DARKNESS and DANGER! 80-year-old Harlan Ky Coal Miner Tells His Story!

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  • čas přidán 27. 11. 2022
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Komentáře • 52

  • @IgnitedCoyote
    @IgnitedCoyote  Před rokem +3

    We've had some people ask us about the two men featured on our truth about bloody Harlan thumbnail, well this is the one on the left side of the picture, he's still living and he's telling us a little about his time in the Harlan County Coal fields. If you would like to watch that video this is a link to itczcams.com/video/obKQy_mKaXw/video.html

    • @gpt465
      @gpt465 Před rokem +2

      My grandpa's worked in the mines and more of my family. So did my dad for some year's. Thankful is became an electrician out of mines.Heard some sad stories about coalminers. Some gave their lives working in the mines. Some suffered black lung an awful disease. Thanks for sharing these stories with us.

    • @IgnitedCoyote
      @IgnitedCoyote  Před rokem

      Thanks for watching Gp

  • @terrybane6206
    @terrybane6206 Před rokem +5

    Interesting interview. Mining is a tough life and it produces tough people.......Kentucky Tough. Thanks Coyotes.

  • @John-uv7zp
    @John-uv7zp Před 8 měsíci +2

    This guy went through a lot god bless this fella my family left the mines in the 40s and came to Michigan

  • @castlelord8995
    @castlelord8995 Před rokem +5

    Great video. Have a lot of respect for this gentleman. Would love to hear more of his stories

  • @bennyedmondson8919
    @bennyedmondson8919 Před rokem +6

    So many people lost their lives trying to provide for their family god bless this gentleman and prayers for his family

  • @stanblanton7798
    @stanblanton7798 Před rokem +5

    My favorite video you've done. You definitely need a part 2 with this wonderful man. Lost both of my Grandfather's to Black lung. Thank you so much for this video. God bless him and his family anf the Coyote's and theirs. Well done.

  • @doublexl4253
    @doublexl4253 Před rokem +6

    One of your best videos ever I love this old guy I like to hear more from him.

  • @charolettepartin4604
    @charolettepartin4604 Před rokem +6

    This was an AMAZING interview! I so enjoyed listening. I feel for Mr. Mack. I lost my Papaw Milford Partin, several years ago to black lung from working in the mines in Harlan County. My heart breaks for the lives lost in the mines.

  • @roscoeball9233
    @roscoeball9233 Před 8 měsíci +2

    coyota thank you for this video . i could talk to that man all day i was born and raised on crankscreek and hearing him talk about a wilcox miner that stuff makes my day

  • @musclecarmitch908
    @musclecarmitch908 Před rokem +4

    Awesome interview with this great man Coyote's! Great hearing his story of the hard mining life! One of my good friends was a electrician in the mines and the stories the miners have to tell are horrendous but yet so interesting also! Makes me glad I got into the auto industry instead! Thanks for letting him share his story with us!

  • @danielazure275
    @danielazure275 Před rokem +2

    I can relate to this gentleman very well . I had worked at 3 of the places he mentioned he had worked . I have worked coal as low as 24 inches , and it will make an old man of you very fast . He said he wouldn't do it again , well if I had known of the aches and pains I have in my old age , I would never do it again either . Needless to say hindsight is always 20-20 . Very good video , thank you .

    • @IgnitedCoyote
      @IgnitedCoyote  Před rokem +1

      Thank you Daniel. The information you shared here would make a great video.

  • @willieoakley2336
    @willieoakley2336 Před rokem +3

    Thank you for making this video and sharing with us subscribers to this wonderful CZcams channel a hard working man 👍🇺🇲 God bless y'all love this video ❤️

  • @randycampbell8892
    @randycampbell8892 Před rokem +3

    This is one of your best videos Mr Coyote!! Love to hear all Mack’s stories about mining ! It takes a special kind a man to do that work!! People that use the energy from the coal don’t understand what it takes to get that energy ! Really makes me remember my Papaw who worked the mines in Harlan years ago . Thank you for Mack, hope to hear more !!

  • @michaelstrong3634
    @michaelstrong3634 Před rokem +2

    Interesting video, thanks for sharing. My step grandpa was a miner for 40 years in Stonega Va. Reminds me of some of his stories. He said one night him and his crew showed up for work while going back in the saw a ghost . he stopped and headed back out with crew later that night it caved in

  • @clydesmith4394
    @clydesmith4394 Před 12 dny

    Awesome story!!! Hope you all make more.

