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- We check out Tony Beets headquarters in the Yukon and explore many old abandoned dredges in the Dawson area as well as one restored one...
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how am i seeing this...only once its on part 4? wtf....
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@@exploringabandonedmines i will...the beetz are one of my hero's ..they are too real. if im lucky ill get to meet them in arizona one day. maybe in tucson at gemshow...
@@themastertater420 I wouldn't say the beetz do anything heroic. And they are not real because the whole show is scripted...duh
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@@themastertater420 your face is valueless
Still watching but "barking spiders" I thought I was the only one saying that anymore!! Ill keep watching!! These dredges are so damn awesome!
Thanks Frank this series was fantastic! Definitely nice to document those dredges before they all rot away
Glad you like them!
The abandoned dredges here on the West Coast of the South island of New Zealand are similar in layout to those in the Yukon. I often pan the tailings around the area of these old dredges and usually get several ounces of gold sometimes but rarely I will find small nuggets, at the end of the day I usually have paid for the trip. Another excellent video and excellent photos from the wonderful Sharon.
Massive equipment these old time bucket dredges. Why not, when your making that much gold, you can go big, really big. Makes my 6" pontoon dredge look like a toothpick. Real nice tour. Thanks guys. You showed us scenes we could never hope to see.
There was a lot of Gold back then!
You’ve shown more than you see in 3 seasons of gold rush in 30 minutes
They skip over the interesting stuff and focus on drama!
Gold Rush isn't a history show. Why would they dedicate airtime to showing old tech?
@@misterslats
Eehh.. have you seen Mr Beets...?
😂
@@mrolsen6987 A contemporary miner using old machinery is much further away from a history show than one that explores long-shuttered mines and troops around the bush looking for turn of the century mining equipment to climb on. There's a time and place for the whole "exploring mining's ghostowns and equipment" thing and that place is on PBS or CZcams not Discovery's Gold Rush - which is about the individual characters, the battle against nature, and the competition for the highest gold count. With all those elements comprising the show there just isn't room to throw in a historical element as well. Viewers are already complaining that coverage of four crews spreads each episode too thin. Add some history component to it now too??? No thanks.
@@misterslats
It was a joke..
Like "have you seen Mr Beets equipment!? It's like a history show"
Thanks Frank. Really interesting to see the mechanics of them close up.
You bet
Thanks Frank and Sharon for a birds eye view of past and present mining in the Yukon. It was a massive undertaking to get a dredge delivered, set-up and running when you consider lifting equipment was almost non-existent back then. The people were dreamers accomplishing the near impossible. Their ingenuity has to be admired.
There was a lot of Gold back then. Gold can move mountains!
@@exploringabandonedmines At $35 an once it must have taken truck loads of gold!
Hi Frank & Sharon, wow it's hard to believe they would build those huge dredges in just 9 months, awesome craftsmanship behind their design too. A very cool explore looking at some awesome gold mining history. Thanks for sharing, much love. xx💖
Enjoying seeing all that old machinery. Must have been quite something to see/hear it working back in the day. Thanks for sharing...
Glad you enjoyed it
It amazes me that people would rather have the bits of machinery rust away to nothing out in the woods so there is nothing left for their grandchildren to see, instead of putting it in a museum, where it is preserved. Looking at a little pile of rust out in the woods would not be very interesting or educational.
Another fascinating episode. Thank you for taking us along on this video voyage!
Who ever saw a restored model T and said they should have left it where they found it rusting in a farmers field?
Thank you
You're welcome
Them Barking Spiders have been stalking poor Frank for 3 seasons now.
Careful not to step on one!
I really like the aerial view of the beets camp. Must be really tough life mining for gold. Nice show Frank. VF
Thanks 👍
Wow them things realy are enormous. Cross between a Boat , Workshop and a Railway Signal Box lol .
Amazing structures Frank!
Cool stuff Frank. I love that old machinery but I always feel a little sad that its had its day...Cool shots from the drone too. Gives you and Idea of the scale of things!
