The Bucyrus Erie equipment on the truck you filmed is a cable tool well drilling rig used extensively from many years back clear up into the '70s, '80s, and even possibly '90s. Very common throughout the western US at least.
Another amazing post! Looks like Mars with all those lifeless grey deposits everywhere! Fav part was Skyline View and your shots of the creek and stream. Love the yummy bacon w/w sandwich too! Best, from Colorado!
I believe the truck is for digging well's. Thank you Tristan for the getaway from my bed .I have been fighting CRPS for almost a year now and your videos give me a way to escape!
The is used to "drill" for wells, it actually drove a well rather than drill it as we think of drilling. The head was dropped repeatedly then it was bailed with a bucket type fixture to remove the dirt etc. and hopefully mud and water. Many had a water supply to aid in the process. Nice show. I came into this a bit late.
Yay! Maine represents! Mainer here! Can't wait for your East hike videos when you conquer your 'highest point in every state' quest. Just keep in mind that you need a reservation for Knife Edge. You can't climb Katahdin without doing Knife Edge! (Well you can but why would you) Enjoy!
Wow your video's are truly amazing the views are breath taking some pretty places thanks for allowing me to come along on your adventures peace and lots of love from Louisiana
Thanks Amanda! Yep, the weekend was great. I spent four days camping, hiking, climbing, rappelling, and kayaking with my brother in the desert. No complaints :)
I wonder the same thing about industrial vehicles abandoned in lonely, deserted places. Probably outlived it's usefulness and they felt it more feasible to leave it behind than haul it back and try to repair. Thanks, Tristan, for another awesome video of the park and it's incredible land formations!!!
Fantastic scenery! Very moonscapish around the Factory Butte! I believe the abandoned vehicle you located may have been a drill rig of some sort. Perhaps only a vin # could tell for sure ~
Edge of the world is right. What incredible views. I love open spaces. Definitely have to check out Utah one day. That’s why i bought my 4Rrunner for just that kind of exploring. Awesome video.
Most states have really amazing and scenic places, but I think that Utah has them all beat as far as density of beautiful places. There's just so much to see and do here. Definitely worth the trip!
Don't know if you go back 4 years to look at comments but I have been re watching some of your vids and thought I'd comment on the well drilling rig. I believe that is what that truck is. Maybe they went broke trying to find water out there. 🤠
Man oh man, I was in Hanksville last September and never saw that mill. It would've made an awesome photo. I remember thinking I was on some desolate planet near Long Dong. I wonder the same thing about abandoned vehicles, farm machinery and tools. I love to photography them and wonder what their story is. Sky Line view is awesome. The footage was spectacular and that wind, geez!!! It has formed that sandstone like nothing I've ever seen. I think the best part of your video's is seeing what treasured campsites you find. L.O.L. I feel the same way about your book, I've been eyeing it for a while and finally got it. Thanks for sharing Tristan.
The mill isn't on the main road going through town, so you have to know where it is to find it. I passed through town several times before realizing it was there. And thanks for getting the book! Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks Deanna.
I don't offhand remember where I got the information, but the abandoned truck you came across on the Hartnet/Cathedral Valley Road is a water well drilling rig. It was used to drill the cattle grazing well just 50 feet south of where it's located and was then abandoned.
Happy Sabbath, hope you are enjoying yourself!!! I was in the same area a year ago on a 13-day vacation at the Grand Canyon and then hiking at Five National Parks in UT and the Dead Horse State Park! Skyline view was erry!!! Had to spend the night near Hanksville, because the GPS would not work and a ton of signs said that cows can be on the road way 24 hours a day with free range movement!!! At that time, I learned of the BLM while on the Colorado River in AZ. We had great fun! Enjoy your travels...I'm eating my first meal of the day, it is a ram mean; that consist of zoodles with raw walnut meat mixed with raw portabellas, tomatoes, and other seasons with onion...My annual National Park pass is set to expire at the end of the month! Great value!!! Plan on getting a new pass. I love that area of the country!!! I see you found one of those free range cows that pop up out of no where including on the road way at night!!! Our GPS on the phone and tablet did not work and our paper maps from AAA is all we had left!!! Paper maps are the best backup plan. Most of our nights we were at a KOA, but the one night when we just crossed over the UT state line and capatured our first UT sunset at Monument Valley! We parked our rental RV between two tractor trailers at a gas station that was kind to let us stay for free. I had no idea until last month, about overnight camping at a BLM!
