Access Blocked For Decades - Fire Made It Accessible Again: Part 1 of 2

[@jmarsh3347]

I'm looking at the floor, must have been a mustard mine.

[@VistaViews]

Coming from someone who has raised and tended free range cattle, in an area where there is little to no activity, they do learn to associate a vehicle with feed, salt blocks, being herded to fresh fields etc.

[@ralphpatrick3071]

Every time the cattle see a vehicle they probably think of the rancher and feeding time. Can’t wait for your follow up video. Thanks, Jason!

[@Carolb66]

You were very patient with those beautiful cows Justin! Another fab video in the bag! ❤😊🐂🐄🐃

[@Dave_9547]

I am not surprised that these mines produced silver in addition to gold and other minerals. That bluish-grey material looks similar to what was high grade silver ore in the Comstock mines. It would be very interesting to have some of it assayed to see if it has any values.

[@ericcorse]

That was interesting rock in that one.

[@HamHomestead]

Its always fun to find these old workings after a fire has been through, so many areas you can no longer even access due to the amount of downed trees and brush! Great location, almost looked like my backyard when you were trying to rustle the cows.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, there is definitely a silver lining to the fires. I'm sorry that surface structures get destroyed at the mines, but it does make it possible to get to some of these and reveals others that were hidden by brush.

[@paulcooper2897]

Awesome! Looking forward to part 2! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@davegrummett1263]

As soon as I saw the cows I knew it would be a good mine. They must be friends of the forest cows. 👍. Things look somewhat sketchy in those mines but here's hoping you find some solid ground to explore. Thanks Justin

[@glendadalejones3753]

Omg man,the sound is massively dynamic on earphones lol. Full stereo- wow 🙌🔥🔥🔥 And cow herding. Loll 😅

[@markattardo]

Fun bonus cattle wrangling. The mud bog mine had a weird vibe for some reason. Interesting relics in the area. Trying to stay positive, hope the rain cleaned off some of the mud.

[@nuggethead7614]

Wish I was with you on the adventure . Looks like fun.

[@nuggethead7614]

I’m in No. California. Name the time and place and I’ll meet you there.

[@archstanton9206]

It is always the next one, the cycle continues, LOL. Love the history. That stove as a work of art when new...still is.

[@Guille-qy9wy]

Wow man, you really risk yourself to make these mine explorations. Cool video, keep that way!

[@minemineraladdicts5742]

Perhaps not just a boot left behind, A single boot was often placed in mines & other places with the belief that it would keep away evil spirits

[@RageKage1776]

I've found many a shoe in attics of old houses through out the years here in New England

[@worldtraveler930]

I am thinking more along the line of a rather heated argument that resulted in a pickaxe going through the top of someone's foot!! 🤔

[@aaronkeeth651]

what y'all been smoking?

[@robertarnds1964]

You are totally ignorant and disrespectful , you should have stopped your car let the cattle to continue to graze, gradually push them into the brush. Grow Up!

[@rh5563]

Yes brother, can’t wait to see part two! 👍👍👍

[@idigcalifornia]

thanks for sharing, motivates me to keep exploring more!

[@CornishMineExplorer]

Great find! Love a nice untouched mine, hope the air checked out back there with all that rotted timber around. I know what that ochre mud is like after a recent explore in welly deep gunk, it was utter hell trying to pull the boots out each step, made it slow going too. Can't wait to see what lies ahead in part 2!

[@TVRExploring]

Those untouched mines are a real treasure... The ochre "mine mud" definitely diminishes one's enthusiasm for even the untouched mines though. Fortunately, the part of the mine we explore in the second part is completely different (no mud at all).

[@CornishMineExplorer]

@@TVRExploring Excellent, look forward to it, thanks again!

[@Ed_in_Md]

I found a big web page about Fuller Warren in Milwaukee. Here’s a tidbit. Large industrial plant of Fuller Warren Company (est. 1890). This was their 5 acre facility that began manufacturing stoves, ranges, furnaces, etc. in 1891.

