Nobody crawled up the shoots. Upper levels feed into the shoots and the shaft you were in pulls it out in the carts. There should be other portals around there.
See that’s what I was looking for on the edge of the ridge (by the old carts) but couldn’t tell for-sure. Definitely should be.. I’m almost wondering if I was above a whole separate working? Thanks for coming along!👍👍
This place is a main haulage . All the ore or waste was dropped down the chutes from the upper workings. The wire and stake driven in the back, probably held vent tube or possibly air and water lines.
Boy that "truck" looks familiar. I almost think this was a 1952 or 53 Chevy car, maybe the rear end chopped off, converted into what you see. Everything inside except the chrome on the steering wheel was identical to one I had, which was a 4-door sedan. I think Deluxe models had more chrome trim on the exterior. The one I had was my first car in high school. My dad and I bought it from the original owner - an old farmer dude - who used it as a chicken coop, lol! The guy was in his 90s and it was around 1990, and the tags on the plates hadn't been renewed since like 1976. Sold it a few years after graduating to another father-son duo. Kinda wonder if it's still choochin' around somewhere.
@@b.thompson9176 haha love to hear this,awesome. I grew up fixing the old ones with my old man (not this old)!… Thanks for sharing that, exactly how I pictured it when I saw it..Glad to bring back the memory for you.. To cool.. I was thinking it was chopped as well this afternoon actually looking at a photo. I think it was also. Then outfitted with some sort of combustion engine and winch set up. It was definitely tinkered with for the mine.. Good stuff👍👍👋
@MountainWestProductions Funny thing is I had the video on pause when I commented, and just finished a moment ago..didn't see the paint job until then and crazy thing it's the same color as my old '52, metallic emerald green. This one's faded but I bet it was a brilliant dark green back in the day. Learned stick shift the easiest way off that car with column shifter, and you'll notice a button to the left of the steering column (opposite the bent choke knob)...that was the starter button! The three levers on the dash grouped together were for adjusting the heater/fan speed. That car was a blast to work on and built like a tank.
That’s awesome..man I really like that truck it’s bad to the bone! Probably one of my favorites in a long time.. Grinning hearing about it. You probably wouldn’t have any paperwork or something sitting around idk old relic maybe someday you could come across and match engine numbers.. Would be pretty epic to confirm… I’d s nd you a cool still photo of it👍👍
@MountainWestProductions Man I wish I still had *any* paperwork but was all transferred over to the new owners around 1994. I swear the original title was around a 3"x4" piece of paper, green and white background. The keys had a miniature license plate identical to the plates on the car and I think was issued to military vets back in the day. If someone found the keys with the miniature license plate, they'd toss them in a mailbox and would find their way back to the owner. I've wished I had my old title but even a VIN search wouldn't work as I think that method only goes back 40, maybe 50 years. Last place my brother saw it was a few years after selling it in Eugene Oregon
@b.thompson9176 That’s incredible, pretty cool to think of these old classics. I think it’s fascinating that period of time when owners didn’t know vehicles would be better than bank interest sitting in a barn for twenty years.. Built right, could do just about everything maintenance and roadside repair wise with pliers, a flathead and crescent.. Never heard of the key deal either🤔
thats exactly what I thought to it looks like they grafted a model t to the back of the cab to make it into a truck but my biggest question is how they got it to that spot
@@pittroadsixzeroseven We wouldn’t be able to find the good stuff! Not the best place to detect, I keep forgetting to get mine out. I’ll do an episode around an old homestead soon. These claims or similar sites to this that have a lot of machinery are pretty rough you get all sorts of different metals shards and pings. I bet there’s some good stuff though too! 👋👍👍
Not some much snakes rattlers have a certain range and have ran into them but not in a mine yet. I am expecting to come across a rattlesnake den at some point however. Surprised I haven’t yet as-well. Bear wise I have been on the trail with them a lot but have not ever had a problem. I mostly just hear them a grunt here and there or see signs. The last den I found was a black bear I’m pretty certain in an old mill right between some concrete footings, a whole bunch of brush and mud marks all over the windows with some camp trash chewed up nearby. Flew the drone and heard him crash out into the forest didn’t see um though. I don’t get to nervous about black bears I’ll stand up to one they remind me of giant raccoons really. It’s the grizzlies I don’t want to jump into in no man’s land. that’s not a fight you can really win unless you have a good line of sight. Thankfully I haven’t really had a problem! 👍👍👋 Thanks for joining us, happy to have you along!
