Real Life Minecrafter Digs for 38 Years

you may think that digging a virtual. tunnel is impressive but what if I told. you there was a guy who spent over 30. years digging a real tunnel let's talk. about that good mythical morning thank. you for joining us today my kids I know. your kids too are obsessed you know my. kids huh with Minecraft I think when. Lincoln grows up he wants to be Steve I.

mean that's how much that's how much he. wants you sleeves hit it's kind of. square it yeah you don't want that he. might wear a helmet or something but he. might be wearing a square helmet at. night trying to get his head shake but. he puts on different skins to make him. look cooler. he needs to be comfortable in his own. skin like this you can put a Lincoln. skin that's not what we're here to. discuss we're here to discuss the. psychology of mind good burrow Schmitt. tunnel okay uh the trip that we took. recently that we want to share with you. including video and all types of new.

miniature catastrophe helped me. appreciate the Minecraft world because. there is a man who is the quintessential. real-life minecrafter and we experienced. his work firsthand now you may remember. a friend of ours Mike who came into town. a year and a half ago or so and we went. camping and we had this whole thing that. happen with the Bronco there's a whole. episode of GMM about that link in the. description well Mike came back into. town he said I want to go camping again.

we said friend. let's do any time you want to go camping. man we are here for you we put cocaine a. drop of habitat camping hat yep so. anyway we decided to I developed an. itinerary a new itinerary because I am. the resident itinerary thank you for. that yeah I'm glad you've shown no. appreciation for how well I plan that. trip but I'm glad that you're showing it. now I just said thank you oh good thanks. so thanks for your thanks anyway one of.

the things we wanted to do was come out. of the mountains the Sierra Sequoia. National animal forest. insuk in the southern half of the. Sequoia National Forest and where the. redwoods. and then come down into the mojave. desert and as we came into the mojave. desert I wanted to see some sights and I. wanted to present these sights to my. friends and say look how cool I am I. have a tenor eyes this whole thing for. y'all yes I mean there was old mines all. about me being cool old miner cabins. different things like that but the burro.

schmidt tunnel there was a highlight of. the trip turn out to be amazing okay. so here's that here's a long story long. tunnel made short and that is there's a. guy named burrows Schmidt who was a gold. miner and in the year either 1900 or. 1906 there's some controversy about when. he actually started. i'm-a-comin 1902 okay he said I want to. get my mules and my mining equipment. from here to here there is no Road so. what I'm going to do when there's a big.

mountain in between the here and the I'm. gonna dig a hole through that mountain. I'm gonna dig a hole from my house to. where I need to go at the mouth of the. mine that's safer for the burros right. and that keeps it kind of level dude. took an axe and a hammer and a bucket. and started digging and digging in hand. digging continued for more than 30 years. 32 or 38 years depending on whether or. not you listen to the plaque outside the. tunnel or Wikipedia I'm going with the. plaque 38 years he continues to Dave and. 32 is amazing like a decade into this.

process of literally every day just. going out there and Bruce okay he made. this noise oh good chicken okay I can do. it I can do it he didn't know he did he. didn't make them he dug into the. mountain and then all of a sudden they. build a road people come out and they. build a road and they like burrow you've. got a you've got a UH um first of all. his name was not burrow yet he was like. William Schmidt or something well his. name was burrow not because he burrowed. but because he had to burrows really. yeah. that's why and he wanted to leave he. wanted to he was not a good story.

his name was Moreau cause he was. burrowing into a mountain it's not I'm. sorry Wikipedia. anyway ten years into the process they. build this road that makes his tunnel. obsolete well the tunnels not finished. of course makes his tunnel obsolete. because he's only halfway through. newsflash he keeps digging for another. 20 something years every single day and. at this point people are like this dude. is cray-cray. all he's doing is getting up everything. they in digging hand digging sometimes. using dynamite to get through the tunnel.

