We Found Something INCREDIBLE (One of a Kind?) - Strip Mining Finds / Viewer Suggested
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- Watch until the end to help identify what we found!
Come along with me on this Viewer Suggested Location where myself & RJ search for Strip Mining finds. Hey everyone, in this video we will scour some old strip mining land to see what items have been left behind. Today, it's a playground for off road riders, but a few decades ago, this area was bustling with activity as they extracted thousands of tons of coal. After shutting down, most of the equipment was removed, but there's still some pieces left behind. Curious as to what we find? Only one way to find out and that's to join us on this adventure. Enjoy
Please note that we only go to document these locations before they're gone. We don't bring, take or vandalize anything. The only thing left behind is our footprints and memories. If you go to any location, please show the same respect.
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Hope you enjoyed this adventure. Would you like to see a follow up on the rail line?
Absolutely!!!!!!
Yes!
Would love it!
Yes, please! 😁😁😁💙💙💙
Yes please. 💙💙💙
Those cages at the 10:13 mark are filter holders. That is a material hopper. I worked with those at CPG International and had to do filter changes on those hoppers for resin.
Great info. Thanks Adam!
Well, that was interesting. I would also like to see where those rails lead to. I suspect that it is a former Erie RR line.
Fall/winter I will head back and follow them.
Amazing to see all that old mining equipment, judging by that big shovel. Looks like it's from the 1960s, excellent video JP. 👍👍👍 beautiful sky
This is the trevorton coal hills....best place to ride ...now you need a permit to ride there👍
The rusty white hopper thing is a bag house for a dust collection system. It most likely would have had a blower of some sort attached to it and had bags hanging inside on those wire things. The valves on top would have been the air purge to blow the dust off the bags and down into the hopper. I'd imagine it was used to collect dust off of maybe a conveyor or some other equipment. I work in a coal burning power plant on the Ohio and we have a lot of similar equipment. Very Cool video though. Id like to check that place out myself.
This was a interesting find. Would be nice to see there the rails go to. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome
I know some strip mines where there are old cars and pickups, hole borers, 2 draglines and more. Most of the stuff is in good shape. But no machine like the one in this video.
Hopper was the first then a bag house that had the long metal sock holders the shiny aluminum roller is drive pulley for a conveyor belt to me it looks like a prep plant site
Would like to find out on the RR should be interesting, fun outing
Wow, this was so cool! I always feel a part of your adventures and they are always so awesome! I think it is interesting when you find stuff like this. Don't you wonder about the last time that equipment was used, then turned off or parked or set aside, and then they left, and that was it? They walked away from it, never to use it again. Expensive equipment, never used again. Amazing to think about. So cool that you made it to the top of the mountain, hope you were able to get that cheeseburger because you deserved it! Beautiful view and landscape! Looking forward to your video of the abandoned train rail line! What a great video JP! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the interesting video great view from top of the hill. Some interesting machinery still there too!!😎🐓🐓🐓🇬🇧
Another great adventure. Thanks, JP. That reminded me of a job I had in the middle 1980's. I went to work for a security company that had a contract to cover a large coal strip mining operation near Brookwood, AL. Part of my job was to stay on one of the giant draglines in the strip pit from 8pm Saturday to 8am Sunday. On Sunday mornings I would climb down and walk around a little, had a great time finding fossils in the shale.
I'd be tempted to fire up the drag line haha
A fun looking adventure, thank you for taking us along. Be nice to see if the anthracite museum could get it and save it, I did a few different searches in google snd could not find anything resembling that piece. Maybe the only one like it left.
I can't find any info either. Seems to be a rare item.
I gotta check this out in two weeks. Can't wait to see what you have planned for Halloween 2021
Thanks for sharing. I would think someone would want all the scrap metal just for its value. Amazing it is sitting there. Stay well and be safe.
