Anyone know the era this is from

[TrashGrabber]

Fished this jackhammer out of the river

 

[nadogail]

When was the bridge crossing the river built? That will be a clue.

 

[58Yeoman]

Yes! Pre 2022.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Magnet fishing?

 

[James-W]

Judging by the amount of rust on it, I would say it was a very long time. If you chip off some of the rust you may be able to find a brand name and possibly a model number. If you can do that then you will be able to find out when that model was made. I think "nadogail" may very well be correct, it may have been lost when the bridge was built, or possibly when and/or if it was repaired.

 

[TrashGrabber]

Magnet fishing?

Yes, behind the cinder block that's behind me is a turn of the century National Cash Register. My wife and I also pulled out a victorian-era silver gallery tray with our grappling hook, along with many other items.

 

[TrashGrabber]

Judging by the amount of rust on it, I would say it was a very long time. If you chip off some of the rust you may be able to find a brand name and possibly a model number. If you can do that then you will be able to find out when that model was made. I think "nadogail" may very well be correct, it may have been lost when the bridge was built, or possibly when and/or if it was repaired.

 

[TrashGrabber]

It's so crusty it's falling apart every time I touch it. It was only by luck that I got it out without it disintegrating. Original bridge was built in 1892, the new one I'm not sure.

 

[TrashGrabber]

I can't find a photo of anything that resembles this jackhammer.

 

[driftpin]

I suspect a silver tray, if it's silver, was thrown off the bridge, to dispose of a burglary haul. Same reason a cash register was deposited there. Seems like a favorite place for disposal of stolen items. I bet if you keep searching you may turn up some firearms. One of the old crusty police dept members may be familiar with the site as a place they regularly combed for burglary/robbery items. Things like the cash register, you might contribute to solving a cold-case!

A pressure washer should reveal more detail of the jackhammer. You might try some local historical society, you might find pics of workers using that hammer to build the bridge. Cleaned-up there should be some case casting marks, or perhaps a brass plate for I.D. or a painted brass plate with model info stamped into it.

 

[jar944]

Looks more like a rock drill than a jack hammer.

 

[steve308]

I'd say the Primas shirt references an album released from the 1993-1994 time frame.

 

[bdbecker]

When I grow up I want to be
One of the harvesters of the sea
I think before my days are done
I want to be a fisherman

Welcome to GJ!

 

[Old Man Roger]

Yes, behind the cinder block that's behind me is a turn of the century National Cash Register. My wife and I also pulled out a victorian-era silver gallery tray with our grappling hook, along with many other items.

Cool! Looks like you may have yourself a honey hole.

 

[Nutria]

Maybe try electrolysis on the hammer.

 

[TrashGrabber]

Maybe try electrolysis on the hammer.

Thinking about doing that.

 

[TrashGrabber]

Cool! Looks like you may have yourself a honey hole.

We also found two more newer cash registers(empty), along with a change machine full of quarters, a Beretta 84F barrel, a western model L66 knife, a whole Nissan Z engine, sunken axe cut timber, and parts from multiple vehicles.

 

[Augus7us]

Did you stumble upon that while looking for Wynona's big brown beaver?

 

[Old Man Roger]

We also found two more newer cash registers(empty), along with a change machine full of quarters, a Beretta 84F barrel, a western model L66 knife, a whole Nissan Z engine, sunken axe cut timber, and parts from multiple vehicles.

Guaranteed the gun and the knife were involved in crimes..lol

 

[CN Spots]

Everything under that bridge was involved in a crime.

 

[like2wheel]

You may also find an aluminum baseball bat that was used to kiss someone upside the cranium there.

 

[58Yeoman]

Let us know when you find Jimmy Hoffa.

 

[RStewart]

Is the older cash register brass?

 

[TrashGrabber]

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You may also find an aluminum baseball bat that was used to kiss someone upside the cranium there.

I spend so much time in it my name might as well be Mud.

 

[TrashGrabber]

Everything under that bridge was involved in a crime.

It appears to be a criminal dumping ground for the past century at least. Went there again yesterday and found a 300+lb. safe and ANOTHER jackhammer.

