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[Jpkindbud]

People in Charleston referred to the round bottom bottles as torpedo bottles. Also have seen them referenced as Hamilton bottles. I was told they were round as they were meant to lay on their sides to keep the corks moist...

Yup, exactly that. If cork dried out soda would go bad.

 

[trailanimal]

Found a new trail today….gonna have to pack some water next time so I can find the end….followed it for a couple miles but decided to call it quits since I had just got blood drawn and was still fasted. View attachment 1433000

inviting!

 

[JP1]

Same here!

Same here, stone rows no one has seen in 150 yrs, and foundations in the middle of a 1000 acre plot bordered by state lines, here are some finds... The ink well was directly over an original pipe 1.5 ' down. The big brown bottle is either pre prohibition or during as it has no markings or stamps... No tax #. Medicine bottle with label is from local area, late 1800s I believe. It has the Dr's name but haven't gone to historical society yet.View attachment 1432965
And a round bottom soda bottle...sans cork

Treasure hunting was definitely a cool part of the job I have found my share of metal weed pipes along the sides of roads. coolest project I worked on was locating hidden tunnels under Manhattan for construction but the rats and garbage down there required tyvek suits which was awful to work in. Also did building monitoring after 9/11 to see how much the buildings were swaying to make sure they weren't gonna fall down. Also did all the drainage work for new Yankee stadium. Definitely loved that job but don't miss laying out 1000s of feet of stakes for curblines in frozen ground or setting monuments...

 

[Frank the Dank]

inviting!

Indeed!

 

[Jpkindbud]

Treasure hunting was definitely a cool part of the job I have found my share of metal weed pipes along the sides of roads. coolest project I worked on was locating hidden tunnels under Manhattan for construction but the rats and garbage down there required tyvek suits which was awful to work in. Also did building monitoring after 9/11 to see how much the buildings were swaying to make sure they weren't gonna fall down. Also did all the drainage work for new Yankee stadium. Definitely loved that job but don't miss laying out 1000s of feet of stakes for curblines in frozen ground or setting monuments...

Yeah I’ve heard stories… not of NYC and suburbs but I work with a guy now who surveyed in Rochester. He worked a lot of layout and had to topo the ever moving landfill two times a week! We are mostly small city to rural. Boundary, layout for industrial parks, as built, updates. Just got back from a site 15-20 miles north of Paul smiths college. Today. Last year we were on the back side of honnedaga lake running 8000 +feet for a logging company. Kevin bacon and his family are in Adirondack league club that owns little honnedaga. Private and no public access with armed ex mil for security… so, mostly large woods jobs and small town PL squabbles.

 

[JP1]

Loved working jobs in the deep woods when the leaves are down. Although I did detach my kneecap with a machete cutting line through the woods when the machete deflected off a stump i didn't see The 1st crew chief I ever worked with when I started as an instrument operator went to Paul Smith. Worked security at the Olympics in lake placid... I've had to put on a radiation suit to topo dirt piles so a pharmaceutical company could figure out how much silver and mercury they were contaminating the dirt with. The good old days

 

[JP1]

Posted this in the wrong spot earlier but agseedco has a buy 1 get 1 sale today if anybody is looking for old school photo seeds

 

[Suki]

#3 made brownies lol, I just did the putting in and taking out of the oven parts.

 

[Jpkindbud]

Loved working jobs in the deep woods when the leaves are down. Although I did detach my kneecap with a machete cutting line through the woods when the machete deflected off a stump i didn't see The 1st crew chief I ever worked with when I started as an instrument operator went to Paul Smith. Worked security at the Olympics in lake placid... I've had to put on a radiation suit to topo dirt piles so a pharmaceutical company could figure out how much silver and mercury they were contaminating the dirt with. The good old days

My first year, mid winter, cutting line with mostly sharp machete and same thing… but not kneecap. Left shin. Through 3 layers of socks and pants 2 pair longjohns. Pretty deep but it was cold and hardly bled. Hurt for a minute. Cut the top off my sock and wrapped it with flagging, worked rest of the day. That night I figured I chipped my shin cus it was throbbing bad. Next morning I butterflied it and put a 3” on top. Went to work… guess you gotta be a certain kind of crazynuts to be a surveyor lol!

 

[JP1]

My first year, mid winter, cutting line with mostly sharp machete and same thing… but not kneecap. Left shin. Through 3 layers of socks and pants 2 pair longjohns. Pretty deep but it was cold and hardly bled. Hurt for a minute. Cut the top off my sock and wrapped it with flagging, worked rest of the day. That night I figured I chipped my shin cus it was throbbing bad. Next morning I butterflied it and put a 3” on top. Went to work… guess you gotta be a certain kind of crazynuts to be a surveyor lol!

One of the world's oldest professions! George Washington and all that