Hi Angela. I rarely see free range cows on the actual paved roads, so I think you would have been fine driving at night. I love my national parks pass. I get one every year and definitely get my money's worth. I recommend the app HERE WeGo. It's an offline navigation app. Basically you can download entire states to have offline, so it'll work when you have no connection. Sounds like you still had a great trip, though!
Tristen I just found you channel a few weeks ago and loving it. I love the Utah area and you go into great depth in your vlogs. I understand you moved to Idaho in Pocatello. Idaho is my go to place to hike and get centered. I am headed to Boise in two days to enjoy the mountains and high plains desert. Thanks for taking us along.
No worries on the wind I mean it's not like you can control it. :) And wow that scenery is crazy beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.. so many places I want to go and see.. heading to Colorado in August for a little trip.. I want to see everything LOL
Wow, unbelievable scenery! I have never seen anything like that. The formations were amazing. Skyline View to me looked like you were looking down at a dried up lake....LOL Great video and so interesting! You never fail to bring the best scenes in your videos. Killer sandwich, too! Thanks!
As the kids today say... "I'm so jelly". 😉 I took a solo vacation through Utah almost 40 yrs. ago, and was amazed by all the natural beauty on display. I hope to see it again, first hand, when I retire. You've got a great setup in your Rav, that I hope to emulate in my Pilot. I'd never imagined it possible had I not stumbled upon your videos. Yeah, those sandwiches were drool worthy. Thanks for sharing your video travelogue with us.
Hi Don. If I can do it in my RAV4, you can certainly do it in your Pilot. Thanks for watching! There's a lot of really gorgeous stuff to see in Utah. You should definitely make the trip back out here.
Terrific episode. It's always fun to see a mix of historic sites and amazing wilderness. Skyline View blew me away...immediately added it to my Utah To Do list for when I eventually make it down there...what an incredible spot! Thank you!
Thanks! Skyline View was a big surprise. I saw it on the map while planning this stage of the adventure, and it was just unreal. Definitely worth the visit. Thanks for watching!
First...again, thanks for sharing your adventures, I always enjoy them. The scenery was incredible!! I also enjoyed your visit to the mill, very interesting. I liked your campsite near the stream, I enjoy the sounds of moving water.
I love the excitement in your voice when you get to a good spot. I get the same way. Entertaining and informative as always. Thanks for sharing Once again. I’m headed up to Canada to camp at the mouth of the St. Mary’s river where it opens up into Lake Superior to watch freighters. Found a real quiet campground. I’m excited.
Audubon Field Guide definitely a good acquisition. Various apps. on devices can be great but there's still nothing like a good old book to reference when your camping.
The book is a good starting point and reference, but I need to get more specialized books for the plants. One tiny picture of a plant at a certain time of year (like when it's blooming) isn't super helpful. But overall I like the book. Thanks Ted.
it is definitely a very peculiar place..the color of the soil makes it look like apartment buildings. and how did it get so busy...in that little fragment 2 cars passed by unbelievable lol. The sandwich did look good :>)...looking forward to another episode
The truck is an old International Harvester drilling rig used for oil or water. Many times they are left in an area rather then driving them all over to have some basic equipment there for future explorations.
Long dong silver, LOL LOL! The grey desolation makes me think lunar, so that vehicle is a lunar module. :D. I love this area, Capitol Reef looks awesome. I'd like to drive to Skyline view, but I'll skip over hanging over the edge. Also like your sandwich, You do great videos, happy I found your channel.
Favorite part was the Mill ... intriguing engineering would be fabulous if some could do a computer scan of the Mill and see if it could be replicated demonstrating its functionality. Thank you for unique vista views as you do take the roads less traveled and that is why I enjoy your videos!
Every time you have crackers and cheese, I want crackers and cheese. I'm going to have to buy some and the next time you start talking about eating crackers and cheese during one of your videos, I will be able to have some too.
