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The Last Pit. Hewing coal at Ayle Colliery.
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2022
- Mining coal by hand at a UK Colliery. Using pick and shovel in a low seam to load the anthracite into tubs and timber props to hold the roof.
Memories come flooding back. How I used to see how the coal glistened as we cut coal with the trapanner and the shearer when I worked at Warsop Main Colliery. I miss going deep underground. 2,000 pluse feet below ground 120 degrees two litres of frozen water that was luke- warm within a coupe of hours. I started on the pit top at 16,went underground at 17 and a face trainee at 18. That's when I really became a man you grew up quick, the old colliers taught you every trick in the book and knocked it into your head about the dangers, especially the unseen ones. You knew your work-mates had your back. Yeah ,mining made me the man I am.
Me too sir
Just blows my mind what people do to make a living , I have learned something Thank you !
Watching this can only say I admire the work you do
Thankyou, Ryan.
Hats of to you for keeping the industry alive 💪 I'd love a chance to work down there
We're recruiting if you are interested!
@@thelastpit2152 on site training? It would be a 1 hour work commute but if income balanced out the travel expenses then I'd hand in my notice at work tomorrow ⛏
You'd have to come for a look. Where are you based?
@@thelastpit2152 I'm near keswick, I've sent a message over to your facebook page
Wow real men at work, too claustrophobic i could never do that so utmost respect to the men like my great grandfather who worked in these conditions.
I work at at a U/G coal mine in Australia and it blows my mind just how different this operation is!
Fantastic, bravo. Respect and regards from Newcastle, down the road a bit.
We are on the same river at least!
No this the one I wanted to save . Thanks for showing it again.
Wow those three peice sets are so different than what we had here in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Mad respect , I work in a hard rock gold mine and can say you guys got some balls 😅. Those are some small drifts :0
Thanks Logan, I expect your operation is on a different scale to ours!
@@thelastpit2152 how deep you guys working ? My understanding of coal is usually drifting into mountains or hills ?
We're about 600ft of cover, but most of that is the hill going up rather than the drift going down.
@@thelastpit2152 just checked the website for the mine out. Super interesting. Thanks for the video .
Thankyou Logan, nice to be appreciated!
Absolutely brilliant video Jez, 😊
Cheers, much appreciated!
As a trainee mining engineer I did six months on a hand filled face at Ashington colliery 1968/9/ Memories.
Did you say......Anthracite?! I'm subbing before I even watch brother. Greetings from Pennsylvania, Anthracite Hard Coal Country.
Greetings to you too, marra!
Its an absolute dream jobs, lucky you, thank for sharing such old way mining
Great vid Jez...Looks a pleasure to hew...imagine what it would be like with one of the big picks
Definitely good gannin! Not sure that the bigger picks would have much of an advantage in that stuff.
I'm retired underground roof bolter in a coal mine I got alot repect for what your doing be safe I really like the video thanks
Thankyou, Bobby.
I worked at one of the most dangerous underground coal mines in the US, which was first Braztah Coal, then Price River Coal, and finally Castle Gate Coal, (same mine sold 3 times), Carbon County, Utah. The steep and deep cover coal seams became living hell after one mile of mining downhill, which had a couple of miles shale and thick sandstone seems that bowed instead of relief snapping and breaking off as the coal was mined. This produced dynamite type explosions on the longwall face that was blowing coal straight through human bodies disabling quite a few employees and killing some. The longwall shear continually had the ranging arms blown off. This coal mine (#3) had the Federal Government requiring our mining plan to included military ballistic armor strapped around our arms and legs with full shield bullet-prof amour plated vests and special hardened air-stream helmets. Finally the federal government withdrew all coal leases in the area and classified it as dangerously uneconomical to lease. I have been torn-up in that mine a half a dozen times requiring surgeries of right knee - right shoulder - 3 surgery-fusions of 4 lower back discs - one neck fusion surgery of 3 discs. Learn from my mistake of not keeping any of the industrial paper work from employer - doctors - hospitals - industrial insurance paper work - paycheck stubs from employers and industrial insurance companies. KEEP EVERYTHING or you will be denied all disability pension from employers and unions. If you think as I did that everything should be able to be proven through IRS records you will be surprised with finding out it only works that way for Social Security Disability, with unions and employer private retirement funding companies only recognizing the paper records that you keep, and say that it a sue-liability for them to research employee / employer records because of possible legal discrepancy on disability claims. If I would have kept a complete paper record trail of the coal mining accidents with disabilities that became permanent over time, I would have received a full disability pension with medical from UMWA, but without any kept paperwork I am only receiving a very small partial UMWA pension with no medical. KEEP all records in PAPER and request electronic paperwork be converted into hard paperwork, or when retirement time comes you will be sorry. P.S. You can see there is no weight in this videos mine and the timbering will not hold any weight being that small in diameter as we used 18 to 30 inch timbers that snapped like toothpicks once weight was set on them. Have a safe, healthy, good day.
Sounds like a nightmare. Not a pit I would want to work in.
Me neither.
