Exploring a Home Full of Fascinating History | Chasing History Vlog #1
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Welcome to our new vlog series, Chasing History! In this episode, we dive into Chase's world, exploring his home filled with incredible personal collections of history and artifacts. Take a behind-the-scenes look at his latest projects and get an up-close glimpse of the treasures that inspire his work. Don't miss this journey into the past!
this cannon is really cool brought our
starlink one of the best ways to to
clean Roman coins is actually to soak
them in olive oil hey everybody my name
is Chase pipes I'm the owner and
operator of the Smoky Mountain Relic
room which is the largest diversity of
history for sale anywhere in North
America as well as one of the creators
and the host of chasing history YouTube
Discovery Series where we show you how
history is found one of the things that
we're going to try to do is is we're
going to start a vlog series basically
show you guys the behind the scenes on
everything history related that we do
that we're about you know people don't
really understand just how big of
History nerds we are and we're going to
show you starting with starting with me
so we're here at on my farm um this is
my garden or at least one of the two
gardens I've always wanted to do one of
these fence construction Styles this is
called a waddle fence it's a really
early fence construction style that they
have going back to before the Romans uh
they have it in archaeological context
in England going back before the r
moment just a really simple you cut
saplings down and you just weave it in
through but this was a very primitive
and very easy and very early fence
construction in order to keep other
Critters from eating your precious food
that you're trying to grow and even here
in the 21st century we know the the uh
the need to protect our food sources
from the evil groundhogs that plague our
existence so come on down to the cabin
and and I'll show you guys around so
this is my cabin my house I built it
about 20 years ago uh one of the things
that I did that I've always wanted to do
was was to clear the land with uh with
an axe and a handsaw so for the you can
see the cabins on the edge of the woods
the woods used to actually come out to
here so every day after work I would
come out here and I cleared the land
literally with an axe and with a hand
hand cross cut saw and cut down every
tree which was such a stupid idea
because then we had to pull up the
fences and it was a lot easier when the
trees were intact but still always
wanted to do that so we did it so built
the house um all of the uh Cedar that's
on the house here I actually dug uh all
of this I built this house back in ' 07
and so this there was a huge
construction boom that was going on in
our area during that time and they were
taking so many farms and making them
into subdivisions so I wanted some cedar
and I was noticing that in all of these
subdivisions they were you know cutting
down all the trees and piling it all up
and burning it so I would load up my
tractor and Chainsaw on a trailer and
drive all these future subdivisions and
would dig all this old gross Cedar out
of these burn piles and rescued all of
it so that's what all this Cedar came
out of is all of these these piles and
then I did this Cedar railing that goes
all the way around and then I did
something really neat here is uh I had
the railing go all the way around the
house I've kind of taken it off but I
created these
cups to where if I wanted the railing
up I could just pop the railing in the
cup and then boom I have a railing and
if I wanted to take it out I just popped
the railing out and set it to the side
so that I could enjoy The View so but
I've just apt to as I'm old now and and
my my son is no longer little he's now
every bit of almost 18 I just leave the
railing out and just hope I don't fall
into my garden well come on
in
so one thing that I don't really do is
show people my home so you guys are very
very welcome this is all new to me uh I
am a collector also and I have been
since I was a really little kid had
collected shark teeth and fossils and
arrowheads and just all the things that
one would collect and so I've kind of
you know I've always had collections of
things my whole life and you know when I
built this place I wanted this to be a
reflection of you know of my basically
my heart my home collection but as over
the years the collection is kind of
evolved one of the things I'd love to do
is is I'd love to build a museum one day
but a museum of all of human not only
human history but all of Earth's history
history as well so in my you know
capacity as buying and selling artifacts
fossils minerals meteorites I have kept
the best of the best of the things that
