I love this channel. I just lost my mom yesterday to a long struggle with dementia. To be able to come home after a long drive and a horrible day and lay back to watch some racked up TVR vids + a brand new one? To get me out of my own head for a few hours and see places and history like this? It’s a Godsend. Thank you Justin. Relief comes in small doses these days and it’s been a spiritually and emotionally draining 2 years, but she has now found peace.

@sierramountainsrailfanning2114

4 ай бұрын

Sorry about your mom RIP.

@davidsnider1703

4 ай бұрын

Sorry for your loss 😪 Hugs

@autotek7930

4 ай бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss, I know the feeling all too well. May you find peace in knowing that she's in a better place than we are and no longer suffering in any way.

@codeblue2112

4 ай бұрын

My condolences, tvr fans are here for you

@rippertaterchipper4117

4 ай бұрын

Sorry for your loss

You found a Ford Model T firewall, looks like 1923-1925. The two rods are for the throttle and the spark advance, and the two rows of holes are for the coil wires and spark plug wires. Cool find!

Thanks!

@zaboomafoo409

4 ай бұрын

Thx Bryan!

@TVRExploring

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, Bryan.

Raining and crazy lightning here in the Ozarks came in out of the wx. Always good to see your uploads

@TVRExploring

4 ай бұрын

Ha, that's probably our weather that we sent on to you! Sorry.

I absolutely LOVE your channel! Best mine exploring on You Tube EVER! There are other good ones, but yours is by far the BEST, most informative, most detailed, and most thoughtful mine exploring channel! I love how you leave no ladder, raise, adit, stope unexplored! I can't get enough and have watched many of your videos multiple times! I really hope you keep doing this for years until there are no mines you haven't seen! Thank you for what you do!!!

There's a timber cutter up around Mt. Shasta that has a small channel. He cuts for a company that does cutting in the areas that were burnt in forest fires up around that area. He has some very interesting, as well stunning views of that part of the country, both of the burned out forest, and some of the areas untouched by the fires taken from his drones he's had over the years. Odiehorse1 is his channel, might be something some will find interesting, as he has some of his falling timber, he also goes to different places where they have to hike in to see whatever is there. All of which he flies his drone around for a different perspective of where he's at, and has a look around as far as the drones can still stay under his control. Thanks again for your efforts, and some the places where it's a tight squeeze. Honestly makes my skin crawl, and kicks in my fear of tight places. As I've been stuck more than once. Even writing this makes me get freaked out to a degree, and it's been 40 plus years ago, but to this day it still has that effect on me. At the time it wasn't that big of deal, but few years afterward it started getting as it is now. Just seeing something likely to get tight, and I have even fast forward past it, are if it was on a TV show changed the channel to get away from it. Yeah I know people don't understand something like that, but I have never been a small person, that's not saying I was over weight. But big boned thick chest, shoulders, and legs makes it difficult to go some places that smaller average sized people can go easily, but can be not so for those of larger frames. Only when you have a job to do, and you have to do it. Sometimes it isn't the best thing to do, and others have to. All I can say about it, but yeah it does get to be a little bit of a problem when you can't handle watching something that you know is on video or TV, but it still makes your insides twitch and you get goose bumps.

@FishOnIsMyHandle

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Tim. I just sub'd his channel, looks like another good one

Good friend of mine owned a cabin in Sequoia National monument - two giant Sequoias in the yard, Tule River running past - in a big drainage with the least visited grove of Sequoias anywhere. The big fire went through and burned it all out - it looks exactly as you described, like a nuke or two went off - it's heartbreaking given how beautiful it was & all the time I'd spent on the trails there. His cabin survived; its next door to the local fire-chief's - but I can't stand the devastation. And it won't regrow - too dry now & not as much snow, so the big trees aren't coming back. Cool area you explored. I get the feeling every inch of the Western slope of the Sierras was mined in the past.

Great video! It's wild how different the mines are. Seeing the whirlpool "endlessly" draining water through the mud was sketching me out. Almost as much as the inclined adit with all the ground fall.

