This is youtube the way it used to be, no clickbate, no merch and no special sponsor that consumes half the video. Instead, two wonderful people who take us to fabulous places every week for the fun of it. Notice, they have about enough subscribers for beer money. So popularity does not necessarily equate to quality. Gotta love it.
Glad that you approve, Lorrin. I get a bit weary of all the Patreon, Venmo, PayPal, links to sponsors, Amazon gear that gets promoted etc. etc. I figure that RUclips puts enough ads on our videos already so I don't want to add anymore B.S. At least you can skip the ads after a few seconds. Thanks for the nice comment!
She was face to face with a big spider sitting in it's web. It might just as well have been Area 51. I don't think there was much outside that portal. Thanks for commenting, Ken!
some great old finds in that one. yes the coopers used spoke shaves and a cooper's plane to make the barrels. one of my hobbies is antique wood wood working tools once they got the staves tight they would fit the top using the plane to form the grove for the top and bottom it's an art form when you realize they didn't use anything to seal them besides the liquids they stored. and just like you, I find hoops metal detecting and rarely any piece of a stave is left. what a hump to get to that one! when you said steep you weren't kidding! With Julie in the lead it looked like if she looked down at her feet she'd scrape her nose on the hill! makes you wonder who would drive an old truck up that road every day. Thanks for another great explore Guys! be safe and Happy Travels!
We were just talking about how many hoops we find and never any staves. I was trying to put this 9 ne together again but I know it's difficult and there are surely some tricks of the trade that I don’t know. Thanks for your input about the cooper's etc.
@@olivei2484 I've watched it several times. Yes, he's an artist. Glad to see there's still people keeping old hand crafting alive. I lean more twords cabin and furniture building. But I'll give it try.
7:50 F.W. Braun & Company was established in 1888 by Frederick William Braun and were importers and dealers of laboratory supplies and scientific apparatus for assaying. Yes, the hole in the top of a barrel or cask is called the bunghole. And the thin shaped wooden parts of a barrel, cask, or tub are called staves. Seeing those barrel made me think of when I was a kid my dad would buy wooden barrels, cut the top off, fill the barrel with soil, drill some 2 inch holes around the barrel sides, and plant strawberries in the holes.
Keep working on the "smile"(s)😊 and showing🎬 us the workings⛏ of our ancestors. Gonna be 103 here today so this makes the day more tolerable. I like those white knuckle offroad trails, LOL!🙃👀🚙
Thank you Tom and Julie another great adventure thank you for taking us along just got back from camping up in the mountains no service that was awesome.
We carry a fair amount of gear and supplies when we are in a mine in case of an emergency. It can make for a few tight spots. Thanks for commenting, Ody!
Fun one! Nice and dry and so clean the awful paint didnt even stick! Barrels are so cool, back in the day people did amazing things. And some down home guitar-thanks!
Wow what a great ladder to climb!!! Those bottle bottoms were fab to see. Tom what a gentleman weight testing the ladder first!!! LOL A great adventure for sure. Oh and the steep mule trail at the opening..Whoa...Thanks to you 2
I was going to look up those bottle bottoms to date them but didn’t get around to it. Anything that holds ne will definitely hold Julie. Lol. Steep country for aure. Thanks for the comment, Jacob!
I will never figure out how they drove mining trucks and vehicles up and down those rough, steep and narrow roads. Especially the vehicles of that era. Did they even have 4 wheel drive? On a brighter note, I love Julies smile.
You and me both don't understand how they got the old trucks up some of these roads. They had four wheel drive but the suspensions and tires were nothing like what we have today. I guess where there's a will there's a way. Glad that you like Julie's smile. Mine exploring can be rather serious much of the time so a smile is bit rare. Thanks, Jake!
Beautiful explore! It's amazing how easily your Jeep crawled up that hill on the way in. Beautiful scenery along the way. Thanks for bringing us along!
The camera never makes the roads look very steep, but it was. Granny gear and low range did the trick. Glad that you enjoyed it, William. Thanks for commenting!
That was great. Been out to that area quite a bit and always stopped at that ladder🙂. Seemed like it tilted out away from the wall. Y'all did it! Now i know what is up there., That ladder going down was gone then also. Thanks.