I have come across the things that tell
the most unique stories I've kept and
this is my house is the repository of
those things in which one day it's the
nucleus of what will be I hope a really
cool Museum of the Earth's history and
I'm going to show you some of those
pieces now so come on in we'll show you
a little bit of the
house uh artifacts literally everywhere
the fireplace is the thing that a lot of
people comment on on a lot about so this
fireplace is uh all of this Limestone
came off the farm I spent a couple
months every day after work walking the
farm and digging all of this Limestone
up by hand off of the property so it all
came off of the property including this
Big Slab here that's one big solid piece
of limestone that come off the farm and
then me and and this uh old
African-American World War II and Korean
war vet built this fireplace he was a
Master Mason of over 60 years and this
was his very last project and it was
such an honor to get to build this with
him and he was so old he really couldn't
lift much so I did all the heavy lifting
he would just mix the mortar make sure
it got right he would plop the mortar
down and he'd tell I'd pick what rock we
want and he'd tell me where to put it
and so together we built this but I did
something kind of neat behind this
Hearthstone is a Mountain Dew bottle and
On That Mountain Dew bottle is a piece
of paper that has written basically the
the story of uh of us building this
fireplace you know to whomever is
reading this you know myself and you
know and I told the whole story of us
building this fireplace and at the very
end of it I wrote by the way if you're
reading this can I cuss I can
believe it okay the very end of this if
you're reading this F you you
ripped out my fireplace I hope you feel
like I'm going to haunt you forever
because the only way they're going to
read that message is if they rip out
this fireplace if in a hundred years
some smartass somebody comes in here and
wants to revamp this house they're going
to rip this fireplace out and I want
them to feel terrible so anyway that's
that's what's behind here this ash
that's hanging up here I cut it about a
or we cut it about a year before the
house was uh the house was built and it
was just too cool of a piece to cut up
into firewood so we saved it and when I
was looking for something really cool to
make a mantle out of we utilized this
ash so we cut it flush and then hollowed
it out with a gutter RS ads to take some
of the weight off and then bolted it to
the wall and then built the fireplace up
to it but around the fireplace there's a
lot of you know really neat unique uh
artifacts oh I'll show you guys
something cool if you want to not have
to start your fire every day
uh from scratch just covered up with Ash
at night so I generally Light My Fire
once a year and then I never have to
strike a match again and every night
before I go to bed I covered up with Ash
so I haven't uncovered it today so I'll
show you guys what I'm talking about so
down in here is last night's fire if I
scrape all the ash
away I'm going to have a whole bed hot
coals underneath
here and we'll use
ah and we'll use these hot coals that
will be the nucleus of
tonight's
fire
so throw some kindling on top of
it then throw some wood
and we'll walk away and we'll come back
here in about 10 minutes and we'll see
if the fire is going so it shouldn't be
that long and the fire go one of the
things I love to do is I love to cook
over the fire so I've got a lot of neat
antique cooking implements this is one
this is a really cool grate what you
would do is is you would rake your coals
out and you would take this grate you
put it just before the coals and you
would lay whatever meat that you had on
the grate and and it would cook it but
it's cocked up at an angle not
necessarily for the heat but to collect
the grease and you see down here this
little tray they would collect the fat
and the grease um from the meat or
whatever you were cooking in this tray
now why would they do that why in the
1790s 1900 or 1790s 1820s why were they
collecting grease was it because they
were obsessed with being skinny no what
they would do is is most of your candles
were made of Tallow or animal fat back
then if you were to walk into homes back
in the 18 uh in during the Revolutionary
War if you were to walk into cabins or
people's homes one thing that you would
notice is how greasy the walls in the
air felt it's because at this time most
Americans heated their home with h with
Tallow candles so they would be
collecting their grease in order to make
candles out of is that not cool so yeah
another neat little
bit of History uh these are pretty cool
little things these are pot pushers
these are 18th century so if you wanted
