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Post by John on Sept 16, 2011 12:30:09 GMT -5
That sounds great J, I'll be looking forward to that, long lost memories refreshed ........... perhaps. I well remember the first AM500 that I 'met up with' at Kellingley, up to that point I had only ever worked in the thinner seams around Barnsley, the AB. HD Trepanner being the biggest monster I had to deal with, I found it incredible that AB made anything bigger than that or that God had actually created coal in seams thicker than 48". You mean there were seams as thich as 48 inches? I spent most of my working life in seams where 42 inches was considered a 'good height to work' bearing in mind that the actual working height on mechanised faces was always some 8-12 inches less than the extracted height,after taking in the canopy and the ram and base. I also found that the most useful piece of equipment to have at home was a pair of kneepads, since the shovelling of any material was always easier on ones knees. You could always tell a pitworker, he was the one who dug his veggie garden kneeling down.... ;D ;D Seriously, it was hard to shovel standing up after being used to shoveling down the pit....Yes, I did a fair amount, mostly to get warm and secondly because it was boring just covering a face.
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