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Post by dazbt on Jul 23, 2009 14:18:50 GMT -5
Not doin a lot er coilin on ere lately, wassup?
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Post by John on Jul 23, 2009 14:35:59 GMT -5
It's Summer, all gone on holidees!
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Post by John on Jul 24, 2009 13:54:47 GMT -5
On the topic of bunkers, I recall the Butterley Bunker, one mounted on rails, like large rail cars bolted together. Then there was the Sutcliffe"plate belt" bunker . Other than "inseam" vertical bunkers, what other makes were there??
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Post by dazbt on Jul 25, 2009 3:33:29 GMT -5
On the topic of bunkers, I recall the Butterley Bunker, one mounted on rails, like large rail cars bolted together. Then there was the Sutcliffe"plate belt" bunker . Other than "inseam" vertical bunkers, what other makes were there?? Linear or Horizontal Strata Bunkers, where the coal was scraped of a main belt by means of a traversing scraper literally onto the floor of the extended width roadway. The bunkered coal was then reloaded by means of a 'shearer' with extended spiral vaned drum that travelled the length of the Strata Bunker when winding capacity was available. |
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Post by John on Jul 25, 2009 7:55:06 GMT -5
On the topic of bunkers, I recall the Butterley Bunker, one mounted on rails, like large rail cars bolted together. Then there was the Sutcliffe"plate belt" bunker . Other than "inseam" vertical bunkers, what other makes were there?? Linear or Horizontal Strata Bunkers, where the coal was scraped of a main belt by means of a traversing scraper literally onto the floor of the extended width roadway. The bunkered coal was then reloaded by means of a 'shearer' with extended spiral vaned drum that travelled the length of the Strata Bunker when winding capacity was available. That sounds just like the "Winster Manless Conveyor" bunker we had minus the shearer!! We just used a load of blokes with shovels. Last time I saw conveyors without a "buttonman" for a longtime. No never heard of that type of bunkering Daz. We did employ a similar system, although only used on Saturdays at British Gypsum, only the rock was diverted to a delivery point and onto the floor where a couple of LHD's loaded the rock into old workings until the outbye belts and surface was ready to handle the material. Then the LHD's scooped the rock back onto the belts once more. |
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Post by dibber on Jun 7, 2010 7:19:10 GMT -5
Manvers Colliery had strata bunker in an old cross gate.it had a panza 8' up in the air, supported on girders, and every 3rd pan was an inspection pan, with a plate covering the hole operated by two hydraulic rams, one each side & a dowty rotary valve to open & close them
closing each hole as the bunker filled allowed the operator to fill the 80m long roadway, and when shaft capacity became available filled out by a AB16 with a 9' scroll.
That panza caused me more personal heartache, as i was the closest fitter to it, EVERY shift, infeed panza would get fast
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Post by cornirog on Jul 31, 2010 4:14:05 GMT -5
At Asfordby they used shuttle cars that held about 6-8 ton of Coal. The Joy Miners used to cut the coal into a shuttle car, then, If the belts stopped they would dump it in a roadway, continue mining then a second Joy loader would clean it up and load it onto the belt.
They later installed a massive vertical bunker lined with ceramic tiles.
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Post by erichall on Sept 15, 2010 9:00:58 GMT -5
My first post. As an ex-Undermanager, it's interesting that all people who want a natter automatically head for the Undermanager's Office. hasn't he got work to do rather than listen to everybody 'yakking'?
However, joking aside, in my spell as UM at Markham Colliery in N Derbys., we had a strata bunker in the Blackshale seam. Very rarely was this full, but we excavated and installed a 40 feet deep vertiacal pit bottom bunker, and then added the output from 2 other seams. his made life much easier.
Still trawling through the site, and have come across numerous items including Ripping Machines, Wafflers, Trepanners and Shearers to which I hope to add some of my 1st Hand knowledge/experience. and I hope to get some of my queries answered too.
Finished as a Safety Engineer so had a rather broad experience of things, including the introduction of Free-Steered Vehicles from the very pioneering work at High Moor Colliery, N.Derbys. (finally robbed by S.yorks)
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Post by John on Sept 15, 2010 12:40:21 GMT -5
It's been quite an eduction for me Eric, even though I spent half my working life in one pit or another, I'm still learning. What a pity we didn't have the internet way back in the 1960's!! There would be so much more on mining history out here.
As soon as I'm on top of all my jobs, and we are into winter, I intend to finish more work for my Coal, Collieries and Mining website, remove the old stuff and upload all the rebuilt site with tons of new material.
What started off with just my old pit, went to it and Cotgrave Colliery. Then when Terry Blythe passed on I added his site material on Notts and Derbyshire Collieries, now it's grown to all UK pits from Vesting until the closure of the industry.
There are hundreds of Collieries as yet I have no information on, but judging by the traffic on that site now, that there must be a few who will recognize their old pit and send me info.
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