to get a pot closer to the fire you know
you don't want to reach it and grab it
so you just simply have these little
pushers and you would just push it
closer to the fire as you needed so and
then of course uh some few prehistoric
things that I've picked up over the over
the years this is a really cool little
pestl but what's neat about this this is
a mortar used to grind corn with but
what's neat is is on the other side it
has a little nutting Stone on it as well
this is where they would crush up acorns
or walnuts or chestnuts or whatever to
get the holes out of and then on the
reverse side they would use this to make
their meal to make their bread out of
which is kind of cool so that's kind of
a neat piece and then this is the the
pestal for it and both of these came
from here in in East Tennessee and then
this is another neat another neat piece
this is another nutting Stone but but
what's interesting about this nutting
stone is is these gashes here why are
all these lines and gashes here across
the stone well a lot of Native Americans
were using bone tools and they would
need a way to sharpen those bone tools
and so they would use a Sandstone like
this uh as a way to sharpen those bone
tools and just over time you get these
grooves so this was somebody's
somebody's Groove hey look at that we
got our fire going that is a very easy
method to uh get your fire going so just
th just like tonight what I'll do is is
I'll just take my ash that's on the side
and I'll just throw it on top of it and
walk away and what it'll do is those
coals will smolder I've even gotten them
to smolder depending on the type of wood
I was using for like four days and then
you just rake it throw a little stuff on
it you never have to light a fire again
and I only Light My Fire at most most
once a year which is kind of
cool all right the mailman just came
brought our starlink so this is
something that we're really excited
about that we're getting to do so this
is the one for the house so when we film
out here we've got really good internet
for out here but one of the things that
we do is is we travel to a lot of very
very remote locations I mean believe it
or not there's still a lot of places in
the United States that don't have
service or high-speed internet and so
what we're getting is is we've got a a
starlink it's called starlink go or
starlink backpack or what Rome starlink
Rome basically no matter where we are we
will be able to have internet so we plan
on doing a whole lot of uh live
broadcasts from in the field so we're
we're going to be in the middle of
nowhere where there is no internet
reception looking for the history that
we look for whether it's dinosaurs or
meteorites or crystals or artifacts or
whatever the heck we're looking for
we're going to have internet there and
we are going to take you with us and as
far as I know we're the only people
that's ever tried to do this and so
we're going to take you into the field
Live to show you history as it is
discovered when it is discovered so yeah
so this is the one for the
house
and I am I can't believe this is it like
that's what's nuts dude this like this
is it this is all this is all
like this this is the life-changing
technology this is how I communicate
with the world
so
huh thank oh I'm so glad you're here I
have no idea what to do with this I
don't know what to do with any of
this so I mean can that that can live
outside well I guess it
can that's it are you serious
that's all this
is
huh
okay so yeah
instructions I I don't I don't know what
to do like what do we do what what what
am I don't know this this is your area
of expertise here you you want me to
take the camera and here give me that
give me give me give me give me here all
right now it's your turn there what are
we doing what are we doing
Isaac wait
oh so we will find the best spot outside
for this to go and then we'll bring it
in and connect it to a router and uh go
from there and you'll you'll have
internet here yeah see I I don't know
how to do these things Isaac knows how
to do these
things I don't know how to do these if
we are at a horse I would be totally
comfortable with doing the horse but I
don't have a horse here so we have
Internet to play with hey everybody my
name is Chase pipes and thank you guys
so much for watching this episode of
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guys so much for watching this episode
of Chase and history now back to the
episode so that was a fun two hours so
we realized that this is not the one for
the house this is actually the go this
is the one that we're really really
really excited about because this is the
Mount that we can take with us when we
go out into the field and this is
something that we can does that come out
yes okay I don't want to break it nor my
