There Are Only 5 of These Left! - Australia's Gold Rush History 

Stampy’s ancestry lives on 😂

I absolutely love your knowledge of the history of gold mining in your area. I could listen to you all day Chris.....great job! 👍❤🙂

Great video Chris! Seeing a Stamp Battery in a park is one thing, but to see it in it's original location and with remnants of the other component features around makes it so much better. That creek was really running today from all of that recent rain! Mark from Melbourne Australia

In my personal collection, I own 4 old ore crushers or 'stampers' which most of them are in working order. 1 - Industrial sized 5 head stamper, 1 - prospecting/small company 3 head stamper, 1 - portable prospectors 2 head stamper and 1 - very rare single head prospector's stamper. All preserved and cared for

It’s a shame that equipment is not being preserved for future generations. Would be interesting to run all of the waste piles through a modern hammer mill to see what kind of gold was left.

Man wouldn't it be cool to see that thing in full operation. The NOISE and dust must've been unreal.

Chris, this was absolutely fascinating and incredible well done! You really should consider doing a full length documentary on Australian Gold! Your so good at it! 😉

Thanks for the tour Chris. Great piece of history. Used to work at a foundry that made stampers, dredges and the like for all the gold companies. Used to love looking at the engineering drawings of the machines. Take care mate 👍😁

Cool stuff Chris. I love how the old timers did things on such a grand scale. We have a few stamp mills still standing over here in Nevada and Arizona.

Your joy is infectious. Loving the history lessons and to see it where they actually used the machines is all the more amazing.

Hey Chris , in the blue ranges above St Helens in N.E. Tasmania there are several of these decaying in the overgrown bush , they where Tin digs and have old tailings dams which are huge. The stampers where identical to these being 12 stampers. Thankyou for your video brings back awesome memories..

Love the history, being in situ is a great way to imagine what it was like back in the day Thanks for sharing Chris 👍🤓✌️

Damn that is just amazingly impressive, thank you for sharing it Chris! Stampzilla would have been one hell of a spectacle to witness it running!

Awesome thanks again for sharing

Man, wouldn't that be a great project to take on and bring all of that equipment back to it's original, working state. 😯

Awesome video chris! As a local to north east its great seeing some of our history shown off! Definitely keen to see some more videos on local history relating too the gold rush, could do an awesome little series !

Very nice bit of History right there! Thx 4 Sharing Chris!

Beautiful, thank you!

Really loved this Chris. Thank you.

G'day Chris, l have holidays booked at the Beechworth caravan park this spring and l now will be visiting the site just shown , cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

Chris - be good to get a video at Wedderburn during the Jamboree of the stamper at Hard Hill in operation

Thanks Chris for sharing your thoughts and knowledge on the gold and some of it's history and stuff, we really appreciate 🙏 it. Chris, you're really a great human being, and thanks for not being afraid to talk about mental health issues in your video's and about your PTSD. ❤👍🏻👏🏻🙋🏻love you, man❤

I love stamp batteries! Been a long time since I checked out the wallaby battery, awesome to see this video. Love the history videos! Cheers 🙂⚒

Love the history. Thanks!

Awesome info mate , love your knowledge of local history.

That was really neat. Thanks Chris. That piece of history needs a roof.. Really cool

The history of gold it so interesting. Thanks for taking the time to show us.

Wow nature and time have made it all almost disappear , what it must of looked like and sounded like back in the day you just can’t imagine , we’ll you can a bit , you know what I mean , amazing , thanks for sharing this , very interesting, peace ✌️

I used painted rocks , this show is great love the history of how we got here.

With the collapse mine. Could you or would you go down with a shovel and pan and see what's there now? Great video, Thanks Chris.

Love your history lessons.

sick. These short form videos are going to blow up as you probably know. Even my mother watches this content

There is alot more than 5 left. Theres probably around 30 just between Jamieson and Walhalla! Quite a few around Yea too. And many up near Dargo.

Incredible history!!!!

Wow, so good to have someone explain a site like this, come do one in the castlemaine gold field diggings 😂 absolutely awesome.

Awesome Chris, thanks for the video! Planning a trip to Beechworth from NZ at the end of the year so will check this out! 🙂

More of the history! More of the old timers' tech! More on the politics on the goldfields!