Thanks 👍
Look at all this stuff, just left behind, the good old days, long gone. Ooops, people still work and live there. My brother worked on a dredger for a long time, he was a cook. So, do all dredges work the same? The knowledge it took to operate one. Beautiful, to see all the workings of a dredge, nice tour, Thanks Frank, Sharon and friends.
Yes they are bucket lines with a trommel and sluice box.
Thanks for the tour, we need MORE! MORE! MORE! Great job, there is a lot to cover up there.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome, thanks for sharing it with us!
Our pleasure!
Great video Frank!!!!!!! Love seeing & knowing the history behind those old dredges!!!!!!! @7:51 Frank, I think that spider might be worthy of a wipe!!!!!!!
Could be
Content never disappoints. Keep it coming.
Thanks, will do!
These Dredges are so cool! Lots of machinery!
Totally!
Nice Beaver! 🤣🤣🍺🍺🇦🇺
Great video! The inline bucket gold dredge was created in otago, New Zealand, some were even sold, dismantled and sent all the way to the Yukon as well as other countries
Very cool!
That's interesting.
Awesome vid, I really enjoy getting a glimpse into history. Thank you for the adventures.
Our pleasure!
Love the artifacts & history behind them 👍😎! "Stealing" is a necessary evil to preserve the past so others can learn & enjoy. Great stills! 🍻🍻!
Yes even if you buy artifacts from ebay they came from somewhere!
Especially in the U.S. since BLM and the Forestry Service are destroying the artifacts and history about as fast as they can find them. I feel so lucky to have seen so many "untouched" abandoned mines, mining ghost downs, and old Indian caves in the late 1950s and 60s. By the 70s and later those places are mostly all defaced and destroyed. I have my grandpa to thank for getting me into the hobby. Now I'm older than he lived to be, and I'm too old to be doing much exploring in the mountains and wilderness like I used to.
I love the history , and yous did an awesome job showing it all . Thankyou Frank & Sharon !
Amazing old machines loved seeing them
Yes they are!
I saw the Parks Canada Dredge July of 1993 and they were just starting to dig it out of the mud. It looks so amazing now.
fascinating - tks
Greetings from Germany bro 👍🏼 watched Gold Rush all the time
As a old retired Millwright Engineer I enjoyed the sh*t out of this vid 👍
Those bull gears trammells & old big pumps were a major part of my career
Probably a rail roader who took the latches from the levers. Assuming the latches were brass. I know a place in Rio Vista that could use a lot of little thing to authenticate certain old rail road parts. People forget a lot of rail road equipment was used during the gold rush. Makes you wonder if you made a list and went up there how much you would find. Thanks for keeping history alive!
Best channel on CZcams!
I can't wait to move out there
Love the Alaska gold mining history. Have promised myself a trip up there from London when I retire.
Dawson City is in Canada not America.
Always 5 star videos ... Thanks !
So nice of you
My buddy and I are just getting started with mining. You videos are inspiring my friend.
Good luck!
Great video frank. I really liked that old steam shovel the best. That’s was something to see. Thank you. 🍺🍺🍺
You bet
Looking forward to next week's video.. Great job y'all on these..🍺🍻✌
Thanks 👍
Watch out for those barking spiders.
Ya don't want to step on one!
Lol right he has a heard of them followin him around
@@leehilton9932 That's pretty dangerous then. They are hunting him. Glad to see Frank being so careful and staying away from them so he doesn't get eaten by them.
@@JoeyBaby47 I don't know. They've been on his trail for years and never tried anything. I think they look to Frank for guidance. 😆
@@exploringabandonedmines "Step on one"??? Sounds to me like you sat on him & he got stuck in the crack for a while!!!!!!! LOL
Brilliant, loved the show and enjoyed seeing all the old machinery in the dredges. Frank your knowledge gave us a great insight into how the machinery worked and what it was for. Those barking spiders seem to like your company Frank!!! 😂😂 Thank you Sharon, Frank and Ben. ❤️👍❤️
Very welcome
If your transformer doesn't have all its parts Frank will judge you. Great video lots of amazing history.
