I'm so glad you point out the necessity of checking not only your load straps and chains but also your vehicle condition during the trip. So many people don't have the commonsense to think this way. ❤️👍🇺🇲

I hope Dave Sparks truly appreciates having such a valuable employee

Score man! That could have cost you a bundle to get those parts or even just to get the steel to make them would have been several thousand dollars! I bet Dave was happy that you were able to find all those chains, and the Yankum rope! I bet that was a thousand dollar rope!

Nice tidy up. Shame so few people do clean up after themselves. More people should also re-check load security once some bumping around has helped things settle

Alan, I laughed at the end asking people not to hit dislike and just move on. All your videos are really fun to watch and you have a great outlook on life and a good sense of adventure. I'd be surprised if anyone hit dislike on any of your videos. I'm looking forward to more videos on the build of your fortress!

A thumb recovery turned into a extra 2 grand in recovery gear found ,Alan your a good dude to have around God bless and stay safe out there.

Alan you are the best Wizard I know! Be careful always !!

You crack me up when you do your commentary to your videos. I am also glad that you check, double check and triple check your equipment every time you stop or change surfaces. You never know what your going to lose and cause an accident without even knowing.

Nice work Allen, and good score. Its great to see you living the dream, take care of yourself.

Alan is a good all around man that can virtually do anything right on Alan thank you for sharing

As always excellent ‘teaching moments’ with a hard working experienced expert, which Alan gives 🎬🥇

Loved this video. You are the Mcgyver of heavy equipment! I was so happy that NOTHING MAJOR went wrong. You have been through enough! Thank you for taking us along on your adventure!❤

Nice that you were able to get that thumb and I know you will be able to get that on you machine and put it to use. I love the views of Utah and am amazed how different it is from the east coast where I live.

Hi Alan, good to see you and your channel doing so good. Thank you for the ride along.❤️🙏

Great video, thanks for taking us along. As said before, great employee you are. Seem like a good ole dude. Real genuine. I appreciate your attitude. Keep it up.✅

Great informative video Alan, loved your work on this recovery job. Cheers from Oz

Good job Allen. ❤

You all are great ambassadors of the land, to see you guys cleaning up your mess after the snow is gone is fantastic. Most people wouldn’t give a damn and that pisses me off. Great job, Alan.

Alen you are brave man heading up there on your own but of course it’s nothing you are used to. You definitely found some treasures out there, can’t believe someone left all their recovery gear, chains and a binder along with the rest of their gear behind. Nice job and I’m glad you made made it out of there without getting stuck or running out of fuel. Thanks for sharing your video! 👍🏻

Nice driving and great job cleaning up bonus on finding the extra rope and chains 👊

Alan your some work of art as always doing something or keeping the shop living up to its name with SPARKS everywhere. Loving your little field and picking up those extra goodies. Keeping a happy viewer excited in Ireland M8.

Thanks for the ride along Alan, sorry we dint do much work. 😃 👍

Alan! You need to go to Spark and collect your finders fee for the recovery gear that was left behind. :D

Hey , Always something going on at the Fortress, good on you. You are a prime example of simple motivation and what you can have by just acting every day! After forty seven crop’s, my farming experience would lead me to look at those solenoids on the tilt mechanism, they will quite often just corrode just enough to not transmit power properly and that is from just sitting. Good luck!

Great recovery especially of the gear left behind...man that adds up and it's not good for business. Good job wizard!!

Always love a tease seeing a Raptor lol and great job on always being there helping lots of fun y'all get to have😁👊🙏🇺🇸😎

Alan, oh boy.. you bless us with such and upload schedule and that length ✌🏼

everything is an adventure for the wizard god bless you Allen

Given the places Heavy D goes on the regular, I feel they should probably need to have a couple of satellite phones.

The care you take to make sure your load is secure, and the condition of the vehicle should be emulated by many more people. Safe driving with a secure load is of paramount importance.

Another great video how you keep going is beyond me 😂 your always so full of energy keep up the great work

Love your work ethic. Glad you were able to recover all that stuff. Can't wait to see more work on the fortress.

Good job on doing the clean up , it’s funny how much stuff was left behind. You made it look easy as always. GO WIZARD GO

Thanks for letting me tag along. Best.

Great video as always alan, cant wait for some more fortress builds

Awesome recovery Alan. ❤ Happy you're getting things done with out any sleepy incidents❤nor majors. ❤ Ur great.

Hey Wizzard it would be cool to see a full behind the sences or rather behind the cables of what goes into a recovery start and finish

Hey wizard. You are amazing Allen. I wish I had your energy. God bless ya man!

love your technique for mentally dividing the project into 5 sections.

How many of you are subscribed to the Sparks Motors channel? Great content, and buy Alan's Wizard shirt. I have mine, and the quality is totally wizard!

Like the new Hat.............Wizard, you have found a good home.......You make a good fit.......JB..............

Glad all is well on the thumb recover. Even got a little snooze. Good for you Allen.

Thanks good to see you doing channel I've only just started watching but great to see how things are going at the Fortress and all the repairs done on the hevey vehicles keep it up cheers from Australia mate 👍😎

Nice video Alan, glad you got a thumb now !!

