I have backpacked into this canyon twice from the New York Butte side. You missed the old cyanide vats and the tram bucket still on the tram cable at the tram terminus in the canyon.
Nice to see a younger person with this passion and interest in the past and documenting what remains. These places will be completely lost in the future so documenting is important work - thanks so much for great videos and your work.
As remote as this particular spot is , I think it's safe to say , it'll be around a lot longer than most . Too hot to go in summer (can't carry enough water) and too cold to go in the winter .
The buffalo forge was used by the blacksmiths to blow air into the coal or charcoal forge to get the fire hot. I'm sure there was a blacksmith on site to make and repair tools and also make shoes for the mules. I'm not sure how much air that would have blown into the mine but I guess it may have been used for that. The long piece you found laying next to the pick is one half of a set of blacksmiths tongs. I believe the cabin site was the home to the local blacksmith and all the steel and iron pieces were materials for him to use or re-purpose to make tools.
that metal mesh is an old bed spring the " Old Timers " would sleep on ..... really cool arial tram towers .... beautiful 5 stamp battery mill .... most mortar boxes are secured on concrete foundations this one has a wooden one with anchors ...really cool.... if you can get into the box there could be Gold in there to clean out ....steam engine would power the stamp mill.... the holes in the boiler are called flue tubes where the hot gases and air would be drawn through to heat the water in the tank before leaving out the front and up the stack. That is a very beautiful Cabin .... the forge blower was used on a forge to blow air into the forge to make the charcoal burn hotter ...like blowing on a campfire so the blacksmith could heat the iron red hot to make it workable ....like sharpening drill steel or making horse shoes.... the tall bar with square hole is for a tap and die set ...I saw an old Gold Pan in the blocked window... beautiful crystal formation on good looking ore.... the piece next to the miners pick is part of a blacksmith tongs.....sulfides in quartz ..... iron oxides and black manganese oxides ...definitely Gold in there ...really cool explore my brother. Keep'em coming
Thank you for no music or antics. The sound of the trek was just perfect with the great cinematography. I felt like I was there with you. So rare to get videos of this quality. Enjoyed every minute.
Wild Bill from Trona is a good friend of mine. Yep you will see his name all over the place in Panamint and Death valleys. He grew up and worked in Trona and owns a piece of the Argus Range. He was present when the Manson raid happened at Barkers Ranch. That man is a walking history book. When he's at his place in the Argus range he monitors 146.520 on two meters if you are a licensed ham.
@@mobiltec Yeah, we did. We explored an inclined shaft below that head frame with some nice drifts, and found some 1930s/40s newspaper and a DuPont label.
at 17:59 you were sitting in the "best seat in the house".....to quote a toilet seat company from Palmer, Mass.....it was their slogan in bright neon lights to see as you drove by...a big white toilet seat in neon above the slogan.....good memories...........👍👍
Amazing to think all that stuff was hauled up there ..tough men and animals back then ..poor mules and horses ..tough life ...great vision From Australia
You remind me of my younger years when I could hike like a mountain goat. Now I'm too old for that. Loved exploring this historic area vicariously with you. Keep on doing this!
That was an old bed spring not a classifier . Nice video .Thanks I allways enjoy your videos even if your to young to know what some of the old things are . But your young with energy to do the hiking . Thanks again.
Very brave to sit in that Outhouse, but now you can probably say you're the last person to ever sit in it! That cabin is really cool and I bet it was probably being kept up by somebody until 10 or 20 years ago, probably some people have a lot of special memories there and they just got too old to hike in there anymore. Excellent video!👍
21:14 the long thing with the square center is a die holder which uses square threading dies, usually for cutting pipe threads in that style. A blacksmith was important because picks, drills, and other tools require sharpening nearly daily--and often a new hard point is forge-welded on. In England in that era, the Miner had to pay to re-point and repair his tools, not the mine owner--so you were careful with them. Miner's pick will usually have the point on only one side like the example shown at 37:25. It is not that the other pick end broke off. Having a point on only one side allows work in tighter areas and without your back swing being dangerous to other people and things. Often there won't even be a stud remaining opposite the pointy end (that can be used as a hammer). Crystals as shown can be cleaned of the iron stains using oxalic acid, which is easily obtainable and cheap. Takes a long soak.
