Dressing the Part: The Hard Rock Miner
Note: Some mines were very hot, and I didn't mention them. For the purposes of dressing the part, not much changes here.
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***Note: Some mines were very hot, and I didn't mention them. For the purposes of dressing the part, not much changes here.***
I'm an old long retired guy whose Grandpa was an old sourdough placer miner who also found and operated a few one man underground gold mines along the Snake River, now under water, on the Oregon - Idaho border. He dressed much like what what you portrayed with the exception that he wore a full brim steel hardhat. Thanks for the video.
Interesting!
Nice! Was “brain pan” a Firefly reference?!! It’s Santeeday Folks! Have a great weekend! Oh and Santee in the space shower… Um… Very unexpected. I guess today space is now the new Wild West!??
HA! Thanks. Brain pan goes back farther than Firefly, but still fun stuff!
@@ArizonaGhostridersNice! Thanks!
How do we know not a hatfield &mccoy reference " i thought you was lettinghim go ? " So did he anyway he died unafraid how a man should die any way what choice did i have after you blew out the other ones brain pan "
Anyone else think of the Warner Brothers cartoon with swans and the baby duck when Santee played the Blue Danube Waltz?
LOL!
All I think of is 2001----Downtown Chicago in "Cinerama" with four-channel stereo, it was almost a religious experience in '68.
That a No! No one at all!
Another great video that really digs into the topic. I did not know about miners applying laquer or whatnot to their hats to make them stiff for their protection, and with the number of videos out there about old west mines being revisited, it really shines some light on how dangerous the mines were. That back scrubber do look interesting! Thanks again Santee!
Appreciate it. I picked a good topic.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I'll say! With this gang, there are always a lot of prospects and you never know when you'll hit paydirt. Also saw the Blazing Saddles spoof for that back brush. Rabble!
Thanks so much for running our Bodicurv commercial, Santee! Now ANSWER MISSION CONTROL!!!!!! BTW, I can relate to thhis week's subject. I cracked my skull on a rock outcrop inside the Burro Schmidt Tunnel. Hurt for a week! After that, I brought my hard hat!
You bet!
Spanky, Roadrunner and Willey Coyote! Santee (and your humor) Laughs have returned to Saturday mornings!! Thanks for the visit!!
You bet!
I was expecting a flater rock. More of a slab.
When I worked as a hard rock miner, we wore long sleeve thermo shirt (or long sleeve T-shirt), bib-overalls or slickers, steel toed 16” rubber boots and a slicker jacket. I found it interesting how it cahnged a lot in some areas as to very little in others when I took the tour of where my grandfather had worked way back in 1917-20 at the time Copper Queen in Bisbee. I don’t know what my grandfather wore in the CQ
Interesting history.
Excellent episode Santee. Have a great weekend. I'll be working an original 24 lb Howitzer at Raymond, MS. It last fired here in 1863. Cheers!
Woohooo!! Have fun, Tim. Have...a blast.
Great one, Santee!
Thank you kindly!
Santee, Great stuff and a shower movie star to boot. You and Mrs. Pew Pew have a beautiful and blessed weekend.
Thank You!
I spent 30 years in construction, 22 years in concrete cutting and demo. I wore Levis every day even when the boss offered to buy other pants. They just held up better. I also wore a hardhat every day and that saved me from some serious knocks several times. In fact I also wore suspenders and had the steel toe boots. So except for the company logo tee shirt I think I wore miner gear every day. The main difference was I worked in concrete dust and not coal dust but at least we had respirators and dust masks. But you might want to give a nod to the injuries every miner, and construction worker, lives with. Bad back, lungs caked with dust, missing fingers and toes, and probably one of the worst, bad hearing. What is the most four letter word used on every job site? That would be "what?". But I like how you always stick up for the working man, the real people who built the West and made it livable for city slickers.
Thanks for the kudos!
Definitely hard work! Cool video Santee!
It really is!
Great video, as always, Santee! But after a video about hard rock mining, I'm suddenly in the mood for a Cornish Pasty! Have you ever done a video about these yummy empanadas, and how popular they were in the mines? Desert Rat Rick
Sounds delicious!
This was absolutely entertaining, interesting, and certainly informative, AS ALWAYS. The accompanying audio, and visuals are beyond compare. WOW, the next time I complain about a minor inconvenience, I hope I remember the jobs some people had. Thanks so much, Santee... 👏🏻🤠👏🏻
Much appreciated, Rhonda🤠
I just had a commical image come to mind of a hard rock miner being a mix of ACDC and an old west prospector.