That ladder is actually tilted slightly back from vertical which makes it a little harder to climb. I'd like to come back and rope down to the lower part. Thanks for commenting, Richard!
Hey *Tom and Julie!* I found this online about FW Braun - but not much else, although there is a building in Los Angeles named after this person as well: "Established in 1888, the F. W. Braun company were importers and dealers in all kinds of assayers' materials, as well as manufacturers of labor saving appliances for assaying. laboratory supplies of every description and scientific apparatus of different varieties." I found something else that showed they were still in business in 1901, but nothing after that...and it's not apparently related to the Braun shaver company. Thanks as always guys, looking forward to the next one! - Ed on the Ridge
Thanks for doing the leg work researching F.W. Braun, Ed. Comments like yours add enjoyment to the video for those who like to read comments. We appreciate it!
Sometimes that's true. I alway worry about going down a very steep road then not being able to get back up. It's a long walk back to civilization sometimed. Thanks, Paul!
Many times getting there is half of the fun. Especially when the mine is high up and has some interesting outside features. Thanks for the comment, Roger!
Julie You are the bravest female on you tube! You go in dark , narrow places, could be scarry , to me. You are a one of a kind, keep in up! Besides you make yor husband look good! His mine explorer wife!!
I'm sure you do know that feeling. I don’t think miners ever wore backpacks or were overweight. Some of the manways were made for your buddy Slim. Thanks, Jeff!
Glad that you have been here, Philip. Beatty is a good place for us to stay in the RV while hitting Death Valley and the surrounding. Not sure I would live there. Thanks for watching!
you guys must be getting some of that extreme heat being talked about on the news , bet it feels good in the mines. here in wilsonville we are just starting a 5 day span of flirting with triple digits , at 63yo I dont mind watching from the comfort of a.c. thanks for the vid , see you next friday. TONY FROM WILSONVILLE.
We are up in Oregon now so the heat is not a problem. This was recorded about a month ago. Hope you stay cool in Wilsonville, Tony. Thanks for the comment!
I really and truly appreciate what you two do, all the hiking and Jeeping,(which I envy), I really enjoy the inside of these mines, the things we left, the things the miners wrote. Really, I can't wait to meet you two,,,,someday.
I hope you guys carry a personal emergency locator beacon with you incase heaven forbid you get stuck in the heat or whatever you can get rescued fast, great video yall as always, stay hydrated, it's gettin HOT although it hasn't been too bad yet this year, usually here in vegas we're in the 1teens by now so it's a welcomed change, still hot tho, stay safe, see yall in th e next one.
Hey Kevin, we don't carry an emergency locator device, but we are always well prepared to at least spend a night or two in the bush if we need to. Hope you are staying cool in Vegas. Thanks for the comment!
Hi Tom & Julie, whoa that road was so scary towards the end, it was definitely difficult to even see where it went. Those old ladders really amaze me, they were hand built and some of them are better than what's made nowadays. You were both so brave going up that ladder as it looked straight up vertical, I'm really hoping to go out next Wednesday so I can pick something special for you both. Thank you for sharing, much love to you and Pickles. xx 💖
Hi Sue, hope you are feeling a little better. Yes, those old ladders are well made and this one is straight up and then some. The road was steep, too, although it's sometimes difficult to tell on camera. Thanks for the comment and no worries on sending a memento. Wait until you feel good enough to get out comfortably. 💖👍😽
@@TomandJulieMineExploring thanks guys, I am having cabin fever now lol it's been around 3 weeks since I left the house apart from my doctor visit. I cannot wait to get out trust me, I do have my mobility scooter but it's still travelling there and back as well, it all doesn't help my pain but my Husband just bought me a better mattress so at least I can sleep better. We have an adjustable bed that is king size which fits 2 single mattresses in it's frame. Take care guys, much love always. xx💖
Another great mine, I really like the old ladders. To bad that one ladder didn't go all the way to the bottom. Still the two best at covering everything y'all see. God bless you both, stay safe.
