Cracking video, it takes me back. I used to love it on the button running the slusher...the handles on the engine was a different story, and it was horrible when the long rope broke mid cut! Happy days!
The last time I would have used a slasher was approximately 1979 on 22s Clown Seam at Warsop Main if my memory isn't playing tricks upon me. I'd had been 18 or 19 years old. Always loved my mining career. Back in the day when men were men and sheep were frightened ! 😊
Keep the videos coming mate, lovely to see traditional mining methods still used today. Hope that business is booming for all involved with Ayle colliery. Hope to visit in the not too distant future, and if all works out buy coal from there 🤞🏴
Clever! Slushers/scrapers are remarkably underrated bits of gear in general. We use them for driving scram drifts off raises; the slusher is hooked to an eyebolt and climbs the raise under its own power.
Hi Porty1119...how did the slusher climb under its' own power?..didn't you have a double drum Hauler?..I used slushers frequently,and the last time was to drive a 1in 2 gradient drift up from the 3/4R seam,to the old Backroad of 7's in the Beaumont seam..almost vertical...It was mighty hard work just climbing up the drift,never mind pulling the return wheel and ropes up,drilling the Caunch,high up as we possibly could..to dowel in the wheel,ready to start loading out from the bottom of the drift onto the stageloader chain conveyor..THAT,was after we had drilled 50 x9ft long holes in a Burn Cut to blast out the roadway and fire it first..what a job putting 14ft x 10 ft 3-piece arched girders in..that was when we were all lean as greyhounds and strong as Oxes!!! ..at 79 yrs old now,I cannot lift my own shadow heh heh !! Happy..[?!!] Memories!! Cheers Bill.
@@highpitwilma Can't say that sounds like much fun! To get it to climb the raise, tie one of the levers down, set an eyebolt at the top of the raise, hook it up, and turn on the air. You'd stop the thing by turning off air at the manifold, and muscle it into position. The raise in question is vertical but usually not very tall, and a level drift is started off it. I've seen skid-mounted slushers that could conceivably pull themselves up an inclined drift, but we tend to avoid driving anything that's too steep for an LHD but not vertical. As you said, it would be a pain! Another mine a few miles away had some maniac's idea of a raise climber - he bolted an air tugger to a platform, set a bolt, and ran with it. Surprisingly nobody got hurt.
Hi David, we have at the present rate of extraction enough coal to see out the current generation of miners. That is within the area we are licensed to mine. Outside of it there are huge reserves which are unlikely ever to be exploited. Glad you like the videos!
Hey love all your videos i hope one day the small scale coal mines make it back to my region is it more practical to use the air chippers than explosive’s in the coal seam you’re working
need a fourth gear on that Box though Jez...be all day filling a tub. Do you still use the state of the art remote operation bailer twine like at Barhaugh?..Great vid
@@thelastpit2152 I've been looking on Google maps at ayle colliery and noticed what looks like another colliery at the T junction just south of clargill burn is that part of ayle colliery and is it still mining ?
You get payed, (quite well), it's a good workout without the gym fees, no office politics and back biting, great workmates and you get a hot shower at the end of the shift. I could go on, but at the end of the day it's a job that is obviously not for everyone. In my opinion it beats flipping burgers for a living!
Eckington in Derbyshire was similar way of mining, and Hayroyds colliery near Huddersfield, went down them both a few times whilst mines rescue training, you certainly do earn your coin and bait, great work Jez and the lads,,😊
Cracking video, it takes me back. I used to love it on the button running the slusher...the handles on the engine was a different story, and it was horrible when the long rope broke mid cut! Happy days!
The last time I would have used a slasher was approximately 1979 on 22s Clown Seam at Warsop Main if my memory isn't playing tricks upon me. I'd had been 18 or 19 years old. Always loved my mining career. Back in the day when men were men and sheep were frightened ! 😊
Keep the videos coming mate, lovely to see traditional mining methods still used today. Hope that business is booming for all involved with Ayle colliery. Hope to visit in the not too distant future, and if all works out buy coal from there 🤞🏴
Clever! Slushers/scrapers are remarkably underrated bits of gear in general. We use them for driving scram drifts off raises; the slusher is hooked to an eyebolt and climbs the raise under its own power.
