At 5:27 that is a charging station for a locomotive battery. An extra battery rested on the support platform and there was a hoist overhead on to switch batteries on the motor (locomotive).
I think you nailed it. We had to use the excavator at our mine to swap out the batteries. This would have been much more efficient and easy. Thanks for sharing your observation.
The mines are why I'm here ... but of all the "secondary" cast off artifacts, newspapers and advertisements are my favorite things to see. Looking forward to part 3!!! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Awesome to see all those cigarettes like the the Lucky Strike packs. My grandfather smoked those from age 13 up until his 70's. He quit the habit, chose to chew on toothpicks instead to break it. His lungs were shot. Not just from the cigarettes but Lord only knows how much asbestos, and solvent paints he inhaled, etc. Although he made it to 83. Not a bad run. And probably did work in the mines in all the many jobs he had. Thanks for talking us on your adventures.
The size and scope of this mine is incredible. Love the artifacts! The advertisement for the 1954 Ford, I was two back then. My parents had a 1955 which I wound up with. I'm watching this Christmas night thinking of Christmases past. The artifacts were the icing on the cake. Merry Christmas! Thanks Justin and friend!
For drum found in mine. Due to the company’s effectiveness in cleaning boiler vessels using Quick Scale Solvent, it was the top selling product. SKASOL was created by combining the words “Scale” and “Solvent” (Ska-sol). Thus, SKASOL Incorporated was formed in 1957 as a California Corporation.
Skasol Incorporated was formed in 1957 as a California Corporation. It was during this period it defined itself as a preventative maintenance company and moved towards preventing scaled boilers, rather than just cleaning them after they scaled.
Thanks Justin and friend! What a long, awesome explore. I can hear in your narration towards the end that you are getting tired, so I was surprised that you two elected to descend deeper. Still a long up hill climb outta there. Maybe you end up trying the ladder system on this level to exit.....we shall see. Merry Christmas to you and yours, and please be safe and keep posting.
This is the fluorite mine, right? The geology can be really wild in them. Grease manufactured before 1960 often contains rather risky concentrations of pretty highly active side products. Not the primary risk in a mine but just a reminder to everyone who now and again comes into contact with such substances. What a ride, hope you got a good nights sleep after! Thank you for sharing and have a great 2025!
I would suspect the material in the coffee can was grease, not Nutella as you said! My mom, who suffered from seasonal allergies, had one of those Flex Foam masks when I was a kid in the mid 1900's. You could remove the foam filter and wash it to be reused over and over. Skasol is a manufacturer of boiler water treatment chemicals. The barrel had some faded lettering that said "boiler."
"Call for Phillip Morris"...a bell hop would say in advertising their cigarettes on TV...............all so Ozzie and Harriet TV show in the 50s......top rated show.......another great explore...thanks for diving deep into the mountains
i just looked it up skasol is a water treatment chemical company. so maybe hard water was plugging up the drills so they had to treat it somehow? they also still exist and are out of fremont california.
Thank you Justin. Hope you has a good Christmas and New Year. That was a lot of different gum, cigarette packs, matchbooks, etc. You didn't seem too concerned by the dynamite you found either. Is the 1950's variety of dynamite a lot more stable? Great mine so far.
Thank you very much. Yes, it was nice that this was a dry mine as it preserved so many of the paper artifacts. No, not concerned about the dynamite. The dangers of old dynamite are wildly overstated... It becomes inert far more quickly than many realize.
Just imagine what that mine would look like if they had removed the waste rock rather than timber up for passages through it! If you’ve ever watched the movie The Right Stuff, Chuck Yeager chewed Beemans. Those old Y blocks in the 50s fords were desired for racing back in the day.
Impressive amount of timber. But you know when an area is timbered, the ground is not so great. There must be some awesome sized stopes above that one level with all those chutes. Merry Christmas TVR!
if the area where you squeezed thru where you said it was creaking and groaning collapsed once you got thru what would you do? Would you try to go down and find the main shaft on a lower level, or go up to try to get into another level and back to the main shaft? Do you guys have collapse plans incase something does happen when you are inside? Not a great topic but im curious what procedures you have, if you bring any emergency supplies with you? Maybe worth some video time to explain???? Well i should have waited another few min when you found the exit. So lets pretend there was no exit, what would you do, what do you plan for?
