 Well the last morning What are we eating for breakfast today Donnie? kind of Well, we got eggs and it looks like You brought some roll sausage a roll ham, but I think it's more like spam And finish up the doughnuts finish up the pie, you know Eating odds and ends here this morning. I guess not the worst breakfast. No Head up river last year. We did this same trip this story Resulted after the trip after we got after I got home last year the water We were here about five nights and the water really Compared to this year really dropped a lot Because we always put a stake in like we did this year To keep an eye, you know every day we check it see how much the water had gone down Last year had gone down like six feet from the stake So we knew we were gonna have problems getting out because there's a lot of low rapid water in different places Going up through so we got up to about the last one and Joey because he was in the bow had to get out and Get his feet wet and a little more and Started dragging us up through and I I was in the canoe And I you know, we couldn't paddle anymore. We couldn't motor so I put my canoe on top of the loo like that And I was reaching around a frig Was something on the motor. I don't know what but when I did I hit it like that and it went in the water And of course the current was really strong there and Started floating it back of us. Well, we'd work a butt's off Getting to the point that we were at and I said Joe, just let it go the heck with it So we let it go and went home two months later After Joe had made the video I got a knock on the door And low and behold Someone that's seen the video Was kind enough to have this paddle made Which is a piece of work, I mean it is an awesome paddle he made it a lot of I found out later that a guy named drew made it and I think he lived in the old town a Bangor old town area. I think Stevie a Friend had had come up with the idea or had something to do with it I don't know what he had to do with it. He and his brother Mike had something to do with it But I just want to thank all you guys for such a gift. I said it's a wall hang I'm not gonna use that and they insisted that I use it. Well, I brought it along on the trip I didn't dip it in the water like that, but I didn't hit bottom with it. I didn't Skyrope the the paddle at all and it's going back home as a wall hanger. So That's the story beautiful ash paddle craftsmanship is Exquisite, I mean it is awesome. It's made up of like I would say three three pieces Maybe four pieces Pin or brass pins It's a work of art must have taken hours to make So thanks Joe is great job She's doused. That's the end of the line for this year. Yep Long trip out a couple hours You're full of me I like to leave it better than we find it. I Think we found it in pretty good shape. Yeah Pretty good load Donnie Feels like we're coming out with more than we came in with well believe you me. Well, yeah Look at the back end of this thing. We're hauling out pulpwood We're going the wrong way Donnie Hey We got to go That's true for a little while Well, that was a long haul took about two and a half hours So I'm glad we had that motor Otherwise, we'd still be paddling. We'd probably be paddling for about two days without the motor A lot of gear and a lot of geared on load Then we're gonna go back out and see if we can find that anchor. We gave it about five minutes looking Couldn't really find much. We're ground Good job. It might be a minute walking Good job driving. Let me pull you in Donnie He didn't hit many rocks And you found the right way back Two and a half hours I dinged something right in there. Let me get the magnet out of there But I have two or three good things. Okay, you can go forward a little About five feet forward Dingin, let me get this grass out of the way Dingin go forward just a hair folder right there. I'm on it Magnet stock I think I could see the end of it. I can't see it. I see a tooth maybe But the magnets in there good Well, I'm almost thinking we don't leave till I get it to the bank Like I could leave the magnet. I could leave this tied to it. I mean I could leave this on it Can you go forward a little bit? We're about 10 feet south of it I'm gonna have to go under to get it. It's a lot deeper this year than last year. I Thought I saw the tip of it after the magnet stuck right Yeah, see you can see the tip How deep is it that's a great question. Oh, there's the end of it for sure. I see it now Ready watch All right, we found it It is pretty deep you want to know exactly it's that deep So it's over my balls Right towards that dead. Yeah Well, we tie it to the left a little to the left of that maybe yeah We found it. It's a lot deeper this year I don't know if we can get it to shore or not. It's Water temp's about 51 52 It's not yeah, I wouldn't stay in a long time. I'm gonna go quick as I can I gotta go under to get the thing Oh, cuz there's no other way That just went past one level of comfort. I can see pretty good. It's out for the logs. Yeah Belly buttons next I don't blame you You think you'll see the rope I'm guessing you are I Think a little bit up further out. I think so My magnet rope must be pushed right down. Yeah. Oh boy. I