Oct 2, 2014 Thurs They made the deal to buy what they wanted with Benny and then got another truck with a hitch from Barney’s mom. They went to the airport and picked up a community trailer. This time the miners took more provisions. They actually made some sandwiches this time. Same door problem with this truck too. What’s the deal with the doors anyway? Wonder if they had a recall on the doors and these vehicles got missed. The guys took off for the Yankee Creek mine around 10 AM in 49 degree weather. It started snowing a little as they went up the mountain just enough to make the road wet. When they got to the site, Barney told them they could use the forklift to pick the sluice up. The battery wasn’t quite strong enough to turn over so now they had to find a battery charger and a generator. What would be the luck of finding a battery charger and a generator for the fork lift? Well, sure enough they found a battery charger and generator. So they took their jumper cables from the truck and hooked it to the battery charger and then to the fork lifts battery. The battery charger was plugged in to the generator because it needed 120 volts. How do they figure this stuff out? Now what were the odds of all that working? All that stuff has been sitting on this site for years and the guy quit mining last year. After all this ordeal, George noticed the front tire on their truck was almost flat. So now they had to find an air compressor. The God’s were smiling down on them and sure enough they found one. George said it was from the 40’s with an old antique motor. As old and rickety as it was it worked! They loaded the trailer using the fork lift. They loaded all the pieces of the sluice, extra scrap iron, and angle iron and headed home. As the story goes…they made it back safe and sound. Whew.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 01:42:32 +0000
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