Underground Mine Exploration, Aerial Tram, St. George Mill Ore Crusher plus Hit and Miss Engine
Underground Mine Exploration, Aerial Tram, St. George Mill Ore Crusher plus Hit and Miss Engine
For this mine exploration we start by examining the St. George Mill, which has an ore crusher that sits on top of the lower ore bin. Next, we hike high up the mountain following the aerial tram to the upper ore bin and upper tram terminal. There are several mine openings here with loads of beautiful quartz laying around everywhere we looked. We found a nice drift to explore with a big quartz vein underground. We also found an old miners camp where there are vintage pressure tanks, most of a hit and miss engine and a corral. We hope you enjoy the video!
Here are links to a couple more videos you might enjoy:
Beautiful copper mine filled with artifacts
Ore cars and purple fluorite vein
https://youtu.be/Y9Px1wwamXQ
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Great stuff I love the exploring I love all mines keep it up big fan😂🇺🇸👍
Epic is correct!
Fun stuff!
You certainly got a work out that day.
Thanks very much!
👍👍👍👊😎
Amazing the manhours spent building this mine. They had a drill press with good drill bits to drill all that metal. Wonder how many men were on the crews that dug it out.
Oh boy, lots of ore bins and heavy iron! Loved the last bin at the top with the bull wheel and gear for some type of a tram. Sure interesting to see a corral up on the side of a mountain. Maybe that’s where the "burro dinner" came from! 😁
And yet another great exploration Tom and Julie what a fascinating place way up in the mountains looking at at the work those miners did all hard work thats for sure getting all the machinery up there well done guys see you next time, y’all take care now.
The Rock crusher was very cool. You guys have a lot of fun. Made me smile real big when you turned that wheel and act like the tin Man. The jawbone and those legs of that donkey crazy. Look like you guys got your hike in for sure. And those views beautiful.
Thank you Tom and Julie what a great explore. Sorry haven’t commented lately been getting my dirt roads ready for winter. Just amazing how hard those miners worked and got every thing up those mountains. What a view. Stay safe out there 🍺🍺🍺⛏️⛏️
That v8 engine indicates some activity later than 1950 or so. That was about time the auto industry transitioned from flat head v8’s to OHV V8’s. It was not a GM, or a Ford as they did not use four hold down bolts in the valve covers. I finally found that this engine is almost certainly a 51 or later Studebaker V8 as they had the four bolt hold downs on the valve covers. Since Stromberg WW carburetors were not introduces until the mid 50’s that dates the production around that time. When that engine found it’s way up the mountain is anyone’s guess.
Wonder how many feet per day miners could advance forward?
I wonder if that homemade winch was for a gate?
What a cool explore! You two are the best!!
That was a great video! Did you guy’s know there was that much up there or did you just find all of that? Either way that was cool! Thanks Tom and Julie! 👍✌️
excellent exploration as usual with Bonus, lots of above ground hiking and artifacts, wow this is a really awesome video thanks for sharing.
,good morning Tom and Julie, how would the water get past the wooden plugs though
Fantastic video once again. I love seeing all the artifacts you stumble upon. Thanks for sharing 👍
Wish I could be there with you guys, I could look at rocks for hours while you explore the mines!
Thanks Tom and Julie it was Quartzy goodness!!!; )
Great mine guys thank you for bringing us along for the adventures
Tom and Julie.
Another interesting explore as we’ve all come to expect.
Very nice artifacts and descriptions. I’ve always felt that the old mines are the most interesting. Great camera work and documentation. I enjoyed the explore. Thanks for sharing.
A+++.
Rob McLennan
wow 1838 almost 200 years i would love to have metal detector right now
that has to feel pretty cool when that flywheel turned, how fun.
Really enjoyed the episode with my two favorite explorer’s, on my favorite youtube channel 😀
Looking forward to your next episode ❤️
perhaps those rock walls were a water diversion and there was a collection tank ? thats a lot of rock
How tall is Julie? 🇨🇦
this was a fun one thanks for sharing and stay safe two thumbs up.
thanks tom for going back up that wash to that v8 motor ,interesting carburetor with its 90 -degree bend on it looks like it had a separate float bowl .i’ve seen a lot of carbs in my day but none like that, that pipe rail with wooden dowel connectors now thats engineering.