What a great exploration, full of interesting finds. Who knows my Uncle's or Grandpa may have worked there. My Uncle's retired in the mid-late 60s, from mining in Pennsylvania, moving about between Scranton,Wilkes Barre, Edwards, and a couple more locations that I don't remember. Thanks for bringing me along 😉👍
Seems like almost everyone in the northeast has a relative or knows someone that was involved with coal mining.
great video please do a Follow up on the rail line
Great adventure JP! That sure is a awesome place to ride ATV's! I'd love to see where that railroad led to! Cool to see the abandoned equipment, thanks for sharing!
I love these kinds of explores. This is history. I also am glad you explain things as you go since I know nothing about mining. You always make me feel like I am there with you and I really am grateful for that. Thank you, JP.
I always come along with you and I like when you take RJ with you. Great video.
A great adventure with JPVideos. I like it very much. So perfect. 😊
I can't get over the size of some of the equipment.
I absolutely love all of your videos!
Love it!! I subscribed to your channel for the mining videos. Would love you to get back to that kind of stuff. You do a great job!!
So cool, there’s one of these in the next town over from where I live in New Jersey and I was always curious about it and checking it out. There are awesome trails near by to it across the freight train tracks and my friends and I would occasionally hang out back there and there’s a dirt road that turns into a paved road that’s like a cut through between two main roads and we’d stand on the sides of the road in woods waiting for cars to come through and jump out and bang on the cars and scare the crap out of people for fun 😜 it was really dark and windy so people would drive only 20-25 miles an hour of slower. Around Halloween we’d wear ridiculous masks and cheap flowing gowns from cheesy Halloween costumes. This was in the late 90s before cellphones and good internet so it was just another way of us kids entertaining ourselves besides going to the mall or riding bikes in the park. After 10pm it was like a ghost town in the suburbs/town we lived in with not too many options for teenagers to hangout and do something for fun.
Very interesting area and great video. Would love to see where the rail goes to. I wonder who owns the land .
No signs or anything was around, so I'm unsure on owners. Will do a follow up on the tracks once the leaves are gone.
Wow...finding a toy and rails in the first couple of minutes ... This promised to be a fun explore and didn't disappoint ! You definetly deserve that cheeseburger !! You got some awesome shots in the photo montage ! Great job , guys !!
We both know I was gonna have one either way lol
Great video! It reflects the past industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Love this video
Nice….. kinda reminds me back in the 90s I use to ride up climb coal piles riding a Yamaha Banshee off RT 81 at
the TowerCity exit
There's lots of areas like this down that way. Great places to ride.
Great explore. What kind of green trees are growing on the property?
that engine was a 6v-71 detroit diesel, Penske Corporation and General motors made detroit motors so thats why general motors is stamped into the valve cover
That was really interesting. I have no idea what any of that stuff is.
As always Jason you never disappoint! Interesting, amazing adventure! Another part of history learned. The view is outstanding! Thank you for sharing. Would love a video on the rails. 👍🏻❤️🤗
Glad you enjoyed it
Hey, I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in. Watching your vid makes me remember some railroading vids I purchased called 'Railfanning with the Bednars". This guy Mike Bednar worked for and retired from Conrail and is in East PA somewhere. He is very familiar with all of East PA, and NJ, and NY. The vids I have of him are in East PA in the 1980s, 1970s and 1960s on the D&H, EL, Lehigh Valley, CNJ and Readding. He also did vids about various short lines, and your vid here made me think of that. These vids show many of these lines still in operation in the 60s and 70s. One line I remember was called Jeddo for the coal breaker, there were breakers all over East PA back then. Also, I will include the link for a vid of Jack Palance talking about this region of East PA. He was so young I couldnt believe it, and I didnt know he was from PA. The vid is done in the Wyoming Valley, heart of the anthracite region. Also, another maker of coal mining stripping shovels and draglines was Marion, named after the town it was in, Marion, Ohio.
