I've been wheelchair bound for 33 years and seeing these videos inspires me. Thanks Allen for your example of hard work. God has blessed you. Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” These comforting words can apply to all of us as we seek to live a good life and overcome our own unique challenges.
@@mtnfortresslabs Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
@@mtnfortresslabs You Are An Awesome Guy!! You aren't afraid of work to get you want you want or need, I SO wish I could Meet you some day ❤ love & hugs from Indiana ❤
I'm with you on your definition of "treasure" - if the sand and river stones are usable for tons of concreting work - that's a massive win right there! Perhaps the seam might even come out somewhere near where the Sany is parked? Keep up the amazing work Alan! Wizard stuff!
Most people are probably thinking that's bullshit isn't treasure but if you have ever had to buy any type of aggregate you will know how expensive that it is and then you have to have it delivered extra cost especially if your place is miles away from the town this is truly a gift for this man God is good, I own a very small excavation business 2 man operation father and son so I know how much of a gift that this stone mix is good job brother keep on digging if I lived closer to you I would definitely love to come be a part of your build but I live in Maryland so it's just a little farther away good luck and God bless
I miss being able to work my butt off! At 72 yr old it’s just ain’t possible to work that hard anymore. So not much gets done at My mountain fortress, which ain’t nothing like this one! You truly have a fortress!
I just learned of your compound this morning watching Dave Sparks bring the Sandy up the mountain. You got a cool location and a whole lot of ambition. Be safe up there Alan 👍☮️🇺🇲
Your a mad man ! I thought I’m crazy for digging a cave by hand in my granite hillside (30 feet in so far , w/ 1 room . But your on another level brotha , I love people with a dream & the passion to do what most people wouldn’t even consider. No laziness for sure .
Took the words out of my mouth too! I'm wondering HOW river gravel got there too. The only 2 options I can think of both seem pretty unlikely. Either the old miners carted it up for some reason, that would be a hell of a job or, it was a river bed at some point in the distant past, both seem very unlikely but it has to be one, either way, just straight cement and yeah, treasure alright. Possibly double treasure if it's carrying gold too.
Hi Allen, your (#1) Lake Mead Fan here - haha! It was great to see you in person. Please keep up the good work. Your drive to work is incredible and what you are able to accomplish is "wizard" inspiring. I am a marketing professional so if you ever want any help, please give me a shout-out. I would be honored to support your cause and channel in any way I can.
@@mtnfortresslabs Haha, YUP! That was me, the crazy lady waving from the dock ;-) But seriously, willing to volunteer with marketing, social media, video editing, etc. if you ever need it. LOVE your work and your channel!
You're absolutely right Alan, GOD is good. When one tries to live and do right, its pretty awesome how HE always manages to ease our burdens. Glad tobsee you pushing it forward when life is at its heaviest, great friends like Dave and the gang are priceless in far more ways than one. You and the guy's Alan, you definitely got this no worries. 🇺🇲💪🙏✌️
Water smoothed rock.....interesting, especially on top of a mountain! At some point in geological history this must have been a drastically different landscape with a river that filled up a pocket in the bedrock. If that is the case, then could it be assumed that there might be gold mixed in with that material? Deposited at the same time the sand/rock was? Have you ever tried panning a bit of it?
Alan your a hard working great guy. Keep up the good work hope everything works out great for you. Buy the way love what yoy have done building the mountain fortress. Best of luck bro keep it up!!
Can’t help but comment every time I see a fortress video. What an amazing place you’ve been blessed with Allan! Still hoping for a video explaining more about it and how you came to getting it. You’re one hard working dude! Good to see the channel growing like it is 👍🏼
On the Heavy D Sparks channel there's a tour video with Alan. Plus today they posted the cleanup after Alan's shop fire video. Poor Alan. He's lost a lot of family personal items plus tools. Heavy D Sparks trucks to the rescue.
This is my first time watching your videos and I gotta say you stand on your own making video content. Thanks for sharing your life and projects with the world.
"I sorta underestimated the amount of work I had to do". Haha, I love you man, you're such a hard worker. Keep it up with all the awesome things you do!
