That was a bit of "Gold History" i thoroughly enjoyed ! Thanks for inviting us a along on your private tour ! I don't believe anyone can really appreciate the technology until they've walked among the remanants of these great machines of the past an the only thing that comes to mind "Is How the Hell did they do that" . Alot of the materials repurposed, most all handmade, hand cut, 😳 hand hewed beams, Sawed and chisled cuts that fit perfectly. Truly remarkable Craftsmen when "Men were made of Steel" ! Love the videos, keep'em coming, I'll be watchin' ! 😉🥶😁😎. BTW: If an OSHA/ MSHA inspector were to look inside that shop he'd get wet alright, really wet down both legs ! 🤭😜😂
Finally glad to see the whole setup of the stamp mill. Have watched so many videos exploring old mines with maybe a couple pieces of a stamp mill down a ravine . Really glad you showed us the whole process. Just another reason to watch your fine channel. Mike M.
Wow I'm a machinist and that was incredible with all those pulleys and bellts.. OSHA would have a field day in there . LoL. ..I always learn something watching your videos ..love your vidio's >>> thanks for sharing. Danny
That shop was amazing! I loved the way the power distribution system was set up for the power tools, a lot wasted energy, but still very cool indeed! Thanks Jeff and the crew at Comstock!
All this history being preserved is just amazing.. Jeff I can only hope that you get to come back and show us all when that stamp gets running. ... Thanks
Thanks that was way cool , I have an old JD hammer mill for grinding up grain for livestock and it has a over head belt system similar to those , keep safe TANK
Where do I start? History. Living history at every turn. From the stamp mill portions,to the heavy timbers, and worn down ladder rungs, to the bags of period ore, to the line shaft driven machine shop to the blacksmith shop. Heaven around every corner to me. Many thanks for this episode.
So good to see mining/processing gear intact and not stripped out, wish I lived near would love to help, living in another country (New Zealand) doesn't help. PLUS love your work Jeff.
Glad to see Jeff got fans from all over the world always wanted to go to New Zealand I'd only for its beauty but boy used just got some of the finest pan and available I still can't find many more than flour dust for I am in Pennsylvania but still got Gold Fever😁💗
I don't know much about mining gold but I can tell there is a lot of history here and I hope it gets passed along to the younger generation so it doesn't get forgotten.
That some Nice Stamp mills I heard them in the sixty's they are very loud used see bunches laying around no used to real nice Belt machinery actually used those in a Wool mill that still uses water with electric conversion on days when there's no water!! That's was a great tour Jeff I'm sure Slim will smell them Bags getting close uh!!!; )
My cousins ran a turbine powered grist mill built in the 1880s. As a kid, I loved to watch them put the belts on the spinning rods and turn on the different machines. This video brought back great childhood memories. Love that old equipment. ...and in working condition no doubt.
The machine shop, oh my gosh!! I was starring like a kid in a toy store.. ha ha ha ha that is seriously so awesome.. i hope we get to know what you found in them samples. ;)
Awesome job guys, I've watched the local mines in my area slowly degrade and it's heartbreaking to see history be lost like that. The machine shop with the gang shafts in the roof is out of this world, I've been a machinist for 19 years and all the young guys have never heard of such a thing let alone be able to see one in action.
Really enjoyed watching this video. As we all know, the old mines and mills are falling into disrepair and will soon be lost for ever. These guys are preserving that history so future generations can not just look at pictures, but actually see and touch the real machinery. Thanks for sharing this history with us. Now I want to head up there for myself!
Awesome job to the camera man, it was great to listen to the conversation and be able to view all of the different works at the same time. It gets both sides of the brain firing in unison. BRILLIANT! !
Hi Jeff, I just watched the video of when you visited Cripple Creek....Man, I would have been stoked to have met you and 4x4ed you around the parts of that area they try to hide from us gold sniffers. I live and grew up 27mi, south, down shelf road in Canon City, but have lineage up in the Creek, Goldcamp actually. My Granddad (1898-1973) used to spare with Jack Dempsey above the Victor firehouse in his late teens. He worked as an underground "go-for" in his pre-teens and could one hand roll a cig by the time he was 10. Then worked as a hardrock "2 foot hand drillman" before handling automated drills, all the way up to over watch by 20. Highgader-sp? has been rumored too....WINK I could go on and on, but i know he would have liked you....Thanks for all you share with us viewers, still searchin for my 1st nugget, but have some nice Calverite....
That is so awesome to see them working to restore all that stuff! This is one of your greatest videos, in my opinion, loved just seeing the history of how they did things way back when and how well they built stuff was just insanely awesome. Now you know why all those guys in the 1860s and 1930's etc. were so dang solid and tough, it would take some massive manpower to get things built like that. "We totally live in one very Awesome Country"!
