Custard Mine

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this [Music] it's still got one of the side pieces for the uh the door gorgeous goblin did you see that save nick is doing tricks check out this uh this break band still has the wooden shoes there's the levers with the adjustable uh linkages another interesting thing about over here is there are sorry about the wind noise remnants of a whole bunch of uh crucibles and the different mineralogy in them oh come on focus causes them to form a like a glaze like a glass and you get a lot of uh [Music] interesting colors they're like ceramics these are all remnants of uh of old little little tiny crucibles for smelting mostly for samples ooh there's a nice green come on yeah there we go so we're coming down using the rope as a hand line and nick has found a square nail which is that's that's a good sign that this mine's pretty old yeah that's a good size uh i don't know what is that like a five penny nail four penny she's a decent monker we cleaned off this little rivet here from a pair of pants and if it'll come out it says patent may 1873 and it's ls and co sf so that's levi strauss and and company san francisco so really neat so we have over on this side nice big stop very steep and coming around over here this is sort of a second man weight going down an incline and um yeah sorry like swiss cheese i believe this is a room and pillar method of mining and we're just sort of hand lining it since it's not too steep there's nick coming down now but yeah very cool so we're in this stop it's fairly unstable as you can tell by all the rocks that have come down here's a big monker and it keeps going down and we think we know where this connects up you can see a little thing over there let me see if i can peek over oh yeah she definitely keeps going down it goes up and across sir goes every which way you could see some wood up there so they they were working these upper stops but yeah it's uh it's kind of neat was it worth the crazy risk oh yeah i don't know you be the judge the speed the finesse look at that figure that form gorgeous a pro are you filming this you bet look at that look at it he's almost got it all oh yes get every last bit 200 feet you would think and you'd be right oh man you gotta be close to the end ah there we go there's the end tada good work so we're back on the this is about the 50-foot level right yeah okay and this is actually across from the sort of the that cave formation so i'm gonna walk over there in a second but just checking out over here first we got a uh this is a lid off of a wooden barrel which is kinda neat you can see the hole there where uh i guess a cork would go uh and also over here and we picked this up before so we know it's fairly stable but it's a see this is coming out a 40 strength uh i think it's hercules powder company january 20th 1913. and you can kind of see the diatomaceous earth in there and it's just i think all the glycerin's gone out of her let's see if i get a raging headache then uh it may have had a little bit of nitrogen left there's a shot looking up the shaft nice uh daylight up above and we're gonna sneak underneath the ladder here and i'll show you the cave formation over here and the rocks are just these are gorgeous i mean really neat now i see why people explore caves you get this it's really natural cool looking stuff oh nick so clear so this is where i was trying to cross before and we were over there on the other side and that's where we were down earlier so yeah kind of neat there's a hanging wall here and yeah it's kind of neat there's some interesting looking stuff there i'm not a geologist so i don't know what i'm looking at no he's clear plus it didn't sound like it went on that far down it's in there oh my god nick my boy i'm coming i'm coming for you don't be afraid check out these rollers that's kind of neat little homemade hinges that's what we got over here corned beef hash i didn't film this last time don't judge me thank you sir thank you yeah i'm gonna that's right i'm gonna film it and you're gonna like it vitamin enriched yeah i know we saw it last time but the viewers have not hey cash cash is getting impatient can you tell whoa don't step on the roller blow rock okay so we've come on down and i hope cash got the news that we're off rope and he's begun his ascent he said he wasn't gonna use the rope so that's why the rope is slack anywho we're on i'd call this the one maybe 150 foot level because this is a 200 foot rope and i don't think there's 100 feet left it's probably about 50 feet sitting there but uh yeah lots of neat artifacts here a bit of a false floor here and i'll show you there's a couple of uh these are these are packages for fuse safety fuse and there's a good section of it here that you can really make out quite well so white countered gouda percha fuse manufactured by coast manufacturing and supply company 100 feet keep cool and dry and uh regular us patent office so i looked it up because this is we've come back so perch a fuse or gouda perch is i believe it's sort of like a natural uh rubber and so actually here's a bit of the fuse here so the fuse is i think this is a cotton weave and then there's a a rubber like a hard rubber and that's