I was a Gandy Dancer for a couple of years after being Honorably discharged from the Army through the Veterans representative at what used to be called Job Service. Gandy Dancer is an old school term for a Railroad Track Layer. I could drive two spikes at the same time with a spike maul in each hand. Took a lot of damned practice. The trick to hitting the spike every time, was rolling the double headed maul in each hand as you were bringing them up and around for the next swing. The rails you showed appear to me to be at least from the 1800's period and also to be mine rails. Ones used inside a mine or an area that does not require full sized rail. Hope that helped. 👍from Utah.

Well worth exploring guys..Tennessee has one of the largest underwater lakes in the world ,along with a vast cave system.

Field plundering and a good many 44's! Love it that your finding early spring sinks with caves, need a few friends and the right equipment to go exploring my friend! Thanks for sharing and HH

Love to see that explored. I live for this stuff!! Awesome find!! Time to call The Chigg!!

Glad you mentioned Aquachigger, that's what I was thinking! Thanks for sharing.

I found a hole in a field many years ago that turned out to be over 100ft deep. It was an old mineshaft that had been backfilled and capped but years of water flooding it had washed it out and eventually the cap fell into the hole. It remained open for years until the people responsible were found and forced to fill it properly.

I'm in knoxville, so was glad to find your channel. Love the videos.

Look very carefully down there. You might find a Corvette! LOL. Good Hunting from Ky.!

As soon as I saw that hole I thought about Beau! I've seen springs set up like that for holding milk cans in the creek it would have had a roof over it for shade. Nice location! Plenty to see and lots of ground to cover. Happy travels! Beeps.

Lol I like the trespassing joke! Cool caves!

Want to see you explore the cave !!

Beautiful creek the whole area is beautiful

My momma day 6 sister's 2 brothers are from sweet water Tennessee Cleveland Poe county oh how I miss the smokies be goin up real soon, look like the had one hell of a shoot out one war I wish the South won LoL,good luck nice find I detect also love it!

WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE YOU EXPLORE THE CAVE !!! PLEASE KEEP US UPDATED !!!

Seriously had me going at the start. 🤣First time visitor, me, obviously.

... looks like perfect 'sinkers' for fishing lines ; )

Those openings in that field remind me of a cave in Tennessee named " Indian grave point" in two of the large rooms in that cave daylight can be seen and if one further investigates the source is in a field just like that one.

I blows my mind how lucky you all are with the Paleo, Pirates, Bushwackers but seriously to Civil War exploring in such as Carolinas, Tennessee the South plus the great soils and I loved the humidity plus my famous and well documented years amongst you all

Only heard the first railroad lines were much thinner than the ones today. Hope you get to explore that hole in the ground. Please don't go alone and make sure someone else knows where your going. Definitely could be dangerous. Interesting video, thank you.

Nice video TJ, the whole time I'm Thinking "Call Aqua Chigger!" then you said it LOL

Man... if you get in that sink hole I'll be looking for a new co-host. Lol. Good to see Will again, looking forward to being with him at DIV

Cool video! Thank you for sharing!

You said " if there was a CS buckle you would jump down into tha cave". I took it as if there was a US buckle you wouldn't jump down there. Spoken like a true southerner and Tennessean. Take care and HH. Jim aka Tennessee Gem

Nice interesting video about history in your part of the USA. Thks for sharing. Watching from British Columbia Canada.

If you can feel air coming out , there has to be another entrance somewhere . I think your right . Could be huge . I'd love to go in there and have a look .

Narrow guage rail my dad was an engineer for 49 years I found a mass Chinese grave in the desert woven with it steam trains used it and some mines good find guys

That a well from a old hand dug well. The houses foundation is literally going across it. There should be some great finds in there.

Great video. Happy Hunting.

that river looks like a good trout creek :)

im in the highland rim aera putnam and white countys...we have thousands of sink and cave in the aera... love hiking the aera...its cool to find water coming up out of the ground and then alittle ways down see it disapear back into the rocks... yall keep yer toes warm

Pretty interesting...lookin' forward to the "Cave" exploration...hope the land owner gives you permission!

