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The iron piece with the two brass things on it is the handle to a coffee grinder. They were on the top of the grinder. I believe the blade is for fleshing hides of animals like beaver,deer or hogs and cattle.👍☮️

Dude… definitely has to be the original pizza cutter…. 😂 😂

Hey brother I am going out for my first hunt in months my surgery was a absolute success and I have been cleared by my doctor to return to what I love to do. Wish me luck by the way I have truly enjoyed your videos lately you have really stepped it up and they have been awesome. I love the hunting for the Degraw I probably spelled that wrong but you get the gist of it. Great video bro God Bless brother.

Every Friday I wake up this thinking oh boy it's Green Mountain day.

Go figure, I'll be out all day detecting and find nothing, but all Brad has to do is trip and discover a cool find.....Nice!

Great video Brad. The blade is for cleaning the pelts of larger animals.

Would love to see the restoration of that cutting tool!

Those wild berries have so much better flavor than tame. What an added bonus treasure

The rivet like buttons appear to be collar buttons for holding linen collars to a shirt. The posts are actually the front.

squirrel hunting trick, tap a coin (penny) on your gun stock rapidly. Sounds like squirrel when they break nuts and eat. Other ones feel safe and come out. boom.

Lots of nice finds. That cutter looks to be for removing hides from animals to butcher.

Nice hunt Brad .. I agree with the previous comments about the demi-lune fleshing tool, and have to agree it's in phenomenal condition for its age .. Not uncommon to find smaller versions, of similar form, used in home food preparation during the period, chopping vegetables and the like for consumption .. I know of passionate antique collectors of choppers "up-country" who would have all their juices flowing to stumble across one of that size and condition .. a wonderful find ! Thanks for sharing another great day in Vermont.

I have a similar chopper to that as it was my great grandmother's brought from Russia. Yes, mine has a wood handle.

Nice finds, Brad. Enjoy the holiday weekend. 👍🇺🇸

Thank you for the great family content.

This channel is REAL treasure. 🤓

The soundtrack for all your vids is incredible. I know you play all of the instruments, and that adds a great deal to the whole experience.

The milk glass inserts on jar lids were to keep acidic contents (like pickles or tomatoes) from eating the metal lid

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Good morning and thumbs UP !

The blade you found is an old garden tool called a Kantenstecher/ edging knife

Amazing! Love that cutting tool and how you tripped into finding it. Like to have a look at it when you get it restored. 🤓

Great finds. Especially the blueberries... Huggs from the great state of Maine... 🤗

Good video I enjoyed it nice finds catch you on the next one 🇺🇸

Love the sound of the water when you dug the shoe buckle.

Thanks Brad…as always love the adventure and scenery👍😊

the blue berries and you swinging the detector was a nice touch to the video

I am really surprised you don’t find wild blueberries all the time, I grew up in the Brattleboro Vt, Keene Nh area and found them all the time. Arrowheads too. Love your channel! Takes me home again every Friday. Makes me wonder all the old metal I walked over and never knew it.

At the sound of the gunshots, I realized it was time for you to start wearing an orange vest. Stay safe! (It's a Mom thing).

The LU looking tool must be a fantastic steel to have taken a patina and survived like that. It will be interesting to see what kind of an edge it takes. I'll bet a really good one! I like the hide scraper suggestion, in which case the impregnation of fats may have helped keep the steel good. Look forward to seeing it as a leather tool.

As a kid in Scotland I used a cutting tool just like you found , it had a long handle and it was for edging lawns, or cutting sod.

Good morning Brad, it’s a great Friday when I start my day with you. Wonderful finds and video. Have a wonderful week. Joyce 🇺🇸❤️

Great finds today! Love the old coppers. Keep up the good work. Also love the old tool!

Items don't only get covered by leaves etc.With a lot of rain the soil will turn liquid,and the item will literally sink.I've found 40's coins in the middle of open parkland 9" deep(which had me scratching my head for a while) until I tumbled to what's going on.Been watching for years,and hope to be watching for years more.Good luck and good health to you and yours!

I believe that second find you made is part of the mechanism that rises and lowers the canopy over a Surrey or some other kind of horse drawn buggy.

Another great video 📹 love the blade and the coppers

Great episode Brad. That cutting implement looks a lot like an Ulu, (traditional Inuit woman's knife which is used mainly for scraping skins, sewing & cutting meat).

Those are some great finds! I also found an Indian head penny from 1906.. great day!

A Blog video of you restoring the leather tool would be cool to see. Also, maybe showing how it works? Would be a good winter video 👍

Yay!!! Great video! Great finds! See ya next week for sure!!!