why this is real hard and the the the part that burns is inside so it's waterproof and i think the rubber also helps with the waterproofing so that's pretty neat also here we've got a piece out of a it looks like an old book talking about the treatment of silver ores at i'm not even going to try and pronounce that yeah whatever some place in mexico but the cool part this is from march 18th 1911. so it's a it's a fairly old document very neat also over here is a package of tuxedo tobacco just for pipe or cigarette and it's uh it's been a little squished but the container is in in very good very good condition interesting there's a little bit of knurling on the bottom there i never noticed that i wonder if they did that on purpose it's also let's see what else are we here this is winter coats 25 doheny purchase to be operated by pacific co five new wells interesting we also have this is a union carbide tin that's been beat up pretty bad somebody else will punch the lid inside somehow uh oh coupling half inch coupling oh no just a uh cut off a pipe and cash is cool let's let's get safe let's get clear so anyways carrying right along here more papers and wrappings from dynamite and fuse so they were using this as a as a work area through here check out that a piece of iron there and somewhere along here is a neat little tobacco bag and we had seen information about this online uh nick do you remember the name of the company for this one yeah it's bowl durham tobacco bowl durham yeah that's it oh and you could kind of yeah yeah it says it yeah you could just make it out the picture or the guy in the picture yeah there's a cow and my first time here i thought this was george washington the the or ben franklin ben franklin sorry yeah the the likeness is uncanny it's probably just the guy who founded the company yeah but on the back side there's a tax stamp oh there were a lot might be a date on yeah i don't want to i don't want to trash it you could you could find the approximate age of these online so we'll just leave that here i also remember i don't know if it's still here there were little cigarette butts ah yes there it is so this is a hand rolled cigarette and uh is it still called a roach if it's tobacco or is that just for weed anywho they burned that guy down to the base got a square nail over here they just noticed so the square nails i believe they stopped using them around the turn of the century because they just started uh machinery was able to make them faster back on rope making our way down and uh nick already touched on this topic but i'll do so as well so these guys here that they're using for the guides these are wagon wheel hubs and you can see the holes here for where the the rivets go through and these would have a packing in them this one still has the wood for the hub although it looks like it's seized and the rope action of pulling buckets up or through it i'll keep going down there's more of these so i'll show another one on rope was that the italian version [Music] sounds like how my grandfather would scream it i don't know they're reinforcing steel i believe this is a this large piece of wood here is the trap door from the uh 200 foot level and this this what level still has its trap door as you can see there it's broke for a little later uh just a couple of a couple of things lying around here um someone left an mre but we got some type one and two low alkali portland cement and it's monolith is the brand that's pretty neat but the the biggest thing about this level is the mineralization which is just absolutely gorgeous you can see a little bit down there i'll give some close-ups so the sides here these are all all quartz crystals or calcite crystals sorry and they're i don't know enough about the geology but they're they're sort of cuboidal in shape and the way they form so you get these good god cash you you get these uh i believe it's called cleavage they cleave in these very straight and true uh well cuboidal shapes forming uh you know perfect diamonds and cubes and stuff like that check out this guy here yeah it's just it's incredible you get little there's black stuff here that's volcanic little coppers there's some green in there so it's manganese i believe i mean just all sorts of little little stuff here mixed in with the host rock what's this round piece of felt carrying on we got a looks like compressed air pipe coming along here yeah that was that was pretty good tripped right over it uh that's nick's camera where the heck is nick look that son of a gun oh you got you got me good i it was quiet i was like oh crap did he like fall down or something oh you you got me you got me the coupling there little focus too much light and i know from past experience that around the corner here this is where it gets real good look at the sparkle on that gorgeous now it is really unstable here though the colors are just magnificent it gets real narrow just big enough for a person to walk through and you can see some really dark ore over here this actually loops around to where the uh the incline is nick crawled through i'm not going to subject myself to that kind of torture though and uh oh you could hear how muffled it is this is very soft rock it's crumbly i'll drop the light