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Post by coalfire on Aug 15, 2009 20:57:25 GMT -5
I think I found me a job. I talked to one of my old superintendent and he has some electrical and welding work that needs to be done around a smaller mine that he is running. They are going to work around my fire dept job and school. So, lets hope it works out.
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Post by John on Aug 16, 2009 11:38:31 GMT -5
I think I found me a job. I talked to one of my old superintendent and he has some electrical and welding work that needs to be done around a smaller mine that he is running. They are going to work around my fire dept job and school. So, lets hope it works out. Good luck with the job Lannie, kinda gets in the blood don't it!! |
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Post by coalfire on Sept 4, 2009 12:32:24 GMT -5
Well here is how my first and last day at the new job I had. They change clothes in an old tractor trailer, junk equipment laying around everywhere, 17 water pumps in 47 breaks, old equipment just parked in a crosscut cause they will not buy parts for them so, they just park it. A 2005 joy 14-15 miner that looks like a 1955 model yeah its that trashed, no curtains on the section. So I decided after one day that is enough. I do not know how they get away with what they do or how they even run enough coal to stay in business. The miner had been down for a week because they will not buy solenoids for it.
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Post by John on Sept 4, 2009 14:09:00 GMT -5
Doesn't sound like the place you'd find me dead in Lannie
I recall a period when I worked for Cleveland Potash at their Boulby Mine, when we started to cannibalize gear to keep the place running. Moral started to get low, we were understaffed both on the electrical and mechanical staffs and walked off the job one morning. We had a new mine Manager at the time too. He called us all into a meeting to thrash out what the hell was going on. This was a mine that employed getting on for 1000 men underground. Towards the end of the meeting he could see what our problems were and told us some butts were going to get kicked in management for not keeping him appraised of the spares and staffing issues. Although I will give that company their dues, they had been advertising for skilled engineering staff continuously for a couple of years.
Within a couple of weeks, I could go to the underground stores and write out a requisition for parts and get them! Moral started to improve again after that issue.
But the most backward coal mine I have ever worked in didn't fit the description you just painted, at least they did overhaul their machinery every so many thousand hours in the surface workshops. And we had a rigid planned maintenance scheme in operation carried out on nightshifts.
As an electrician my duties on a production district were to examine all my equipment at the beginning of the shift, make sure all fasteners were in place and tight, all gaps on FLP faces to specs, test the E/L circuits once a shift. (ground fault protection) Check all trailing cables for defects and sign that all were in a safe working order. Our maintenance was planned, weekly exams, monthly exams, six and annual exams. Thats external done each day and week, semi internal, internal and full internal exams of equipment, all had to be signed that the exams had been carried out as per the companies planned maintenance scheme on "approved" forms as laid down my the coal mine acts.
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Post by dazbt on Sept 6, 2009 18:40:14 GMT -5
Sounds as though it's a coalmine in a pretty sad situation Lannie, but whilst it seems to be still trundling along in such a bad condition of maintenance and management it also reads as though there might be a chance of redeeming it. Whilst the safety aspect has to be addressed first and foremost it does give the impression that the 'mine organsisers' are aware that some sort of reclamation and rectification is required and is also possibile, hence the offer of a job to someone such as yourself. Might well be worthy of a 'calculated risk investment'.
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Post by John on Sept 6, 2009 20:30:29 GMT -5
Sounds as though it's a coalmine in a pretty sad situation Lannie, but whilst it seems to be still trundling along in such a bad condition of maintenance and management it also reads as though there might be a chance of redeeming it. Whilst the safety aspect has to be addressed first and foremost it does give the impression that the 'mine organsisers' are aware that some sort of reclamation and rectification is required and is also possibile, hence the offer of a job to someone such as yourself. Might well be worthy of a 'calculated risk investment'. Eee lad, are thee sure thee were a fitter?? None of the fitters I worked with could express thee sens like that lad.   ;D |
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Post by dazbt on Sept 7, 2009 8:13:16 GMT -5
It wer mi mam's falt, shi med me hev electricution lessens as a nippa, burt mi fatha sed arr wos too smart ter bi an electrician so he got mi set on as a fitta.
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Post by John on Dec 21, 2010 12:15:39 GMT -5
I wonder what ever happened to Lannie?  His site went over a year ago now and these were some of his last posts.  |
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Post by coalfire on Dec 31, 2010 16:10:32 GMT -5
I'm still here, John. Been busy. Went back to the mines for the summer.Worked as an outbye electrician in a low and wet mine. Finished one degree and working on another. Working on my teaching certifications right now. So far, I can teach new and experienced miner training for MSHA (FEDERAL) and the 80 hour underground for the(West Virginia) now I'm working on my Federal Electrical instructor certification. So, been a little busy. Good to be back on here.
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Post by John on Dec 31, 2010 16:14:48 GMT -5
With your site going down, and not seeing you post, was getting a little nervous Lannie. One of the last posts you made was about working at a rather unsafe mine..
Glad to see you back.
A happy New year to you and yours!!
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;D
His site went over a year ago now and these were some of his last posts. 