Animals pass knowledge . . . .by God's design . . . . . i love nature, it reminds me of how little i know . . . .i love your videos, and a lot of respect to you sir for having time to acknowledge animal life and God the Creator.
This project is so fucking cool Alan. Let's hope the bunker part doesn't actually need to be used anytime soon what with WW3 on the horizon it seems. Peace, stay safe doing what you do and don't stop; it's amazing
I've seen mine exploring videos where people were in placer mines...ancient river bottoms...chasing gold. You might want to try looking for gold in that pocket. Interesting video. Keep on keeping on!👍👍
I have actually used both styles of those mine muck skips you showed towards the end of this video. You sure have a smorgasbord of odd and varied equipment. Keep on building Alan.
Alan, I saw a video where someone used gravel inside the center block to save on concrete costs and then poured concrete over the gravel inside the center block. Interesting video. Looking great! The Lake Recovery videos were awesome. Ml, blessings.
My father was a lot like you. He built our home before me. He was a scientist and I learned to be super resourceful from him and I'm thankful for that. This guy Alan is fascinating and needs a whole pile of kids to learn from him, learn his work ethic and help the guy out some. I will be watching to see how this all comes together.
I think your newly found treasure might be hiding something that you may not have expected to find. You might want to pan out some of what you pulled out of that seam. With river rock, gravel, and sand all being present in the same spot, and a deep hole that could have been a waterfall millions of years ago, you just might find some gold or other precious finds. There's probably a very good reason that someone left you with those old ore carts and tracks.
the dosser recovery was cool , big millatery vehicles that was sick ,. im wishing you success looks between yt and working recovery your going to get your fortress finished and have the best place in the world
Man Alan you are non stop,its very Impressive how much you have done by yourself. Its a great project you have going on,i love it and you have one Hell of a View.
I love those videos. Very inspiring for me, as I'm struggling with little works, compared to yours. Thanks to you I'm putting myself to work, just little steps. Thank you :)
I can relate to your comment. I'm so stiff and sore and stove up from injuries and multiple surgeries, that over the last few years I've let some things go. But now I'm trying super hard to push myself to get things done, especially after recognizing how other men are really getting after it, and doing the things! I got very depressed and self-loathing, just getting into worse and worse shape... so here we go, Boogity Boogity Boogity,..lets get her done!! Lol Alan is a hard working inspiration for me... glad to be let into his small slice of heaven on Earth
I live up in the mountains in Canada Lakefront it's a gorgeous place and I can totally understand why you put so much effort to making a home where you made it the views are amazing
have to say that looking at what your mountain is comprised of i'm pretty sure you could build a mini set up to filter your aggregate to various sized stone chippings and do all sorts with it, ie use on the mountain track, perhaps just adding cement to use as concrete - will be cool
That gravel is obviously part of an old river channel. I'm wondering if it was a plunge pool beneath a water fall in the past. Guessing not due to the lack of larger boulders, but either way that bedrock has clearly been uplifted and faulted so that was not the top of a mountain in the past. You can see the upturned beds in the shots of the mountain taken from a distance. They look like spines running along the center areas of some of the shots. Materials up there are a treasure! Good work!
You need a dog Al, preferably a decent sized one that is big enough to defend itself from whatever predators could be around. They are great company and if he/she sleeps outside will warn you of anybody sneaking around at night, more so now you've got a clear and much better track up to there.
Allen, this looks like a prehistoric sinkhole, eventually filled with a river gravel. If it indeed was carved out by a river flow, than it's shape would be rounded and often quite deep. So, of exploring, you would need to make sure that you gradually remove all grounded fill and get to a harder exterior to avoid a catastrophic collapse. All your activity there is literally breathtaking.
Super awesome 👏 God is Gracious!! God bless you and Dave sparks and the whole diesel family. Cool find and awesome update! Get that much needed rest and see you on the next one ☝️👍
What about constructing a screw-like digger to get the sand/gravel material out of the hole, and deposit it in a more convenient pile? Something similar to an Archimedes' screw, but instead of being for liquids it's for solids. At least it could be worth a try.