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Once again I have learned something that I’m sure not a lot of people really knew…Santee will only shower when paid.
HAHA!
Great video, Santee! See ya next Saturday .
Thanks! You too!
I love the Blue Danube Waltz.
It ain't stupid!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Darn tootin it ain't.
Houston we got a problem, Santees at it again! Santee you never disappoint Sir!🤠🇺🇲
Thank You!
@@ArizonaGhostriders you are welcome Sir
Another goodurn! Ya had some new guys on there this time.
Thank You!
As always, Santee, you make my day. I always look forward to the next Arizona Ghost Riders video.
Thank You!
Interesting segment on headgear. Wish your friend well on his product
So do I
Slabbed, that’s what happened to my granddad back in the 1920s. A big slab of slate fell on him in the old Benham coal mines. It broke his back and hips but he still went on to woo my grandma, father 2 children and built the family homestead. He halted with canes and home made leg and back braces? He eventually died in 1937 of pneumonia.
Amazing history.
A dressing the part/history episode on quacks and snake-oil-salesmen would be very interesting!
OK!
Great episode Santee, I knew mining under ground was a dangerous job, but the thought of busting into a hot spring never occured to me. That would really suck! Love your videos, seems I always learn something new from them. JT
Thank you JT!
Ahahaha, getting “slabbed”, that’s an interesting term. Great video, thanks santee!
yes!
Thanks again Santee & CO. Nowhere in my mind I could consider digging deep into the earth for any reason . I am a US Navy veteran who has sailed the greatest oceans and been very far from land on many occasions . At all times i had the water below me and the sky , sun , and stars above me . French sailors traditionally wear knit wool caps with a bobble of wool on top to absorb strikes to their heads from overhead timbers . Jaques Coustou (sorry if i misspelled his name ) famously wore a knit cap with a pompon .
Point of reference victor you would never have been more then 7 miles from land... LOL you just really didn't want to visit...
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@@bs7747 I've sailed around the world on two warships . I have had Liberty in South Australia , Thailand , and Guantanamo Bay Cuba , and a lot of places that you can't find find on a map. I know that Mina Rasheed is located in the Persian Gulf , and Tahiti is in the South Pacific Ocean because I have been in those places .
And as my dad told me "who served in the Aleutian Islands" during world war two, no matter where you are on the oceans, the farthest you are from land is 7 miles...you don't want to go there because that land is below you.....a mere play on words.
@@bs7747 Thanks for his service , and I apologize for seeming rude and misunderstanding your jest Sir . Yes the oceans are no more than seven miles deep , and I have sailed over the Mariana Trench and had twelve hours of liberty in Fiji . I wish you could visit Fiji sometime as it is one of the most beautiful places i have ever been to .
Great video, Santee, and always learn something every time I watch you. Have a great day.
Glad to hear it!
Thanks again, Santee, for your amazing work and Videos .
Glad you like them!
Will be coming to old Tucson April 20th. See ya soon!
I'll be there!
Awesome episode as always. You really dug into this topic. Think I will try to make one of those hats. 🤔🧐🤠
It was a good pick
Been waiting on this one
Good
Very cool yet again. Thanks again my friend
Thank You!
Thanks You For Producing Such Great Videos
Glad you like them!
Awesome! Love the commercial.
Glad you like it!
Great!! Another great one ! 🤠
Thanks again!
Great job. Thank you 😊
Our pleasure!
Never mind the Tommyknockers, the real danger in the dark are the Gure's, they can even get you in a hotel room! Another great video, and that ad was possibly the most creative ad I've ever seen, great job!
Spoof ideas in commercials need more attention!
Thank you for sharing, Santee. Every Saturday morning, as I wake up, I remind myself to check if the Arizona Ghost Riders have uploaded their weekly video.
You're welcome. 🤠
Thank you for these videos Santee they're informative and entertaining. I can't imagine wearing a candle on your hat. Really interesting !!🤠
If you had linseed oil on your hat...maybe not the best idea.
Santee, with the name "hard rock miner," you had the perfect opportunity to dress some kids up like they're part of Metallica, and have Dirty Dan say "this is just stupid."
HA! Yes! 🤠
I'm not sure if that there brush is real or not, but it's always good to see Pony 🤠
Well, Bill was actually holding the one Pony gave us. It's real.
Great video Santee
Appreciate that, Led.
Great details in the episode but... I'm not allowed near miners anymore... without supervision. 😛
I thought they threw that out in court?
