wow a wind driven air duct blower system i was wondering what the heck that was . roy gone green before it was fashionable. nothing like 1st hand knowledge , thanx you all !
I have seen two other explores of this site. The first explore video of this mine, probably 3 years ago, I could see what looked like galena in the lower adit, so I assumed it was a silver mine. There used to be a lot more stuff around and in the cabin. I always found it interesting how many old washing machines are around there, and the use of the one on the roof of the cabin. TVR Exploring climbed up on the roof and gave a close-up look at that setup. In both videos I've seen there was a small electric generator, that still looked to be in working condition, up on the left as you were going to that first upper adit, near where the propane tanks are. Looks like it's gone now. Very cool to have someone with you that actually knew the miner there.
I believe it was a silver mine. The orange generator is still there at the first upper working. It was fun to have some first hand knowledge of Roy the miner. He must have been a hard worker and good mechanic. Thanks, Duck!
This is interesting. Let me explain: I watch a lot of mine exploration channels. Yours is one of them. A few nights ago I was watching one by TVR Explorers. They did this exact mine six years ago but knew nothing about it! For some odd reason, they called it the Vulture Mine. I will let them know you folks have some more details about its history. Love your channel.
Hi Joe. Most mine explorers, Justin from TVR included, won't use the actual mine name in their UA-cam videos. We do this to try and protect the mine in question from looters, recyclers, and artifact harvesters. I'm sure Justin knows a fair amount about this place. We do appreciate your kind words for our channel and look forward to hearing from you again.👍😄
Julie is a mountain goat, a very pretty mountain goat. You might want to consider a lift kit for your Jeep, if you are going to continue driving terrain like that. Very cool, loved it. Stay safe guys.
She's a "pretty" tough climber and hiker. This Jeep is getting pretty old so not sure I want to put any money into it. Almost 200K miles on it. I've got my old '62 CJ5 with a fresh engine waiting to go. That I might put a lift and tires on. Thanks for watching and commenting, Jake!
Cool video! I believe this mine is what some other explorers referred to as “Micah’s Mine” several years ago. Nice you had someone there who had first-hand knowledge of the place.
It is a very cool place. Starbuck called it Micah's because of the guy driving him up there did some fancy driving moves and that was his name. Thanks for watching, Frank!
Probably so, although it was a private, or patented mine, when Roy worked it so a little less looting going on. Not sure of the ownership after he passed. Thanks, Graham!
Thank you Tom and Julie. Great video. love see all the old equipment. And how the miners worked. Just think of all the hard work to get stuff up those mnt’s.
Hey Tom/Julie what a awesome place, a trek getting up there yikes well worth it though,so much cool artifacts an history great stuff guy’s, as always be safe 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Yes, a very fun place to poke around, Steve. Not the easiest of places to get to, but not that tough either. Tons of great artifacts left there. Thanks for watching.
Hi Tom & Julie, wow how fantastic to have a first hand account of the mines that Roy owned by his friends Ron and Beth. That set of rails to hoist up tools etc was very unique, I have never seen that done before but it makes so much sense. So much left behind, I wonder why he never sold the ore he got out, maybe he wanted to get a large enough amount first. Thanks to Ron & Beth, also to both of you, it looked like very hard work to get up to the mines. Thank you for sharing, much love to you both. xx 💞
I'll never understand why he didn't sell his high grade ore. Maybe he thought the price would go up. Yes, thanks to Ron for some first hand information about Roy. A crazy amount of cool stuff left up there. Thanks for watching, Sue. We hope all is well for you!
Glad to see y'all back, treasure everywhere you look. That sure looked like a lot of hard work getting all that stuff up there by yourself. Julie looks like she has completely recovered from her deal with the C. Until next time may God bless you both.
Yes, it's a mining museum up there. Julie is still having some minor lung problems from the radiation, but not too bad. Thanks for watching and for the blessing, Jimmy!
Congrats on you both for making all the way up there. I got tuckered out just watching you two. Yee-Haa!!! So cool having someone with the history behind the mine. Excellent video.
Good question. I've heard that he worked as a mechanic when he was not mining. After retracing his foot steps for the last couple days he was one hard working man. He had several small mines in the area. Thanks for watching, Kevin!