Thanks for taking us along, the scenery looked almost like a foreign planet very exciting. On a side note, checking out abandoned trucks is kind of spooky, if it was me I'd be afraid of finding a body yikes lol. Carry on carry on.
I mean, I could tell that the truck had been there for a while. Its wheels were sunken into the ground a couple of inches. And it was pretty close to a main road, so it's not like I would have been the first person to ever check it out. No bodies in there, as far as I could tell. Thanks Donna!
Definitely some different things you see out West there🙂. Love it though. I think my favorite parts of the video was the 🐄 and it was nice to see that even though it was because of the weather; you had a more chilled relaxed day.
Enjoying your channel. Looked at Google maps for Long Dong Silver Rock and it say "permanently closed". The fragility of the rock is probably the reason.
It’s March 14 2020 and I was supposed to leave for a UK trip at the end of this month with my 15 year old..I don’t want to get stuck anywhere so I called off the trip and instead decided to take my 2019 Subaru Forester on a road trip from Washington state down to the Lake Powell area in AZ to do some kayaking and then over to Zion to “attempt” to do angels hike and thanks to this video I just added a stop on sky view overlook and long dong silver rock formation... Oh, one of the places I had planned on hiking in the UK was a rock formation called The Old Man of Storr... It looks very similar to the long dong, lol Anyway, thanks for the great videos
Really great video !,,,I think I like your since of adventure and awe the most. Just to imagine someone building that water wheel, OMG. Myself having trouble just building a canoe mounting system for my van is daunting. lol
I love maps and BLM land... so helpful when I don’t get a signal. These formations are really cool! I must live vicariously through you, because I cannot climb up these hills anymore, but I really do enjoy these videos. Thank you for sharing
Just found your channel and really dig it. Thanks for all your great videos! Something you may enjoy is a tailgate table. I'm not affiliated with any company but seeing you pull out one of your bins to use as a table, I think this mod is one that you may find pretty handy.
Have you got some kind of CGI app for making up weird rock formations! Some really crazy scenery out there. Good video again. Makes one realise how big America is and how small England is. Take care.
Lol, creating CGI landscapes sounds like way too much work. And yep, this country is enormous, and huge swaths of the West are still basically empty and mostly wild. It's great!
Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie. Renamed Bucyrus International, Inc. in 1997, it was purchased by Caterpillar in a US$7.6 billion[7] ($8.6 billion including net debt) transaction that closed on July 8, 2011. At the time of its acquisition, the Bucyrus product line included a range of material removal and material handling products used in both surface and underground mining.
Interesting stuff . Kinda bummed that the climbers didn't follow the " Leave no Trace " rule . That webbing you showed will be there for decades before rotting away . Oh well ! Thanks again .
The mill was really neat. I like how there is all of those mechanical parts and in the end it just drags a big ole rock around in a circle. LOL. I'm sure it was effective. That grey landscape however, looked a bit strange. Was it muddy? Seems you were leaving tracks as you walked. Good stuff.
We were out driving around in hanksville near swing arm and factory butte, is long dong silver out that way too? We were trying to find it yesterday! Looks so incredible 👍🏻
Welcome to our backyard! I live in Hanksville and offer Off-road rescue services. Anyone watching this video and thinking of coming thru the area, stop by and say hi and get my number. This dirt is very soft and can get you stuck in a hurry. Just ask for Rabbitbrush in town and everyone knows where we are located. Happy trailing everyone!
Thank you for the videos. It's Aug 2020 and watching. I know you moved to Idaho, do you miss Utah? Say hi and give your wife a hug from us. Has she started to teach? Oh Hi to Bowser also 😀💞
This was filmed in March. Right now it's hot in this area (90+ degrees), but not the crazy hot (100+ degrees) that it gets in mid-summer. Cancun is great! I spent a month there, a month in Playa, and three months on Cozumel. Great area.
Great video as always! Liked it all. Just one question, you were saying that area around Long Dong was bizarre and strange, but you didn't say why you thought so.
Great video, as usual. Love your channel. :) I had a question about the SW heat in the summer. I also have a RAV4 and I’m planning my first stealth campaign trip around AZ. Is the heat in the summer a huge problem? How do you deal with it?