Cool stuff thanks for sharing your time

Another great video!

Hi Justin & crew, Wow that 1st mine was really colourful, a shame that one was just filled with as it would have made for a cool explore. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx

Really impressed with the quality of the video.

Thanks for all the hard work! and then on top of all that mountain goatting then filming & editing…. uploading all amazing feats all connected together here there & everywhere!!!

Very much appreciate the team effort and the thorough documentation.

The bits and pieces tell a story of their own of what was. Beautiful! Thanks Justin and Crew.

Always first class!!! Been watching for years and you keep getting better. Big thanks for sharing your passion and skills

Cute that dog likes a ride and is sensiblle enough to sit in the backpack, I had one when I was a teen that ran easily 3 times the distance we walked , she needed a shoulder ride off the Snowdon horseshoe in north wales just after we hit the top...She decided shoulder rides were worth a lot after that. That looked like a potentially still profitable mine, I wonder if the US government will ever allow any prospecting in them that at 25.00 is a cast iron agricultural chain so they must have been using off the shelf parts to power something "home made" to do who knows what..they run large cogs and transfer wheels such as you see on potato planters and traction engines...given that it was attached to some sort of bucket it could have been a slusher or for lifting ore up a shaft thats a lot of infrastucture for what must have been a huge amount of workings underground The 4 years after view looks a lot like Mount St Helens or Tunguska

Great job guys.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Awesome vid!!😮😊

Love tour videos

Mr Nibbles sure looks different from what I remember ! I enjoyed the video 👍

Lots of mining in the Sierras, most of it quite some time ago. Thanks for the video.

Very cool!

I bet the dogs are thinking "These humans sure are nice to take us out to these cool places!"

Good stuff, Justin. You are right...the aftermath of major fires does look like hell on earth.

Nice find, that muddy part needs too dry out completely first i guess if that ever happens, bit off a mess out there Justin, but a nice explore again thanks.

Nice to you in my neck of the wood we have a lot of old mines I come across a lot of them all the time when out prospecting most usually don't have good access but some do and some are flooded

25:00 thought that was just a drive chain at first, but looking closer, I see eyelets to install pads as though that is for a dozer or something like that with propper tracks. although I think they would not be that tightly spaced as It seems. maybe for a paddle system like a scooper dredge

You go in some dodgy looking places.. Great video!

Great explore , curious - do you ever take samples when you find good leftovers ??? 🤔

@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88

4 ай бұрын

Pretty sure Justin follows the "take only pictures, leave only footprints" motto when he does his explores. I know he's said he will not take artifacts as they belong in the mine. And he's never been interested in sampling. They do have their own mine as well. So I doubt they are interested in finding another one.

that mud tunnel is why you guys should bring things you find in the mines, out of the mines. they are going to be lost to everyone when they collapse. i do understand when you bring it out to share others will just take advantage, easy pickins.

@seldoon_nemar

4 ай бұрын

a lot of that stuff is meaningless out of context and or will not survive outside of the environment. if its a damp mine, the objects will just fall apart as they dry out from being fully saturated for example

Greetings from Washington!!!

Man this one had me cluster phobic

@krockpotbroccoli65

4 ай бұрын

Claustrophobic is the word your going for...

@JustAnotherPaddy

4 ай бұрын

Me too. Even more than the granddaddy placer one he did. White knuckle exploration, although he didn’t sound as spooked as I’d be

Good evening from Southeast South Dakota

Looked like some good adventure. Heck of an operation to have full scale rail. The forest service must be using that trail as a fire road to have still be cleared.That metal chain looked like that of a conveyor belt. Wonder where that water was draining to.

What are the illuminated white things flying towards you at 28:35. Bugs.But why do they leave trails. Weird.

Love these really out of the way old mines! When you punched a hole in the root mat and the water started draining, my first thought was ... Where is it coming out down the hill? At 27:36 it looked like a serious pin embedded in the top of a big Boulder .. maybe tram to the valley floor? Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

@seldoon_nemar

4 ай бұрын

i think that pin is his flashlight next to his gloves?

those short cuts of rail looked about anvil sized :)

I live in Reno. It took me a minute but I know where you are. The ground gave it away. Take care.