Alan, Love the video. It's really cool that you were able to find a use for that old piece of iron and give it a new home. On the the way out to the area to pick it up and you were talking about not having cell service, worrisome bud. Did you ever think of getting a Sat Phone for your adventures when you go off the grid? Would that work if you were alone or on a recovery with Dave's crew and things went really pear shaped? I see how capable everyone is but that extra bit of tech in your tools or go bags could be a real life saver. I love watching your adventures and the ones you participate in with Dave's crew and can't wait to see more. Thank you for all the content you supply and it's really great how your collabration with Dave fits so well with your content.

Thanks for taking us along !

You sure were out in the middle of nowhere. Great job again Alan!!

It must be frustrating that all the broken down equipment keeps you from working on the fortress. That was nice of you to bring back what was left behind.

I did a lot of that in my younger days thanks for sharing

Great job Alan your videos are very helpful to normal guys like me. I'm 54 and you work alot harder than I can keep the faith and keep on trucking brother!!!!

I dont hit like any KZfaq videos but I like all of yours because I wanna see the fortress complete!

Lookout Mountain in Georgia is the closest Rock City to where I live. Rock Cities are everywhere. Fun drive Allen aka The Wizard.

Hey MtnFortressLabs! Greetings from Vancouver British Columbia Canada! Thumbs up for the thumb rescue vid! Stay hydrated dude! Thanks for all the nice vids! Ride ride ride!

Nice work tightening a chain around that chromed ram!

Allen your a very considerate person. This was enjoyable to watch..I totally agreed with having the 4 wheel drive going down those muddy back roads ..great to see the power wash too!! Thanks for sharing

Wizard! Waste not, want not.....put it to work for your time & effort.....love how you stress the importance of securing the load & doing a simple walk around...an ounce of prevention can put a cluster tuck at bay! Lol! Keep up the amazing vlogs....🪝💪👍🤠

Feels like it's a day trip with you when you're talking in the truck - Love it ! Vickie

Good video Allen you are the man and happy napping ✌️🇺🇸

Can you and Dave adopt each other. I think you're a great uncle to his cool nephew. Really happy he found your fortress and you guys are buds.

That was smart Alan!!! Not driving when you are tired sometimes a quick power nap is all you need. Great vidio.

I respect Allen, he knows a score when he see;s one while 95% of ordinary folk only see junk

Thumbs up 👍 just a thought you may want to get a Sat Phone. You do get into areas of no communication 😂

Always find something left behind when lots of people are involved in a project, well done for clearing up and recovering the surplus items mislaid from the first phase of the recovery! 👍👏👏👏

Good luck.That's what I used to do when I drove up north.I knew when I was 1\4 1\2 3\4 the way there and back.

Good morning brother be safe

Nice to see you repurpose items. #BlessUp

Tnzxs for the video glad you got back safe

Quite an adventure, thanks for a great video

Thumbs up from Pennsylvania

There's gold in them thar hills!

Chains on the box side

Driving makes me sleepy too sometimes. Must be a wizard thing.

Hi there from New Zealand, keep up the good work always an interesting watch 👍👍👍

Very well done young man. My father and his father rescued similar gear like backhoes .. before I was born! Hence your journey gives me insight into theirs .. zowie that's seeing an image that I never got to see. THANK YOU SO MUCH

Thanks for takeing us along.....

I recognize you as a do it yourselfer. You want it done, easy you know just do it yourself. That's good picking up the extra crap. Who'd know, you would. Good man. Sparks has a good employee among the others.

As usual. Lots of fun watching your show and reminiscing about old times when I used to do similar stuff.

If even one young person discovers how to use a ratchet from this video, and uses that knowledge to improve the quality of their life, The Wizard's work would have thus begun.... yet, alas.... :D All kidding aside, I truly enjoy how these videos show what it is like in the real world, getting your hands dirty and having fun. . Using the black mirror to detach from the black mirror most of us stare at day in-day out anyway (at work AND at home).

As always a pleasure, Sir Allan! 😊

👍🏼...watching from Germany . Nice back roads. And beautiful Country ! 🇺🇸

Great job Allen

No need to mention dislikes I don't think. "Like and Subscribe, it's free and it really helps out the channel - and the work we do here at the Gold? Mine" - should do it. Are you doing any mining? Are you building any metal out-buildings as a project? Building projects can be processing centers, storage, workshops, and so on. You have enough equipment to straddle together an operation; all you need now is a gold mine! Glad to see your subscriptions are up to a point where a bit of income will help your operation now. Congrats on 100k!

My God that's beautiful country. It's the only way I get to see it is on these video's. God bless and love how the fortress is coming along and the heavy equipment. Keep up the good videos.

Thumbs up on the thumb recovery 👍

I can't wait to see the video of this attached and working.

Glad to see you rechecking your load.

Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks for sharing!

Hi Allen, I love to watch your videos. You are an interesting guy. LOL. Anyway, i used to be a heavy haul trucker. The best thing to use to lubricant chair binders is with dish soap. If you get into salted roads, it will not allow the binders to rust. If you get rain, it washes them off.

Yes it was nice to follow you on the trip

Thanks for the ride 👍.

Thanks for the video

Good times! Thx for the vid.

Beautiful scenery.

Good stuff as always!

very enjoyable, ty for sharing ur adventures!

Thank you for the video.

Loving the long episodes keep at er

Dave advertises an app that shows you all the roads and paths even where you have no cell coverage!

That was a very good Video. Thank you.