Tom and Julie, Thanks for sharing another cool mine. Please stay safe and happy mine exploring. I enjoy your channel, you're one of the better mine exploring channels on RUclips. Hope your not to hot, is it time to go back to Oregon and go fishing?
Thanks for the nice comment. We are back in Oregon. We have several videos that were recorded during the spring that we'll be putting out during the summer.
Hello Julie and Tom. Very nice video. Yeah it's too bad you couldn't go down to the lower level. It was kind of hard to see the Mountain Dew bottle but from what I can see I remember those looking like that when I was in HS and I graduated in 81 so that dates that bottle to around that time I believe. Anyway, go so see you two. Take care always.
The last section or two of the lower ladder was missing. It's probably 15 to 20 feet from the end of the ladder to ground. Hopefully we can get back there and rope down to are what's there. The Dew bottles were the short fat type. I think they had a plastic wrap on them for the logo. Pretty sure it was from the '80s. Thanks for the comment, Stephen!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Ok yes the bottles were short and fat when I was in HS but they had a then styrofoam label on them. I remember I used to peal it off and stuff it in the bottle when I was done.
Thanks for another A+++ video! I remember seeing a past adventure where you showed ladders with curved rungs; cold those be staves from barrels??? Safe travels feeding your Adit addiction!! ;-)
Hi David, I'm not sure which ladders you are referring to. We do see a lot of ladders where the rungs are so worn that they become narrow in the middle making them curved. Maybe that’s what you're thinking of? We saw a ladder not long ago that had several of the worn out or broken rungs replaced with wood from dynamite boxes. That wood is very thin and of poor quality. Not what you want on a mine ladder. We don't often see barrel staves but do see a lot of metal barrel hoops. They must have used the staves for something. Thanks for the comment!👍😁
Thanks for the nice comment. Keep in mind only about two out of three, or less, explores result in a video. The rest just aren't good enough to warrant making the video.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring yes, I get it - i've looked through prob 75 mines in co, az and ca , and two one had track left, never saw an ore car and most don't have shoots or anything worthy of history. harder and harder to find unexplored anything.
As always I enjoyed your video. Did you ever think about putting in some bloopers at the end of each video? Do you have any bloopers ever? It's just an idea. I think it'd be fun to watch a mistake or mishaps.
We did toy with the idea. Our videos tend to be a bit long so it never really panned out. Maybe I should make a whole video of bloopers. Thanks for the suggestion, Eddie!
That'd be cool if you did a whole video of nothing but bloopers people like to watch that you know makes it more personable I like to watch it so make one up looking forward to it.
Another short adventure! Awesome though!! Hope you get some ropes and go down. By the way when you found the other way out where all the coke cans and others were did you venture outside?
Nice video, these ladders are so preserved like they were installed recently. These mines are in the Bullfrog district? Both of you have a safe trip. Where do you normally go after the area you explore, do you travel back further east or head back to Calif? Thanks again for another wonderful trip!
Yes, the wood in these dry desert mines is very well preserved. It would cost a fortune to buy today. This one is in the Bullfrog area. We usually stay in one area for a month then move on to the next place for a month. We make a loop from Central Oregon through Nevada, Eastern California and Western Arizona that takes 8 months to complete. We spend the summers in Central Oregon. Thanks, Ron!
Hello Tom Hello Julie Thank you for this Video . I like your Fotos very much and the overview of the Terrain. The mine is very good but why spray people all this blue paint in the mine . It destroy the mine I wish you both a happy weekend and a good New week Take care Yours Frank Galetzka
Hello Frank. Glad that you like the photos. I don’t know why the survey and assessment people have to paint the mine. I don’t like it either. Thanks for watching and hope you have a great weekend, too.
> Paint marks are for measuring distance in from the entrance, an example is a mark every 100 feet. Locations where samples were collected get a mark. Arrows give direction to the exit or emergency exit. These marks are the results of geologists doing a survey, and are not disrespectful tags.