[@adventureswithgoat719]

Man! You guys freaking ROCK! I can only wish I can do what you do one day! YEEYEE

[@TVRExploring]

Yeah, but you have a goat. So, that trumps anything that we are doing... Unfortunately, I haven't had goats in several years.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good morning from Southeast South Dakota

[@grrfy]

Livestock on the road, the same the world over !😄 Hello from the Uk.

[@michaelsollars7692]

I forgot about the cows. I figured we'd end up chasing them all the way to the gate. Definitely glad we didn't have any rancher issues 🙂 Was an awesome trip.

[@rh5563]

You guys did great. Can’t wait to see part two. 👍👍👍

[@stevebaseley]

Looking forward to part 2 thanks for sharing 👍 🇬🇧

[@TVRExploring]

You would swear that it is a completely different mine. There isn't any mud at all, for example.

[@richardbeee]

Part two? Can't wait!

[@danielhicks7593]

Thanks again my brother...... until the next video be safe and Gob Bless.

[@AdmiralJT]

Every time there's a slightly sketch wet and muddy mine I think back to that crazy one years ago that was just thick mud, lose sides, rotted and obliterated timbers laying everywhere...

[@jeffchandler3390]

Reminded me of the old TV show Rawhide. Head em up, move em out!

[@zzzzeus99]

i like the' out with the boys' perspective on this one!

[@notme6071]

Thank you for putting in the work it takes to find, get to, and explore these old mines it it fascinating to imagine all the work and ingenuity it took with the tools they had at the time. Another thank you for taking the time to document it and share it. I can’t express the gratitude I have for what your doing in a comment....

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@joshuajackson6442]

Wahoo! Exciting, thank you for this adventure.

[@glennk.7348]

Congratulations on 100k! 🎉

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you!

[@allenra530]

Just a note from an old guy on your terminology: a single jack and a double jack are 2 different sizes of sledge hammers. A single jack was small enough for a solo miner to swing at a short length of drill steel. A double jack was used by the hammer man while his partner held the drill steel, turning it a quarter turn for each blow. For obvious reasons, the guy on the hammer could not miss the steel and a drilling team hired on as a unit. They seldom trusted a replacement partner until he had shown that he had good aim with a single jack. When air or steam driven drills were brought into the mines, the drillers were not all that sorry to give up their "jacks".

[@TVRExploring]

Different terminology for different areas, I suppose... California gold miners referenced single jack or double jacking drill bits. Same concept in that it was one or two miners using a smaller hammer for the single jack or a sledgehammer for the double jack, but the reference was to the drill bits, not the hammers. The "jack" comes from the Cornish miners who all had a "cousin Jack" and the slang stuck.

[@StirlingLighthouse]

Thanks 🙏

[@frankgaletzka8477]

Hello Jason Thank you for this amazing pictures. The risk you all take is very high. This little movement of dirt in a mine without your aktiv work is very dangerous. Once it is a little movement a second later the whole sidewall collaps . The timber looks very trustfull if you were there 50 years in the past 😉😉 Thank you for All and i am looking froward for Part 2 . I wish all of you a great weekend and a happy New week Take care Yours Frank Galetzka

[@qldabandonedmines]

Looking forward to PT2 Justin. That is some of the gnarliest ground I think you have ever captured. It looked very sketchy in some places. Stay safe mate

[@volktales7005]

Amazing that you guys even managed to get into that mud mine. Lots of NOPE in there...

[@garretthuff1905]

You missed your calling as a rancher Justin. Excited for part 2 either way. That mine was gnarly, suprised you didn't dip out sooner. "Yeehaw and shit"

[@Wailwulf]

Best 5 minute intro.

[@TVRExploring]

Ha, we never know what we're going to encounter.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Wel there was a lot too find outside, very interesting, the inside was more like a no go zone wow that looked bad, hope you guys did not end up in a stampede getting home lol.

[@NicholasX.]