Very awsomely interestingly and interestingly informative video, I really liked and enjoyed it, I learned alot about dressing the part of the hard rock miner from the old west frontier and I got a lot of inspiration for my old west frontier, retro eras, video games and mythological/true theological history inspired writing projects. Great job and well done, keep up the great work. I'm definitely going to be adding some hard rock miners to my storys world. I've been also researching and learning theology, theosophy, mythological history, mythology, the apocrypha and gnostic texts, thothic and the emerald tablets texts and esoteric anthropological studies as well as some of the haf true and half fiction writings from tge spiritual and new age history communities for my writing projects. In my writing projects I named two of my characters Luriilin and Gilgamesh, thier nicknames are Loa and Gannvin.
Happy writing!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks. Right now I'm getting further inspiration and learning from both theology, mythological history and ancient paleocontact for my writing projects. I'm also typing a few different scenes for the stories.
A gelreat way to spend a rainy Saturday morning.
Thank You!
Santee, not all mines were cool. The mines on the Comstock in Virginia City, Nevada were infamously hot due to the thermal springs and shallow depth of hot rocks. The mines had cooling rooms filled with ice the men would take breaks in. It was so hot, mines ran double shifts to keep the effects of heat exposure down.
That's why I mentioned the boiling water pockets Althought I didn't say all mines were cold, I neglected to mention the hot ones.
@@ArizonaGhostriders No problem friend. Love the work you do.
I've seen a lot of things here on Spaceship Earth but never before today had I seen Santee in the shower.
First time for everything.
I read once that on the original Levi Strauss jeans there was a rivet on the crotch area. It would heat up when standing or squatting around the campfire. It was eventually done away with.
No doubt.
Fascinating 🎸
Thank You!
From a dirty mine in the Ole West to a clean shower in space....Yea that just happened
Wild stuff, eh?
In Colorado hard rock mines it's old White Boots you have to look out for.
Hmm.. 🤠
If olive oil comes from olives and mineral oil comes from minerals... Where does baby oil come from?
Jennifer Grey ("Nobody puts baby in the corner!")
Was a miner, 49er, and his daughter Clementine....
Yep 🤠
This was another great video! By any chance have you covered dressing the part for old West Train Engineers?
Not yet. In the future.
@@ArizonaGhostriders alrighty, just wondering.
Oh, THAT kind of hard rock...
Yeah! 🤠
How would people of the frontier battle the difficult weather such as heavy rain and freezing temperatures? Would they have waterproof clothing?
Goodyear did have rubberized clothes! I've done videos on coats/jackets.
Might need a little more shellac on your hat Santee.
ok 🤠
The commercial was better than the outstanding episode.
Thanks for the compliments!
Awesome video as always! Can you do one on railroad workers??
Yes I can
@@ArizonaGhostriders thank you!
Ypu forgot that one of the risks include digging to deep and unleashing a balrog
I did!
Santee I have a question and I was hoping you might be able to help me in your military surplus video you said clothes wars sold could you tell me what type of clothes thank you ps love the video
Jackets and other uniform pieces that were not being re-issued.
May I ask you what software you use to produce your amazing CGI sequences.
Thank you. After effects, primarily.
Santee how about a dressing the part of a freighter. Please and thank you.
OK!
Hello 🤠 I was wondering if you had an idea for that bandana video I asked ya about earlier to do please ?
I did one on bandanas. We need another? Remind me, please.
Would love to see dressing the part on preachers... or just one about preachers in the wild west...
@@ArizonaGhostriders was wanting to see if you could show the different ways a bandana can be used to keep the good guy from yelling for help if they was all tied up with a lasso or rope. The different ways to use it for an ole fashioned gag See about having a bandana stuffed or balled up in the mouth and then tie a second bandana between the teeth to bite down on. Then just have a bandana between the teeth and see how well they can talk or make much sense.
@@ArizonaGhostriders -- also can you show how would fold it to carry in back pocket or how it would look in the back pocket of bib overalls as well
i used to work in a mine 🙂
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YOU FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT APPAREL OF ALL FOR MINERS. THAT WAS BLISTERS AND CALLUSES
Wore 'em like badges?
@@ArizonaGhostriders I don't need no stinking badges!!!!
@@elultimo102 LOL!
Hmmmm...body scrubber? Ummmm, I think I'll stick to my wife's loofah! Haha!!
This is easier, but your call!
@@ArizonaGhostriders 😂
Tried to make a put, but got nothing,I guess I need to dig deeper.
