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Love this Archie, many miners had some convalescence there. My dad, who you met in Donnie and my father law. Shoes off at the door, slippers only inside.

Great to see the little guys back, Archie. Thanks

you needed a thick skin and a great sense of humour to work in control - happy days ;<)

will you be able to do any of the work manually? like drilling charge holes with a rotary hammer and setting charges to blow out large chunks that could be broken up with a sledge or pick. it would be fun, even if it's not really applicable in todays mining in first word countries. cheers on the development :)

Brilliant 👍🏻 🐁⛏️

Thank.

This is so amazing! is this accessible to play?? This would be cool in my mini-mining museum for visitors to try 👀

Thank you Alan, we ` re still "fighting" !!!

❤ love it it has the feel of the pit which is strange for an animation but brilliant.

i swear these are getting funnier each episode you deffo need to put it into a mini series

Excellent thanks for your artwork

Good as always

Exactly true 😂😂

I been lucky worked in Coal Mines in Utah for 17 years was a great experience sad that we had a few bad fires at other mine same area

i like it. more to come?

Those weird voices that kept talking in the background throughout the video were really irritating. They ruined what would otherwise have been a good video.

Get this A.I garbage off TH-cam

Ive got photos of my granny going down a lift with pit ponies with my great grandad. He ended up in a gypsum mine in the midlands

Monumental film. As a Kent miner it was nice to get a mention. There are some who have overlooked us.

Some false info there..."2015 marked the end of coal mining in the uk" ?? Not sure where you got your information from but there is still 3 working underground coal mines in the uk

Is this available to play yet?

Brilliant

Ona retreat face drivage with a dint header good bit of kit till squeeze shoved it into the ground

👀 "promo sm"

I worked on the Mt Mulligan resort that is now built near the old township. The only building remaining where the main street once was is the old hospital which is still used by the Mt Mulligan station owners as an office and living quarters. I have explored the ruins and ventured to the mine entrance. It is a very eerie experience and you can feel the presence of the ghosts of the past...

'Rest in Eternal Peace men..

Capitalism kills.

Certainly highlighted to me the wisdom of having pre-prepared emergency stopping sites at key points.The absence of such sites in a seam already known to be susceptible [even one heating in that unit], combined with a mining method that leaves behind significant quantities of top coal in goaf areas is astonishing to me. In the UK at this time, these sites were prepared as part of the initial development of an area to be mined and stockpiles of blocks and materials sufficient to complete the stopping walls were maintained at or very near the sites. These sites had as much blockwork ready built, as was practical for the mining operations, and that blockwork was well keyed in to the surrounding strata. Built into the temporary blockwork, would be be a 2 - 3 foot diameter steel tube that would allow some ventilation to pass in a controlled manner, these being the last thing to be sealed off after stoppings were built. Getting materials hauled to site can be a slow process at the best of times, a problem made much worse when there is a active fire. Introducing a further delay to salvage machinery is, to me, unforgiveable. Was that machine worth all those lives, and the loss of the mine ?? The fact that an initial methane ignition developed into a coal dust explosion, also suggests that scant attention was being paid to dust suppression at the faces and stonedusting and barriers or other suppression methods, though the very fact that so much broken coal was present in the inaccessible goaf areas, would make it somewhat more difficult to accomplish. In all, this was a tragic disaster that could so easily have been prevented.

A terrible tragedy, may these men rest in peace. My first thought in the recirculating problem was the increase of fuel and temperature in the air

I studied this disaster amongst many more while I was studying for the deputies and undermanagers tickets...you've done a great job

As tired as two fitters, ha, ha.

Let’s see them getting materials in to the rip , or a pump mouse walking in a haunted back air way road , lol 😂

Amazing 😂

My grandfather, Henry Jenkins was sick that morning of the explosion due to drinking too much the night before at the gathering in the hall. Sadly he lost all of his work colleagues that day and went on living until he was 96yrs of age. My grandmother, Mary, was a nurse in the Mulligan hospital at that time.

Absolutely brilliant I worked in the pits for 31 years and if I didn’t come out at home time black as the ace of spades then I hadn’t done anything . I was a deputy and I used to go into tailgate doing inspections while face was running so boys could keep getting bonus without stopping ,and at shower time I would blow black snot and cough up black crap all afternoon It is so sad that hard working miners have to go through so much time and emotional strain to get what they deserve Thank you for a great video and all the best to those who are suffering with black lung we might be worlds apart but all miners especially underground miners are brothers

You wouldn’t want be there on your own that is for sure ,

Brilliant

Been alot more back in the day not reported to protect the pit and livelihood. Saddest part is almost all were in the early days getting the gear out when they knew the danger snd latter stupid stuff like fire. They're still burning from that day and it caught the thomas operation's under castle hill and now most active at the end of Barclay st marching slowly towards the dumps and then neighbourhoods in say 25yr Riverview will go

This series is epic. Loved the Smart Meter jokes.

A powerful documentary, very well presented.

Brilliant .................................. Archie, tha'ar crackers 😁😁😁

still as good happy new year 2024

Fantastico! BTW this is Kent. Dr ditchpickle is my fishing channel lol

There was a driver at my pit, whom should remain nameless ( If I said which pit it would make identification easy ), who insisted on running the afc in reverse direction to the other gangs. This lead frequently to a big lump ripping out a power cable and putting the heading on stop whilst a new one was made up on the pit top. Love the Century Oils cans

I drove several machines whilst working down the pit, but never ever any remote controlled ones ! Still miss those days, where men were men and sheep were frightend ! 😂🤣👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Thats looking great mate, nice job - love the way coal falls off

I remember almost being shaken out of my bed when this happened. Glad to hear the full story. Some kids at school lost loved ones in this event.

Hope you and pit mouse are fit and well mate, looking forward to next video👍

BUT THE CONVEYOR IS ON STOP !!! BUT A NICE VIDEO.