Yes, you'll fry in the Arizona heat in summer. I don't envy you. Try to park in the shade. Get a bunch of fans and point them on you. Roll all of your windows down and maybe open up the back door to get air flow. And maybe get a towel wet and drape it on you. And if possible, camp in the higher-elevation areas. Good luck!
hi Tristan, excuse my curiosity but would you be able please to disclose your educational background, unless it is something you dont feel like divulging. The reason behind my question is that in each video and Ive watched a great deal of your content, you use a whole bunch of expressions you dont normally hear in day to day life.
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The Bucyrus Erie equipment on the truck you filmed is a cable tool well drilling rig used extensively from many years back clear up into the '70s, '80s, and even possibly '90s. Very common throughout the western US at least.
Probably used for drilling/repairing water wells
Desolation has its own particular beauty.
Well said!
I still Enjoy this old adventures Tristian !! Watching Sept 2024
That "strangest place" is AWESOME!!!
Another amazing post! Looks like Mars with all those lifeless grey deposits everywhere! Fav part was Skyline View and your shots of the creek and stream. Love the yummy bacon w/w sandwich too! Best, from Colorado!
I believe the truck is for digging well's. Thank you Tristan for the getaway from my bed .I have been fighting CRPS for almost a year now and your videos give me a way to escape!
The is used to "drill" for wells, it actually drove a well rather than drill it as we think of drilling. The head was dropped repeatedly then it was bailed with a bucket type fixture to remove the dirt etc. and hopefully mud and water. Many had a water supply to aid in the process. Nice show. I came into this a bit late.
Yay! Maine represents! Mainer here! Can't wait for your East hike videos when you conquer your 'highest point in every state' quest. Just keep in mind that you need a reservation for Knife Edge. You can't climb Katahdin without doing Knife Edge! (Well you can but why would you) Enjoy!
Love Capitol Reef, I can't wait to go back and see Cathedral Valley.
Wow you have a dinner guest. Just a curious steer. Your sandwich looks yummy. Enjoy.
My favorite was Skyline View! I will be there this October ! Can't wait!
Really loving your channel. Utah is so amazing.
Wow your video's are truly amazing the views are breath taking some pretty places thanks for allowing me to come along on your adventures peace and lots of love from Louisiana
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks Dana! I appreciate you watching and commenting.
Sweet place to hike, i need to spend more time on the west side of the country.
You definitely do. There's so much cool stuff to see and do!
Favourite part = Skyline view I will certainly be camping there for a few days to enjoy the views. Hope your having a nice weekend?
Thanks Amanda! Yep, the weekend was great. I spent four days camping, hiking, climbing, rappelling, and kayaking with my brother in the desert. No complaints :)
I wonder the same thing about industrial vehicles abandoned in lonely, deserted places. Probably outlived it's usefulness and they felt it more feasible to leave it behind than haul it back and try to repair. Thanks, Tristan, for another awesome video of the park and it's incredible land formations!!!
Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable explanation. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks Tsuki!
What interesting views! Added to my places to see. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching, Debbie :)
Fantastic scenery! Very moonscapish around the Factory Butte!
I believe the abandoned vehicle you located may have been a drill rig of some sort. Perhaps only a vin # could tell for sure ~
loved the Skyline View. Will put that on my list of places to visit this summer.
It should definitely be on the list. It's an awesome place. Thanks Driven Nomad.
I love the views from the top of the Notem-Bullfrog road, looking at the domes of Capitol Reef.
It's great!
Edge of the world is right. What incredible views. I love open spaces. Definitely have to check out Utah one day. That’s why i bought my 4Rrunner for just that kind of exploring. Awesome video.
Most states have really amazing and scenic places, but I think that Utah has them all beat as far as density of beautiful places. There's just so much to see and do here. Definitely worth the trip!
That whole Mancos Shale area was just otherworldly, like a location for a science fiction movie. Thanks for sharing!
I agree! That's a really unique area that I really enjoyed (apart from the wind). Thanks Matthew.
as always wonderful everything thank you for your work and the way you view nature..
Thanks Mary!
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Don't know if you go back 4 years to look at comments but I have been re watching some of your vids and thought I'd comment on the well drilling rig. I believe that is what that truck is. Maybe they went broke trying to find water out there. 🤠
Man oh man, I was in Hanksville last September and never saw that mill. It would've made an awesome photo. I remember thinking I was on some desolate planet near Long Dong.