I'm happy to see you found some material that you can use from your property. I have been wondering why you have not been using more from the land. Like building with the rock. There is definitely a lot of it. Lot's to do and there is no job that can't be done, if only you have the right tools. It's one of those Jobs that you wonder if you will get it done before the body gives out. Slow going when you do it all alone though. I'm one of those lone doers myself. Thinking it would be nice to have help the older I get. Anyway, take care. 💪💪💪💪🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Ing FOR YOU AND YOURS FROM COLORADO ❤️
Great find Alan!!! You will put that to good use. Enjoy you on Heavy D's channel, so i figured i may as well start watching your channel too!!! That is one hell of a sweet compound you got going there!!!!!
Hi Alan, HEAVY D subscriber, here, watched as they came to help you, always liked you👍, for that reason and what you are doing, lm going to follow your progress. I too believe that you have a treasure❕it could be a spectacular find, even more so than you think 🤔, please screen some of it in water. I would love that to be true for you, you got gusto. All the best to you. It will be nice to see all the block work finished up. Then onto a new block shop. I wish the best. 👌🏻✌🏻🧡 🌤 🇨🇦 👨🦽 😎.
Figured I'd come subscribe really like what you're doing on your Mountain that's awesome and I think you're an awesome part of Dave's team keep up the good work man you're doing great
Great find and are you building the earth storage area using those old tires filled with soil material ? That would make a great video . Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
okay, all that river wash, when you get down to the next hard layer down, try doing a few gold pans with the last inch or so of material. people find a lot of gold in old rivers like that.
You are on the top of a mountain, unless the source of the gold starts from where he is digging there won't be any gold in it. Most ancient riverbeds with gold deposits in it have flowed through the source of the gold and carried downstream. Maybe the mother lode starts right at the top where he is digging but most likely not. ✌
@@larrytheableguy3441 I figure if there is that much river wash up there, at some point geology said that was *not* the highest point. it's entirely possible to find some gold there now, i never said it was going to buy him a new truck or anything. I suggest it more as a fun thing than making money. it's just the right kind of material in the most general sense of the word
@@seldoon_nemar It would definitely be worth checking out, looks like prime material. It could possibly be for snow runoff at one point. It would be nice if he found gold, he could buy a new hat. 😃 He needs Freddy Dodge from Gold Rush show. Cheers✌
Treasure indeed, every yard of useable material there is one you don't have to truck in. Even if that's 'all'it is it is great! Truly, we just don't know what is under our feet but sometimes we get to find out. Here's hoping you find much more treasure.
Alan. The gravel used in concrete is screened at 15 to 25mm. So i would screed it at 25mm, then 15mm then sand. I have seen gold miners here in Aus make screens out of washing machines and cut up 44gal's. What a great find.
Dave sparks, please have a t-shirt made up for Alan and the mountain fortress, "I am being told in no uncertain terms that I'm not welcomed" as a quote on the back. 11:10.
I love imagining where that river used to flow and how its deposit ended up top a mountain, or maybe it used to be where the water washed too as snow melted up there who knows!
If this happened to me, I'd likely break out the gold pan, and try panning some of that stuff. River rock and sand is a great place to find placer gold.
Congratulations! That will save you some coin and hauling for Sure! It is a precious treasure indeed. Whenever God provides what you need, that is a treasure! he certainly did not ignore your kindness to that old man and others. :)
So you're thinking of tunnels underground? Would all that material hold itself up and not collapse?? Scary stuff there. P.s. i realize that this is way before the fire that took place surely you have other things happening in your life out there. You say that you have a Patreon channel as well?
I first thought Allen was going to be a crazy hermit, but he is very talented and educated. he is the kind of person you can call a friend.
Thanks for a show without ads. Please don't change.
God bless you man! I like that you're not afraid to talk about your faith and to give thanks to God. You're in my prayers bud.
I've been wheelchair bound for 33 years and seeing these videos inspires me. Thanks Allen for your example of hard work. God has blessed you.
Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
These comforting words can apply to all of us as we seek to live a good life and overcome our own unique challenges.
Jesus is with me always, Without him I would be lost... Take care and God bless!
