 Okay, so this is a good sign. There's a dog and a can there. We're going to find what we're doing. Let's go see what we got in this little guy. Maybe there's something special in here. There it is. Look at that, huh? What do you know? Okay, Julie, let's do some hand tramming, see if that thing still works. We've got work to do today. I hope you're bringing out a full car. You've got to get your minor muscles going. Yeah, there's a couple of rocks there near the track. We had to make sure the switch was set. You got it. You didn't derail. We got a hurricane here today, so you might get some wind noise. You like that one? Yeah. And inside of it is a wood-handled ground-bladed shovel riveted head. And not that terribly well used. A dead mouse, a couple of jars of something. See what this quarter looks like. And a carbide can. Pull this stuff. A couple of pans. So this is a rear-dumping swivel cart. Here we're looking at the front of it. Julie's going to show you this. This is the handle that would unlatch it and allow it to tip backwards. So what you would do is you would take that big nail off, that's a lock for a loop, and then you would pull that handle towards me and it would unlock this from down here. And then that would allow you to tip this bottom part up. Go ahead and relock it. That's the safety catch. That's the lock. So then when you undid that part, this part, the gates with these hinges would swivel open, swing open this way. And there's also a catch down here. And it also swivels. See the swivel down here? So you can dump it and load it different directions. There's a piece of a natural timber on the bottom of it for a bumper, I guess. The one when we're out. Boy, I wonder how, what stories this could tell. According to my sources, Roy Ladd hauled this in piece by piece. And he was one who didn't sell much of his ore. And you can see there's a lot of ore laying around. That this car obviously hauled out of his mine. So let's go back in the mine. There's another steel car in here. Too bad it's so windy today. We're going to get some winders on the camera. Let's see this one once while we're in here. So this is also a rear dump. This one's empty. You can see the tracks go around the corner there. Do you want to trim this one forward or outside? Outside so we can see it. All right. Julie doing some more hand training. Watch your head. Watch your fingers. You don't want to get your fingers on the edge of that when they hit the wall. That would hurt. Now watch your switch. This one's painted red for some reason. Kick your switch a little over. Oh, stop, stop. Go back. I meant the other way. Hold on. Kick it a little over. There you go. Just make sure you catch that with the inside of your wheel. Nope, nope, nope. Kick it over there. Pull your car that way. There you go. Okay, now Julie's got the switch figured out. So that's also a rear dumper. Here's your latch and handle over here. Similar to the old one. You pull that loop off the handle and you unlatch it the same as the other one. Let's see if there's a rear latch. The rear latch is off. So go ahead and tip it up. Yep, tip it up. You just dumped it. All right, bring it back. Is it that heavy? It's heavy. Okay, hold on. Okay, bring it all the way up now. All right, now see if you can latch your... Yep, it latches on this side. You latch on that side. Take it down a little bit. Okay, so then we relatch the back of it here. There you go. Tighten it down. There you go. Now put your ring on there. That's your locking ring and you're ready to trim in there for another load. Pretty cool. Slip this straight across. Yipper. Yes, something like that. That makes sense. It does, doesn't it? All right, let's go explore the mine. You know, there's a pair of boots and an old pot. What is there? What does it say? So here's a notice. Work from September 1st, 1978 to September... to April 22nd, 1995 has been completed on this group of claims. Locator Roy Ladd. Yeah, I really said Roy loaded this card in here by hand and pieced it in by hand and put it together. Here's a jar of water, it looks like. Yeah, here's his bed spring. They say Roy didn't like to sleep in the same place twice in a row, so he had different places that he would sleep. Looks like the rats have taken over this one. We saw a couple of his other bed springs and sleeping places the other day. Look at this. The tracks wind around. Imagine that old wood mine cart tramming through here. Pretty neat stuff. Nice job on the track. We're still in good shape. Nice bends on him. I guess Roy was quite the mechanic. He took work and Reno as a mechanic, auto mechanic, or truck mechanic, one or the other, when he wasn't up here working on these mines. Clicking muck seat, a little extra stull here. We passed the windshift and I'll come back to that. I want to see the end of the drift here. There's a wash tub and two carbide cans for his lantern. It goes on quite a ways. Okay, finally got Dooley in front of me so we got something to look at rather than just bare walls. Give you a little scale anyway. Nice little mine. These old things are all cut with an axe. Maybe some of the type of things he was looking for. I believe it was primarily a silver mine. Here's one of these contact zones where the fault was opened up and the hot mineral laden water pushed up through the cracks. I got over that little collapse. This is all fault gouge back here. Clay that is produced when these slabs rub together, but that's about as far as I can get. I don't think it went any further. This is all clay. You can make a cup out of it if you want it to. That's fault gouge. Here's Brandon. Dunno who Brandon was. I forgot we have a winds to look at and I thought I noticed a wood skip car back there too. We should be just about back to the winds. I didn't even look down the winds. Here are the carbide cans and the wash tub. Oh, this is full of spikes for the track. And these are the covers for the carbides. They should say you need carbide on it. Now, I have a little something down there. The rat's like it anyway. Here we are back to the winds. Some nice natural timbers here. Looks like this one has fallen down from somewhere. Oh, and