That’s amazing someone hauled all that material up there up that railway and even before the railway was built. That winch. Simply amazing. Just a straight 6 and a 3 speed transmission. Old timers were so thrifty to have a awesome 3speed winch
Yes, it's truly amazing how he got all that equipment up there. Just to build that ground tram and winch. Wow. Then the mining work starts. Thanks for commenting, Steve!
Cool video Tom and Julie. Thanks for sharing. A lock right locker up front, will do wonders. Easy to install, around 300 bucks and will make easy work of the trails.
Is that what you have on the Land Cruiser? I wonder how that would work when we tow it behind the motor home. Maybe a locker that I can manually disengage would be better. I want to put something on the '62 CJ.
Hello Tom and Julie, I can't believe I missed your notification on the 28th of you new video. I was pleasantly surprised when this showed up on my home page. Really great seeing the both of you again. You both look real good. I hope Julie health is all better now. Well I will be looking for you new videos now. Take care always.
Hi Stephen, I hear quite often from people about not getting notifications from UA-cam of new videos. This is our second mine exploring video since we have been back from our summer break. Anyway, glad you found it and thanks for watching.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Well I will have to look at your channel and see what video I missed. But yes I've heard that too that sometimes people don't get notifications
Yes, very fun to have Ron with us who knew Roy, the miner. Always good to hear from you, Adam. We will be in Twentynine Palms in January and February again this year.
@@TomandJulieMineExploringWe can get the yjs together! Lol I was going to head there to do some exploring this weekend. The welded differentials are still holding up great. And with the yjs CAD (I switched it to cable from vacuum) I can actually flat tow it. Stay safe you two, I look forward to January February hope to see ya.
it looked really steep climbing up that mountain even for you youngster's, I can't even begin to imagine how those miner's got all that equipment up there another great adventure with Tom &Julie thanks for sharing
It is in a steep location. I'm with you on wondering how they got all that stuff up there. Lots of hard work I guess. Thanks for the nice comment, Peter!
Thanks for the adventure, awesome, just love it, they are scattered all over out here and hard to imagine how much labor in the middle of nowhere they put in.
Yes, the amount of work just to get yourself and the equipment to these remote locations is immense. Then the real mining work starts. These guys were a different breed than modern humans. Thanks for the comment!
Wow! This Roy must have loved hard work...Just incredible!...He must have spent a small fortune on tools and materials and never sold any off his diggings?...reckon i should stop complaining about raking leaves and cleaning out horse stalls....Thanks Tom n Julie
My thoughts exactly, Dave. I'm not sure why he never sold off his ore, but that's what the story is. He did have interests in other mining operations, and during some winter months did occasional mechanic work in Reno, so maybe didn't need the money. Still hard to grasp all the work he did. Thanks, and good hearing from you!
Hello my good friend how are you doing I love your ever time I watched your show I hope they reopened that mine maybe I can work with you guys let me know I love doing that kind of job and I love living in the middle of nowhere
Hi Michael, we are doing fine and hope you are, too. I'm retired so making the video is as much work as I want to do. Thanks for watching the video. Glad that you enjoyed it.
Dang folks Im sorry and ask for forgivness. I did not know until recently that you two had so many past years of videoos together... COOL.... All made in my near back yard and men O men did we rock those Desert nights with my my 1970 Full Stack 100W Marshall Super with both cabs!!!!!!!!! That was the way of life in the N.E. Corner of the Kern County Mojave Desert!!!!!!! You folks are cool and cool to blhbb with,,, THanks! PS> I just had emergency eye surgery sorry for my typos!
Nice old artifacts. I like looking at all the items in the cabin (I paused to see the things on the bench). The engine with the head on it (inside the cabin) has spark plugs sticking out the top, similar to the flat head Fords (but this didn't look like a Ford). I noticed near the end of the video (at 15:30) a tree that looks like it was shattered and blackened by a lightening strike. It would certainly be high enough and exposed to attract such a strike. It all looked like back-breaking work in the day! Can you imagine swinging a pick against the rock all day? What tough guys!
