Ah glad you liked it! There's so much history in the UK, many of us brits don't realise either. Lol yep the sheer drop together with the wind turns a walk from calm to exhilarating 😆
Ah wouldnt that have been awesome. I stood there for ages looking at all those machines and trying to work out what they do and where the workers would have stood and how they worked...I love exploring history in its raw form like this ❤
No not aliens just very talented men as there was a very precise way of separating the rock they wanted (slate) from the rock they didn't want. They blasted the rock away which fell in huge boulders but it had to be blasted in such a way so as not to take all the strength out of it. So that when they hit the rock in the dressing sheds with a chisel it didn't just turn into dust. Dinoriwc Quarry finished operations commercially in 1969 and the men just walked away and never returned and today we see it almost exactly as they left it for with the passage of time it's now all slowly crumbling away.
Oh I would absolutely love to exploring with you, I bet any walk with you would be filled with so many fun facts and your enthusiasm for all of the machinery is just amazing. Do you do by any chance tinker with stuff in a shed? ❤
10:15 what you are looking at there is called a “lay shaft” it would be connected up to the power source probably by a belt onto a motor or maybe in the old days, a steam engine. The lay shaft would then spin continuously and all the pulleys you see along it would feed the various bits of machinery. To start and stop the machinery, there would sometimes be a lever that when moved in one direction took up the slack and the individual machine would start and if you moved it the other way, the belt would go slack and the machine stop but the other machines wouldn’t be affected. They used to use this system in the mills too. I have a funny feeling all of this was actually in use about 35 years ago, if it’s the same place that I mentioned in my other comments near Ffestiniog
I love Dinorwic Quarry, i have photographed it so many times... Please can you let me know where you started your walk in, as there are bits in your video i have not seen...
Hey Paul, I too have been so many times but never seen this. Its all at the top of the mountain. I walked in from bus stop quarry then walked to the lookout, carried on through past Dali's hole then kept walking in that direction with snowdon on your right. There's a very steep track before dalis hole and a similar one that you are looking for if you carry on walking. You'll know you are close when you see a point hole in the ramp. Turn up the track. Just follow it up past the first big wheel house. When you get to the second wheel house is where I went left and the adventure begins
I was there in 2017 on an overseas holiday and I didn't climb over the fence and go deep into the quarry as I was on my own. I parked in the pay and display car park near to the Llanberis Lake railway and climbed the steep slate path up to the quarry. I then saw people riding bikes and wondered how to they get them up there and so I investigated the pathway and found the small free parking area just outside Dinorwic Village. Oh I was pissed off having near knackered myself on the very steep climb to the quarry from the car park walking up several of the old inclines. I vowed there and then that if I ever get back to North Wales I'm going to park just outside the village and save myself a lot of effort. Good video of an amazing place trapped in time.
Ah that's a gutting story. I think I know where you parked and yes, not the best approach as its all uphill straight away. I started a third of the way up on this venture and I was knackered by the time I was at the peak. Hope one day before its all gone you might get to explore it again x
@@kadadventures So glad I wasn't the only one and yes I'd love to go there again because although your video footage of it is excellent the sheer size of the quarry can't really be appreciated on video. There's also another old quarry/mine on the other side of Llanberis that nobody seems to go to. It can be easily seen from Dinorwic Quarry.
6:16 imagine this quarry but down a few levels and still with its roof on… flooded in daylight can give you an impression of how huge some of the levels in these mountains are. Can’t remember what it’s called but used to be open to the public down by Blaenau Ffestiniog near Llechwedd slate caverns… the entry level is something like the 3rd from the top and I think they were labelled A all the way down to W at the bottom… and level C was ‘kin huge!
12:18 Kad I would so love to go exploring with you, I just love your enthusiasm. Maybe you should see if you can ask who would be interested and all go on a mega explore and finish the day off at a great little pub for a pint and a meal… … don’t know if you watch Karen’s Gine wild ? She does camping and walking and often organises a group camp … ?