luck I'd break it uh this is the go that
goes out into the field and so this is
the one that we'll take with us when
we're out digging dinosaurs and when
we're out showing you how dinosaurs are
found this it's so freaking crazy dude
this little device is going to be our
connection to you you when we're out in
the middle of nowhere digging a dinosaur
so that was like I said fun two hours
but now we figured out exactly which one
which one we have so we're going to put
all this stuff back and yeah we very
much know how to know how to use it and
how it works so we're going to pack this
up and uh find a place for it in the
Tunda in the truck and then we'll take
this with us on our next adventure all
right so we're going to show you guys
the rest of the house but first I want
to talk about my kitty come here bear
cat
K so this cat was feral and I trapped
her this was a wild cat she's still a
little wild a little skittish uh this is
Bearcat so she was a wild cat that I
trapped I had a mouse problem in this
house like a really really bad mouse
problem like I opened the kitchen door
and it was like one of those scenes out
of M or out of a cartoon where all the
mice just
went nobody move everybody stays Island
and it was just 50 mice and me just
standing there like what the and
then they all scattered I was like
I need a cat so my brother told me about
this wild cat that he had eating his
food up at his house so I went and set
up a live trap and trapped Bearcat here
and got her back to the house somehow
she got loose in my truck she got out of
the Trap somehow and got loose and I had
to drive back with a wild cat Loos in my
car I got back back to the house got
mittens on and sweatshirt found her
hiding underneath the driver's seat drug
her out she this cat was not freaking
happy about any of this threw her in the
house shut the door and she disappeared
for three days for three days and she
she was totally gone and I came out of
the living I came out of the my bedroom
walked in the living room and here she
was sitting in the floor and she had two
dead mice right next to her just looking
up at me like so this is what is is this
what I'm here for is this what you want
me to do murder things you brought me
here to to murder every living thing in
this house and I'm like yes good job if
you do that I will feed you and pet you
and give you a place to live but just
murder every living thing that's in this
house that tries to eat all of our stuff
and she has done a great job it took
about a year and a half before she would
let me pet her and then it would take um
and then when I would pet her she would
like freak out and like scratch and Scar
and draw blood and everything and then
now she's cuddly as can be like she gets
on my chest at night and snuggles up and
curls but what's so cool about her is is
she will follow me all over this Farm if
I go to the Garden she follows me up to
the Garden if I go out into the woods on
a hike she follows me out in the woods
on a hike she's like a dog this is a cat
that's a dog that murders mice it is
epic this is I'm going to be I love this
cat so much so this is this is my one
and only animal it's my bear Kitty so
okay let's show you guys some of the
rest of the stuff so here's some of the
things in the collection okay this is a
really cool thing here so here's some
really cool stuff right here just some
Antiquities and artifacts this came out
of the James River this is an 18th
century uh Georgian goblet that was
found by a diver in the James River it's
got gr on it for George Rex who is King
George the third so this just a really
cool 18th century tanker goblet that
came out of the George River that's got
a really neat story to tell this is a
really neat piece this is a piece of
Contraband gold that came off the atosha
Shipwreck so the Spanish had a thing
where all of the gold basically belonged
to the crown so it belonged to the king
of Spain so you couldn't have gold so
what they would do is is during the
process of minting the raw gold
occasionally guys would knock off little
small bits of gold and trade them
locally in South America and sailors on
ships would purchase these little things
of gold and they would sew them into
their clothing and that way when they
got back to Mainland Europe they had a
little bit of Contraband gold with them
so they were often little puddles like
this that would have been sewn into
clothing and well the atosha really
famous shipwreck it wrecked and killed
all but two men on board and this was
one of those pieces that was found it's
really diagnostic because it is it's
gold that shouldn't be there and just
how it's molded lad you to know that
it's Contraband piece of gold so that's
a really cool piece of gold with a
really neat story again something I
would love to put in a museum one day or
