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Post by Ragger on Apr 9, 2005 5:17:52 GMT -5
Do not disturb. I remembered a tale told to me by Pete Woolley about an incident he was involved in. Pete was an overman (Pleasley Pit I think), and he caught a tandem-lad sleeping (not for the first time it has to be said), anyway this lad was fast on, stretched out on a piece of conveyor belting that had been put over lagging boards and chock-nogs. He looked a picture; he had his helmet, battery, and boots off. Instead of waking the lad up, Pete picked the lad’s boots up, put the on the conveyor belt and watched as they travelled outbye. Pete then continued on his travels. Imagine this lads face when he woke up to find his boots had disappeared, looking everywhere for them. Resigned to the fact his boots were gone he had to travel outbye at the end of his shift, (no doubt he rode the belt as far as he could); but he was the laughing stock of everyone in the pit bottom when he hobbled towards them with thick paper bags wrapped round his feet and tied up with shot-wire. ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) Thou shall not sleep. (lol).
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Post by John on Apr 9, 2005 7:06:10 GMT -5
That was funny Bill, should have done it to this feller...43's face was cutting at night, don't know why as we only used to cut on days and afters. Switch lad at the top of the main gate was a black kid, only ever knew him as "Sunshine", I don't think any of us knew his real name. Belts stopped, switchman got on the phone, old hand cranked things them days! Surface operator said belts were running, so he checked the inbye bunker, 1'sNo5 was running, next belt was running so that left out gate belt. Switchman tried and tried to get someone to answer the phone but no luck, so he kept "rapping" the signal key to get the lads attention...nothing! The Deputy took off thinking the worst! After a few minutes the belt started up and we started cutting coal again. When the Deputy got back he was fuming, "Bloody lazy B.astard was fast asleep, had the first aid stretcher laid out and blankets over him" He said. A couple of hours later the Senior Overman turned up on his nightly visit, "where;s the Deputy" he asked. Turned out he'd caught Sunshine reclining in the same positition! Not too much longer and the belts stopped again, and the Deputy took off down the main gate once more to wake Sunshine up and give him another bollocking! A couple of nights later the Senior Overman caught him laid out once more, this time he called the face up for a spare man and Sunshine got his marching orders, report to the Manager at 9-00AM in the morning was his orders. Sunshine was never seen again, whether he was consumed by the Manager, or sacked, no one knew ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png)
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Post by John on Apr 9, 2005 7:19:43 GMT -5
This was related to me by Roger Williams when I worked with him at Boulby Mine years back. He was an apprentice electrician at the time and worked at one of the South Wales pits. The electric shop had a rat problem, being electricians, electricity always seemed the answer to all problems, or so it seemed! The surface electrician rigged a steel plate on top of some dry wooden blocks off the concrete floor and wired the plate to 240 volts, placed some food smack in the middle of the plate to entice the rodents on to it, then turned out the lights to get some well earned beauty sleep! They were awoken during the early hour of the morning to screams! Turned out they'd caught a big rat! The Electrical Engineer who had inadvertantly tried to pick the steel plate up to put it out the way!
I never did find out what transpired over that incident.