The Miners Story Jack Palance Coal Mining Documentary Pennsylvania
th-cam.com/video/P1ImKipDnTg/w-d-xo.html
Railfanning with the Bednars Volume 2: 1969-1971
www.arizonahobbies.com/Railfanning-with-the-Bednars-Volume-2-1969-1971-DVD-Video_p_413.html
Railfanning with the Bednars Volume 8: Conrail Transition 1979-1980
www.arizonahobbies.com/Railfanning-with-the-Bednars-Volume-8-Conrail-Transition-1979-1980-DVD-Video_p_2773.html
I'm not all the way through the video, but I'm noticing the absence of something that would have been typical of a place processing that much coal. If a train line was running through this place, there had to be a tipple or multiple tipples at some point in time. I wonder what happened to them or if there were some other method they used for loading train cars. I wonder if the structure you've shown at 36:26 had any part in that?
Incredible views from the top. Interesting to see the equipment from yesteryear; too bad it’s no longer used. Thank you for taking us along again, JP. Yes, it’s like we’re walking right along with you. Love the exploration videos; God bless….🌝
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I thoroughly enjoyed this! My sister thought that I was going nutzo because I was laughing loudly!!! Thank you for your time and sacrifice. Especially going up the hill! Take care, my friend. I hope you get back to do more investigation!!!🙋🏽♀️👍🏽👋🏽😎💙💙💙
Which part gave you a belly busting laugh? 🤣
@@JPVideos81 🤣🤣🤣🎶Pow-Pow, Power wheels 🎶. That was the first. Then, when you found the TV. When you found the remote, you said that you could post all of that stuff on craigslist. I was screaming out loud!!!😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤭💙💙💙
Man it's never boring ....on the walk there is always something to see !! There's a lot of cool stuff to see out there !! Those are big drag line buckets !! That was a hell of a hike ...... AND ONE SWEET VIEW !! Hard to believe they left all that out there . That machine looks to be a scraper of some sort 🤔 . Great pictures at the end very very nice !! Can't beat those black and white and color pictures mixed !! Great video as always !! 👍👍
I believe those tracks were from the Erie and probably saw it's last use in the early 1980's at the latest. The area was definitely a coal operation. There was quite a bit more equipment there 15 or so years ago. To me it seemed like a coal company used the area to store idle equipment from other operations there. I do remember dozers and trucks parked there in the past.
I do remember equipment being there in the early 2000s. Thanks for checking out the video.
Crazy how they were like “welp were done blowing up the mountains. Guess we’re gonna leave all the equipment to rot too.
This is awesome! What a great outing!
look at benezett, pa for what can be done with an old strip mine. Elk herd re-establishment
Hi Jay, what an awesome place, I'm going to guess that the concrete tower at 36:32 is a tram tower for tram buckets to move the coal from one place to another, kind of like a ski lift. A brilliant video, so much left over from the mining operations there, I would love to see a follow up on where the rail line leads to. Congrats on making it to the top of that huge pile, there were some great views from the top. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖
Thanks for your input. That's a possibility.
@@JPVideos81 Thanks. x
Can you say where this area is located? I'd like to do some photography there.
My grandfather was one of the last coal miners in my family when coal was king here in PA. What a dangerous and difficult job these men had, risking lives and limbs. To see the equipment they used everyday sit and rot is kinda sad And to see the damage done to the earth too! Great stuff as usual JP
,y grand pas where miners to. One died of black lung at 49. Leaving behind 10 kids. He mijedbin the Heckshersville area. My dad worked in a mine as a young man. Moved to Lebanon area to work as a Penn Dot foreman. Then the sleel foundries.
@@cynthiaarnold5807 yeah, mine died in his later 60s from black lung also. Sad these companies came, took, destroyed, maimed, killed, and left with their fortunes when they were done and got what they wanted or when they had to pay good wages
@@lisainthecold4287 My Grandfather, and two uncles(brothers of Grandpa) all worked in the coal mines. All had lasting effects of their jobs in mining. The worst was my Uncle Mike; black lung, crushed/severed fingers on one hand; one tuff fella lived to be 90. Grandpa was the youngest, at 10 years old he started in the mines, setting explosives because of his small size. Just about everyone that I talk to in NE Pennsylvania have/had family that work in the coal mines, small world actually😉
Totally Amazing adventure & montage!!! Really enjoyed this. Thanks so much for all you do for us Jay! Very interesting video.🥰
I'm glad this location was suggested. It didnt disappoint and finding that rare machine at the end was a really nice piece to find.
