The Hole to Hell

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  • Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
  • With the overgrowth of vegetation and privet, Mr Tropics 64 and I decide to take a break from the prior months of coal searching to get back to some iron ore mine searching. Traversing the shallow workings above ground where the mining took place, we stumble across a subsidence or hole that has opened up inside one of the headers of this slope mine. Not knowing if it would lead to the inner workings of this pretty large mine, we decide to go inside to investigate and explore to see. Once inside, we navigate through some pretty sketchy areas, eventually making our way to main portions of the mine. This is a classic room and pillar mine meaning they used a system of taking out the iron ore across a horizontal plane, which would create an arrangement of rooms where the remaining pillars would support the roof. The mine open in the 1890s and was exhausted and shuttered in the 1920s, so there is no roof bolting to help prevent roof falls. You will notice through this video that there is very rock fall, and that was mainly due to sandstone and shale overlaying the ore seams, where the sandstone would provide the strength, and the shale would help the water from penetrating and weakening the roof, or top as we refer to it on occasions. This was a fun film for me, and it ranks near the top as far as being satisfied with the finished product. As always, I have my right hand man Mr Tropics with me, so go show his channel some love and subscribe to him. Thank you all for the support, and check us out on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. We look forward to bringing you another video in the next few days.
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    #caves #nature #travel

КОМЕНТАРІ • 91

  • @johnwick-ii6il
    @johnwick-ii6il 2 роки тому +9

    I Try to explain to my son that youth and health are a limited quantity for each of us. And it should be enjoyed and used as much as possible. Sitting on social media is for when you've run out of all other abilities.

  • @priscillakutzler8000
    @priscillakutzler8000 2 роки тому +4

    Cool. Thanks for explaining about the moonshiners.

  • @tyree9055
    @tyree9055 2 роки тому +1

    The sheer number of collapses in this mine absolutely deters any interest that I would have in exploring that place. I'm glad that I have you canaries to provide me with this experience, 'cause I would've turned around at the sight of the buried tracks "Nope, I don't want to end up like them..."
    🤣👍

  • @Ddgi-u73
    @Ddgi-u73 Рік тому

    Very cool, as a native Birmingham resident I'm loving this channel.

  • @Joserocha-wm9de
    @Joserocha-wm9de 2 роки тому +2

    Josh and Mr Tropics tyvm for another amazing breathtaking adventure ... Take care guys

  • @davidroberson8030
    @davidroberson8030 2 роки тому +3

    You couldn't get me in there for a million dollars just watching you come through that little hole at the beginning it looks like it's ready to cave in I don't know guys I think you're nuts.

  • @kylerayk
    @kylerayk 2 роки тому +2

    Great video! Interesting the wide gauge trackage in the mine. Would love to see more artifacts.

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому

      glad you enjoyed it Kyle. I'll show more of that in future videos for sure.

  • @davidrushnock8794
    @davidrushnock8794 2 роки тому +2

    This is awesome guys !! I love exploring mines also but unfortunately haven’t been able to find anyone else that wants to go so I’ve been living threw your awesome videos !! Keep up the great videos

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому

      Thank you so much, I did them solo for years until I came across Jeff and mr tropics.

  • @ravensilvermoon853
    @ravensilvermoon853 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent place to investigate!

  • @nattibrody
    @nattibrody 2 роки тому +3

    Love your videos!
    You have to map out the whole mine and then sell it to companies that make computer games.
    It saves them a lot of time and investment.
    good luck!.

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому +2

      imagine how cool it would be to play a game based off something you explored. I'd have home field advantage lol

    • @nattibrody
      @nattibrody 2 роки тому

      @@UndergroundBirmingham lol !

  • @Chuffin_ell
    @Chuffin_ell 2 роки тому

    I never cease to be amazed when left to contemplate the standing monuments left in time by men from long ago now gone…

  • @deborahtheredbrickchick468
    @deborahtheredbrickchick468 2 роки тому +3

    Wild 🔥 thanks for sharing ✨

  • @TheDamageinc81
    @TheDamageinc81 2 роки тому +2

    A mine that scale with no electricity. Brutal. Helluva find. Man y'all need to invest in some knee pads. Anyways I live vicariously through you so I appreciate the videos.

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому +1

      Knee pads would be a good idea for sure. Glad you enjoy them🙂

    • @jgordon5408
      @jgordon5408 2 роки тому +1

      Burlap on the shins and the smell of carbide cooking off......yay!

    • @TheDamageinc81
      @TheDamageinc81 2 роки тому

      @@jgordon5408 Man these miners didn't even have carbide lamps back then ... they were using kerosene lamp oil. But I get the gist of your comment. A hard life back then.

  • @martinscheele6905
    @martinscheele6905 2 роки тому

    Top 👍⚒️ realy good video

  • @conmanumber1
    @conmanumber1 2 роки тому

    I wonder what all the ore from this mine was used for?. Assuming it went to be used in Ford cars etc then I wonder from the years of recycling then how much of all that original metal is still around like how many generations of Ford cars that same metal was used for?.

  • @rustykey9303
    @rustykey9303 2 роки тому

    Thanks for the video.
    I would hate to try and keep up with Mr Tropics.

  • @jeffreybail353
    @jeffreybail353 2 роки тому

    looks like a colapsed structure lots of uniformity

  • @kevinfisher6136
    @kevinfisher6136 2 роки тому

    Coolest caving channel

  • @577buttfan
    @577buttfan 2 роки тому

    Horrible hobby we have lol beautiful finds buddy!!