You are correct
There were quite a few little odds and ends they should be fixing up. Putting the buckets back on the dredge for one!
You make a great teacher and tour guide. Amazing what folks come up with. I would guess that it would have been pretty noisy working there. Thank you for teaching me new things. 🤘👻💖
Glad it was helpful!
this equipment is super cool...but ill be happy to see you guys back undaerground
Next week!
Great tour thank you!
This were amazing maschines badly no mashine is rearly saved from destroying or Steeling
But they are still amazing
Yours Frank Galetzka
You are now known as The Beaver Whisperer LOL
You can tell from the goatee.
Nice beaver! 🤣🤣😊
Needed that today thanx Frank
I have beaver in my back yard, about 20 second walk out my door. They used to slap their tails at me most every night when I was out walking my dog, but they're pretty used to us now and rarely slap their tails anymore. When my buddy hears it he swears it's Sasquatch tossing rocks at us and landing in the water. :>
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Your drone piloting is great. The manual "Point of Interest" (orbiting around something while keeping the camera aimed at the point of interest) is something most people have to use the autonomous modes to accomplish. I bought a fancy drone simulator program that uses a real RC controller plugged in the computer just so I could practice manual Point of Interest shots. I figured learning on a $100 drone sim was smarter than using a $1,200 drone and chance crashing it, plus I can keep my controller touch fine tuned in winter and bad weather. I'm kind of surprised you haven't gotten one of the smaller DJI drones yet, they're a lot easier to pack into remote areas, and handle the wind just as well as the Phantom 4. I have a Mavic Pro and Mavic Mini.
I have wrecked 3 of them so I have lots of spare parts. That is the reason I keep buying the Phantom 4. They are a good camera and once you get used to flying something it is easier to stick with it.
I had to be "like" 667. Can't have that other number! Enjoyed this series!
The steam powered dredges ran steam engines that turned belts connected to everything they where not run by electricity at all.
Man great vid!! K now im hooked lol
I've handled a lot of original paperwork for these old dredges kinda cool most were built by ship builders and most where steam electric to be self sufficient if the power line failed or they didn't have access to them at the time, its cool looking at the plans for them as well also lists of spares they carried
I only ever watched the first few episodes of gold rush when they drove up from oregon with like 5 trucks. I guess they made out since then lol
No Asbestos anymore Frank,since the late seventies to early eighties ,all non asbestos,been in the gasket industry for the last forty some years!
Yeah actually I knew that. Forgot what it was replaced with.
I Love your videos
Steam history is so interesting! Thanks Frank!
You are very welcome
I used to work here
I thought it was the floor at first not a Barking spider 🤣, cool vids
Hello very excellent video great program . The area that is screened was most likely the gold room last part when the Gold is panned .cjd wash state 🤔 thank you for your knowledge .
nice tour guys wonder how much manpower it would take to man one of those large dredges
Another great video! It's nice to see that at least some preservation is being done...somewhere. Here in Utah, the BLM is busy demolishing anything and everything pertaining to the mining history and related towns, etc. I guess that's the best idea they can come up with to justify their reason for existing at all. Thanks for taking the time to post another great adventure!!
It is alarming how fast it is disappearing!
For what it's worth ?
There's a lots to getting the alignment right on those rotary trammells.
They will walk all around and occasionally walk off the bed rollers. 👍
Dredge floorplan reminds me of the "Chatanika" Deredge...before some jerks burned it. I have pictures of before and after.
You could build a huge timber home out of all those beams and lumber that laying out and rotting
@7:54--- the dreaded Barking Spider! And The Poop Walk @ 16:57!
What you call the "wheel house" should be called the control house since there is no wheel that steers the ship.
both those lever styles latched one just had 2 latch points I think the ratchet ones were the brakes
Yes the others were for a clutch.
