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Post by kundyhole on Aug 17, 2015 13:14:44 GMT -5
Tommorw morning at 9:45
I have a job interview in a potash mine !!!
Its not coal I know but after 20 years I have the chance to be a real miner once more
Keep your fingers crossed , and hopefully I will be back in the job I was born for !!!!!
Gluck Auf
Max
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Post by dazbt on Aug 18, 2015 0:36:18 GMT -5
Tommorw morning at 9:45 I have a job interview in a potash mine !!! Its not coal I know but after 20 years I have the chance to be a real miner once more Keep your fingers crossed , and hopefully I will be back in the job I was born for !!!!! Gluck Auf Max Good luck to you, szczesc boze |
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Post by John on Aug 18, 2015 7:01:17 GMT -5
Good luck and keep us updated Max.
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Post by kundyhole on Aug 18, 2015 8:05:09 GMT -5
Thanks guys
Interview went well I think !!!!
Production manager sat in and as luck has it he came out of coal before he moved to potash
so we got along like old mates .
Now I have the waiting game at least 2 weeks before I know anything .
fingers crossed !!!!!
Max
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Post by kundyhole on Aug 30, 2015 4:33:10 GMT -5
Well
It's happend
As of the 1st of October I will be back under ground at K+S Kali Werk Zieliz !
Signed a Contact of Employment last thursday and passed my medical yesterday .
I will be employed as a Großgerätefahrer ( large machine driver)and K+S produce
Potash .
Interesting times ahead ;-)
Just have to write my resignation to my present employer (agricultural contractor )
Glück Auf
Max
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Post by John on Aug 30, 2015 6:33:03 GMT -5
Well It's happend As of the 1st of October I will be back under ground at K+S Kali Werk Zieliz ! Signed a Contact of Employment last thursday and passed my medical yesterday . I will be employed as a Großgerätefahrer ( large machine driver)and K+S produce Potash . Interesting times ahead ;-) Just have to write my resignation to my present employer (agricultural contractor ) Glück Auf Max Congratulations Max!! |
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Post by tygwyn on Aug 30, 2015 12:57:50 GMT -5
Just remember to transport the potash not spread it,lol.
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Post by kundyhole on Aug 31, 2015 12:09:31 GMT -5
tygwyn I am supposed to cut the stuff !!!! with a CM I did a bit on Dosco's 2A's and 3's and also websters !! but thats another story  Not sure what they are using here but at a mine visit in the summer it surprised me how clean the pit head was . Will keep you all posted as things develope Any Potash miners want to give me a few tips !!!!!!! Oh yea temp is 42C with a humidity of 8 - 12 % Gluck Auf Max |
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Post by kundyhole on Aug 31, 2015 12:22:16 GMT -5
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Post by John on Aug 31, 2015 13:25:23 GMT -5
tygwyn I am supposed to cut the stuff !!!! with a CM I did a bit on Dosco's 2A's and 3's and also websters !! but thats another story Not sure what they are using here but at a mine visit in the summer it surprised me how clean the pit head was . Will keep you all posted as things develope Any Potash miners want to give me a few tips !!!!!!! Oh yea temp is 42C with a humidity of 8 - 12 % Gluck Auf Max
We also found clothes chafe you when they are damp, with loads of potash/salt dust embedded in them, especially in the crotch area, Jeeze it got so sore it brought tears to my eyes. One of the Eimco LHD driver coined the term "rhino sore arse" I found a cream that relieved it fast, but I would think it's banned now, it contained mercury. BUT, it worked and cleared the rash up.
CPL, used to provide us with salt tablets, and salt drinks before going underground. I was salt hungry back then, I'd empty the salt cellar on my dinner, I just couldn't taste it.
If you're going to be a CM operator, chances are it will be one of the remote operated Joy's Might also be a Heliminer, but they don't make any of the big beasts Joy make.
My leather safety boots used to set like concrete boots in my locker on my day off, you'll probably end up with real smelly feet and athletes foot...Vick will clear that up, wished I'd known that years back!! |
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Post by kundyhole on Oct 13, 2015 12:22:15 GMT -5
Here you go John  One month in !! (I started early ) and loving it You were right about shaving and the boots !! Plus side is I only smoke two packets of fags a week now ,not two a day like I did a month ago .. Max PS- CM is a sandvik as is the road header haul trucks and scoops . |
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Post by colly0410 on Oct 13, 2015 12:50:59 GMT -5
Looking good, I take from your comments about the ciggies you cant smoke down a potash mine. A'll the best from me..
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Post by John on Oct 13, 2015 14:27:25 GMT -5
Looking good, I take from your comments about the ciggies you cant smoke down a potash mine. A'll the best from me..
On checking, it appears Germany has some pretty gassy potash mines, as does Canada and the US. |
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Post by John on Oct 13, 2015 14:31:44 GMT -5
Here you go John One month in !! (I started early ) and loving it You were right about shaving and the boots !! Plus side is I only smoke two packets of fags a week now ,not two a day like I did a month ago .. Max PS- CM is a sandvik as is the road header haul trucks and scoops . |
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Post by kundyhole on Oct 13, 2015 15:13:44 GMT -5
colly0410 , John Smoking is not allowed underground full stop allthough we are not a saftey lamp mine . Methane is there but in very small concentrations not measurable in the general body Our bigest enemy is Carbon dioxide which can be released in huge amounts www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/ks-accident-closure-idUSL6N0HS2WB20131002accident from 2013 Stink damp (hydrogen sulfide ) is also present in small amounts as are NO and NO2 mainly after firing . I belive a few years ago a discarded fag end caused a fire underground hence the smoking ban , I can live with it between no fags and the salt dust I am acctually starting to feel healthy  Max |
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Post by John on Oct 13, 2015 16:15:55 GMT -5
We used to smoke at British Gypsum, seemed odd at first smoking underground, but soon got used to it. Kicked the habit the year I went to Boulby. They also had lots of CO2 in gas blowers, but methane was always present. On a gas analysis, the lab found Methane, Pentane, Hydrogen and ALL the hydrocarben series of gasses, plus CO2, I don't recall hearing of NOx or stink damp, but as you say NOx is found after shotfiring.
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Post by John on Oct 13, 2015 16:19:14 GMT -5
In view of CO2, do they issue oxygen type self rescuers now?
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Post by colly0410 on Oct 14, 2015 8:25:06 GMT -5
Remember lots of other blokes all having their last fag before going down the pit, I've never smoked so no problem for me. I tried to smoke to impress my crush on the school bus when I was 14 as she smoked: I went up to her all nonchalant & took a couple of drags on a fag I'd scrounged of my mate Jeff, then coughed & coughed & boffed up all over her shoes, I thought I'd choke to death. Oh how my mates laughed. Weird thing is she still went out with me, until she caught me kissing her best friend, then the shouting & fuss started. Never touched a fag since..
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Post by kundyhole on Oct 14, 2015 8:32:36 GMT -5
John
We carry the MSA SSR90 self rescuer
It gives us over an hour of oxygen or enough time to get to a place of saftey !! we have compartments underground that give us over 24 hours of life support in case of emergencey
That was my first comment in the lamp room !!
WTF cap lamps have shrunk ,no battery anymore just a LED lamp that hangs on my belt , and the self rescuers have expanded 10 fold !!!!!!
WE have to keep our rescuer within 10 meters in case of emergencey
normally sits in the cab of what ever vechicle I am driving
Glück auf
Max
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