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- Sharon and Frank stop in at Jade city on our way to Dawson City and chat with Claudia the star of the TV show Jade Fever.
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Really enjoyed Jade City on my way back to Vancouver. Worth a visit!
Excellent, Frank...learn something everyday...!
Thank you for showing us around Frank. Loved seeing those huge chunks of Jade, and wandering round the site. It was interesting to hear how the operation works from Claudia. I liked that Claudia appreciated the traditional method of carving the Jade. The hand made one inch bear was a lovely piece. Sharon looked very comfortable behind the wheel of that supersized transporter - Oshkosh, I bet she could have driven it too, no problem. Thank you. Take care and keep safe. ❤️👍❤️
Glad you enjoyed it
Very different, cool and interesting episode. Thanks Frank and Sharon.
Our pleasure!
great information! Cool stuff
Thanks for the visit
oh man What I would give to take a spin in Scrappy Larry, even just a passenger, cool truck, 500 hp
I'm a fan of Claudias' show named after Jade Fever! I'm found stone that's probably greenstone or "ca ca" as I heard that phrase on the show!
I operated Eimco 21 and Atlas Copco LM 56 models of mucking machines as they are called in the Porcupine Mining District of Ontario, Canada at the now closed 117 year old Dome Gold mine, in the 1970's, which I was trained and licenced for.
I've heard of the Dome. One of my clients has a 24"-gauge EIMCO 12B at one of their gold mines; the mine is on standby until milling can be arranged at which point they'll resume production. That 12B was underwater for several years; all it needed was an oil change and it was ready to muck! There's also about ten assorted EIMCO muckers at the yard, including two 630s.
Scappy moved to Washington and Oregon .He passed away awhile ago. God bless him
RIP
great loved it ..
The motor is a two stroke 500 hp motor. We old timers use to call them a Yamaha because of the the two stroke. It’s called an 8 v 92. They use a gallon of oil about every 800 mi..it is designed to haul main battle tanks on USRoads. It is a v8 2 stroke 92 series engine.
New round these parts. Came to you from watching Gly's videos. What's the winter plan this year with the border closed and all?
And way to many artisan crafts are loosing people to machines. 🦅🇺🇸✌️
The winter plan is to explore mines in Canada.
I was going to say - get hold of Tony Beets when they don't need the Oshkosh and sell it . he would probably send Mike down to get it .
Oshkosh Frank you and Sharon need that imagine the off-roading you could do with that like your video😲
That Oshkosh HET has a 700hp caterpillar engine in it, absolute monster of a truck. I have it's smaller cousin, an LMTV
Camped there five years ago and bought some jade ,I remember some really steep grades on that hiway
That truck was the old tank recovery and trans port, m60. Those wrenches are rated at 45 tons each. It had a 435 hp Detroit 8v82ta engine with a allison transmission.
That was very interesting stuff they had out there loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it
That's a face shovel excavator....!
St. Joe Lead used similar machines in the Old Lead Belt a hundred years ago. EIMCO did NOT sell the first mechanized underground loader, and trackless mining is a Missouri invention! Those guys were running shop-built articulated trucks in the 40s, plus jumbos based off dozers.
9:09 was the Amethyst from Thunder Bay Ontario Canada? there's a few mines up north of me and I visited the largest one and they actually had Jade for sale in their store and said it was from B.C.
No most of it is from Brasil.
As Usual Frank excellent video, shame they are losing the people to do the hand carving.
Yes, thanks
This is a rerun ? I saw this same episode a long time ago .
No.
Is this nephrite or jadeite? I missed that in the video.
lol claudia isnt swearing
that truck has to be 3 miles to the gallon.
That's why you'll get charged 4-5 figures to move a large piece of equipment on one of those... fuel/maintenance costs and feeding both the escort crews and the government clerk giving you the oversize permit.
@@mfree80286 so that truck was ex army
@@TheCitroenman1 The US Property tag gives it away, but I bet you also find a triple-lever light switch on the dash which is a dead giveaway for any vehicle that it was former military property.
it's a core sample hole, not a blast hole. nobody wants Jade Dust.
you need one of them trucks to rescue ore carts and buckets
Those outboards on that mucker must be for mucking those flooded mines. 😂
A great change of "pace" 😎. That cab is so wide Sharon & you can "social distance" or jump in the backseat....🍻
Sharon looked so tiny behind the wheel of that Oshkosh.
Indeed she did, "B'gosh!" Like the wee, pinstriped overalls of same name my boy wore as a babe. Sharon's like a kid in a giant Tonka Truck!
So did you buy the truck.
No
Jade Fever - Air BNB, so cool. 8 months of winter, i thought 5 months was bad. A small piece that Frank held, must be a couple a hundred $$'s. That Military truck must weigh 22 1/2 Tons, wow. What a place, museum, WOW.
