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​@@johonassYou think it's fucking funny?

natural gas combined cycle turbine power generation?

I worked in the mines but id hate to do your job shew i dont like heights

There are good and bad memories in the coal mine 👍

@@tonyalbrecht7169 I agree with you on that, I spent many years working in the minds, both coal and hard rock. The bad time during strikes and when you lost a fellow miner to a roof fall or explosion. The mine I worked in back in the early eighties had a power center explode and killed seven fellow miners three of which were very good friends. Its a hard life but I raised a family of five kids and put four of them through collage on those wages. Are you a miner as well? Stay safe thank you for replying !

I worked in a deep underground coal mine 650 to 850 meters deep for the recovery of materials from old mine tunnels in the 1970s and 1980s. We were lucky a few times, but then things went wrong.

@@tonyalbrecht7169 The last coal mine I worked in the first level was in C seam, there was a slope that dropped down into B seam that particular seem went towards and old mine that closed due to a fire in the early twenties. That B seam followed to the old workings about 2 1/2 miles. We used diesel pickups for our man trips to go in and out of the mine. We had about 3000 feet of overburden above us in B seam, which caused some very big bounces. One night on graveyard shift it bounced so hard it picked up the back of the miner and moved it a few feet.

Or the first caves of a longwall startup.

and methane inevitably

Was the roof fall the cause of your disability? I am planning to work for the rods underground in WA

Mines are rough on the body. The pressure is something that’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t experienced it first hand. And then you have “bumps” which are a beast of their own

sure did

Good pickup mate! Dangerous with the coal dust

sounded like roof bolts popping.

@@5695qI think they put a lot of cable bolts up. It’s pretty cool in person

Timber Faller and/or Logger have a much higher mortality rate than any of those occupations.

Thanks so much brother for the info. As I am planning tp step in this path

Stupid comment..More dangerous than being Airborne Infantry.Tell that to my buddies lost in Korengal Valley etc..Ever lost hundreds of men you knew in your career???I know it’s dangerous but we expect to die.Its been times I rather be dead than to think about what we’ve done for “our” country

Looks like 2 MRS machines holding the roof up

On a “pillaring” retreat section, the air moves forward through the gob into bleeders. I would suppose that when the roof collapses, it caused more of a suction effect rather than blowing back.

The air is heavily suction in to the collapse. Point

First when coal falls the air around the fall gets blown back creating a void around the fall, thus air after blown back gets sucked in

from 80 to 88 I worked at Coal basin Mid Continent Dutchcreek mines #1, 2 and 3

There’s no way to honestly explain it. We’ve had it bump so hard that it would knock the power all the way outside from 14 miles in. Then you go and start digging your fellow miners out of the dirt from the bumps 😂 but it is pretty dangerous, had a miner get killed in a bump, but more from the rib pinning him against a car

@jnp284 wow. Nobody got seriously hurt where I was. I got "sconed" a couple of times. Slabs of coal dropping from the roof. The mine was very gassy though.

Just another day lol

I lived a mile from Shoemaker as a kid. Got to see the Silver Spade from a hill one late summer in the 90's or early 00's. We were at Stumptown and I ran up on the hill behind the campground. In the middle of the night it was like watching a dinosaur lit up, chewing away at the earth.

Nice, mostly all I ever worked was low coal. Was only one Consol even close to where I lived and it was a couple hours away. Buchanan one was the name of it.

That would be due to ventilation. All the air is moving towards the “gob” and when the roofs collapses, it’ll blow out of the gob towards the miners but with so much force pushing back from ventilation, it forces the air back towards the gob creating a “sucking” effect.

@@jnp284 That is super interesting, thank you! That must be some insane ventilation equipment

Yeah leaving too much is worse than taking too much at times. Especially when it starts riding back. That sounds like a good one there. Seen some high coal sections do that. Plus on that riding back, you get that bumping and I’ve had it kill the power all the way outside

Worked there

I wish I had a video of a big fall, sure did see many of them.

In a way, yes. It’s air sucking back into the “gob”

It’s definitely not for the faint of heart that’s for sure lol. I’ve seen several red hats get brought to the section and go right back out.

We didn't allow anybody in extraction until they had at least 18 months in the face first. An old deputy told me not to run unless he was running. Lol.

Yeah piss on that. I’ve been out of the mines almost 5 years now and was making more than that then. Most mines in my area are paying experienced miners around $36 a hour and $15k bonus per year. Not unless that’s for a red or green hat, then it might possibly work for a young adult to get a foot in the door. Thanks for watching!

Yup. Nobody is allowed in there. Plus any gasses produced by the body decoposing are naturally occurring in an underground coal mine.

It’s from the roof bolts and plates breaking.

I knew a boy that went in a mine that hadn’t had a fan on in 30 years to steal copper and got in bad air. Mine rescue couldn’t find him. It’s been about 8 years n he still in there. He was 25 at the time.