I’d suspect his answer might be a little less than satisfactory ☹️ Seriously, check out his placer mine explores if you haven’t already. I started having heart palpitations when I did.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Always enjoy the videos. I have a question about the filming. I noticed over the last few months there is a whirring noise on close up spots. A machine like sound and it is often. Just wondering. Thanks.
For match book cover William J. Crowell, Sr for Attorney General (he wasn’t elected), his son William J. Crowell, Jr., was also an accomplished attorney in Carson City, Nevada and just passed away on Nov 24, 2024.
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You misunderstood my comment. Yes, I knew that it was grease, but it looked unusual for grease in those circumstances and I was curious about what the grease actually consisted of.
ruclips.net/video/CNd-pjChlhA/видео.html I owned a set of those Zane Grey western novels as a kid back in the '60's! They came as a book club, once a month or so.
Looks like the Corral Bar in Fallon NV existed as late as the 50's
1950s Corral Bar Cocktail Lounge Ken Ogden 30 Center Street Fallon NV - now called Jimmy's and Sons BAr and Grill😎
At 5:27 that is a charging station for a locomotive battery. An extra battery rested on the support platform and there was a hoist overhead on to switch batteries on the motor (locomotive).
I think you nailed it. We had to use the excavator at our mine to swap out the batteries. This would have been much more efficient and easy. Thanks for sharing your observation.
The mines are why I'm here ... but of all the "secondary" cast off artifacts, newspapers and advertisements are my favorite things to see.
Looking forward to part 3!!!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Awesome to see all those cigarettes like the the Lucky Strike packs.
My grandfather smoked those from age 13 up until his 70's. He quit the habit, chose to chew on toothpicks instead to break it.
His lungs were shot. Not just from the cigarettes but Lord only knows how much asbestos, and solvent paints he inhaled, etc.
Although he made it to 83. Not a bad run. And probably did work in the mines in all the many jobs he had.
Thanks for talking us on your adventures.
Grease in the coffee can
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For the track. Used on the curves. It's so the ore cart wheels don't fight you going around the corners.
Correct you are sir
Looks like wheel bearing grease.
The size and scope of this mine is incredible. Love the artifacts! The advertisement for the 1954 Ford, I was two back then. My parents had a 1955 which I wound up with. I'm watching this Christmas night thinking of Christmases past. The artifacts were the icing on the cake. Merry Christmas! Thanks Justin and friend!
For drum found in mine. Due to the company’s effectiveness in cleaning boiler vessels using Quick Scale Solvent, it was the top selling product. SKASOL was created by combining the words “Scale” and “Solvent” (Ska-sol). Thus, SKASOL Incorporated was formed in 1957 as a California Corporation.
Skasol Incorporated was formed in 1957 as a California Corporation. It was during this period it defined itself as a preventative maintenance company and moved towards preventing scaled boilers, rather than just cleaning them after they scaled.
And Ska-sol was their boiler cleaning product before that, used to remove lime scale from boilers.
The best mine exploring channel.
Thank you!
One hell of a mine.
Yes, it was a fun one, to be sure!
Best gift ever 🎉 thanks for sharing another mine explore adventure
Merry Christmas!!! to all out there from Sweden. 🎅🎄
Thanks Justin and friend! What a long, awesome explore. I can hear in your narration towards the end that you are getting tired, so I was surprised that you two elected to descend deeper. Still a long up hill climb outta there. Maybe you end up trying the ladder system on this level to exit.....we shall see. Merry Christmas to you and yours, and please be safe and keep posting.
I remember chewing Beemans gum back in the 1960s. It is still made and I have seen it for sale in nostalgia items at Cracker Barrel gift shops.
This is the fluorite mine, right?
The geology can be really wild in them.