What amazes me is how in the world they were able to transport those extremely heavy/awkward pieces of equipment way up there... no expense was spared in any way that's for sure. Of all the places you've been, this one especially reminds me of the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The cable alone for the tramway must have been a bitch to get up there. I’ve got a 45’ 5/8 strap that weighs probably 75-100 lbs, they hauled hundreds and hundreds of feet up there
Very cool video bros. I would love to see this long lost ghost town in it's entirety, such a wonderful, astonishingly magnificent place in history. Im getting old, and my health is steadily declining. I kive in eastern Oregon, but was bornbin Reni Nv... I remember as a kid living on a hirse ranch south of Reno near Thomas creek, and Falena creek, in the foothills leading up to Lake Tahoe. And not far from steamboat springs. As a kud veing i was raised on a horse ranch, i remember all the kids in my rural neighborhood all the kids where i grew up as a small child had hirses or ponies. I had my own pony at age 5 but also rode big horses too. It wasnt nithing for the country bunkin kids to go hirseback riding for milesvand miles. Remembering back, i remember the kids in my neighborhood going horesback riding way up into the foothills and that there were mine portals and drift mines all over the hillsides. All kids knew to stay out of them, but that didnt seem to stop us, sometimes we'd go in them with flashlights and look around. We called them caves. Some of them had bats in them, and some kids would repeat horror stories about the caves. For the most part that would keep us mostly out of them. But not always, therecwas all kinds of neat things to discover, (artifacts) that had been left behind including rock cabins. We had one that we repuposed as our fort/clubhouse where we would meet up and have picknicks and and roast wieners on an open firepit or sometimes we would use the pot belly cook stove in the cabin to cook bacon and beans, or sometimes just fried potatoes, we'd all sneak out of the house with somthing. I remember the first time i ever had a fried balony sandwich was in that cabin with the kids in the neighborhood. Back then the nieghbors lived a long ways apart... at least quarter to hlf mile ay or so. But that isn't all that far on horseback. My dad was a fireman, but after attending college for equine pathology with aspurations to become a veterinarian, he instead went to Tennessee to a ferrier school and when he returned he started shoing all our horses because we had quite a few. Around 40 or so. Moms passion was equestrian riding, and she had hundreds and hundreds of trophies and ribbins. We raised Arabians, but also kept other hores and big creatures like burrows pack mules and we also had Jersy milk cows. And pet goats. I had a goat named Billy that i learned to ride before my pony, and had a miniture stage coach that Billy would pull me around in... so long as i had a horsewhip in my hand, or a switch, or some kind... so long as i had a switch, long stick, or a good old horse whip, Billy would do anything I wanted. My pony was a minture paint horse whom I call my horsey!a my favorite joke as a child... which, I thought was halarious, was, my horsey went doo doo! It seemed to make everyone laugh, so I figured why not wear it out! As a child, kids were not allowed to cuss, but the phrase doodoo was perfectly fine... everybody knew it meant the same thing as shit! But that word was off limits to minors when i was a child. I never heard much stronger language from my folks when i was little. But thought Bastard was the ultimate swear word because to this day i can remember my mother using it when she was thoroughly pissed off! I remember her cussingcat her car when it wouldn't start she would call her Cadillac a son of a bithchen BASTARD! When the battery would die... Man that would make her mad as Hell... I remember, she would say the gosh damned bat tree is dead, she be saying under her breath... you son of a bitchin no good BAT TREE!Ipayed 14 dollarsfor you! You sonofa bitchen n I goid BAT TREE! I'd cautiously aporoached her, and asked,what's wrong mama ?, and she'd say my gosh damned BAT TREE is deader than a door nail, and its brand spanking new! I knew as a child, that, that was enough... when mama started talking about spankins! But had to ask whats a doornail mama? Praying it didnt have nothing to do while i was playing, car driver in her car when she wadnt looking... Playing with all the knobs and buttons in a convertible caddilac. Id turn in the radio and roll the windiws up and down with the switches on the door panal... me and my sister would play with me for the convertible roof and take turns having rides on it because it was electric. It ain't no wonder the bat tree would be dead. After pullingvall the knobs and dials and such... i pribabky turned on the h a adlights and didnt ever know it. Ok, i digress here... started getting carried away to my childhood... sorry... But anyway, the hand crank blower that says buffali forge is part of a forge that is missing... my dad had one of those. Even though in 1967 they had cold horse shoes made of a softer alloy that did nit require heating to shape the shoes... my dad became a farrier starting with our horses.... the nieghbirs heard about him from the only veterinarian in the Reni area at the time, doctor Stansbury, whom my darger had interned with fir a shirt stint before quitting his job at the Reni fire department if about ten years. He begsn mak I ng mire miney on his days off in one weekend he could make more than a months salary being a fire fighter. Which in 1968 paid $375.00 a month. Which was GOOD money back then. A few u ears later he would earn as much as $500.00 a dayduring the 70's and was self employed which he loved. Mom and dad divorced in 1968, mom sold the ranch and we moved to north shore lake Tahoe wher mom was employed as a blackjack dealer at the Crystal Bay club. She met my step father the night we were moving up there when she got stuck in a snow banj late at night just blicks from our new house. She was pilling a uhaul trailer and it was the stirm of the century that year with record sniwfall. It got up t I about 15- 20 feet deep in Incline Village that year. There was record snow drifts in Truckee on Donner pass that year that were measured at 75 feet deep, or high... it may of beenc1969, i cant remember for sure. All i kniw is my step dad happened along late at night probably 10 or 11 pm, to find my dear old mother stuck on the side I f the road in a snow bank. She was shoveling snow when he... a airline pilit for Pan Am happened along and helped her out. He was just on his way home too from Reno in a Saab, which at thectimecwas one of the few front wheel drive cars. He offered to give us a ride home and mim put us to bed, then went back for her car. That was how she met my ste I dad... whim i didnt like because i never understoid why my dad never came back home. I wascto youngvto kn I w whatcwas going on and mim never told us they divorced... So it was a confusing time. Id love to go check out that ghost town and the mine shaft if i could ever find it. I wonder where is it. Does anyone know? Or will you tell?