Thanks so much for your kind comments. I do love an explore, more of a winter thing for me though as in the summer I climb. I haven't heard of Karen Gone Wild but I have to say I go to the mountains to get away from people, a big group sounds hectic 😬
Our country as in the UK is a rubbish tip. It matters not one jot how much it is cleaned or bins provided because we have an underclass who will dump anything and do it anywhere. And if it isn't just dimbos chucking stuff its the fly tippers too. Wouldn't it be good if we sealed all car windows for a start? Rant over!
Lol, I feel your equal frustration. For me, even just knowing for the night that the top of that quarry was a little more cared for was enough for me. I can only hope those less respectful have less stamina to get up there 😆
7:32 I honestly think some people should have to apply for a licence to go outdoors… seriously but in order to keep their licence they need to complete a countryside awareness course.
Need to change that disgusting music at the start I was half a second from changing the channel when it finally stoped !!!! Excellent on figuring out the pull system for the saw quite impressive. The pipes were cooling/lubricant water .
@@kadadventures That is a BSEN Number 1891, not the date. It is given to this rope and is for personal protective equipment for the prevention of falls from a height. Could have been supplied by the factory or left by a previous abseiler or climber?
Great Video! Although the sheer drop off view through the tunnel made my stomach flip. LOL. Watching Jealously from Ohio USA.
Ah glad you liked it! There's so much history in the UK, many of us brits don't realise either. Lol yep the sheer drop together with the wind turns a walk from calm to exhilarating 😆
Expensive climbing rope that one
Not sure if you're joking or not?
awesome video and site,,, would have loved to see what it was like in operation,,, tks for the tour,,,
Ah wouldnt that have been awesome. I stood there for ages looking at all those machines and trying to work out what they do and where the workers would have stood and how they worked...I love exploring history in its raw form like this ❤
@@kadadventures you made a great video,,,
Wow. Those people were great at working stone. Probably aliens.
Lol it is quite amazing as you piece it all together to realise what an organised system it must have been
No not aliens just very talented men as there was a very precise way of separating the rock they wanted (slate) from the rock they didn't want. They blasted the rock away which fell in huge boulders but it had to be blasted in such a way so as not to take all the strength out of it. So that when they hit the rock in the dressing sheds with a chisel it didn't just turn into dust.
Dinoriwc Quarry finished operations commercially in 1969 and the men just walked away and never returned and today we see it almost exactly as they left it for with the passage of time it's now all slowly crumbling away.
Oh I would absolutely love to exploring with you, I bet any walk with you would be filled with so many fun facts and your enthusiasm for all of the machinery is just amazing. Do you do by any chance tinker with stuff in a shed? ❤
10:15 what you are looking at there is called a “lay shaft” it would be connected up to the power source probably by a belt onto a motor or maybe in the old days, a steam engine. The lay shaft would then spin continuously and all the pulleys you see along it would feed the various bits of machinery. To start and stop the machinery, there would sometimes be a lever that when moved in one direction took up the slack and the individual machine would start and if you moved it the other way, the belt would go slack and the machine stop but the other machines wouldn’t be affected. They used to use this system in the mills too.
I have a funny feeling all of this was actually in use about 35 years ago, if it’s the same place that I mentioned in my other comments near Ffestiniog
So sorry I haven't seen this until now. Love how you have explained its history. A truly stunning place and a step back in time
I love Dinorwic Quarry, i have photographed it so many times... Please can you let me know where you started your walk in, as there are bits in your video i have not seen...
