Mine Shaft With Beautiful View

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@leighsayers2628 3 ай бұрын

Fabulous .love those stills ...

@OGRocker1 3 ай бұрын

Ready to re-open, turn-key mine, dirt cheap, well maintained... a little trim and a slight dig ... good to go... Thanks for the share, Justin and crew...👍👊... Till the next, ... Take care, stay safe, cool and free. 🍻 Howdy from the Gold Hill mining district of southern Oregon⛏⚒⛏

@theogdirkdiggler 3 ай бұрын

Love the stills! It's nice to see this equipment free from bullet holes and vandalism, I don't think the Burros of land mismanagement closed this shaft. Miners would do this also to keep freeloaders from absconding with material not theirs. But they also do that to hide their equipment from thieves. Sometimes behind gobbing as well! Love your documentation, you sir are a true American hero! Saving and documenting our history that others wish to destroy and plunder. God bless you!

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind words and support.

@patlash8392 3 ай бұрын

I can say with fair certainty that the Stewart Warner oil pressure gauge is from the late 30’s. Must have been a working mine to that point. Nice to see the equipment so intact.

@Dave_9547 3 ай бұрын

Interesting looking at the mechanical artifacts. The much older four cylinder engine that was providing power to the compressor looks like it dates from the twenties. The Continental power unit is from quite a bit later and the metal fuel filter looks more like the sixties or thereabouts, as does the Stewart Warner oil pressure gage. However the round timbers look earlier than that, but maybe they didn't stand up to the elements very well?

@davec9244 3 ай бұрын

WOW the carburetor is still there, looks like the power plant would, could run again nice job thank you

@diamondtman 3 ай бұрын

Very cool shot of mono Lake I was there many many years ago before BLM filled it in. Also the shaft at the log cabin mine is in really sad shape. My great grandfather worked at the standard mine in Bodie at the Sinai plant and retort building smelting gold. I have several wonderful pieces of gold from that era that I share at Bodie days. Keep up the good work.

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

Yes, the Log Cabin is in very rough shape... Did I understand your comment correctly that you visited this particular mine before the BLM filled it in? If so, how large was the shaft? That's great to still have that gold from Bodie in your family.

@diamondtman 3 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploring If I remember correctly it wend down to the 600 level. The head frame still was in good shape with the rope in place. The skip car was still at the top. We did go down to the 300 but it was getting sketchy and the adit was unsafe in each direction so we made our retreat. that was around 1980 or so.Its nice to see it again. Miller was my family name and my grandfather was born there to Anny and William Miller who had the boarding house up from the school. Anny Miller cooked for 40 miners Lunch pail and dinner 6 days a week.

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

@@diamondtman The 600 level?!? Whoa, that is much bigger than I expected... That's really cool that you went in that far. I wish that I could have been with you!

@rolfsinkgraven 3 ай бұрын

You guys found some nice stuff wow.

@paulcooper9135 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful scenery .. shame it was closed .. still some nice surface artifacts. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

@ifixphns 3 ай бұрын

I recognized Mono the instant you showed it, I love that part of California. It'd be something to get access to the Bunker Hill mine at Bodie. Lots of rich history that side of the Sierra Nevada.

@theogdirkdiggler 3 ай бұрын

Mono lake was completely dry when I was camping near lone pine. It's awesome to see it rising again. Such a great land steeped in history. Especially the Lone Ranger. I drove the same trails as the film crews did as a child in the late 70's early 80's in my Dad's 55 Ford flathead panel van. Ate fingerling trout out of the lone pine creek, with pancakes and currants from the road up to to Mt. Whitney.

@PeteC-u4p 3 ай бұрын

Nice view! Wonder if a group of guys could dig and bucket enough to get it open, or perhaps not 🤔 Sure sounded like 'Mines Of The West' at the end, so I guess the earlier stills were some of his. 👍

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

No, Mines of the West wasn't on this trip. They were my pictures.

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

And, yes, a determined group of guys could almost certainly get this one open...

@krockpotbroccoli65 3 ай бұрын

Cool stuff. A skilled mechanic could get those old engines fired up in no time. Amazing how well stuff is preserved in that climate.

@dirkhartman9572 3 ай бұрын

The view is worth the hike!

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

Definitely!

@davec3459 3 ай бұрын

Amazing views! German rail?

@timothymilam732 3 ай бұрын

Here's a thought for someone mechanically minded.. Has anyone ever thought about seeing if the old compressors, and even some of the power plants like the continental engine could possibly be started and even returned to service. It's not a far stretch of the imagination if the exhaust hasn't been exposed to rain water on the engines.. The compressors have a intake for fresh air, but depending on how they're made it's possible that moisture hasn't gotten into the cylinders. Just something that came to mind when I watched your video. As always enjoyed the old equipment even if we didn't get to see the old workings below. The alphabet agencies have away of destroying many things in out country thst have historical heritage, but things similar that have little historical value they leave exposed in areas that are heavily populated. Where many young people are the only ones that know such places exist, because most all of the older people have forgotten about them, or they've passed away. Shame they can't get things correct on which is which. Thanks for the adventure take care

@Porty1119 3 ай бұрын

Yes! We have two compressors that were acquired in that manner. One is a 1953 Gardner Denver piston compressor with a CAT D13000, the other is a 60s or 70s Ingersoll-Rand screw compressor that I believe is Detroit-powered. They'd been sitting at a zinc mine in New Mexico for 40 or 50 years. Both units were put back into service in 2020 and ran for a couple years. I need to work on the pony motor on the Gardner Denver unit but we have every intention of using it to run larger drills again in the future; our electric compressor can only practically run a single jackleg.

