Finally Striking Gold in an abandoned Ghost Town 

One of the most genuine you tubers, I am looking forward to this episode

Hi, Andy just want to say you are the most humble and genuine guy on RU-vid and you really show the truth and struggles of mining. I really hope you strike awesome gold because you definitely deserve it bud. Can't wait to see the next episode. Take care, much respect to ya Andy.

Awesome ... You really show the struggle..the humbling process, the work it takes to get started out with new gear....One day it'll all be running Tight and the huge clean ups will be there.!!! Good Work Andy ..very inspirational.Look forward to seeing this set up in person ..

All that hard work, Andy…….. you’re on good ground, you worked all winter in preparation, you have enormous respect for the environment, what a model of a modern miner you are! I so hope your dreams are realized. You deserve it as much as any man that ever swung a shovel. Best of luck to you my good man!

When will the next one drop? Waiting anxiously!

hopefully we get some more videos soon, was loving watching your videos!

Andy thank you for a great honest video on a mining operation. People don't realize the amount of work you do to recover the gold that you do.

Absolutely stoked for Andy’s comeback. Big big love and respect Andy, we know you’re up to big things! 🙌

Man I love this series! Keep up the good work Andy & Mr. videographer. I can’t wait until you’re running YARDS that was scraped directly off bedrock. I still believe you’re gonna hit bonanza ground on that claim. And when you do hit that bonanza ground I wanna hear you holler EUREKA!! at the top of your lungs- and then do an old timey prospector’s jig.** slapping your hat across your knee while you hop around yelling YEEHEE!!! I’m rich! :)

Great episode, just brings home how much work goes into actually being able to produce gold on a timeline

I like watching Andy Thraxx while listening to ANTHRAX. Great way to start my day.

Every video continues to build the anticipation of you finding the big nuggets. Keep it up, you’ll find them!

Andy’s videos get the thumbs up before the video even starts. Always great no matter what he’s working on.

i hope once you get to the chonky gravel, the chomky gold comes for you as well 👍

Awesome Video Andy, I did just that for many years of my life. The Torch was my main tool, I had a tip for Everthing. A clean tip makes a difference. Moving on laying out a pattern for a chute. What ever. Measure Precisely the outside edge. Then measure crossways. Take your measurements and start with the longest outside edge, for your first edge. Saves on cutting! Mark that edge , swing an arc on your next outside edge. Then to the other side of your, first edge marking. Swing an arc from that Mark outwards using that crossways measurement. Where the two arcs meet up is that corner. Repeat opposite side. There is you plate. It's triangles and precisel measurements. I used a laser that threw out a line, then marked all my corners. Then measured my triangles. Hope this helps.

Go Andy go, and get it done. Waiting on your next video.

I absolutely love all the technical details you're giving us.

Just watched your whole series from beginning to end. I couldn't stop! Loved the progression. Was seriously having withdrawals when I came to the end. Wasn't even about the Amount of gold you got! Loved the process and the working through the issues and taking us along for the ride. Hope to see more, If not thanks Again! Going to make sure to share your channel with others. I am positive that they will enjoy it as much as I have. Best of wishes!

Hey Andy, I haven’t seen much on you lately is everything OK? I hope you’re not being affected by those forest fires.

Best of luck boss. I am thoroughly enjoying watching you go through this whole process. I grew up in NS, in an old gold mining town and the idea of gold mining was something that stuck in the back of my head for years. Cheers.

So glad to be off work early. And now o can enjoy the show!!

A "bad day" finding gold is always better than a good day at a day job.

Hi Andy. Sometimes the choke points in a wash plant can be solved by lining it with some thick UHMW plastic. Makes it slicker than whale snot on an iceberg and it has better impact resistance than steel.

Andy, that pick looks like WROUGHT instead of cast, get it looked at! Such great videos, you are genuine!

Gold!

Always Top Content In Andy's Videos. Really get what it takes to see how self-help effort shows Andy going forwards. One of the best channels on RU-vid.