  • @amyheltonwalker
    @amyheltonwalker Před rokem +1

    Spent some time with my parents today catching up on the videos we’ve missed. We’ve had a lot going on but we will be watching all the videos we’ve not seen. It’s always good times spent watching your videos! Daddy also worked in coal and really enjoyed This interview. He worked a lot in Harlan County back in the 70’s.

  • @gayleerspamer6093
    @gayleerspamer6093 Před rokem +2

    God bless you for this one!! Many of my folks were coal miners..most moved up to Michigan in 1943.

  • @armyvet
    @armyvet Před 11 měsíci +1

    My grandfather Goat cash worked from 1929 to 1982 in the mines here in the sequatchie valley tn

  • @hauntedmoodylady
    @hauntedmoodylady Před rokem +4

    I'd certainly encourage you to visit with him again for another interview..

  • @tonyriley5309
    @tonyriley5309 Před 5 měsíci

    Absolutely great video

  • @scottthomas6202
    @scottthomas6202 Před rokem +1

    It takes better people than me to work in a coal mine. My grandfather worked briefly in a coal mine, got freaked out and quit...this was in the late 1920s....he told a lot of scary stories about it...

    • @IgnitedCoyote
      @IgnitedCoyote  Před rokem

      I agree with your grandfather Scott,, it took one look into the mouth of a mines to show me that wasn't a career choice for me.

  • @dianabrown133
    @dianabrown133 Před rokem +2

    My Dad worked in the miles in Jenkins after WW II. I was a little girl then and remember him coming in from work and all l you could see was the whites of his eyes.

  • @tonyriley5309
    @tonyriley5309 Před 5 měsíci

    So so sorry about his brother

  • @garyallowayjralloway2126
    @garyallowayjralloway2126 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Harlen coal miners are some of the toughest

  • @tonyriley5309
    @tonyriley5309 Před 5 měsíci

    I love old timers cause I’m one great video

  • @hatchetjackphillips
    @hatchetjackphillips Před rokem +2

    Good video!

  • @larryhatfield7372
    @larryhatfield7372 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Ive never worked a Wilcox section

  • @rhondamcclain337
    @rhondamcclain337 Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much for this video I always wondered exactly how my cousin louie was killed in the mines and to here what my cousin mack said told me all I needed to know again Thank you

    • @IgnitedCoyote
      @IgnitedCoyote  Před rokem +1

      Was the Harlan County deputy sheriff Wilson McClain who was killed in Virginia in 1976 a relative of yours? If so we did a video about him that you may be interested in, here's a link to it.
      czcams.com/video/FyTnm2yysGc/video.html

    • @rhondamcclain337
      @rhondamcclain337 Před rokem +1

      @@IgnitedCoyote he was my dad and I saw that video I didn't know our family cemetery was that run down I hope some of my family has cleaned it up

  • @susanwillis9184
    @susanwillis9184 Před rokem +2

    That gentleman looks familiar. I've probably seen him back then.

    • @IgnitedCoyote
      @IgnitedCoyote  Před rokem

      He's a lifelong resident of Harlan so I'd say there's a good chance you've seen him around.

  • @lorrainehoward2722
    @lorrainehoward2722 Před rokem +1

    My daddy was a coal miner. A big rock fell on him when he was in his 20’s. It didn’t kill him. It crippled him though. But he went right back in them and retired from them.

  • @susanwillis9184
    @susanwillis9184 Před rokem +2

    I didn't see this video until now. I'm watching it. I'm thinking about my daddy.

  • @AbuelaG74
    @AbuelaG74 Před 10 měsíci

    Both my grandpas had black lung too

  • @jimmyjohnson5475
    @jimmyjohnson5475 Před rokem +1

    My papaw was killed in mines and my other papaw died with black lung

  • @elizabethcarmack584
    @elizabethcarmack584 Před 8 měsíci +1

    My uncle Bill noe was killed in that mines

  • @mountainjustice
    @mountainjustice Před rokem

    Wow. As many people as have been seriously hurt in the mines its a wonder there is any thing called Friends of Coal. Why would anyone think they were a friend. Maybe its just the coal operators