Once again, great job JP! I watched this video after seeing the one on the rail line which was subsequent to this one. You seemed to confirm my thoughts that there was underground mining here and I’m relatively comfortable with the belief that one, if not both, of my grandfathers work underground here. One of them fit the classic mold of the times in that he stopped school after second grade and came to the mines to work to help support the family. Times were tough. Two other observations for you - first, given the age, the equipment has held up fairly well. Second, as typical of stripping wastes, that variety of birch tree seems to thrive in those poor conditions. I think they are grey birch, nicknamed by the locals as white birch. FWIW.
Thanks Bob. It's great that you can see locations that tie back to family members.
The Big shiny wheel or tube is a magnetic separator it runs on a belt system to separate the magnitite material from the coal
Thanks for the info!
So interesting. You know so much about everything. I enjoy these videos they make me feel alive and helping my old brain to stay humming while I look up words and places and stuff on Google that I hear u mention and while watching. Like a class sometimes u teach us so much plus those who chat also add so much. Awesome pics. Camera magic.
I'm constantly trying to learn and educate myself.
Hi there! Loving this vid, but I ask you to go the other way! Lol jk!... I haven't left a lot of comments lately but wanted you to know that when me and Al want to watch a vid, we head straight for you 😀
Aw, thanks guys!
Nice job jp👍my favorite type of explores. Follow up would be awesome👍
Thanks! I'm looking forward to tracing those rails.
I ride my quad in there
It had filters in it
Is this in Ohio?
@Whoop!!
Too bad a quad or bike didn't come by to climb some of the hills.
That would of been a nice surprise.
The white hopper looks like it might have been a filter house. The wires running from one end to the other are from filters. Gear on the drum is from a conveyor.
awsome find very cool. i think the railroad went to the mined i could be wrong but great video
yall should make art from the piles of junk so the atv riders can have a little culture- Is that place hot ?
Jay,
That looks like the lava ash fields on the big Island of Hawaii.
I looked up that smith company in Pa and they specialize in sifting and crushing equipment.
Why not mention what you do and send them some pictures of those items.
I have no doubt they could tell you what they were for, when they were sent and what they.
That company is still very active and it's still in Pennsy, what more could you ask?
Boy ,there is an awful lot of valuable scrap metal there.
Rik Spector
At 11:48 I did add on the screen what Telsmith manufactured. Didnt really have any inclination to contact companies. Just wanted to show what was left behind.
I like. The unexpected things yo find no tubs
great find!!!!!!!!!! i love your coal videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I enjoyed this adventure yes do update on the rail line👍
One piece is a bag hopper it for dust control
Wonder y they left thè truck what a waste X
Do you have Google lense? Wonder if that could ever help identify stuff...you'd be surprised what comes up
I do, but haven't tried that.
Trekking the Path of least resistance
I was just riding behind Party Time last week. First time there and cannot get over how massive that place is.
It's surprisingly large and looks like a fun place to ride.
Keep up good work tubs
Nice job Jp 👏👍
will the rail line ever be used again ?
I dont think so
@@JPVideos81 oh ok
Cool! Been there not to far from my home
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Epic location! The size of the equipment and piles is amazing, and nice job getting to the top of the largest pile. The view up there was great! Looking forward to seeing your exploration of the rail line later on.
Thanks Jamie
would the tracks be part of one of those massive digger machines? they move a tone of dirt and pile it in a line like that
Rj & myself found the tracks continued on the other side of the road. A few people mentioned it might be part of the Erie line
is that where the moon landing was staged?? hahahaha!!
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Really cool Jay.Love the old equipment man!!