I wonder the same thing about abandoned vehicles, farm machinery and tools. I love to photography them and wonder what their story is. Sky Line view is awesome. The footage was spectacular and that wind, geez!!! It has formed that sandstone like nothing I've ever seen.
I think the best part of your video's is seeing what treasured campsites you find.
L.O.L. I feel the same way about your book, I've been eyeing it for a while and finally got it. Thanks for sharing Tristan.
The mill isn't on the main road going through town, so you have to know where it is to find it. I passed through town several times before realizing it was there. And thanks for getting the book! Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks Deanna.
That’s a work over rig, used in the oil field for servicing oil wells
I don't offhand remember where I got the information, but the abandoned truck you came across on the Hartnet/Cathedral Valley Road is a water well drilling rig. It was used to drill the cattle grazing well just 50 feet south of where it's located and was then abandoned.
Happy Sabbath, hope you are enjoying yourself!!! I was in the same area a year ago on a 13-day vacation at the Grand Canyon and then hiking at Five National Parks in UT and the Dead Horse State Park! Skyline view was erry!!! Had to spend the night near Hanksville, because the GPS would not work and a ton of signs said that cows can be on the road way 24 hours a day with free range movement!!! At that time, I learned of the BLM while on the Colorado River in AZ. We had great fun! Enjoy your travels...I'm eating my first meal of the day, it is a ram mean; that consist of zoodles with raw walnut meat mixed with raw portabellas, tomatoes, and other seasons with onion...My annual National Park pass is set to expire at the end of the month! Great value!!! Plan on getting a new pass. I love that area of the country!!! I see you found one of those free range cows that pop up out of no where including on the road way at night!!! Our GPS on the phone and tablet did not work and our paper maps from AAA is all we had left!!! Paper maps are the best backup plan. Most of our nights we were at a KOA, but the one night when we just crossed over the UT state line and capatured our first UT sunset at Monument Valley! We parked our rental RV between two tractor trailers at a gas station that was kind to let us stay for free. I had no idea until last month, about overnight camping at a BLM!
Hi Angela. I rarely see free range cows on the actual paved roads, so I think you would have been fine driving at night. I love my national parks pass. I get one every year and definitely get my money's worth. I recommend the app HERE WeGo. It's an offline navigation app. Basically you can download entire states to have offline, so it'll work when you have no connection. Sounds like you still had a great trip, though!
Tristen I just found you channel a few weeks ago and loving it. I love the Utah area and you go into great depth in your vlogs. I understand you moved to Idaho in Pocatello. Idaho is my go to place to hike and get centered. I am headed to Boise in two days to enjoy the mountains and high plains desert. Thanks for taking us along.
Very appropriate title, it looked other worldly at times! Thanks for taking me to a place I will never get to see. I wish U safe traveling.
Thanks Bonnie! I appreciate you watching and commenting.
Looks like fun, and yes that sandwich looks awesome.
It was freaking delicious :)
Those landscape shots at Skyline View are just other-worldly. Beautiful and amazing. Thank you!
Thanks Barb! It was a really stunning place, and I'm glad that it at least partly came through in the footage.
Fascinatingly eerie landscape.
That's a great way to describe it. Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed it all. The landscape looked like another planet. Amazing Earth! Thank you for showing us all these awesome places.
Thanks Sylvia! It really is crazy how much variety there is to the landscape even in this section of southern Utah. Beautiful place.
No worries on the wind I mean it's not like you can control it. :) And wow that scenery is crazy beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.. so many places I want to go and see.. heading to Colorado in August for a little trip.. I want to see everything LOL
But people will still complain that I need better microphones, etc. Oh well. Like you said, I can't control the crazy winds! Thanks for watching :)
Wow, unbelievable scenery! I have never seen anything like that. The formations were amazing. Skyline View to me looked like you were looking down at a dried up lake....LOL Great video and so interesting! You never fail to bring the best scenes in your videos. Killer sandwich, too! Thanks!
Thanks Carol! Mmm, I still think about that sandwich. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for watching!
