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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
 |  |  | Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
< on 3/23/2009 4:14 AM >
|  | | | My friend wanted to do explore some stuff and today ended up sucking so much it was funny.
Highlights from Today:
Main Plan:
Finding out the ONLY way from the basement to the upper levels of the closest mill to me is now COMPLETELY blocked by a 1000 lb trap door; that wasn't shut the last time I was there. The owners have either shut it; or the steel cable that was holding it has snapped. There is no other way up without a dangerous climb + smashing of windows into the rest of the mill.
Backup Plan #2
Discovering that another abandonment (Abandoned Dye House for a renovated mill) that was completely open and relatively untouched last fall has had it's roof collapse inward sometime over the winter. It is now 4 walls and rubble.
Backup plan #3 for today
We were going to try and to photograph a nearby airport runway at night from atop a nearby Quarry. But discovered when we are 200 feet above the earth what we thought originally was a Quarry which was is not in fact a Quarry; but a landfill. I'm glad for once that it isn't summer yet.
As we walked back to my car a man in a large pickup come flying down the road to the new housing constructions we had parked at. He parked down the road (I'm assuming he expected us to keep walking towards him) we turned off towards where my car was hidden and he got out of his truck and started walking towards us. We were on foot. I guess he wasn't expecting me to have my car which was carefully hidden in shadows behind a construction trailer. Hauled ass into the car ...as he ran back to his truck. We took off before he had a chance to catch up to get my plates.
So EPIC FAIL FOR TODAY. But hey we didn't get caught, arrested or hurt.
But we had EPIC NINJA PARKING and EPIC CHINESE FOOD for dinner.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Chevyboy666
Location: Mason Ohio The devil's asshole
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1 on 3/23/2009 4:24 AM >
| | | | Well that sounds like fun. Nothing quite like running from pissed off rednecks in pickups!
Nothing you can prove |
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Oryx
  
Location: Who knows
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<Reply # 2 on 3/23/2009 6:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by Chevyboy666
Well that sounds like fun. Nothing quite like running from pissed off rednecks in pickups!
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Haha hell yeah good thing they weren't shooting either!
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bouncewiggle
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Female
| |  | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 3 on 3/23/2009 6:14 PM >
| | | | i think epic ninja parking is what often makes or breaks an exploring trip. being too conspicuous will get you busted for sure... and well, epic ninja anything is just awesome. ;)
it might not have been the most productive day ever, but at least you got a goody story out of it right? always worth it for a good story, imo.
"bouncewiggle, now more entertaining than Jell-O" |
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DJ Craig
  
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Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Male
Break the Silence
| | | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 4 on 3/23/2009 6:49 PM >
| | | | The other day, the_only_ole, one of her friends and I were walking around a local historic park looking for a rumored abandoned boat yard that was in the area. We started out by leaving the public trail to walk through a short drain with fairly shallow water (but even shallow water in a drain sucks when you don't have waders) which we thought would lead in the direction we wanted to go in. It turned out to open up onto private property, in someones backyard. We checked the Google Earth satellite images on my iPhone and we saw that we had walked directly underneath an interesting unidentified blob that we were trying to get to. So we climbed up an extremely steep bank that was covered in mud, thorns and briers. At the top was some train tracks. We climbed across some freights, walked a little bit down the train tracks while watching the GPS, then climbed another slippery thorny bank from hell to get into the forest area where the interesting blob was. There was nothing there. At all. We went walking a long way through the dense forest, looking for this interesting blob, or anything resembling a boat yard. Eventually we came out of the dense forest into a residential area. We asked someone if there was an abandoned boatyard anywhere in the area. They said that there was, and pointed us further in the direction that we were going. We walked a long way through this residential area, and eventually came to a well-known local historic hotel, the Neatherland Inn. There was a sign in front with a sign pointing behind the building that said "Boat yard." Now, I have been behind the Neatherland Inn plenty of times in my life (I grew up nearby) and have never noticed a boatyard. But we went behind the inn, and, finally, after about 3 hours of treacherous exploring and hiking and trespassing, we found the boatyard we were looking for. It was right in the middle of the public parking lot for the inn. And it was epic:
EDIT: trying to get the images sized right...