wish I brought that hook Maybe I can lift it with my foot That's me. That's done heavy. I don't know you can do that. Yeah Here goes everything. Oh man, I don't even want to do this You don't have to I'm gonna try with my leg one more time. Okay, my foot's under it. Oh, I could lift it a foot Oh, it's close. No, it's close. No, I'm up my ribs That was so close. Let me switch legs. I gotta go under. Oh, I could lift it about that high. Oh, wow And then I run out of power I might try one more time. Oh God. That was my tip my tips under my left hit went under Donnie. That's cold Wow, it's heavy. Oh That is heavy that's one heavy piece of metal There's no way you can drag it. Yeah, I think I can I think I can I Think I can drag it. I'll just have to make sure the spikes aren't down, you know, right, right Hold me remember the water last year was a lot shallower. Oh, yeah And a lot warmer I'm gonna try drag it. Oh Yeah, oh God, that's cold that hip a part of my back. I hadn't felt yet Oh, we're gaining on it Take your time. There's a truck going across the bridge She's stopping. No, they didn't see me. They looked the other way Good thing. Oh, yeah, here we go, Donnie power All them years of milking cows and catching whoa got my legs built up Take your time. I can't I'll get hyperthermia Oh We're gaining sure Oh my god, it's heavy enough. It's holding me up. I'm just leaning What's the next plan? I'd put it right in back of my boat. I mean right with back of the motor I could get it up on shore. Yeah. Yeah Right in back of me Maybe we can let's just get it this far. Okay, take a look. We found this thing last year And it was easier to find last year Oh good it's stuck it stuck in the mud got it Get on their shoe on the bottom of that's an anchor. Yeah, boy. Isn't that something with the V Oh Might have lost my magnet. Huh when I was dragon. I could have lost my bag. Oh Yeah, they put a log through that I Think I drove a metal bar or something through it. I don't know what they yeah, I think it was wood back then. Yeah Well, I'm just thinking out loud I Could probably get this across your canoe It'd be better to put it in the middle I mean, yeah, but um If you could get it up in that little pocket right there back here, I could get it on shore. Yeah But I'm thinking what happens if we bring it to shore now Do we have any way to get it home? Until we get that trailer No, but I could stay with the boat and the anchor you're right So maybe we can get it out that'll save us from getting the yeah, and you could hook up the trail All right. Yeah, that'll save us from getting the John boat. Right. Yeah. Okay. Good thinking All right, that's why we can All right, so should I get it up on shore first and lay it on yeah up in that pocket? Yeah Oh, these guys see us. They're gonna think we are crazier than we actually are probably our goodness gracious That is a beast Don't get it on your foot. Are you wondering it's easier to drag than the left? Yeah, I could roll it but I think I'm gonna If you could drag it just a whisk or more. Yeah, I can oh, yeah Want me to flip it up on the bank? Yeah My foot my feet are getting right buried in the mud. Oh, wow Jesus Don't let it come this way No, my feet are stuck in the mud. You'll wipe us out My feet are stuck. I don't want to get hurt I'm gonna get my foot out of the mud My crocs are stuck in the mud so I take my feet out of it. I'm digging I'm under it They float All right, that one's free She's up on shore. She's on shore. What's wrong? Can you just drop it back? well if you Hold that GoPro if you want to grab that paddle I can and I could move the canoe for you Yeah, I could help you with the canoe too. Yeah, I'll give you a hand We're thinking like middle and gentle Yeah, that's the middle and gentle So Are we putting this actually in the bottom of canoe? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, I could do that Yeah, I got you. I got no control If you hold that green box, it's got to be gentle. Yeah, for sure Hold on to her Donny hold on to her Donny. Wow I could do this gentle as I could be. All right, now what? Shimmy it But do we want to go across like this way? Maybe I Yeah, I think will these hold it You're paying pretty good, huh? I mean, I won't let you flip over. All right. I'm wondering if Should we go this way with it here or will these break? Let me think a minute. No, they won't break But let me think. Okay. Is it better to put it in the bottom of the boat? This down at the bottom, I don't know. It's gonna be hard for me to set it gentle I mean, I can I can do my best one end of the time Yeah, I don't want to put it through your canoe. Oh, I don't either because you don't want to be in this water right now Believe me It's about that cold. Yeah, she's happy. I know that Is it would it be too much weight in the back if I put this over this should I put it there? It It might be better. Yeah, because I got a lot of weight with the motor and I'll sit let me step over it What are these idiots doing? Good thing. There's nobody out here. Wow We're gonna we're gonna really tip here when I think no, you're right I'll slide it out some more right Yeah, let that Wait, wait, wait, wait, I could slide it