 I'm going to do the air, so I'm videoing while it's a pretty quiet road where we are. Well this is the rocky road we're going up. There have been some recent rains in this area. This is near Death Valley, but this has washed out all the fines out of this road. What we're left with is just rocks and washouts and very, very rocky roads. So, here we go again. Through the portal we go. Let's check out this old mine. I've got a feeling this is going to be a good one today. Well there's a nice fuse reel, spool I should say. And it looks like an air tank that was standing up at one time, but now it's laying down because it's got feet down here. Here's some interesting mineralization. So we took a right off the main line here. I think I saw something down this. Again there's something. Here we've got a piece of track here we're going to measure. The overall height is two and five eighths. The width of the head is one and a quarter. Width of the base is two and almost a quarter. Thickness of the head is a little corroded. About three quarters. Inch and a half for that web. Thickness of this is about a quarter. The hole is up. Inch and an eighth. Oh this looks like it goes up and down. Oh boy. Here's your excitement. Here's a cable guide roller. It doesn't want to move. Here's a bell for ringing probably signaling the operator. Looks like it's an old brake drum or something. And this big tank might be water tank the way it looks. I'm kind of a wild mind in it. I'm not sure what exactly happens up here besides the large stove. There's a big platform here. I don't know what this is. Feel solid. Oh boy. There's a ladder but I don't really see it going anywhere special. So this skip car would have been pulled up these rails here and it would have come up behind me here up to those hooks that would catch the skip car and dump it and it would end up in that big bin and then they could load it out of this they could load it out onto an ore car to take out the haulage out of that chute right there. Alright. Well we've roped in to a water pipe and backed up to the ladder and we don't know much about these ladders on this skip track so we're going to try and be safe and we'll open and we're just using a knot that will stop us if we happen to fall and that's it. So take care of going down. Okay. Watch out for the grease. On this side of the ladder. Okay. Good luck. May not need to roll up but you know what there's a whole ladder missing down here. We can't see past that right there. Okay this is looking up the ladder. I'm about, oh I don't know, 40 feet down. It gets kind of twisty right here and it gets deeper. So I'm feeling pretty good about being roped down. You know twisty ladders like that and I was a little bit unsettling. So let's continue down a little lower and we'll see what happens. You can see these ladders are kind of wired and patched together here. There she comes. There's a big step somewhere in there. Well you just took it. So here are a couple artifacts and a little match book cover from Barney's Al Capitan Lodgin Casino from Hawthorne, Nevada and a tin, a velvet tin, cigarette tin and dynamite paper looks like. Geladine. Geladine. All right let's go a little further down. Big step here because it's missing around and then there are some patched in rooms so just be careful. See you down below. This ladder is barely hanging here. Okay we're making our way down a ladder a little further. We're both happy to be roped in. You can see there's some missing rungs like right there although there's another step we could use. But it's nice to be protected. So we're not sure. There might be a level here. Looks like there are a few things to look at anyway. So we're probably going to get off rope for a second and check it out. Okay that's where Julie is just where we got off the rope just to her left. And this is just a short little room here. But I want to show you this rickety set of ladders going up here. Look at that. That one's just set into one of the rungs there as is the next one up too. And they keep going up higher. Man I wouldn't want to take that ladder. So there are some dynamite box parts around on this little level. Let's go find them. Alright well there's about half a dynamite box. I think it says number three. I can't quite read what it said there's. Powdering off. And here's an old MJB can. Coffee can. There's a little bit of this rather colorful right there. So this looks like it says standard something motor oil can't standard something EN. Somebody will know. You let me know. Working that goes that way. I think we got to go down further. So we'll get back on rope and down we go. Here are the ladders. So this is some kind of an antifreeze can that's being used as a swab grease swab and it says winter flow antifreeze summer coolant Union carbide winter flow There's a big cable right under Julie's foot. It's got a loop end on it. I'm not sure what they're doing with that. Over here is a piece of drill steel that's bent up. Also an end a knockoff extension piece. An old round point shovel and another Chevron multi machine oil. Here's an old Hillsbrother can. Another Hercules dynamite box cardboard. An RPM oil can. Stuff like that. More stuff over there. Here's another Hillsbrothers coffee can. So some neat stuff. A couple more fuel cans. Well here's the mother load of the cardboard explosives box. This is Hercules. Looks like they were 50 pound boxes. One in an eighth by eight inches long. Four X. That might have been the strength. There's a big hook in the wall. An anchor for something a slusher or something. This is kind of a wild thing in it. The hose and cable over there. Let's go this way. Gently it's really dusty as I slide down the hill. Well that little drift didn't really go anywhere so we're going back to the ladder. We don't have that much further to go until the bottom of this particular shaft is here. So let's do that and we'll see what's down there. So we're going to go down one more level. I can see the bottom of this particular shaft. I don't think it's the actual bottom of the line but that's looking back up the