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Post by spanker on Feb 6, 2012 10:27:10 GMT -5
Friday nights The tax man H.M.I visit Newly qualified u/manager Missfires No ramming Low barometer readings Manholes not fired in advance of switches Timber in pit bottom and face out of bounds Lack of props under bars The 1st weight break Stable holes Fusible plugs Crawley chain breaking btm race Haulage chain on bent face Vent tubes too far back Too much exposed ground cut out The red carpet Carrying stretchers out Rollers running in gummings Tired cable men Tired button men
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Post by rac on Feb 6, 2012 10:33:37 GMT -5
warabart tired electricians mate.lol
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Post by John on Feb 6, 2012 10:57:28 GMT -5
My first pit was belt manriding, all the way to pit bottom, so come end of an afternoon shift, well a couple of hours near the end, belts would stop, both bunkers full and prep plant overloaded with coal.... Bloody long walk out and to top it off, a heart pounding walk up the Stone Head drift, 3/4 mile up 1:4 to 1:6.....Aprox six friggin miles!!. Say no more, nothing worse, except a pub with no beer or no hot water in the showers.....
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Post by spanker on Feb 6, 2012 12:33:16 GMT -5
Ayup rac sparkies were alus tired due to the long shifts dun undergrarnd,but J is right it was crap avin to walk when bloody belts were stood. That was a hell of a drift J at your old Notts colliery.
Trician who only had 2 pins Avin to run darnt railway line avin missed pit bus Belt breaking when on it Swilleys Banging thee socks int morning Trying to get in pit boots that resembled Ali BABA'S slippers No towel Monthly exams ont back roads Cold showers Mice @hit flies in air gate Riding in F.S.V buckets
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Post by John on Feb 6, 2012 13:00:49 GMT -5
It was a pretty old pit, the original owner worked the north side of a major fault, next owners had to sink two drifts down through the fault that runs through the Trent Valley with a throw of about 290 feet or thereabouts to get back down into the Deep Hard seam. One drift was around 3/4 mile long, the other was much shorter, BUT, you didn't want to walk up that one!!! Bad enough walking down it!!
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Post by spanker on Feb 6, 2012 14:45:32 GMT -5
Once when on nights going through air doors to illegally ride the belt and finding belt patrol man at the tension end standing watching gummings on fire.what shall i do Spanker put the bloody thing out we me and don't say owt. Plenty of water and an even distribution sorted it ,all in a days work ( Elf n safety my @rse.) Arriving at the top of drift on me 2nd pass during shift exam having told the button lad to clean the area around the switches to find him with hose in hand spraying water all over the switch gear, is that clean enough Spanker. He was not the brightest int pit but he soon saw daylight and the training officer
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Post by Ragger on Feb 6, 2012 15:07:00 GMT -5
Must be thousands of dislikes. Good topic.
Baths heating broke down :- Lovely cold shower. Coupling AFC chain using reverse power:- Check those fingers. New boots:- Ouch! Paddy broke down:- Long hike. Screeching belt drives:- 120 Db plus. Hearing-aid on order.
Walking up Jubilee drift. Stonedust barriers tipped by "mates" for a laugh just as I was passing under them. Carrying full power bags out. Sap filled props:- It was a B to get hands clean.
Carrying heavy 14X16 arched girders past stageloader where electrician was sweating over a crossword puzzle. (sorry John).
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Post by John on Feb 6, 2012 15:21:52 GMT -5
I only worked on the old PLA Bill, all facework including ripping was contracts. Besides I was an apprentice back then with a Mech/Elec who had a lot more on his plate than a straight forward electrician. Ironically, most of our work was mechanical and I hated it.
I did do a few months under the NPLA from early 68 until I left in Nov 68. Most of that was in my last year as an apprentice so never saw any of the 25 quid a week. When I came out my time I was always on outbye work until I left.