a little more, but I don't want this falling down, right? Can you bring this back to here? Yeah, why are you so shaky? Why are you so nervous? You look shaking I do I am shaking. Yeah, let me see that camera so they could see how big this thing is compared to the canoe That's riding pretty good actually like it. Yeah If it goes over it's taking us with it There's no Jouncing around when you get up front front. You want me to sit still? Absolutely All right, that's awesome. I Can slide it a little if you want. I don't think I think it's riding pretty good Let me bring you all off shore for a second just to see how weight-wise we're pretty good. Yeah, okay? Put your hand in that water for a second. I feel cold. That is Friggin cold We're in october they say something about hypothermia around 50 something degrees it's 51 out there I'm gonna jump in Every second every day Well that metal detector found that because we would have never found The magnet kind of held it for us All right, does it matter if I'm facing front or back? Either way All right, I do it gently because well we got all the weight on that. You know what I'm gonna do donny I'm gonna bring you right into shore and do it I'll get it right on shore. Let's use our heads. Oh there goes a shoe All right, so this is on dry land now. Can I step in? Since it's on dry land Oh, yeah, yeah All right, I'm in Do I have a paddle? Yeah Oh, man This could get some ugly All right, I'm gonna slide this in as gentle as I can and should I lean a little right or no I can't see the anchor if it's moving The last thing we want to do is drop it in deep water I could push this off a little more hold on Ready there's nothing to push on The paddle is going right in the mud Okay, what am I ready for? I don't know what I'm ready for but I'm ready. Oh, we are heavy That way is more I'm not gonna move Nothing weighs more than our entire load I don't like this. I don't like it a bit donny I'm not even thinking of moving Guys, I cannot believe If we lose it now it's staying Guys, I can't believe we got that anchor last year by sheer luck I saw that diamond eye and thought That's not a log And we went back and we found the anchor. I'll show you the footage to that right here But we had no way of getting it out and we meant to come back but life happens We couldn't come back So we came back this year the water's about a foot and a half two foot higher And there was so much grass and vegetation We couldn't find it last year. It didn't have that grass and vegetation go a little left donny There's rocks So we ended up finding it with the metal detector underwater. I don't think that metal detector is made for underwater But that's how we found it. We knew the general area and we scoured It's pretty shallow donny It's shallow right there We scoured and scoured and then we found it With the metal detector. I dropped my magnet on it with a rope And the rest is history. You guys see the rest Now we gotta figure out what we're gonna do with it Pretty awesome. Can't believe we can't believe we pulled it off Look at the size of that anchor donny we did it And we did it. We made it in Holy cow. Wow, that's a lot That is crazy. I didn't think you could get it in the boat Guys you could get it in the boat Guys, I can't believe we got that thing. We've had a year thinking on it It's been exactly a year to the day when we found that it's a boom a log boom anchor What they'd do is they would have acres and acres of floating logs Ready to go down river ready to cross across a lake And they would drop this anchor down and hold the entire boom back And sometimes they take that anchor and go a mile ahead of the with a boat Drop the anchor and then pull the entire boom up to it if you had to go up against current or against wind So that's how heavy this thing is if that could pull a whole bunch of logs But it's it's some serious iron. I mean these things would really dig in. Yeah You know it'd take a couple men bigger than me to lift that thing. Oh, yeah I couldn't I couldn't lift it straight up. I had to I had all I could do just to roll it I didn't have my feet on there. Maybe that doesn't matter But I mean look at this I'm pretty sure a log went through this. I think I saw a picture once of a log going through that. Yeah and uh And then you got this big old blacksmith made ring to Get some of that mud off Well, you think that'll fit in your Jeep Donny Oh, man, I would say You'll have to go back and get the trailer. Yeah, I gotta There's no way we can load it on anything we got. No, sir So that that metal detector is like One of the cheapest ones I could buy and that thing has found us more treasures. Yeah Too bad you lost the magnet, but oh, I don't care. Magnets are cheap enough. Yeah Yeah, I think when I've dragged it the magnet popped off Yeah, probably. Yeah, because I I had it stuck to the the other end We couldn't see it this year the anchor You know, we found it last year by sheer luck and then We honestly couldn't even see it this year because of the um All the grass the river is just right full of grass and the water's kind of a little bit murky Yeah, little murky a little bit higher. Yeah. Yeah last year. See this year the water