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Post by John on Feb 5, 2007 22:06:30 GMT -5
I was just thinking back on some of the films during my training during the 60's.
Was there one called "The Anderton Shearer Loader"? Planned Preventative Maintenance? Breakdown on then a face number, about a breakdown on a Meco Moore Slicer Loader. I'm sure there was one on winders. Manriding underground? Come on fellers, enlighten me!
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Post by limey on Feb 7, 2007 9:12:53 GMT -5
I remember one where a chap goes into a shearer - then there is a shot of a severed leg going down the face conveyor! I think we all laugehed - not the response we were supposed to give!
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Post by John on Feb 7, 2007 9:17:04 GMT -5
That must have been one of the safety films. Wow there were hundreds of those movies and from what I hear, they just went to the rubbish tip!
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Post by Clive on Apr 13, 2007 17:53:08 GMT -5
I remember the leg one. Wasnt he riding the AFC and he got his wellys caught in the flights. Such a scream up when he came to the tail end and a welly with a stump camer up the stage loader. I wondered at training school (old Boston) if they wernt trying to frighten us away from the face.
I was talking to someone a bit since and they remembered the loco driver who couldnt be bothered to walk round the loco and...a million mine cars to open the air doors. The loco set off at a roll and squashed him in the doors. Then there was the one 'dont lean out of the cab when driving'. He did (surprise) and got his yed stuck in the air doors... I'll never forget that hement bursting and his yed like an egg....Oh by the way even 20 years later I always followed that advice...and always put the hand breake on the loco. So I suppose they did work
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Post by shropshirebloke on Feb 22, 2008 16:21:03 GMT -5
I only remember one - but then again, our training hut had got a knackered 16mm projector, and I (one of the trainees) was called out immediately after the first film when a lump of coal hitting the door (thrown by the engineman a few yards away) led to our training bloke telling me that I'd got to report to the Training Officer at the main site a mile or so down the lane. After making a few jokes like "they've recognised my true abilities and are going to make me straight up to Overman", while thinking I'd committed some awful mistake and was going to get the sack (with a second kid on the way), I set off down the lane to my appointment with "Doddy". Kindness itself, he told me very quickly that my Dad had been taken seriously ill, then refused to let me leave his office because he knew my kid brother wouldn't be coming to take me to the hospital for over an hour, and he "wasn't going to have me breaking my leg running to the baths".
All I'll say about the next few minutes was that I've worked for organisations since that pride themselves on their "Human Resources" skills, but I've never come across anything to match the simple human decency that I was shown that day and afterwards (my Dad died two weeks afterwards having never regained consciousness after suffering a brain haemorrage - 45 and fit as a butcher's dog - life's ***t sometimes).
I nearly forgot why I posted on here - the film was called something like "Safe Haulage" and started off with a haulage team starting off with a journey on a rope haulage. Meanwhile a bloke is sitting down at the side of a roadway and settling down to his snap, with his feet in between the rails. After a few closeups of haulage crimes (no side chains, Warwick Girder pegged up), there was a closeup of the journey coming off the rope, followed by the bloke looking up, accompanied by a rumbling noise, with a final shot of a couple of severed legs spurting blood.
I always remembered the film in graphic detail because of what happened afterwards.
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Post by John on Feb 22, 2008 19:11:27 GMT -5
Some of the first aid training films were gory! I recall mid summer at the training centre, all windows screened to prevent light distraction and having first aid lessons with a real gory movie, must have been 200F in that old Nisson hut!! It was the area Medical Officer who took us for these lessons too, a real Doctor! He could swear as well as any tail gate ripper too!
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Post by inbye on Feb 7, 2009 7:13:10 GMT -5
I can remember the one with the leg on it's way down the Panzer, also the one with the bloke getting his legs chopped off. There was another, with a lad on supplies. He was a trainee, stood in front of a Pikrose haulage, with the rope running. He was letting his boot trail along the moving rope, when along came a loose strand, went thro' his boot & pulled him into the drum. Followed with the usual ketchup covered stump, etc. Must have worked tho', always had a healthy respect for wire ropes.
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