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Post by John on Mar 19, 2012 8:30:15 GMT -5
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Post by John on Feb 13, 2013 10:22:26 GMT -5
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Post by John on Feb 13, 2013 10:32:01 GMT -5
Certainly makes me wonder what were we playing at in the 60's. The UK had it made technologically with face equipment design and failed to act on it.
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Post by erichall on Oct 3, 2013 7:07:51 GMT -5
The ones who did were the Mining Machinery Firms. Most of today's mining had its origins in the relatively thin seams of Great Britain.. Unfortunately, many of the seams worked were of small thickness. I well remember my first experience of going onto a face of Five Feet Extraction. It's a little difficult to compete with many of the foreign mines where thicknesses of double figures are the norm rather than the exception.
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Post by John on Oct 3, 2013 9:38:41 GMT -5
The only thick seam I worked in the UK was the south eastern side of the Deep Hard seam at Clifton, 5ft 0" 12's, down at the other end of the seam, at Clifton at least, it was about 43" on 41's face, last of our hydraulic oil type Roofmasters.
After that it was down to 36 inches or less at that pit..
Cotgrave was only working Deep Hard when I got there, somewhere around 38 inches down.....
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Post by Mick on Oct 4, 2013 16:06:17 GMT -5
Only thick seam i ever worked on was at littleton think it was about 10ft but was only on there 4 day's doing some roof bolting to try and hold a bad roof up,there were no thick seams at Wheldale or Gomersal in fact gomersal face's were only around 2ft thick .
Mick.
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