Great vlog Of historical mine site can you imagine the noise coming from that thing???? That being said there is a way to find out if they used Mercury there and that brings us to the challenge… i challenge you Chris to hike back in with a pan and find a drop out area in that creek and dig through some silt layers and find some clay. On top of that clay will be some fine tiny balls of silver (Mercury) if they used it there. I happened upon a tiny creek in the Colorado mountains and when I dug to the clay layer I found some shiny silver stuff in my pan I had no idea what it was but it wasn’t gold and then my some said hey when your done hop the creek and climb up here and see if you can tell me what this is so I snuffed up the silver stuff and climbed the hill he showed me some pieces of curved metal running down the steep hillside that ran for about 30 meters it was odd for sure and then he said look at this piece of metal sticking out of the hill I turned around and looked and it was a small gauge iron ore cart track only one side and you could see the side of the hill was collapsed where the mine entrance used to be. I then took my snuffer out and looked at it and sure enough some of the silver stuff had melded together and I knew without a doubt what it was Mercury there was a good amount of it for only a two small shovel fulls in a small black pan. It was a little disheartening knowing that creek was full of Mercury it was a beautiful little stream. So challenge issued I dare you to check that creek. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

I really enjoy your hardrock videos! keep it up man, thanks for sharing much as you do!

Man brother your on a mission! Love the info and history buddy!

Your province county etc. should hire you to create tourist videos for OZ gold mines in your area and the history of it.

very cool, the ore carts are probably still surviving because theyre made of wrought iron which has loads of layers of silica in it and protects it from rusting I wouldnt have wanted the old timers ears after a day of shovelling ore into megastampy....never mind a year or two..... so how are you going to get to that stream Chris

Dude that is so interesting! I'm really liking the gold rush history that you are finding. I feel like you should dig around a little near where the crushed rock came out. Probably someone already has though.

Chris you should see if you can do a tour of the Karr's reef "mine.I believe the boiler is still down the hill from the mine.

Love this! Thankyou 🙌

Brent have his gohsttown ,Matt his abandoned resort.. id love to see vogus abandoned goldmine..

Great video, thanks so much 👏👏

Thank you for this.

Mercury. LOL. Let me guess - 20 years later they wondered why all the miners were sick and dying of a strange disease that turned out to be mercury poisoning?

I love when u do stuff like this I like history

You can see a working one at sovereign hill!

sweet intact stamp battery bud! those are rare in my region! Its almost impossible to see one still standing in the bush in BC.

Got a huge crusher left in agnew west oz,would of made a thunderous sound when running

There is one near the Turon River at Hill End. I cant think of any others

Grampa Stampy !!!

Keep it up brother!

I enjoyed that. Nice work

Wow that was Cool Thank you for Sharing Chris 👍X10 😁 . SKK .

There is one 40/50 metres outside of my fence line

Thanks Boss, Have you ever found anything there?

Loving all this mining history you've done lately mate🤙

Loving the history vids would be cool to see you travel around Australia for the history of gold mining in Australia. Xx

That stuff I like to see thanks it was some good history on how things went on back it the days

I love this man! Hope we get more of them

Be smart to scoop some buckets all around the mill, and clean it all if nobody already has. You would be surprised the amount of gold all around those.

How awesome to see

Hey Chris it's not a lifter it's called a cam shaft

Brilliant video - we should be preserving this history as Australia has no industry anymore and tourism is becoming a very good income

Wow bro thats really cool to see its all intact would love to get it cranking again. In the mean time I need to go and see a man about a wallaby 😮 gold mine that is

WoW! That is so awesome. Thanks for taking us there!!! Too bad mercury is part of the history of gold mining, but history always has a dark side it seems.

Great info fam. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!

There another few things near there that are worth wild like some old mine cart tracks at nine mile

That pritty cool mate thanks for that👌👍

I wanna use dynamite

This is fun and educational

I'm First comment.. from west Tennessee USA .. love your videos Chris.

That was really cool

Absolutely awesome to see what the old timers built and did to get their gold those piles of rocks didn’t just fall off the machine where they are a lot of it took some guy with a wheelbarrow Who I bet didn’t have any problems going to sleep at night

Surprisingly you didn’t get a sample of dirt mate

Can you make a video of how to pan out gold dust?

So cool 😮😊

Gold 💎 Gold 💎 Gold 💎⛏️🇧🇷

Is gold edible?

Is illegal to access

Here on the beautiful west coast South island NZ we are lucky to have alot of old gold mining gear left in situ by the oldboys from yester-year ,stamping batteries sluice's ,basically all of it . You and all of your viewers are more than welcome to pop over and check the place out😊

Why aren’t you waving yer detector around on the piles???

By the way Chris you are wrong there is more than 5 left in the bush.