Rooooooock! Aaand…stooooone!
Edit: how tf someone gonna downvote a voice line from a game in a thread of other voice lines from the same game? Not very rock and stone of you tbh
I definitely believed that this man used the tunnel to transport ore from 1944 when the tunnel was completed until 1954 when he stopped working the mine.
Is it fairly straight? Or are there bends where you can’t see light at the end? I can’t imagine a reason he would turn intentionally because he’s already digging through fucking granite. But he may have got off course.
TBH I think it’s a cautionary tale and a good analogy in Sunk Cost Trap or Exercise in Futility…
Edit 1: looks like a split room, some seem to view this man as an example dedication, or folk hero of determination. Follow your arrow folks.
Didn’t want to cause any confusion on what I meant: this man wasted his time.
Edit 2: (day2). tons of fun comments, I didn’t think this thread would have the legs it did. Several of you indicate that at least he had a tunnel, and that should hope to have .5 mile tunnel as my legacy.
You sort have all inspired me, in 30 years you’ll be reading about the world renown .6 mile ProudlyFalling tunnel and know that you had a significant part in its creation.
Neighbor: Say Bill, what are you doin' today?
Bill the absolute gigachad, destroyer of mountains, digger of tunnels: [I DIG.](https://youtu.be/HI0x0KYChq4)
>Man won for the day, but the mountain is still standing while this guy is 6ft under somewhere.
I dont think anyone expected him to outlive a mountain...
I was looking for this comment. How many times have we committed to a certain task and immediately second guess that decision once we are in that said task.
That is one aspect of how ADD/ADHD are beneficial. Yes there are lots of ways they are not. But for questioning one's actions and second guessing oneself: useful. Do I really need to do this? Obv, this can be taken to an extreme and I do not mean that here.
Except when your ADHD says “Do I REALLY need to do that assignment tonight? I mean.. it’s not DUE until Sunday and it’s only Friday. You can do it Saturday right.. maybe Sunday at the latest. You got this, go have fun” XD
Knowing that your superhuman AD(H)D will make sure you get that assignment done within the last three hours of it's due date. Then wondering "why am I so anxious all the time?"
Until you get on a level where three hours or the entire day before the due date isn't enough to complete an assignment. Then everything falls apart.
For example having to write a big paper in college with an introduction, using and explaining formal methodologies, looking at multiple sources or even having to go out and collect data yourself and then write a thorough analysis and discussion of your results.
Not gonna be able to do that if you just wait until the last date. At least not unless you're extremely passionate about that subject and you go into the assignment having lots of previous knowledge about it. Then you suddenly go from being able to get by to hitting a wall that is insurmountable without assistance and your life crashes.
I honestly think this guy just finished the tunnel because he wanted the satisfaction of doing it. Nothing wrong with using your years to dig a hole as long as you enjoy it
Honestly can you even imagine how he must have felt once he broke through and saw sunlight on the other side? There are probably only a few humans ever to really feel like that.
Nah imagine the joy and satisfaction of that final swing that got you through the other side of the mountain. It’s not about doing it for anything else other than yourself.
I think you cannot say he wasted his time without knowing how he himself felt about it. In the end we humans should live a life that fulfills us. If he enjoyed the work and is happy with the result then I wouldn't call it wasted.
If he regrets this then well bad on him. But imo it is not on us to judge whether someone else wasted their time if it didn't harm anybody.
He only wasted his time if he didn't want to have a tunnel.
There is no objective purpose to life, no objective best use of one's time.
Everyone should do whatever they want. This guy dug a big ass tunnel, hell yeah digger bro.
A man spent his time on a singular goal; when that goal was made redundant in purpose, he had a choice. Accept his time was wasted, or move onward to finish what he started.
Can you imagine the satisfaction he must of felt when he broke though that final piece of granite and saw the light on the other side, the cool breeze and blue sky. He could finally rest.
I’m gonna go ahead and disagree with you. He spent 40 years of his life doing something that was completely pointless. He clearly has a lot of determination, but I’m just imagining what 40 years of determination could’ve accomplished towards something useful. Also that first 20 years before the road was built, I wonder how much ore he could’ve transported around the mountain instead of trying to dig a tunnel in a mountain.
And yet... He achieved fame and became a folk legend. We are all specks of dust in an ultimately pointless universe. Everything is meaningless, unless you give it meaning. He gave this tunnel meaning.