@ExploringCabinsandMines 3 ай бұрын

It's funny how similar all those old compressors and engines are, it seems there all a variation of the same model.

@richardbrobeck2384 3 ай бұрын

Cool !

@brushitoff503 3 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@WHuske 3 ай бұрын

Thyssen is a steel-producing company in Germany- interesting that those rails habe been sold to the States!

@The_Cultural_Historian_DrRGST 3 ай бұрын

From a Google seach - " ThyssenKrupp is the result of a merger of two German steel companies, Thyssen AG founded in 1891 under the name Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser and Krupp founded in 1811. As early as the 1980s, the companies began negotiations on a merger and began closely cooperating in some business areas." The number might be a date 1838?? 😎

@EricCorse-zw6vd 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking it might be 38# but that is too light

@olivei2484 3 ай бұрын

The 38 is rail weight. Light weight, but typical for these operations. Aussies ran 42 # on narrow gauge well into the 1960s on sugar cane lines in Queensland.

@royreynolds108 3 ай бұрын

The rail was rolled by Thyssen in 1938 by the usual markings on rails. It is possible the 38 is the rail weight of 38 lbs/yd. Thyssen is or was a German steel company. I have a small book of steel rails rolled by rail weight and pattern used in the US by company rolling the rails from 8 lbs/yd through 155 lbs/yd for Tee-rail plus the crane rails of 104 through 175 lbs/yd. and 38 lbs/yd is not in it. It probably was imported from Germany before WWII. The Esso or Exxon Refinery at Baton Rouge had some steel pipe with swastikas on them when they were bought in the 1930s.

@olivei2484 3 ай бұрын

@@royreynolds108 We are laying track which is stamped 60, so it lines up.

@stevek3627 3 ай бұрын

Dig it out!!

@ziggyz2958 3 ай бұрын

Damned shame they filled in the shaft. Gorgeous surroundings, though!

@bretthumphries7911 3 ай бұрын

Nice view. Is that part of the "Sunrise" mine? Safe travels

@chuckgibson1274 2 ай бұрын

The Hoist engine still had fuel in the sight glass of the filter

@DaveExploresYT 3 ай бұрын

I like these shorter videos. TVR is the only mine channel I still watch. Everyone else seems to have switched to a format of having hour long videos that are drawn out, boring, and bloated.

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

I'm glad that you like the shorter videos... Haha, someone else was complaining about short videos. The reason that others are doing longer videos is because that is what KZbin's algorithm is rewarding right now. I have quite a lot of short videos that I've uploaded and intend to start rolling them out (I've got one posting tomorrow) while still doing some of the longer videos on Wednesdays (some sites can't be crammed into short videos).

@DaveExploresYT 3 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploring That's completely understandable, gotta follow the algorithm. I watch everything you put out. In my opinion, you are the best mine exploring channel!

@TVRExploring 3 ай бұрын

@@DaveExploresYT I really appreciate that... The algorithm can be very fickle. Last year and earlier this year, it was rewarding short videos. KZbin switches it up all of the time.

@AbandonedMaine 3 ай бұрын

Pretty serious operation if you're ordering your rail from Germany.

@goldcountryruss7035 3 ай бұрын

Mono lake, near Bodie one of my favorite areas...

@BrianValley-me6bg 3 ай бұрын

It looks like it wouldn't take much to get that powerplant running.

@robertthomas3364 3 ай бұрын

Thysenn is still around

@milwaukeeroadjim9253 3 ай бұрын

Hard to believe the miners purchased German rail in 1938. Thyssen is German and rail usually has the year of manufacture rolled on it.

@efo1358 3 ай бұрын

California Gold! It’s not just my family history in the United States of Ore! Swedish in Oakland Landed! Yeah I’m not Rich From Greedy family history! The gold is there still for your Picking! Greed ? . I like the Green as a Arborist and I pan for a trout! Got some good cousins from the woods and yeah they’re are nuggets that pop out! No Gold Rushing! 🤙❤️💪🦦

@dondavis5633 3 ай бұрын

It must suck to high heaven to take the trouble and physical effort to climb up to what should be an open mine portal, only to find that "big brother" has closed it up tight as the proverbial drum. I know the Bureau of Land Management is only concerned for everyone's safety, but when a mine is approached by a professional-grade explorer, it should be in a condition to admit those who are only seeking to map the underground history of the place. Amateur exploration strikes again...