Hi new sub, I love metal detecting so this was very nice to watch 😀safe travels, Brun

The brass disc item with the small pivoting cover is a top from a gunpowder flask.

You had to ring the bell, just look what it did to the weather!

verry good video. what about the depth scale , those 5 boxes?

Geday Waz..the only computer in my 75 series is the laptop i throw out the window into a paddock when malfunctioning ! Love your content mate, I've been watching for bout 12hrs now!😁.. Ozzie as👌

I see a lot of detectorists who incorrectly wind the coil cable around the stem. You are one of the few who wind it correctly... and as a bonus, you explained why it should be wound over the top of the stem. Great job!

I love them old ghost town Warren I enjoyed part 1.Thank you and Colleen for sharing with us. Good day to y'all.

you forgot to say that when Queensland separated from NSW there was only 71/2d in the treasurer and a New South Welshman pinched that too.

those bells had either "good luck to the bullock teams" or "good luck to the horse teams" They didn't want to take sides in that argument as to which teams were the better. Hoses were faster, but bullocks would get down on their knees to pull. So you could say two-wheel drive versus 4wd.

Great finds you two! Looking forward to the next vid. 👍

Thanks Warren , i am gaining inspiration from your video, to get out to search for an old hut site soon.

100% can't wait for part 2 wow that rain came down from nowhere thanks for the history of the place keeping it Alive

8:27 Where is the landy?

Do you ever use Queensland Globe and in particular the LIDAR - Multidirectional Hillshade mode? That brings up any anomalies including old tracks and foundations 👌

Awesome spot to hunt!

Hi Warren and Colleen from sunny smokey Northern California. I loved this spot last time you camped out here, and this foray appears to be off to a strong start. That little monsoon event at the end was a surprise! Looking forward to the next parts of the show. I'm also wondering if that nice new hat you're sporting is as comfortable as your old raggy one? LOL I just got a new similar hat myself, but my old one is still ore conformed to my head and more comfortable. Cheers!

That rain event looked refreshing. Thank you.

I love your work. You certainly do your homework on old towns. I really enjoy the historic commentary. Thank you to you and Colleen.

Nice video! Thank you for your work in making it and posting it to share. I enjoy learning about the history of different places. Especially the social history, through metal detecting. Although, due to physical challenges, I do not actually do any detecting. I live vicariously through channels like yours. Howdy from Texas! 🤠

Grate video mate..

I’d love to know what’s in the bottom of the pond there. My guess is a lot of stolen stuff.

Did you get the primus burning again? Great find! Old video I realise.

When you visit next ask the local you missed heaps bushrangers cave! go behind Richmond vale railway for beautiful buildings and rail memorabilia

FYI - The building and site is heritage listed as part of Heritage Item I215 in the Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011. See www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/ViewItem?itemId=1340804

Great informative video. Keep it up mate.

What was the final weight?

I grew up in Abernathy were the pit is and it was my playground and a great dam to swim in. If anyone would like more information on the area there is a book you can buy at cessnock library called THEY CALLED IT SIBERIA written by Neville Robinson .

This is right near me and I had no idea lol might have to go see

I spent a big part of my childhood around the Aberdare South Colliery and most summers swimming in the dam. My grandfather and an Uncle worked at the pit. My grandparents and three of their children lived between the railway line and the dam. The remnants of that home is still there, albeit very overgrown now,100 + years on.

G’day ol mate. Very nice video, lovely place. I live up the valley from there, looks like a nice place for a wander. The thing with those arch windows is that they don’t need a lintel. They are load bearing, self supporting and spread the load outwards and downwards. Have a great day.

I do wonder whether this site should be heritage listed, as it tells a lot of the story of Newcastle as a port. It would be great to see this as a part of a rail trail, goof idea.

The railway tunnel was part of the final days' track at the 1992 ISDE Motorcycle event which was held around Cessnock. The tunnel got very boggy and was filled with 2 stroke smoke...

Your right, that brick work is just astonishing how rugged it has been. Many places like Maitland and Cessnock also used coal in "gasworks". The coal was heated in a retort, to drive off a flammable gas which was then cleaned, and piped out to homes for gas appliances and gas lighting. In steel making, high quality coking coal is heated in coke ovens, and the coke provides the heat source in a blast furnace, when it is fed with high pressure air.

Hello I worked on the remaining 10 class locos at the time early 1990s Telarah 2 x remaining running at the time 4th year Boilermaker

Thar's a nice piece of gold.

I could listen to those bell birds all day long. One of my favourite memories of driving from Nambucca Heads to Armidale as a kid in the 60's is the sound of the bell birds bile driving up to Dorrigo.

Absolutely amazing

An uncle and a cousin of mine worked at Aberdare, but not at No.4

Good video & great history, thank you.

would make an excellent home except all the graffiti ruin's it.

Fantastic vid!

Awesome finds.

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You like the axiom? I really like mine i mainly use the 11 dd fc coil, can hit small small pieces of gold. Best luck to you and greetings from the gold feilds of California USA

👍🏻 beauty mate

Was the deepest Shaft in the southern hemisphere in it's time

It's incredible

My great grandfather worked here after he came back from WW1, used to grade and weigh the coal coming out of the mine. My Grandad, wrote a book about this mine and the settlement around Abernethy during those days. It’s called - “they called it Siberia” by Neville Robinson. Cheers for the interesting vid.

great video thanks for sharing. subscribed

Thanks for this video. I was there about 12-18 months ago photographing the ruins, tunnels, and old trestle bridge and it looks like all the rain we've had in the last 12 months or so haven't done the track any favours. There were quite a few snakes around too.