[last edit 3/23/2009 6:56 PM by DJ Craig - edited 2 times]
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess |
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 5 on 3/23/2009 8:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
There is no other way up without a dangerous climb + smashing of windows into the rest of the mill. |
Yet you still went somewhere else instead?
Epic failure indeed.
[last edit 3/23/2009 8:33 PM by willskith - edited 1 times]
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| |  |  | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 6 on 3/23/2009 11:20 PM >
|  | | | good stories both.
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 7 on 3/24/2009 4:29 AM >
| | | | Posted by willskith
Yet you still went somewhere else instead?
Epic failure indeed.
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Yeah I know; I could have very easily gotten in. The easiest way only required me to climb onto a roof that was questionable. There wasn't any glass in the way... just wooden lattice that would have to be "removed". The nagging voice in my head that said "Health Insurance, you don't have any" was one reason.
And my friend was another. The whole reason we were there was I wanted to show the site to him; I've already been inside. He didn't have the upper body strength to hoist himself up. He has a good excuse though (he has a Nuss bar across his chest.)
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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BlenHeim
Location: my name is where i am at
Gender: Female
is anyone home?
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<Reply # 8 on 3/24/2009 1:09 PM >
| | | | by way of the dutch east indes.
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Coley
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Female
We are Americans, nothing if not colonizers, and explorers. We can be retrosplorers! -on Euro UE
| | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 9 on 3/24/2009 5:34 PM >
| | | | I'm still sore from our boatyard trip. At least we got some good places on the way. Btw, it wasn't an epic fail for me. I'm on a boat, like in that SNL skit, but without T-Pain.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
-Susan Sontag
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 10 on 3/25/2009 4:12 AM >
| | | | I'd bet if you took a car jack back with you you might be able to get the door open @ the mill
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 11 on 3/25/2009 4:58 AM >
| | | | Posted by Shutchatrap
I'd bet if you took a car jack back with you you might be able to get the door open @ the mill
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I did not think of that. Car jacks are a too big for a backpack. And I really don't want the 1000lb or more trap door coming down on me; should the car jack fail.
Either two things have happened:
1.) The rusted cable holding it up has snapped.
2.) The owners have lowered the trap door to prevent access.
I'm going to go back and get access in on my own...sometime. I know I can climb in through a second story window. Each scenario offers a different option.
If it's numero uno then I may be able to unbolt the only hinged side then slide the door out of the way. I know I can't lift it; I should be able to push it. It's all about leverage; from the top it should be significantly easier.
If it's numero dos it shows they can raise it and lower it as they please, so I simply need to work out the mechanism and raise it just enough to allow access.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| | | | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 12 on 3/25/2009 9:20 AM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
I did not think of that. Car jacks are a too big for a backpack.
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What car jacks do you have in the USA (where everything is bigger)?
My car jack fits in a backpack easily, it'd fit in a big purse even. It's far smaller than a crowbar and you could just tell you had a flat tire and couldn't get it in your spare wheel well and inadvertly put it in your backpak...
You can just use the jack to jack open the door, but you DEFINATELY need to have some support for the door (create some nice wooden chocks with an anti-sideways-slipping mechanism) before you trust yourself under the created gap.
Also, I highly doubt the door weighs 500 kilogrammes - that's quite heavy and not necessary at all - steel is expensive too.
Tijmen
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 13 on 3/25/2009 1:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by IIVQ
What car jacks do you have in the USA (where everything is bigger)?
My car jack fits in a backpack easily, it'd fit in a big purse even. It's far smaller than a crowbar and you could just tell you had a flat tire and couldn't get it in your spare wheel well and inadvertly put it in your backpak...
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They are the same size here... I was able to jam a car jack in my camera bag along with 2 cameras and 3 lenses, and my bag is relatively small.