2:58 old Pidherneys mechanics truck
How cool is that? They actually had clutch’s that could engage and disengage. And brakes that would brake and not brake. Wonder if they had lights that would turn on and sometimes turn off.
You need to quit smoking
I did 35 years ago.
Modern fire extinguisher on the wall must be restoring it or.some thing.
Love ur content I subbed
Ya Tony is ok but I knew it was set up, everything on tv is set up lol
Of course it is. The mining shows, the fishing shows, the ghost shows, even Oak Island. Truth doesn't sell and lies can change history..
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EVERYTHING.! It's called programming for a reason!
@@mikehunt8375 no shit like I said
9:10 wonder if they could have used brass pins or another material that corroded or melted out in the fire. Or for that matter if they were rusted up and drilled out for replacements that never arrived...
People took them for souvenirs or maybe for the brass. The dredge we visited in part one still had them.
Tv show ideas, Frankys gold rush rescue. Save the artifacts and show them to the world
If I was in Canada Government I would make it so everything you bring into the Yukon you have to take with you when your done to get rid of the Junk left up there.
That would just reduce the amount of investment up here if companies had to now pay to take everything out as well.
The trouble is that most of them leave broke...
Any of these have progressive screens and sluices, trommels with smaller holes to start that empty into sluices for finer gold, and larger holes with matching sluice layout further down the trommel as it goes? Maybe not, given you were saying these things weren't all that efficient to start with and relied on bulk processing...
The finer gold is lighter and gets caught farther down the runs because it has a tenancy to float more.
@@exploringabandonedmines That's what I was getting at, fines would leave the trommel first regardless... in my head, it makes sense to have a first series of small sieves leading to a sluice arranged specifically for them, instead of just one size fits all and having pebbles and other swarf beating the stuff out of the traps. Get the delicate stuff out of the way and let the bigger flakes land in a sluice set up for them as well, just catch more overall.
As always I'm talking out of my posterior with a half-visualized idea :)
Great video of those dredges too bad Tony beets wasn't on his property or if he was just see what kind of guy he is off of the camera
My favorite part = 5:04
@my wife
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A little perspective. Were these big dredges actually floating in the river or did they start in the water and move where ever the gold went? It seems to me that these big guys are left high and dry where there is very little running water.
They dig a pit near where they want to mine. Build the dredge and then flood the pit. The pond moves with them as they go.
I wish we had theas old dreges close to where i live ive referbish and turn one into historic dredge home that would almost be as cool as the people who renevate old griss mills
A huge undertaking!
You said barking spiders lol i thought that was an illionois thing
No they are all over the world...at least any place I have visited.
Frank great documentary of the gold dredges and fly over them and Tony Beets sight>Great sill shots Sharon.
Frank you should have documentary show on the history channel in the future.
Great idea
Looks new. Must cost to much to move it not a lot of people have been there so clean also
Terex dozers? I want one!
They have lots up there.
@@exploringabandonedmines
Seems odd. Operators hated them in the cold weather. Radiator out the back. Couldn't enclose them to get heat like you can with other dozens.
would expect the wood that is underground now [below mud] would be far along in decay.
It needs oxygen to rot.
I got your back =)
Its called a spud
I try to watch your videos, but you tube puts up to 8 ads in them.
Luck of the draw sometimes there are none.
next projekt Tonie beets i think from the nederlands dus tonie werk voor je
Hey frank, is there any underground mines in Alaska?
Lots!
Tell tony where are the pins at lol
Is there a bathroom in the dredge?
More like a hole in the floor I bet!
You got enough gas to operate that dredge.
Diesel!
Is it safe to Explore a abandon mine?
Is it safe to drive a car?
I found a adandon mine on a hike this Full, I did not have the guts to go in. After winter in going to explore the mine. How do I explore it safely?
What would you have said to Tony if you ran into him
Hi
@@exploringabandonedmines lol but to be fair I would have just said the same thing
Judge Dredge.
Extremely interesting, but please be very careful, you don't shit your pants.
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