Hey Rob. Chances are, the horse shoe was pulled off the hoof by mud suction while crossing river before the bridge . It also looks quite large like it might have come off a draught horse.

That was an amazing video Rob! 🤩🙌 I’m sure there is more treasure at that spot 🤩 I wonder if the horseshoe was from before the bridge was built? Would be interesting if you can get a date on the horseshoe to find out. Glad you enjoyed your Bondi Magnet 🧲👌 you actually have a really cool technique for throwing it..I was impressed 😃🤙 Looking forward to more tassie adventures. Oh and and Scout is a little dude we will have to get him a magnet soon 😍🧲👌

There are probably a lot of coins in the mud near the bridge, I can remember when I was a boy, it was considered luck to chuck a coin in, of course then if you could afford to chuck money in a river, you were already a lucky person. Thanks for another interesting video!

My mother is buried in that church…I grew up around this town❤️👌

Love our Aussie history . Thanks for showing some beautiful parts of Tassie

This is a nice change of pace for your channel. As a bridge builder myself, this is right in my wheel house. I've always wondered what's beneath some of the more famous bridges around the world. Thanks for an awesome video

If there's nice water flow in that section - go through after a BIG storm and the sand will have cleared off the top down to the debris. Drag magnet super slow on those days after and you'll find stuff. Sand will overlay everything important if there hasn't been a washout in a bit. Been magnet fishing in Florida for some years now.

Loved the bit where Rob says " ooh I just found something hard" Mrs Parsons replies "oooohhh" saucy buggers! 😂 love it guys 👍

Great video Rob, magnet fishing looks awesome. You're heading for the big milestone, can't wait to see the 100K special!💯

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Good to see you enjoy the day with your beautiful family!

Great Video, Rob. It's nice to see the family out there enjoying the sunshine.

We flew in from Queensland today and went straight to the Richmond bridge, amazing spot thanks Rob for doing the video.

Hi to you and your beautiful family. 😀 Your little boy is growing fast. Isn't it wonderful to hear about all the historical places people can visit and experience for themselves. You are right about that bridge being a stunning piece of work. If only the horseshoe could talk to tell you the story behind it resting there next to the bridge all this time. I remember that you said the area was subjected to a lot of flooding in the past to, so I would think that could be another possibility for a story on how it got there. You have such a great way about you with all these historical reports that just draws people to sit and listen closely. I really appreciate all your work on historical reports as well as all the adventures you take us on, showcasing the beauty of Tasmania. I watch a couple of other magnet fishing channels, too. Bondi Treasure Hunter, and The Fisher. I love seeing all the historical objects they find.

Beautiful Rob thanks for sharing cheers mate

Horse shoes are everywhere, I’ve found like 30 digging in the garden or walking through a paddock after they’ve been ploughed. There was millions of horses in the 1800s

Glad to see you brought the supper visors along . I really like to here the history great vid

Horses still cross that bridge. They do tourist horse drawn carriage stuff in Richmond. I can remember seeing them when my (now) 27 year old daughter was a toddler

Brings back memories of my travels with then girlfriend, now wife. We were doing the tourist thing, taking photos of the bridge and watching people feed the ducks with bread. That's when I saw the tench (a pest fish species) feeding on the bread the ducks missed. I ran back to the ute to get my fishing gear and some bread then proceeded to have an amazing fishing session. I had a dozen tench piled on the bank (didn't want to return pest fish to the water) with other people wondering what the hell was going on. Got busted off by a big eel too. That thing was powerful!

So cool, love the little history lesson at the start

First, bridges are often placed where a ford was previously. So, the horseshoe could be older than the bridge. Second, in other places, you would have been snagging shopping carts and cheap bicycles. Better to have little results than large amounts of trash.

Interesting vid Rob and an amazing bridge .I've seen the Ross Bridge and the Red Bridge at Cambridge but I never got to Richmond maybe you could do them too and show the people who have never been to Tassie how beautiful they are.

caught you on fb posting...glad i seen this ..ill b looking for you videos here as well oh btw cant wait for your next gold search..stay safe beautiful family

The history is so cool my friend. Good luck with the magnetic fishing. Your baby is so beautiful they grow so fast don't miss the memories. The best of luck to you an ur family. Be safe 🙏

Great work rob👍🇦🇺

Great cross over of sorts. I love watching Bondi Treasure Hunter! I’ve often wondered how we’d go mudlarking or magnet fishing here in Tas.

Great stuff Rob. Andy

Awesome! We were there last year! And very busy then! We watch Leigh as well.

Ahh nice. This is not too far from where I am. Been to it years ago. Its refreshing to see it again. Thanks for sharing mate.

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Gorgeous bridge! I am sure you will have fun with this new treasure grabber! This was the first sighting of your baby for me, I didn’t know. The best treasure of all!

Maybe the horseshoe thrown into the water at a wedding. It's often used for weddings. Our daughter had her wedding photos taken there. And we have a painting of it on our lounge wall.