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Post by Clive on Apr 28, 2005 15:02:06 GMT -5
father always blamed it on the gas and mam keeping him up at night (Talking that is). But he could sleep on a washing line. During our presentation evening at school along came father, he'd been on first shift. halfway through headmasters speech theres a sound of someone driving them home... yes father hard and fast asleep. satdy mornings was move up down the dip where father was chargehand sparky. Soon as move up finished out came the cards. father never one for cards so he jumps on belt (stopped) for 40 winks. The lads never told him at done time and cleared off out the pit then rang him up from the electritions shop! Did it cure him? Na One day shift, all jobs done (fathers motto was that a good sparky could sleep as he had the district running correctly all PM completed) So he sits himself in Emco bucket..Just for a minuet you understand. Next news he's driving them home and here's the overman coming up the gate. ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) Walking up to father he picks a small pair of pliers out of dad's top overall pocket, taps father on shoulder... With folded arms to fend off the draught father shudders to life with one eye at a time; 'This yours Derek?' asks the overman holding out the pliers 'Aye' says father puting them in his pocket and going back to sleep again. ;D
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Post by Clive on Apr 28, 2005 15:41:19 GMT -5
One lad had a problem getting to work on a tuesday caused mainly by his membership to the 'monday club' a gentalmans club, of cource, with a very selective membership. After a while it was a case of look if you keep having tuesday off its gotta be goodbye. No problem very sorry ect... Give him his due he tried and I mean tried...Still did the monday club but instead of staggering home to bed he staggered accross the dark moors at night for a couple of miles armed with a sleeping bag and an onion bajy for his brecky. Next morning (tuesday as it just so happned) at 5 am I lands in the cabin puts on the light and there in the baths there he was hard and fast asleep. Could we wake him..... Could we heck ![>:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/angry.png) We shook him kicked him shouted then decided to stuff it and go down the pit out of the road. About 9 oclock he lands in his far end, half hews a tub then falls asleep untill nearly done time. This happned for weeks...result..... 'Just go back to original idea.. have tuesday off'. All happy. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by aardvark on Feb 3, 2008 13:36:07 GMT -5
a deputy once got caught asleep at our pit by the undermanager he was on his own and took the deputies oil-lamp and pinned a note on his overalls to see him when he got out of the pit. when the deputy woke up he didn't panic he phoned the medical centre and told them he thought he'd had a blackout and when he'd woken up the undermanager had taken his lamp. they told him to get out of the pit asap. The UM got a bollo*ing for leaving a man unconcious and the deputy phoned a taxi to take him home
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Post by aardvark on Feb 3, 2008 13:41:04 GMT -5
the same deputy caught me asleep, never worked with him before, he kicked my feet when i opened my eyes i thought now i'm for it he just said move up tha 'oggin' all bed within five minutes he was snoring away and i couldn't get back off
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Post by John on Feb 3, 2008 14:16:27 GMT -5
I don't recall many Deputies or even Overmen who didn't get tired of a nightshift!
One I wasn't sure of when I was about 20, sat down at side of me at the M/G end, I was fighting to stay awake, was down to my knuckles chewing my nails when I heard the sound of someone sawing logs, it was the Deputy, I soon followed suite. ;D
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Post by colly0410 on Jul 18, 2018 16:56:16 GMT -5
Overman said "What did I say would happen if I caught you asleep again?" I said "well if you can't remember how do you expect me to?"
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Post by smshogun on Sept 9, 2018 20:53:09 GMT -5
We had an electrician called Scott, he worked all the hours and did all the overtime going and everyone wondered how he did it, he often disappeared for several hours and nobody could find him and people assumed he was doing his rounds on nights as sparks covered several headings and often roadways, and many just assumed he was at the back of a gearhead, asleep.
Scott wouldn't answer any questions and reading his reports suggested he was doing some rounds and checking everything until one day when they were transporting chocks already built up, inbye; as they prepared for this large transportation job they lifted an extended belt jib and dinted under it to lower the rails to get the chocks under they found insufficient clearance with one of the transformers and decided to move it back further into its hole at the side of the roadway as there was clearance at the back. This was sat on a girder bedframe of 12" X 8" girders and at the front it had a build up of dirt so you couldn't see under it and as they cleared the dirt away they got the shock of their lives, in this bedgirder assembly was built a set of runners from the monorail on which they fitted trailing cables, these had a set of boards bolted between them using the holes drilled into them, this has Bondina on top of it with brattice cloth nailed over it to stop the oil coated bondina from getting onto his overalls, there was even two pillows made from sack bags stuffed with other sack bags and neatly folded blankets from the first aid box.
Scott climbed over the transformer, pulled out his bed on its bearing runners, got on it and covered himself with the blankets and spent most of his overtime on time and a half, sleeping in comfort.
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Post by colly0410 on Mar 9, 2019 13:01:37 GMT -5
Overman said "I hope I didn't just catch you asleep?" I said "so do I Boss, so do I!"
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Post by merlin on Apr 27, 2019 15:07:36 GMT -5
when we use to work sat mornings in the 50s there was a young lad always sleeping one sat he was missing so the manager called a search party they found him six o clock on a sat night sleeping in a veeentilation tube
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