Very cool little side trip. We never know what you are going to come up with next.
If I remember correctly, that jade mine was owned/co-owned by the Galleli family of Calgary back in the early 70's. They were a really fun bunch of people.
Hi Frank & Sharon, Jade is a really beautiful stone, the Japanese have worked it for hundreds if not thousands of years. That big Oshkosh was absolutely huge, the biggest truck I've ever seen, wow. Thank you for taking us along, much love to you both. xx💖🤘
Thanks 👍
@@exploringabandonedmines 💖
Hello in 1998 my son and I drove thru Jade city nice place and years later I found out there was a big asbestos mine down the road that closed some time ago and one of the big wigs later work with me at a cold storage whse and we talked about the Jade area and the big asbesto mine he worked at Cjd wash state .
That is the Cassier Asbestos mine just up the road at Scrappy Larrys
At 10:59 that's a Gardner Denver air track minus its slide rail and hammer. I've got one of those that I picked up as surplus from the Navajo Nation for $55.
That Oshkosh rig is absolutely awesome. If it weren't so far from me, I'd love to poke around Scrappy Larry's yard - I've yet to find a mining salvage yard that didn't have something I wanted to bring home!
Thanks Frank, a very interesting area. I stopped there a couple of time while heading north and ventured into Cassiar once while it was still an operating mining town. Was surprised to see the piles of asbestos material right in town. The mountain scenery in the area is spectacular. I'm a fan of Gold Rush and occasional viewer of Jade Fever so find the northern areas very interesting. Hope to head that way again next year with my 5th wheel.
We met some of the cast and crew of Gold Rush...
Hi Frank and Sharon, as some one else said, Sharon sure looked tiny behind the wheel of that Oshkosh. Only a true Explorer finds beauty in a boneyard......lol. Thanks for sharing, God Bless and stay safe.
Thanks 👍
I knew a girl named jade once.
Claudia's son. Acrually had a youtube channel. And he does alot of the bringing the old equipment from the mine to the scrap yard for larry.
cool..ive seen the show over here in aus a few times..nice lookin place...
Nice to see Frank! I've watched videos of those OshKosh Trucks going through just about everything! Sure wouldn't want to fork over the cash to keep it runnin though! You know,..I betcha Sharon could actually drive that monster!.. if she wanted to! :o) Never mind parking it Sharon! Just drive over the other vehicles! Lol! "Hell hath no Fury"...Right!? :o) Thanks for making another enjoyable evening's entertainment! Nice to see you two enjoying a relaxing afternoon,..rather than a lot of the other strenuosu stuff that you guys do! ( I get tired just watching you two half the time! ) I'm going to check out the next video that you guys also did next! Geez! You guys cover a lot of territory! :oO Thanks Very much! All the best for you two! Peace & Luv!
Thanks Frank and Sharon for a short 15 min video I waited all week for 😩 but that being said you have gave me a great idea I'm now going to go get a 30 pack and take it to my mine site after my shift for the gaurd shack to bribe them into letting me do a video for my channel on the bone yard. We have 1000's of pieces of underground and surface mining equipment new and old D11R"s,Letournea L 2350's komatsu,Liebherr T280's just to name a few I know for a fact they won't let me video underground they have a new policy about that
Howdy Frank I thought I'd ;et you know about a chap in Alaska who just put ut video of amine in Alaska. it is cool as stuff but it has vintage footage of ram cars in use But the kid did a really good job ob the video look up "backyardalaskan" its a pretty good video
M1070 HET ( Heavy Equipment Transporter), built to haul M1Abrams Tanks. So it can haul over 70 tons of cargo on the trailer, or gross combined vehicle weight of over 260,000 pounds. And yes, 550 horsepower 8V-92T Detroit turbodiesel.
Oh, and 3 mpg unloaded, max speed 45mph. 1mpg loaded. No joke.😄
@@tacticalrepair and fun to drive ..not so fun when it blows a tire on the trailer !
Thanks for sharing man. I wouldn't have known anything about jade except it being a precious stone unless you posted this. Now I know you can use it for many different purposes. And people say you don't learn something new every day. I do watching your channel.
Glad you enjoyed it!
jade fever good show CLAUDIA very strong and sexy lady she know all
Oh thats a small truck, we use 650hp Macks 4 road trains in the NT Australia
@Tinytattoo Mike We are locked up and not allowed 5 km from home, someones copping China. I have real gold nuggets from all over AU but never found myself
If Mrs. Claudia has an open cabin. I will come up and work on Jade carvings.