@@carlwest859 yes i know this but the paint destroy the Look of the mine and their apperance as a historical sight. It is extemly the same as sombody Mark the gravestones in arlingston every 100 feet and spray arrows in the Direktion of the entrance
it's a gold and silver mine, i know the area mines, you are right about geology changing from quartz at the surface to mostly rhyolite, those sheet metal tubes was part the ventilation system, in many area among the dumps and floors, you can pan the gold and sliver dust, hard to believe those ladders are between 70-110+ years old but that was the heyday there/here as i reside in the area, by the size and shape of that mine i would say it was a good one and probably still is, i have a request for you, when exploring these mines, try and figure out what was being mined and use a jewelers loop to see the gold/silver/electrum, if possible? great video, contact me if you are interested in visiting two easily explored gold/silver/electrum mines in that area, regards.
Thanks for your input and the information. I figured it was a gold mine, and probably others like silver, if nothing else just judging from the location. We will be back in the area next spring for a month. I'd love to meet you.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring right on, i own two mines and a millsite that y'all might like checking out, plus i'll put you on the two mines i mentioned earlier, they are safe to explore and you can take home a few high grade specimens as well, regards
I think they just followed the drift until it poked out the side of the mountain. There wasn't much there. The main haulage was the adit that we entered from. Thanks for the comment, Tom and Lori!
F. W. Braun & Company founded 1888 View All ObjectsEstablished in 1888 the F. W. Braun company are "importers and dealers in all kinds of assayers' materials, as well as manufacturers of labor saving appliances for assaying. laboratory supplies of every description and scientific apparatus of different varieties."
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This is youtube the way it used to be, no clickbate, no merch and no special sponsor that consumes half the video. Instead, two wonderful people who take us to fabulous places every week for the fun of it. Notice, they have about enough subscribers for beer money. So popularity does not necessarily equate to quality. Gotta love it.
Glad that you approve, Lorrin. I get a bit weary of all the Patreon, Venmo, PayPal, links to sponsors, Amazon gear that gets promoted etc. etc. I figure that RUclips puts enough ads on our videos already so I don't want to add anymore B.S. At least you can skip the ads after a few seconds. Thanks for the nice comment!
The look on Julie's face at the upper portal was like, oh boy I can see Area 51, I ain't going out there. 😎
She was face to face with a big spider sitting in it's web. It might just as well have been Area 51. I don't think there was much outside that portal. Thanks for commenting, Ken!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring I don't like spiders either.
some great old finds in that one. yes the coopers used spoke shaves and a cooper's plane to make the barrels.
one of my hobbies is antique wood wood working tools once they got the staves tight they would fit the top using the plane to form the grove for the top and bottom it's an art form when you realize they didn't use anything to seal them besides the liquids they stored. and just like you, I find hoops metal detecting and rarely any piece of a stave is left. what a hump to get to that one! when you said steep you weren't kidding! With Julie in the lead it looked like if she looked down at her feet she'd scrape her nose on the hill! makes you wonder who would drive an old truck up that road every day. Thanks for another great explore Guys! be safe and Happy Travels!
We were just talking about how many hoops we find and never any staves. I was trying to put this 9 ne together again but I know it's difficult and there are surely some tricks of the trade that I don’t know. Thanks for your input about the cooper's etc.
Theres a reallyngood Aussie cooper video on yt. Amazing craft.
@@olivei2484 I've watched it several times. Yes, he's an artist. Glad to see there's still people keeping old hand crafting alive. I lean more twords cabin and furniture building. But I'll give it try.
@@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756 There is a good hand roughing of timber videos from Australia and The US Forest Service.
7:50 F.W. Braun & Company was established in 1888 by Frederick William Braun and were importers and dealers of laboratory supplies and scientific apparatus for assaying.
Yes, the hole in the top of a barrel or cask is called the bunghole. And the thin shaped wooden parts of a barrel, cask, or tub are called staves.
Seeing those barrel made me think of when I was a kid my dad would buy wooden barrels, cut the top off, fill the barrel with soil, drill some 2 inch holes around the barrel sides, and plant strawberries in the holes.
Thanks for the information and story about your dad, Duck. We always appreciate your input!
Keep working on the "smile"(s)😊 and showing🎬 us the workings⛏ of our ancestors. Gonna be 103 here today so this makes the day more tolerable. I like those white knuckle offroad trails, LOL!🙃👀🚙
103, that's a bit warm. 👍
Thanks for watching and commenting. 103° is plenty warm. Glad that you liked the steep roads!
