My Work Enviroment

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coaldigger

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I took my digi-camera to work (CoalMine) so I could show my wife & kids what kinda work place I'm in 9~10hrs a day. The temp. is 55~60deg. year aroun But it is usually damp & muddy in most places & pitch dark .
This is where it all starts- The Drift Mouth
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This is what we ride in on (about 2 ~2.5 mi into the mountian) - ManTrip
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This is your view going in ! (sorry about the dark pics but it is Very dark in there !)
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On the section with the guy's - Roof Bolt oper. & Roofbolter
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The ShuttleCar Oper (Me)
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The other Shuttle Car Man
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The Scoop Man
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& The Miner Oper.
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Where The coal goes - The Stock Pile
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Well thats my Job, Sorry for all the pics & the knife I carry under ground is my Vict. SAK Recruit & a utility knife & pick hammer !
 
Thank you for the cool pictures and a glimpse into the mine - amazing how low the clearance is! Thank you for helping keep our power and industries running!
 
Low, thats high around these parts, some mines around here are as low about 30" + or - a few inches . That one in the pic is between 5.5' ~ 7' !
We need more miners, not many out there & the demand for coal is increasing but then that just makes me worth more :D
 
Cool pics. My grandfather was a coal miner in PA and I've been down in a mine once, but it's been a long time. I've got a lot of respect for you guys that head down on that hole every day.

Take 'er easy.

Anthony
 
Cool man, where I live used to be a big coal mining town, now it's a ghost town.
(until they build a golf course over the old mine next year:D)
Of course back then it was picks and shovels and blind ponies!
Looks like you work with a bunch of good ol boys, comraderie must be important down there.
 
Are you near Louisa? That looks kinda familiar. Thanks for sharing.
 
Thanks for sharing bro. Thats a tuff job you got there, be safe.

30" in some parts ha, reminds me of my old job in the A.F. crawling inside of fuel tanks on C-130's
 
Hey coaldigger,

Methinks you earn your money.

40+ years ago I worked in a steel mill and one of the jobs I had was to go down in the flues and shovel out the ash. The flues were not high enough to stand up in. We had really short little shovels with which we filled a pail. Then a guy at the beginning of the corridor would pull the pail back, hook it on a hoist, and it was lifted out and dumped. Over and over. When I left there, the new furnaces had flues that were large enough to drive a payloader.

So anyway, I have just a little inkling of what you go through.

Doc
 
I, at 6'7" 280 lbs, would not be happy in that environment for the most part. Nice pics.

What if you break thru a wall and zombies or dinosaurs attack? You need a Busse in a horizontal sheath or something.
 
Dam, that would scare me to death working in a place like that. You more man than me dude. My hats off to ya!
 
It's not for everybody, that's for sure. My paternal grandfather died in his early 50's from "anthricitosis", AKA black lung. Working mines near Ashley PA. I recall the slag piles like mountains, burning whithin. The whole town and everything inside the houses and stores smelled of sulfur.

I hear they finally put out the fires, after a few decades of burning.

It was a erily cool place to live or just visit, and hike up and down the moon like slag piles that went on for miles. Joe
 
Wow! Thats really neato. My company makes some of the parts that go on your equipment!
 
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