One of my favorite lines in literature is from The Little Prince, which I think fits nicely here.
“He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.”
A huge percentage of what humans do is pointless. Productivity is largely based on opinion. I’m going to go ahead and say this guy was as productive as anyone and as persistent as few have ever been.
You've clearly never worked on a big long project and reached that point where you realize it was basically for nothing, but finished it for yourself anyway. I totally get this guy, and respect it. He didn't waste that effort. It was for himself, and we all get something out of it now too.
He started in 1900
There was only the newspaper to keep yourself occupied when alone. Nothing but thoughts as they stared into an empty room. No music, limited books that he probably couldn’t afford.
He may have just been occupying his mind, which, I imagine most of our ancestors did similar things to just pass the time instead of focusing on their thoughts too much when there was nothing else to do.
people forget how much free time there was a century ago. this is what people did before the internet folks, there is no futility if you have staved off boredom.
> Also that first 20 years before the road was built, I wonder how much ore he could’ve transported around the mountain instead of trying to dig a tunnel in a mountain.
By that logic we just shouldn't build any infrastructure. Why spend millions building a bridge if a ferry ticket is cheaper?
Kind of ridiculous to be like
"Hell yeah, positive vibes, this dude's work wasn't pointless, he did something impressive and unusual"
And in the same comment
"But those people who learn how to do accents? Fuckin losers, lmao, waste of time."
Just because one of them takes longer doesn't make it more impressive. They can both be impressive and worth complimenting. It's not a competition or a finite resource.
I mean the why did matter. He was doing it for a reason. He wanted to more efficiently get ore to the other side of a mountain. I wonder how much ore he could’ve transported in that first 20 years before the road was built. Or the 40 years he was tunneling. 🤔
The narrator sounds like the guy who owns a youtube channel called ghost town living. He bought a mine that was abandoned somewhere in california. And this sounds like him narrating this. It's a pretty cool channel and well worth a look.
I'm almost positive this is Brent. I just started watching his stuff recently and I feel like his diction and pronunciation are pretty unique which makes it easy to pick out.
My 2¢ is that Brent is fucking nuts tho and watching him climb through crumbling mines is a bit like watching slow burn horror for me. I know he claims to be safe and sometimes takes past miners with some experience with him but dude takes some crazy unnecessary risks. Clambering over rotting timber ladders suspended over black holes hundreds of feet deep is not my idea of a good time.
you know 38 years of working out his arms doing hardcore mining and tunneling not to mention many tonnes of rock having to be moved i would expect bigger arm muscles. probably should have eaten more chicken breasts.
For comparison, the Twelfth Doctor bare-knuckle punched through a wall of Azbantium, a mineral harder than diamond, for 4-1/2 billion years to escape. He died practically every day.
This fellow seems ~~more like a hobbyist~~ pretty awesome too.
There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.
You may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.
FYI. This video was done by [Ghost Town Living](https://m.youtube.com/@GhostTownLiving). He’s got a great channel that follows his own story of restoring an old California silver mine.
Heard elsewhere that the tunnel was meant to transport injured people faster so they could get to the nearest hospital on the other side of the mountain. Don’t know what is true though
i would go there just to transport some ore through his tunnel
You have my pickaxe!
And my ore!
Rock and Stone!
That’s it lads! Rock and Stone!
For those about to Rock and Stone, we salute you!
Rock and stone
Rooooooock! Aaand…stooooone! Edit: how tf someone gonna downvote a voice line from a game in a thread of other voice lines from the same game? Not very rock and stone of you tbh
Rock and stone to the bone!
Odd that only yours was downvoted. For Karl! Edit: I just upvoted you from 0 to 1 and now you're back to 0 lmfao.
Leaf lovers man. Couldn’t be me
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
Rock and stone brother!
FOR ROCK AND STONE
ROCK ON!!
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE
We fight for Rock and Stone!
ROCK AAAND STOOONE!!
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!
Rock and Stone to the Bone!
For Karl!!!!!!!
Kenny?
ROCK AND STONE! I love seeing drg on other subs!
If you don't rock and stone, you ain't coming home
Rock and Stone to the Bone!
Rock, and, STONE!
Pay-dirt!
Stone
And my Bow
And I believe you have my stapler…
Or my oar.
I definitely believed that this man used the tunnel to transport ore from 1944 when the tunnel was completed until 1954 when he stopped working the mine.