Hi Porty1119...how did the slusher climb under its' own power?..didn't you have a double drum Hauler?..I used slushers frequently,and the last time was to drive a 1in 2 gradient drift up from the 3/4R seam,to the old Backroad of 7's in the Beaumont seam..almost vertical...It was mighty hard work just climbing up the drift,never mind pulling the return wheel and ropes up,drilling the Caunch,high up as we possibly could..to dowel in the wheel,ready to start loading out from the bottom of the drift onto the stageloader chain conveyor..THAT,was after we had drilled 50 x9ft long holes in a Burn Cut to blast out the roadway and fire it first..what a job putting 14ft x 10 ft 3-piece arched girders in..that was when we were all lean as greyhounds and strong as Oxes!!! ..at 79 yrs old now,I cannot lift my own shadow heh heh !! Happy..[?!!] Memories!! Cheers Bill.
That was around 1973-ish..at Bates Pit in Northumberland in the UK.
@@highpitwilma Can't say that sounds like much fun! To get it to climb the raise, tie one of the levers down, set an eyebolt at the top of the raise, hook it up, and turn on the air. You'd stop the thing by turning off air at the manifold, and muscle it into position. The raise in question is vertical but usually not very tall, and a level drift is started off it. I've seen skid-mounted slushers that could conceivably pull themselves up an inclined drift, but we tend to avoid driving anything that's too steep for an LHD but not vertical. As you said, it would be a pain!
Another mine a few miles away had some maniac's idea of a raise climber - he bolted an air tugger to a platform, set a bolt, and ran with it. Surprisingly nobody got hurt.
enjoyed the archive footage Jez...you not aged a day...yeh that pick sounds a nightmare
How much coal is left there to mine in terms of tons and years left? Great video and channel 👍
Hi David, we have at the present rate of extraction enough coal to see out the current generation of miners. That is within the area we are licensed to mine. Outside of it there are huge reserves which are unlikely ever to be exploited. Glad you like the videos!
Hey love all your videos i hope one day the small scale coal mines make it back to my region is it more practical to use the air chippers than explosive’s in the coal seam you’re working
It is. To get the full potential from explosives the seam needs to be undercut and higher than ours is.
What an agricultural way to mine coal
Poor man's Mining.
Show me a miner or put me on the Longwall!
need a fourth gear on that Box though Jez...be all day filling a tub. Do you still use the state of the art remote operation bailer twine like at Barhaugh?..Great vid
Painfully slow, but heaved a bigger load than Frank's. The pick actually had a fair bit of bat while it lasted, which wasn't long...
@@thelastpit2152 I've been looking on Google maps at ayle colliery and noticed what looks like another colliery at the T junction just south of clargill burn is that part of ayle colliery and is it still mining ?
@@AngloSaxon449 That used to be Clarghyll Colliery. Shut 2001. I worked there in the 1980s.
@@thelastpit2152 could it be reopened or is it too far gone?
@@AngloSaxon449 Pretty much worked out. It is the oldest recorded of the Alston pits.
You could do with setting the mixture on your windy blatter..... sounds like it’s idling a bit high.
That pick is dead and buried, Davy. Only lasted a few months and then the barrel cracked. The ones we use now are much better.🤞
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Bad conditions.
Could be worse!
Seen worse !
It doesn't look ease mind.
Why in 2022 would anyone want to work in a 18" seam lied on there side spadeing coal
You get payed, (quite well), it's a good workout without the gym fees, no office politics and back biting, great workmates and you get a hot shower at the end of the shift. I could go on, but at the end of the day it's a job that is obviously not for everyone. In my opinion it beats flipping burgers for a living!
@@thelastpit2152... Nah I will spend enough time U/G wen im dead...Sunshine and sky Beats a sandstone roof
Your choice👍
@@thelastpit2152 I'm with ya there sir, from a coal miner in Ohio, USA.
Eckington in Derbyshire was similar way of mining, and Hayroyds colliery near Huddersfield, went down them both a few times whilst mines rescue training, you certainly do earn your coin and bait, great work Jez and the lads,,😊
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