How to mine In Your Backyard
Cody's Mine Episode 1: Getting Started
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all right everyone Cody here here we are
up at the cody camp there's that mine
there I was talking to my dad earlier
and apparently that was dug by Earl of
Lucia back in 1937 it was a friend of my
grandpa's yeah that's this is on a piece
of property in the back of my parents
ranch and in Canyon today they're gonna
be opening up the entrance a little bit
more so that we could hopefully camp out
inside of there tonight ultimately I
want to go through and clean this up and
make this all nice and renovated see the
ground here
how slopes up at the bottom of the mine
is actually level with the bottom of
this right here so we need to dig all of
this the way there's quite a bit of dirt
I gotta move we're not gonna move hardly
any of it today just this here I will be
actually doing some mining I want to try
to curve the tunnel up that direction a
little bit because I think there might
be some minerals in there but ultimately
I want to dig it out have a nice big
cavity swinging storm I sciency stuff
and maybe camp out there for the summer
anyway let's say I get diggin like one
minute of Minecraft you take a lot more
in a minute and minecraft still
I'd say that you know cubic meter in
Minecraft the equipment one shovelful
this is one cubic meter right here so
not only is time accelerated also we got
to get rid of a realistic one hell of a
mod I'd like to have it come out level
if this pot here so we can actually come
through here not having to crawl yeah at
least have enough room to get our
sleeping bags in there and then
relatively large amount of area for air
to diffuse in as it is I want to put a
pipe through maybe a three inch pipe
with a fan and one end I have a hook up
to a deep cycle battery out here so it's
blowing air into there all night make
sure we get plenty of ventilation that
LAN if something happens like your caves
in out front here we won't suffocate and
people could come rescue us they could
slide candy bar down or something all
right
I say we've moved quite a bit of dirt
there and me and Canyon decided to call
it a day or at least call it lunch
she's already in there your father in
you have a look around
how's it looking you find that mics
let's have the shoveling here key
something happens all right
that's still a lot of digging that needs
to happen look at that I think I'll come
back and dig for an hour a day for the
next month I see the rock over here is
pretty solid this is a limestone in
dolomite the bedding going perpendicular
to the tunnel it would be very unlikely
for this to collapse in here the rock
gets a little bit softer thick right in
here but I don't think it's gonna be too
dangerous like this here a lot of this
might be broke up because they were
blasting it but it'll make it easy for
us to dig yeah I'd like to start from
Micra at around in here and dig it out
into a giant cavern
well of course sure it up that outside
risk clay I'm gonna put timber left keen
on top of it and in here I might even
invest in some concrete go in like these
cracks and fill my cement I get a nice
hard shell yep here's the back of the
mine that nice solid rock here it's also
soft I think this is an occlusion of
some sort like a hydrothermal vent it
looks like calcite maybe some feldspar
fossil I think yeah we're here um we're
gonna go grab lunch and grab our bedding
and sleeping bags and stuff and also I'm
gonna do that pipe vent thing so I guess
we'll come back here tonight when we're
ready for all that hang out underground
it's pretty crazy but I think we'll get
away with it I think this ought to be
adequate also I'd like to have this
longer bigger and have two pipes but you
know we're getting there
all right here we go it should be our
bed for the night
I'm actually gonna set my phone outside
because it's got a GPS and parents will
know where I am all right good night see
you in the morning these dogs are happy
to see yes Sadie kind of slept inside
the entrance for us the river kind of
stayed outside because he's afraid of
holes anyway it's uh we stayed in there
all night
it is now 12:30 so I guess that's what
happens when you don't have any outside
cues so yeah there anything yeah we
learned
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yeah the humidity is very high we need
to fix that yeah I didn't actually sleep
all that well because she kept making
noises and that was on high-alert
there's one time when the must been a
rock like roll down the hill and fall
into the mine there all right so yeah
we're gonna pack all our stuff up and
I'm not gonna stay up here again until
after I get the ventilation system all
set up for me yeah that'll probably be
by the end of this week until then see
you next time