Excellent video Jeff. Hope you do a video on processing that ore. I would love to see the results. Also i love the geology lessons that come with such videos.
That machine shop was awesome thanks for sharing that I always like watching stuff about history and it's cool to see the type of equipment they used to use to make the parts that they needed
I just crushed my first rock with gold in the sumbitch. Happy day! I’m actually soaking up some of your skillfully delivered knowledge. Plucked this dude right outta the creek. Thanks Jeff
This is one of my favorite videos yet! When I’m out detecting and come across old machinery and tools I often wonder how they worked, that belt system to run the drills and lathes was amazing. Definitely had to watch yourself around that machinery lol. Now just need to shop vac all the spots ore might have fallen out! Thanks for sharing
Smash that Like button and tell us what you think of the History of this mill ....plus the fact that it is Haunted . Do your part and help save our History by clicking the link and making a Donation or booking a tour .... you will be glad you did . comstockfoundation.org/projec...
13:30 That thing mucking out the pond is called a "Guy Derrick". It has a "Bull Wheel" for turning. That well braced piece is the "Boom". The slightly taller pole is called the "Mast". It is an early form of crane used even before the time Rome was built and still used today. I believe that is a settling pond where the water is reclaimed and the constant input of muddy water fills up the pond. So the pond needs "Mucked "out to keep a workable pond depth.
These men are as genuine as the machinery they are restoring! Thank you for your dedication.
Don Bergstrom, Jeff Williams and the Comstock Foundation for History & Culture and the amazing volunteers ROCK!!
Awesome piece of history glad it’s being restored...OSHA inspector would have a nervous break down 🤣🤣🤣
Oh dam where'd his finger go 🤣👍
Really cool place. It's amazing what the older generation could do with some gears and a few belts.
OSHA ? Where? Holy Sh_ _ 😱 😱 😱.🏃♂️.
@mama b OSHA said no masks. N95 helps a little but the rest including face diapers do nothing.
That was a bit of "Gold History" i thoroughly enjoyed ! Thanks for inviting us a along on your private tour ! I don't believe anyone can really appreciate the technology until they've walked among the remanants of these great machines of the past an the only thing that comes to mind "Is How the Hell did they do that" . Alot of the materials repurposed, most all handmade, hand cut, 😳 hand hewed beams, Sawed and chisled cuts that fit perfectly. Truly remarkable Craftsmen when "Men were made of Steel" !
Love the videos, keep'em coming, I'll be watchin' ! 😉🥶😁😎. BTW: If an OSHA/ MSHA inspector were to look inside that shop he'd get wet alright, really wet down both legs ! 🤭😜😂
Yeah, they act someones mother
That's awesome to see history being saved instead of being erased
Damn that Machine Shop is life in action Museum all by it's self. MOST COOL !
Man I love this stuff, gets my old blood pumping Jeff
One of the reasons I enjoy watching your videos is just how passionate you can see you are about all of this. Thanks for your videos!
My pleasure!
GOOD LUCK on the Ore. Can't wait to see you go through that stuff. Always want to see the comstock
Finally glad to see the whole setup of the stamp mill. Have watched so many videos exploring old mines with maybe a couple pieces of a stamp mill down a ravine . Really glad you showed us the whole process. Just another reason to watch your fine channel. Mike M.
I found a piece of one way down a cut road , its crazy to find what they left behind
Flour mills in England used to do contract work for individual farmers also. Society was cool back in the day.
Thank you, Jeff! Wow! All that stuff working now is history on display. I am so jealous! Thank you for the tour too!
Jeff, hope you will be doing a video processing that paydirt they gave you. Interested to know the grade :) Thanks
I would love to see that mill working at full speed. What a great piece of history.
Great job Jeff. Good to see people restoring and keeping these running. Thx
Imagine the Ruckus , Dust and noise in that place when everything was chooching ?
Yea u could say goodbye to your hearing and lungs working in there. Full respect to the workers that did that dreadful job
huh? i can't hear you. What did you say???
@@bigfootingermany what did you say????
That was awesome.... Thank you Jeff for all you dedication.
My pleasure!
Beautiful place... still works and glad to see someone loving the place...So .. come on!!!! LETS GO!!!!!
Old school technology lasts! Great to see it restored!!!
Wow I'm a machinist and that was incredible with all those pulleys and bellts.. OSHA would have a field day in there . LoL. ..I always learn something watching your videos ..love your vidio's >>> thanks for sharing. Danny
Jeff, that machine shop was absolutely fascinating! THANKS!