Yup! 🤠
Miners are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I dig that joke
I can't remember if you touched on this but can you do one on old west cartoons?
I can!
Thank you
Not the sort of job I'd want to do. My partner is researching her family history and discovered one of her ancestors was a coal miner. He died when the cage lift he was in fell into some water at the bottom of the shaft and he drowned.
Geez that's terrible!
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Thank You!
A Hard Rock Miner? I thought that was a 12 year old dancing the night away in a Hard Rock Cafe .... Hmmmm
Ha!
What kind of music does a Miner listen to? They listen to Hard Rock.😂
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What about big style overalls? Had those been invented yet? And if so how common would those have been seen all over town, and were the poplar with miners?
I saw some photos with bib overalls. They would have been left in the changing room of the mine, though.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I take it then it wasn’t very popular with them then if they left them down there? Perhaps a little too restrictive for crawling around?
Not sure where to ask my question, so I will ask it here. At what point did American Indians start riding horses with saddles. I would think that when they got guns, knifes and other items from trading or stealing, they would also get saddles. The old Western Movies would often show Indians riding horses with saddles that were covered by blankets. Did that ever actually happen?
Since the Spanish really introduced horses to them, they would have used saddles from the beginning. Maybe not like we think. They could have been pads of leather without a tree or other skins. If they wanted endurance for long rides something simple like a robe, maybe.
I'll have to pass on that job my friend.
Don't blame ya!
Well at least someone got you to take a shower
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Do you have dressing the part on the boubty hunter ? I havent found it but i feel like i should atleast have 2 shooters maybe a cut down coach gun the barrel has to be 18 to belegal butdoesentsay it cant cut the stock down in a back sling and maybe a henry lrver action or rossi and knife on belt ?????
I have a video on bounty hunters, but there was no dress code. Watch that video and you'll understand why.
@@ArizonaGhostriders great ill look thanx
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Thank You!
That's awesome Santee did you get your Facebook account back up and running so I can reach out to you?
Nope. Just my regular facebook and this.
@@ArizonaGhostriders what's your Facebook name
john scott
The term hard rock miner begs the question. What is a soft rock miner?
Prospector, picking rock out of the stream bed.
Coal miner.
I just brushed the last part off.
You mean the burnt cork?
Asking for black powder rifles of the old west please sir
Which ones? I've done videos on Remington Rolling Blocks, Repeaters, Springfield Trapdoors, Spencers, Sharps...
Like mountain man era apologies ive tried to watch all your videos on weapons
@@garrettmiller7664 Thanks. So, Hawkens and the like?
@@ArizonaGhostriders yesir
SANTEES, IN, SPAAAAAAAAAACCCCEEE!!! 😁🐷
LOL!
They were men back in those days.
Yes they were!
Hhmmm🤔 hard Rock ya sey ehh! Better than the sandstone rock of the early 80's fer sure. Today know as easy listening, but I find Bolton hard to bare. Smile dang nabbit it can only go up from here. Mountain man
I wonder if they had a cafe in those mines....?
@@ArizonaGhostriders 🤔 a phonautograph painted on the door. Best known fer buffalo wild ribs. I like it 👌
Typically in larger mines you can find and old drift, cross cut or shaft station that will have a wooden plank setting across two trimmed off ends of a mine timber where you could eat you mid-shift meal. Lunch was often carried in a metal lunch pail with a tank for water, coffee or tea that could be heated over a candle stub.
@@StevenMMan HA!
@@Miningpastpresentfuture Really interesting improvisation they all learned in those mines.
No, no one can especially the tommy knockers in the office.
Huh?
@@ArizonaGhostriders while I am not familiar with the reference you used. I assumed they were the under ground creatures you showed; and running the workman's comp section of the company. Probably in charge of payroll too.
And here I thought you were going to talk about 16 year old Black Sabbath fans :-P JK I have heard and seen tales of guys finding old denim in mines (Nevada area) Why would that be? Some stripp'n down tah the skivy's in a mine? Seem's ye'd get mightly cold
I guess the jury is out on this. They could have gotten new jeans and left the old ones there.
Why does Santee always dress as a Hard Luck Miner? ;)
also, that ad should come with eye wash. eeeee
Aww, now don't be jealous! 🤠
is it minor or miner lol
A minor miner.
I bet that was miserable. Dry has a popcorn fart, probably no real way to clean up, sleeping and living that way till pay day.
There were wet mines, too.
Great video Santee
Thank You!