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Post by coalfire on Aug 13, 2008 9:54:37 GMT -5
I'm out of them Mines right now. I got a job being a professional firefighter. I put my wife through college, she got a job and I didn't have to work in them anymore. I'm going to school don't know if I'll go this fall. I do missing mining. I don't miss having to open up a panel on the offside of a continous miner in the final pushout of a pillar line though.
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Post by John on Aug 13, 2008 10:37:11 GMT -5
One dangerous job into another one Lannie!!
I worked at Wongawilli colliery for a couple of years on the NSW south coast. It was there I was introduced to a modified form of pillar extraction. Perfectly safe as long as the crew obeyed the managers extraction and support rules. Towards the end of a lift, the Deputy would be on the inbye side of the miner near the line of breaker props with a whistle ready to blow and listening to the props talking. I always dreaded that moment when the miner was pulling out and it broke down!! Personally, I'd have left it, but I was never given that option, him upstairs was always watching over me! I did have an SC10 shuttle car have a motor bearing problem during a lift off cycle, but it held out until the end of the shift and was changed out on the next shift, a maintenance shift.
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