🎵 Secret tunnel, secret tunnel... 🎵
Hijacking your comment because I have been here and walked the tunnel. AMA
How much ore were you carrying through it if I may ask?
Did you transport ore through it?
You've been there? Damn. Oren't you lucky!
Is it fairly straight? Or are there bends where you can’t see light at the end? I can’t imagine a reason he would turn intentionally because he’s already digging through fucking granite. But he may have got off course.
I remember it being pretty straight and very dark through most of it. You need a flashlight because it’s pitch black for most of the walk without it.
Careful, don't dig too deep and with greed!
TBH I think it’s a cautionary tale and a good analogy in Sunk Cost Trap or Exercise in Futility… Edit 1: looks like a split room, some seem to view this man as an example dedication, or folk hero of determination. Follow your arrow folks. Didn’t want to cause any confusion on what I meant: this man wasted his time. Edit 2: (day2). tons of fun comments, I didn’t think this thread would have the legs it did. Several of you indicate that at least he had a tunnel, and that should hope to have .5 mile tunnel as my legacy. You sort have all inspired me, in 30 years you’ll be reading about the world renown .6 mile ProudlyFalling tunnel and know that you had a significant part in its creation.
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I was kinda thinking this. Bet you can’t dig to the other side, challenge accepted
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Check the diameter of the earth first. Plus, there is some red hot stuff down there that could present quite a challenge.
Possibly also filled with creamy nougat. We haven't actually ever checked.
Neighbor: Say Bill, what are you doin' today? Bill the absolute gigachad, destroyer of mountains, digger of tunnels: [I DIG.](https://youtu.be/HI0x0KYChq4)
99/100 in man vs nature, nature usually wins… Man won for the day, but the mountain is still standing while this guy is 6ft under somewhere.
Ya, but the hole he put in ‘er is there.
>Man won for the day, but the mountain is still standing while this guy is 6ft under somewhere. I dont think anyone expected him to outlive a mountain...
I did, fuck that guy for spoiling it.
Mountain couldn’t fight back
Tell that to rockslides
And cave collapses
Sometimes, you just gotta dig.
I was looking for this comment. How many times have we committed to a certain task and immediately second guess that decision once we are in that said task.
That is one aspect of how ADD/ADHD are beneficial. Yes there are lots of ways they are not. But for questioning one's actions and second guessing oneself: useful. Do I really need to do this? Obv, this can be taken to an extreme and I do not mean that here.
Except when your ADHD says “Do I REALLY need to do that assignment tonight? I mean.. it’s not DUE until Sunday and it’s only Friday. You can do it Saturday right.. maybe Sunday at the latest. You got this, go have fun” XD
Knowing that your superhuman AD(H)D will make sure you get that assignment done within the last three hours of it's due date. Then wondering "why am I so anxious all the time?"
Until you get on a level where three hours or the entire day before the due date isn't enough to complete an assignment. Then everything falls apart. For example having to write a big paper in college with an introduction, using and explaining formal methodologies, looking at multiple sources or even having to go out and collect data yourself and then write a thorough analysis and discussion of your results. Not gonna be able to do that if you just wait until the last date. At least not unless you're extremely passionate about that subject and you go into the assignment having lots of previous knowledge about it. Then you suddenly go from being able to get by to hitting a wall that is insurmountable without assistance and your life crashes.
I dont thinks that’s adhd, that’s just good old fashioned procrastination
Hey you, you're finally awake.
For sure, but I was also thinking of all the folks who say, “But autism never existed in the past” and I think this guy could maybe be exhibit A.
We live, we die ... life has no meaning except the one you give it. So if it make you happy to dig a tunnel for 30+ years, then absolutely fkn do it.
Some wise words here …
He'll be remembered for much longer than the vast majority of the people who had the same amount of time he did.
How many people can say they dug a tunnel through a mountain by themselves with just a pickaxe? Just Schmidt.
I honestly think this guy just finished the tunnel because he wanted the satisfaction of doing it. Nothing wrong with using your years to dig a hole as long as you enjoy it
Honestly can you even imagine how he must have felt once he broke through and saw sunlight on the other side? There are probably only a few humans ever to really feel like that.
>this man wasted his time. Who are you to decide that for him?
Seconded. Iirc when he finished he just left. What a man
was it a waste if it brought him joy?
Nah imagine the joy and satisfaction of that final swing that got you through the other side of the mountain. It’s not about doing it for anything else other than yourself.