@@mtnfortresslabs Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
@@mtnfortresslabs You Are An Awesome Guy!! You aren't afraid of work to get you want you want or need, I SO wish I could Meet you some day ❤ love & hugs from Indiana ❤
You guys are some of the hardest workers I've ever seen. I don't know how you guys do it without much sleep . You definitely don't have any down time.
Your 💯 correct sir God is gracious ✌❤🙏2u@yours ✝️💪
Glad to hear you giving God the Glory Alan! Jesus Christ is Lord of All!
I'm with you on your definition of "treasure" - if the sand and river stones are usable for tons of concreting work - that's a massive win right there! Perhaps the seam might even come out somewhere near where the Sany is parked? Keep up the amazing work Alan! Wizard stuff!
Most people are probably thinking that's bullshit isn't treasure but if you have ever had to buy any type of aggregate you will know how expensive that it is and then you have to have it delivered extra cost especially if your place is miles away from the town this is truly a gift for this man God is good, I own a very small excavation business 2 man operation father and son so I know how much of a gift that this stone mix is good job brother keep on digging if I lived closer to you I would definitely love to come be a part of your build but I live in Maryland so it's just a little farther away good luck and God bless
I miss being able to work my butt off! At 72 yr old it’s just ain’t possible to work that hard anymore. So not much gets done at My mountain fortress, which ain’t nothing like this one! You truly have a fortress!
I just learned of your compound this morning watching Dave Sparks bring the Sandy up the mountain. You got a cool location and a whole lot of ambition. Be safe up there Alan 👍☮️🇺🇲
Your a mad man ! I thought I’m crazy for digging a cave by hand in my granite hillside (30 feet in so far , w/ 1 room . But your on another level brotha , I love people with a dream & the passion to do what most people wouldn’t even consider. No laziness for sure .
It will be interesting to see whats in the gravel . Grab a gold pan and test a few pans worth . You never know what could show up.
Took the words out of my mouth.
Took the words out of my mouth too! I'm wondering HOW river gravel got there too. The only 2 options I can think of both seem pretty unlikely. Either the old miners carted it up for some reason, that would be a hell of a job or, it was a river bed at some point in the distant past, both seem very unlikely but it has to be one, either way, just straight cement and yeah, treasure alright. Possibly double treasure if it's carrying gold too.
Took the words out of my mouth too, except see my other FULL comment Alan.
This was my comment for this video.. so I'm going to just like your comment and reply
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 ancient river bed
All the support sent your way Alan. Rock on.
Allen, I'm so glad you hooked up with Dave and his crew you make heavy d sparks show way more interesting!!
Great work as always Alan, A hydraulic breaker attachment could be your best friend in this situation thanks for keeping us updated with new videos.
That's what I was gonna say. A hydraulic jackhammer would be a great addition for that machine and less likely to tear up a bucket or arm.
Hi Allen, your (#1) Lake Mead Fan here - haha! It was great to see you in person. Please keep up the good work. Your drive to work is incredible and what you are able to accomplish is "wizard" inspiring. I am a marketing professional so if you ever want any help, please give me a shout-out. I would be honored to support your cause and channel in any way I can.
Were you the one, waving from the the houseboat dock? Lol Thanks!
@@mtnfortresslabs Haha, YUP! That was me, the crazy lady waving from the dock ;-) But seriously, willing to volunteer with marketing, social media, video editing, etc. if you ever need it. LOVE your work and your channel!
You're absolutely right Alan, GOD is good. When one tries to live and do right, its pretty awesome how HE always manages to ease our burdens. Glad tobsee you pushing it forward when life is at its heaviest, great friends like Dave and the gang are priceless in far more ways than one. You and the guy's Alan, you definitely got this no worries. 🇺🇲💪🙏✌️
You do a great job of telling us what your doing and thank you for rescuing that poor guy on the island
Love your blogs Alan, so good to watch in so many ways for so many reasons…
Keep up the hard work! 👍
Water smoothed rock.....interesting, especially on top of a mountain! At some point in geological history this must have been a drastically different landscape with a river that filled up a pocket in the bedrock. If that is the case, then could it be assumed that there might be gold mixed in with that material? Deposited at the same time the sand/rock was? Have you ever tried panning a bit of it?