No, there is/was a tunnel a layer up and they dropped the ore down the chute. So they dug down, not up. Why do you call it a drift when the other channels I watch call it a stope?
Good point, honestly there’s two stopes in this mine here and three drifts. That’s correct a stope is a vertical shaft a drift is an offshoot from the adit. I just get going through places and get to rambling while looking out for different things around me. I will work on clarity a bit more as well, appreciate that. That’s fair should be more detailed just a lot going on moving through these areas. However I don’t think there was a separate adit/portal from the entry. I almost think the old truck we found was the head frame/winch for the multiple stopes you pointed out. All in all I believe someone mined those stopes straight down moved ore on the cart and cut in a separate adit we couldn’t find and used the old truck to winch a shaft. Thanks for joining and sharing you interest, happy to have you along!👍👍👋
Another fine video the truck was surely modified for the mining operation used as a hoist, maybe to lift some heavy equipment. I don't think it was used to lift ore out probably not heavy enough to do that. there is probably another adit above there somewhere....Someone might want to make a video will this 70 year old car run and drive again😆😆😆😆 I think the other comments about the year of the car/truck was about right on the year. Waiting for your next one, going to get cold with the weather starting to change soon.
@08:07 they are ore shutes to drop material down from the level above you are on the main haul line.
Nobody crawled up the shoots. Upper levels feed into the shoots and the shaft you were in pulls it out in the carts. There should be other portals around there.
See that’s what I was looking for on the edge of the ridge (by the old carts) but couldn’t tell for-sure. Definitely should be.. I’m almost wondering if I was above a whole separate working?
Thanks for coming along!👍👍
This place is a main haulage . All the ore or waste was dropped down the chutes from the upper workings. The wire and stake driven in the back, probably held vent tube or possibly air and water lines.
@@donmarion8808 Gotcha, makes sense👍👍
Not a wood fireplace! It's an oil burning stove.
Boy that "truck" looks familiar. I almost think this was a 1952 or 53 Chevy car, maybe the rear end chopped off, converted into what you see. Everything inside except the chrome on the steering wheel was identical to one I had, which was a 4-door sedan. I think Deluxe models had more chrome trim on the exterior.
The one I had was my first car in high school. My dad and I bought it from the original owner - an old farmer dude - who used it as a chicken coop, lol! The guy was in his 90s and it was around 1990, and the tags on the plates hadn't been renewed since like 1976.
Sold it a few years after graduating to another father-son duo. Kinda wonder if it's still choochin' around somewhere.
@@b.thompson9176 haha love to hear this,awesome. I grew up fixing the old ones with my old man (not this old)!…
Thanks for sharing that, exactly how I pictured it when I saw it..Glad to bring back the memory for you.. To cool..
I was thinking it was chopped as well this afternoon actually looking at a photo. I think it was also. Then outfitted with some sort of combustion engine and winch set up. It was definitely tinkered with for the mine..
Good stuff👍👍👋
@MountainWestProductions Funny thing is I had the video on pause when I commented, and just finished a moment ago..didn't see the paint job until then and crazy thing it's the same color as my old '52, metallic emerald green. This one's faded but I bet it was a brilliant dark green back in the day.
Learned stick shift the easiest way off that car with column shifter, and you'll notice a button to the left of the steering column (opposite the bent choke knob)...that was the starter button! The three levers on the dash grouped together were for adjusting the heater/fan speed. That car was a blast to work on and built like a tank.
That’s awesome..man I really like that truck it’s bad to the bone! Probably one of my favorites in a long time.. Grinning hearing about it.
You probably wouldn’t have any paperwork or something sitting around idk old relic maybe someday you could come across and match engine numbers.. Would be pretty epic to confirm… I’d s nd you a cool still photo of it👍👍
@MountainWestProductions Man I wish I still had *any* paperwork but was all transferred over to the new owners around 1994. I swear the original title was around a 3"x4" piece of paper, green and white background. The keys had a miniature license plate identical to the plates on the car and I think was issued to military vets back in the day. If someone found the keys with the miniature license plate, they'd toss them in a mailbox and would find their way back to the owner.