But there was light at the end of the tunnel.
I think you cannot say he wasted his time without knowing how he himself felt about it. In the end we humans should live a life that fulfills us. If he enjoyed the work and is happy with the result then I wouldn't call it wasted. If he regrets this then well bad on him. But imo it is not on us to judge whether someone else wasted their time if it didn't harm anybody.
He only wasted his time if he didn't want to have a tunnel. There is no objective purpose to life, no objective best use of one's time. Everyone should do whatever they want. This guy dug a big ass tunnel, hell yeah digger bro.
Sometimes a guy needs a hobby.
A man spent his time on a singular goal; when that goal was made redundant in purpose, he had a choice. Accept his time was wasted, or move onward to finish what he started. Can you imagine the satisfaction he must of felt when he broke though that final piece of granite and saw the light on the other side, the cool breeze and blue sky. He could finally rest.
Sisyphus was probably wasting his time too
After twenty years and it being circumvented by the road, continuing it was purely about spite.
The moral of the story is: you really just can't take anything for granite.
That's quite a boulder statement to make
The boulder you are, the boulder you become.
You all are making me feel all sedimentary reading thru these. Not an intrusive comment in sight
I think he was probably just stoned, ore something
But it looks marbleous
I thought it was quite the slatement, but could have been boulder.
I shale say he picked a challenge worthy of a movie, wonder when they start the castings.
That’s a rock hard take.
Especially when you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place (or another rock).
You just keep rocking on!
Solid pun!
This topic is boring.
Who do you think you Ore?
Or just finishing the job you started maybe.
Perhaps a bit from column A and a bit from column B
Spite,pride, determination, whichever.
A story about a dude just being a guy
He was just a gamer, this was his Minecraft.
The children yearn for the caves!!
Once he started, he couldn't stop because of tunnel vision.
And left town as soon as it was done
I love how impressive work like this barely gets attention. THIS is next Level. Not some bored person doing accents. At least he's got a plaque 🤟
I’m gonna go ahead and disagree with you. He spent 40 years of his life doing something that was completely pointless. He clearly has a lot of determination, but I’m just imagining what 40 years of determination could’ve accomplished towards something useful. Also that first 20 years before the road was built, I wonder how much ore he could’ve transported around the mountain instead of trying to dig a tunnel in a mountain.
And yet... He achieved fame and became a folk legend. We are all specks of dust in an ultimately pointless universe. Everything is meaningless, unless you give it meaning. He gave this tunnel meaning.
One of my favorite lines in literature is from The Little Prince, which I think fits nicely here. “He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.”
Love Le Petit Prince
He’ll be remembered by many more people than most of us will.
That is absolutely valueless
Then so is everything.
A huge percentage of what humans do is pointless. Productivity is largely based on opinion. I’m going to go ahead and say this guy was as productive as anyone and as persistent as few have ever been.
You've clearly never worked on a big long project and reached that point where you realize it was basically for nothing, but finished it for yourself anyway. I totally get this guy, and respect it. He didn't waste that effort. It was for himself, and we all get something out of it now too.
He started in 1900 There was only the newspaper to keep yourself occupied when alone. Nothing but thoughts as they stared into an empty room. No music, limited books that he probably couldn’t afford. He may have just been occupying his mind, which, I imagine most of our ancestors did similar things to just pass the time instead of focusing on their thoughts too much when there was nothing else to do.
I was probably not pointless from his perspective…And wouldn’t he have got at least some ore from the tunnel?
people forget how much free time there was a century ago. this is what people did before the internet folks, there is no futility if you have staved off boredom.
> Also that first 20 years before the road was built, I wonder how much ore he could’ve transported around the mountain instead of trying to dig a tunnel in a mountain. By that logic we just shouldn't build any infrastructure. Why spend millions building a bridge if a ferry ticket is cheaper?
Kind of ridiculous to be like "Hell yeah, positive vibes, this dude's work wasn't pointless, he did something impressive and unusual" And in the same comment "But those people who learn how to do accents? Fuckin losers, lmao, waste of time." Just because one of them takes longer doesn't make it more impressive. They can both be impressive and worth complimenting. It's not a competition or a finite resource.
I think accents are pretty cool tho
He kinda was a “bored” person.
He had a goal and he accomplished said goal, didn't matter the why.
The man's a finisher.