Nice show brother. God bless you
Alan your a hard working great guy. Keep up the good work hope everything works out great for you. Buy the way love what yoy have done building the mountain fortress. Best of luck bro keep it up!!
Can’t help but comment every time I see a fortress video. What an amazing place you’ve been blessed with Allan! Still hoping for a video explaining more about it and how you came to getting it. You’re one hard working dude! Good to see the channel growing like it is 👍🏼
On the Heavy D Sparks channel there's a tour video with Alan. Plus today they posted the cleanup after Alan's shop fire video. Poor Alan. He's lost a lot of family personal items plus tools. Heavy D Sparks trucks to the rescue.
This is my first time watching your videos and I gotta say you stand on your own making video content. Thanks for sharing your life and projects with the world.
You are precious!😊
"I sorta underestimated the amount of work I had to do". Haha, I love you man, you're such a hard worker. Keep it up with all the awesome things you do!
Might want to check for minerals when you get down farther if that's river rock. You could have a bigger treasure
Animals pass knowledge . . . .by God's design . . . . . i love nature, it reminds me of how little i know . . . .i love your videos, and a lot of respect to you sir for having time to acknowledge animal life and God the Creator.
This project is so fucking cool Alan.
Let's hope the bunker part doesn't actually need to be used anytime soon what with WW3 on the horizon it seems. Peace, stay safe doing what you do and don't stop; it's amazing
I now see how your roof could carry that load of block and concrete. Awesome Alan
I've seen mine exploring videos where people were in placer mines...ancient river bottoms...chasing gold. You might want to try looking for gold in that pocket. Interesting video. Keep on keeping on!👍👍
Hope you get tested! Excellent video, keep up the good work. Your friend from Tennessee 🦌👍
I have actually used both styles of those mine muck skips you showed towards the end of this video. You sure have a smorgasbord of odd and varied equipment. Keep on building Alan.
Always happily watching new videos from you Allen :) Greetings from Tirol
Just joined! You are an amazing guy Allen! Best of luck as you keep building that dream, I’m really rooting for you.
Alan, I saw a video where someone used gravel inside the center block to save on concrete costs and then poured concrete over the gravel inside the center block. Interesting video. Looking great! The Lake Recovery videos were awesome. Ml, blessings.
Good score the gravel onsite is definitely a win! And the remaining mine another thermal cooler for the fortress AC.👍
My father was a lot like you. He built our home before me. He was a scientist and I learned to be super resourceful from him and I'm thankful for that.
This guy Alan is fascinating and needs a whole pile of kids to learn from him, learn his work ethic and help the guy out some. I will be watching to see how this all comes together.
I think your newly found treasure might be hiding something that you may not have expected to find. You might want to pan out some of what you pulled out of that seam. With river rock, gravel, and sand all being present in the same spot, and a deep hole that could have been a waterfall millions of years ago, you just might find some gold or other precious finds. There's probably a very good reason that someone left you with those old ore carts and tracks.
the dosser recovery was cool , big millatery vehicles that was sick ,. im wishing you success looks between yt and working recovery your going to get your fortress finished and have the best place in the world
Thanks, I really appreciate that you like all the work I do between the channels... It is hard work but also fun!
Man Alan you are non stop,its very Impressive how much you have done by yourself. Its a great project you have going on,i love it and you have one Hell of a View.
I love those videos. Very inspiring for me, as I'm struggling with little works, compared to yours. Thanks to you I'm putting myself to work, just little steps. Thank you :)
I can relate to your comment. I'm so stiff and sore and stove up from injuries and multiple surgeries, that over the last few years I've let some things go. But now I'm trying super hard to push myself to get things done, especially after recognizing how other men are really getting after it, and doing the things!
I got very depressed and self-loathing, just getting into worse and worse shape... so here we go, Boogity Boogity Boogity,..lets get her done!!