 

[TrashGrabber]

The safe we found yesterday, along with a second gasoline powered jackhammer made by "Barco".

 

[TrashGrabber]

Is the older cash register brass?

Unfortunately, no.

 

[The Bean]

See if you can get the County to pay you for cleaning up the creek.

 

[Buckgnarly]

What the hell do you use for bait for that kind of stuff?!?!

 

[TrashGrabber]

What the hell do you use for bait for that kind of stuff?!?!

Kratos Orion 2400lb. magnet and a grappling hook.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I wonder if they used the jack hammer/drill to open the safes?

 

[TrashGrabber]

I wonder if they used the jack hammer/drill to open the safes?

Judging by how deteriorated the Jackhammers are I'd say they've been in there longer than THAT safe. I did find the door to another safe which is just as crusty as the jackhammers. We've only checked a 50ft. section of the river and we've found so much stuff. We've been pulling out parts from at least three different vehicles including a school bus.

 

[4x4Pete]

Wow! I guess it's true that the rivers and oceans are the world's biggest garbage dumps!

 

[driftpin]

The 'honey hole' is at the edge of the bridge. Pull-up, wrestle the heavy item to the bridge edge, push! Splash! Small, light items like handguns might be a short distance further into the body of water away from the bridge. I suspect that given the time this location has 'collected' deposits of disposed goods, it's there, layers-upon-layers of discarded metal objects. That's a very-small body of running water, in my youth, I'd probably refer to that as a 'creek.' It's shallow too, which I suspect would lead to the discovery of discarded goods, as they piled-up on-top of each other. Eventually, the last 'crime syndicate deposit' fails to become submerged, because the prior night's throwaways came to-rest just-below the surface. That's what's happened here in so. FL.

Stolen vehicles are spotted when favorite, frequently-used dumping points in the local canals accumulate so-many vehicles, that the top one doesn't sink, as it's on-top of a vertical stack of earlier abandoned/discarded vehicles. Then the local PD or FD gets a training day in submerged vehicle recovery, as the divers attach tow-truck cables to rigging so the abandoned vehicles can be removed. They have also been spotted when PD helicopters overfly the canals, looking for visible vehicles in the water.

 

[58Yeoman]

The 'honey hole' is at the edge of the bridge. Pull-up, wrestle the heavy item to the bridge edge, push! Splash! Small, light items like handguns might be a short distance further into the body of water away from the bridge. I suspect that given the time this location has 'collected' deposits of disposed goods, it's there, layers-upon-layers of discarded metal objects. That's a very-small body of running water, in my youth, I'd probably refer to that as a 'creek.' It's shallow too, which I suspect would lead to the discovery of discarded goods, as they piled-up on-top of each other. Eventually, the last 'crime syndicate deposit' fails to become submerged, because the prior night's throwaways came to-rest just-below the surface. That's what's happened here in so. FL.

Stolen vehicles are spotted when favorite, frequently-used dumping points in the local canals accumulate so-many vehicles, that the top one doesn't sink, as it's on-top of a vertical stack of earlier abandoned/discarded vehicles. Then the local PD or FD gets a training day in submerged vehicle recovery, as the divers attach tow-truck cables to rigging so the abandoned vehicles can be removed. They have also been spotted when PD helicopters overfly the canals, looking for visible vehicles in the water.

We finished watching the two seasons of "Righteous Gemstones" on HBO. Two of the characters ditched an suv into a marsh, and the top of the roof was still showing. The girl said it didn't sink. The guy said to not worry, when the tide comes in it will cover it. Seems the tide was already in, and the next day you could see most of the suv. Funny series, 'cept for all the cussing between family members.

 

[TrashGrabber]

The 'honey hole' is at the edge of the bridge. Pull-up, wrestle the heavy item to the bridge edge, push! Splash! Small, light items like handguns might be a short distance further into the body of water away from the bridge. I suspect that given the time this location has 'collected' deposits of disposed goods, it's there, layers-upon-layers of discarded metal objects. That's a very-small body of running water, in my youth, I'd probably refer to that as a 'creek.' It's shallow too, which I suspect would lead to the discovery of discarded goods, as they piled-up on-top of each other. Eventually, the last 'crime syndicate deposit' fails to become submerged, because the prior night's throwaways came to-rest just-below the surface. That's what's happened here in so. FL.