That was some very interesting views. The first area was pretty eerie. Great camp spot. Looking forward to the hikes. Davin
Thanks Davin! Yeah, the gray area was unreal. Never really been anywhere else like that. Definitely worth visiting though.
Great video. I was looking for some pointers for Long Dong Silver. Thanks a bunch. Keep exploring.
👍👍 Thanks
@@SUVRVing btw could you tell how far you had to hike to get to long dong silver from where you parked?
I don't remember, sorry
As the kids today say... "I'm so jelly". 😉
I took a solo vacation through Utah almost 40 yrs. ago, and was amazed by all the natural beauty on display. I hope to see it again, first hand, when I retire.
You've got a great setup in your Rav, that I hope to emulate in my Pilot. I'd never imagined it possible had I not stumbled upon your videos.
Yeah, those sandwiches were drool worthy.
Thanks for sharing your video travelogue with us.
Hi Don. If I can do it in my RAV4, you can certainly do it in your Pilot. Thanks for watching! There's a lot of really gorgeous stuff to see in Utah. You should definitely make the trip back out here.
Such a great area . Notom-Bullfrog road was our favorite.
That drive is amazing. And stay tuned, because it'll be in an upcoming video.
Wow, looks amazing. Thank you for sharing this adventure.
It really was incredible. Thanks for watching, Terri.
Terrific episode. It's always fun to see a mix of historic sites and amazing wilderness. Skyline View blew me away...immediately added it to my Utah To Do list for when I eventually make it down there...what an incredible spot! Thank you!
Thanks! Skyline View was a big surprise. I saw it on the map while planning this stage of the adventure, and it was just unreal. Definitely worth the visit. Thanks for watching!
First...again, thanks for sharing your adventures, I always enjoy them. The scenery was incredible!! I also enjoyed your visit to the mill, very interesting. I liked your campsite near the stream, I enjoy the sounds of moving water.
Thanks Lynne! The mill was really neat. You don't see stuff like that too often. As always, thanks for watching and commenting.
Again,,, great stuff MrT👍🏻👍🏻
Going on a trip in about a month. Cant wait to show you my creation I made for my Subaru Forester. Some great ideas came from you.
Awesome! I'm glad I could help. Sounds like you've got an awesome trip planned.
Yeah, international harvester water drilling rig.
Good to know. Thanks!
That truck is a well drilling rig and it's easy to see why they went belly up in that country.
I love the excitement in your voice when you get to a good spot. I get the same way. Entertaining and informative as always. Thanks for sharing Once again. I’m headed up to Canada to camp at the mouth of the St. Mary’s river where it opens up into Lake Superior to watch freighters. Found a real quiet campground. I’m excited.
Sounds like you've got a great camping trip planned! I'd love to do a road trip through Canada at some point in the future. Thanks Jacqueline.
Amazing views!! That sandwich looked yummy! Thanks for sharing!
Lol, it was a really freaking good sandwich! Thanks Alex.
Audubon Field Guide definitely a good acquisition. Various apps. on devices can be great but there's still nothing like a good old book to reference when your camping.
The book is a good starting point and reference, but I need to get more specialized books for the plants. One tiny picture of a plant at a certain time of year (like when it's blooming) isn't super helpful. But overall I like the book. Thanks Ted.
That area by long song silver. incredible landscape, like nothing else I've ever seen.
Really interesting place, right? It was bizarre. Thanks Laurie Love.
it is definitely a very peculiar place..the color of the soil makes it look like apartment buildings. and how did it get so busy...in that little fragment 2 cars passed by unbelievable lol. The sandwich did look good :>)...looking forward to another episode
The sandwich was mmmm. Amazing. Lol thanks for watching and commenting, as always :)
The truck is an old International Harvester drilling rig used for oil or water. Many times they are left in an area rather then driving them all over to have some basic equipment there for future explorations.
Huh. Good to know. Thanks Dale!
Mancos shale and all geologic formations are named after the town where it was first described.
This is your best video yet!
Wow, I'm glad you think so! Thanks Laurie Love!
I just love these videos !
Thanks Susan!
Long dong silver, LOL LOL! The grey desolation makes me think lunar, so that vehicle is a lunar module. :D. I love this area, Capitol Reef looks awesome. I'd like to drive to Skyline view, but I'll skip over hanging over the edge. Also like your sandwich, You do great videos, happy I found your channel.