Awesome episode on an awesome series. So genuine to show the ups, the downs, the struggles and successes. Im more hyped about this series than when i first discovered Gold Rush! Keep it up Man this is cinematic gold (pun intended)

you maybe need to add 2 jets on the sides of feeding surface to lubricate all the pay you put on it. you also might wanna avoid those big rocks on the feeding and grizzly bars just my toughts

You're right there Andy, you got this!

Much love from Sweden

Great video Andy ~ ! love the thrill of you finding some shiny gold, and hope you finish out with 1,000,000 ounces this year ! ! ! !

dang, this guy teased us, then left with nothing... smh

Amazing video Andy! Starting to come along and I love the editing job getting better and better every video. You’ll find bigger gold soon, hard work pays off!

Good video Andy. Keep at it. We’ll keep following along on your journey

Where you at Andy?! We need morrrrreeee

When are you releasing the next video? Can’t leave us hanging!!

You guys are doing great dude! The fact you are finding gold is more than some can say trying the same thing!!

I primarily metal detect and its very interesting to watch just how much is involved in operating a mine set up like yours. Awesome work. Cheers Lee.

Rooting for you! Nice edit job on the video!

A livestream of you just unloading yards through the machines would be really cool. Just a few full hours of dirt and stone being washed through the system. Maybe a future stream idea? Great work today. Cheers. 👍

All gold matters 🤠🤙🏽💛✨ stay blessed Andy much aloha and mahalo for sharing your adventures

Way to go, Andy!!! Nice gold in that pan at the end. I'm so glad things are starting to become smoother. The changes you made to the wash plant are really going to help operations. Also, you have such incredible scenery with an abundance of peace and fresh air. If I wasn't disabled, I'd volunteer! Anyway, great video, and thank you so much for sharing! Can't wait to see the next posting! Warm hugs from Alabama ❤️

Thanks Andy, been waiting for your next video 😊

Excellent camera work and video editing! 👍

Wow really nice video. I am glad to see the trommel running and you are getting some gold. Now it time for a full day's run

Great job Andy keeping it real and no drama

The suspense is real

Andy superb as always. 👍

Loving these vids. Great quality, great feel. Can't wait to see some serious cubic metres go through that thing at last!

I wish you the best of luck and best rewards on your hard work. keep the videos coming, very interesting and fun to watch. thumbs up!

When will you release more long video of the mine? Was enjoying the journey then it stopped or have the fires caused this

Good solid work effort wins every time. You have a lot invested in that site...let's hope it rains gold. Keep up the good work Andy.

Coming along nicely Andy, ^5!

Wow I’m really impressed. The way you did this video. The fix and all the teaching and then showing some dirt being ran. Amazing video. I apologize for being a real jerk before. Congratulations! Such a cool video. Probably best one yet!

Great video. Glad to see it up and running.

Andy more videos please

Man so much work and little things and bugs to fix this is real true mining great editing cant wait to see more best of luck andy

Gosh I wish you posted more videos of the new mine. You put out the best videos by far out of all these miners out there. I mean absolute not even close. I just wanna see that new mine produce the mother load for ya so you can hire me to come work and I can gain some of your motivation and thought process.

great video Andy! you are well organized and its all ready to go :)

Love it dude

Pretty cool bro!.. can't wait to see ya up and running!!

I saw you on mbmmllc's latest vid a few days ago and decided to come see what you are doing. I really like your videos as you are an upbeat fun guy to watch and full of passion about your job, that and the content material is interesting :). I look forward to more videos hopefully soon.

Great video as always! Love the process of getting things dialed in once you start running and see all the bottlenecks. When I first started building stuff and made my first design mistake, I would think "dang, how did I not see that?" but after doing it for a while I've realized that it's always going to be an interactive process. There are no mistakes, just learnings. Looks like at this point if you can run 15 yards, you can run 150! For the Grizzly, I would be sure to drill two holes in the bottom corners of that hollow triangle you have now formed. One day a pin hole may develop up top and fill that space with water. For the grizzly plugging up, I wonder if with how strong those bars are, if you are dropping the boulders into the flat plate above and the big rocks are only then sliding down the bars, you might be able to just cut out the intermediate supports and/or leave the bottom un-welded. Like perhaps just cutting the bars loose at the bottom they would be about 1/4" hovering above the bottom cross supports. That would limit their flex to the 1/4" gap, but allow them to spring around a bit. If that's not enough, or it's getting to bent up with only the top welded in place, might be worth flaring them out so they fan out as they go. Best of luck, and maybe see you in July!

