Longwall Videos.

[John]

No idea where this was taken or the make of equipment.

[John]

Rio Tinto's Kestrel mine in Queensland.

[John]

Consol Energy's Bailey Mine in the USA. 45,000 tons a day!!

[andyexplorer]

Excellent vid's John , thanks for putting them up

[John]

May 16, 2015 13:50:59 GMT -5 andyexplorer said:

Excellent vid's John , thanks for putting them up

I'd have loved to have been turning 45,000 tons a day at Angus Place, my bonus would have been around $A1000 a week roughly, a hell of a lot of money in the 1980's. I remember Baal Bone Colliery, a few miles east of Lithgow were on $A1000 a week plus, with bonus when they first started cutting coal near the mine portal. Of course as they started working farther from the portal, the production started to drop. AND that was Bord and Pillar mining.

They got our old longwall equipment when LW7 finished.

We had an industry standard bonus, it went in tiers, once at a certain figure, in our case 9 shears a shift, worked out in tonnage, it went astronomically high, sadly our belt system prevented us reaching 9 shears a shift, we came pretty close at times, but to reach that higher bonus level we needed 135 shears for the week, anything over was "icing on the cake".

Helped pay our mortgage off in two years though!!