Great video Jeff! Take care brother!

The ActionAdventureTwins would definitely explore that cave if the owner gave permission.very interesting video.

Great video and the cave will be cool....

We have many holes similar to that up here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula from the days of copper mining that was dug out n forgotten out in the woods. You can from time to time find mini old minded relics. And sadly at least once a year someone goes missing from falling off into one of these uncapped holes.when I live in Georgia and engaged in Civil War Relic hunting I found what was left of an old dugout under a large Limestone Bluff where someone has head parts of old rusted out black powder guns and bullets keep on digging remember many civilians head there household valuables in the ground do either keep it from the Union Army are the Confederate guerrillas bands...

I hate them dang poaching trespassers they is thick down here in the Swamp. Felt good watching you get yours

Hi, I'm down in Loudon Co. and we find mostly fired and dropped minie balls around the site of Longstreet's crossing at what was once Huff's Ferry area near Loudon. I do believe that to be a cave entrance and not a sinkhole... I have both on my property and this looks more like a cave.

Sweet really looks previously used, some stone look manipulated

Call an Archaeologist ! Historic! Set up a souvenir stand and sell all that lead in lil' cases. Awesome!

GET IN THAT CAVE BOY!

HI Jeff I was kinda waiting on this video after I saw you post the picture of Will standing by the cave opening a little while back ...nice couple pistol balls I agree with you that has to be from an oil lamp the ornate piece that the glass would fit into ... nice ... See you guys in a month .... looking forward to meeting you Jeff and seeing Will again ... see ya !

The steel going over the creek might have been part of an old bridge crossing..It probably had wooden decking at some point.Check the cave out too.

Good vid, cool and interesting place to hunt.

gosh i miss the mountains 😢 stranded in LA. good people, good memories

With all that Moss growing you could be here in Ireland . Great video Thanks

Those tracks was possibly a bridge for wagons across creek. That ornamental brass was likely the base for glass on lantern.

Trepassers !! Let me tell you my houston County tennessee story. I heard gunshots and knew it was on us. So being me I go there with my 4 lb dog in tow. I saw nothing but little dog did. Hiding in the brush was a deer hunter. He was told not so nicely to leave . He came back 2 more times. The last time I ran him off he actually called police on me saying I threaten to kill him. I was arrested. I didn't have a gun but he did. Yes my land is posted every 10 ft.

I sure hope you get a video of that cave. I'd have a hard time not getting the gear together and doing an exploration👍

cool stream and findings.

Wow, that was quite the cave! You did the right thing by not going in there. It looked like the overhang of rocks really wasn’t safe. The rails looked real old. I wonder why they would want to cross there? Maybe because of the spring during the civil war? Thanks for sharing your adventure! 😊

I just subscribed to your channel. Ray from Spring Hill, FL.

I found a two-piece scabbard tip that had a finial type piece on the end of it and wood inside of it. I believe you found a piece of one, maybe. Good video

I’ve explored a few sinkholes like this and the entrances are not very stable. Mostly boulders suspended in mud. Be safe.

Could be some nice civil war relics in that cave -- maybe even money--I would be digging a opening and climbing in !!!

reminds me of a story shown somewhere about 10 years ago? A guy was looking around New Mexico one time and found a hole that led to a huge underground FRESH WATER LAKE! I often wondered if it was on his property, because fresh water is hard to find anywhere?

4:00 that is buckshot. You can see the dents from the other balls around the edges as they were fired with others in a muzzle loading black powder shotgun.

I just happened to find your channel and subscribed as I love watching these kind of videos ! Do you research any of your finds as I love learning about stuff ! Thank you for a great video !

I'd say the rails are 1880s or so ,I've found three Sherman's hair pins and they are three inches tall and have no holes for bolting. I've never weighed them but I can pick up a 14 foot rail though it is heavy . In 1850s when my rails were made they were made of iron, they have a whole different sound than steel when you hit them with a hammer or spike.