Great video man they just keep getting better and better

Hello Andy, the editing and the audio along with the mix of camera angles and drone shots is excellent .

Love this series and love these videos,. The way you talk about the whole process is super interesting. It looks like hard work but also a lot of fun.

Dude! I'm always saying "tight like a tiger" and people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm glad someone else throws that joke out too 👊

Hey Andy just getting round to your video finally a chance to catch up with your progress I’ve been having family problems for the last few weeks finally they are sorted anyway it’s great to see you eventually getting some Gold for all your outstanding achievements in getting your equipment and mine site ready for an all out assault on the Gold rich ground Andy I genuinely appreciate your editing and production crew it’s film like quality so a big shout out to them and can’t wait for the next edition of the World famous Andy Thrax mining ⛏️ ❤from Glasgow Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great times Andy,my fellow drywalling brother

Assuming the long gap inbetween videos is due to being so busy digging up gold! Keen for the next one!! :)

Lookin good up there! Can’t wait to see how you do by the end of season.

Great times Andy! You are so much like me. I wanted to get into the mining but when I was young enough I had 4 kids to feed. I also had a Drywall Business. I will be watching all your videos. I look forward to see you get the big trikes. Good luck Andy.

This is so nice, you are a great Person and the videoquality got also very good! Thx für sharing, greets from germany, i love to watch ❤

Great videos.. I’m ready to watch more of them! (Kinda watched them all today lol 😅)

Great stuff! I would increase the angle of the whole hopper myself just for uniformity and simplicity sake. Keep up the good fight!

Great video as always Andy. I could be way off on this but I have heard that the sluice shouldn't be knocked around, maybe check out clean out sluice tailings, just a thought. Take care.

Haven't seen any videos for a while. Nice to see that your still at it.

I love watching how you progress. Nice operation.

From Dan Hurds vlogs. nice work on new plant. always teething troubles, but your getting there.

Amazing as always, dont let the little clean ups get yiu down.

4:00 REDUCE CORNERS!!! A uniform full length, half drop angle slide will cause you less backlogging and jamming than half length, full drop slide. A transition point on a sharp corner is where more stuff stops moving.

I'm saying some prayers for you Andy. Keep up the good work!

Awesome video brother love the setup on the mine and that home clean up is fire!

You need a gold wheel, or shaker table... Keep all your concentrates to reprocess them.

You were born for this Andy! Love ya brotha

6:25 where you cut out the grizzlies, you should put a dropped down slide plate [low enough that rocks can not back-jam against the transition] so that the rock can then slide freely away.

Keep on digging Brother, stay positive. I hope you hit the motherlode soon!!

nice thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😀

Great showing Andy

Great Job Andy!

youre awesome man. great video looking forward to the next one

17:45 cut some drop-outs on your grizzly bar there. The problem, as I am sure you can see, is where the sloped grizzlies come in contact with their central support bar. Should have made the bar lower and offset by about an inch maybe 1.5 inches to ensure rocks would not stop and jam there.

Any news on a new episode? Loving it❤

It has been 2 months since you put out this video, where are you Andy, hope all is well and you are producing so much AU that you just don't have the time to post new videos.

Keep going !!

Love your vids... any new ones coming out ??

Love your content Andy just keep going mate it will get better mate awesome

Hey Andy, I hope you are fine out there in the ghost town. Would be nice to get a little sign from you.

that pick is hand made. on the end with the point up at the union of the handle pocket and root of the pick, there are a few little steps where the blacksmith necked the material down and left those toolmarks. The modern method is to drop forge where they are progressively stamped, which does not leave marks like that. they are present on one face but not the opposite side, and single sided defects like that are indicative of hand crafting

The cam lock 90°bends are a awsom idea love ya videos bud....