Looked like a critter head coming out of the end of that 1 st drift.
I'll have to go look at it again as I didn't notice it. Thanks for commenting, William!
Danke fur das Hochladen und eure Muhe
You're welcome, Wolfgang. Thanks for watching!
Thank you Tom and Julie another great adventure thank you for taking us along just got back from camping up in the mountains no service that was awesome.
It's always fun to get away from it all. Thanks for watching, David!
Another well done adventure! It makes me happy to see your videos post. Thanks for this excellence. 👍🏻
Thanks, Rick. We appreciate your support for our channel!
Scary Explore, with all that checkerboarding on the ribs and back plus all that ground fall you'd never catch me in that one
It didn't seem too bad except where the geology changed and the sound deadened noticibly. Thanks for your input!
That was one tight spot at 11:16 Julie. I enjoy every one of your videos. Thank you very much & Regards from Ody Slim
We carry a fair amount of gear and supplies when we are in a mine in case of an emergency. It can make for a few tight spots. Thanks for commenting, Ody!
Fun one! Nice and dry and so clean the awful paint didnt even stick! Barrels are so cool, back in the day people did amazing things. And some down home guitar-thanks!
I like the old barrels, too. Glad that you enjoyed the mine and the bit of guitar. Thanks for the comment, Robert!
Shafts up, shafts down and tunnels all around... The hike in was desert cool!
Nice little rhyming comment there, Max. Thanks for watching!
Wow what a great ladder to climb!!! Those bottle bottoms were fab to see. Tom what a gentleman weight testing the ladder first!!! LOL A great adventure for sure. Oh and the steep mule trail at the opening..Whoa...Thanks to you 2
I was going to look up those bottle bottoms to date them but didn’t get around to it. Anything that holds ne will definitely hold Julie. Lol. Steep country for aure. Thanks for the comment, Jacob!
I will never figure out how they drove mining trucks and vehicles up and down those rough, steep and narrow roads. Especially the vehicles of that era. Did they even have 4 wheel drive? On a brighter note, I love Julies smile.
You and me both don't understand how they got the old trucks up some of these roads. They had four wheel drive but the suspensions and tires were nothing like what we have today. I guess where there's a will there's a way. Glad that you like Julie's smile. Mine exploring can be rather serious much of the time so a smile is bit rare. Thanks, Jake!
Beautiful explore! It's amazing how easily your Jeep crawled up that hill on the way in. Beautiful scenery along the way. Thanks for bringing us along!
The camera never makes the roads look very steep, but it was. Granny gear and low range did the trick. Glad that you enjoyed it, William. Thanks for commenting!
Good video guys that is some steep roads and ladders, thanks for bringing us along. Smashed the like button and a FB share.
Thanks for the comment andshare, Tom. We appreciate it!
That was great. Been out to that area quite a bit and always stopped at that ladder🙂. Seemed like it tilted out away from the wall. Y'all did it! Now i know what is up there., That ladder going down was gone then also. Thanks.
That ladder is actually tilted slightly back from vertical which makes it a little harder to climb. I'd like to come back and rope down to the lower part. Thanks for commenting, Richard!
Hey *Tom and Julie!*
I found this online about FW Braun - but not much else, although there is a building in Los Angeles named after this person
as well:
"Established in 1888, the F. W. Braun company were importers and dealers in all kinds of assayers' materials, as well as
manufacturers of labor saving appliances for assaying. laboratory supplies of every description and scientific apparatus
of different varieties."
I found something else that showed they were still in business in 1901, but nothing after that...and it's not apparently related
to the Braun shaver company.
Thanks as always guys, looking forward to the next one!
- Ed on the Ridge
Thanks for doing the leg work researching F.W. Braun, Ed. Comments like yours add enjoyment to the video for those who like to read comments. We appreciate it!
The roads are more scary than the mines!
Sometimes that's true. I alway worry about going down a very steep road then not being able to get back up. It's a long walk back to civilization sometimed. Thanks, Paul!
You guys find the coolest places, I didn't see any colorful rocks like the last mine you explored.
