abandoned bike lol. Like the focus you put on some abandoned oddities. As always great job on your video.

Very cool find, amazing how well the old steel has stood the test of time.

Thats gold mate thanks for sharing

Very educational, thank you for sharing.

Great episode, I’m going to look that up , thanks.

Love it!

neat find. These emplacements were installed up and down both coasts to protect the cities in the event of war coming to our doorstep in 1898. Remember the Maine. The coastal artillery was using carriages from other locations to fortify what was determined to be main shipping channels into important ports. The carriage pictured does look like a Rodman mount. It has a front pintle and the rear wheels are on an iron transverse. The 100 or 200 pound description is for the weight of the round for the gun tube. Most Rodman cannon were made smoothbore in 10 or 15 inch diameter balls. The one tube mounted in the video is a 15 Rodman. Identified by the center pintle mount. Most 10 inch Rodman tubes were sleeved down to except a conical projectile of 8 inch diameter. Usually the mounts scrapped after the turn of the century, as they were obsolete by that point. Few originals remain.

Awesome love your work!

Great show 😀👍🏻

Great American history, thanks for sharing.

Way cool, Chris! When you showed the photo of the Civil War emplacement I realize my second home town had one, in its carriage mounted on a big concrete pedestal, in the corner of the library park downtown. It had been spiked (a steel or iron rod pounded into its touch-hole and broken off flush with the firing chamber), but they hadn't plugged its muzzle with concrete. The teenage gang of a friend's active youth somehow drilled open the touch-hole even though it was on the corner of a busy intersection (more brains than sense!). They planned to insert a charge of gunpowder, wadding, and some sort of projectile (there were no cannonballs available, thank goodness), and since it was aimed at the door of a beauty salon directly across the intersection they thought it would be a nice joke to fire the beast. We still had beat cops in town at that time and they were stopped on their way home one night, coming from shoving another half-pound of gunpowder in a paper sack down inside. The cop was familiar with them, individually and in clumps, and since they were carrying a broom handle, he kept an eye on that area long enough for them to lose interest. (Several years later, though older but no wiser, one of them set off a pipe bomb on a rooftop of a building right in the center of town. Lights, sirens, and the usual confusion followed almost immediately, and newspaper headlines that afternoon claimed many thousands of dollars' worth of damage. So naturally, the mad bomber and a friend climbed up there a few nights later and repaired the damage... As the French say, "Les garçons seront toujours des garçons."

Incredible! Great find! 👊

Great find! Thanks for the adventure!

Wow this is cool history! Very good video.

That's cool, I can imagine all that brush cleared out so you could see the water. With cannons on the other island as well, the Spanish wouldn't dare take their ships through there.

My parents work for Jekyll island authority, and have took us back to the cannons a few times

Wow what a find dude !!!

I an hour and a half from Jekyell, and the area is a historians playground. I know of many historic area what people like to keep hidden and safe from vandalism. Great Video!

Awesome video!!! There is still great history stilling in the middle of nowhere to be discovered!

Another cool video my friend! Glad I subscribed. Be safe!

Thanks great show.

Amazing, thank you! I had no idea that existed.

Truly amazing. Good job.

Wow very cool

Awesome, thanks.

Interesting! Thanks Chris!

What an awesome find.!!

your videos are great

The holes in those wheels were for users to insert a pipelike metal rod to turn them and make the monstrosity move! Great story.

Great finding and History thank you

Superb example of the early use of hex head bolts.

Very cool. Been to Jekyll 25 times never knew those were there I'll look next time I go.

Somebody needs to put them in a museum so they can be preserved for historical purposes.

Great find and Great video

Very interesting. I love your adventures.

A fascinating find and a great video.

Thank you ,Sad the GA folks has not restore this place..staywell

What a unique combination of temperate style trees and tropical vegetation.

Dope dude

Really cool

Good video, history is awesome.

That's awesome 👍 history out there. I'm into that kind of history.

Wow amazing they are just left there to decay, a real shame as they should be in a museum somewhere. Thanks for sharing and I'm glad you found your bike lol. x

Cool! Young at heart! Its like me in the Eightees

Very cool and interesting.

Awesome

That’s so cool!

Great video

Now that's very interesting !

Nice find.

So cool just the fact you are touching a piece of military equipment that many soldiers touch who came before us thanks🙂🙂

I love your shows about Iron cannon must come from Spanish America, I will look up at the website information. Thanks your shows to me and keep going.

that's awesome that's for sharing

Very cool find pretty decent shape

That's a cool piece of history

Probably one of those multi-millionaires who lived on the island owned an iron works and had connections in the Defense Department.

Cool MAN that's AWSOM🐍

Dude...i want your job...or the ability for the lack there of...to be able to travel all over and experience all that u have. Glad you are video documenting all this for us...thanks

Well we know you made it out as you uploaded. 😬 unless someone found your camera 🎥👍👍 cool content as always.

VERY COOL

That’s some real good quality metal right there

Very interesting.