Grease manufactured before 1960 often contains rather risky concentrations of pretty highly active side products. Not the primary risk in a mine but just a reminder to everyone who now and again comes into contact with such substances.
What a ride, hope you got a good nights sleep after! Thank you for sharing and have a great 2025!
so it's not a nutella subsitute? you're doing the lords work. (genuinely, i didn't know that, thanks for the info).
@@mysterycrumble there was a case years ago when soldiers somehow got gun lube (a grease) in their food.
Ended very poorly. Chloracne and worse.
Thank you for the brief distraction. It worked perfectly.
I would suspect the material in the coffee can was grease, not Nutella as you said! My mom, who suffered from seasonal allergies, had one of those Flex Foam masks when I was a kid in the mid 1900's. You could remove the foam filter and wash it to be reused over and over. Skasol is a manufacturer of boiler water treatment chemicals. The barrel had some faded lettering that said "boiler."
Another epic video, so many awesome artifacts and timber work, which is rare in our mines as it’s so wet in Wales
"Call for Phillip Morris"...a bell hop would say in advertising their cigarettes on TV...............all so Ozzie and Harriet TV show in the 50s......top rated show.......another great explore...thanks for diving deep into the mountains
You mine explorers are amazing…. 😎👍
Thanks!
Very cool. Merry Christmas
Thanks for sharing from Australia stay safe good luck
Merry Christmas!! The mine continues to impress.
That Beemans pepsin gum, was so tasty, it was hard not to chew it, but to swallow it!
The campaign matchbook with William Crowell’s name on it - looks like he was the DA for Nye County NV in 1950.
Happy new year Justin & team. All the best for 2025! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! You too!
thank you for all the hard work. I really enjoy the videos.
Happy Holidays! 🤶🎄☃🥂
The substance in the Folgers coffee can is axle grease
12:45 I must have entirely missed the sinister reason where is it in this video?
part 3?
What a great surprise for Christmas 😊
Imagine the sound when those timbers gave way
You found their break room. Coffee cans and empty packs of smokes everywhere.
Awesome video thanks for taking us along!
El capitan gambling hall in hawthorne still exists today. Really cool.
i just looked it up skasol is a water treatment chemical company. so maybe hard water was plugging up the drills so they had to treat it somehow? they also still exist and are out of fremont california.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas!
Can't wait for pt 2 !
@44:35 There is an X located at the bottom level of the mine layout. Curious what you'll find there in the next video.
Thank you Justin. Hope you has a good Christmas and New Year. That was a lot of different gum, cigarette packs, matchbooks, etc. You didn't seem too concerned by the dynamite you found either. Is the 1950's variety of dynamite a lot more stable? Great mine so far.
Thank you very much. Yes, it was nice that this was a dry mine as it preserved so many of the paper artifacts. No, not concerned about the dynamite. The dangers of old dynamite are wildly overstated... It becomes inert far more quickly than many realize.
That Folgers coffee can contained GREASE, which might have been there 50 years, untouched, yet it looks like it could have been in use yesterday!
Just imagine what that mine would look like if they had removed the waste rock rather than timber up for passages through it! If you’ve ever watched the movie The Right Stuff, Chuck Yeager chewed Beemans. Those old Y blocks in the 50s fords were desired for racing back in the day.
Impressive amount of timber. But you know when an area is timbered, the ground is not so great. There must be some awesome sized stopes above that one level with all those chutes. Merry Christmas TVR!
They must have had a full time Carp on this job wow! Merry Christmas!
I want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and many more explores to come 🎁🦌🎄❄️🎅🏻
Marry Christmas to you all be safe out there
Like the rail work in this mine. They had used actual switches at intersection.
Merry Christmas ❤
if the area where you squeezed thru where you said it was creaking and groaning collapsed once you got thru what would you do? Would you try to go down and find the main shaft on a lower level, or go up to try to get into another level and back to the main shaft? Do you guys have collapse plans incase something does happen when you are inside? Not a great topic but im curious what procedures you have, if you bring any emergency supplies with you? Maybe worth some video time to explain???? Well i should have waited another few min when you found the exit. So lets pretend there was no exit, what would you do, what do you plan for?