ladders that were coming down. They're pretty straight up. And here Julie's almost to the bottom of the shaft. And there's a bunch of mess down here. Here's a chute that's at the end of this track that would have dumped into the skip car. Skip would have gone just a few feet lower than where we are right now. We would have dumped it into that. Okay well here is a nice little ore car. It's a rear dumper. If Julie wants to lift up the tailgate we could see how it would have dumped. And then there you go. And this hook down here would have hooked it. Yeah. Watch your fingers. And the wheels are gone of course. But let's look at the other side. This is the swivel plate for it. Looks like it doesn't it. And then here's the other side. Here's a quarter stick of dynamite. And I think this is the swivel plate for the ore car. Part of it. And then I think the other parts by Julie. Here's a Trojan Carbure Box. That's a higher root beer can. That's kind of neat. Yeah. Right on the drift seal we have. Already fun to find the ore car. Oh there's a column. From a column drill. That's the jack portion of the column. And then the drill would hook up on the cross beam there and you could adjust it. So here's a chute coming in from up above with a collector. And it's kind of jammed up. That's pretty heavy duty stuff. I've got some track down here. It's kind of a light gauge. A nice pale with a handle still on it. Miners love their fruit juices and canned fruit and stuff like that. Looks like a fuse room. And a ladder. Let's go look at the fuse room. No I'm not locking her in there. Just looking at the door. It smells like creosote. Maybe the bottom of another shaft. Looks like it anyway. So yeah this looks like a fuse table. There's still a spool holder up here. So it looks like a little bit of fuse there still. Thermal light connector. This is definitely their fuse bench. They would measure this out. Measure the fuse out. So the shot was timed just perfectly. And hopefully everything ended up on the muck sheet once they were done. We'll go it off in a certain sequence. Alright let's get back in the main line and see what we find down here. Back through the door here. There's something going on up here. There's an intersection. I see a spool. Oh I see another ore car. Look at that. Awesome. Number three. This one has the dump and till handle on it still. And the tailgate is there. That's pretty cool. That's awesome. Yeah the wheels are going on again. I think a lot of times the miners repurposed the wheels. I think they were the hardest and the most expensive part of these to get. Well that could be wrong. That's a pretty nice specimen except that the trucks are gone. Somebody started to take the tailgate apart. Want to see if that'll flip up without hurting yourself. Just a little ways. Grab it from the bottom. Just a little bit. Yeah there you go. That's how it would dump. And then the wheel would be over here except for it's been pilfered or repurposed one or the other. So a lot of other stuff laying around here. Miscellaneous parts and bolts. This was a little shop area it looks like because there's a lot of stuff laying around. Fittings and washers and nuts. Now here here's a big chute. Look at that used the cable here a piece of drill steel. Here is a steel chute gate. I don't want to lift it up it'll make too much dust but I could. No I'm not kidding it'll dust this up. Oh wow. Look at it. Skip car. On the track still still hooked up so it. So this is just hooked up I don't know where the winching mechanism was it would have dumped it would have dumped up here right there into this little hopper and chute that Julie's standing by and they would have filled up that ore car right there and hauled it out over to the other skip that we came down the ladder. Now this is pretty neat here. This is this one's pretty much all here. And this is down this track. So this looks like a little washing station it looks like a homemade soap dish here with the holes in the bottom of the thing so it could drain out. And then there was some plumbing here that would have supplied the water for your wash. There's a bench here with some stuff on it looks like a pick handle or a hammer handle. Some more modern stuff there. So here's a skull can it looks like in a top hurry United States Tobacco Company. Okay. A packing slip. Somebody wrote down Thursday, Friday, Monday Oh we're there. It's like a log cone. There's a wire school. Looks like it was a for cable doesn't it? Yeah. Okay. Made in the US of A. Alright let's go past this little area past the number 3 ore car and see what goes over here. I see another chute. Oh boy. Watch that last step. That's a big stope. Okay this is looking up. That's going to be about 70 feet tall. It looks like this level continues over that way. And then down here is probably 100 feet from the bottom of the stope to the top of this one There's a can down there. These tracks look like they may have gone further at one time but before got dug out. So I think we can make our way across this mess and get over to there and to think. I think so. We're leaving the way as usual these tracks are still in okay shape. It's looking down into that stope. Well there's a ladder coming up there and it goes down into a hole further down. Pretty wild. There's a nice can with a nice label on it. Boy that's a there. Richfield Oil Looks like it continues this way. Take a gander at that can. That's a nice one. There's a color on that. Oh that's Rock Drill Number 19. Rock Drill Oil. Moving past the nice little can there. With beautiful color more cans, more boxes. 