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Looks familiar—we're in the backyard, it's just before fall. You all know fall can be warm and cold, can be cold and cooler for me I'm going to Phoenix, look. at what we have back here on this The trail is gone now—they've dammed it up. So much water is coming back here now, okay, this is Turner Mill. Guys, it doesn't even look like Turner Mill right? but there's the beaver pond over there, see, they've They've dammed it up this far. Unbelievable, But luckily, it looks like there's a new trail, so let's follow it. this new trail There are often snakes on these trails, so you should be careful. Watch your step. I've mainly seen them during summer when they're really active. Then. Welcome to the Ozarks. I'm leaving without making a video. This is so So here's where the beavers got it dammed up to. Good job, beavers. Wow. And then we can do this here, as you can see, I don't know. If we got the frost, maybe down here at the creek, but all right, the river there could be a trigger or two around, so now we're back on The regular trail—let me show you what we were talking about earlier. so just in case we had to Go around, all right? This is 2026—if you get here, Turner Mill. And yeah, I don't know what the deal is. Here's the deal. And then here's more of the deal. So you can see that they're simply doing what beavers do. Something's making noise in here. Alright, let's go find out what's so special about Turner Mill. There are two magical things here. One happens to do with engineering. Again, thanks for staying in sync, everyone. We're heading out west soon. I've already captured a picture of the first amazing thing. It's actually called the giant wheel. See it from here, guys? Unbelievable, thank goodness they re-carved the trail. Cause look at the beavers, they really dammed this up, as you can hear, some of the water cause this wheel right here, guys 25 feet from the center out, so 50 feet across. And believe it or not, it was hauled up here in pieces. Drawn by a team of horses and oxen, this is Turner Mill. It's located here in Surprise, Missouri. Jesse Clay Turner purchased the mill in 1891 and normally This is a pretty small creek, right? But as you can see, the beavers have already started building the dam here. Wow, That's pretty bright. I apologize for the camera angle. Wow, there's a great spot. Look how deep it is. Remember there's just a little trickle of water in there. So they've really just found a home for them here. It's a good thing, because they were in our creek for the longest time. You can hear the water. Let's see where this water is coming from, man. I got them to you. We have to go around, though, guys. A village called Surprise. So named because of the village businessman's astonishment with petition submitted by Jesse Clay Turner for a post office, except the government located near the site. This spring, adjacent 160 acres, acquired in 1891. Let's go take a look at this, guys. Let's see what's on it. Let's just see what's here. That's why we love Turner Mill. Mosher, my good friend Mosher. The first time we've ever come out here. He was with me. You could just feel the Spirit of the Lord moving by. There is that karst topography, guys. This is the spring head here. You see the water chasing after it. I mean, it just gathers right here. It ends up down there, you see. And you see where that red cleat is? Really speeding up. So we call that karst topography, right? Karst. So the water is flowing through these rocks. to and through Actually, here's a beautiful picture of the spring even up here the water will sometimes go through uh incredible incredible There's some more. of karst topography All that water's running in here. and then of course it's running out right there Man, I can still feel that spirit and soul right here, guys This is the remaining part of the turning wheel coming. Up here's another spring right here, the water It is abundant in this area—that's the natural spring. water just flowing There's where. that water's coming out Right there out of the rocks and Here is the rest of turning in part of it, yeah, right here in South Central Missouri Do you want to see something special? The water isn't even coming out at full blast right now, look. at the size of that bluff, 150 feet beautiful, you can see that there's an old foundation here That old town, what the hell These are ticks I I think I think Tick season's over there's a dog over there This is clear. Water, guys we'll come back down here in A minute, let's go up there. for the bird's-eye view And yeah, it'll be good. We have a lot of water underneath there. We can see that water underneath the. Here is what er i toppen. We have a lot of water underneath the. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. We have a lot of water underneath there. All right, we're going to the top half of Turner Mill. Definitely snake territory out here. But we're looking and everything would come out. Be on one of these rocks, but these rocks have been cold all day. So I don't think they're going to be here all morning. Okay, here's part of Turner Mill, guys. Let's just go down this one and come up. As long as the water's Good. It's up to You. Thank you for watching! The dog's down There. We're going to show that this rock He's been in there. since early autumn He's starting to change. The trail today It's way up to five. They take care of and enjoy the Ozarks, the very Ozarks, turning hills. The way this water flowed around, They directed the water, used the water, they had a house, a three-story, four-story house, a mill house and they actually had water flowing through there, and they could put their milk in this cold water, and continue to flow in cold water to keep the milk flowing. This is a beautiful, beautiful place.