I dig maaon jar lids in MN all the time. The porcelain or white milk glass was used to keep the food inside the jar from coming into direct contact with the metal lid. This was done to keep the food from getting a metallic off-taste. The liner also decreased the chances of bacteria getting in the food. New lids obviously are lined with rubber/plastic seals. Hitting the site of a former homestead tomorrow here and hoping to find a mason jar lid or two while there. Jim Parry, Backroads Metal Detecting

Good thing that shank didn't get ya Brad...wow

Found some really great stuff! Good day. Stay safe with your family.

Your intro music is awesome. I love the complexity of the arrangement and how you bring the guitar up and expand it out. This was a fun dig do love that veggie/ leather cutting tool.

Looking forward to seeing your new find restored. It’s going to look amazing.

The projection on the cutting tool (or anything like a knife) that goes up into a handle to secure it is called a tang. That's an awesome find!

Brad ,Looked like 1888 to me:) At 20:01 on the grounds there seemed to be a triangular piece of metal, naybe related to that leather cutter. Mason Jar glass inserts kept the food from touching the metal and were supposed to keep them from getting tainted. Cheers, Rik Spector

Great way to spend time in the woods.

I'm glad you didn't get hurt when you fell.

Love your channel, always interesting, thanks for your hard work

handle thingy with brass knobs is a canopy release for a colonial era biplane ...cool find :)

HI FROM THE UK, I ONLY FOUND YOUR SITE 2 DAYS AGO, AND AM ENJOYING IT VERY MUCH AS I'M BAD WITH ARTHRITIS AND CAN'T GET OUT AT ALL. JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF SUGGESTIONS ABOUT TWO ITEMS YOU HAVE UNCOVERED IN YOUR SHOWS, ONE FROM 5 YEARS AGO,A ROUND PEWTER PIECE WITH A SLIT IN IT REMINDED ME OF THE WICK APERTURE ON A STORM LAMP, YOU FOUND THE WINDER IN THE SAME EPISODE. ALSO , IN AN EPISODE FROM 2 YEARS AGO YOU UNEARTHED TWO IRON OBJECTS WHICH YOU SAID MIGHT HAVE BEEN FIRE RELATED. IN ENGLAND WE CALL THEM FIRE DOGS, AND WOULD HAVE STOOD AT EITHER SIDE OF THE FIRE, IN THE HEARTH AREA, YOU NOTED THAT ONE OF THEM HAD BEEN CAST AND HAD A HEART IN THE DESIGN. I'M 68 AND HAVE A GOOD BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN ANTIQUES, I USED TO BE HOOKED ON A PROGRAM OVER HERE CALLED ANTIQUES ROAD TRIP WHICH HAS SADLY BEEN CANCELLED RECENTLY, BUT I HAVE SEEN FIRE DOGS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS AND CAN SAY WITH CONFIDENCE THAT THAT IS WHAT YOU HAD. NO IDEA WHY THEY WEREN'T A PAIR, MAYBE THE BLACKSMITH HAD BORROWED THE ORNATE ONE TO MAKE A FEW COPIES AND WAS USING IT AS A TEMPLATE. HOPE YOU FIND MY SUGGESTIONS USEFUL, JOHN KEARNS FROM BAMBER BRIDGE, LANCASHIRE.

Nice find you tripped over. Your shows are very good. Keep em coming

Another excellent hunt, and that cutting tool you stumbled across is a top notch find. Thank you for another entertaing video 👍 top shelf.

The old mason jar lids were made of zinc. The ceramic inserts were used to protect the contents of the jar from being contaminated by the zinc in the lid as it would give the contents an “off-taste”. Thanks for another great video!

Proud of you Brad !

Brad nice day for you young man enjoyed the video and blueberry love them stay blessed and see you again on the next episode 2👍

Great music! Great finds! 🇨🇦

Hey Brad that Mason jar lid had a red rubber seal with it. When boiled in pan the jar would be removed and quickly tightened. When it cooled the jar would seal. The rubber seal had a tab that stuck out so you could pull it to break the vacuum seal and open the jar. Yes I'm and old guy and helped my great grandmom who was born in 1879 to can.

Beaut blokes as we say Downunder Australia way. Big loves and lots of gold to you both. A Nana in Queensland Australia ✌🙃💜

That blade looks like a tool used for cutting tobacco and rolling cigars. But I get the feeling that it's a common cutter shape for lots of jobs.

What you have also found is the lid from a preserving jar. They still make them--check "Fowlers Vaccola" preserving kit--it will show you all of the stuff--and the glass lids that are held on by a vacuum once the preserves cool down. Lotsa fun. There are US made versions too.