5 gallon RPM. Multimotive Grease Prestone. They used antifreeze in their drills to keep them from freezing up I believe from the compressed air. There's another Richfield Ice Machine. That's a track running out so it was a drift. Hi there. The High Calcium Hydrated Line The Flint Coat Company. There's another piece of drill steel chisel style bit and maybe some vane material. This is right by that big stope. It's a big one. Not as big as the ones we saw last week though. Let's shoot across your ones together. Way up here too. Alright let's get out of here. There's our exit point right over there. Here's a nice looking rock. More ladders. This thing going to stay here. I hope so. It's tied up. It's cabled up. So Tom's going to go down those ladders there. It's on the skip rail. Check it out. I see that. I was looking back up the skip track. I don't know how far you can see up there. Still goes down a little ways too. The ladder ends right there. Oh no it jogs over then. But I'm at a little bit of a level here looks like. I thought I'd jump off the ladder for a second and take a look. Looks like that was a makeshift chute of some sort. Looks like this goes over into a stope. Not much going on down here though. I don't want to make a lot of noise because sometimes that's all it takes to slab something off of these things. This is looking back at the skip track over there. I'm going through a lot of oil down there. Here's another look in. Oops I just tripped on. Here are a couple of drill steels. There's a little spot that looks like there was a slusher probably that pulled ore from behind me here. I'll turn around a second. But probably pulled ore from over that way. Slushed it over this way into the skip car that would have run up and down right there. Maybe it's a nice shovel, broken handle but the blade hardly even broken in. Although it is cracked, isn't it? Somebody was using their shovel as a pry bar. The arco oil can right there looks like. Here's somebody's slicker. The jacket part of it. It's a stiff one now. Heidi. Chocolate babies. Right up top for now. Since we didn't think there was going to be much down here. That looks like some fuse with the blasting cap on it. So I was looking back at the skip track. I'm at the bottom. Ladders go a little left and right down here towards the bottom. There's not much down here. Here's a couple of drill steels. Looks like a chute type of paint or something. There's not much down here. Not much down there either. So back up we go. Look at this spot. The cable has cut right all the way through the top of the track there. You see that? That's pretty crazy. You'd think that would be kind of dangerous. You could damage the cable and cause it to fray and cut. I'm almost back up to the skip car. I got back with Julie anyway. She's heading up a little louder by the skip. That's as long as down there. For not much benefit. But that's life in the mine exploring world. Okay one last look at this skip car. Before we leave it's a nice one. It's in good shape. And here's the gate that the skip would have dumped through into this ore car right here. And this would have rolled over to the other skip track which we didn't see a car there. But this is the nice little rear dumper and angled back on it. And the lever for latching and all that. Still there. So back to this other ladder we go. Back on our rope. Right back to this other ore car. And the ladders. Which are right here. Which are pretty steep. And goes Julie on up the ladder. Straight up almost. We're almost 200 feet down. And then that other ladder seemed to go about another, oh I don't know, 100 and some. Just looking back down. Here's my toe. There's the edge. Living on the edge. Here's Julie. You can see her. I'm leaning out. So Julie and I are using a rope man 2 just for ascending the rope. It's not a progress capture device. It will slide up the rope. It will go up. But it will hold if you fall. So it's a little easier to ascend the rope with this. It just slides along with you. Which is kind of nice. We use a lot of plastic knots or auto block hitches in that. The ones you have to manually slide with your hand. This will just come up with you. Okay this is kind of behind the ladders where we just came up. We never did it this way. I don't think. It's kind of a wild mine. Those are rain slickers. Overalls. They're bibs. Here's a fairly heavy ventilation pipe like a culvert almost. Here's a ladder and a barrel. Somebody had been up on the ladder digging around on the mineral vein. There goes the long way. I walked about 2 blocks without anything happening. Here's a junction. And a pipe. Water pipe it looks like goes to the right. And that keeps going for a ways. You want to go straight or you want to go right? We'll come back and take the pipe route later. Well we've come to a backfill area or a junction or something. Here was somebody from 1959. Water pipe. I hope you haven't had too much pulse width modulation today. I've had my lights kind of screwed up on occasion. That's when you dim an LED light. And the reason they flicker is because to dim them what happens is the circuitry turns the LED light on and off rapidly. And the dimmer you have it the less rapidly it turns on and off and the more flickering you get on a video. So hopefully you haven't had too much of that. I've caught myself about 3-4 times today having my lights dimmed which causes that. A barrel and a door. Was this a... no I thought this was going to skip bucket but it's not. It's a creek. I feel like we're going into a stove. There's a barrel. Yeah here's your big stove. Alright we're looking up into the stove. There's a big pillar. One little lonely stall out there. And then another pillar with some red in it. And a big hanging wall overhead. Here's a closer spot on this vein. I'm not sure exactly what it is. That's the biggest barrel of shingle oil I've ever seen. That'll do your whole roof. Your shake roof. Julie's going across the little bridge. And this little spur was just a loading area for this stove. We were just looking at it but it probably had some track that came around and loaded right through here. You can see how raggedy the edges of the timbers are. Look at how this is worn out to you right here. And the work car would have sat right here. Then loaded up. And trammed out this way and we are back to this air tank. Well we're back to the big water tank which is near the portal. It's one of the first things we saw when we came in. So that's going to do it for today. Thanks for watching the video. We hope you enjoyed it. We'll see you in our next adventure.