is this high last year It was right. It was that high It was borderline borderline feelies This year was full on feelies That is real that's in a nice shape. I never would have guessed we could have gotten that in your canoe But we talked to some people we thought about maybe Donating it to the log museum, but they have a couple of these That are just kind of hidden away. They're not even proudly displaying them. I think we'll probably donate it to the jefferson scoop Yeah, yeah Well, we're thinking You know, it'd be nice to write up a little plaque of kind of where it came from and the little bit of the history of Of the anchor itself. Yeah, what he was used for like a bronze plaque. Yeah, like a little, you know a little plaque of some sort Because people are going to be curious. What's that all about? You know, and we're going to have a No, he's right. That's what we're going to have to do. We'll we'll do some research and find out about getting a plaque made Showing exactly where we found it what it was used for and where it was used Donnie I'd say your anchor is overkill for your boat. Well, you know, you know, the current was pretty stiff down the river You know, we had to anchor the fish because that was uh fly fishing that's part of the deal It was a bit pulling it in every time Yeah, you made me pull it in every time We've had a full year of dreaming about getting this thing Not sure if it was a reality or not and you guys at home that watched last year's episode You know, you were dreaming with us and saw the whole thing. You saw this Yeah, you did. I think I did flip it out. I think I flipped it out so everybody could see it Yeah, it might have splashed you but We've also thought about it for a year and we went to a couple different museums together one login museum and another state museum and we I honestly thought this should be in a museum, but But then we got talking about it and I mean they had I mean, I think every museum I'm not saying everyone but Something that I've been to always have one of these In it So what I think we're going to do and what we decided is We both decided we wanted to share it with the most amount of people. That's why one we're shooting YouTube But two for people to see this in person I think we're going to put it at my ice cream shop We get several thousand people a summer visitors from Maine from outside of Maine from all over the country And I think we might do a really nice display on the front lawn and Maybe put one in in concrete so it can't roll over or walk away, but I think that's how the most people are going to be able to enjoy this thing and And learn about its history. That's what I think right now If you guys think otherwise Leave it in the comments where you think this thing should be and And what else you think we should do with it, but We're definitely going to share it. It's not for sale You know, I've heard these things go for stupid money along the coast, you know for the Saltwater's big ship anchors, but We there's no amount of money that can buy this thing from me or Donnie So that's that's the plan ads of now and we both thought about it for a good year and And uh people are going to enjoy this thing You're a brute Yeah, put that yeah I mean it can't it can't go sideways That's excellent Hey, we've had a great trip found a lot of good stuff Hope to be back here next year. So tune in We'll see you next year. No, what about ice fishing season? Well, I mean this is river fishing. Yeah, you know, this is all together different Stay tuned after that Maybe Maybe some ice fishing Oh good outro Donnie that's Donnie's first outro ever leave it in the comments If you guys liked it and if you like this video anything else We love to hear from you Donnie reads all the comments too So we love to hear from you guys if you like this video and we're planning on this trip every year And we might bring a subscriber next year on this trip. So make sure to comment on the video There's no way I could have walked away from that. I know what we we've had a year I didn't see I didn't recognize the back of the vehicle. I go, that's that anchor that Joe found out And I'm like, that's Joe's vehicle. Yeah Well, you're the first to see it. Hey, that's awesome. Thanks guys You're the you guys are the first ones to see that you don't even have to wait for the episode there Good, well, we'll watch it for sure. I watch every single one of your videos. What's your first name? Jason. Jason. Have we met before? No, you look familiar. Jason. I'm Joe. What's your name bud? Luke. Luke. Nice to meet you We've been very nice to meet you guys. I was just we just came through by Chamberlain parking area there and I'm like I gotta check with somebody and see what what there is to Stay there because I'm like I watched Joe's video there. That's the next thing on my list of stuff Don't even recognize the anchor from last year's video That's Donny if you guys want to meet him Luke and Jack Did you end up restoring any of those acts? I did. Yeah, Donny's got I got uh True. Yeah, we put one on a plaque the one from Belfast And then one of them I hung on a handle a maple handle with a Octagon and then the other ones were still working on