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Post by plantfit on Dec 10, 2007 15:14:22 GMT -5
Ayup all,
Paid a visit to above museum last week, well worth the trip to Wakefield, saw all the machines you guy's talk about so I feel a bit more informed, also saw the comparison between Board and Pillar and longwall faces, wooden props and modern roof supports. good food, great staff, loads of information and one and half hours underground all for free. everyday stuff for your guys but a good insight to the industry for me and others like me to see what you had to put up with. No wonder you had a great sense of humor and camaraderie
Cheers
Rog
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Post by John on Dec 10, 2007 21:40:23 GMT -5
Ayup all, Paid a visit to above museum last week, well worth the trip to Wakefield, saw all the machines you guy's talk about so I feel a bit more informed, also saw the comparison between Board and Pillar and longwall faces, wooden props and modern roof supports. good food, great staff, loads of information and one and half hours underground all for free. everyday stuff for your guys but a good insight to the industry for me and others like me to see what you had to put up with. No wonder you had a great sense of humor and camaraderie Cheers Rog Roger, if you go to the NCB boards, you will find some links for Youtube, in those you will see NCB training films taking you actually underground and see exactly what we worked on and the actual conditions we worked in. |
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Post by Ragger on Dec 12, 2007 8:16:14 GMT -5
Ayup all, Paid a visit to above museum last week, well worth the trip to Wakefield, saw all the machines you guy's talk about so I feel a bit more informed, also saw the comparison between Board and Pillar and longwall faces, wooden props and modern roof supports. good food, great staff, loads of information and one and half hours underground all for free. everyday stuff for your guys but a good insight to the industry for me and others like me to see what you had to put up with. No wonder you had a great sense of humor and camaraderie Cheers Rog Roger, if you go to the NCB boards, you will find some links for Youtube, in those you will see NCB training films taking you actually underground and see exactly what we worked on and the actual conditions we worked in. Hi. John, I wouldn't say exactly what we worked in. Although the films are great to watch, the places where these films were taken probably had good, top roof and sides. It was the same when visitors came to look around the pit, they were never taken to places that were rough, and we all know there were plenty of rough places in every pit. Still thanks for those links mate, they bring back loads of memories. |
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Post by John on Dec 12, 2007 11:00:01 GMT -5
Very true Bill, wouldn't do to take visitors into areas of danger, even with all the training and experience we had, those areas needed extra caution.
When we "lost" the longwall at Angus place due to severe geological problems, the only visitors allowed up there were experienced mining engineers to assess the problems. It was a mess and I refused to go on the face side during the rehabilitation of the face. We lost several weeks production while the "experts" pondered the problem.
Even some NCB longwall mining engineers were flown out to see what their expertise might yield. All they said was "It's a mess, we've never seen anything like this and can offer no guidance" ( The words were a little stronger than I posted btw!)
I've also seen a new trainee panic due to floor bumps in a pillar extraction panel, not a wise thing to do with shuttle cars coming and going, the poor feller nearly got run over!
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Post by limey on Jan 2, 2008 9:36:47 GMT -5
I remember one time at Donisthorpe we were due to have some visitors on the face (it was a "training" face) that included several ladies. The training officer visited the face about four times the week before to remind us to watch our language when the visitors were there! I don't think I ever saw the training officer on the face except for that week!
Of course, he needn't have worried, we didn't swear, did we?
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Post by John on Jan 2, 2008 10:52:53 GMT -5
Don't forget the other instruction too Eric!! Make sure your all attired respectively.. In conjuction with several of the crew who always had broken flies on their trousers or their family jewels hanging out of a large hole in their trousers. ;D Some rather revolting sights could be seen while crawling up a low face!  |
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