This one doesn't have a colorful vein. Copper mines are usually the most colorful mineral veins. Thanks, Peter!
Another great explore. Except that ladder was scary even from here.
That ladder was s steep one. Thanks for watching, Ed!
Nice explore! It looks like getting to a mine is half the adventure sometimes.
Many times getting there is half of the fun. Especially when the mine is high up and has some interesting outside features. Thanks for the comment, Roger!
Likes and subs are up! Another fine video by Tom and Julie! stay safe, stay cool! 😎
Right on Jeremy. Thanks for commenting! 👍👊
Julie
You are the bravest female on you tube!
You go in dark , narrow places, could be scarry , to me. You are a one of a kind, keep in up! Besides you make yor husband look good!
His mine explorer wife!!
Thanks, Julia for the nice comment I really appreciate it!
ATB, Julie
Those soda bottles are from the 80’s when I was a kid used to buy at the store I remember short and fat soda’s bottles
That's what I seem to remember, too. That is 40 years ago already. How time flies. Thanks for your input, Vincent!
Beat The FIRE GOLD WIZARD HERE!
Barely
Loved it, thanks Tom & Julie
You're welcome, Bernard! Thanks for watching!
cool explore you two ... I know that feeling of getting a pack stuck .... be safe out there and keep us posted
I'm sure you do know that feeling. I don’t think miners ever wore backpacks or were overweight. Some of the manways were made for your buddy Slim. Thanks, Jeff!
I have been there many times....I used to live in Beatty. That's about forty plus years ago... No plans to go back....
Glad that you have been here, Philip. Beatty is a good place for us to stay in the RV while hitting Death Valley and the surrounding. Not sure I would live there. Thanks for watching!
you guys must be getting some of that extreme heat being talked about on the news , bet it feels good in the mines. here in wilsonville we are just starting a 5 day span of flirting with triple digits , at 63yo I dont mind watching from the comfort of a.c. thanks for the vid , see you next friday. TONY FROM WILSONVILLE.
We are up in Oregon now so the heat is not a problem. This was recorded about a month ago. Hope you stay cool in Wilsonville, Tony. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks for the tour you two, stay safe on there.
You're welcome, Mick! Thanks for the comment.
I really and truly appreciate what you two do, all the hiking and Jeeping,(which I envy), I really enjoy the inside of these mines, the things we left, the things the miners wrote. Really, I can't wait to meet you two,,,,someday.
Thanks, Mick. We'll have to meet up sometime.
What a really neat place so cool great adventure
Thanks for the nice comment, Mandy!
I hope you guys carry a personal emergency locator beacon with you incase heaven forbid you get stuck in the heat or whatever you can get rescued fast, great video yall as always, stay hydrated, it's gettin HOT although it hasn't been too bad yet this year, usually here in vegas we're in the 1teens by now so it's a welcomed change, still hot tho, stay safe, see yall in th e next one.
Hey Kevin, we don't carry an emergency locator device, but we are always well prepared to at least spend a night or two in the bush if we need to. Hope you are staying cool in Vegas. Thanks for the comment!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Trying to, living in the mojave desert with copd isn't the best thing but i love it here :)
Thank you for what you do.
You're welcome, Dale. Thanks for watching!
Hi Tom & Julie, whoa that road was so scary towards the end, it was definitely difficult to even see where it went.
Those old ladders really amaze me, they were hand built and some of them are better than what's made nowadays.
You were both so brave going up that ladder as it looked straight up vertical, I'm really hoping to go out next Wednesday
so I can pick something special for you both. Thank you for sharing, much love to you and Pickles. xx 💖
Hi Sue, hope you are feeling a little better.
Yes, those old ladders are well made and this one is straight up and then some. The road was steep, too, although it's sometimes difficult to tell on camera. Thanks for the comment and no worries on sending a memento. Wait until you feel good enough to get out comfortably. 💖👍😽
@@TomandJulieMineExploring thanks guys, I am having cabin fever now lol it's been around 3 weeks since I left the house apart from my doctor visit. I cannot wait to get out trust me, I do have my mobility scooter but it's still travelling there and back as well, it all doesn't help my pain but my Husband just bought me a better mattress so at least I can sleep better. We have an adjustable bed that is king size which fits 2 single mattresses in it's frame. Take care guys, much love always. xx💖
Fun stuff.