Sometime, I will go through the shop again and get a closer look at what's there. I'm not sure of the makes of the engines. I can't imagine getting all that stuff up the mountain, much less putting it all to work. Unbelievable. Thanks for the comment!
thats great ....always wanted some inside info on this one as many people have explored it ....good job and we know the feeling of climbing them hills....good vid and keep'em coming
We've been all over these hills the last few days, Jeff. We must've looked at 50 mines at least and a dozen cabins. Crazy stuff. Thanks for the comment and hope all is well with you. Let's get together sometime for some exploring and beans.
Lots of ore left in them metal buckets. Good luck to the person who's gonna bring one of them down. Neat engines, generators, and that hand cranked winze.
So much work that Roy did to get everything up there Ron looked like he was enjoying it too so sorry to see vandalism being done to a beautiful place of history God bless be safe p.s. you need to put a lift kit on your Jeep ✝️🇺🇸
Yes, Roy did a lot of work getting all that equipment up the mountain before the mining even started. Unbelievable, really. I'm not sure what was going on with things being blown up. It might be unstable dynamite that was detonated for safety reasons. The little Jeep does okay, we like to hike some so not really a problem. Thanks for the comment and blessing, Jim!
Thats a really cool mine its a shame they have taken the ore and trashed the place, that was cool to have the gentleman who knew the old miner telling about his life, good to see ya'll are back and doing well, take care
When you see explosions like that, many times old explosives were found and detonated in place , usually by law enforcement or other miners to ensure no one was hurt.
You might be correct. There was supposedly a partial box of dynamite left up there. Maybe it was stored in the barrel and they just detonated it there. I believe the barrel was brought in the mine after it was blown up. Thanks for your input, Don!
Starting with that last bit of rock driving down, whew, denting undercarriage parts would be frustrating. I sometimes watch Precision Transmission (great work) and I've seen dented transmission pans stopping up fluid flow. Burnt fluid messed it up. Btw, Hand Tool Rescue can be a fun channel too. Anyway, that's just an aside, kinda thinking about similarities of what you might like? I suppose as a creator, you don't watch many other channels? I just watch. 30 years ago, if this was a thing, and I had the cameras and computers of now, I would have done this too. Again, lost train of thought. It's nice to meet Ron and Beth. Ron gave some insights into Roy's thinking. Which to me, what was he thinking? He didn't sell his ore? I don't get it? Was it a hobby and he might sell the workings? An expensive, lonely (probably okay for Roy) and laborious undertaking. I can imagine his ingenuity, I think like that all the time. I want things done right, but once in awhile there's something less important and I can make it from scratch. The engines, pump, generator and artifacts all around, was seeing Roy. My grandfather's little shop was his way to make extra. He called it "The Fix-It Shop". Words painted on the side of the garage building with attached sheds. Outhouse along the back. Water pump out the back porch from the kitchen. Whoever baked bread, it smelled great. I'm all over because of memories that are akin to the Roys of this world. Running track up the mountain was a great idea, but imagine the labor? Then, seeing the old 1920-30s hood over a straight, crank 6 cylinder is excellent. I love those converted drive shafts to the drive gear. The brake wheel, strap and handle were clearly visible. Totally awesome. The stonework and set up for this mine was extensive. Thinking about the previous vid and that wind turbine air vent fan; then the B&G vent fan drive at this first portal just amazes me. That shed with its engines was missing the mechanics tools and spare parts I saw and partly inherited from my grandad. I have thought about refurbishing his old welder. The new ones, if I would ever do that, I would go with the new. All of this has so many overlapping memories for me.🤘🏻😁
It's fun to hear all the old memories of yours that a story about a person like Roy can conjure up. I would have loved to have met him. I'm fairly certain from what I understand that he was happy to be alone and fabricating things for his mines. I don’t quite understand not selling any of his ore. It's possible that is not accurate. I can't remember if I covered this in the video, but he had an old vehicle that he installed an extra transmission in to reduce the gearing to be able to tackle those steep roads. Thanks again for another thoughtful comment, Rick!
So this mine was explored extensively by TVR Exploring back in 2017 and was published in a 3-part video series which the owner of that channel called the "Vulture Mine." Not much has changed in the four years since TVR explored it. This mine is a real head-scratcher -- why go to the trouble of finding and developing a high-grade silver mine if you never sell any of your ore? Hard-rock mining as a hobby? Maybe... At the end of your video, you say you're "looking for number 3..." Isn't the shaft with a ladder at 15:04 the third mine you're referring to? Did you not go down because you were short on time?