Man’s work
I love it up north, if my circumstances allowed I'd move up there and work at ayle
Oh wow! I suspect this is how my great grandpa did it in Cape Breton over here!
I'm sure he would have been familiar with most of our working techniques!
Интересно. ☺похожую работу я выполнял. Украина смотрит.
Huge respect to you all for doing this.
Most people don't know they're born by comparison to this.
Bring back coal with better smoke filtration & carbon capture.
Good luck
Pob lwc
Diolch
We have the coal and the technology. Not much appetite for the work these days though!
I’m thankful I work in high coal. Some of our cuts are 14 foot high and about everywhere is 6’4 high. But I work at the best mines in Va Buch 1 Coronado. Only mines with two king walls for about 100 miles
You work Buch 1 in Buchannan county?
Eh oui nous aussi en 1946 en France aux HBNPC nous exploitation les faibles couches de charbon à peu près de la même façon. Mais le soutènement avec ces branches d'arbres était fait plus sérieusement. Les branches ou bois verticaux étaient coupés avec précisions. Hors de question d'y mettre des jeux d'épaisseurs ! Le toit, (le plafond) était beaucoup fracturé et les éboulements étaient fréquents.Maurice Charles Dupont , Mineur aux mines de charbon en France dans le Bassin -Nord Pas de Calais.- de 1946 à 1982.
Respect !
The best years of my life 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
This is old school mining here hahaha almsot red hat work. Hats off to ya buddy I like my king wall and section work
Good honest hard work/ the coal miners.⛏️⚒️
Nice bit of filming/editing Jez. It looks quite soft…. Good gannin’?
Had to make myself look good Davy.....
Very impressive. I don’t think I could work in such a low seam.
Is it bord and pillar ( Stoop and room in Scotland) that you work the coal?
What material do you have on the roof and pavement?
Cheers
We don't leave pillars of coal in as a rule, but pack the goaf tight with stone fired from the barrowway. Bords are driven 11 metres apart. The floor and roof are shale.
Awesome video and editing. Love the small 3 piece timbers sets in the gangway. Drift style mine? Who is your primary consumer(s) if I may ask. I knew Ireland had anthracite, but that was it. Stay safe man.
Drift mine, most of our coal goes for domestic use. All the best!
@@thelastpit2152 I "dug" into your other videos after I posted this & saw the entrance. Love the small shelter placed over it. Smart with keeping the weather off of it. Stay safe. Subbed!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories It is a good day to be a Pennsylvania anthracite nerd.
@@charliemcgee9803 hell ya it is. 😉
@@AnthraciteHorrorStoriesHowdy there! Fancy meeting up with you here! I subbed too. Love all things about mining and history of mining.
My mate Jimmy Marley filler and John Ford putter 90 tubs a shift world record broken again within a few days later.
Which pit Christine?
According to Google, a half ton of anthracite coal (one ore car load) is worth $306 (USD). Hard, back-breaking work but at least he's getting paid good money.
Our wages aren't bad, but if we were getting that much we'd be driving around in Rolls Royce!
Overhead is high too. Our anthracite prices soared because of inflation and the cost of diesel. Coal was $220 a ton last year (2,000 lbs.), now it ranges from $380 to $500 per ton! Was $110-130 a ton here in the US in 2007 when my parents bought an automatic coal stoker I recall....the costs of mining are extreme. Powder, licenses, diesel, royalties paid to land owners or mineral rights owners, etc.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories £310 pit head price here. The Welsh is even dearer!
Is this place still operating
Yes, still going strong.
Can you make a full vlog of the mine ?
We can't really do spontaneous filming because safety has to be the priority. Some planning is necessary before shooting.
Da hatte ich zu viel Angst, jeden Moment lebendig begraben zu werden. ☠
How does your anthracite compare to Welsh anthracite when burn on a glass door stove.? Thanks
Ours burns hotter but quicker, with a bit more ash.
How do yous advance after the 5 metres from the road way?
We blast the stone ahead of the barrowway and advance it. Watch the "Shifting stone" video, it shows the second part of the process. We are working on a video that will show the first part.
@thelastpit2152 Thanks, lowest seam I worked on 3'retreat longwall face at florence colliery 1970,man what you do is a tight squeeze, cheers from 🇦🇺
Pity they never had a roof bolting system in instead of using timbers I'm not miner which is better
I don’t think those 6by 2 would support the roof
Já někdy v roce 1964 důl Alexandr.
No wonder their backs,knees and breathing is fked,after doing this for 25,30s+.
Back, knees and breathing ok so far.🤞
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That’s the hard way to mine
Hard,but simple, you get out what you put in and you're not dependant on technical systems that are prone to failure!
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I bet that coal goes for a premium price it's clean as a whistle and looks to be high grade
Shouldn't the props sit in a hitch at the bottom?
We just bang them in. Once the weight comes on they never move.
@@thelastpit2152 that's pretty neat. It would be cool if you could see how we mine in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania some day. Hell our first miners here came from the North of England and South Wales. My people came over from Lancashire. Cheers from Pennsylvania.
@@redrobbo1896 If I'm ever in the States I'll look you up.