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The Last Pit.On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. Hand filling.
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2020
- Coal mining on an 18inch coalface with a pick and shovel.
This video shows conditions of work at the last pit in Northumberland.
Awesome video!
Probably one of the most grittiest modern coal mining videos ive seen.
Second video of these mad lads I've watched, I was glued, now that is proper graft. Tough blokes, huge respect for what they do. Thank you for sharing this.
Glad you enjoyed it
That's insane...The amount of work you do for a cart of coal. Thanks for the insight of the work you do.
I can remember working in similar conditions back in the late 70s. Private coal mine in New Zealand.
I worked in various seams in the UK, thickest was 5ft, we had three advancing LW's at Clifton which closed and I ended up at Cotgrave in 1968, seven advancing LW's. Ended in Nov of 68 and had had enough of low faces. Worked other minerals up until I migrated to Oz, where I worked in pillar extraction in a thick seam, then on to a LW producing steam coal for the local power station. 48,000 tonnes a week from 12-14 feet high, three production shifts per day and five days a week. They produced the cheapest coal in the world back then at $13 a tonne delivered to the power station. Now there are mines producing 6-8 million tons a year from ONE face!!
i love reading your experiences over a very long time and across the world, but most of all i love the past, i know little about Clifton colliery, i'd guess it was working for best part of 100 years and around 100 coal miners including young boys lost there lives, you should write a book. i worked down mines and did some dangerous stuff, but now, the square work at the gate ends can give me nightmares, going under the lip, the tight space, the props and girders quickly wanting to start to buckle, the little steel conveyor and generally so many accidents waiting to happen in such a small space.
@@MakeAllThingsBeautiful It was closed on it's one hundredth year birthday.It had one of the first Dowty Roofmaster supported faces when I started, powered by hydraulic oil, which later was banned in favour of soluble oil, fire risk. Power loading was still rather a new aspect of longwall mining when I first started my apprenticeship in 1964, I saw lots of new innovations introduced in the industry.
Excellent Vid... Proper Graft... 😃😎😉👍👍👍👌✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I remember seeing this video, I wanted to save it but I forgot. Thanks for showing it again , It WILL be saved this time.😊
And I thought mining the 30 foot "Staffordshire thick" would have been hard graft 😳 makes me claustrophobic watching this
Respect from a former miner
Please go to the gov.uk website and sign the partition to get the government to review how much they take out of the MPS, asap.
Cannot even Imagine the “Toll” this takes on the Human Body….Thank You “All” who have Committed their Lives “Providing and Sacrificing” for us all….
I've only ever imagined this, first time I've seen any film. My great uncle Jack Roddam worked a narrow seam like this at Sacriston. One day he didn't appear at the end of the shift - lamp not handed in at the cabin. They went down to look for him and found him ok but stowed off - the roof had sounded bad and in his panic he put so many props in he couldn't get out past them. That's the family story anyway.
I think that you are doing Jack a disservice! Stowed off (in our pit anyway) is when you have hewed and shovelled so much coal that you have barred yourself in. I bet the too many props story was a joke, though a lot of close set props among the coal would make the situation worse!
14" seam, unbelievable, every penny earned, even better with the mullet on top.
Cracking vid 👌 thanks for posting, a great insight into the process and life underground 👍
Thankyou. Trying to record it before it's gone forever.
Dark, dirty, smelly and dangerous, still miss it.
Is he down there on his own. Sod that.
coal mine was the best job that i ever had!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still is a great job if you like hard work in a challenging environment!
@@thelastpit2152 here in pa. they shut all the deep mines down!!!!!!!!!!
Same here in the UK.
I have hand filled no helmet no cap lamp or battery on belly on the bottom back on the top no room to turn over
Easy peasy just like that now just 200 or more loads and you have half a train car full
thats fucking hard graft
How was this ever profitable?
Is it worth it to get such a small amount of coal?
Currently 1 kg of coal is worth $.07 U.S. So 600 kg of coal would be $42.00 U.S.
80 to 90 shovel fulls of coal to make $42 U.S. doesn't seem worth it.
That's power station prices. We don't sell to power stations.
@@thelastpit2152 You might want to try Wrong Wall Mining. With the Wrong Wall method the coal is left in the mine and the wrong wall is removed. Once the entire crew gets fired for removing the wrong wall, everyone collects unemployment.
That's hard graft!
@@cal7184 unionize
It is anthracite and commands a higher price.
They should put the tories and right wing labour down there, give them some real work to do to earn their money. From an ex miner 🏴
Put all the lefties down there as well!
Graft
If it is Anthracite coal especially if its a high grade old vein of coal its worth the labor extracting it. The last of the good hard coal really needs to be conserved for future generations to study.
You need a conveyor belt.
We've got belts and use them on longer faces. The time taken to set them up on a short face is generally not worth it.
We've got belts and use them on longer faces. The time taken to set them up on a short face is generally not worth it.
Broken back shovel no lift flat taken on the face up side down you had to take it back of and turn it over bloody graft
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