I’d suspect his answer might be a little less than satisfactory ☹️ Seriously, check out his placer mine explores if you haven’t already. I started having heart palpitations when I did.
All the best.
Why was the broke skip car “sinister” ? Is that in the next episode?
at 38:44 i'm thinking that explains that box you found a few levels back (up?) in part 1
Merry Christmas
Fallon Nevada had pigs in space. IYKYK. Those match books sell for lots of money, they are super rare
Merry Christmas to TVR. And to all a good night.
That's grease in the folders can. That's what it looked like back in the day
Yes, many of us packed a wheel bearing or two.
What's that noise at about 29:00? Sounds like air or water.
Happy Solstice Holidays!
The site of Corral Bar is now Jimmy's and Sons Bar and Grill, and looks part of a more recent shopping centre.
Did the miners do all the wood work, or joiners.
With that much timber, the mine may have employed timber men.
@12:14 mark. Is that the skip station for the large grizzly above?
Waste piles must be huge with 30 years of operation 😮
Folgers grease? Never had that? 😂🤙👍
It probably tastes better than the Folgers one can buy in the market today...
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Always enjoy the videos.
I have a question about the filming. I noticed over the last few months there is a whirring noise on close up spots. A machine like sound and it is often. Just wondering. Thanks.
i believe it is his new (brighter) light
@@jebstewart666 Does it have a cooling fan? Or causing RF interference?
@@yeroldfatdad not sure, but maybe a fan
Possibly his camera gimble. They have spinning gyros.
Many preppers learned from the old timers. Bleach is great to help purify water. No laundry done down there.
That’s one of the bigger mine I have seen in a while.
Does your camera or light have a fan?
the el capitan is still in Hawthorne
What size timbers 6*6 ,8*8. ???
El Capitan is still in business. . .😎
At the address on the match book cover is now a place called Jimmy’s and sons bar and grill.
Apparently Skasol Inc. has something to do with water treatment. Owned by Global Water Tech. Inc. I didn't do a deep dive other than the name.
Amazing stuff - but you did sound quite relieved to reach that final face . . .
For match book cover William J. Crowell, Sr for Attorney General (he wasn’t elected), his son William J. Crowell, Jr., was also an accomplished attorney in Carson City, Nevada and just passed away on Nov 24, 2024.
Thank you for the Video
Frohe Weihnachten und ein gesegnetes Jahr 2025
Grüsse aus dem Harz und Deutschland
Frank Galetzka
Frenchman Station originally was a stagecoach stop. Bought later ny US goverment to use as a bombing area/
I live in reno Nevada and the Corral bar is no more.
@3:15 its dried grease
Long live the ore car.
Salute
@3:50 30 e Center st is the Slippery, looks like they’ve got good onion rings! 30 west is a parking lot,…I think.
SKASOL was founded in 1927 as a water treatment product manufacturer and service company - googled 😎
El Capitan still open.
bleach is old enough not to have a upc bar code on it.
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Its greace.
It’s grease in the coffee can. You didn’t know that?
You misunderstood my comment. Yes, I knew that it was grease, but it looked unusual for grease in those circumstances and I was curious about what the grease actually consisted of.
You mean shoots and ladders
1950s for Corral Bar.
Skasol manufactured water treatment products.
Skasol water treatment.
Brickbat Charlie and...... Cavalier Magazine 1956.
Went and looked up the address, its now an empty lot.
1950s Corral Bar Cocktail Lounge Ken Ogden Ph. 378-W 30 Center Street Fallon NV.
Miners were dirty smelly grinders! Add cigarettes to the mix and oh god!
ruclips.net/video/CNd-pjChlhA/видео.html I owned a set of those Zane Grey western novels as a kid back in the '60's! They came as a book club, once a month or so.
life was good before the fed reserve
Indeed, it was. So many terrible things have flowed from the creation of that institution...