he followed this up too. I can see that that's the end of it right there. Oh, we got to go down there. Let me go. We don't have a lot of our gear on like helmets and ropes and stuff today because we're mostly hiking. All right, here we have some lumber up on top of this thing. It's got pretty good steps on the skip track. So, it does get steeper down there. Here's his set of hand rock bits for single jack drilling. You take about a two-pound hammer and bang on the drill steel there and make a quarter turn of it and bang it again. And all the different lengths, you start with a small one and you gradually work up to the one that's about two feet long. And that's as deep as you can go once that's bottomed out. So, we're still going here. Looks like Julie might be going now. If you want to turn around, there's okay that way. You should have ridden that old wooden cart down there. Get you down there, right? Put a loop at the end. See anything down there? It's awful dusty. Try not to kick up any more dust. What do you see? So, that's where I just came from. I crawled down here. I crawled down here, which is why it's so dusty. Tom's up there. And then down here's a little cross cut. And but the tracks stops right here. And that's the face right there. It's not very far. Here comes Julie back up the rims. I'm going to just keep right on the trucking. Yikes! I almost went down the wind the best way. There's another cross cut to the right. Okay, let's get on the way up. Yeah, here's a little cross cut on the right. Had some extra timbers in there. All hand cut and hand worked for the joints and the fitting of them. This looks like a just a pipe on a a pipe on a pin, but it would have been a roller for the cable to to run. The lift cable. So here's the wooden skip car. Wheels are gone. Didn't hold a lot. Had a metal line bottom and that would run down the line there. And then this was the frame for the for the winch or windlass. This is just kind of swung out of the way. And there's the hole for the other side of the shaft. And it would have been just a hand winch, a hand crank. Here's the other side of the skip. Too bad the wheels are gone. Enough fun playing on the winch shaft. Here's a muck seat. One last look back at the winds and wind their way down the track. Neat little mine. Here's some more of this main type of thing he was probably following. Hanging wall up here. Very nice little mine. Think of old Roy sleeping on his bed in here. Classifier looks like. Here's a little ball of some sort. That's about all I want to show the outside of this. All right let's put your toys away Julie. All right you've done your share. Well you want to watch your fingers on the edge of that, don't you? Yeah. There's about a half inch of clearance. That would take your knuckle right off. Was there was there a piece of wood holding it or something? There you go. So this is our last look at the old wooden ore car for this trip anyway. We can come back here again any time we like. A beautiful piece of equipment hauled in by Roy himself piece by piece and put together on site. Hope this thing makes it without derailing. There's gale force wind going on over here today. This is Roy's sleeping cabin. I don't think people find this when they find the wooden ore car. It's pretty well collapsed right now. All right this was his bed. A couple shovels. There's a couple dynamite boxes that he turned into a little drawer or little shelf. Look at that. And I'm going to squeeze in here. According to my friend Ron this was his favorite place to sleep. There's his old boots though on the ground. Here's another beautiful steel bucket. These are all pine cones up the grass. Look how he turned some old giant explosives boxes into shelves above his bed. Lined the thing with canvas and cardboard. There's his old shovel once taped up or something at all. Here's whatever he was reading of the day. There's some old bottles here. There's still salt in the salt shaker. There's pepper over there. There's a ketchup bottle. There's another little pot. What's this one down here that's rusty? It's a little bucket. It's a pot. Look at the soap dish. Oh yeah it's a soap dish. And then there's, so there's his cooking pot. Here's the dynamite box. Put that up here to rolling pin. A ketchup bottle, a vinegar bottle, salt and pepper shakers. There's someone in there. Oh look at this. Holy buckets. How many times have you found that? Look at that. Look at that little axe. A little drill bit. Straight pin. All this stuff here. I found a pair of boots on the ground there. Stuck them up here too. A lot of interesting cans. I don't know if some of them are. That was Coco. Coco over there. It looked like he had a chair over here somewhere. Some more boxes. This big boulder obviously crashed the party. It came from up here somewhere. He had this part all rifted in. And here's another cabinet. There's another cabinet with Tang. Look at that. USC. No, USQ. USQMC. NE. Me and Sue. Me and SEO. Baltimore. Weird. There's a nice old enamel pot. Still usable. A little enamel dish or a pie tin if you want to call it that. And then there's a cake pan there. A baking pan. More drawers here. I don't see any in there. Rats have taken out a little bowl here. Another little plate. It did go back into this rock here, but I don't know if there's anything back there. There's a nice giant box. And there's all the rest of the stuff that we could rustle up to put over there. Line it up. So he had wires coming to this cabinet for electricity. He had a generator somewhere. Here's the back of it. It's a real hurricane today, so I'm going to get some wind noise. There's his old cook stove. This looks like his stash of firewood up behind the cabinet and pry bar or scaling bar. And down in the ravine is a canned dump and another wooden box. Well, we got to get out of here today. We've got a long hike back. It's been a great day of mine exploring. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Kind of the holy grail of mine exploring to find Roy Lads, mine, wooden ore cart, and cabin. Thanks for watching the video. We do appreciate it as always. And until next time, time to leave signing off.