Great video!
Thanks!
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Thanks, George. Glad you liked it! 👍👍👊
Let me know if you are out here again. I love this area.
Hey Chillis! We'll be in Beatty sometime in April.
Another great mine, I really like the old ladders. To bad that one ladder didn't go all the way to the bottom. Still the two best at covering everything y'all see. God bless you both, stay safe.
Hopefully, we can go back and rope down to see what the lower part of the mine is like. Thanks for the nice comment and for the blessing, Jimmy!
Tom and Julie, Thanks for sharing another cool mine. Please stay safe and happy mine exploring. I enjoy your channel, you're one of the better mine exploring channels on RUclips. Hope your not to hot, is it time to go back to Oregon and go fishing?
Thanks for the nice comment. We are back in Oregon. We have several videos that were recorded during the spring that we'll be putting out during the summer.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Hope you do some videos in the Summer in Oregon.
@@Love_rainy_days We've made quite a few in the past. Here is a link to our Oregon playlist.
ruclips.net/p/PLBirOpgY-NV9aR5YlZXU_xfbo8BZ_bhaC
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Thanks Guys I love Oregon!
Hello Julie and Tom. Very nice video. Yeah it's too bad you couldn't go down to the lower level. It was kind of hard to see the Mountain Dew bottle but from what I can see I remember those looking like that when I was in HS and I graduated in 81 so that dates that bottle to around that time I believe. Anyway, go so see you two. Take care always.
The last section or two of the lower ladder was missing. It's probably 15 to 20 feet from the end of the ladder to ground. Hopefully we can get back there and rope down to are what's there. The Dew bottles were the short fat type. I think they had a plastic wrap on them for the logo. Pretty sure it was from the '80s. Thanks for the comment, Stephen!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Ok yes the bottles were short and fat when I was in HS but they had a then styrofoam label on them. I remember I used to peal it off and stuff it in the bottle when I was done.
That was a fun explore!
Glad that you enjoyed it, Jim. Thanks for the comment!
Enjoyed the episode, you two are the best 👌 Looking forward to your next adventure 😀
Thanks for watching and commenting, Rick. We appreciate it!
i have had ladder night mares .like the ones u guys climb lol
That would be scary. I assume you are having some sort of problems climbing them in your dreams. Thanks for the comment, Todd!
I'm late but here !
No worries.
Thanks for another A+++ video! I remember seeing a past adventure where you showed ladders with curved rungs; cold those be staves from barrels??? Safe travels feeding your Adit addiction!! ;-)
Hi David, I'm not sure which ladders you are referring to. We do see a lot of ladders where the rungs are so worn that they become narrow in the middle making them curved. Maybe that’s what you're thinking of? We saw a ladder not long ago that had several of the worn out or broken rungs replaced with wood from dynamite boxes. That wood is very thin and of poor quality. Not what you want on a mine ladder. We don't often see barrel staves but do see a lot of metal barrel hoops. They must have used the staves for something. Thanks for the comment!👍😁
Nice finds!
Thanks, Mark. Appreciate the comment!
just subscribed been watching for awhile thank you
Always glad to have a new subscriber. Thanks, Jerry!
great explore!!!!!!!
Glad you liked it, Zackson!
super cool! love your dedication to deliver the tough mine explorations :) thank you!
Thanks for the nice comment. Keep in mind only about two out of three, or less, explores result in a video. The rest just aren't good enough to warrant making the video.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring yes, I get it - i've looked through prob 75 mines in co, az and ca , and two one had track left, never saw an ore car and most don't have shoots or anything worthy of history. harder and harder to find unexplored anything.
As always I enjoyed your video. Did you ever think about putting in some bloopers at the end of each video? Do you have any bloopers ever? It's just an idea. I think it'd be fun to watch a mistake or mishaps.
We did toy with the idea. Our videos tend to be a bit long so it never really panned out. Maybe I should make a whole video of bloopers. Thanks for the suggestion, Eddie!