down a little bit and check out these crystals up here so these guys i think they're quartz crystals right over here and then this stuff looks oh focus buddy this stuff looks like it's volcanic and that that stuff right there that's the the volcanic stuff that nick was talking about that looks metallic in nature and you get these these sections here where see how it kind of stratifies like that it's really weird but again it's extremely it's very sharp it's but very brittle and there's this other stuff that's not quite as dark and not as glass sounding i think it's got iron mixed in with it because you can see it's got a bit of a dark red to it like an oxide and iron oxide but listen to these these pieces here like yeah it sounds like a like a glass i hope the mic's picking that up and here's a big lovely chunk which i would love to take home but nick would probably get angry at me because he's driving and get this guy to stay upright it also gets these weird rainbow colors there i don't know if those are coming out as well there's some of that stratified there so we're down once again to another level which i would call this the 300 foot level maybe 350. nick's making his way down and you'll notice the level inclines there stops for a little bit and continues going down so according according to nick's research there's a 240 foot winds down here and originally we were thinking that this might be it this this level is this is considered a stop and then this this next section is considered a winds but there's several more winds or pits down on the lowest level and we're thinking one of those might actually be the the other winds the other thing that makes us think that is this little bit of timbering here which you can see is a sort of ramp so that would connect that section right there oh hello nick to that section right there which and i mean i in my mind that connects the main main incline shaft to the this wins quote-unquote therefore making it part of that so hard to say a couple of artifacts here we've got a old shovel riveted construction very neat uh oh i think i saw part of this handle up on the last level she's pretty well beat though uh here's another one of the rollers you could tell because it's got this little groove right along here and i think this was the shaft for the roller there's bits of wood stuck on it and you can see yeah so there's a half round so this guy was in these pieces of wood and then that was inside here and when it came down the whole thing busted this is just a section of pipe so carrying on a lot of little pieces of junk and whatnot there's a oh what is this some sort of hand forged catch threads on that end hmm i wonder if this was some sort of special catch for the the buckets as they were coming up from hard here say uh oh we got another roller over here and they uh they work these guys hard ridden hard put away wet look at that it rubbed it friction uh alone brought that down to a nib what does this say youngstown ah same brand as the pipe on the incline so yeah i guess they they were just using this pipe for everything they were making rollers out of it yeah slam a piece of dowel in there and a piece of rod stock through there and you got yourself a roller oh mica axle grease and the lid of this i know is down on the lower level and this is this is a axle grease for like wagon axles i believe because it's got a wagon wheel on the on the lid and they're probably using it for these guys here a little bit of kodak film container there here's a loop from a trapdoor let's see a not so old can of beans uh a little bit of explosive tin the usual stuff more of these gorgeous gorgeous stoves i got a little homemade bucket from a paint can and a little bit of wire kind of neat it's nice to see tracks in this section what else that section just kind of dead ends over there some rail storage some beams stuff like that but check out this here i like how the pipe's still hanging but the other thing that's also very cool is i'll get close up here check out these pockets of pyrite and you can see so so pyrite is iron sulfide you know there's the one mineral i do know something about iron sulfide and so on the edges here i believe where it mixes with water you see that yellow that's sulfur and the white i'm not sure what that is that might be a third-party mineral that's in there i know that uh like that very porous rock that we're seeing up above it's usually you get pyrite that forms inside of a inside of a host rock and then when it gets wet the water mixes with it and what it does is it pulls the sulfur out and you get h2so4 which is sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide which is a gas and it leaves behind you get iron staining so that's explained some of the reds whoa what is he doing back there shouldn't lean against this pipe he's making making a racket uh but anyways i digress so yeah this is just mineral staining sort of coming off of here but these pockets i don't know if you could see them they're they're just little little sort of pockets they're really colorful and then you got the regular just host rock right around it so we did it boys we're down all the way final depths hard to say what is that making a school of minds keep on mucking