Very cool. Must have been a DC winch motor, VFDs didn't exist in 1902... lol I just love how the armature is exposed, watch your fingers boys and girls!
Not sure if this is the same shaft house we visited, but it must be from Champion or Baltic. So you can see how dudes went to work in the morning.
From various sources it's clear they had a steam hoist, then built a 2nd hoist house kind of behind the first, which was later torn down. So the house we toured is the original. There are references to an electric hoist down inside the mine to bring things up partway from the bottom and also some to a cable running across the ground to the 2nd hoist house for a similar purpose. Don't know if these are both true or if some reports are confused. The electric one we photographed may have been in the 2nd house originally (or at another shaft). Seems unlikely something with so many large parts was once located underground. Although if you were going to run long wires, better to do it at high voltage than the DC drive current.
http://www.copperrange.org/pms.htm
Fuel consumption report. Because I like tracking stuff like that.
I drove 1001 miles and used 51.5 gallons. An average of 19.4 MPG. I'll break that down by fillup:
I started the trip full and ran mostly road miles until I ran out in the Porkies (filled up in Ontonagon). This was 436 miles and 20.0 gallons. 21.8MPG. This is a little low for this truck on a road trip, but it wasn't only highway miles.
The second tank was the real overlanding stuff, from the Porkies through the Keweenaw. I ran out in Houghton and filled up in Baraga (because why not?). 276 miles and 18.0 gallons (it sputtered on the big hill in Houghton). 15.3 MPG.
The third tank was the trip from Houghton to home. The only overlanding here was going up to the gorge. 289 miles and 13.6 gallons. 21.3MPG. Still slightly low, but there's not much I can do about it.
Looking through my route and comparing it to Dave's, I think I drove 430 extra miles (since I didn't trailer), so I'm estimating that he drove 570 miles. He estimates that he burned through 105 gallons, so I figure his average mileage as 5.4MPG
Luke says:
My informal observation is that Luke and I would run out of fuel at similar times, but he carried 32 gallons while I carried 20 (in one tank). Looking at the math, this is really close to what I would expect from our respective mileage numbers.
So...folks interested in joining us, here are 3 real-world fuel consumption data points for you to plan your fueling capacity accordingly (and budget, too). This stuff doesn't hog fuel like serious rock crawling or sand dunes, but you will be visiting the pump periodically!
@76zimmer
I adjusted the Google route based on our "unexpected" routing through Baltic, Painesdale and Lake Roland, the actual location of the camp ("Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness" is a generic location in the woods on the West side of the river) and that our exit from camp was different from our entrance and came up with 141miles. That doesn't count the stamp sand or the backtrack to Gay Bar, but that's just a few miles? So your numbers should be pretty close. The best way to track mileage is to run the GPS tracking the whole way. I think Google has pretty approximate distances on trails and actual curvy-road time can be longer. And it accounts for running sands, backing up to repeat the same water-hole, looping back to figure out why everybody stopped, etc.
The K20 is getting built for this kind of thing, camping and mild wheeling. See you fellers next time
Man this looks awesome guys! how easy would a 2wd c30 prerunner do on this kind of trip if you did it again next year? Cause I'm in....as long as you guys don't mind winching me up rock
