 Good morning YouTube Mine Lovers. Good morning. Tom and Julie here. We relocated to a new place and right now we're looking for the road. We got a little off track. It's somewhere around here. I know it doesn't look like a road does it but I think we gotta go up this way. I'm hiking up the wash here below the mine that we're looking at today. There are some barrels, a tire. This looks like a homemade culvert. It looks like we have a fuel tank here although it won't hold much fuel anymore will it? Well this looks like a military vehicle although I'm not an expert on that. It's got a cut out for the spare tire there. No glove box. Okay here's the inside of this truck. Not much left of the instruments. Here's the old Vesta stove. All right Julie is sitting in an old dozer. It's got a pretty big blade on the front. Probably a 12 foot blade. Tracks are all here. I wonder what this is. Okay here's our crew for the day. We have Carol on the left, Max in the middle of course and then of course Julie. So Max and Carol are friends of ours from Central California I guess it is or Bishop area. Hamel Valley. So Max is a minor and Carol's a minor and Max is going to tell us about this blade dozer over here. He says he's actually run one of these before. Yep let me get it and show you how this thing works. All right so you say this is an AC45 you're guessing. It's an old Alice Chalmers it looks like and it's probably about a 40s vintage. Somebody stole the. Stole the pedals isn't it? Stock pedals. An old Alice Chalmers. Maybe it's an Alice Chalmers. Yeah I think it is. I think this says on the back. It's not a caterpillar I know that. So an old dozer probably a 40s dozer. Yeah but it's got about a 12. Overhead cable rig. Overhead cable rig which is this beam up here right. Yep. And that would have raised and lower the the huge blade in front. Yep. The blade's about a 12 foot wide blade. And then the clutch control for the winch to raise it up. Okay the part to go. This is your throttle. Okay. This is your gearbox. Probably four speed two speeds in reverse left turn right turn. So this this this locks up one of your tracks. This locks up on the one side or the other. While it releases the clutch on one side. Final drive. Okay so this is the brakes. So this is this is like neutral for one side then. Yeah. So when you when they're forward they're they're going. They're both going forward. Right and if you want to turn right you pull this one. Pull the right one. Okay. Now it drives around that one. Gotcha. Cool. These two look like they want to work don't they? Yeah they're right. This one's still working. This one I don't know maybe. All right let's go find something else around here. Here's the cabin. The miners would have used while they were working the mine. Looks like there's a wood stove in here. Here's some buckets cooler a few food items. The windows come down. We should probably nail that back up. I'll do that if I can find an hammer and nail somewhere here. Okay I get my part. I fixed the window. Found a few nails using old pipe for a hammer. Good now. Let's go look around the rest of this place. So Max says it's about a 10 ton ore bin. What else do you see? You see some big supports here. Yeah it's only had one chute so they they didn't bother separating. They must have separated the ore either up above or after they loaded into a truck and drove it out. You want to see if that arm works? Max this is for the people. It's jammed up. It's jammed. Okay so see this yeah so she's rusted up. Okay that's looking up. Here we are on top of the trestle which leads down to the ore bin where we just were a few minutes ago. This is following out on the trestle. We don't step there. So this is the end of the trestle looking down into the ore bin. That's where we're looking the cabin. Looking back at the trestle. So here are the tracks lead over to the portal I'm guessing. There's a shed here probably an equipment shed of some sort. Maybe how's the generator or air compressor or a water pump. And there go the tracks leading into the mountain. Here's the equipment shed. It's a angle iron framing. Here are the tracks. So that would have been the portal right there. Well I dug as much as I felt like digging. I didn't hear any wood. I was hoping to get on top of the or find the back support and get underneath them. But no going on that one. Here are some water tanks. Here's a big pipe. Looks like here's the bed spring. What would a mine be without a bed spring? Apparently there was another cabin over here. The bathtub is about all that's left. Here's the cabin again. It had a little add-on on the back of it. Last look at the Alice Chalmers AC45 according to Max. Here's Max's gladiator. Max got his hand in his pants. Oh beautiful view. Some of these small scrub oaks. They're doing quite well up here. There's a huge tank up there. What's that for? Big water tank. Alright let's go down a little lower. I think there's a waste pile somewhere around here. Alright let's go check out this old mine. Got a big steel gate on the door. Looks like it was big enough to drive a LHD vehicle in here. Some big groundfall. We're hoping that they don't fall while we're in here. Here's the vein up here. Looks like it's fairly steep about maybe 70 degrees or somewhere in that neighborhood. Looks like we got a cave up here. All that's groundfall. Well if it did go further than this it doesn't anymore. There's some nice minerals right here though. Chunk just hanging over my head here and this is further in. It's possible it did go further. So just to be extra sure I climbed the rest of the way up into here and it's caved. Badly caved. So let's get out of here before it comes down again on me. At least we got to see some colorful minerals.