TVR or The Velvet Rocket, did make a video of this, at least that is what I've been told. I have not seen his video. Justin Ames is his name and I'm sure the Vulture Mine is a fictitious name Justin picked for some reason. Maybe the vultures were circling the day he was there. I was told by my friend Ron, who was a friend of the mine builder Roy, that there were three mines in that immediate area. I think that you are correct that the one small shaft with a ladder was the third one. Actually, there are several more prospects in the area. The shaft to which you are referring didn't really look that interesting and we were actually looking for another mine a couple miles away so I didn't take the time to go down. Did I answer your question? Thanks for watching this one. Oh I remember you asked about not selling the high grade. I have no idea why someone would do that. Roy must have really liked to work the mine and maybe didn't need the money.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring can you ask the man you were with when you went to mine?? please.. All the mines you been in if you can just give me the name of a good gold mine I can check and see if it is for sale. Thank You.
@@getreal1702 You might want to consider starting with a claim somewhere before buying a mine. There are mine claims for sale in a lot of places. Hope that helps.
@@justme-n-gracie Thanks for at least some kind of answer. thanks for the lead. I was just thinking Tom goes in a lot of mines he may help but he didnt.
It really is an incredible place. We were actually looking for another mine and cabin higher up the mountain that we never found so we'll be back again. Thanks, Ken!
Ron is a treasure, not alot of those men left.
Yes, he really is. Thanks for the comment, Linda!👍
wow a wind driven air duct blower system i was wondering what the heck that was . roy gone green before it was fashionable. nothing like 1st hand knowledge , thanx you all !
It is a pretty clever deal. I wonder how much power he actually got from it. Definitely fun to have Ron's knowledge. Thanks for the comment!
Great video guys,glad to see you back,looked like it was a hard walk up there, and Hot.
It was pretty hot that day around 86° or so. Glad you enjoyed the video, Jeffrey!
I have seen two other explores of this site. The first explore video of this mine, probably 3 years ago, I could see what looked like galena in the lower adit, so I assumed it was a silver mine. There used to be a lot more stuff around and in the cabin. I always found it interesting how many old washing machines are around there, and the use of the one on the roof of the cabin. TVR Exploring climbed up on the roof and gave a close-up look at that setup. In both videos I've seen there was a small electric generator, that still looked to be in working condition, up on the left as you were going to that first upper adit, near where the propane tanks are. Looks like it's gone now. Very cool to have someone with you that actually knew the miner there.
I believe it was a silver mine. The orange generator is still there at the first upper working. It was fun to have some first hand knowledge of Roy the miner. He must have been a hard worker and good mechanic. Thanks, Duck!
Artifacts Everywhere! This is a Treasure! So much to go through and so little time! Lost for words.
It's an amazing place, like a museum. Thanks, William!
Most interesting hearing from someone in a position to know what’s what before it’s all lost! Better than the history channel and no speculation 😉🤔😀
It was fun to hear Ron tell us things that he heard directly from Roy, the miner. We have more to explore here, too. Thanks, Daniel!
Tom and Julie
You two are blessed.i love your videos.i stumbled across you two a couple of weeks ago and be watching since.good job
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Thanks for watching and for the nice comment. We appreciate it very much.
Thanks Tom & Julie. I enjoyed this one very much. Regards from Ody Slim
Hi Ody. Glad that you enjoyed it.
This is interesting. Let me explain: I watch a lot of mine exploration channels. Yours is one of them. A few nights ago I was watching one by TVR Explorers. They did this exact mine six years ago but knew nothing about it! For some odd reason, they called it the Vulture Mine. I will let them know you folks have some more details about its history. Love your channel.
Hi Joe. Most mine explorers, Justin from TVR included, won't use the actual mine name in their UA-cam videos. We do this to try and protect the mine in question from looters, recyclers, and artifact harvesters. I'm sure Justin knows a fair amount about this place. We do appreciate your kind words for our channel and look forward to hearing from you again.👍😄
Julie is a mountain goat, a very pretty mountain goat. You might want to consider a lift kit for your Jeep, if you are going to continue driving terrain like that. Very cool, loved it. Stay safe guys.