Hey dude. I’ve been subscribed for at least 5 years and you are mostly in areas where Poison Oak lives… I’m fortunate because it never affects me… but just can’t be crawling in it and go home and throw your jacket on the back of a chair. Tehachapi, Ca.

@TVRExploring

3 ай бұрын

Only in the winter. We don't get it in the deserts or high in the Sierras... Fortunately, it doesn't affect me much. My poor mother practically had to be hospitalized because of it.

30:00 That mud is new mineral seeping up out of the depths of the mountain. While its probably too fine to recover by any normal methods, its likely packed with nano-fine ['colloidal'] sized particles of gold.

What flashlights/headlamp are you using? You're getting some awesome lighting and I could use some better ones 😂

25:15 That is conveyor chain.

Yep model t firewall , they probably had the whole front-end for a PowerPoint for a winch

That quartz may have been an ornamental piece but then came the fire. Reminds me of what some rocks become like when fired red hot, I think it is like a „lime-quarz“ afterwards. Interesting area, now that the nuclear war is over can we please get that train back up and operating? I‘d love to take a trip out on that branch!

Concrete pillar mount for hoist 👍🏻

Would the drill steel without a hole be for an air drill or for double jacking?

i wonder if they set up a sawmill to provide all that milled lumber used for the ore bin?

Keep looking youl find another mine there it has a ore cart out side lots of goodies in side

12:00 I found myself tipping my head as if I could lower my point of view. It is strange. I finally caught myself about 12:25 but even then it was hard to not keep tipping my head, even though intellectually I know I can't change the point of view on a flat monitor.

There was a garbage job back before the industrial revolution, tunnel kickers or some such. They laid on their backs with mere inches to spare on the roof of a canal boat and propelled it through the tunnel. You could do that.

Are you using a different camera it seems like its 2 foot tall everywhere

Heyy, im in new zealand now, and im looking for a cool mine explore but its quite hard to find, do you know any mines in the area or do you have any tips or tricks?

@TVRExploring

3 ай бұрын

I'm afraid that is an area that I am entirely unfamiliar with. I'm not even sure of how to track down mines there...

💥❤

32:40 If I got that far, it would be with equipment to be sucking up all that mud to refine out the gold in it.

sometimes you get the Bear, others the bear gets you.

I don't think that's a collar, I think it's a tipped over head frame for the incline shaft.

👍

I wonder if they ran into foolsgold i read someone along time ago that if you find iron its also a teletel sigb it means fool gold

@Springfield-eo8jl

4 ай бұрын

Well.....pyrite is also known as IRON pyrite so......

Sorry I would of watched earlier but I had to click on Marla .

@TVRExploring

4 ай бұрын

LOL!

Upper Yuba County?

@TVRExploring

4 ай бұрын

Mostly in Butte County with the recent activity...

Man that place needs to be mined. Are you ever able to get info to someone that is interested in filling a claim?

That a coast flashlight? If so please upgrade. Streamlight, fenix , olight real flashlight open up the world.

@Springfield-eo8jl

4 ай бұрын

Feel free to send them money or flashlights! Do not feel free to tell someone how they should spend THEIR money when they provide YOU with free content.

I love the dogs, but hate to see them unleashed in the backcountry. Here in Arizona, the last you'd see of them would be in a coyote's jaws.

@Springfield-eo8jl

4 ай бұрын

Cool story. I think it's awesome that you passively aggressively share the fears that control you in hopes that the same fear infects others to in turn will control them. You must be the life of the party🎉🎉🎉🎉

How do you not die?

Would it not be so nice to be already too wealthy to care about the gold left in there and drive a couple of trackhoes back up in there and go downtown? lol

Thanks!

@TVRExploring

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your extraordinary generosity - especially when you're grinding through a tough time... I promise that we'll put it to good use!

@JustAnotherPaddy

4 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploring it’s small compared to the content already available that I’ve watched…but…if you should happen across another lost placer mine….? It’s well spent