The round piece at 24:50 is a clutch dog. There would be an identical piece the would interlock to engage a shaft or disengage. Imagine lugging all the parts up into the mountains
27:00 the blower would have been connected to a wooden frame table with coal in the center. The set up would be for blacksmithing. We have one of the same in our family heritage collection.
Great video, was it cold when you were hiking? I was worried about snakes. Then you went into that cave and I was worried about bears, mountain lions and snakes., same with the cabin...love the beauty and awesomeness of it all❤
24:49 Some sort of shaft coupling, like a very crude clutch to engage/disengage the engine 26:37 I would say that is a fan (ie bellows) for a blacksmith's forge, and with all the odds and ends around, that was likely the shop/forge cabin 37:15 Half of a pair of blacksmith tongs... like a very extended pair of pliers
Makes me wanna have a cold “ Beverage “…..😏. That’s a grueling hike to that town , I recognized the place from the one seater outhouse …. Looks WAAAY overgrown now from brush from when I last saw it . Pretty cool video here , and ask Johnny if he’s in anyway related to Lucy Garcia , the Bar maid who used to work in the bar on west side of Highway 395 in Lone pine . I remember her saying she had a couple of sons , and was just curious. Thanks,& stay safe guys 😎👍
26:46 the Buffalo Forge hand crank fan, is for a blacksmith forge. It’s too small to provide air into the mine. The blacksmith would only crank on it a short time to get his fire hot.
wow your spot on - relentless definitely! almost an understatement - these mountains are ridiculous, steep, so rocky in all sizes, damn right dangerous, and very easy to slip on and bust an ankle, let alone the possibility i guess of the unwelcome surprise in the shape of a hissing snake of two - it's proper goat country, about the only thing (and the snakes) that live there - but still amazing to see the odd spot of human activity from the past incredible to see such things last so long from an age when things were build to size and riveted together, no welding, anything like this in the UK would have either rusted to nothing or been eaten by critters, when you say how old stuff is, the timber looks brand new, like its just been put there amazing place to get to - if you have goat legs and can get there - keeps you fit though
Seems like there would also be a larger mine very close to where this prospect is. The waste rock pile appears to be much bigger and has more color than the adit he explored.
The blower was not for mine ventilation it is for a blacksmith forge to pump air into the coals and increase heat. We had one on the farm years ago. Awesome hike in, very tough.
Just came across both videos of this adventure. My Dad moved our family to Nome, Alaska and when all of us kids would become too much my ,at the time had been Chief of Police, he would take me my two brothers and two sisters and our mom all out to go hunt wild blue berries and explore the old mine dredges and cabins. Pretty cool stuff. Thank you for sharing this and bringing back some childhood memories. Stay safe and keep bringing the Cool finds and adventures
What an incredible journey Jerith and Johnny. Kudo's to both of you. Thank you for sharing such a grand history with the rest of us. And, yes, the 5 stamp mill was unbelievable! ♥
dam son; so totally amazing how well that stuff preserves in the desert. I appreciate all the effort, preparedness and knowledge; looks like a lot of fun.
So cool, I had to look up what a stamp mill did. Found an awesome video of the Cossak Twenty Stamp Mill demo . How brutal it was to bring that up the mountain and keep all the parts in working order.
34:08 - seriously, that cabin - with it's mold and packets and mice gives you the exact taste what living there was like - I love old bothys/cabins/gites/refuges in the wilds - so very interesting.
Second time watching your videos and I subscribed your videos are very interesting please keep the great videos coming friend from Scotland and happy new year friend 🎉🎉🎉
Amazing that a fire did not destroy the stamp mill in all those years. I think the blower might have been for a forge. The piece next to the pick looks like one half of blacksmiths tongs.
Nice vid guys. I liked the still shots added. It would be a good idea to bring a gold metal detector to this place. And take a few samples from that mine.
Another great video! Not the ghost town I was thinking of, but I do know of. Heck of a hike into and out of that little town for sure, hard to imagine all the work involved getting the heavy equipment up there back in the day! Keep up the great work.
37:20 That is a half of a set of forging tongs. As in at one time a smith dude would hold a workpiece with that set of pliers and to put it into the forge to heat up...
