Being a anthracite coalminer for the past 25 years now retired I watch these videos and get homesick for the coalmines it gets in your blood it's comramity or something but I miss doing it it's a brotherhood you learn respect for your fellow miner's it was hard dirty and dangerous work but I loved every second of it and would do it all over again shout out to all my brother coalminers out there and around the world
Me too, duck. I really miss working in the deep mines of N/E Derbyshire. England. All our mines have gone now. Destroyed by our government and all the bull shit about planet warming. Now look at the shite we're in. The government doesn't give a flying toss how we're all struggling now. They're all cosy in their houses that we help buy for them. And they're definitely not cutting down on heating their homes up!
I'm a former miner myself, and when I see this movie, I see a lot of talented guys who deserve all the praise they can get. I wish I could be a part of the work! Good job!
Youngsters watching this will be totally incapable of understanding why we loved the job .... but knowing what we know, most of us would chose the same if we had our time over again. It was not so much the challenge of the job itself as the fellas you worked with that really made it so good. I am decades retired and totally knackered, but I miss it still.
I worked 17 years in bitumimous coal mines in Pennsylvania. Longwall and room and pillar mining. It was exciting watching roof collapses. Props bowing and cracking and bolts pop out of the roof.
A couple of weeks ago I was looking for mining videos with no music or commentary but all I could find was people talking about how poor they are and bla bla so I said if I keep watching different mining videos my algorithm will eventually show me the one I’m looking for and now here it is thanks RU-vid for digging deep for me
I worked in the pit for 5 years on leaving school and ended up working on a longwall face where the only mechanical aid was a cutter, Now , 62 years later I find it hard to believe that some men spent a lifetime in such conditions but still managed a laugh.
Mmmm I can smell the atmosphere, taste the coal dust, and feel the coal between my knee pads and my knees as it cuts into my flesh as i watch the guy is shovelling Oh, the memories that always come back when watching these mining videos.Its old style to what I've always did. I worked on long wall faces using trappaners for house coal. And then shearers for power stations ect.
Looks to me like an AB15 they're using to cut the coal, not seen one of them in action since 1980...also saw a sylvster fastening the end of the face scraper. Takes me back to being an apprentice all those years ago.
@@markbeale7390 excellent simple tools but you had to know how to use them safely. NCB banned them way back, but a lot of men still had them safely buried out of sight, me included ... even when I was an overman ;
@@bigoldgrizzly There was a safety poster saying don't push your luck, dude pushing Silvester lever instead of pulling, gets knocked out by lever,cheers from Australia.
Being a Durham City lad since 1969, the accents don't sound so far away! They do now because I now live in Wales 😏 (Looks _Sheepishly!)_ **Edit* Thumbs up and subscribed too, as if this is owt to gan by, I shouldn't be disappointed!
@Mark Beale, for a guess ,as I look at their helmet. Cap lamp and clothing I'm thinking the 70s the lock.out was the sane as I've always known thfrom when I first went underground at 17 in 1977. I noticed they aren't wearing self rescuers. They became mandatory by 1970, I believe.
You can see its heavy manual work,no wonder their backs,'and knee's,and chests are fked,after working 25 years plus.The youngsters to day,wouldn't do this,they would brick them self's.' My respect to all you coal miners."
Don’t know what this place is about but not one person had a self rescuers device on (rebreather) only a battery for their light (that’s it) dangerous place to work even shoved “against the belt” that will get you HURT!!! Don’t like their mine!!! Looks like problems with safety for SURE!!!
@@roughnecktv6535 Someone in Bristol once asked me which part of Wales I was from..were quite surprised when I said far North of England...so I guess some similarity in the accent!
My brother took the videos, I just posted them. When I worked at the pit Wrytree was all worked out and only used as a belt line for the Shearer working off 3rd South. I’m intrigued to know where this video was taken and more so how you can identify it 😁
@@Knockshinnoch The face was on the right, just above the beltline that went to 3rd south from the castle end. It was the first 50yd face using hydraulic props iirc.. some of them will still be in there as it came in fairly often, the dowtys were generally playing a tune.. At the time the coal was all loaded into tubs, the flat maybe wasn't easy to spot after the old drift was reopened & widened. To the left was the old second way out via the shaft, to the right was the north east level leading to smallburn shaft & 3rd north. I can identify it because I saw quite a bit of it at the time & can remember when David took the video 😂