Thanks for bringing us along. Interesting.
I love the channel guys… from Dartmoor in England. Could listen to Julie talk for hours I think… such a relaxing voice! How about some soft spoken / asmr mine descriptions 😍
*Hey T&J!*
I love how you folks don’t try to make a "reality TV show" out of your videos – throwing a bunch of
"production values" and generated drama into them like so, so many others do.
There is an honesty and integrity to your presentations; it makes me feel just like I’m there with you.
Thank you for that. 🙂
See you on the next one,
– Ed on the Ridge
It really is an unanswered question. Looking at the weight alone of some of that equipment, how in the heck did they get it up there? If there was a decent road, there would still be evidence of it. No way there were going to get a donkey burrow or horse to haul it and chances of people actually hauling it is even more doubtful. I guess it was all those aliens that helped build the pyramids and ancient structures. Early Earth was just a big "ant farm" and every now then extraterrestrials just threw the humans a bone.
I’ll tell you what, that hike up that hill even wore me out, Julie used all her horsepower reaching the top and Tom I think you were doing some huffing and puffing! Nice job exploring this mine, also a lot of nice outdoor equipment especially the ore crusher. Very early site and always great footage that you record. I will always tell you to watch your steps, especially when you are on these old miners trails. I slipped on loose rock once going around a steep ridge, and luckily was able to keep my footing. Thanks for another great video! Safe journeys!😊
Very nice! Thanks for sharing .
Thanks for another interesting video. As a couple folks said in the comments below, that V8 engine is a Studebaker. Most likely from a 1953-1957 pickup or Commander based on that Stromberg WW carburetor. Those were also used on some Olds Rocket 303 V8’s. The Olds Rocket and the Ford Y block had two centralized valve cover studs rather than the four offset studs on the Studebaker V8. I love old engines, and you folks have a gift for finding the obscure ones.
Looking at the valve cover attachment and the carburetor I think that’s probably an early to mid 1950’s Studebaker V8 engine.
Had to go back up the wash to see the equipment again. My wife and I just laughed at the little boy at Christmas Tom can be. We also admire the amount of hiking you two are capable of. It’s truly amazing. One last thing, the camera you use for the still shots is incredible. Such fantastic resolution. Ok, we’re biased over your channel.
Hello Tom Hello Julie
This Video was absolute amazing.
All this strucktures All this buildings what a amound of work did they do to install all this Equipment.
Than the left everything behind cetrainly a mine with a rich deposit.
What goes on there why did the left the place.
By the way the missing piece of the roof of the equipmentshed lies in the orebin.
The timbering was very interesting.
They had not much money to cut Down the timber to a good size.
When it must be square the do it by Hand.
They change the the way to Do the timber from german style to polish and back .
Thank you for the Video it is a great with all the views the Fotos.
Take care
Greetings yours Frank Galetzka
A ladder Tom!!!! LOL Wise choice you passed on clambering up it. Looked pretty wanky. You’re guys’s lamps must be searchlight quality…You crawl thru some tight slots and end up on the edge of huge Orr passes. Thanks for sharing your excursions. Jake
Great work bud, truly spectacular scenery! You presented this just fantastically! 🔥🔥
Tough underground but lotsa cool history left there! Awesome adventure👍👍
I wonder if they were BBQ ribs ….. you can rebuild him ….. hit and miss still spins after all them years ….thats a cool windlass …..really fun explore you two ….imagine what was in the upper mines …..you could of had a V8 …cool views to
Very nice video, thank you for sharing.
Wow! It spun! Cool vid once again guys.
Thank you Tom and Julie😊❤❤You are living a wonderful dream❤
I got so tired watching you two walking up that road I had to have a beer to cool down. Interesting with all the quartz left behind. Looks like the old miners had to work their rears off to get what they did get. Good one guys, stay safe.
we made as far as the mill site but didn’t hike up to the mines. I think that stone wall structure at the beginning are corrals. Ive seen similar structures at Lee and Minietta.
The rocks in lines is wild
howdy! those old rock walls sometimes were built as corrals to keep the live stock under control and the kids busy!
Glad you came back out of there Tom, looked pretty sketcy there at the end.