Too bad the cabin was too nasty to sleep in, it did look cosy from the outside though. Your friend did not appear to have slept well during the night 😏 Hopefully somebody with craftsman’s skills will visit the cabin occasionally, as the windows could need some fixing. Besides that, it appears as if someone has maintained the cabin during the years. Interesting trip 👍🥰
@@jakeforrest I think that anyone that has the mettle (balls) to make the arduous trek to the most isolated mining site in the state won't be stealing anything .
Excellent exploration! Loved the mill and cabin. I bet the spring right next to the cabin was really appreciated back in the day and still sweet to drink from. The mine though small was filled with beautiful colors. I would've been sorely tempted to take the pickaxe just outside to some of the formations and it would've been fun to gather up some of the pyrite granules. But then it wouldn't be there for the next explorer to see. Picking up souvenirs outside amongst the tailings is considered acceptable.
Cool tram towers! I need to move some old metal around on my property. Host, can you please provide a rough schematic of these tram towers, building materials, & what was usdd to power it?
I can’t believe you didn’t go in any of those mines. If that much artifacts were still out in the open I imagine there would probably be more in the mines.
They run the stamp mill in mariposa now and then like 4th of july. Great to see isolated up there....kinda concerned about thecwater and mercury contamination. I used to go to a working mine in southern , quartz...not old like this ...more luke 30s to 60s....but of the same cloth
Thanks for sharing this 👍. My guess is that all that machinery was brought in piece by piece and assembled on site. That generation was certainly an amazing bunch. 👍
Some speculation that there are heavy metals from the mining operation in the water up there but if you're close to the source, likely fine. Rough place to get into. How was the drive up top?
History at its finest. Wow what a site. thx for sharing, specially for ppl who cant hike or see this in person. Just an awesome find. Keep on doing what you do.
Oh a life adventure thank you so much. Machete wish i could see you using it to see items underneath it?this is so amazing finds wow 1800s I can only imagine how it was like living back then so worth seeing thru your eyes makes it real . Thank you , thank you, so much very greatful for you Detective .
Rusty iron sometimes looks like good targets metal detecting. Anytime you see horseshoes or axe heads conveniently on the trail someone probably dug them up and set them aside.
Good to see young fellers searching history like this. Very informative.
I have backpacked into this canyon twice from the New York Butte side. You missed the old cyanide vats and the tram bucket still on the tram cable at the tram terminus in the canyon.
Nice to see a younger person with this passion and interest in the past and documenting what remains. These places will be completely lost in the future so documenting is important work - thanks so much for great videos and your work.
As remote as this particular spot is , I think it's safe to say , it'll be around a lot longer than most . Too hot to go in summer (can't carry enough water) and too cold to go in the winter .
@@rickobrien4025it’s time and Mother Nature that effects the old artifacts and buildings people at times in the city
The buffalo forge was used by the blacksmiths to blow air into the coal or charcoal forge to get the fire hot.
I'm sure there was a blacksmith on site to make and repair tools and also make shoes for the mules.
I'm not sure how much air that would have blown into the mine but I guess it may have been used for that.
The long piece you found laying next to the pick is one half of a set of blacksmiths tongs.
I believe the cabin site was the home to the local blacksmith and all the steel and iron pieces were materials for him to use or re-purpose to make tools.
A lot of those tools around that forge blower appeared to be old blacksmith tools. Pretty bad ass. Thanks for sharing.
that metal mesh is an old bed spring the " Old Timers " would sleep on ..... really cool arial tram towers .... beautiful 5 stamp battery mill .... most mortar boxes are secured on concrete foundations this one has a wooden one with anchors ...really cool.... if you can get into the box there could be Gold in there to clean out ....steam engine would power the stamp mill.... the holes in the boiler are called flue tubes where the hot gases and air would be drawn through to heat the water in the tank before leaving out the front and up the stack. That is a very beautiful Cabin .... the forge blower was used on a forge to blow air into the forge to make the charcoal burn hotter ...like blowing on a campfire so the blacksmith could heat the iron red hot to make it workable ....like sharpening drill steel or making horse shoes.... the tall bar with square hole is for a tap and die set ...I saw an old Gold Pan in the blocked window... beautiful crystal formation on good looking ore.... the piece next to the miners pick is part of a blacksmith tongs.....sulfides in quartz ..... iron oxides and black manganese oxides ...definitely Gold in there ...really cool explore my brother. Keep'em coming
I'm 55 and disabled it is nice to go into the mountains again thank you..
😎 GREAT JOB!!!!! From a 73 year old semi retired explorer!!! Thanks a lot 👍
Absolutely gorgeous cinematography my friend! This place is amazing and you presented it masterfully! Bravo 👏👏
Thank you for no music or antics. The sound of the trek was just perfect with the great cinematography. I felt like I was there with you. So rare to get videos of this quality. Enjoyed every minute.
