Abandoned Gold Rush Dredge | Klondike Mining & A Big Gold Cleanup | Destination Adventure

[@Jasontodd74]

Comment made on 7/10/2024 .... Bet I have watched over 5-6 hours of old video's again the last few days. They are still amazing as I remember. Plus I might have missed something. You impress me and entertain me every time. Plus I learn things!!! Can't thank you enough!!!! Always thought you had improved so much over the years and in ways you have but your personality and eye for what to shoot was always spectacular!!! #1 in my book!!!!

[@lauraduffy6177]

I don't understand why you don't have a million subs. Your videos are so fun and beautiful. Thanks

[@shadowknowsjo]

The big rocks in the pan 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The skit at the beginning was priceless Please never stop these vids Dustin Thank you 😊

[@KrazyMitchAdventures]

1:20 I think the only gold found, was in this opening skit, and the guy mining it aint no fool..

[@ericryckman5174]

Your comedy is Gold. I dug every second of this video. Beautiful area. Looks like your prospects in the Yukon area have panned out nicely. Highly educational as well; appreciated the nuggets of wisdom.

[@Destination_Adventure]

Dang these are sly puns. Well done sir

[@beachtimehawaiibth7222]

Pretty sweet airplane ride! Love this type of video! 👍

[@raygay3375]

My father did the mineral assaying in the Hammonton Gold Fields, in Marysville, California. I used to catch catfish on the old dredges that were left there. Anyway, thanks for sharing this adventure. Be safe!

[@jerrycomo2736]

Babbit bearing as someone said earlier. Molten lead mixed with other metals are poured in and around the shaft for a tight seal. This method predates the use of ball or roller bearings. The channels in the lead were probably oil channels. I noticed the oil reservoirs were removed because those are collectables.

[@noneofyourbusiness3553]

Babbit is a lead / tin alloy and those grooves on the inside are ways for oil.

[@greatplainsman3662]

Nobody gonna mention the construction of thee equipment...NO welding, just big ole rivets. I so dig that stuff. Nice video again...thanks man.

[@rustynail2205]

Miners Rest RV Park, thanks for helping to bring this video together. To the gold miners, if you read this thanks for letting us tag along. Greatly appreciated.

[@billcar741]

Love looking at the old equipment and machinery.

[@beverlysettle1084]

Loved this video…and I stopped breathing when I saw all of the gold!! Holy cow! Very beautiful views from the flight! Thanks Dustin!!❤️

''You want dirt, I got some dirt''!! LMAO. Amazing drone shots of those tailings.

[@71tbomb]

We look at this old machinery now & say how cool is that. But someone else years ago probably bought that brand new & thought how cool is this. I can't wait to see what this can do.

[@matthewholtz8830]

As someone who watches Gold Rush on tv, seeing these things operate is pretty cool.

[@shawnmurphy2047]

Great show…Tony Beets the Klondike king 😁

[@matthewholtz8830]

@Miles Dyson I think now a days they do that. I know they have talked about that on the show before. They call it reclamation.

[@ismewhat1234]

You're so lucky to enjoy all this in person but thank you for sharing it with us means a lot to me and I love your videos. God bless and keep safe out there. Your the man👍

[@IdahoDroneMom]

You are a man after my own heart… loves history, exploring, adventure, living the nomad RV life… thanks for showing Canada’s cool places… I’m creating my plan to explore Canada 🇨🇦 for next year!

[@punchfisttop]

Finding old rusty abandoned equipment ALWAYS rocks! GREAT JOB DUSTIN!!!!

[@bobbiesox6289]

Dustin, you are too funny! That was such beautiful country, and you are so brave and adventurous! I don’t think that I would have jumped over like that! Thanks for taking me along on your adventures! Stay safe, take care!

[@JennySpaghetti]

8-year-old me is SUPER jealous that you just took her dream vacation. 42-year-old me is just fine with having watched it from the comfort of her couch. 😆

[@louise2536]

Dawson City is amazing and if you take the top of the world highway thru Alaska to make your way south, it is littered with abandon dredges! Dredge #4 in amazing to visit! They Canadian Forces Engineers were brought in to look at all the tools to figure what they were and did as everything was custom built on site. Truly an amazing feat of Engineering! I am so happy to see you in Dawson City and the Yukon. I spent 10 summers there in my teens and early adult years and I would go back in a Flash! Thank you for sharing this video :-)

[@robertwhite268]

Good job showing this video love seeing this stuff thanks for sharing

[@LifeFullThrottle]

What an amazing experience for you! Thank you for sharing Mr. Porter! :)

[@metaxaanabeer]

Another vote to go see the paddle wheel graveyard. Explore Adventure mentions it and I second. Worth the trip all by itself if you ask me. Take the ferry across the river, park in the campground and walk the river bank away from Dawson. You will see it. Go way back into the bush. Lots there.

[@retiredoregonfarmboy2872]

These dredges in Oregon worked up until WWII. There is one in Sumpter, Oregon that has been preserved by replacing that hull with a hull shaped concrete base in the pond. It looks ready to go and is fairly complete. You can walk through the main level and imagine all the noise. Amazing how they dug out a pond in front and filled it in behind.