I've wished I had my old title but even a VIN search wouldn't work as I think that method only goes back 40, maybe 50 years. Last place my brother saw it was a few years after selling it in Eugene Oregon
@b.thompson9176 That’s incredible, pretty cool to think of these old classics.
I think it’s fascinating that period of time when owners didn’t know vehicles would be better than bank interest sitting in a barn for twenty years.. Built right, could do just about everything maintenance and roadside repair wise with pliers, a flathead and crescent..
Never heard of the key deal either🤔
An old Chevy car that has been made into a tow truck
thats exactly what I thought to it looks like they grafted a model t to the back of the cab to make it into a truck but my biggest question is how they got it to that spot
@ 7:45 that looks like a LIVE charge... get OUT, contact authorities...
Is that what is sticking out? Wood Backing a charge? Not good if that's what that was?
If they had metal detectors back then.
@@pittroadsixzeroseven We wouldn’t be able to find the good stuff!
Not the best place to detect, I keep forgetting to get mine out. I’ll do an episode around an old homestead soon.
These claims or similar sites to this that have a lot of machinery are pretty rough you get all sorts of different metals shards and pings. I bet there’s some good stuff though too!
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Thats cool man. I live in New Zealand. Do you get snakes and bears living in those mines? 🇺🇸 🇳🇿
Not some much snakes rattlers have a certain range and have ran into them but not in a mine yet. I am expecting to come across a rattlesnake den at some point however. Surprised I haven’t yet as-well.
Bear wise I have been on the trail with them a lot but have not ever had a problem. I mostly just hear them a grunt here and there or see signs. The last den I found was a black bear I’m pretty certain in an old mill right between some concrete footings, a whole bunch of brush and mud marks all over the windows with some camp trash chewed up nearby. Flew the drone and heard him crash out into the forest didn’t see um though. I don’t get to nervous about black bears I’ll stand up to one they remind me of giant raccoons really. It’s the grizzlies I don’t want to jump into in no man’s land. that’s not a fight you can really win unless you have a good line of sight. Thankfully I haven’t really had a problem!
👍👍👋 Thanks for joining us, happy to have you along!
That was a car turned into something else lol pretty cool
Isn’t it cool, really is..I think it was a makeshift winch for the mine. Like a primitive head frame deal
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@MountainWestProductions i really enjoy your videos, I live in the panhandle of Idaho and exploring old mountain roads is fun ..
No, there is/was a tunnel a layer up and they dropped the ore down the chute. So they dug down, not up. Why do you call it a drift when the other channels I watch call it a stope?
Good point, honestly there’s two stopes in this mine here and three drifts. That’s correct a stope is a vertical shaft a drift is an offshoot from the adit.
I just get going through places and get to rambling while looking out for different things around me. I will work on clarity a bit more as well, appreciate that.
That’s fair should be more detailed just a lot going on moving through these areas.
However I don’t think there was a separate adit/portal from the entry. I almost think the old truck we found was the head frame/winch for the multiple stopes you pointed out. All in all I believe someone mined those stopes straight down moved ore on the cart and cut in a separate adit we couldn’t find and used the old truck to winch a shaft.
Thanks for joining and sharing you interest, happy to have you along!👍👍👋
@@MountainWestProductions no worries! I’ve learned a lot of mining terms over the past few months!
Thats not real Old unless your young!
An old Chevy car made into a tow truck !!!
Isn’t it a cool find? Really interesting I believe it was used as a rough head frame for the mine!
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Another fine video the truck was surely modified for the mining operation used as a hoist, maybe to lift some heavy equipment. I don't think it was used to lift ore out probably not heavy enough to do that. there is probably another adit above there somewhere....Someone might want to make a video will this 70 year old car run and drive again😆😆😆😆 I think the other comments about the year of the car/truck was about right on the year. Waiting for your next one, going to get cold with the weather starting to change soon.
Yeah it is weathers starting..Love those classic as well. Would be a good video, Thanks Charles👍👋👋