hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and metals and behind me is a gold
mine I'm trying to get rehabbed so I can get some gold back out of it So today we're going
to do some Timber sets we're going to get this uh shop area cleaned out we're going to get set up
mucked out and get ready to go mining I wanted to start out here so you get your bearings a little
bit on a previous video I timbered up all this deck and did a little header in our portal but
on today's video we're going to go in take a tour inside here so I've got some stuff staged
there we go I got my little Lantern going so you can kind of see what I'm talking about
here A bunch of rail bunch of junk so I'm gonna get this all cleaned up so I can do some Timber
working here but this little thing is the coolest thing a little battery powered lanterns and led
thing lasts a long time so I got a link in the description if you want to check that thing out
there we go that'll give us a little room to work here all this stuff I moved was mostly old rail
it's that Narrow Gauge miners rail and somebody actually left me a comment one time
they said well maybe you should cut that up into like one foot sections pull some spikes
from the sleepers polish them up and sell Rail and spikes on eBay so if you think that's a good idea
leave me a comment below okay home sweet home I got everything piled back in the corner there
I'm gonna build a Timber wall all the way across here so I can just isolate that whole section it's
kind of nasty and I don't want to do a bunch of bolting right now and screwing around so I'm just
going to block it off and then if we need it for storage or something later we can come back to it
but I think this will be plenty of storage it'll give us six or eight feet off the main drift there
and we can store supplies and stuff in here and our first hitch is going to be right up there
there's a nice little spot right there I can get a Timber in and I'm gonna what I gotta do
now is I gotta dig out a hole in the floor I got to get down to good solid rock so when I squeeze
the top of the wedges it really tightens up against the floor if I put it on this it's
just going to Mush down to nothing so let me get that mucked out and I brought up some big
these big six by sixes true Dimension they're 12 feet long so we'll get some of these cut down to
the right dimensions the Bottom's about a foot down there just covered muck but I'm down a nice
hard rock there all right so from the bottom my hole 115. so I need a stall 115 inches long
so I've got my little battery-powered Sawzall here these things are the best I said this in
my previous video this revolutionizes underground mining because you don't need air tools you don't
need gas tools which you can't use and it beats the heck out of a hand so I'll tell you that
so let me get this thing cut at 1 15. see if it'll do it it's a true 6x6 it's gonna be close
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right through a knot the whole way I was wondering why it was hard to cut I guess when you have
a knot it slows you down a little bit avoid power right through nice work okay let's see
well I've done some trimming on it
I think it's gonna go in there now so now I just gotta tap it in
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all right well now let's pick some wedges
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but I think I think I got it where I wanted here
we go
like that now let me get some wedges in the top there
let's get this thing put to bed here
well there not maybe you can see
I'm just gonna drive two edges I'm on my second one here
okay good stuff
all right now for one in the middle
this one I'm going to try and hitch right up in here so I need a real steep point on it
so let me get a point on this guy
all right guys all my battery's running low and my battery's running low so I could call
it quits today but I wanted to give you a little update I've got our stalls kind of Walled off I
put some bigger Timbers in the middle so I can hang stuff off of this is going to be kind of
a shop room it's not the prettiest thing I've ever built but it's going to be functional so
that's what we're going for here we've got our shop space all set up I wanted to give you a
little bit of a tour we got our wall there behind us all our tools hanging on there
Slickers PPE stuff over here it's a nice little Milwaukee Lantern I like and then back here is
the way into the mines so right now we're working on getting that rehabbed so let's go take a look
doing a little bar down training in here looking for loose stuff
as he goes along he's just testing for the sound initially
it's got that nice ring to it
it's all pretty good ground here
but anytime you go into a new heading you want to just bar down make sure there's nothing over
your head foreign pretty good ground huh yeah no it all sounds great a couple of small very
very very tiny pieces that are coming down real small stuff but no cool great awesome
well we barred down the first hundred feet or so
now our next job is getting rid of all this rail all this Timber all this junk thank you [Music]
ready yeah
all right
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it out
thank you
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good okay no here