I used to "muck in" with the face crews in NSW pits even though our unions disapproved, including the miners union. That's how I tore my back muscles giving a miner a hand to get a half round bar, (solid hardwood about 18 feet long) out the back of a shuttlecar. I got under it pushed it above my head and ..OOOOOOOO my friggin back. Them things were heavy!! I also took a spell driving a shuttlecar and got the nickname of "Vent tube", I've also cut a few thousand tonnes of coal driving the shearer, pushing over and chocking, which meant shoveling the last three tailgate chocks out before the shearer could cut out.
As an old mate who passed on a couple of years back once said, "The NCB gave us a first class apprenticeship, best in the world, and it also taught us how to be lazy"
So OK back on topic, I HATED WORKING IN THE haulage end of shearers, up to my elbows in oil! I also hated jib and chain changes on cutters, and drum changes on shearers.... Dunno why I took an electrical apprenticeship!!!
I was glad to get away from the Mech/Elec scheme!
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Post by dazbt on Feb 6, 2012 16:25:49 GMT -5
It was a pretty old pit, the original owner worked the north side of a major fault, next owners had to sink two drifts down through the fault that runs through the Trent Valley with a throw of about 290 feet or thereabouts to get back down into the Deep Hard seam. One drift was around 3/4 mile long, the other was much shorter, BUT, you didn't want to walk up that one!!! Bad enough walking down it!! Not very good at maths but at 1:5 for a slope of 3/4mile should cover a rise of 792 feet (264 yards), from memory those sort of figures seem similar to Riddings, Kinsley and Kiveton surface drifts. A 290 foot rise over 3/4 mile slope equates to a grade of around 7.34% which is around 1:13, almost a gentle stroll ..................... I think !!! (If those figures are wrong I'm sure it won't be long before they are corrected
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Post by John on Feb 6, 2012 16:53:12 GMT -5
It was a pretty old pit, the original owner worked the north side of a major fault, next owners had to sink two drifts down through the fault that runs through the Trent Valley with a throw of about 290 feet or thereabouts to get back down into the Deep Hard seam. One drift was around 3/4 mile long, the other was much shorter, BUT, you didn't want to walk up that one!!! Bad enough walking down it!! Not very good at maths but at 1:5 for a slope of 3/4mile should cover a rise of 792 feet (264 yards), from memory those sort of figures seem similar to Riddings, Kinsley and Kiveton surface drifts. A 290 foot rise over 3/4 mile slope equates to a grade of around 7.34% which is around 1:13, almost a gentle stroll ..................... I think !!! (If those figures are wrong I'm sure it won't be long before they are corrected That was a major fault Daz, I can assure you it was no gentle stroll going up..... There's a picture of the other one looking up on the Clifton Colly page, that was the South Main Return that ran parallel with the Stone Head Drift ended many yards earlier and turned left under the Stone Head... When I scan the plans I'll colour them red and blue. Stone head shows 1:6, but there were parts that were 1:4. My guess is they wanted to clear a heavily faulted area to the south east, which left the deep hard seam where the bottom of the drift further away and deeper. But as there was nobody alive who worked on the drifts when I worked there, I have no idea. I'll get a ruler out and measure the drift, but I know it was 3/4 mile long and the return just over 1/2 mile long. My chest used to be bursting by the time I walked up it, and those days I was pretty fit.
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Post by John on Feb 6, 2012 17:26:49 GMT -5
South main shows 1:3.5. The fault at the bottom of the drifts indicates a throw of 356ft 0ins, at the top, it shows a throw of 285ft. It is supposed to surface somewhere west of Trent Bridge in the river itself.
The Stone Head drift measures 2 1/2 inches long, translating to 850 yards long, which is just shy of 1/2 mile long.....burrit seemed like ten miles long, honest guv.. ;D
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Post by spanker on Feb 10, 2012 14:05:28 GMT -5
Don't like url's, is an url an underground road layer?
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Post by rac on Feb 10, 2012 16:15:13 GMT -5
could be-----undermanager,robbin-lyin- swine. ;D
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