Lol
Alan is a hard working inspiration for me... glad to be let into his small slice of heaven on Earth
Yup I think my projects are tuff & back breaking, then I see what Alan is doing & feel like a puss . Lol
@@jeffreebailey4464 I hear you Jeffree, I've been wheelchair bound for 33 years and seeing these videos inspires me.
I would love to make my own compound with a bunker, i think it would come in handy very soon 😆
Alan, thanks for the video! Have some rest, Sir!
What a great find. So glad that will take some of the final burden off you. Your doing an amazing job up there keep up the great work.
I live up in the mountains in Canada Lakefront it's a gorgeous place and I can totally understand why you put so much effort to making a home where you made it the views are amazing
Videos are getting better.. keep up the good work!
How refreshing it is that you praised GOD for your treasure! Treasure is in the eye of the beholder!
have to say that looking at what your mountain is comprised of i'm pretty sure you could build a mini set up to filter your aggregate to various sized stone chippings and do all sorts with it, ie use on the mountain track, perhaps just adding cement to use as concrete - will be cool
Hard work, great video
Great job Alan Coming along very nice You been busy
That gravel is obviously part of an old river channel. I'm wondering if it was a plunge pool beneath a water fall in the past. Guessing not due to the lack of larger boulders, but either way that bedrock has clearly been uplifted and faulted so that was not the top of a mountain in the past. You can see the upturned beds in the shots of the mountain taken from a distance. They look like spines running along the center areas of some of the shots. Materials up there are a treasure! Good work!
I was hoping you had found water. Still, a handy resource you got there.
That is a great find. I sure hope it works out to be the right mix for making concrete. God Bless. ❤🙏
Keeping that dream alive! Cool!
Hey Alan. The fortress road is looking good. Amazing what a $500k excavator can do! 😆
$200k
That looks like the beach off lake erie!!! And you found it on top of a mountain in the middle of no where!!!🤔
I'd be glad to see you create a building with existing materials from your mountain
You look good in grey, Alan! 👍
Best TH-cam channel!
Very interesting Allen! Love watching your content!
I'm Glad you found your Treasure! You Deserve it!
Just love your video's, the fortress is going to be awesome when finish, nothing like mother earth giving up her treasures.
You need a dog Al, preferably a decent sized one that is big enough to defend itself from whatever predators could be around. They are great company and if he/she sleeps outside will warn you of anybody sneaking around at night, more so now you've got a clear and much better track up to there.
Allen, this looks like a prehistoric sinkhole, eventually filled with a river gravel. If it indeed was carved out by a river flow, than it's shape would be rounded and often quite deep. So, of exploring, you would need to make sure that you gradually remove all grounded fill and get to a harder exterior to avoid a catastrophic collapse. All your activity there is literally breathtaking.
Super awesome 👏 God is Gracious!! God bless you and Dave sparks and the whole diesel family. Cool find and awesome update! Get that much needed rest and see you on the next one ☝️👍
Lake Mead was amazing. Thanks for the recovery.
What about constructing a screw-like digger to get the sand/gravel material out of the hole, and deposit it in a more convenient pile? Something similar to an Archimedes' screw, but instead of being for liquids it's for solids. At least it could be worth a try.
Hey Allen glad to see you getting some help
I agree, it's treasure! That's money saved, plus like you said, getting it up there is not easy! Heck anything on site is a bonus!
I'm happy to see you found some material that you can use from your property. I have been wondering why you have not been using more from the land. Like building with the rock. There is definitely a lot of it. Lot's to do and there is no job that can't be done, if only you have the right tools. It's one of those Jobs that you wonder if you will get it done before the body gives out. Slow going when you do it all alone though. I'm one of those lone doers myself. Thinking it would be nice to have help the older I get. Anyway, take care. 💪💪💪💪🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Ing FOR YOU AND YOURS FROM COLORADO ❤️
The seam is definitely an old river channel I'd deff pan some or do a smelt test when you get closer to the bottom !!!awesome find
Great find Alan!!! You will put that to good use. Enjoy you on Heavy D's channel, so i figured i may as well start watching your channel too!!! That is one hell of a sweet compound you got going there!!!!!