Stolen vehicles are spotted when favorite, frequently-used dumping points in the local canals accumulate so-many vehicles, that the top one doesn't sink, as it's on-top of a vertical stack of earlier abandoned/discarded vehicles. Then the local PD or FD gets a training day in submerged vehicle recovery, as the divers attach tow-truck cables to rigging so the abandoned vehicles can be removed. They have also been spotted when PD helicopters overfly the canals, looking for visible vehicles in the water.

The spot where we are is technically a "Creek" but a river feeds into it about a mile upstream so we just call it all a river. It floods quite often and gets up to 25ft. deep.

 

[Bill T]

A friend of mine was doing something similar to you, Normally, he and a buddy would dive golf courses for lost balls. They decided to do a little something different. He was diving at the base of a bridge. The lake water had very poor visibility. He was probing along and all of a sudden he was looking eye-to-eye with a horse. It scared him so much he started screaming. After the initial shock, he looked closer, it was a little kids quarter ride like used to be in front of grocery stores. Someone had stolen it, pried open the coin box, then tossed it over the side of the bridge.

 

[TrashGrabber]

A friend of mine was doing something similar to you, Normally, he and a buddy would dive golf courses for lost balls. They decided to do a little something different. He was diving at the base of a bridge. The lake water had very poor visibility. He was probing along and all of a sudden he was looking eye-to-eye with a horse. It scared him so much he started screaming. After the initial shock, he looked closer, it was a little kids quarter ride like used to be in front of grocery stores. Someone had stolen it, pried open the coin box, then tossed it over the side of the bridge.

That's fantastic. I was thinking you were going to say a dead horse. We pulled a bunch of dead deer out of the water too. Someone was dumping those as well.

 

[flan]

Just curious, is this a hobby of yours or?

 

[driftpin]

The lake water had very poor visibility. He was probing along and all of a sudden he was looking eye-to-eye with a horse. It scared him so much he started screaming.

Hah, a good story. It reminds me of an apocryphal tale from my youth.

I grew up next-to the NYS Erie Canal. Yes, "Johnny Appleseed,' planting apple trees along the path; Governor DeWitt Clinton pitching the federal government in the 1820's to undertake the nation's largest civil engineering project (derisively nicknamed 'Clinton's Ditch' by detractors); and a path to the Midwest which opened up the middle of the country to migration, settlement, displacement of native American tribes, and a new supply route for inland USA farmers to get their crops to large coastal cities. We were still paying-off Revolutionary War debt at the time construction started, and of course states nowhere-near NYS didn't want to see federal funds spent on such a 'boondoggle.'

The Erie Canal was drained in the winter, and re-flooded after it. In the spring, summer and fall, the water was a magnet for kids playing along it and in it. The water was muddy, murky, and sometimes dangerous. Word would quickly pass from one community to another when some unfortunate soul lost their life in Erie Canal waters.

There were bridges for vehicles and trains across the Erie Canal. Outside of the town where we lived, was one such bridge, a train bridge. It was a rite of passage for adolescents to clamber-across the tracks out to the middle of the span, and to take a plunge into the dirty water. I never did, because my interest in self-preservation was a strong one. As this thread attests, you never know what someone threw over the side of the bridge, into the water, and what piled on-top of what lay invisible below the water's surface. Many families had standing rules: "don't let me hear that you were diving off the bridge!"

The story goes that 'someone' local to the area, was the first kid to dive into the water off the bridge that day. He failed to surface. The other kids did what any kids of the day would do, they ran-away and told a grown-up. A search party was organized, and the kid's body was found, lodged inside the split-open carcass of a dead cow, on the bottom of the canal.

"So don't let me hear you've been diving into the canal off the railroad trestle or the roadway bridge! You could end-up like 'the kid who drowned stuck-inside the cow!'"