I worked at the Cassiar Asbestos mine in the early 70's. It started as an open pit but later went underground. Did you get up to the Ericson Gold Mine, you would have passed the access road to it just outside of town. It was underground and was abandoned in early 70's. Asbestos and jade went hand in hand and we dumped tons of it over the bank.
No I didn't see it.
I know of some old mines near Yosemite if you want to check them out let me know
That Oskosh is a tank hauler I believe
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Jade fever is on Amazon Prime Video if you want to watch it in the USA. It must be on Discovery in Canada. Good show though! Pretty cool you got to talk to talk to Claudia. Her husband seems really cool but she sure is the hardcore boss. Their son mines with them too but he seems like has a lot of growing up to do from what you see on the show but year after year he is coming along. I know what it’s like to be young and grow up in the family business. Too bad you didn’t get to meet Scrappy Larry on video he is quite the character, plus I could probably spend days looking through all his cool junk. Looked like a fun trip, you sure are living the life!
We did have a long chat with Larry they were both very nice people.
nice video, was a great overview of jade mining i would have loved to see a bit more of those stationary engines though
Glad you enjoyed
Jade is a wonderful stone to carve, if you have right tools. As mentioned it is tough, so can be carved very thin the only other stone I know of that you can do this is certain agates. Watch out for jade though, it has an asbestos component in it's make up. That's what makes it tough, natures fiber glass. Make sure to wear your personal protection, including a dust mask, use water to keep the bits cool, and keep the dust down.
Thanks for the tips!
jade fever😂
nice green asbestos
Glad this is in Canada
Man i love that truck the flat bed dodge with side by side i have 2010 chevy 2500Hd with aloy 9' she is awsome looking see a few where i live went to ny and every one was complimenting like they never seen the flat bed
Thanks I have had it since it was new in 2005, awesome truck!
Like uu video
was just here last July on my way to the Dempster highway :) cool spot and left with a small piece of jade :P
It was fun chatting with Claudia also.
I remember Jade City from my 2013 trip to Dawson/Inuvik, nice people there, and the free coffee was a life saver! You forgot to show the chainsaw collection! I wonder if Larry got that truck at Caribou 6X6 in Quesnel.
What a awesome store and placer mines😊 I was there in 92
Yes it was!
Very nice one again. I was at that place about 17 years ago. We were geological students and we vistited a lot of mines through canada.
Did you also have a look at the cassier mine site? As i can rememer there were a lot of mine entrances. This was at the end of the tram line. But we didnt enter the tunnels, just looked at the geological situation on the surface. Would be so great for me to see whats inside that tunnels!! Greetings from Austria!
Cassier was a large asbestos mine. It closed 40 years ago. scrappy Larry's yard is right beside it. All the entrances have been sealed.
@@exploringabandonedmines Thanks for the info!! As we were there in 2003 it doesnt look so long abendoned, as the head station of the tram line was still in a good condition. They only took out a few pieces. I think i have sent you a picture of this per Mail last year. Maybe you can get into Eskay Creek Mine sometimes, i was there too in 2003 as the mine was still operating! It was really an amazing place!
Frank & Sharon nice short video is there part two of Larry's.
No we had drone footage of Cassier but it was corrupted and we lost it.
Frank and Sharons new off-road recovery channel.
man, i think ive seen too much tv. I always thought Jade was a deep or dark kinda almost glowing green. HAH. learn something new every time on this channel.
Great video Frank did you drive the Oshkosh home or have it delivered 😁👍
Not yet!
Thanks for showing us around , something different. Beware of Asbestos 😢.
Pete Australia
yes it not very good they have raw asbestos sitting out like that
Sure thing!
Thanks Frank this was a great visit! You're an excellent interviewer
Glad you enjoyed it
Jade City looks a cool place, and I loved that big truck 👍
Yes it was!
Jade city one of the coolest shows on TV
She said jade countertops......that is a slick sounding idea!
Good day out interesting machines 💥⛏
Caught it early this time! Great vid Frank
Thanks 👍
Thanks for the great tour Frank it was cool to see all the scrap vehicles and all the jade its a big place...
You bet
very interesting show lots of jade and the big truck was awsome
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice documentary of Jade city. Interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I dont know that there is a jade mine in Canada
Thanks for sharing
Yours Frank Galetzka
You're welcome
@@exploringabandonedmines thanks to you
If i come to canada i visit you
Yours Frank Galetzka
I knew what asbestos looks like. I've found it in Northern California gold mines, and used to have some in my front porch rock collection. --- There were experiments done depriving people from sunlight, clocks, radio, tv, any way of telling time. Turns out people tend to naturally run in 25 hour days. --- I recently saw an Oshkosh truck that was bullet proofed, including all the windows. I thought "perfect vehicle for the zombie apocalypse."
he shouldnt even be touching that raw asbestos lol cant believe they have it raw just sitting there
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