She's a "pretty" tough climber and hiker. This Jeep is getting pretty old so not sure I want to put any money into it. Almost 200K miles on it. I've got my old '62 CJ5 with a fresh engine waiting to go. That I might put a lift and tires on. Thanks for watching and commenting, Jake!
The 65 CJ5 would be awesome with a lift and tires, you have to do it.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring awesome I. Have a 58' CJ3B slowly restoring , been in the family for 45y!
Awesome stuff, guys. Special thanks to Ron and Beth - and of course, to Roy!
-Ed on the Ridge
Thanks for watching, Ed! Yes, special thanks to Ron for sharing some stories of Roy.
WOW is right!!
Can you imagine hauling all of that stuff up the mountain! Whew!!
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I can't even imagine bringing all that equipment up the mountain. Then he did the real work of mining. Thanks, George!
Cool video! I believe this mine is what some other explorers referred to as “Micah’s Mine” several years ago. Nice you had someone there who had first-hand knowledge of the place.
It is a very cool place. Starbuck called it Micah's because of the guy driving him up there did some fancy driving moves and that was his name. Thanks for watching, Frank!
You can imagine that a lot of stuff was hauled off after the passing of the owner. Good video as always, thanks.
Probably so, although it was a private, or patented mine, when Roy worked it so a little less looting going on. Not sure of the ownership after he passed. Thanks, Graham!
Thank you Tom and Julie. Great video. love see all the old equipment. And how the miners worked. Just think of all the hard work to get stuff up those mnt’s.
Yes, it's crazy how those miners get all that equipment up the mountain. There were a special breed of men. Thanks for watching, David!
Hey Tom/Julie what a awesome place, a trek getting up there yikes well worth it though,so much cool artifacts an history great stuff guy’s, as always be safe 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Yes, a very fun place to poke around, Steve. Not the easiest of places to get to, but not that tough either. Tons of great artifacts left there. Thanks for watching.
Another great video Tom I wanna thank you for sharing we see things but I won’t say in real Life but your videos I really enjoy them.
Glad that you enjoyed the video, Bob! Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Hi Tom & Julie, wow how fantastic to have a first hand account of the mines that Roy owned by his friends Ron and Beth.
That set of rails to hoist up tools etc was very unique, I have never seen that done before but it makes so much sense.
So much left behind, I wonder why he never sold the ore he got out, maybe he wanted to get a large enough amount first.
Thanks to Ron & Beth, also to both of you, it looked like very hard work to get up to the mines.
Thank you for sharing, much love to you both. xx 💞
I'll never understand why he didn't sell his high grade ore. Maybe he thought the price would go up. Yes, thanks to Ron for some first hand information about Roy. A crazy amount of cool stuff left up there. Thanks for watching, Sue. We hope all is well for you!
Glad to see y'all back, treasure everywhere you look. That sure looked like a lot of hard work getting all that stuff up there by yourself. Julie looks like she has completely recovered from her deal with the C. Until next time may God bless you both.
Yes, it's a mining museum up there. Julie is still having some minor lung problems from the radiation, but not too bad. Thanks for watching and for the blessing, Jimmy!
Congrats on you both for making all the way up there. I got tuckered out just watching you two. Yee-Haa!!! So cool having someone with the history behind the mine. Excellent video.
Yes, fun to have someone who knew Roy with us. It was fun to hear the stories. Thanks, Richard!
True testament to the toughness and tenacity of miners. So, he never sold any of his ore? How did he fund the project?
Good question. I've heard that he worked as a mechanic when he was not mining. After retracing his foot steps for the last couple days he was one hard working man. He had several small mines in the area. Thanks for watching, Kevin!
That’s amazing someone hauled all that material up there up that railway and even before the railway was built. That winch. Simply amazing. Just a straight 6 and a 3 speed transmission. Old timers were so thrifty to have a awesome 3speed winch
Yes, it's truly amazing how he got all that equipment up there. Just to build that ground tram and winch. Wow. Then the mining work starts. Thanks for commenting, Steve!