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 14 on 3/25/2009 3:47 PM >
| | | | yeah, I'm talking a scissors jack like this:
not one of those big mechanic's jacks:
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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geoff5093
Location: New Hampshire
Gender: Male
| | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 15 on 3/25/2009 4:00 PM >
| | | | haha, sounds like you guys had a lot of fun! 
At least you were able to get away without him taking down your plates...
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 16 on 3/25/2009 4:03 PM >
| | | | It is a 5ft by 9ft; 2 in thick piece of ash or similar hardwood. It was suspended by 3/4in thick length of steel cable.
It weighed more than two of us could get to budge. 1000lbs is probably an exaggeration, though from the respective angle I was at you would need someone who could lift that. And I don't know if there is anything placed atop the door either. Hell for all I know they could have banded and bolted it down.
But I'm not taking a car jack. Until I've figured out whether the owners have closed it or the cable has snapped, there is no point in trying to bypass the door.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| | | | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 17 on 3/25/2009 5:04 PM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
It is a 5ft by 9ft; 2 in thick piece of ash or similar hardwood. It was suspended by 3/4in thick length of steel cable.
It weighed more than two of us could get to budge. 1000lbs is probably an exaggeration, though from the respective angle I was at you would need someone who could lift that. And I don't know if there is anything placed atop the door either. Hell for all I know they could have banded and bolted it down.
But I'm not taking a car jack. Until I've figured out whether the owners have closed it or the cable has snapped, there is no point in trying to bypass the door.
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With that dimensions, it's about .20 cubic metres, and should weigh not a lot more than 200 kg/450-ish pound. However, that's if it's not bolted down. With a crowbar you should be able to get that to budge and see if it's held down by gravity or something else - but a crowbar is cumbersome...
Tijmen
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 18 on 3/25/2009 5:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by IIVQ
With that dimensions, it's about .20 cubic metres, and should weigh not a lot more than 200 kg/450-ish pound. However, that's if it's not bolted down. With a crowbar you should be able to get that to budge and see if it's held down by gravity or something else - but a crowbar is cumbersome...
Tijmen
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There is plenty of steel pipes and other metal debris lying around that could be used make an improvised crowbar. I'm not going back until at least this weekend...or maybe later than that. It depends on my work/ other plans.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Coley
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Female
We are Americans, nothing if not colonizers, and explorers. We can be retrosplorers! -on Euro UE
| | | Re: Today was full of EPIC FAILURE (funny. Worth a read.)
<Reply # 19 on 4/21/2009 6:22 PM >
| | | | Soooooooo, here's the thing. DJ Craig and I took a little trip last night to see a place we knew had guard dogs. We tried one way in and when the dogs came out barking we ran for it. In our escape DJ Craig ran into a tractor and I caught my jeans on the fence to a chorus of barking dogs. We planned on going through the adjoining machine shop to get a closer look and it turns out we were chased in by some rapidly approaching barking dogs. As we waited inside to meet our fate my fellow explorer exclaimed, "DUDE, dude, DUDE!!!". I almost jumped into his arms as I looked around in the dark for the dog that must surely be coming to get us. He laughed and informed me that he was just trying to let me know about the huge sliding door that could bar the dogs outside. Even with the door closed we knew from previous exploration that there were ways in through the basement, so we headed up some stairs to a caged in observation deck to rest. In my haste upon entering, I promptly stepped through some rotten wood and had to keep myself from falling through the floor. As we sat up there debating when to make our escape, we laughed at just how horribly we had failed our mission. After a good long while we left and decided it wasn't worth a return trip.
I also forgot to mention that we had taken some treats for the puppies. We hadn't really been prepared, so the only place that was open was Taco Bell. We sure did get some tacos (crunchy, because they might take longer to chew) as a meager attempt at distraction. In the events that followed with the guard dogs we were both so scared that we totally forgot about the tacos.
This is earlier in the night...during better times.
This is both of us while we are it waiting out.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
-Susan Sontag
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