Hi Ignited & Mrs Coyote! Greetings from Southwest Pennsylvania! Great video! Glad to see coal moving in Kentucky! BTW - I think I’ve mentioned to you my mother was from Irvine in Estill County. Irvine was the headquarters for the now defunct SouthEast Coal Company. Along the Kentucky River is the now shuttered coal wash. There were pits full of the slush I guess you call it from the coal wash. Ugliest and most smelly stuff I have ever seen in my life. The wash and pits are still there.
My Grampa and at least two of his brothers worked in coal mines around there , but I have zero idea where . One of his brothers died from black lung in fact .😢
As a kid, the hollows of Harlan was covered with the smell of burning coal. It was the cheapest heat available. Then here comes oil, it was cheaper, cleaner. Then electric was available, much cleaner, a little cheaper but the heat was a dry heat like West Texas, Arizona. Steel has been replaced by several types of plastics. From guns, plumbing, aircraft, etc. OBSOLESCENCE is occurring. The rock that remains, that is filling all those beautiful hollows, forever entombing the salamanders, turtles, frogs, not to mention all that 'sang,, ginsing, ferns, never to grow in those filled branches. I've never seen ginsing grow on spoil banks. There was a plan to fill abandoned mines with that spoil, too expensive I guess. It was easy to roll that rock off that hill, it is hell to roll it back up. I've contacted a lot of people and agencies with the idea of rail transportation of this rock down to Louisiana, Florida to stop shoreline erosion. One entire train of rock dumped. We could reclaimed all that oilfield damage to all those marshes and swamps. It would save our beautiful hollows, establish another revenue stream for miners, coal companies, railroads, etc. WHAT DO YOU THINK GRAYS KNOB?
Being from Ohio, I can appreciate coal from harlan as I went to Harlan last year and rode the trails. It ashamed that the powers that be have determined coal to be a polluter. Sad thing is we have enough coal for at least another 100 years and now they want to go back to nuke power. We know how that worked out last time. Think of all the jobs this backward think has cost. Tell me what part of nuclear is green, except maybe the glow from it when something goes wrong!
As a coal miner in Eastern Kentucky you have a great video on what's involved before shipping the coal out by rail and truck.
Thank you sir, coming from a coal miner that means a lot.
Great video! I hauled coal in the late 80's early 90's in WV, OH, Pa. Driver in the red KW is an experienced coal hauler.
It don't get much more American than That! Greetigs and thanks from NW PA! God bless
Greetings from Western KENTUCKY....Thank ❤
Thanks for watching Mary!
Enjoyed watching the coal! Dad told us storing of when he used to run a loader.
Hi Ignited & Mrs Coyote! Greetings from Southwest Pennsylvania!
Great video! Glad to see coal moving in Kentucky!
BTW - I think I’ve mentioned to you my mother was from Irvine in Estill County.
Irvine was the headquarters for the now defunct SouthEast Coal Company.
Along the Kentucky River is the now shuttered coal wash. There were pits full of the slush I guess you call it from the coal wash.
Ugliest and most smelly stuff I have ever seen in my life.
The wash and pits are still there.
Thanks Jonathan
Hands down one of my favorite CZcamsrs. I was honored to speak about fire and heater safety in a video back last Christmas.
Thanks Kelly! Hope we can do another video together soon.
My brother lived at Totz for a while before he moved to Cumberland. He lived everywhere. 😂😊
Reminds me so much of my younger days. Lot of this country survived off of Harlan Coal.
If you lived near the tracks seems like there was always a coal train to rock you to sleep at night
Wish I was there.
My daddy sold mining equipment for almost 40 years. 😊
Great tour, thank you. Coal is good.
Keep promoting ky coal and America coal!
God Bless them!
Love the video, thank you
You are so welcome!
Really good video please make some more of these of the coal and logging in your area loved it promote promote !!!!!!!
hi my sister lives right down the road from there her name is Wilma her son name is Jess thank you for sharing this God bless you
Thanks Johnny
I'm enjoying your videos on the coal, We never stop learning! Ray from Long Island, New York
Thanks Ray!
Thanks. You did a great job of showing how it is done.
Thank you
Neat.
I didn't see or hear Mrs Coyote in this video and you didn't say "BYE"😂
Good video, I look forward to every one.
I said bye at the end, but you're right it's just not the same without her!
Awesome video Coyote! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Mitch
Raylan & Boyd.....they dug coal together....
That used to be a fairly common sight in the '70s, but it's getting rare now....
True, changing times.
My Grampa and at least two of his brothers worked in coal mines around there , but I have zero idea where . One of his brothers died from black lung in fact .😢
Great video ❤
Thanks
Go ride the Scrambler for me at the carnival. 😅
I'll see if I can talk my wife into it
As a kid, the hollows of Harlan was covered with the smell of burning coal. It was the cheapest heat available. Then here comes oil, it was cheaper, cleaner. Then electric was available, much cleaner, a little cheaper but the heat was a dry heat like West Texas, Arizona. Steel has been replaced by several types of plastics. From guns, plumbing, aircraft, etc. OBSOLESCENCE is occurring. The rock that remains, that is filling all those beautiful hollows, forever entombing the salamanders, turtles, frogs, not to mention all that 'sang,, ginsing, ferns, never to grow in those filled branches. I've never seen ginsing grow on spoil banks. There was a plan to fill abandoned mines with that spoil, too expensive I guess. It was easy to roll that rock off that hill, it is hell to roll it back up. I've contacted a lot of people and agencies with the idea of rail transportation of this rock down to Louisiana, Florida to stop shoreline erosion. One entire train of rock dumped. We could reclaimed all that oilfield damage to all those marshes and swamps. It would save our beautiful hollows, establish another revenue stream for miners, coal companies, railroads, etc. WHAT DO YOU THINK GRAYS KNOB?
Sad that sure be happening to help run this country!Shouldn't have to depend on other countries!❤❤❤❤
Being from Ohio, I can appreciate coal from harlan as I went to Harlan last year and rode the trails. It ashamed that the powers that be have determined coal to be a polluter. Sad thing is we have enough coal for at least another 100 years and now they want to go back to nuke power. We know how that worked out last time. Think of all the jobs this backward think has cost. Tell me what part of nuclear is green, except maybe the glow from it when something goes wrong!
They are pushing solar and wind farms all around me here in Illinois . We had a coal fired nuclear plant but after just a few years they closed it .
Is this 119 off 75?? I go to 116 on my motorcycle when I’m up that way and cross where I come out at some prison on the other end.
thats clyde and dewayne bennett operation