Glad you enjoyed it
It’s so nice that this is being taken care of. That was a great tour!
Thank you Jeff it's great to see that the past is still alive.
One of the cooler videos I’ve seen from you. That working shop is truly awesome. Great work by the restorers and Jeff for presenting!
That shop was amazing! I loved the way the power distribution system was set up for the power tools, a lot wasted energy, but still very cool indeed! Thanks Jeff and the crew at Comstock!
Hey jeff that's awesome definitely on my bucket list love to see history an people saving it be safe everybody
Wow, that's was an awesome tour ! Look forward to checking that out some day when they get it ready.
Thanks Jeff for the awesome Tour !
All this history being preserved is just amazing.. Jeff I can only hope that you get to come back and show us all when that stamp gets running. ... Thanks
Wonderful adventure. Thanks for sharing.
What a blast to have Jeff drop by the Mill! Our goal is to have a battery of 5 stamps operating by spring, 2021. Stay tuned. Thanks Jeff!
Beautiful! Love that old machinery. Can't wait to see how your bags of ore from the site pan out!
Thanks that was way cool , I have an old JD hammer mill for grinding up grain for livestock and it has a over head belt system similar to those , keep safe TANK
Where do I start? History. Living history at every turn. From the stamp mill portions,to the heavy timbers, and worn down ladder rungs, to the bags of period ore, to the line shaft driven machine shop to the blacksmith shop. Heaven around every corner to me. Many thanks for this episode.
It's so nice when you're just talking like a normal person.
Wow i love restoring old machinery and woodwork this is to cool love it
Great to see all that Gold history.
really loved this walk through! Those guys are really dedicated to something that deserves being seen!
So good to see mining/processing gear intact and not stripped out, wish I lived near would love to help, living in another country (New Zealand) doesn't help. PLUS love your work Jeff.
Glad to see Jeff got fans from all over the world always wanted to go to New Zealand I'd only for its beauty but boy used just got some of the finest pan and available I still can't find many more than flour dust for I am in Pennsylvania but still got Gold Fever😁💗
Wow! I can't imagine the noise. How I'd love to see (and hear) this in operation. What a find to refurbish!
Right-On thanks to you All.
I don't know much about mining gold but I can tell there is a lot of history here and I hope it gets passed along to the younger generation so it doesn't get forgotten.
Ah Jeff you have all the fun, im here just mining making a living.
I love old machines and mines. Your channel is best
That some Nice Stamp mills I heard them in the sixty's they are very loud used see bunches laying around no used to real nice Belt machinery actually used those in a Wool mill that still uses water with electric conversion on days when there's no water!! That's was a great tour Jeff I'm sure Slim will smell them Bags getting close uh!!!; )
My cousins ran a turbine powered grist mill built in the 1880s. As a kid, I loved to watch them put the belts on the spinning rods and turn on the different machines. This video brought back great childhood memories. Love that old equipment. ...and in working condition no doubt.
Wow, incredible....good video, Jeff...!
thats amazing finally some people restoring the good ole days and equipment i wish i could be a part of that group and help speed things up
That was so awesome!!! Thanks Jeff.
you betcha
The machine shop, oh my gosh!! I was starring like a kid in a toy store.. ha ha ha ha that is seriously so awesome.. i hope we get to know what you found in them samples. ;)
Thank you for the glimpse into this world. It’s awesome, way cool.
Awesome job guys, I've watched the local mines in my area slowly degrade and it's heartbreaking to see history be lost like that. The machine shop with the gang shafts in the roof is out of this world, I've been a machinist for 19 years and all the young guys have never heard of such a thing let alone be able to see one in action.
It was neat seeing the blacksmith shop working. That was cool. Great mining history there Jeff, thanks for the tour.
Glad you enjoyed it
So much increadable history and it's being preserved awesome to see, thank you for sharing this piece of history.
Thanks for posting this Jeff!
Love it.!! The machine shop is awesome.!! Especially for us "safty third" kind of old school guy's.!!
Amazing how much ingenuity the children of Europe had to be able to pioneer such amazing infrastructure.
Really enjoyed watching this video. As we all know, the old mines and mills are falling into disrepair and will soon be lost for ever. These guys are preserving that history so future generations can not just look at pictures, but actually see and touch the real machinery. Thanks for sharing this history with us. Now I want to head up there for myself!
thanks Joanne....... I know ...right and they are doing a great job too..... so you know what I am gonna say ...huh
Awesome job to the camera man, it was great to listen to the conversation and be able to view all of the different works at the same time. It gets both sides of the brain firing in unison. BRILLIANT! !