Cool video Tom and Julie. Thanks for sharing. A lock right locker up front, will do wonders. Easy to install, around 300 bucks and will make easy work of the trails.
Is that what you have on the Land Cruiser? I wonder how that would work when we tow it behind the motor home. Maybe a locker that I can manually disengage would be better. I want to put something on the '62 CJ.
Hello Tom and Julie, I can't believe I missed your notification on the 28th of you new video. I was pleasantly surprised when this showed up on my home page. Really great seeing the both of you again. You both look real good. I hope Julie health is all better now. Well I will be looking for you new videos now. Take care always.
Hi Stephen, I hear quite often from people about not getting notifications from UA-cam of new videos. This is our second mine exploring video since we have been back from our summer break. Anyway, glad you found it and thanks for watching.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Well I will have to look at your channel and see what video I missed. But yes I've heard that too that sometimes people don't get notifications
Love exploring areas like this...
This is a fun one with never a dull moment. It gets a little better farther down the ladders to the next level.
Great video Tom and Julie thanks for sharing. And so cool having someone that was there! Stay safe guys
Yes, very fun to have Ron with us who knew Roy, the miner. Always good to hear from you, Adam. We will be in Twentynine Palms in January and February again this year.
@@TomandJulieMineExploringWe can get the yjs together! Lol I was going to head there to do some exploring this weekend. The welded differentials are still holding up great. And with the yjs CAD (I switched it to cable from vacuum) I can actually flat tow it. Stay safe you two, I look forward to January February hope to see ya.
it looked really steep climbing up that mountain even for you youngster's, I can't even begin to imagine how those miner's got all that equipment up there another great adventure with Tom &Julie thanks for sharing
It is in a steep location. I'm with you on wondering how they got all that stuff up there. Lots of hard work I guess. Thanks for the nice comment, Peter!
Thanks for the adventure, awesome, just love it, they are scattered all over out here and hard to imagine how much labor in the middle of nowhere they put in.
Yes, the amount of work just to get yourself and the equipment to these remote locations is immense. Then the real mining work starts. These guys were a different breed than modern humans. Thanks for the comment!
Wow! This Roy must have loved hard work...Just incredible!...He must have spent a small fortune on tools and materials and never sold any off his diggings?...reckon i should stop complaining about raking leaves and cleaning out horse stalls....Thanks Tom n Julie
My thoughts exactly, Dave. I'm not sure why he never sold off his ore, but that's what the story is. He did have interests in other mining operations, and during some winter months did occasional mechanic work in Reno, so maybe didn't need the money. Still hard to grasp all the work he did. Thanks, and good hearing from you!
Hello my good friend how are you doing I love your ever time I watched your show I hope they reopened that mine maybe I can work with you guys let me know I love doing that kind of job and I love living in the middle of nowhere
Hi Michael, we are doing fine and hope you are, too. I'm retired so making the video is as much work as I want to do. Thanks for watching the video. Glad that you enjoyed it.
Dang folks Im sorry and ask for forgivness. I did not know until recently that you two had so many past years of videoos together... COOL.... All made in my near back yard and men O men did we rock those Desert nights with my my 1970 Full Stack 100W Marshall Super with both cabs!!!!!!!!! That was the way of life in the N.E. Corner of the Kern County Mojave Desert!!!!!!! You folks are cool and cool to blhbb with,,, THanks! PS> I just had emergency eye surgery sorry for my typos!
Thanks for the comment!
Nice old artifacts. I like looking at all the items in the cabin (I paused to see the things on the bench). The engine with the head on it (inside the cabin) has spark plugs sticking out the top, similar to the flat head Fords (but this didn't look like a Ford). I noticed near the end of the video (at 15:30) a tree that looks like it was shattered and blackened by a lightening strike. It would certainly be high enough and exposed to attract such a strike. It all looked like back-breaking work in the day! Can you imagine swinging a pick against the rock all day? What tough guys!
