Hi everyone! Canyon and Cody here and we're finally back up at the mine
So, it is 11:30 at night
The whole idea is that we get an early start in the morning
and the goal for this episode is to muck out the mine
and make it ready for the next blast
But also I have a couple of new cameras that I'd like to try out
First of all
I can now take long exposures
I can take pictures of stars now!
I'm so exited!
But also I now have a thermal camera
I've been wanting one of these for a long time
You can actually see a lot better now
because I'm using infrared light
Let's turn this around and have a look
at the hillside
You can hear the dogs are barking at us
It has a very low framerate
Look at this, you can even see the moon in the sky!
You can tell where the rocks are
and where the sun shines the most strongly
It's like
up there, on top of the mountain there's an outcrop of rock
that's heated up by the sun
Isn't that cool?
What I really want to see
is what it looks like inside the mine
so let's actually head in there
all right, so it looks like some flowers
have grown up since I was here last
Everything looks good though
Let's switch to infrared
and head on in
Let's see how this looks, eh?
All right so it's obviously cooler in there
Also interesting how
it's warmer up near the cealing
than the floor, guess that makes sense because heat rises
Seems like turning my flashlight on makes no difference
This airline here looks
it's definitely warmer
oh you can actually see
Some of the rocks are cooler
Let's see, what is this rock that's colder
that shell, this is limestone here
so the shell, yeah it feels wetter so
The moisture evaporating must be cooling it off
So here's the shell that has water
Here's the limestone
You can see the salts and
whatever results in the ground water coming out there
Let's head on in
Oh you can see the bat!
Did you see that?
You know, mammals really show up on this thing
That's cool!
Turn off your light and let him past you
There it is -I thought I just heard him
Yeah
There he goes
Hopefully it goes out and gets a
moth or something
Yeah see there's not very much
moist rock in here
It does seem like it's colder right in the very back
There's my weed sprayer
You know what it probably is, it's still moist from the last time I was here
spraying down the dust
So, that's the mine and
infrared light, there's Kanyon standing over there
Okay, we can turn off our lights
Turn off your light
and the camera is still fine
Only the framerate and the resolution are not all that great
Here you go
Well I do hit the ceiling more than you do
You're just a little taller
Well that looks like a mess
All right, that'll work
It's hard to get around it
Yeah
I need to widen my tunnel
It's better than a tent
There, now the cougars can't get in
Oh hello!
Is that what I think it is?
Yeah, that's a black widow spider
You see the males that she's killed
It's not that bad -yeah
They're not really a problem as long as we're not
actively messing with her
Yeah, I don't really want to be bitten
I've actually been bitten three times by black widows so
I'm not too worried
Wow, speak for yourself!
Thanks to the increased size of the portal
the stay inside the mine was much more pleasant than last time
We had more ventilation
and therefore a lower humidity
In fact, the temperature stayed right around 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 deg. C)
Whereas outside it fluctuated from around 50 to 90
Okay so it's 8 am
Kanyon is still asleep over there
But the sun is coming up so I guess it's time to get to work
First thing I've got to do is move some of these sunflowers out of the way
Just sitting here, throwing rocks into the wheel barrel
That is a massive one
Yeah
That thing seems a little in the way, doesn't it?
yeah
We've got another four hours of shoveling at least
I'm actually wondering if we should drive a chisel behind this thing here
Knock it down today and then
call that an episode
This thing, I've hit my head on it so many times
I have a chisel and I think I've got a hammer around here
Just drive it in behind it, see if we can knock it down
The worst that can happen is that we waste a little bit of time
I suppose the worst that can happen is that we get squished by it, but...
Stay out from under it while we're hammering it
It's moving
Ready?
It's making me nervous
We've got it moving now so we have to get it to go down
We might have to bring those explosives up
Sure don't want them to complain
Yeah your viewers would hate to see you bring explosives up to the mine
So I pulled some rocks out and I've got a nice little hole
right there
Near the center of this chunk of rock
And I'm going to load that with explosives
and I'm going to punch it
I just put the explosives in the hole
and I'm packing rocks around it so that it's basically
inside the rock rather than on the surface of the rock
The explosives will not work unless they're well confined
well not that it won't work, it just won't move any rock
I would have slapped some cement on this
To put everything in place
Really it just needs some mass to push against
It doesn't really matter if the rock is solid or not
I'll use little ones to wedge it in place
Of course, if I was doing this out in the open
These pieces of rock would become shrapnel
which would be bad
So I'd use mud instead
But since I'm underground, it really doesn't matter
Everything's set, we're hot
Let's look at the blasting generator
Fire in the hole!
Let's punch it!
No delay on that fuse
I love the echoes!
I think that knocked the rock down
Let's punch it!
Actually, I bet the thermal camera can see through the smoke and dust
The wavelengths of infrared light are actually bigger than the dust particles so it should just go right through them
Oh yeah
I can see right through the smoke
Interesting how the smoke is actually sitting on the ground
Okay
One breath
Get right in
It's open
Cool! Okay
Okay
Breathe again
Let's do that with the optical camera
So you can see the difference
Okay, so here's the optical camera
You can see the smoke's kind of hanging towards the ground
Because the smoke from the explosives is actually kind of heavy
But
if we come back here
you can't see anything
It's a thick wall of smoke
All right, well we set out to clear away all the rubble and
we ended up just making more
but it's always fun to set off an explosion
and from looking on the thermal camera hopefully I got it
but it looked like that little chunk of rock we wanted gone is totally missing
so we were at least successfull in that
Hope you enjoyed, I'll see you next time