I'm happy you found my channel too! It's great that you're going back and watching the older videos. There are lots of good adventures back there 🙂
I believe the cold truck was used to "drill" water wells. A friend used to have one.
OLD...not cold! My home water well was drilled with one like that....330 feet deep!
I think you're right. Thanks Bill
Favorite part was the Mill ... intriguing engineering would be fabulous if some could do a computer scan of the Mill and see if it could be replicated demonstrating its functionality. Thank you for unique vista views as you do take the roads less traveled and that is why I enjoy your videos!
The mill was really impressive. I'm amazed that guy was able to make it way up in those mountains. Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Favorite part is the delicious looking sandwich
Lol those were some really good sandwiches. Thanks for watching.
Every time you have crackers and cheese, I want crackers and cheese. I'm going to have to buy some and the next time you start talking about eating crackers and cheese during one of your videos, I will be able to have some too.
Thanks for taking us along, the scenery looked almost like a foreign planet very exciting. On a side note, checking out abandoned trucks is kind of spooky, if it was me I'd be afraid of finding a body yikes lol. Carry on carry on.
I mean, I could tell that the truck had been there for a while. Its wheels were sunken into the ground a couple of inches. And it was pretty close to a main road, so it's not like I would have been the first person to ever check it out. No bodies in there, as far as I could tell. Thanks Donna!
Definitely some different things you see out West there🙂. Love it though. I think my favorite parts of the video was the 🐄 and it was nice to see that even though it was because of the weather; you had a more chilled relaxed day.
Yep, some of the landscape here is definitely otherworldly. It's a ton of fun to explore. Thanks Keri!
Enjoying your channel. Looked at Google maps for Long Dong Silver Rock and it say "permanently closed". The fragility of the rock is probably the reason.
4:17 did you accidentally get teleported to an Alien world lol definitely going there Might even film some kind a weird alien short film there
It’s March 14 2020 and I was supposed to leave for a UK trip at the end of this month with my 15 year old..I don’t want to get stuck anywhere so I called off the trip and instead decided to take my 2019 Subaru Forester on a road trip from Washington state down to the Lake Powell area in AZ to do some kayaking and then over to Zion to “attempt” to do angels hike and thanks to this video I just added a stop on sky view overlook and long dong silver rock formation...
Oh, one of the places I had planned on hiking in the UK was a rock formation called The Old Man of Storr...
It looks very similar to the long dong, lol
Anyway, thanks for the great videos
I'm happy I could help out on your trip! Sorry your original plans fell through, but you picked a good consolation prize 😁
added the skyline view to my visit to utah next year :D
It should definitely be there. Thanks Ellie!
Yep. That is a shallow well drilling rig. Probably broke down and the owner said "leave it". Water well digger.
Huh, interesting. Thanks Garland! That's not the first truck like that I've seen out in the desert. Weird.
Really great video !,,,I think I like your since of adventure and awe the most. Just to imagine someone building that water wheel, OMG. Myself having trouble just building a canoe mounting system for my van is daunting. lol
Thanks Geoffrey! Lol, I know, I can't imagine building something like that, let alone coming up with it in the first place. Crazy.
Thank you ! just wonderful.
I'm glad you liked it, Dee. Thanks for watching.
Personally, I liked the whole video! Great job filming 👍
Thanks Dave! I'm glad you liked it.
I love maps and BLM land... so helpful when I don’t get a signal. These formations are really cool! I must live vicariously through you, because I cannot climb up these hills anymore, but I really do enjoy these videos. Thank you for sharing
Yep, BLM land is great! Lots of space to explore and have to yourself. Thanks for watching.
Just found your channel and really dig it. Thanks for all your great videos! Something you may enjoy is a tailgate table. I'm not affiliated with any company but seeing you pull out one of your bins to use as a table, I think this mod is one that you may find pretty handy.
Thanks Andy, I'll look into it 👍
Very interesting!
Thanks Donna!
The truck might be a pulling unit which would be used to pull and possibly replace well pipe.
Good to know. Thanks Roy.
Have you got some kind of CGI app for making up weird rock formations! Some really crazy scenery out there. Good video again. Makes one realise how big America is and how small England is. Take care.