I was at Richmond back in 2022 on a road trip, thought about metal detecting around it but was time poor as I was on my way back from Hobart to Turners Beach and I average at least 3 hours when I metal detect! Anyhow great video glad you found a piece of history in your magnet fishing there! There's a drone flying into shot 9:07 - 9:22 whoever was flying that drone must of been interested in what you are doing and got some aerial footage.

Beautiful bridge, gorgeous little town. Can’t wait to back next time I’m in Tassie!

Hi Rob! What a surprise to see you unboxing and using the Bondi Magnet. It was almost a full collab between two of my favourite you-tubers. If only Wim will be there with you then you will find some old prisoners shackles for sure :P Truly great channel. Greetings from London.

hi rob, the gold pioneer of tassie, enjoy ur vids, keep it up

Love your giving Bondi magnets a go… I want to do the same but worried I won’t be strong enough to pull out the finds 👍⚒️😊

Tasmania keeps surprising me!

That’s so cool mate, always wanted to try this myself.

that was interesting Rob. BUB was watching Dad closely. Appears someone may have beaten you to it, mate. You can get an idea from the shape of the horseshoe as to its.s age. A horse at a canter could flick a loose she over that bridge. There is another one up in the midlands give that a go or any fords you heard about.

Richmond Bridge is fantastic! The convict built bridge at Ross is not as tall but way more beautiful!

Very sweet video, lovely to see the family out enjoying the gorgeous autumn weather. I can't see why the horse shoe wouldn't have come off a horse trying to cross the river - they probably used to take the wagons down to the river to soak their wheels, so it's not hard to imagine horses losing their shoes on those rocks. Yes, I have watched lots of Lee's videos, amazing what they pull out of the canals. I was only wondering the other day when I was in Devonport, what might be found along the river bank - if you're allowed to mudlark or magnet fish? Happy hunting...

Wow new direction. You need to head straight to port Arthur and try your luck there with metal detecting and magnet fishing. Love it. Everyone will absolutely watch that 👍

I love everything you do on your channel brother!! 👁️👍🔔💓

Brilliant history lesson

Horseshoe is a hindfoot shoe off the offside of a horse handforged. The bent piece of metal looked like part of the step to step up into a carriage. Major flood events probably washed things further down from the bridge too. Great video l found it so interesting Rob

Appreciate this and your other videos. I am familiar with the bridge, living not far from it on the coast. Interesting, the magnet gizmo. I’ve wondered about a device like that first some time. Good to see it now exists. I wonder if really old artefacts are lost due to deterioration in the water over time?

Cool video, Rob, and beaut seeing the family out having a good time, too. Those convict labour gangs certainly did make excellent bridges, cuttings, viaducts, etc. and their temporary camps show up fascinating archaeology if lucky enough to locate any. Would that causeway bridge be shallow enough for using waders and a waterproof metal detector? Older survey maps may show where the ford entered and exited the river, old rubbish dumps, bottles, turfed guns, jilted lover's jewellery, robberies not retrieved... the sandstone bridge probably replaced previously washed away wooden ones, as well as the earlier government roads, the local council may hold records still, surprising stuff of the Van Diemen's Land era books, regulations, police registers, turn up on that UK Antiques Roadshow, the authorities back then seemed to write everything down and then tuck it away. The authorities didn't keep it all, nor will they ever get around these days to every site, in their waders, and bag and tag every nail, bottle cap, gold sovereign, horseshoe, silver threepence, whatever it is, whether it's of historical significance is neither their interest or their inclination, they only do show projects in the bigger cities, it's left to locals to find and keep their own history, our Heritage Victoria isn't even ashamed to say the least significant will get sold off and last chance a local museum will be helped to anything relevant to them, it's not deemed interesting enough for the wider general public. Totally insulting colonial wallopers! Keep up the good fight, mate, sharing with what's right and of values we share among ourselves for living our best possible lives harmoniously, we'll not presume by default that the authorities share these, seems right to express to them very clearly our disappointment with them.

You made me nervous with every cast/throw. All i could see is the line keep going into the river. Fun stuff

One of my favourite spots ever I love Richmond so many happy memories

Cool video. I’ve been there as a tourist 😊 I enjoyed your intro with the history and everything. I wonder if being a river, most stuff gets washed downstream when there’s heavy rain. Maybe you’d have some luck near the reeds, if stuff gets caught there? Idk what I’m talking about tho, just a thought. The horseshoe was cool, it looked crusty enough to have been down there a long time. Let us know if any of the other bits and bobs turn out to be anything interesting if you clean them up.

Tasmanian tradies left for the mainland and followed the work, in Williamstown Victoria they built the Navy dry docks were i was a ship builder, those docks are National Trust protected, built the jails and many government buildings 😊

Great post. I reckon lowering the magnet over the side of a flat bottom boat and gentle retrieving could be more productive

Grew up in Tassie almost forgot how beautiful it is, family left in 2000, old farm was in Liffey falls and then moved to Underwood, both about 30 mins from Lonnie (yep I do remember the local lingo for Launceston 😂, the soldier crabs in Swansea and skiing at Ben Lomond and the scouts Jamboree were fond memories

NICE ONE Rob and you stayed dry 😁

You want some really interesting finds? Head for the Jordan River bridge connecting Bridgewater and Gagebrook. You may nave to haul up numerous shopping trolleys as well though. The Tasman bridge might also yield some interesting finds.