october 11 1976 jahiner jenner rb gibbs huh that's kind of neat mckay school of mines i wonder if that's still around here's a 1983 in carbide and we got a couple of old old drill rods down here we'll get some close-ups on these guys so go to the other light so these are widowmakers as they do not have oh i take it back this guy's got a hole in it wow this guy so that was hand forged as you can see wow so these these types of uh drill rods they're the downside about these is when they get dull you have to take them up to the surface where they have a blacksmith which you could see the remnants of where the blacksmith used to be up top and they'd you know they'd sharpen them they they call it drill up setting because you upset the steel to be a point basically now these guys are our uh non-widowmaker types bunch of dynamite boxes over there some interesting fittings down here we've got a part of a coupling our union actually uh this looks like a swivel i don't know an odd 90 degree adapter probably off of an air drill uh here's a carriage bolt these are for the the ties that that link the rails and oh here we go a couple of hand steels i believe these guys are for starting and then uh the rest of these ooh this is an older one yeah so you can notice no hole for for venting and i don't think they were using this as a hand steel because that's pretty long so also you can kind of tell see how it's a plus sheet that's the older stuff the next one they went to was this hexagonal stock which this is a whole oh this one is also a widowmaker so they went to the hexagonal stock and then uh like you'll notice this is sort of a small diameter they sold bigger hexagonal stock that's got a hole in the center for of course to you know get the air and water through uh here's a three-quarter inch elbow threaded black pipe so wooden gas we'll leave the bag here and go ahead and take a look this level has a lot to offer burlap sack there for one all the tracks are in and in spectacular condition check this out god gorgeous gorgeous colors let's look at this along here anywho same type of mineralization on the other side in the air you could see all the dust particles the air is kind of still so it's not moving a old bucket um although i'm stirring it up by walking through it cash stirred it up when he first came down here and now i'm stirring it up you can hear cash up ahead so here's a rather large uh coupling elbow you lifted the pipe up to run it around the bend and also neat is we got a track switch which still moves that's a shame that there's no our carts down here because it would be really fun well off to this side be really fun to ride them because this goes in a an almost complete loop [Applause] coming around over here we have a this is an air accumulator tank just a portable version uh my last trip down here i kind of chipped at the rock down there because there's a it's a i believe it's an iron sulfide but it's very neat looking i'll see if there's a few more chunks in there some interesting fittings on the top those look like uh hose fittings and then that's a special uh plug that you could put a piece of flat bar in there's a manufacturer's plate but you can't read that for anything part of me excuse me we got a nice uh gate valve here still spinning i'll spin that for you on the way back [Music] your she faces off over there a little bit of gobbling as well and this is what we brought the rope for oh a lot of real storage down here must have been pulled from the upper levels i think what happened was as they started working down they were pulling it bringing it down the sections up above that they left are the wavy sections because to get a curve in the track or mineralization that matches the exact curve that you have up above it's it's too difficult to match so they only want straight sections there's the handle off a pickaxe you can tell so yeah we brought the rope because we're planning on dropping these guys here and who knows these might be the ones that go down 200 and something feet i don't know what that board with all the holes is for and that's just backfill over there so i won't bother climbing through that but yeah we're gonna drop this one and there's another one a little bit more of that handle there from that pickaxe oh check that out it's an old pencil let's see what is it is it a number two number three well not much left of her i set that kind to the side here that's pretty neat anyways let there be light back over here to the valve i was telling you about which actually moves pretty good for valve that's been sent down here and can we read what it says it says what does that say something patent come around to the other side says something clip valve cunning cunningham oh this is gonna bother me all week what does that say lunk and hymer lunkenheimer clip valve huh lunkenheimer cliff valve well uh i'll be honest not familiar with the schmuckenheimer brand another look at that eric humiliator tank we're gonna come up over here more track storage i think some of these are track switches actually here's a uh let's get a closer look at this this is a really nice condition california blasting captain california see a california blasting caps number eight it's kind of hard to read but a little