Wild Bill from Trona is a good friend of mine. Yep you will see his name all over the place in Panamint and Death valleys. He grew up and worked in Trona and owns a piece of the Argus Range. He was present when the Manson raid happened at Barkers Ranch. That man is a walking history book. When he's at his place in the Argus range he monitors 146.520 on two meters if you are a licensed ham.
I saw his name written on a timber in the San Lucas Mine near Cerro Gordo too!
@@OwenGiddings I show it in photos and on video on an Ore Bin at a small mine in the Argus Range and a few other places.
@@mobiltec That's interesting. I did explore the Minietta Mine recently, which was in that range
@@OwenGiddings That's a fun place to explore. Did you go up to the mines up high?
@@mobiltec Yeah, we did. We explored an inclined shaft below that head frame with some nice drifts, and found some 1930s/40s newspaper and a DuPont label.
at 17:59 you were sitting in the "best seat in the house".....to quote a toilet seat company from Palmer, Mass.....it was their slogan in bright neon lights to see as you drove by...a big white toilet seat in neon above the slogan.....good memories...........👍👍
Amazing to think all that stuff was hauled up there ..tough men and animals back then ..poor mules and horses ..tough life ...great vision
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You remind me of my younger years when I could hike like a mountain goat. Now I'm too old for that. Loved exploring this historic area vicariously with you. Keep on doing this!
That was an old bed spring not a classifier . Nice video .Thanks I allways enjoy your videos even if your to young to know what some of the old things are . But your young with energy to do the hiking . Thanks again.
I enjoyed your video very much. I definitely added myself to your following. Look forward to more adventures with you.
Thank you.
thanks for the hike 👍🍺
Great adventure and interesting finds. Trenton Iron Co, was in Trenton, NJ. Thanks for another great video.
Very brave to sit in that Outhouse, but now you can probably say you're the last person to ever sit in it! That cabin is really cool and I bet it was probably being kept up by somebody until 10 or 20 years ago, probably some people have a lot of special memories there and they just got too old to hike in there anymore. Excellent video!👍
Awesome place.
21:14 the long thing with the square center is a die holder which uses square threading dies, usually for cutting pipe threads in that style. A blacksmith was important because picks, drills, and other tools require sharpening nearly daily--and often a new hard point is forge-welded on. In England in that era, the Miner had to pay to re-point and repair his tools, not the mine owner--so you were careful with them.
Miner's pick will usually have the point on only one side like the example shown at 37:25. It is not that the other pick end broke off. Having a point on only one side allows work in tighter areas and without your back swing being dangerous to other people and things. Often there won't even be a stud remaining opposite the pointy end (that can be used as a hammer). Crystals as shown can be cleaned of the iron stains using oxalic acid, which is easily obtainable and cheap. Takes a long soak.
Those views! Great job guys!
Awesome video, thanks for sharing!
What amazes me is how in the world they were able to transport those extremely heavy/awkward pieces of equipment way up there... no expense was spared in any way that's for sure. Of all the places you've been, this one especially reminds me of the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges !
My favorite movie of all time
The cable alone for the tramway must have been a bitch to get up there. I’ve got a 45’ 5/8 strap that weighs probably 75-100 lbs, they hauled hundreds and hundreds of feet up there
Very cool video bros. I would love to see this long lost ghost town in it's entirety, such a wonderful, astonishingly magnificent place in history. Im getting old, and my health is steadily declining. I kive in eastern Oregon, but was bornbin Reni Nv... I remember as a kid living on a hirse ranch south of Reno near Thomas creek, and Falena creek, in the foothills leading up to Lake Tahoe. And not far from steamboat springs. As a kud veing i was raised on a horse ranch, i remember all the kids in my rural neighborhood all the kids where i grew up as a small child had hirses or ponies. I had my own pony at age 5 but also rode big horses too. It wasnt nithing for the country bunkin kids to go hirseback riding for milesvand miles. Remembering back, i remember the kids in my neighborhood going horesback riding way up into the foothills and that there were mine portals and drift mines all over the hillsides. All kids knew to stay out of them, but that didnt seem to stop us, sometimes we'd go in them with flashlights and look around. We called them caves. Some of them had bats in them, and some kids would repeat horror stories about the caves. For the most part that would keep us mostly out of them. But not always, therecwas all kinds of neat things to discover, (artifacts) that had been left behind including rock cabins. We had one that we repuposed as our fort/clubhouse where we would meet up and have picknicks and and roast wieners on an open firepit or sometimes we would use the pot belly cook stove in the cabin to cook bacon and beans, or sometimes just fried potatoes, we'd all sneak out of the house with somthing. I remember the first time i ever had a fried balony sandwich was in that cabin with the kids in the neighborhood. Back then the nieghbors lived a long ways apart... at least quarter to hlf mile ay or so. But that isn't all that far on horseback.