I can't wait to see part 2

[@johncarold]

Hi Justin, WOW, I think I might have missed this one. I think those cow think you're the farmer, and you're going to feed them. What fire was it ? I wonder what you can find after the recent Park Fire. No, not that mine, turn around. You can tell, that was bad ground even when the miners were working there with all that timber. If would love to get a bucket of that quarts. Now to look for pt2, Thanks for the video

[@brentkeller3826]

"I'm martyring myself for the viewers" Announcing the TVR Mudman plushy in all his muddy glory. Hat Bat not included.

[@TBI-Firefighter-451]

Hey everybody, the food truck is here! 17:32 everything past here is some scary looking workings, did your 02 sensors sound off at all?

[@waynebfr8953]

Wow that place would have been a bad area to spend a Winter beautiful views 👍🏼

[@gresvig2507]

Lord. Two minutes in and I'm having horrible flashbacks to an ill fated trip with a coworker in New Mexico when we decided to go down an "interesting " road and ended up on fumes in a random valley miles from nowhere, blocked by a herd of cattle. Good times. . . Also horrible.

[@RageKage1776]

A 5-minute cattle drive is not what I expected to start out with 😄

[@TVRExploring]

We never know what we're going to encounter mine exploring...

[@markcantemail8018]

Great Vistas that You see when you track down these Mines . Thank you for taking us along . By the way there was a commercial at the beginning that had a Cat with Chopsticks ?

[@TheSWolfe]

St. Justin (master view-martyr) & the Damp Adits! Waste Rock Pile-Ons (Pylons)? Whistling Cattlemen? OMG! That mud was so mucky I could hear it!

[@sampointau]

At 27:30. I think you found the "long drop" for the cabin. Not the it's I've seen placed over a steep drop! As long as they aren't collecting drinking water from the creek it flows into, it would work. LoL Normally a "Long Drop" is placed over a deep shaft or hole, but sometimes done like that, especially if combined with a wash/bath house and the used water would work to flush the nasties downhill!

[@cameronmccreary4758]

To the cattle I say, "head 'em up; move 'em out." Rollin, Rollin Rollin, keep them doggies rolling Rawhide.

[@redlight722]

The cows get fed at the same place every time, and a truck brings them their feed. More then likely they were going with your truck to that spot.

[@neurobot9844]

All the flashes at the edges of the video around 11:06 had me worried, started thinking someone had been mining something radioactive, took me a while to realise it was bugs...😅

[@teotwaki]

I've added "metally bit" to my mine explorers decoder ring. 🙂 TVR: I'm wondering if you ever make ti out to the Underground Explorers gathering in Ballarat?

[@TVRExploring]

I attended once a few years ago...

[@teotwaki]

​@@TVRExploring1 I've been going for a number of years and will be at next week's gathering after poking around some remote mines north of there

[@lotsoffish]

I cou;ld not find a photo of that old model Fuller and Warren stove anywhere

[@adventureswithgoat719]

"Would You Guys FUG of the Road!" LOL (cows one the road)....

[@brianvalley5223]

Are there any indications on what type of mine it is? Gold, silver...?

[@sheilaathay2034]

That sure looks like where I am. So.Central Utah. Where in the heck are you?

[@robertlyman9789]

Giant horizontal crack in rock across from ore shoot

[@phillipswain4942]

Looks like an old US Navy coffee cup

[@brucevanderzanden9638]

Cattle running down the road is better than having them run into your truck from the side (have a few dents in my farm truck from those kind). Trying to get them to move when you are on foot is for those that want to be 6’ under.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, I have seen those that don't have a healthy respect for their strength be humbled very quickly.

[@HollywoodGraham]

The rancher will either thank you for send ing them home OR be pissed at you for sending them the wrong way..

[@brandonpayne1207]

That boot had a nice sized hole in the top. I wonder if some dude ax-picked his own foot and they pulled it off him and it was left there.

[@rogersmith7396]

Rustlin is a hangin offense in these parts pardner.