write your names on that you gotta sign it it's your first one
there we go sign in their first stall somewhere yeah upwards stay drying
okay now you're part of History good work guys
well I'll follow Harry and Chad back underground here we'll get a tour of what we accomplished
yesterday we're gonna do our workplace inspection do a little bar down on the way in here [Music]
yeah Chad why don't you tell me a little bit about what we did yesterday in here and how it all went
sure yeah Jason we uh were able to cut the fish plates on the rail get the rail out of here we're
able to get the sleepers out of here and cut the airline we had a lot of a lot of Airline a lot of
rail to move is quite the workout but there was a lot of water dammed up too that we had to Treads
through oh yeah it's behind this Dam here yeah so right here there's a little barricade water
accumulating so once we've got the pistache dug out water straining really good and it's starting
to dry out but we still have a lot of work ahead of us as you can tell yeah bring some gravel in
and we got to get a wheelbarrow through here move some of these bigger rocks but yeah you did a lot
of work yesterday we sure did and you know it's a lot cooler down here than our minds so yeah raised
to 67 underground it's 38 here yeah exactly nice nice refrigerator to work at yeah yeah and we we
ended up going about what 100 150 feet or so yesterday yeah that sounds right we had we had
all the right tools to get her done and we barged down the whole way found a few blue sections we're
able to reinforce the ground nice yeah if you remember this was all just Rail and the piled up
old wood and we don't have to hunch over too much now yeah you can almost stand up straight almost
I know all three of us are over six feet I think so yeah I didn't go for for the right height but
yeah some tight working conditions especially cutting off the fish plates when we're cutting
the fish points off we had to lift the rail chalk it to be able to get the right angle
and that same thing with the airline we either took a 20 pound Sledge and just hammered at the
rust and we were able to twist it off or we had to cut it gotcha yeah that was a job it
was battery-powered Milwaukee's worked pretty good though huh yeah they did they held up to the abuse
underground's about the hardest environment you're going to find for tools yeah absolutely so are we
going to do a little bit more raking on the floor here and get some of the Rocks cleaned
out you think yeah we could build this up a little bit get some of the big guys out
we want to get a either a cart or a wheelbarrow through to just carry materials back and forth
right and this this water line we're going to reuse so we'll end up getting this off
the ground and hanging at some point yeah we'll put some hangers up here on the rib somewhere
how's it look Harry wonderful barred down yeah workplace inspection looks good nothing's moved
okay cool let's go back and take a look at that heading we closed off show them how we did that
so I'll get right in here so
underground signage is a big deal that's the way to the exit that's our portal there so you want
to mark that with signage and here's a drift we're not going to be using so we just closed
it off no entry so we don't have to maintain that that can be just left as is and we everyone knows
now to stay out of there because it's not safe it hasn't been inspected and and barred down
and then turning around here flocking a little further down the drift
here's some air hose we left from yesterday our Airline that's a big heavy steel bugger
it's really really difficult and like Chad was saying earlier seems like when we find
a coupling like right there let me try and change my light here so it's not so
when you find a coupling like that they can wedge it up and beat on it it comes apart
just like here we got some wood blocked it up and it broke
this is going to be a project for our next video this is as far as we've gone you can see
the signs down there restricted area do not enter so this is as far as we've rehabbed our mind now
but if you look up this big raise goes up there I don't know what you think 50 feet more 50 50
anyway sounds right and we don't want to be working under all that rock up there we don't
want to have to get up there and maintain it it's just not safe so in our next video we're going
to put up some some stalls here and lag that off so we have some protection from overhead
so stay tuned for that video but I'm really happy with what we've accomplished guys what
do you think it was a good first go yeah we got a lot a lot more done than even anticipated yeah
exactly exactly and our our next uh next couple videos is going to be us getting back about 400
more feet down this drift and getting up the raise to the stove and uh next time we
see this mug pile it'll probably be gone that's right yeah we're gonna we're gonna use all this
muck that Harry's standing on and we're gonna try and smooth out the the drift a little bit
fill in the low spots the wet spots and get all this rail and junk out of here there's a bunch
of old rusty metal so we've still got a lot of work to do but it's coming along real nice
thanks for inviting us Jason absolutely mine operator working in Washington