[@richardbruce8111]

Nice to see Yukon stuff! Here in New Zealand we had a gold rush time (my great uncle went to the Yukon as it seemed better than NZ @1908 we still have a wee nugget he brought back! NZ made gold dredges they floated in the dredge ponds & chewed their way along, the strange giant "worm casts" are how they leave the country! the two floating side by side floats had a giant bucket chain working between them. NZ built over 200 dredges but this one is more recent than 1920 I think. you get to some interesting places Take care I hope you have company these old sites can have dangerous stuff. Old abandoned dredges I checked out 40 years back were all in VERY deep ponds & the woodwork was vey rotten so watch out Thanks ...wish I was 20 again!

[@joelhill4107]

I love your method for panning! Throw out that little crap, Just go for the big nuggs!!!! Awesome Dustin!! I really needed a laugh today!! Thanks Dustin, You made my day!!

[@dawnahuggett377]

How cool is that!!! I am green with envy that you got to watch the big boys mine for nuggs!! Cheers and thank you

[@cherylsibson2529]

I'm glad you had a lot of fun these last few videos! Scream at the Yukon MOON woohoo!

[@liquidgal9867]

Thanks Dustin awesome scenery! Enjoyed your vid.

[@maorimana]

Awesome channel autumn coming should make for stunning scenery 👍

[@candymcclure2476]

As usual, Dustin, You showed me things I never would have gotten to see. Thanks a lot, Gramma Candy

[@theell9014]

As always, fascinating information and beautifully filmed.

[@unclelunars]

great video, lots of fun, thanks very much really enjoyed it!

[@Brax2700]

That whole mining montage was breathtaking! I couldn’t get over it! Awesome clip!!!!

[@kylestewart3744]

Production game is getting spot on my friend. Ive been watching from the start of the channel, I had to leave BC this year, so im living through your adventures these days! making my own list of places I havent been. So happy you got upto Rupert, my old stomping grounds. Thuggin & Nuggin! probably the best panning one liner ive heard !

[@OneMorePan]

That’s what I’m talking about. You’ve been exposed to so much honey!!! Oh baby! Great video brotha!!! 🤘😁🤘⛰⛏🇨🇦

[@lindasalway3749]

I really enjoy your videos. You are so fun to watch.... definitely my favorite KZbinr!!! As always much love from Colorado ❤️

[@westcoastislander6699]

Love the vid. More dirt please! You have so inspired us to go North! Explore our beautiful BC. Thank you so much!

[@exploreadventure3872]

Looks like Will and crew showed you a good time... Make sure to check out the Bear creek compound tour offered by Parks Canada. Theres the paddle wheel graveyard on other side of of river...theres all kinds of things to see and do if your still in the area.

[@DKTYY]

Good Evening from BC. Right at the end of your video, you went to say something while I caught something on the left of the Sun. I have seen that with my own eyes twice last year. It's aways on the left side of the Sun. Much Love from Canada

[@dodgeguyz]

Those hanging bars are to alert the operator of a jam. When they stop making noise they know there is no more rocks going by and/or stopped on the conveyor.

[@SPFDRum]

That item you found is a bushing (bearing). That metal is babbitt.

[@janicescragg2388]

Just subscribed. I am so glad I found a Western Canadian adventure/explorer channel. Well done by the way. Looking forward to more adventures.

[@matthewsorensen2147]

I enjoy your videos out of all the videos I watch you deserve 5 stars

[@suzanneberkey1114]

Added silliness is awesome too. You make me laugh.

[@susanobrien3076]

Love your humor and the nieces.

[@DGrann]

Man if i could give more than one thumbs up i would def do it. Glad to support you throught Patreon man, amazing production as always. Scaring me by climbing some old collapsing structure then little resumé followed by some rocking tunes intake outtake nice footages...LOVE IT !

[@vivianhelt8860]

What a cool experience.

[@quarlow1215]

You are a riot Dustin. Hilariously funny stuff. Thanks.

[@DannoM_]

Awesome scenery, great videography of the gold processing! As always beautiful video man! Also I didn't know you were a heavy equipment operator 😆

[@dronelandscapes8775]

Good to see you again, love your work!

[@Maybe1Someday]

Most all your videos are good, this one was golden

[@herrmp5sd]

Love your videos and exploring 👍❤😎

[@rootbox]

You are one fortunate dude, Dustin.

[@bigsluice1440]

Your introduction is "F"ing FANTASTIC!!!

[@haulinags]

Well done, as usual !

[@davecottrell3044]

4:01 babbit bearing

[@punchfisttop]

PS you never cease to amaze us!!!!

[@Itiswhatitis55]

Honest to goodness man, you know how to make me laugh!!

[@n-xplorer]

Uncle 'D', dude, ya really needs to take an exploration of this here Valley of the Ghosts in BC. I'm living here amongst these here mining ghosts and can testify to the fact that there's lots of treasures to be found here. Yeppers, indeed.

[@marianfrances4959]

Yukon, in general, is so cool. Great vid! 👍😎🇨🇦⛏

[@tylerselzler4861]

@ 4:50 those bars on the conveyor are to allow big rocks to go through one way but prevent them from rolling back down the conveyor. They would stop large rocks from tumbling down and hitting the operators.

