River Drought Reveals A Horrible Secret (Mudlarking)

In today’s video we do something a little bit different. We go out exploring the dried up banks of the Mississippi river! In the process of looking for lost treasure we also clean up as much as we can to take advantage of the opportunity while the river is low!

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[izoraiza]

He saw an issue online and knew he could help. Then he went out there and helped as much as he could. That's the kind of people we need more of in this world.

[benroosa]

Just in case you didn't know those valves are usually brass and the batterys can be sold at your local scrapers for around 6-8 bucks per every 34 lbs

[susannoel]

That was educational. Not only did I learn about people looking for stuff like that but seeing a lot of history in the items you found. What's nice too is you are oth so cheerful and didn't have to swear to make a point about anything. Thank you for that.

[winfieldholbrook]

The little corner thing as you called it is a very old and valuable plow point. Lots of people will pay big for it. It’s also a piece of history.

[raytycker]

I was taught by my friends dad any time we were going to fish a river or lake to take a bag and pick up any trash and especially broken glass and old fishing line for 30 feet in both directions. That stuck with me for life.

[oldladywithcats]

I admire your passion for cleaning up the waterways. You both worked very hard today for sure!!

[Bear-Urez]

I think what you're doing is totally awesome . It's good people like you are cleaning up these coast lines that are definitely helping us save our environment . So thank you very much . And I would like to see more of this type of videos .

[firemedic]

I worked on the Mississippi River many years ago, south of Saint Louis. I could see a shackle, ratchets (used with wires to make a tow and “tie” the barges together), and what you called a cleat is a cavel/kevel. The coiled wires are “rigging” used on barges. And many Tugboats use those big batteries in stacks (32 Volt - I think) to turn over the huge diesel engines.

[matthewbourgoyne]

Yep, I myself am a born and raised Mississippi rat and I’ve never seen it this low and it’s something to worry about not just because of everyone’s faucet water that depends on it but all the goods and oil or gas that goes up and down it, if tugboats and barges can’t keep moving then prices on everything would rise

[kellydavis]

I would like to see more of you guys cleaning up the Mississippi river. It really needs your help. Great job !

[rogerlaurel]

That pointy thing at 4:31 is the balance indicator of a scale & the round disk at 9:23 is an "add weight" for a balance scale to bring the indicator arm to compensate for loads exceeding the platform range, compensate for the platform weight & bring the indication back into a readable range. It was probably on the old dock when it collapsed. Used for weighing shipping loads to calculate charges or insure cargo received matches the bill of laden.

[francesnordan]

Thank you so much!!! Our world would be so much nicer with more people like you!

[markwalker]

The Mississippi Missouri Red Rock is like the second longest river chain in the world, and the entire Mississippi basin drains well over 1.25 million square miles. Tornadoes, floods, illegal dumping, all that ends up in the river eventually so I am surprised it is not worse than it is.

[sassafraspaul]

That hook is a shackle. My husband is a tugboat engineer and his dad a tugboat Captain, they both said you found a ladder, pump, chain and a few other things that likely came from a tugboat. They actually had one of theirs sink in the Mississippi. The steering wheel likely from a boat fishing or a large pleasure craft. Their boats still have the old wooden wheels, but like most boats today it's operated with a joystick. Great job cleaning up the banks!!!

[austinbarnes]

You're actually standing in a sunken barge. That is where the loose cleat came from. You can even see some of the steel barge wall left where you found the second cleat still attached. Pretty cool stuff

[MarsellusWallace]

I know exactly where you are. You guys should travel further south to Vicksburg, MS. You’ll find some incredible civil war era stuff in that area. But where you are you’ll find lots of old cleats/kevels and all kinds of old sunken barge parts. Those steering wheels are parts of the gear used to tension cables between barges.

[fayepeder]

You probably don’t want to here this, use that heavy long metal fence thing and load it up & have your magnets and claw on it & pull it over to the ramp thing.

[Jules]

You make me want to be young again so I could do something like this again. Yes, I want to see more of this kind of video. Especially if you are cleaning the Mississippi River. Def get more people to help. I will see if my daughter wants to join the cleaning crew. Love, Light and Peace to all!

[josephlewis]

I respect the fact that this young man is willing to clean up the river bank. It is quite amusing that he is unaware of the identity of 80% of what he found.

[patchmack]

i always tend to think these places in particular need bigger efforts in tidying up, like a small landing craft with a couple of jibs, and handful of people walking the shoreline, then everything can be hauled up and scrapped properly, you would easily fill a landing craft that could carry four or more cars - anything heavy can be hauled up using the jibs or a winch - i would be slow going but worth it in the end, great clear up, made safer and weigh your scrap in