Sometime, I will go through the shop again and get a closer look at what's there. I'm not sure of the makes of the engines. I can't imagine getting all that stuff up the mountain, much less putting it all to work. Unbelievable. Thanks for the comment!
thats great ....always wanted some inside info on this one as many people have explored it ....good job and we know the feeling of climbing them hills....good vid and keep'em coming
We've been all over these hills the last few days, Jeff. We must've looked at 50 mines at least and a dozen cabins. Crazy stuff. Thanks for the comment and hope all is well with you. Let's get together sometime for some exploring and beans.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring you betcha and sounds good
Must have been a rough painful day when they brought that winch and motor up
I would have to agree with that. I had enough just walking up that rocky road and hill.
Fantastic work! I was away for a while, clearly I have a lot of your videos to catch up on.
Thank you! We have been on a short break from mine exploring so probably not too much catching up to do.
Lots of ore left in them metal buckets. Good luck to the person who's gonna bring one of them down. Neat engines, generators, and that hand cranked winze.
Yes, lots of cool stuff and high grade ore to boot. Thanks for the comment. Kimbra!
Great video
Such a cool place. Thanks for commenting, Aaron!
So much work that Roy did to get everything up there Ron looked like he was enjoying it too so sorry to see vandalism being done to a beautiful place of history God bless be safe p.s. you need to put a lift kit on your Jeep ✝️🇺🇸
Yes, Roy did a lot of work getting all that equipment up the mountain before the mining even started. Unbelievable, really. I'm not sure what was going on with things being blown up. It might be unstable dynamite that was detonated for safety reasons. The little Jeep does okay, we like to hike some so not really a problem. Thanks for the comment and blessing, Jim!
We going miss your show tom and Julie
We're back from our break now, so we'll be making videos every week.
yep, love it!
Hi Mick. I figured you would like this one. All kinds of cool stuff laying around!👍😁
Roy was an industrious guy! To bad idiots ruined a lot of things. That's why we can't have anything nice. It was a nice explore anyway. Take care.
He must have been a heck of a mechanic with all the equipment he had rigged. Hard worker, too. Glad that you enjoyed the explore, Stewart!
That was nice thank you did he find out how damaged the mine.
Thanks, Wendell. It looks like some explosives were set off.
Thats a really cool mine its a shame they have taken the ore and trashed the place, that was cool to have the gentleman who knew the old miner telling about his life, good to see ya'll are back and doing well, take care
It is a very cool place, Gunny. Very fun to have someone with first hand knowledge of the miner. Thanks for the nice comment!
Got my popcorn, let's do this..
Hey Ren!
"I'm on the top of the world looking down on creation......."
That Cedar tree at 15:33 looks like it was truck by lightning!
It does look a little blown apart. It wouldn't surprise me as it's a fairly open and prominent peak.
When you see explosions like that, many times old explosives were found and detonated in place , usually by law enforcement or other miners to ensure no one was hurt.
You might be correct. There was supposedly a partial box of dynamite left up there. Maybe it was stored in the barrel and they just detonated it there. I believe the barrel was brought in the mine after it was blown up. Thanks for your input, Don!
Lot of things from the past there
Yes there are, Ronnie. Very fun place to poke around. Thanks for watching!
Starting with that last bit of rock driving down, whew, denting undercarriage parts would be frustrating. I sometimes watch Precision Transmission (great work) and I've seen dented transmission pans stopping up fluid flow. Burnt fluid messed it up.
Btw, Hand Tool Rescue can be a fun channel too.
Anyway, that's just an aside, kinda thinking about similarities of what you might like? I suppose as a creator, you don't watch many other channels? I just watch.
30 years ago, if this was a thing, and I had the cameras and computers of now, I would have done this too.
Again, lost train of thought.
It's nice to meet Ron and Beth. Ron gave some insights into Roy's thinking. Which to me, what was he thinking? He didn't sell his ore? I don't get it? Was it a hobby and he might sell the workings? An expensive, lonely (probably okay for Roy) and laborious undertaking.
I can imagine his ingenuity, I think like that all the time. I want things done right, but once in awhile there's something less important and I can make it from scratch.
The engines, pump, generator and artifacts all around, was seeing Roy.
My grandfather's little shop was his way to make extra. He called it "The Fix-It Shop". Words painted on the side of the garage building with attached sheds. Outhouse along the back. Water pump out the back porch from the kitchen. Whoever baked bread, it smelled great.
I'm all over because of memories that are akin to the Roys of this world.