That'd be cool if you did a whole video of nothing but bloopers people like to watch that you know makes it more personable I like to watch it so make one up looking forward to it.
Another short adventure! Awesome though!! Hope you get some ropes and go down. By the way when you found the other way out where all the coke cans and others were did you venture outside?
Yes, hopefully we can get back thete to see the lower part. We didn't go outside the upper portal. Thanks, Duane!
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Nice video, these ladders are so preserved like they were installed recently. These mines are in the Bullfrog district? Both of you have a safe trip. Where do you normally go after the area you explore, do you travel back further east or head back to Calif? Thanks again for another wonderful trip!
Yes, the wood in these dry desert mines is very well preserved. It would cost a fortune to buy today. This one is in the Bullfrog area.
We usually stay in one area for a month then move on to the next place for a month. We make a loop from Central Oregon through Nevada, Eastern California and Western Arizona that takes 8 months to complete. We spend the summers in Central Oregon. Thanks, Ron!
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Did the second portal come out on the other side of the dig or same side just higher? Very interesting mine Tom and Julie. Thanks again
The other pirate came out on a different side of the mountain, a 90° turn to the right as you're heading into the mine. Thanks for the comment, David!
Hello Tom Hello Julie
Thank you for this Video .
I like your Fotos very much and the overview of the Terrain.
The mine is very good but why spray people all this blue paint in the mine .
It destroy the mine
I wish you both a happy weekend and a good New week
Take care
Yours Frank Galetzka
Hello Frank. Glad that you like the photos. I don’t know why the survey and assessment people have to paint the mine. I don’t like it either. Thanks for watching and hope you have a great weekend, too.
> Paint marks are for measuring distance in from the entrance, an example is a mark every 100 feet. Locations where samples were collected get a mark. Arrows give direction to the exit or emergency exit. These marks are the results of geologists doing a survey, and are not disrespectful tags.
@@carlwest859 yes i know this but the paint destroy the Look of the mine and their apperance as a historical sight.
It is extemly the same as sombody Mark the gravestones in arlingston every 100 feet and spray arrows in the Direktion of the entrance
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Wow you exploring cave old
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@ 1:39 it looks like a face that wall lol.
I thought so too like a weird horse head or a dragon head
I didn't notice. I'll have to go look at it again. Thanks for commenting, Robert!
it's a gold and silver mine, i know the area mines, you are right about geology changing from quartz at the surface to mostly rhyolite, those sheet metal tubes was part the ventilation system, in many area among the dumps and floors, you can pan the gold and sliver dust, hard to believe those ladders are between 70-110+ years old but that was the heyday there/here as i reside in the area, by the size and shape of that mine i would say it was a good one and probably still is, i have a request for you, when exploring these mines, try and figure out what was being mined and use a jewelers loop to see the gold/silver/electrum, if possible? great video, contact me if you are interested in visiting two easily explored gold/silver/electrum mines in that area, regards.
Thanks for your input and the information. I figured it was a gold mine, and probably others like silver, if nothing else just judging from the location. We will be back in the area next spring for a month. I'd love to meet you.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring right on, i own two mines and a millsite that y'all might like checking out, plus i'll put you on the two mines i mentioned earlier, they are safe to explore and you can take home a few high grade specimens as well, regards
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What was with the other portal?
I think they just followed the drift until it poked out the side of the mountain. There wasn't much there. The main haulage was the adit that we entered from. Thanks for the comment, Tom and Lori!
Run into a lot of rattle snakes?
About 10 in the last few years. We are usually out exploring in the winter months when the snakes are dormant.
anyone else see the dragon at 8:55?
Haha, there have been a few comments. I keep forgetting to go look at it on the video. Thanks, Jeanette!
Im sure the barrels were for drinking water
It seemed like they were. Thanks, Henry!
F. W. Braun & Company
founded 1888
View All ObjectsEstablished in 1888 the F. W. Braun company are "importers and dealers in all kinds of assayers' materials, as well as manufacturers of labor saving appliances for assaying. laboratory supplies of every description and scientific apparatus of different varieties."
Thanks for looking that information up, Dave. I wonder what came in the box that had that logo on it. We'll never know.