crushed 100 california number eight dangerous yeah that's an understatement things will take your fingers right off so this smaller line here that's water another gate valve there and the larger line back there that's uh it would have been compressed air because the line itself acts as accumulator you notice these guys here these are mucking plates around the corner here we have i think this is just a storage bin one storage bin not a dynamite or anything it's got a hand still in there bits of shoring bits of pipe for compressed air uh but the really neat thing is this guy right here now my last trip i i know many people commented that on next video at least that i accidentally called this a jack leg this is not a jack leg this is a drill column that was my bad um because it's well holds drills and it's calm the interesting thing i've never seen one that's got this sort of cast iron base with the double screw it's it's just this is really cool extremely heavy but very cool i think the idea was with these guys no matter what your terrain is you're sort of auto leveling not auto i guess you have to do the work but you're able to level it so yeah pretty neat and the blocks that they use they put a wood block on the top uh they sort of leave a generic uh the ends leave a generic imprint on them because there's sort of teeth in them i'll find a rod see if we can turn one of these screws and tighten it or whatnot get it between the back and the floor if you're pretty neat somebody's uh stolen the uh the offshoot column which would have held the actual two-man drills and they they are heavy drills they call them two-man for a reason here's part of a winless and uh oh here's those marks i was talking about so you can see there so this was the bottom piece since it's got two marks and there's some pieces back over there that have got um they've got single marks on them so that indicate to me that those were the top pieces more drill steel bits of wood and blocking a piece of metal almost looks like a dog or timber dog so there's a bit of dry rot in this section you can see on the wood tappy and uh but here's another another pit going down now i don't think this guy goes down quite as far we'll zoom in on it for you here and of course we got the rope so we're going to try dropping this guy too but it looks like it continues off that direction so when we get down there we're going to see where this guy goes you can tell it's been kind of wet here there's a a hanging hook there maybe oh see that hinge there there would have been a trap door across this so this had a false floor a trap door and that hook was for holding it and those bits of pieces of wood down there probably likely parts of it here's a a oh god damn it the word escapes me it's a plate for turning around or carts uh essentially you get on this flat plate and then you can uh it's an intersection plate i guess uh the orc arts can slip and spin around so this is half of it of course you need another piece we got an old uh what have we got here go to the other light can it be red directions for applying back or directions for application back of probably can let's see i wonder if this is black paint and another let's see i thought it was a blasting cap the first time i came down here another pencil and this one let's see if i get to come out it says focus will you it says l h oh it would help if i hold held it right side up j h t i hope that comes out j h t and it looks like they nibbled on the end of it that's an old pencil they were probably marking timber down here there's another roller some sort of steel thing here that looks like it was forge welded not regular welding yeah yeah that's forge welded so that's old that was done by a blacksmith yeah forge welding that's a that's a lost art oh the trap door so that guy would have been over there and uh probably for when they were working up in that stoped out section there have something to stand on we got more rail pieces and uh here's another ore shoot let's see pretty well sealed along there you see a little bit of calcite crystal there another cool thing these you don't usually see this is a perfectly intact ball of twine normally the rats nibble on these and make nests out of them so they're they're all gone but it's little things like that to get us excited i might try climbing up this this is the man way for this shoot we're pretty far over from the main incline so how clogged is this she's clogged so yeah i might try climbing up this this this might connect with that raise that's above the that that pit that we're gonna drop here's the other half of that that plate that track uh rotation plate uh it escapes me i'll remember it there's a couple interesting things in this section one you'll notice the echo so we're into uh good and hard rock but uh there's a piece of steel there you'll notice these are where candles used to be so you see the wax and then you can see the soot so this mine's fairly old it's likely they might have been using candles to work it there's more that airline that they ran over and then here's a completely intact track switch and they put pieces of wood underneath to i guess level it or i'm not sure why they put the wood underneath but the moisture got trapped under