My dad was a fireman, but after attending college for equine pathology with aspurations to become a veterinarian, he instead went to Tennessee to a ferrier school and when he returned he started shoing all our horses because we had quite a few. Around 40 or so. Moms passion was equestrian riding, and she had hundreds and hundreds of trophies and ribbins. We raised Arabians, but also kept other hores and big creatures like burrows pack mules and we also had Jersy milk cows. And pet goats. I had a goat named Billy that i learned to ride before my pony, and had a miniture stage coach that Billy would pull me around in... so long as i had a horsewhip in my hand, or a switch, or some kind... so long as i had a switch, long stick, or a good old horse whip, Billy would do anything I wanted. My pony was a minture paint horse whom I call my horsey!a my favorite joke as a child... which, I thought was halarious, was, my horsey went doo doo! It seemed to make everyone laugh, so I figured why not wear it out! As a child, kids were not allowed to cuss, but the phrase doodoo was perfectly fine... everybody knew it meant the same thing as shit! But that word was off limits to minors when i was a child. I never heard much stronger language from my folks when i was little. But thought Bastard was the ultimate swear word because to this day i can remember my mother using it when she was thoroughly pissed off! I remember her cussingcat her car when it wouldn't start she would call her Cadillac a son of a bithchen BASTARD! When the battery would die... Man that would make her mad as Hell...
I remember, she would say the gosh damned bat tree is dead, she be saying under her breath... you son of a bitchin no good BAT TREE!Ipayed 14 dollarsfor you! You sonofa bitchen n I goid BAT TREE!
I'd cautiously aporoached her, and asked,what's wrong mama ?, and she'd say my gosh damned BAT TREE is deader than a door nail, and its brand spanking new! I knew as a child, that, that was enough... when mama started talking about spankins! But had to ask whats a doornail mama? Praying it didnt have nothing to do while i was playing, car driver in her car when she wadnt looking...
Playing with all the knobs and buttons in a convertible caddilac. Id turn in the radio and roll the windiws up and down with the switches on the door panal... me and my sister would play with me for the convertible roof and take turns having rides on it because it was electric. It ain't no wonder the bat tree would be dead. After pullingvall the knobs and dials and such... i pribabky turned on the h a adlights and didnt ever know it.
Ok, i digress here... started getting carried away to my childhood... sorry...
But anyway, the hand crank blower that says buffali forge is part of a forge that is missing... my dad had one of those. Even though in 1967 they had cold horse shoes made of a softer alloy that did nit require heating to shape the shoes... my dad became a farrier starting with our horses.... the nieghbirs heard about him from the only veterinarian in the Reni area at the time, doctor Stansbury, whom my darger had interned with fir a shirt stint before quitting his job at the Reni fire department if about ten years. He begsn mak I ng mire miney on his days off in one weekend he could make more than a months salary being a fire fighter. Which in 1968 paid $375.00 a month. Which was GOOD money back then. A few u ears later he would earn as much as $500.00 a dayduring the 70's and was self employed which he loved. Mom and dad divorced in 1968, mom sold the ranch and we moved to north shore lake Tahoe wher mom was employed as a blackjack dealer at the Crystal Bay club. She met my step father the night we were moving up there when she got stuck in a snow banj late at night just blicks from our new house. She was pilling a uhaul trailer and it was the stirm of the century that year with record sniwfall. It got up t I about 15- 20 feet deep in Incline Village that year. There was record snow drifts in Truckee on Donner pass that year that were measured at 75 feet deep, or high... it may of beenc1969, i cant remember for sure. All i kniw is my step dad happened along late at night probably 10 or 11 pm, to find my dear old mother stuck on the side I f the road in a snow bank. She was shoveling snow when he... a airline pilit for Pan Am happened along and helped her out. He was just on his way home too from Reno in a Saab, which at thectimecwas one of the few front wheel drive cars. He offered to give us a ride home and mim put us to bed, then went back for her car. That was how she met my ste I dad... whim i didnt like because i never understoid why my dad never came back home. I wascto youngvto kn I w whatcwas going on and mim never told us they divorced... So it was a confusing time.
Id love to go check out that ghost town and the mine shaft if i could ever find it. I wonder where is it.
Does anyone know?
Or will you tell?
Dang man your making me miss my youth, I used to explore those kinda areas just so cool thanks for taking us along!
that's an excellent site, glad you made it in there!!. Thanks for sharing.
I'm all about the history but those views are breathtaking.
The round piece at 24:50 is a clutch dog. There would be an identical piece the would interlock to engage a shaft or disengage. Imagine lugging all the parts up into the mountains
Yep, pretty cool area and that hike getting in, wow!
Your awesome keep up the great adventures love the vlogs and mines 😎👍🏻🇺🇸🦅
Great job on the video, Jerith and Johnny. Nice accomplishment for you both to get up to those remote areas.👌👍
27:00 the blower would have been connected to a wooden frame table with coal in the center.