[@casedoumasr656]

Love you new adventure panning ??? I see you found lots of leaver right right there 🤔🤗

[@TheMyeloman]

Your mystery metal is called babbitt metal, and it’s comprised of any of several alloys used as a bearing surface, the exact mixture of metals (alloy) used depends on the application.

[@cdd4248]

Your pups face cracks me up- so cute and hysterical!

[@TheMyeloman]

@@cdd4248 his name was Magnus, but we called him Woobie, and he was quite a corker. I could tell you stories you would scarcely believe… he and I were destined to be together, and I miss him so terribly much.

[@bartobuilt2601]

That opening was great!

[@knutarneaakra6013]

Must be a quite of a time in the old days.glad to se this thing still exist. My Norwegian Grandpa got his pay working on these floats. All i got now is his loose goldteats. All the best from Norway

[@parapelegicBUD]

In Watson now following yur footsteps because that's all you left :*) Cheers 🍻

[@rael6_4wd]

Your intro was “Gold!” 😂

[@workhardlivefree3818]

@3:48... that is the cap off a babbit bearing journal. The material that you were scratching is comprised on lead, antimony, lead and tin. Those grooves allow grease to be dispersed evenly across the bearing and shaft. Great discovery!

[@angesvlogs6628]

Omgoodness 😂 the beginning 🤣 hilarious 😂❤️

[@samcampbell850]

Great video! Love your humour! 😂😂

[@austinhughes8554]

Great video Dustin!

[@dodgeguyz]

You oughta see if you can locate a couple of the GoldRush guys do a quick 5min video with them. But it’s nice to see some other guys get some air time looking for gold. Love the aerial shots!

[@katharinaweiand4080]

Just an FYI, Fellhawk was approached by RAW tv (same company that films GoldRush) and declined being put on the show. Not everyone appreciates cameras & crews around when they are trying to make a living. Never mind the exposure on camera, perfect for mining inspectors to pick apart their operation 😂

[@ginrobi01]

Want some dirt? I got dirt. 😄 Love it!

[@jasonbarron6164]

Damn awesome exploration very cool i subscibed good luck happy explorations

[@dconn74]

Cool. Just watched your new video and clicked the link to get here. Thx

[@raymondhoule6108]

The thing you saw with the "lead" in it was a bearing. The "lead" was zink and the x shaped grooves were for grease.

[@keithwight856]

I stopped at the exact same place I love the Yukon

[@sherismith5242]

hehe love your videos

[@timpage8996]

Quite the adventure!!!

[@nandalee2520]

LOVED THE INTRO!!!

[@ant-1382]

Can you imagine the gargantuan effort it must have been to get this equipment into the field. In what would have been a remote destination. No highway, no heavy haul trucks. Huge expense, and no guaranty of gold!

[@joshdenton611]

awesome video man! i love this stuff.

[@spongebobsqueeze]

What a GREAT video!

[@PontiacDad]

Solid Dustin, great video.

[@SWEET-2381]

You are a TRIP dude haha love ya!

[@laupreggy397]

The mining operation kind of defeats the whole “take pictures and leave only footprints" mantra.

[@stevejames5203]

Awesome! Loved this one.

[@CPL844]

Somewhere Tony beets felt a disturbance in the force hahahahahahaha

[@elronfreelock8890]

That was a great video had me laughing right from the start. Great work Cheers

[@WetCoaster]

When you were talking about the grizzly on the tailing belt, I am thinking that it would have helped to stop large boulders from rolling back down once past them. Think Boulder check valve.

[@sickboymech92]

Has lead in it, it's called babbitt. It's a bearing material from yesteryear, quite popular in remote areas because a good fire and you could pour a new babbitt bearing.

[@suzanneberkey1114]

I would like to see you do a Tarzan move. Swing from the trees to get across. LOL

[@bobmanzi7712]

Great stuff thanks

[@perryramberg9131]

Good video .that fool's gold kinda suits ya.

[@shawnmurphy2047]

Tony Beets flew over you lol 😂 checking up on you

[@shdwwzrd69]

Those bars on the tailings conveyor are to help prevent rocks from rolling back down the conveyor

[@hoosierfatha]

Not lead but Babbitt... Its a lead alloy and used as a bearing. Good Eye those are oil passages. Babbitt, still in use today Several grades of it too., in fact i just poured and scraped in 2 out-board pillow block Babbitt bearings last month, for one of our old Split case Pumps. Fun stuff.... Would love to Have that steam powered Tugger...Nice Video...

[@cavercass]

That was a Babbitt bearing. Made if Tin, copper and antimony.

[@lotharschiese8559]

3:50 It's a Babbitt bearing, 3:45 the attachment sticking out of the top side is a greaser missing the cap. You overfill the bowl, screw the cap down, compressing the grease, forcing it into the bearing. You keep filling the bowel until it gets difficult to screw the cap down. Every so often while things were running, you give the cap a twist until you get resistance, forcing the grease into the bearing. Ingenious, Eh, or what?