BONDIIIIIIIII !!!! Cool, good supporting a brother.

And after two centuries, Rob cracks the bridge with the magnet….lol

Great video! Beautiful bridge! Makes me wonder. With a waterway that Nero if you could stretch a cable from one side to the Other. Tension so you could roll the magnet from side to side on a pulley. One person on each side. Slowly working the cable further and further away from the bridge pulling the magnet from one side to the other. Probably not a great option for such a historic place but they need idea for somewhere less obtrusive

Great place to visit

There were horse & carriage rides which ran from that exact spot where you were fishing from up until probably 8-10 years ago - the horse shoes may not be super old

The waterway has probably been dredged more than once over the centuries. That would remove anything tossed over the bridge.

Great family idea!

I was waiting for you to hit the bridge and a big chunk of the stone fall off hahahahaha

Nice bit of history Rob, thanks 👍 Now as for that horse shoe, chances are it could have been thrown from a horse while running across the bridge some time ago, hypothetically speaking, and just the possibility of that happening. Always watch your snipping in the rivers, with Pauley(crazy shit that he is) Cheers Rob🍻 from British Columbia 🇨🇦👍😎 (that's right, same place as Pauley 👍)

Something a bit different bro found quite a few shoes up here over the years very cool mate cheers

Heading to Richmond Bridge for some astrophotography in June. I think you've just helped me scout some locations. :D

Tasmania. Awesome place. Been to Richmond Bridge

Love your video s mate from Philippines

Beautiful place 👌👌👌❤❤❤

Hey Rob, have a close look at the half horse shoe. It might be a bullock shoe, as they needed two to each foot. Having said that, I’m not too sure how much they were used in Australia.

Half of a shoe could be one of a pair of bullock shoes. Also, Evaporust will remove rust but not touch any iron metal. Good way to clean up the horse shoe. Thanks for taking us along.

Hi, My father worked on stage coaches in England. How do they keep the wheels stright. They took the coach and put it in the river. The timber swells and tightens the spokes. Have you got a metal detector.

Another good video, have you tightened the nut up, looks like it hasn’t pulled up all the way to the nyloc bit.

I got me a sweet mountain bike out of a canal with a magnet. 🧲 😅 Sweet sharing Rob, nice day to be out with the family 👊✌️😆🇺🇸⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️

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I wonder how many people have gone and magnet hunted that bridge since this video aired

Flying magnets ! Hmmm 👀parks👀 will want some of that 🤟 Bent piece of metal would of had a tie rod off each end supporting the steering ! looks like an early part possibly from a vintage car

Charming!!

Good thing horses aren’t magnetic or you could have been up for one heck of a fight lol. Great video though, I really enjoyed it

very cool location

Been in Hobart for over a year and still haven't been to Richmond yet...😅

I've been across that bridge on the way to visit the old penal colony. My ship docked in Hobart on the way back to the states.

I am interested in from where you sourced your magnet and its kg capacity! Thanks!

Thanks 👍

perhaps the bent pice of metal is a kick stand on a bike. The 1/2 piece of could be from an oxen?

Love the back story! Cute kid BTW

Amazing pies across the road ❤

That "half horse shoe" you found is possible from an ox. They have cloven feet.

Hi mate, It might pay to check that nyloc nut holding the eye onto the magnet is tight. I noticed there looked to be a gap under the nut and the thread not in the nylon part of the nut @3min.58sec

Rob, nice historical finds! The horseshoe seems to be too small for a horse. I'm guessing that it is more likely a mule shoe. I say that because it is much thicker (which is why it hasn't dissolved in 2 centuries) and has a greater width. Also, mules are much more of a use with pulling the massive, heavy sandstone blocks from the area it is made over to the bridge for placement. Furthermore, it would probably take about 4 horses to pull some of those huge blocks across the ground, whereas one or two mules could do it much easier because of their build and much larger hoof size. I hope that you do a little investigating at a local museum and see some old written documents or photos to confirm. I would love to hear what you find out! 🧐 In the meantime, I'm sending blessings from Alabama to you and your beautiful wife and baby ❤️

My dad use to say he remember fellows whelling of flat head in a wheelbarrow about 1927

I cannot tell a lie... I was the convict that carved those stone blocks for that bridge. It was really hard work, but I'm glad that you appreciate them. I knew that eventually, someday, someone would admire my stone working talents. Cheers! 👍🏻

You should try at the Hobart docks/Salamanca aswell!

It's probably the most exciting event that's happened in Richmond Hobart since chopper was there 😂😂😂😂

Since that river is subject to flooding, perhaps trying down river at a good bend could be more productive. Good luck.

Looks like a motorbike kick-start to me

I wonder how many times over 200 years this bridge has been rebuilt or refurbished ?, I’d love to know , either way, it is a cool old bridge !

It's incredible the difference in craftsmanship between the Richmond Bridge and Sorell Causeway. One looks like it was made by convicts and the other by artisans.

Well done guys,,,, awesome to watch n learn about the bridge...ya Goofy m8te from Australia