The set up would be for blacksmithing. We have one of the same in our family heritage collection.
Beautiful! Thank you for taking me to place I will likely never see first hand!
Now, that's what i like to see. So much history, artifacts, cool hike etc.
Awesome as always. Thanks for sharing. Be safe. 👍🙂🙏🥾🥾🥾🥾
Wow, that view from 1:06 🤩
Incredible resolution at 1080p!
Great video, was it cold when you were hiking? I was worried about snakes. Then you went into that cave and I was worried about bears, mountain lions and snakes., same with the cabin...love the beauty and awesomeness of it all❤
24:49 Some sort of shaft coupling, like a very crude clutch to engage/disengage the engine
26:37 I would say that is a fan (ie bellows) for a blacksmith's forge, and with all the odds and ends around, that was likely the shop/forge cabin
37:15 Half of a pair of blacksmith tongs... like a very extended pair of pliers
Makes me wanna have a cold “ Beverage “…..😏. That’s a grueling hike to that town , I recognized the place from the one seater outhouse …. Looks WAAAY overgrown now from brush from when I last saw it . Pretty cool video here , and ask Johnny if he’s in anyway related to Lucy Garcia , the Bar maid who used to work in the bar on west side of Highway 395 in Lone pine . I remember her saying she had a couple of sons , and was just curious. Thanks,& stay safe guys 😎👍
So cool!❤
Dude! That outhouse is sketchy! Literally shitting on the edge ;)
Lol..imagine having to use it in the middle of the night. Did the crap just go into the canyon?🤔
That’s not like walking on a sidewalk in St. Paul,Minnesota. Million thanks. From St.Paul,Minnesota.
Fascinating.
I'm so jealous! Such an incredible place. Thanks for the video!
Great job of documenting all the old rusty stuff. you didn’t spill the beans on the name of the town.
26:46 the Buffalo Forge hand crank fan, is for a blacksmith forge. It’s too small to provide air into the mine. The blacksmith would only crank on it a short time to get his fire hot.
I would love to go on a hike with you and your friends some time. My wife and I love exploring old areas, especially when it comes to mining.
wow your spot on - relentless definitely! almost an understatement - these mountains are ridiculous, steep, so rocky in all sizes, damn right dangerous, and very easy to slip on and bust an ankle, let alone the possibility i guess of the unwelcome surprise in the shape of a hissing snake of two - it's proper goat country, about the only thing (and the snakes) that live there - but still amazing to see the odd spot of human activity from the past
incredible to see such things last so long from an age when things were build to size and riveted together, no welding, anything like this in the UK would have either rusted to nothing or been eaten by critters, when you say how old stuff is, the timber looks brand new, like its just been put there
amazing place to get to - if you have goat legs and can get there - keeps you fit though
To the south up and over ridge from the stamp mill there are more mines and another intact cabin. Hell of a hike.
Seems like there would also be a larger mine very close to where this prospect is. The waste rock pile appears to be much bigger and has more color than the adit he explored.
The blower was not for mine ventilation it is for a blacksmith forge to pump air into the coals and increase heat. We had one on the farm years ago. Awesome hike in, very tough.
I had to chuckle when he said that...
Just came across both videos of this adventure. My Dad moved our family to Nome, Alaska and when all of us kids would become too much my ,at the time had been Chief of Police, he would take me my two brothers and two sisters and our mom all out to go hunt wild blue berries and explore the old mine dredges and cabins. Pretty cool stuff. Thank you for sharing this and bringing back some childhood memories. Stay safe and keep bringing the Cool finds and adventures
I think the hand crank blower was used to heat a blacksmith forge,
We appreciate your dedication and efforts very much. A big thanks to you guys.
What an incredible journey Jerith and Johnny. Kudo's to both of you. Thank you for sharing such a grand history with the rest of us. And, yes, the 5 stamp mill was unbelievable! ♥
Horizontal Firetube boiler and the tank atop is the steam dome where the safety valve and the main steam pipe would have been attached.
dam son; so totally amazing how well that stuff preserves in the desert. I appreciate all the effort, preparedness and knowledge; looks like a lot of fun.
So cool, I had to look up what a stamp mill did. Found an awesome video of the Cossak Twenty Stamp Mill demo . How brutal it was to bring that up the mountain and keep all the parts in working order.
34:08 - seriously, that cabin - with it's mold and packets and mice gives you the exact taste what living there was like - I love old bothys/cabins/gites/refuges in the wilds - so very interesting.
Second time watching your videos and I subscribed your videos are very interesting please keep the great videos coming friend from Scotland and happy new year friend 🎉🎉🎉
Loved this 2 part series. Thanks for taking us along.
Amazing that a fire did not destroy the stamp mill in all those years. I think the blower might have been for a forge. The piece next to the pick looks like one half of blacksmiths tongs.