that needs to be in a museum one day
this is another really cool thing this
is a flea
killer and this flea killer I bought a
collection of stuff that came out of a
drugstore that closed in the
1940s what's really cool about this
fleek killer is that it now
contains world famous
DDT good stuff this is the good stuff so
this so DDT was a chemical that was
created in the 30s I think and was a
fertilizer on a lot of farm fields and
insecticide DDT is
incredibly powerful and potent and what
it did is it almost wiped out the entire
bald eagle population
of the United States because the birds
would get it into their systems it's not
a forever chemical but it's a pretty
potent chemical that last several Cycles
the birds would eat it and it would
weaken the shell of the birds and that's
how we almost lost the American bald
eagle was because of chemicals like this
it's now illegal uh because it's old I
think I'm okay to have it maybe not I
don't know you could tell me if I should
have this or not throw your com throw
your thoughts down in the comments I'd
be curious I'll I'll go on a limb on
that one that's kind of a kind of a neat
one so come on I'll show you guys some
other stuff this is a um Triceratops
horn that I dug about four years
ago I've got a lot of rocking chairs uh
this is a
triceratops uh so this is a horn that
came from Montana that I found out on a
buddy M's Ranch a couple years ago and
then another friend uh prepared it for
me but you can see the blood grooves in
the fossil just a really cool and a
pretty big Triceratop so this would have
been one of the two top brow horns on
the animal uh switch gears up a little
bit these are two really cool these are
really cool cannons so this is a really
neat Cannon this is known as a swivel
gun so this is a cannon that was
designed to rotate it's got the original
handle on it it's got a date on it back
here of uh
1791 I don't know if you can see the
1791 date or not but that's that it's
dated right there it's more than likely
a French art artillery piece but what's
really cool is the conversion that it's
been through so this would have had a
touch hole where you would have put a
wick and then hit it and that hit it
with fire and that's what would have
made the cannon go out but sometime in
its history somebody put a percussion
cap nipple down in it and installed a
little Hammer what a percussion cap does
is it's a little cap that when it's hit
or Struck it creates a spark and that
spark ignites the gunpowder which then
fires it up so they came up with this
Hammer to to drop onto that percussion
cap so that they could use it that way a
cannon like this would have been a
really common site on kill booat in the
18th and 19th century that would have
plied the rivers uh this one probably
would have prowed the rivers of the
American West in the 18 teens 20s 30s
40s and 50s this cannon is really cool
this is a really common Barrel or um um
banded cast cannon that was made in the
1850s what's interesting about this
piece is is it still has the original
Carriage that it was that it was uh
mounted on that is extremely rare few
original most cannons are just the Canon
part itself not the Canon Carriage
what's interesting is this is a naval
style of Canon Carriage but this cannon
never saw a Navy ship this cannon was
actually actually came out of uh near
Pierre uh North Dakota out of a
drugstore that was cleaned out of a um
out of a trading post that was cleaned
out in the 1940s this cannon was found
in a back room uh in that drugstore I've
got the whole paperwork and
documentation on it uh it's now under a
lake the town that it was in is now
under a lake but anyway these were
really popular Fort cannons what they
would do is in Western forts or Outpost
uh in the 1830s 40s and 50s would have
deterrents and that's what this cannon
piece was was a deterrent uh here's some
artwork work out of uh one some of the
early mountain men Publications that
kind of shows you in some of those
mountain men era forts the types of
cannons that they would have for
deterrence against attack against Native
Americans so that's what type of Cannon
this is it's just a really cool uh early
Mountain Man artillery piece that you
just don't see hardly at all especially
in the original Carriage it's the only
one I've seen with the original Carriage
this is a really neat piece right here
ah so this
is a
hydrosaurus processes that are taking
place here so where this Sandstone Rock
had rolled out with the limb in it and
it has slowly started to erode but you
can see how the limb perfectly comes out
and sets back down in there but isn't
that neat that's just a real really
cool a really cool fossil this is
another neat little piece this is a
child's flint lock so this is a standard
flint lock basically a miniature flint