Love the treasure for you. That find will be so handy and at minimal cost. Bigger and better mate. 🇦🇺
Hi Alan, HEAVY D subscriber, here, watched as they came to help you, always liked you👍, for that reason and what you are doing, lm going to follow your progress.
I too believe that you have a treasure❕it could be a spectacular find, even more so than you think 🤔, please screen some of it in water. I would love that to be true for you, you got gusto. All the best to you. It will be nice to see all the block work finished up. Then onto a new block shop. I wish the best.
👌🏻✌🏻🧡 🌤 🇨🇦 👨🦽 😎.
Thank you for sharing!
Fascinating geology you have on your hill. Nice find with the gravel/sand mix 🙂 Jim Bell (Australia)
How do you deal with county building codes? Love your project!! You're burning the candle at both ends my friend Get plenty of sleep!
Build a fireplace in one of the rooms and burn the bags. Plus you will probably want a fire place or 2 to help warm the place.
My goodness Alan. Amazing progress. Where do you get all the extra hours in the day from?!
Figured I'd come subscribe really like what you're doing on your Mountain that's awesome and I think you're an awesome part of Dave's team keep up the good work man you're doing great
Great find and are you building the earth storage area using those old tires filled with soil material ? That would make a great video . Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
If you have sand and river gravel, might be ancient river, better do some test pans for gold 👍🏼👍🏼
Just found your Channel. Love it.
Wow great find crazy to find that there 😀👍👍❤️❤️
okay, all that river wash, when you get down to the next hard layer down, try doing a few gold pans with the last inch or so of material.
people find a lot of gold in old rivers like that.
You are on the top of a mountain, unless the source of the gold starts from where he is digging there won't be any gold in it. Most ancient riverbeds with gold deposits in it have flowed through the source of the gold and carried downstream. Maybe the mother lode starts right at the top where he is digging but most likely not. ✌
@@larrytheableguy3441 I figure if there is that much river wash up there, at some point geology said that was *not* the highest point. it's entirely possible to find some gold there
now, i never said it was going to buy him a new truck or anything. I suggest it more as a fun thing than making money. it's just the right kind of material in the most general sense of the word
@@seldoon_nemar It would definitely be worth checking out, looks like prime material. It could possibly be for snow runoff at one point. It would be nice if he found gold, he could buy a new hat. 😃 He needs Freddy Dodge from Gold Rush show. Cheers✌
Treasure indeed, every yard of useable material there is one you don't have to truck in. Even if that's 'all'it is it is great! Truly, we just don't know what is under our feet but sometimes we get to find out. Here's hoping you find much more treasure.
Alan. The gravel used in concrete is screened at 15 to 25mm. So i would screed it at 25mm, then 15mm then sand. I have seen gold miners here in Aus make screens out of washing machines and cut up 44gal's. What a great find.
I have a bunch of old screens from the old fertilizer plant that I will use, I might use some as is with cement for in between fill
What a great find . 👏 o yes
What a blessing .
Dave sparks, please have a t-shirt made up for Alan and the mountain fortress, "I am being told in no uncertain terms that I'm not welcomed" as a quote on the back. 11:10.
I love imagining where that river used to flow and how its deposit ended up top a mountain, or maybe it used to be where the water washed too as snow melted up there who knows!
You should do a test pan on that gravel, if it's an ancient river bed there might be gold.
Your a good guy Allen
Love the channel
If this happened to me, I'd likely break out the gold pan, and try panning some of that stuff. River rock and sand is a great place to find placer gold.
Congratulations! That will save you some coin and hauling for Sure! It is a precious treasure indeed. Whenever God provides what you need, that is a treasure! he certainly did not ignore your kindness to that old man and others. :)
YO! Mr. Wizard!! Keep it up my man. This build is epic and you rock. Tell your son Hunter I say hello. HAHhahahhahah
So you're thinking of tunnels underground? Would all that material hold itself up and not collapse?? Scary stuff there. P.s. i realize that this is way before the fire that took place surely you have other things happening in your life out there. You say that you have a Patreon channel as well?
You should test the river rock material to see if there is any alluvial gold.
With the recent fire -- I'd be gold panning that gravel for sure. Might be sitting on the fortune you need for repairs.