Hi Jeff, I just watched the video of when you visited Cripple Creek....Man, I would have been stoked to have met you and 4x4ed you around the parts of that area they try to hide from us gold sniffers. I live and grew up 27mi, south, down shelf road in Canon City, but have lineage up in the Creek, Goldcamp actually. My Granddad (1898-1973) used to spare with Jack Dempsey above the Victor firehouse in his late teens. He worked as an underground "go-for" in his pre-teens and could one hand roll a cig by the time he was 10. Then worked as a hardrock "2 foot hand drillman" before handling automated drills, all the way up to over watch by 20. Highgader-sp? has been rumored too....WINK I could go on and on, but i know he would have liked you....Thanks for all you share with us viewers, still searchin for my 1st nugget, but have some nice Calverite....
The machine shop was awesome.
That is so awesome to see them working to restore all that stuff! This is one of your greatest videos, in my opinion, loved just seeing the history of how they did things way back when and how well they built stuff was just insanely awesome. Now you know why all those guys in the 1860s and 1930's etc. were so dang solid and tough, it would take some massive manpower to get things built like that. "We totally live in one very Awesome Country"!
That's awesome that machinery was made such a long time ago and it still works perfect that just shows you how craftsman ship has changed!!!
Soooo awesome!!!!!!!!
Excellent video Jeff. Hope you do a video on processing that ore. I would love to see the results. Also i love the geology lessons that come with such videos.
That. Was. Awesome!
Love the belt driven machine shop!
That machine shop was awesome thanks for sharing that I always like watching stuff about history and it's cool to see the type of equipment they used to use to make the parts that they needed
thank you Jeff
Thanks Jeff and Slim! 60 lb bag of ore!!!!
Great video Jeff Williams thank you .
That was fun to see Jeff. Thanks
I just crushed my first rock with gold in the sumbitch. Happy day! I’m actually soaking up some of your skillfully delivered knowledge. Plucked this dude right outta the creek. Thanks Jeff
That was awesome Jeff. Very awesome to see its all being saved. 👍
I know....right
@@Askjeffwilliams yes 100% .
Thanks jeff my mines going great. Like I said in the last one I couldn't have done it without you
Boss-Man, What an amazing visit to a working Hammer-mill and Smelter. I am catching the gold-bug...It's a mighty powerful bite! Thanks for sharing.
You got that right!
Cool !!! History in action. Don't get to see that very often.
Thanks for sharing brother and thanks to the two men preserving the mill history god bless ya all
Excellent! Love the history.
OH YEH , you gotta go back when its running that would be so cool. Thanks Jeff
This is one of my favorite videos yet! When I’m out detecting and come across old machinery and tools I often wonder how they worked, that belt system to run the drills and lathes was amazing. Definitely had to watch yourself around that machinery lol. Now just need to shop vac all the spots ore might have fallen out! Thanks for sharing
thank you Jeff very cool.
That’s really great history and information.
Thanks for sharing this video .
Very cool to look back in time!!
How cool is this! Thanks for the tour
Smash that Like button and tell us what you think of the History of this mill ....plus the fact that it is Haunted . Do your part and help save our History by clicking the link and making a Donation or booking a tour .... you will be glad you did .
comstockfoundation.org/projec...
Thanks for the link Jeff. I will follow and support these guys.
Looking forward to seeing you process that ore.
Wow! Another great mine tour. Thanks Jeff.
My pleasure!!
@@Askjeffwilliamswhat ended up being in those bags anything good
Wonderful tour, bringing history to life! Thanks for the explanations and examples, Just really enjoying the old stuff :)
Wonderful to see museum staff who know what they are talking about. That looks like an old bellows top left at 15:39.
I would love to check it. Thanks Jeff!!
Jeff it sure would be nice if you could go back after the place is running that would help with the support and we get to see a running Mill
13:30 That thing mucking out the pond is called a "Guy Derrick". It has a "Bull Wheel" for turning. That well braced piece is the "Boom". The slightly taller pole is called the "Mast". It is an early form of crane used even before the time Rome was built and still used today. I believe that is a settling pond where the water is reclaimed and the constant input of muddy water fills up the pond. So the pond needs "Mucked "out to keep a workable pond depth.
Wow,that was awesome!!
This is one of the coolest mining related sites from the old days I've ever seen! I would love to see that old Westinghouse running again!
Saving history! I love it! JJ
One of my favorite channels. Great content! Let's go!
That was cool Jeff !!! --✨✨✨✨😎😎😎😎
Very cool! Glad they saved it before someone burned it down
Whoohoo! Come On! Let's Go!
Can't wait for your video of you processing those 2 (?) BIG bags of ore!!!
One of the best!