Running track up the mountain was a great idea, but imagine the labor? Then, seeing the old 1920-30s hood over a straight, crank 6 cylinder is excellent. I love those converted drive shafts to the drive gear. The brake wheel, strap and handle were clearly visible. Totally awesome. The stonework and set up for this mine was extensive. Thinking about the previous vid and that wind turbine air vent fan; then the B&G vent fan drive at this first portal just amazes me. That shed with its engines was missing the mechanics tools and spare parts I saw and partly inherited from my grandad. I have thought about refurbishing his old welder. The new ones, if I would ever do that, I would go with the new.
All of this has so many overlapping memories for me.🤘🏻😁
It's fun to hear all the old memories of yours that a story about a person like Roy can conjure up. I would have loved to have met him. I'm fairly certain from what I understand that he was happy to be alone and fabricating things for his mines. I don’t quite understand not selling any of his ore. It's possible that is not accurate. I can't remember if I covered this in the video, but he had an old vehicle that he installed an extra transmission in to reduce the gearing to be able to tackle those steep roads. Thanks again for another thoughtful comment, Rick!
Wow talk about leaving everything behind... Big operation for one man, unless he had a crew.
As far as I know he was a one man show. Must have been a tough, hard worker. Thanks, Max!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Indeed!
So this mine was explored extensively by TVR Exploring back in 2017 and was published in a 3-part video series which the owner of that channel called the "Vulture Mine." Not much has changed in the four years since TVR explored it. This mine is a real head-scratcher -- why go to the trouble of finding and developing a high-grade silver mine if you never sell any of your ore? Hard-rock mining as a hobby? Maybe...
At the end of your video, you say you're "looking for number 3..." Isn't the shaft with a ladder at 15:04 the third mine you're referring to? Did you not go down because you were short on time?
TVR or The Velvet Rocket, did make a video of this, at least that is what I've been told. I have not seen his video. Justin Ames is his name and I'm sure the Vulture Mine is a fictitious name Justin picked for some reason. Maybe the vultures were circling the day he was there. I was told by my friend Ron, who was a friend of the mine builder Roy, that there were three mines in that immediate area. I think that you are correct that the one small shaft with a ladder was the third one. Actually, there are several more prospects in the area. The shaft to which you are referring didn't really look that interesting and we were actually looking for another mine a couple miles away so I didn't take the time to go down. Did I answer your question? Thanks for watching this one. Oh I remember you asked about not selling the high grade. I have no idea why someone would do that. Roy must have really liked to work the mine and maybe didn't need the money.
That gen will have oil caps on each end, get some oil in those and cover the gen, it may come free.
Good advice, Mick.
You Adventure traven mountain
Is this place for sale? or do you know of a good gold mine for sale in Nevada?
I don't know the answer to either of those questions.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring can you ask the man you were with when you went to mine?? please.. All the mines you been in if you can just give me the name of a good gold mine I can check and see if it is for sale. Thank You.
@@getreal1702 You might want to consider starting with a claim somewhere before buying a mine. There are mine claims for sale in a lot of places. Hope that helps.
most of the mining properties have been claimed by speculators that sell them online. Good luck finding any that aren't already snatched up.
@@justme-n-gracie Thanks for at least some kind of answer. thanks for the lead. I was just thinking Tom goes in a lot of mines he may help but he didnt.
I tell my wife to be more like Julie when we go off-roading....
Julie would rather walk when the roads get too rough. She's pretty tough, though. Thanks for the comment and good luck with your wife.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring 😢
SEEMS LIKE ITS BEEN FOREVER SINSE A NEW VIDEO (whoops) came out it seems!! We need some pickin' n grinnin'!!!
We've got a new one ready for you right now.
Tom who has the deed on this mine now.
As far as I know when Roy died the property went to his sons.
Now adays you would have to pay a bond incase a mess was left at your mine.
That way the new claim owners don't get stuck with the bill.
Thanks for the comment, Brian!
Its called scrap metal..you people need to stop using the wrong words
I'll stick with interesting artifacts
I could have spent a week there. What an incredible place.
It really is an incredible place. We were actually looking for another mine and cabin higher up the mountain that we never found so we'll be back again. Thanks, Ken!