lock this was probably made uh for a
child of a really wealthy family so this
just a it's one of the smallest little
Flint locks I've ever seen but it is it
is an ex it's it's it's literally a
miniature flint lock like it is just
such a cool little gun uh probably 1790s
1800 uh 1810 at the latest on this piece
just a neat piece ah some really cool oh
this is a cool piece back to dinosaurs
this is a triceratops vertebrae out of
the hell Creek formation Hell Creek
formation was the very last formation of
the very last dinosaurs that ever
existed existed during this time but
what's cool is the bite marks on the
vertebrae the only animal that existed
at that time that could scratch up a
vertebrae like this would have been a
T-Rex so it's a Triceratops vertebrae
that a T-Rex was chomping on and all
these scratches here are tooth marks
from a Tyrannosaurus Rex is that not
cool so you see that's what I'm talking
about I here are just really interesting
fascinating pieces of history that have
a greater story to tell that's the kind
of things that I I look forward to
collect another really cool piece is
this bottle right here this is called a
a a squat onion uh bottle and these
bottles are easily datable by the length
of the neck the taller the neck the
later the date is the shorter the neck
the older the bottle is so this is a
squat onion it dates between 1670 and
1690 so 1680 roughly uh this came from a
buddy of mine who makes a living diving
for shark teeth and he was diving for
sharks teeth in Charleston Harbor right
where the Ashley River dumps into
Charleston Harbor
and that's where he found this bottle so
this is a squat onion bottle that was
found in Charleston Harbor that dates to
the 1780s what's fascinating is is
Charleston was founded in the 1780s so
this is a Dutch onion bottle from the
time of the founding founding of
Charleston South Carolina found in
Charleston South Carolina so this is one
of the oldest European artifacts to come
out of Charleston South Carolina is this
bottle right here and it still got the
Barnacles on it which is really cool so
that's a really neat really neat piece
of History uh this is a cool Tyrannosaur
vertebrae that I dug uh last year in the
two medicine formation so this is a
Tyrannosaur not Tyrannosaurus Rex but
it's in the same family as Tyrannosaurus
Rex this is actually his grandfather
more than likely Gorgosaurus or desaur
they're two earlier kind of smaller
Tyrannosaurs but much older about 80
million years old on that and T-Rex is
about 60 um let's do this uh one of the
things that I do that I involve myself
in is I also restore artifacts and
antiques and fossils and minerals let's
go downstairs to my restoration shop and
I'll show you the setup come on all
right guys so welcome down to the shop
so this is where we got our metal
detectors you don't need one metal
detector you need 20 metal detectors so
this is where we got our metal detectors
are digging tools and pics um just a lot
of things I mess around with the this is
a corn sheller that I'm working on this
is um I just put in an apple orchard so
this is a um an apple Mill that I'm
working on that makes apple cider a
cider press so I'm going to restore that
my saddle and then the restoration shop
let's come this way so this is a lot of
the stuff that I've got in progress uh
these are all Civil War era uh rifle
rifle butts so these were the buts from
rifles these all come off of the Civil
War site near Virginia so all these have
got to be cleaned and restored this is a
really cool group these are all
artillery shell fragments that came out
of Gettysburg and they were found in the
70s they were built in a hotel uh just
uh in near downtown and as they were
building the hotel they came across all
these artillery shell fragments and we
were able to collect those uh there's
just a lot of weird stuff these are some
um these are used oh these are really
cool so the these are tools that are
used for making um false arms during the
Civil War so you needed to create a deep
socket in a false arm and so this tool
is designed to carve out that deep
socket um it's little Branding Iron
going to clean up and work on just a
really neat Browning iron I like it cuz
it's CP it's my initials so that's why I
kept that kept that Branding Iron this
is a really cool table that we've got to
put together and I've got to um I've got
to fix up uh and make these letters
stand out more so this is company H 10th
regiment uh massachus of uh 85th
Massachusetts um militia which was a
militia unit uh in Massachusetts during
the Civil War this was their table and
so we're going to put this table back
together and make a display to where
it'll mount on the wall and so all that
kind of stuff I I do here in in house so
I've got all kinds of little projects