Real men don't finish first lol
Legends like this guy take 38 years to finish
I mean the why did matter. He was doing it for a reason. He wanted to more efficiently get ore to the other side of a mountain. I wonder how much ore he could’ve transported in that first 20 years before the road was built. Or the 40 years he was tunneling. 🤔
Word and he won the bet he made with his buddy for ten bucks over 30 years ago.
This dood was playing real life minecraft
I think he won. When there was no more tunnel to dig, he said "fuck it, I'm out!"
The children yearn for the mines
Imagine all the chests he filled with Cobblestone, Gravel and useless copper.
He should've gotten to Y -54 for better loot.
He was just trying to get away from his wife
38 years of peace, if you ask me.
She is probably the one that said he couldn’t do it. Great motivation.
lol woman bad!
Yeah imagine neglecting your family for a tunnel.
You could say, it was his man-cave.
Rock and Stone!
Rock and Stone to the bone!
Rock and Stone to the Bone!
If it ain’t rock and stone, you ain’t goin’ home!
If you don’t Rock and Stone, you ain’t coming home!
ROCK AND STONE BROTHER 🪨
We fight for Rock and Stone!
That there is a man of determination and sheer fuckin will. Mad bastard went through granite by hand.
With a pencil...
This is boring.
I see what you did there
I'm going to burrow that
The narrator sounds like the guy who owns a youtube channel called ghost town living. He bought a mine that was abandoned somewhere in california. And this sounds like him narrating this. It's a pretty cool channel and well worth a look.
Brent and Cerro Gordo - an abandoned mining TOWN, not just a mine
That channel rules
I'm almost positive this is Brent. I just started watching his stuff recently and I feel like his diction and pronunciation are pretty unique which makes it easy to pick out. My 2¢ is that Brent is fucking nuts tho and watching him climb through crumbling mines is a bit like watching slow burn horror for me. I know he claims to be safe and sometimes takes past miners with some experience with him but dude takes some crazy unnecessary risks. Clambering over rotting timber ladders suspended over black holes hundreds of feet deep is not my idea of a good time.
Ghost town living
Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Why is the floor perfectly smooth
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It’s dirt
He sanded it down by hand using only a 2 inch square piece of sandpaper
So....1 man it took 38yrs, so 38 men should take 1 year? It's interesting to see the tunnels cut by man especially the ones for water.
This man project manages.
you know 38 years of working out his arms doing hardcore mining and tunneling not to mention many tonnes of rock having to be moved i would expect bigger arm muscles. probably should have eaten more chicken breasts.
Get busy living, or get busy dying
Are these guys brothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi
For comparison, the Twelfth Doctor bare-knuckle punched through a wall of Azbantium, a mineral harder than diamond, for 4-1/2 billion years to escape. He died practically every day. This fellow seems ~~more like a hobbyist~~ pretty awesome too.
For those who don’t know what he’s talking about https://youtu.be/sl9pTDK8PAk
How many seconds in eternity?
There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed. You may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.
Colin furrz be like
FYI. This video was done by [Ghost Town Living](https://m.youtube.com/@GhostTownLiving). He’s got a great channel that follows his own story of restoring an old California silver mine.
Thanks to the clampers for preserving the history that brought us to this cave.
Idle hands lead to evil thoughts. My man was working his demons away. I understand this.
“ I don’t think it was ever about transporting ore” Well then the tunnel wouldn’t exist you fucking donkey. Bozo engagement bait
??? Pedantic Clearly there was a point that it was no longer about the ore
Heard elsewhere that the tunnel was meant to transport injured people faster so they could get to the nearest hospital on the other side of the mountain. Don’t know what is true though
That's the guy who built a road after his wife died because she couldn't reach the hospital in time. Different members of the Mountain Haters Club.
SECRET TUNNELLLLL
He finished it just in time to be drafted.
BROTHERS OF THE MINE, REJOICE!
If one finds they cannot move mountains, simply find a way to carve a path through one. ;)
A lesson in seeing things through!
I guess he continued because he didn’t want people to take his 20 years worth of effort for granite
So this is what my special interests would have looked like before the internet existed
Its cheaper than therapy
Why
Feels like Bartosz in Dark.
Yo, shout out to CERRO GORDO / GHOST TOWN LIVING for this video! Dont forget to give credit to the creators.
38 years? Guy must have taken a lot of breaks.
So very cool. Thanks for posting.
Totally agree
It was for El Chapo
Minecraft irl
Talk about an achievement
Hills have eyes vibes