Drop GoPro Down an Abandoned Mine Shaft
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2021
- There is an abandoned mine shaft out in the woods that is super deep. I take a gopro and flashlight on a string and drop them down into the hole. Lets see what is at the bottom of the abandoned mine and find out how deep it is to the bottom. This area is known for mica and quarts mines and this might have been one of those.
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Unbeleivable. That's deep. Does need some caution tape and fencing perhaps. Great video of the depth.TKS.
Many years ago there was a fence. Now there are two others close by that don't even have a fence.
We had an old mine here at the Ranch. But after a few cattle met their demise I filled it with rock and dirt then drilled and pinned rebar into the walls and topped it with 3 feet of concrete. 500 +/- yard of dirt and 9 yard of concrete. Note I did have to detonate a 20gal barrel of expansion foam to fill the side shaft so the rock and dirt wouldn't run out. It cost me about 2600.00 for foam,rebar,concrete and trucking of rock and dirt. The rock and dirt were taken from the pit at the Ranch
How funny would it have been to find an antique ram-pump down there. lol. Thanks for the entertaining vid.....hope you are able to put some fencing or something up near that shaft....
Awesome!!
Where I am in Australia there are a ton of old gold mine shafts that a similar. Crazy what you find, and always having to watch your step.
That's awesome!!
It was fun!
we've been learning a lot about mines lately, cornwall is literally just a hollow shell full of shafts (had to have mine surveys done just to check there weren't any in dangerous areas before we bought the land.. would be cool if you were able to steady the gopro as it drops to stop the rotation... would be pretty cool to see where it headed.... we have a shaft next to our fields (but on on our land) lowest shaft is about 120ft deep, but totally flooded in the lowest level... havent had the chance to go down but have seen photos down there.. its pretty cool
THAT was WAY COOL! Love your videos.
That was wild & freaky, the spinning just added to it.. Awesome... Now it needs to be covered up so nothing will fall in...
What surprisingly content on Land To House today! Nice surprise! And we were expecting something exciting at the bottom of that pit (a treasure, some gold or a dead body ...), but like always we found plastic garbage. Oh dear!
To avoid the spinning, you could probably use wire instead of the twine!??
I think it would be better to use a 360 camera then the spin wont really matter.
@@GenJeFT I doubt that this will work. A 360° camera also has a beginning (0°) and an end (360°) which will rotate with the camera. Hence, also the 360° video will rotate. Also, the motion blur will still be there. Anyhow, the 360° view would be nice in this case.
Cool video. Thanks for sharing! The very end? Priceless. Lol.
HA the end was almost $450... took a couple times powering off and on for the focus to work again.
We all winced as we saw it happen. Glad it's working
That's cool! It would be interesting to see what is in the other mines of that area. Would you be able to use 2 ropes on the same system to stop the spinning, or would that be to difficult to make sure the angle of the camera is always pointing down?
that is one serious place to get hurt . but all i can think is it rubs the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again lol . no but seriously you should put a fence around or cover over that .
Drop or slowly lower with a pulley system.... it's also a well not a mine
There are tons of mines in the area. It would not make sense to put a well here. There are two more mines within 2 min walk.
@@LandtoHouse You should use a ram pump to fill it with water and then swim in it. That would be some great nightmare fuel.
Wonder what the pipe at 2:35 was or at what depth...I think a 2 or 3 line system and fpv system would have been interesting.
Maybe put some bars and fence over the hole. I was thinking of your kids maybe playing in the woods around there.
That would make the world's deepest root cellar.
Ha yes it sure would!
SCARY!!!
Thanks for sharing, though I started getting car sick for all the spinning, LOL. Twisted cordage turned out to not be such a good idea, perhaps an athletic field measuring tape next time?
I was hoping to see some signs of digging out the sides at the bottom for exploiting the vein of whatever they were looking for at that spot. It might have silted in and buried that, or perhaps it was a test shaft that ended up being a bust.
Mine or well?
Might be worth contacting your local mines department to see if they can put a metal grate across the top to make it safe.
Looks like it was filled in. 130' isn't deep at all for a mine shaft. They can go down thousands of feet. A mile deep in some mines. I think there is a gold mine in south Dakota where the main mine shaft is a mile and a half deep.
The shaft was flooded at 130ft you landed on the flotsam, square cut shaft 19th cent ,not coal .
That one might be an old well. Or someone's failed attempt at a ventilation shaft for a mine. You should go back with a big magnet and see if you pull up anything good out of the trash lol
Never commented before but I love your videos and have been subscribed for quite some time.
What general area of the nc Mountains are you in? I am in Eastern NC.
Thank you for being part of the channel. I appreciate your 1st comment.
We are close to micaville North Carolina in Western NC.
Exactly the kind of dumbassery I enjoy! Keep it up and stay safe!
EDIT: I was thinking if anyone tries this use two pieces of rope/string or a flat cable and it might stop the spinning
I planned on using a bigger rope that would not have spinned around as much but it was only about 50' long
@@LandtoHouse It's hard to find a good piece of rope that long! 😂
I'm not the only one seeing four thin extremities coming off of a main centre mass???
Seth, how did you erase that part where you find the treasure?
It's not a mine, it's an old well....call your local town and they will fill it in....
Lol!
I've looked at several of these and I'm surprised not to see some snakes and a lot of dead animals it would have fallen into the hole
Using a fishing pole instead the the pulley may have been more convenient, if you're a fisherman that is
Oh...I forgot to bug you today..Ok now you have had your fun with the go pro now go and do the 4 waste valves video 😁
any details about the main purpose of that shaft? we have like three of those and more deeper than that.