Raccoon says " ow ..quit throwing those rocks"

You need to call the chigger he loves caves and sinkholes!!

Great finds! Cool cave! I was thinking that same thing about Aquachigger! Thanks for sharing!

Of course,I only have the clarity of the video, but around the hole, the stones appear to be cross stacked .much like the ones by the ridve.

Cool! Waiting for you camera view of the inside of the cave!

The cut with the rails over it looks awful long for just a bridge over a creek. Reminds me of an old Mill race. Used to funnel the water through the "race" to speed it up and power a grist Mill.

The cave looks very promising for exploring and looking for artifacts. Do it right, with a team and equipment and historian from the college. The important thing about the air flow is it means there is another entire entrance. Thanks for your curiosity. Post it here when you go back there.

Better peel that open and get to investigating it. LOOKS interesting!!

Good job.

Good video buddy. Happy Hunting

All interesting finds

I was thinking to myself trespassing in Tennessee, not the sharpest tool in the shed!🤪

Those beams look like repurposed railway track

I love the cave area and it would be beautiful if you shored up the rocks and made stone steps. I wonder what's further inside? Cool mystery!

Barnes Bullets is still in business and doing well, we sell them lubricants on a regular basis. Thanks!!

that last piece looked like part of an old coal oil lamp. the round decorative part at the base that holds the chimney. thats my guess...

I like how you country people talk.

Hello guys just subscribed also fromTenn.We found a cave something like that in our woods we could see down in it but something we may need oneday .

Kinda looks like mining track. Seen similar in silver mines in NM.

I've seen the rail before, those are street car rails I've seen them in Franklin Tennessee and Nashville.

Mom: why you watching a man find bullets at 8pm Me: you wouldn't get it

Kind of looked like a place battle plans would be drawn up. Probably met up with some trenches. Nice ambush spot. Dunno. But the rocks on top appear to be placed by man.

Holder for the glass top on a old days oil lamp my dad owns a few plus I grew up going to antique sales a lot with my dad and grandma

It looks like narrow gauge rail that was used before the civil war.

What's that Lassie.. Will's in a well, he needs help?! Come on girl, let's go get paw.

oh boy would i love to explore that cave...

So what model and make of detector do you use. I was thinking of getting a Fisher 22 to begin with.

The narrow gauge rails across the stone bulkhead construction looks like either the remains of a mill or the start of a mill that was never finished. It is too wide to be a roadbed. You should construct a small diy water turbine in the stream!

Stay away from those ground holes, you never know when there is going to be a cave in. The bridge is interesting. Even if the rails are only 100 years old the stone abutments could be older. The bridge superstructures tend to rot and get replaced much more frequently than the abutments. To date the rails, you will have to check the webs(vertical part) for the manufacturer and date. The date is only occasionally stamped but, the manufacturer is usually there. Happy Hunting.

At 5:45 wouldn't that wedge be the piece that holds the barrel to the stock on a rifle of the Civil war era? Just a uneducated guess I'm not an expert but I do have two flintlocks and that what the wedge looks like to me .

Looks like many years ago they dumped rock over it. I have these on my farm in KY.

Husband is a railroader and he said it looks like someone got a bunch of 65 pound rail to make a bridge out of it. He said he doubted that it was civil war era as it would be warped and unusable after all this time. Salvaged rail most likely.

Hey. You done trick me. But you are a smart fella dough

OMG! That was Owl Bridge!

Something tells me you need to get down in there. So what are you waiting for,COME ON LET'S GO!

Goddamn walk a little faster the trespasser gonna get away...(Heart rate increases)...😬. Oh their friends. SON OF A...good one

Nice work!

Great video

Wow finding those things like that I would have to sit and imagine being there at that time dream world

That brass piece is from a old chuck wagon strainer

The ornate piece of brass you guys found toward the end of the video is part of an old lamp mantle. :).

How wide is it at the top ? I use to work for Santa Fe railroad as a signal man back in 1992 - 1993 here in Kansas . Those look real old if they are real narrow rails they could be from around the civil war Era possibly not sure . Great finds !