The large button cleaned up beautifully! The tool is awesome! Always enjoy your videos.. Great finds.. another great video....

My grandmother ( born in late 1800's) did a lot of canning and I saw many of those Mason jars with those same kind of lids.. There was a separate small gasket to seal the contents of the jar.. thx for taking us along for the ride..

The sharp triangle is a cabbage cutter for kraut. My 1800's born grandparents used them.

Lol. woodpecker made my day. Great video Brad.

I hope that slip/fall ends up on the blooper reel! 🤣

Great video, buddy. 🤘

The big brass dandy coat button is a thing of beauty 😃. Thank goodness you didn't hurt yourself badly with the slide/fall 👍 and to end up with a true relic! Two Largies and a smallie 😁. Those gunshots were quite unnerving 😳

Thank you Brad for a vary enjoyable video I look forward to them

Awesome day. Good thing you slipped on the rock but glad you didn't hurt yourself! Nice knife chopper and coins. Sad the shoe buckle was broke and not complete darn it! Happy hunting!

That was a great hunt. The cutting tool is so nice. You looked so happy to find it. Thanks for sharing your videos, can't wait for the next adventure.

I have a hole bunch of old leather tools,punches,blades,14 different tools ,I dont do leather work ,im 75 ,and I can't get around much any more,im from wisconsin.and as a young guy we walked the hills in west Central wis.about 50 MI from the mississippi river, in so watching you guys hikeing is awesome,that leather tool you found

The blade you found reminded me immediately of the Inuit ulu. I believe ulu translates into ‘woman’s knife’. It was the women who scraped caribou hides or seal pelts to make clothing. They were originally made from stone and were a treasured possession. I imagine pioneer women had much the same duties. So, perhaps you found an old hide scrapper.

The mystery buttons are collar studs and the mystery doodad looks like a desk hinge, or a box hinge.

I love your videos. History amazes me, I love Vermont, and you are such an interesting young man with a head full of information. Loved seeing your family and gardens, but especially like the nature shots. I'm in NY, right in the triangle of Mass and Vt., Berkshire. Bennington is about 35 minutes away, so I get to VT. now and then.

I have found 2 of those cutters at colonial sites in NC. Here they were used generally to chop cabbage for sauerkraut, and for potatoes and other root veggies

Hello GMMD! I'm excited ....

The find of the day, reuse it for cutting up vegetables and any other things in the kitchen. It would be perfect!

You got some nice finds Brad

You were blessed this day with unique finds. Love the video.

I miss you this morning 🤷‍♂️ better late then never , nice haul today 👍

That tool is amazing surprise find! I hope u show the new handle u add to make it beautiful again!

Always look forward to your videos and really enjoy them

Excellent video Brad! I really enjoyed watching it. Happy Hunting!

Always enjoy your channel. 😊🙏

BRAD ON 1443.MASON JARS HAD THE MILK GLASS INSERTS TO KEEP THE FOOD FROM COMING IN CONTACT WITH THE ZINC LID.

Great video and some nice finds. Keep it up Brad!

That cool ive found a lot of those thin milk glass plates and never knew they were from Mason jar lids...

I believe the cresent cutter is a 'fleshing knife' used on animal skins once they're in a streatcher to clean all the meat and tallow off before they dry

Love your videos I am always glad to see what you find.

I was late to the party this morning. Usually up by 5:30 but things didn't go well last night so sleep deprived right now. Anyway, I made it and am excited by the probable coffee grinder handle and the hide scraper. I also like that fancy button quite a lot. Very nice design. Isn't it amazing how the earth holds onto things until it comes time for them to be found? Yep, great day for you. Thank you for a good start to my Friday morning. Now I can breathe deeply again and enjoy the memory.

Great hunt Brad !!!!

Great video! The Mason jar lid peeked my interest. My wife and can food and you can still get those lids but they are plastic with a rubber seal. We normally use disposable lids but these are good if you can't get those 😊

Blueberries almost a plague in southern NH. Its the soil. VT has a much sweeter soil, most of ours very acid. Thats why you have very different flora. If you eat those little berries & wild strawberries you will NEVER want that grocery store CRAP. Truly one of Gods gifts LFOD !

Nice finds. I want to pick the hobby back up!

As with most of us, I would enjoy seeing the handle restoration

The old buttons with the stud end are called collar studs. They were used to attach collars to shirts--and not work shirts either Dress shirts.. These were from the days of starched collars and spats.

Nice video and what beautiful country.