32 or 38 years later he finishes the. tunnel gets to the other side of the. mountain and then he sells it and leaves. and moves he never moved an ounce of ore. through that shortcut that he dug. through the mountain and we're talking. over 2,000 feet estimated 5,800 ton soul. of rock we walked through this thing and. took video of it there's no need for any. type of supports that you had seen a.

typical mind because a it wasn't a mind. it was just a tunnel it didn't me and ER. it was straight as an arrow until it. hits a tee goes left and right and it. was just in solid granite rock no need. for reinforcement if you take a left at. that when you hit the tee you go to a. dead end and that's where hikers pee. yeah it smelled like you're an ending. you wanted to pee when I smell pee I. want to pee I mean listen much a dog is. gonna cover up someone else's you don't. need to add to the problem people in. there oh oh I've walked half a mile let.

me pee inside this closed space don't be. that guy link would appease it so you're. welcome people of who visit the brush. met mine know that urine it's not links. cuz I didn't let him pee like I said I. have an appreciation of Minecraft now. the fact this guy basically use. minecraft techniques there were there. were there were minecraft ik mine. technologies out there too to mine he. used none of those it was just him and a. hammer and this and dynamite with a. short fuse later on but it's basically. six foot tall you had to hunched over a. little bit and you're about five foot.

wide I didn't hit my head at all I did I. didn't hit my head at all the whole time. we went through the tunnel well I didn't. I'm sure borough Schmitt did and I'm. also sure that I did yes so I'm sorry. that when you hit your noggin the only.

thing I was worried about was getting it. on tape and making sure that we had it. to tell the people I think that's what I. was thinking about I was worried about. my headlamp it was either the crushing. sound of my headlamp break. which it was or for a second I was like. is that my skull I think Mike said it. sounded like someone just stepped on a. bag of potato chips I think if you can. hear the sound of your own skull. cracking you can't think about it I. think they've equal each other out you. bet I'm saying so I took one for the. team. burrow and I am I just I'm in awe you.

have to go there in order to fully. appreciate it so if you're in a. Minecraft or if you have kids I want to. take my kids to help them fully. appreciate the digging that they do in. Minecraft everyday you can only. appreciate it by being there yeah but. there's an interesting controversy over. this guy you said he just sold the thing. and moved away right well there was a. story there's a story that still. circulates today that he now haunts the. mind that's all no that's not the story. oh I didn't see him thanks for going. along we were gonna create a new myth.

maybe we had that power but probably not. know that you smell that urine he said. as burrows the reason why he kept. digging for no reason was just out of a. sheer commitment to the project but he. was it was really a clandestine cover-up. to the fact that he found a very. valuable vein of gold going into the. mountain which he was like oh I just. want to finish my short cut but I got a. lot of gold happening but it and that's. the story that kind of I think I don't.

believe that me. I think it's an effort to redeem what. some people think is a sad story of a. man who was just had a futile exercise. and I don't think there's devoted his. whole life to it there's nothing sad. about it at all this Ryan was a digger. he wakes up every morning you know what. he does he did in a tunnel and what is. it worth something. heck it's worth something we're talking. about it right now. these many years later I think he was a. futurist I think every day burl Schmidt. got in there and he bent over a little. bit and he hit thing he hit the ground.

with the axe and he said one of these. days I'm gonna be right through the. internet no I think about Internet oh I. don't know what it is but I somebody's. gonna infinite people gonna talk about. me and and you know what they'll be like. rat Oh foo comes out here a dig every. single day you know what he was a. futurist Burroughs Schmidt was a. futurist I mean what do you what do you. think. what are you gonna leave behind he left. behind a cool puddle that you can go. into with your kids we didn't bring our.

kids next time we're gonna bring our. kids right what are you doing with your. life are you digging time time now time. to make it motivational what are you. digging are you digging a hole for. yourself are you digging a tunnel. through the mountains of life for the. for the Internet of the future that was. no way anticipate on a t-shirt we should. sell these at the mouth of the cave we. sell them alike well we have to water. you digging a hole for your are you. digging yourself a hole are you digging. through the mountains of life you need.

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experiences from that same camping trip. boy dogs. it's not a welcoming Bunch it's not like. welcome to the mountains well I have. some blackberry wine on me no it's just. like don't to set foot on my property.