#39 Finding and recovering Tippy!

[@Kevin-mw9yl]

So good to see old Max again. RIP mate.

[@PunkRockOilOi]

Nice job getting the cart out 👍🏻

[@gregphillips.1312]

Nice one Dude, another few years and Tippy would have been lost forever. Now everyone that visits your Museum can see it! ✌❤🙏🍻🇬🇧

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Tippy is still looking good wow.

[@jed1947]

Amazing recovery.

[@rossgraveley]

Super cool find the old mine that you guys found with all the different stuff in it 👍

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Brian-61]

Hi Frank and Sharon...nice find.Glad you saved it,it's part of history. Have a great weekend

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thanks, you too!

[@rons1566]

Great little oar cart, awesome that you saved it. I love how it swivels 360°

[@remmiemax3624]

Frank, you da man, Brother! Getting "Tippy" to your Museum😎😎👍👍💯💯. As always Rock On!!! Sharon, too!!!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Rock on!

[@Stevesbe]

That was a task Even for Frank the tank😊

[@rexmasters1541]

Your one tough miner Frank!!!

[@johnizitchiforalongtime]

Frank and his travels, love his videos.

[@scuss2]

12:13 Looks like a baby bear.....No, it's just curious Max! So, we got to see Frank 5 finger discount this ore cart! Should have 5 fingered the compressor and it would have made a good winter project to rebuild it.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It would have been a winter project to get it home!

[@wilburroth5150]

👍

[@vicferrari9380]

Hey Frank. At 12:20 I thought that was a bear at the portal looking at you. Lol!

[@relaxingnature2617]

I noticed the compressor has a white plastic oil jug -- people mustive used it in more recent times

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Maybe in the 80s

[@archerynut]

Frank! I've been visiting the Slocan Valley and area since I was in grade 6. 41 years old now. Your explorations of the mines in the area are so cool to see. We were canoeing/fishing down Slocan Lake years ago and stumbled across a mine that was directly accessible from the lake shore. Everything was left behind including cases of TNT right near the main entrance which is why we didn't enter the mine. Was just wondering if you knew anything about this particular mine?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No I have not heard of it.

[@archerynut]

@@exploringabandonedmines I spent summers in Rosebery growing up right near Wilson Creek. Explored the area hunting for trout but often stumbled across old workings in the process. Never entered but tried to make mental notes of the locations. Seems as though you have stepped back from the exploration somewhat but just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your videos!!

[@relaxingnature2617]

Awesome Tippy demonstration -- cheers from Scott from Salmo

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good evening from Southeast South Dakota

[@heithdotysadventures7824]

I forgot how much shit you had to deal with getting that cart . 👍👊🍺

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It was a fun challenge and we are still using the car in our mine these days!

[@herrmp5sd]

Tippy are in god hands now 🍻

[@jimmime]

Tippy sure has come in handy at the Yankee Boy, eh, Frank? I hope you and Sharon are doing great!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

When I got the car all those years ago I never dreamed how handy it would be in the future!

[@jimmime]

@@exploringabandonedmines I remember how she looked after you reworked her.

[@marklowe330]

I want to see you go back and save the compressor. Surely you know someone with a helicopter.

[@relaxingnature2617]

I know where there's another old compressor and and old dozer in the west kootenays -- -- and a very old large german Deutz engine - very hidden

[@petewebster2977]

Good recovery, Frank , huge effort 👍. Is the ore cart you and Sharon use in you mine ? Pete Australia 🇦🇺

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Yes it is!

[@tradermunky1998]

The reason Tippy was still there is because no one was dumb enough, I mean smart enough, to get her out till Frank came along 😂 That's a sweet cart, really had to work for that one!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It was well hidden!

[@royreynolds108]

The name of the air compressor, Jaeger, is probably pronounced Yah-gerr. At least, that is how I have heard it pronounced. TIPPY is welded so it is 1920s or later. This style was made by riveting the parts of the box and frame together. The wheel treads are very wide with respect to rail car wheels to be able to negotiate a very loose 18-inch gauge track and still stay on the track. The wheels are not mounted solidly to the axles so they can turn individually to negotiate the very sharp curves and kinks in the track of a mine. The ore box was sized to be about 1 ton of ore or stone when full. Two 7-yr-olds moved a loaded car similar to this one in a tourist mine. You are correct that these cars or carts were equivalent to a wheelbarrow.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

The mines have a grade of around 1 and a half percent so loaded cars will almost roll out of the mine by themselves.

[@rawbsworld6604]

🤔 wonder if whoever foot the bill for that cart thought to themselves ☝️ someone’s going to enjoy this cart in a hundred years yrs!!! 😂🤣 But still confused , which is it a rescue or a recovery? I’m going with rescue, a recovery would imply it was dead 😆 ✌️🤙

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thinking back I should have said I snatched it!