[@maryhutt4263]

What mineral you lookin fer?

[@andrew3543]

I'm two minutes into the video and Now I'm thinking they're about to fireblast the cows to get them off the road so it can be accessible again LOL

[@martynnotman3467]

Have i stumbled into a cow wrangling video channel by accident? 😄

[@gtfkt]

It's only temporary unless it works.

[@gvii]

Well, there's one way of getting leg day in while you're out and about. Walking through that gooey stuff. I can only imagine how long you took to scrape off the 20 lbs of mud stuck to your boots, lol. Boy, that was one ugly looking mine.

[@patrickcampbell4504]

Wasn't there an utter way?

[@TVRExploring]

Ha!

[@worldtraveler930]

Oh how droll. 😏

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

most ornate ore car i ever seen at the end there

[@jube455]

Do you carry air monitors?

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, we do.

[@jube455]

@@TVRExploring thanks for the reply. Have you had them alarm in any of your explores?

[@TVRExploring]

@@jube455 Many times... With one exception, it has always been for low oxygen levels.

[@worldtraveler930]

In the video description he has a link that details all the equipment that he utilizes.

[@bitsnpieces11]

I think the cattle may have been rounded up that way before.

[@sandmanbub]

Whoop!

[@rogersmith7396]

How goes the gold mine? You rich yet? Back up to broke?

[@lakespeed9299]

Sage cows = Forest cows

[@TVRExploring]

An absolutely brilliant observation! You're 100% right. I'm deeply disappointed in myself for not having made that connection before... The reality was staring me right in the face.

[@kevanstafne5342]

As a rancher. They think they are going to another pasture

[@nobody687]

Your truck might sound like the feed truck

[@R00RAL]

The cattle own the lease guys... they were off the get the guns..

[@graydonjones6912]

Exploring abandoned cow patty's !! Lol

[@TVRExploring]

It was starting to feel like that.

[@hamsterman2008]

Reporting you for Cattle Rustling .

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

👍👍👍

[@rogerdavies6226]

it ain't half assed if it works and continues to do its job Pardon me if I seem stupid but why aren't you guys taking a gold metal detector with you

[@trevortaylor5501]

Dude never take a chance like that first mine, not worth it to show us. All the cracks in the rock. Look forward to the next one though!

[@partyrobbins4690]

3:30 Why cows are used for food and nothing else.

[@dougshaw7128]

Something big is about to happen, the cows are coming home.

[@RobertSmith-os2zj]

I wish you would have spent more time looking at the carts . On video

[@stevenhigby3512]

That mine had its better days its just a death trap now.

[@georgesmith8113]

👍👍👍👊👊

[@ilovecotw8743]

TVR exploring turned to the bad😂😂 gotta turn to cattle russling for a change lol

[@TVRExploring]

LOL, times are tough out here...

[@dontask8979]

I have a overwhelming desire for a ribeye

[@paul9156c]

Cows just aren't that smart, they see a vehicle coming, and then get in the middle of the road.

[@TalRohan]

Looks to me like there's potentially an awful lot of gold sitting in that caved in mess...you would have to be suicidal to want try and mine it though.

[@TVRExploring]

I think you're right about the gold. Someone else can have it though!

[@philliphall5198]

Time to back out of it 😢😢😢

[@jeffbybee5207]

Didn't you ask some one to circle around to the right and push the cattle off the road? If so why keep pushing them give that guy a chance to get ahead then he could push back and chear the road

[@TVRExploring]

It was a joke. There was no way that he could have driven through the thick brush on the right.

[@b17gflyingfortress71]

What State Are You Guys In?

[@sierrashere6957]

Am I watching " Broncs and Don'ks " lol ??

[@deshb22]

Bet they thought you were food delivery service

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

7:00 they enter the mouth

[@JoseLopez-oj2ni]

why theirs a hole in the mountain to go in for? why there was rails and parts scattered all over? just asking 🤷