For sure, your right
I believe the blower is for a forge also
Nice vid guys. I liked the still shots added. It would be a good idea to bring a gold metal detector to this place. And take a few samples from that mine.
Another great video! Not the ghost town I was thinking of, but I do know of. Heck of a hike into and out of that little town for sure, hard to imagine all the work involved getting the heavy equipment up there back in the day! Keep up the great work.
That's amazing, i will do a hike like whit with the family soon! thanks for posting!
37:20 That is a half of a set of forging tongs. As in at one time a smith dude would hold a workpiece with that set of pliers and to put it into the forge to heat up...
Imagine the sight,sound and smell of that thing banging away! Somebodies hopes and dreams right there
21: 16 Big slab above fireplace is a Mantle.
Most home owners everywhere else had a wooden mantle.
Good observation.❤
Too bad the cabin was too nasty to sleep in, it did look cosy from the outside though. Your friend did not appear to have slept well during the night 😏
Hopefully somebody with craftsman’s skills will visit the cabin occasionally, as the windows could need some fixing. Besides that, it appears as if someone has maintained the cabin during the years. Interesting trip 👍🥰
The BLM makes frequent trips to assure it's not destroyed . Didn't you see the bright yellow sign ?
Who knows how old that yellow sign is?
One day it will be stolen, because it has become an antique 😏
@@jakeforrest I think that anyone that has the mettle (balls) to make the arduous trek to the most isolated mining site in the state won't be stealing anything .
@@rickobrien4025 That is also the reason that the most intact cabins always seem to be far far away from everything.
I would take the pick and buy a new handle!
Excellent exploration! Loved the mill and cabin. I bet the spring right next to the cabin was really appreciated back in the day and still sweet to drink from. The mine though small was filled with beautiful colors. I would've been sorely tempted to take the pickaxe just outside to some of the formations and it would've been fun to gather up some of the pyrite granules. But then it wouldn't be there for the next explorer to see. Picking up souvenirs outside amongst the tailings is considered acceptable.
Cool tram towers!
I need to move some old metal around on my property.
Host, can you please provide a rough schematic of these tram towers, building materials, & what was usdd to power it?
39: 45 yes, pyrite.
Excellent example & all still intact in the wall. Good observation.
What you were calling a steam engine looks more like a large hit and miss engine they were very common back then.
Good stuff. Thanks!
I can’t believe you didn’t go in any of those mines. If that much artifacts were still out in the open I imagine there would probably be more in the mines.
I watched this twice because I forgot I watched it last night lol. Great video bro
Bravo! Well done! Thanks for taking us along. What a treasure!
That was a neat cabin. Lots of cool artifacts
The cabin is called Frenchies cabin and its in beveridge CA
They run the stamp mill in mariposa now and then like 4th of july. Great to see isolated up there....kinda concerned about thecwater and mercury contamination. I used to go to a working mine in southern , quartz...not old like this ...more luke 30s to 60s....but of the same cloth
well done
That looked like silver ore in that last mine you entered.
Did you guys come across any snakes. Have not watched all the way through yet still watching
Great job! Is this the same Johnny as in the Cerro Gordo videos?
Good Lord, I'd be at the bottom of the canyon in a blink of an eye! No wonder this is an 1870's ghost town!
Now that cabin is cool as hell. I appreciate y'all sharing this video with us.
How did they do it, no electricity etc. So much respect for these miners.
26:45 Is a blower for making coal hot enough for blacksmithing or melting ore
Thanks for sharing this 👍. My guess is that all that machinery was brought in piece by piece and assembled on site. That generation was certainly an amazing bunch. 👍
Amazing scenery, wow. You guys are awesome. These videos are really interesting and educational. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for sharing your video. Wow what a hike. Wow so awesome. ❤😊
Some speculation that there are heavy metals from the mining operation in the water up there but if you're close to the source, likely fine. Rough place to get into. How was the drive up top?
Thanks I really enjoyed the out door people like you
History at its finest. Wow what a site. thx for sharing, specially for ppl who cant hike or see this in person. Just an awesome find. Keep on doing what you do.
Oh a life adventure thank you so much. Machete wish i could see you using it to see items underneath it?this is so amazing finds wow 1800s I can only imagine how it was like living back then so worth seeing thru your eyes makes it real . Thank you , thank you, so much very greatful for you Detective .
How do you guys like that MSR pump? I have one but never used it yet?
Very cool. I love the old steam engine. You scared me walking into a rocky brush. Snakes
Rusty iron sometimes looks like good targets metal detecting. Anytime you see horseshoes or axe heads conveniently on the trail someone probably dug them up and set them aside.
What mountain range is this?? Looks super familiar..
Wow amazing stay safe walking down .I heard water in the background most of the video:).
Very nice video ❤thanks for sharing