like that that I working on here's some
Roman coins uh one of the best ways to
to clean Roman coins is actually to soak
them in olive oil for about a year so
these are coins that have been
soaking
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since um since uh since April of this
year so these are all different Roman
coins and what happens is is when it's
soaked in the olive oil that olive oil
will seep into the uh will seep into
that mud that's there and will make it
really easily uh make it a lot easier to
take off because these coins are caked
in a real thin layer of mud so I'll go
in there with a pick and we'll do a
whole video on how to clean Roman coins
because it's a lot of work to do but
this is the the first process in
cleaning Roman coins is coating it in
this uh this stuff for a while while so
I'm just letting it soak in so anyway
Roman coins ah and then this is just a
really neat little basket that needs
some work done to it so I'm going to
clean it up uh these are really cool so
these came out of Nashville Tennessee
and these are Civil War era boots that
were dug out of a dump in Nashville
where uh Titan Stadium is now was once
the uh or I don't know what the football
team is now but it was the Tennessee
Titans when they were building that
Stadium they hit the Civil War era dump
all right and they basically destroyed
this dump in order to build that stadium
so guys were going in where they had
taken the field dirt and were digging
through it and finding and saving all
kinds of awesome history and awesome
artifacts including this cach of shoes
so all of these shoes are all Civil War
era uh military shoes that were cut up
and thrown in the dump and so what we're
going to do is is we're going to restore
for these um and preserve them where
they won't degrade anymore and then put
these in frames and then put the story
with it about what they what they are so
that's a big project here's some
medieval stuff I'm working on here next
so some medieval riding gear some
stirups and a horse bit so I'll take
this through an electrolysis process
which will show you what that all is and
what that all entails so uh there's just
this this is where I come down and I do
these little projects like this this is
a really cool uh optic Stone uh triopo
which is used for um religious services
so really pretty soap stone piece but
you can see the the latches on it are
broke that's what it's supposed to be
like but a lot of them are broken or
coming off so what I'll do is is I'll
take senu or another like material and
uh redrill and reset it to where these
will stay on better where they won't
where they won't fall off and will be
protected so that uh this is a little
mask uh pig mask that I'm working on so
we'll clean this up this has got
unfortunately it's got a lot of mold on
it so we'll get the mold off of that put
some chemicals on it that will protect
it that will prevent the mold from
coming back and then get this cleaned up
and then get a set on it where it can
hang up and then be enjoyed and
appreciated here's some more pot hangers
that need to be cleaned up this is a
neat little project here uh
this is a neat little project here so
this is a uh the cover of a medieval
book so all of the pages are
unfortunately gone uh but this is
probably uh German medieval probably
1400s uh so what we're going to do is is
fit uh styrofoam is just the base right
now but we'll fit it to where it will
look like it has all the pages in it and
then we'll preserve it in a manner where
the the cover of the book can still be
appreciated and used so like this cover
is pretty broken so we're going to fix
it another project is is these are all
little terracotta pre-colombian
terracotta heads and so what we'll do is
is we'll drill these heads out and then
we'll Mount them on little mounts like
that so that they can be uh preserved
and protected so that's a lot of the
things that I do down here here's some
stuff I just got finished working on
um cleaning these up these are just some
general antique tools and stuff you know
a little pair of horse uh horse hoof
trimmers uh little Garden or little
little axe some blacksmith tongs and
then these are really neat and I'm
making a base that these will set in
these are Viking era these are traveling
blacksmith anals so these are really
small little blacksmith animals these
came out of um Eastern Europe and what
they would do is is these would go into
to a block and then you could work
whatever iron or metal that you needed
to work on this really small space cuz
when you're working an anvil like here's
my Anvil when you're working an anvil
you don't need a big giant Anvil you
just need something something small to
work on and so I everything I've needed
to do I've done on I've done on this