there and rotted out the the bottom of uh of the wood under there so but pretty neat so you can see they would they pulled the ore card along here to get on this guy and when it's in the center you could spin it fairly freely because it's it's just on sheets of metal you know uh this guy here i think this is the base mounting for a motor or a slusher and they might have been working this section back here you could also see this this part here was part of a uh not not so much a windlass but that's a catch right there like a bucket catch so they were hauling stuff this is sort of like the tracks for them hauling stuff up and it would catch and dump so i think this might have been over in that other section on one of these other uh these pits let's take a look over here not much this is just backfill a couple of real skookum boxes oh that's got a little hinge on it let's see oh what does that say hf war w-a-r-e worry huh not sure what they're trying to tell me oh there's a glove not too old a little bit of fuse of course a bunch of backfill and so they probably weren't or they were done working this and that's why they started fun backfill over in here it's a piece of plate there are ties still down or a few of them so whoa look at the size of this timber that's about one foot by ten inches eight or ten inches [Applause] massive massive pieces i think that was being used as a stall there's a hinge there maybe another trap door oh i wonder yeah okay there's a that's not a hinge that's a bearing there's another one there that roller was in between them and so whoa yeah dry rot that's where uh one of the ties was so wherever whatever was being pulled up here all right you can see there's the other catch so that was one rail that was another rail and this was the sort of the um what would you call this the sill plate and the roller would where the rope would run so and that was probably a windlass or a uh a winch see yeah they were using this this is probably over on that other shaft or that other winds going down they were using it for that what we got here a bent scaling bar almost looks like a pinch bar but that's a different different thing it was a 10 ah there it is so that mica grease i was telling you about earlier there's the lid for it trademark mica axle grease standard oil company oh and one other interesting artifact over here is a hand file still i found this last time it's a little rusted but that would probably still work we'll plug it there so ladies and gentlemen we've made it down to the very bottom uh we took how far would you say the incline was nick it's at least 300 feet 300 well about like i'd say like 180 maybe oh you're talking about straight down or oh you're down this i thought you're talking about this wings yeah to get to the level that we came down from that that was about 400 feet okay and then we just went another 180 or so because we didn't quite do the whole 200 so we're a little worried about bad air and we're being stupid because we neither of us has a meter but we're taking it slow deep breaths making sure that we're not feeling fatigued or tired or anything uh gases like co like to settle low so we're not laying down or anything or bending over too much anyways uh here's a prince albert 10. kinda pretty decent shape has little bits of rail there's an egg down there and a bone over there so i think somebody was having lunch down here probably the miners here's a nice container of mica grease a couple of ties and a piece of wood and a drill hole remains of a dynamite box the dry rot is extremely bad down here uh every piece of wood is just they they crumble to nothing i picked up a uh what kind of wood would be a hickory handle for a broom or something and dropped it and the thing shattered like glass is kind of surprising so there's a buried tin bend over carefully oh that's another tuxedo i believe anything down that way i mean it's worth looking at i mean we came down this far after this we could say this mine's 100 finished you can see more of the dry rot here from i guess the the wet and dry cycles oh wow so this is being the rails are pulled up so they might have given up on this but the ties are still down there's a mucking plate the working face is right there yeah let's see oh yeah oh yeah so they were still working up to this well listen to that that's not potato chips under my feet that's wood easy there easy there buddy let's not kick up too much but anywho you can see the mucking plates still down there and there's a little bit of a raise here you know i think there might be slightly bad air down here you're feeling like uh yeah not so much a headache but you feel a little off yeah yeah so we're gonna we're gonna hightail it out of here yeah we we do it well we do it because we're dumb but we also do it that people can live vicariously through us so one day one of these things is going to be a found footage type of deal well yeah we're gonna we're gonna get better honest so we're gonna stop pushing our luck oh hey nick check this out you know that uh that that thing for rotating the ore card on the track oh there it is there's the piece of it they threw it to the very bottom

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Published: Tue Mar 23 2021