Lol, creating CGI landscapes sounds like way too much work. And yep, this country is enormous, and huge swaths of the West are still basically empty and mostly wild. It's great!
Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie.
Renamed Bucyrus International, Inc. in 1997, it was purchased by Caterpillar in a US$7.6 billion[7] ($8.6 billion including net debt) transaction that closed on July 8, 2011. At the time of its acquisition, the Bucyrus product line included a range of material removal and material handling products used in both surface and underground mining.
The truck is a small drill rig.
I want to be there on that day and in those condition and go everywhere you've gone.But I wouldn't like that sandwich without mayonnaise.
Thanks
Lol, I'm not a huge fan of most condiments, including mayo, mustard, and ketchup. Shrug.
Interesting stuff . Kinda bummed that the climbers didn't follow the " Leave no Trace " rule . That webbing you showed will be there for decades before rotting away . Oh well ! Thanks again .
Thanks Stan!
Some of those ridges should be called condominium ridge. They look apartment blocks along a beach
Bucyrus Erie was a mining company and that's a crane truck.
good to know.. i was thinking it broke down and they didn't bother with it anymore
Interesting. Thanks Len!
The mill was really neat. I like how there is all of those mechanical parts and in the end it just drags a big ole rock around in a circle. LOL. I'm sure it was effective. That grey landscape however, looked a bit strange. Was it muddy? Seems you were leaving tracks as you walked. Good stuff.
No, the gray landscape was bone dry. It was basically course gray sand. Really weird stuff. Thanks for watching!
We were out driving around in hanksville near swing arm and factory butte, is long dong silver out that way too? We were trying to find it yesterday! Looks so incredible 👍🏻
Yep, same general area
The truck is for well drilling.
Welcome to our backyard! I live in Hanksville and offer Off-road rescue services. Anyone watching this video and thinking of coming thru the area, stop by and say hi and get my number. This dirt is very soft and can get you stuck in a hurry. Just ask for Rabbitbrush in town and everyone knows where we are located. Happy trailing everyone!
Well drilling.
Thanks Darryl.
I'd love to know something about the geology of that beautiful wasteland.
Thank you for the videos. It's Aug 2020 and watching. I know you moved to Idaho, do you miss Utah? Say hi and give your wife a hug from us. Has she started to teach? Oh Hi to Bowser also 😀💞
Would you please say what month your in so we'll know when to go or not in windy days
Curious what the weather like this time of the year. I always wanted to visit the areas but don’t want to fry. Hola from Cancun
This was filmed in March. Right now it's hot in this area (90+ degrees), but not the crazy hot (100+ degrees) that it gets in mid-summer. Cancun is great! I spent a month there, a month in Playa, and three months on Cozumel. Great area.
Great video as always! Liked it all. Just one question, you were saying that area around Long Dong was bizarre and strange, but you didn't say why you thought so.
Because it looks like another planet.
Tristan, do you still have the coordinates of the parking for Long Dong Silver?
Camping next to that big rock reminded me of Joshua tree
Yeah, I can see that. Almost like a Dr. Seuss version of Joshua Tree.
Hi,
How far is Long dong silver from factory Burnett ?
Is it viewable from moon land scape ?
Cable tool drill rig
Hey dude! How long is the driving from the exact butte to the moonscape overlook ?
Thank you.
Great video, as usual. Love your channel. :) I had a question about the SW heat in the summer. I also have a RAV4 and I’m planning my first stealth campaign trip around AZ. Is the heat in the summer a huge problem? How do you deal with it?
Yes, you'll fry in the Arizona heat in summer. I don't envy you. Try to park in the shade. Get a bunch of fans and point them on you. Roll all of your windows down and maybe open up the back door to get air flow. And maybe get a towel wet and drape it on you. And if possible, camp in the higher-elevation areas. Good luck!
hi Tristan, excuse my curiosity but would you be able please to disclose your educational background, unless it is something you dont feel like divulging. The reason behind my question is that in each video and Ive watched a great deal of your content, you use a whole bunch of expressions you dont normally hear in day to day life.
You need a drone .
I wouldn't have been able to fly it at most of the places in this video. Too windy.