Our area is known for mica and quarts. Other than that I don't know.
you could take advantage of this for energy. drop a weight down it and either have it spin a flywheel or output to a motor. it could be lifted back to the top via solar during the day or using a hydro system
That would be interesting. Probably not going to happen because it is a few miles from my house.
You should try using two lines to get a more stable decent. With two lines fed through two pulleys with about 2 feet separation you will completely remove the spin as the twine is stretching and unwinding. That would allow you a stable viewing of what was on the bottom. From what I saw I was surprised that you couldn't see even any animal bones from something that had fallen into the hole. Good thing though. Maybe call the State parks people and ask if there is someone who can close off the hole so it is not a danger to humans or animals in the area.
2:28 where it starts
I was expecting to see a '53 Desoto at the bottom of that shaft. :-) I remember, as a kid, finding a early 50's era car in the bottom of a huge gully near my house. Almost as if someone had just driven it off into the gully "Thelma and Louise" style.
I had to stop watching your spinning footage so it wouldn't set off my vertigo. Very cool, nontheless.
Is this in your own woods? Shame somebody feels the need to drop rubbish down it. Interesting to investigate.
This one is about 2 or 3 miles away from my place.
It’s all cool and all until you’re GoPro spots a Wendigo.
That would be amazing.
Ok. Now, run water over to the top of the pit and a pipe down to the bottom with a generator at the bottom and give me some wattage numbers.
This shaft looks familiar. Just south of the Toe river back in Penland?
Yes that is the place.
You’re my neighbor up there! I saw another one of your videos right off Mr Rose’s lake. I’m building some tiny homes on my land up there. Will have some cool projects coming in the next year for your vlog!
Yes I know Mr. Rose. Great guy. Exciting news about your tiny house. Are you going to be going solar?
The first one will be on grid since that site is right by a duke power pole but the second one is far into the 18 acre parcel so that one will not be tied into the grid.. thinking about making the second one a tree house
My buddy and I were literally going to lower a GoPro on a fishing line and I googled this and saw your video noticing it was the same mine!
Do I spot an SC31 by Sofirn there?
That was actually a wowtac A6.
@@LandtoHouse Huzzah! A man of quality!
Was it me or was that a well pump more then a mine was there a house anywhere there at one time
As far as I know there was no house. This area has mines scattered all over the place.
@@LandtoHouse that's crazy I couldn't see from the video what that a pump sitting on the side halfway down. Bc it just ends is weird unless they ran out of money
@@dakotak8437 who knows what they used to take watwr out. Or if its just trash that was tossed down.
@@LandtoHouse ya that's sad ppl throwing junk down there it's the world we live in
Very sad! Indeed.
I hope you can make the shaft safe some how so no one or animal dose not falls in .
I've known about this place for around 6 years and it has looked the same the whole time. There used to be offense but it's long since fallen down.
@@LandtoHouse There can all ways be a first time .
If that was on my property. I would so use that as a battery. Attach a weight to a rope and to a motor. During the day a solar panel(s) will pull the weight up. And at night it’ll descend and create energy through a generator.
This idea wouldn't work. It goes against the law of conservation of energy. You would expel equal or greater energy pulling the weight up as the weight would generate on its decent. You would be better off just using the solar directly.
@@fitlobster Ummm, using gravity for energy use has been used for centuries. Prime example is a Grandfather clock. And if you look up gravitylight. On the same note, flywheel electricity storage.
@@robertsteich7362 And how do you plan on getting the weight back up everyday?
@@fitlobster as I stated in the first comment. Use a solar panel to energize a motor to pull up the weight. Then at night allow the weight to energize an inverter.
Of course it’s more complex than the way I am describing it. It’s possible though. There are pros and cons of using a system like this compared to the same but with a chemical battery instead of a weighted battery.
@@robertsteich7362 The power needed to pull the weight up is equal or greater than the power generated by the weight moving down. If this was a thing you would have massive barges with weights on cables setup all over the oceans. I understand your point of view but it doesn't work.
I would fence that off
Not a mine. That was an old hand dug well. The pump, pipes, and cable were added later. Probable old homestead location. Needs to be fenced off with T post and barbed wire.
This area has lots of mines. There are two more mines within a couple min walk. They are much larger but full of water.
Not a very successful well.
Looked bone dry to me, I would go with mica and quartz 🧐
@@LandtoHouse Anything is possible! In Appalachia it wasn't uncommon to have more than one dug well in case one went dry. One near the house and at least one out by the animal pens. Hauling water by bucket and windlass or just a drop bucket was back breaking work to fill water troughs and such. My folks in Tennessee had one with a flume to the trough so they could just haul up and pour out rather than having to hump two buckets at a time to the trough. They put in pumps when they got power in 1984. Those wells were dug in the late 1800's (1870?) and are still providing water. Mine or well? Pump one out and see! ;o)
No, that was never supposed to be a well. First, it does not make sense to dig such a deep well in an area with so much rain and so many creeks. And second, this area is known for mining (mostly mica, feldspar, quartz / therefore "Micaville" and "Emerald Village").
Looks like Seth's Hole.
POV of a drill bit
WHY would whomever (I'm assuming a mining company) dug this shaft not make it safe for passers-by when they decided to stop using it (for whatever reason) for its originally intended purpose???
In my humble opinion, that's an example of gross negligence!!!
I'm guess how old that is they didn't think ppl would be explorering like ppl do now and seams like there might have been a house or something long time ago looks more of a well just me thinking. Could have been a cover at one time rooted away or ppl removed it to
There was a fence many years ago. I know where 2 or 3 more mines are but they are not as deep.
This one did have a fence many years ago.
Those stuff can get washed away in 100 years.
HOLY MOLY IM FIRST
HAHA. Yes you are.
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Did you win a prize????
@@justmyopinion6486 I dont think so 😅
@@justmyopinion6486 just the clout of being first.