Hey Paul, I too have been so many times but never seen this. Its all at the top of the mountain. I walked in from bus stop quarry then walked to the lookout, carried on through past Dali's hole then kept walking in that direction with snowdon on your right. There's a very steep track before dalis hole and a similar one that you are looking for if you carry on walking. You'll know you are close when you see a point hole in the ramp. Turn up the track. Just follow it up past the first big wheel house. When you get to the second wheel house is where I went left and the adventure begins
I was there in 2017 on an overseas holiday and I didn't climb over the fence and go deep into the quarry as I was on my own. I parked in the pay and display car park near to the Llanberis Lake railway and climbed the steep slate path up to the quarry. I then saw people riding bikes and wondered how to they get them up there and so I investigated the pathway and found the small free parking area just outside Dinorwic Village. Oh I was pissed off having near knackered myself on the very steep climb to the quarry from the car park walking up several of the old inclines. I vowed there and then that if I ever get back to North Wales I'm going to park just outside the village and save myself a lot of effort. Good video of an amazing place trapped in time.
Ah that's a gutting story. I think I know where you parked and yes, not the best approach as its all uphill straight away. I started a third of the way up on this venture and I was knackered by the time I was at the peak. Hope one day before its all gone you might get to explore it again x
@@kadadventures So glad I wasn't the only one and yes I'd love to go there again because although your video footage of it is excellent the sheer size of the quarry can't really be appreciated on video.
There's also another old quarry/mine on the other side of Llanberis that nobody seems to go to. It can be easily seen from Dinorwic Quarry.
6:16 imagine this quarry but down a few levels and still with its roof on… flooded in daylight can give you an impression of how huge some of the levels in these mountains are. Can’t remember what it’s called but used to be open to the public down by Blaenau Ffestiniog near Llechwedd slate caverns… the entry level is something like the 3rd from the top and I think they were labelled A all the way down to W at the bottom… and level C was ‘kin huge!
I'm not sire where you are talking about but you seem to know alot about this area. Do you live this way?
12:18 Kad I would so love to go exploring with you, I just love your enthusiasm. Maybe you should see if you can ask who would be interested and all go on a mega explore and finish the day off at a great little pub for a pint and a meal… … don’t know if you watch Karen’s Gine wild ? She does camping and walking and often organises a group camp … ?
Thanks so much for your kind comments. I do love an explore, more of a winter thing for me though as in the summer I climb. I haven't heard of Karen Gone Wild but I have to say I go to the mountains to get away from people, a big group sounds hectic 😬
Things to do when it rains in North Wales? Drive everywhere at 20mph and see how big a car conga line you can make!
Loooool I know! I feel like I'm moving backwards with the new regulations 🤣
15:48 they probably used the power of 1 going down full to pull the other one up empty
Oh wow. Never thought of that. How clear! You are clearly more engineer minded that me 🤪
Our country as in the UK is a rubbish tip. It matters not one jot how much it is cleaned or bins provided because we have an underclass who will dump anything and do it anywhere. And if it isn't just dimbos chucking stuff its the fly tippers too. Wouldn't it be good if we sealed all car windows for a start? Rant over!
Lol, I feel your equal frustration. For me, even just knowing for the night that the top of that quarry was a little more cared for was enough for me. I can only hope those less respectful have less stamina to get up there 😆
7:32 I honestly think some people should have to apply for a licence to go outdoors… seriously but in order to keep their licence they need to complete a countryside awareness course.
Yes indeed, but really it's sad it's not just ingrained in us all
Need to change that disgusting music at the start I was half a second from changing the channel when it finally stoped !!!! Excellent on figuring out the pull system for the saw quite impressive. The pipes were cooling/lubricant water .
Lol love your brutal honesty, duly noted ✅️ . And glad you stayed tuned in 😁. Glad someone was impressed with my brain workings 🤪
11:01 That rope can't be from 1891, way more recent. Really interesting video tho, thnx.
I had thought it looked newer but why would it have that tag?
@@kadadventures That is a BSEN Number 1891, not the date. It is given to this rope and is for personal protective equipment for the prevention of falls from a height.
Could have been supplied by the factory or left by a previous abseiler or climber?
@rivermoon6190 oh wow how interesting. Thank you so much for commenting