Anvil so that's what these were these
were just little tools and they needed
to be gone through the electrolysis
process in order to stabilize them so
that they no longer r rust so that the
chemical reaction of rust stops
basically which is the iron oxidizing uh
that's what you see all on here that's
iron oxidization so that's iron acting
with the water and with the oxygen and
it is slowly disintegrating this
tool
um over here over here is where we've
got our our kind of our start of our
prep lab over here these are all of the
dinosaur fossils that we found this past
summer
so every single fossil that's on this
table was in the
ground uh
undiscovered five months ago no human
being had seen these fossils until five
months ago and my son and I went out and
dug all of these fossils that's a great
pisos source vertebrae that Isaac's
working on prepping uh but we'll prep
all of these out and preserve them crack
fill them and then get displays on them
to where they'll be they'll be good good
for display so these are this this is
how dinosaur fossils are worked on is
processes like this here's a fossil fish
plate that I'm currently working on
so it's just a lot of time just to go
through and slowly chip everything out
to slowly expose this
fossil it'll probably take me 10 hours
you you can see the rest of the
vertebrae going through here and then
this is the head of the fish it'll
probably take me about 10 hours to fully
prep out this fish so it's just
something that we'll have to come back
and do a whole you'll just have to come
back and we'll do a whole video on uh
here's some stuff that we've that we're
it's we're making stands for now so it's
a nice
end of a duck bill dinosaur jaw so
that's the very end part of the jaw and
so it's it's ready for a stand um here's
the back end the the hinge of a duck
bill jaw so that's the back back hinge
in this part back here and it's pretty
much ready to go so we'll put it put
this on a stand so and then just some
more Triceratops vertebraes just things
like that so another really cool thing
that we do is is sometimes when we're
out hunting sites we come across all
kinds of just really freaking epic
gorgeous Pottery pieces you know some of
this stuff is from the 20s but some of
this stuff is from the Civil War so what
do you do with all of this broken dish
broken pottery so one of the things that
we're doing is is we're taking it and
we're processing these pieces and
cleaning them up where we're rounding
off the edges and we're going to drill
them and make pendants out of them and
jewelry out of them so here's some
pieces that only thing that they need
doing is is they just need to be drilled
and these are all Pottery pieces that
can now be pendants and where they can
be worn and appreciated and people
really can can enjoy using these pieces
so this is another another really neat
thing that you know we come down here
spend time we prepare these Pottery
pieces up and start to work on them show
you some more stuff so here's another
thing that we've got so these are all
this came from this past summer so these
are all antique bottles that I dug down
in Bisby Arizona so what we'll do with
all this stuff is is we'll go through
and we'll clean all this stuff up and
get it uh get it prepared to where
people can take it home and enjoy it so
these are all bottles that uh my son and
I dug over the past
summer uh that will'll go through and
we'll clean up and and price and put out
in the store so you want to know where
all the Antique Bottles come from I mean
where we dig them that's where all the
bottles come from and this just happens
to be the latest group from Arizona so
that we've got so that's it this is the
prep lab what we're going to be doing is
we're going to be doing a series of a
lot of videos down in here showing you
guys how we prepare this stuff for the
public for the museum because you know
you got to keep in mind you know there
there's no school for this there's no
books there's no how how do we get the
fossils that we get or the artifacts
that we get we go out and we find them
and we clean them and restore them
ourselves or we work with professional
Preppers that clean them and restore
them we get them presentable in a way
where they are fully protected where all
you got to do is put it on the shelf and
appreciate it so this is some of the
behind the-scenes stuff that you guys
will see us do we're going to do a lot
of these behind the scene videos to show
you everything that entails with the
Smokey Mountain Relic room because not a
lot of people know what all the Smoky
Mountain Relic room does and this is
what we're going to do we're going to
start showing you everything that the
Smokey Mountain Relic room does so
remember guys his
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