  • @catman5546
    @catman5546 2 роки тому

    The bucket you found is a miner lunch bucket , you can tell by the top

  • @leeturner1838
    @leeturner1838 2 роки тому +1

    when you go into the mines the first thing they teach you is NEVER smoke in a mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому +1

      We don’t like rules

    • @leeturner1838
      @leeturner1838 2 роки тому

      @@UndergroundBirmingham if you were smoking and walked into to a pocket of methane, it would BLOW your fucking head off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mysniqtantsaphire8676
    @mysniqtantsaphire8676 2 роки тому +2

    Thank Yous! 🌹😍😍😍😁

  • @leesaveitch3428
    @leesaveitch3428 2 роки тому

    Another winner!!!

  • @dboydboy1000
    @dboydboy1000 2 роки тому

    So what’s the point of all that work? You pull out red ore and use it for what? It must be super useful to go through all that work to get it?

    • @fawnn1644
      @fawnn1644 2 роки тому +1

      The red ore gets refined into iron and steel which is used in everything from paper clips to skyscrapers

    • @dboydboy1000
      @dboydboy1000 2 роки тому

      Got it, thanks

  • @LVThN_von_Ach
    @LVThN_von_Ach Рік тому

    37:37 a pile of bones

  • @anthonysanders154
    @anthonysanders154 2 роки тому

    So do red rock comes from ore mines

  • @aprilburnett333
    @aprilburnett333 2 роки тому

    Im new at this and I was curious about respirators. Does anyone have a recommendation? TYIA

  • @MrTropics64
    @MrTropics64 2 роки тому +1

    New Sponsor Is Marlboro😀

  • @anthonysanders154
    @anthonysanders154 2 роки тому

    So the ore mine was on red an ruffner mountain

  • @rogeramos5810
    @rogeramos5810 2 роки тому

    I figure you have been ask this before, so forgive me I just came across your videos this morning..do you ever find any small traces of gold or silver

  • @Normannia
    @Normannia 2 роки тому +1

    🤛😀🤜🏴‍☠

  • @jasonhicks9054
    @jasonhicks9054 2 роки тому +1

    Clean up the entry way a little bit...lol

  • @_nelson
    @_nelson 2 роки тому +1

    Wow mine as red or brown ore
    First time seeing something like that.
    Is that color of iron

  • @serdarcayan7691
    @serdarcayan7691 2 роки тому +1

    👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @LVThN_von_Ach
    @LVThN_von_Ach Рік тому

    Bud Light 😂

  • @Rayz_Craze
    @Rayz_Craze 2 роки тому +1

    What's this place called?

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому +1

      just an old iron ore mine that was deep in the ground. we call it the hell hole, but it had a name of R4

  • @TIMUR-ASKET
    @TIMUR-ASKET 2 роки тому +1

    не фига себе вы что курите ?что так ходите?

  • @vierokratky2631
    @vierokratky2631 2 роки тому +1

    Awesome!

  • @ar-sithf.austin3744
    @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 роки тому

    30:00 bugs

  • @jeffreybail353
    @jeffreybail353 2 роки тому

    gypsy watch the channel called UAP, paul cook and jon levi.... you will never look back mate!!!

  • @ar-sithf.austin3744
    @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 роки тому +2

    Anyone else hear what sounded like a female voice and voices speaking over and with them?? I swear...

    • @ar-sithf.austin3744
      @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 роки тому

      Pretty sure it was the astral voice projection of someone's wife gripping about the damn laundry you messed up.

    • @ar-sithf.austin3744
      @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 роки тому +1

      33:00 and you bring up ghost hunting... I definitely heard class A EVPs far before this, (I'll try to time stamp it) because y'all must of not heard it audibly as y'all didn't acknowledge it

    • @ar-sithf.austin3744
      @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 роки тому

      After going back, re listening with earphones. I think what I heard was possibly in my currently "empty" house... Nice.

    • @ar-sithf.austin3744
      @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 роки тому

      Real nice storm here in Texas on my off day. Anyway, as a former audio engineer whose done ITC and Paranormal investigation over 27 years ... I have a pretty good ear for stuff. You def have whispers that aren't water or y'all.

    • @TheDamageinc81
      @TheDamageinc81 2 роки тому

      Men definitely died in those mines so EVPs / residuals / active hauntings are totally possible.

  • @Stevesbe
    @Stevesbe 2 роки тому +1

    They look the same as coal mines

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому

      Similar in a way, but much more headroom lol

    • @catman5546
      @catman5546 2 роки тому

      That the way underground mines are! They are about the same!!!

  • @jn2864
    @jn2864 2 роки тому

    Really he is smoking

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому

      he is, jeff

    • @jn2864
      @jn2864 2 роки тому

      @@UndergroundBirmingham well all I’m saying is that no matter what mine you go in and the ventilation is still good you could still run into methane gas

    • @UndergroundBirmingham
      @UndergroundBirmingham  2 роки тому

      @@jn2864 not in an iron ore mine

    • @jn2864
      @jn2864 2 роки тому

      @@UndergroundBirminghamprobably not but it’s still not something that I would want to risk maybe it’s just me being used to a coal mine

    • @ar-sithf.austin3744
      @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 роки тому

      @@jn2864 the men who mined this smoked, blasted, used oil lanterns... Think about it.