thanks for the Video. It's funny when you move away from KY the things you miss....little things you never thought about. I grew up in Jackson, KY and Strip Mining was a big part of Breathitt Co. at the time. Be proud KY, never have met nicer folks than the KY people.
Cool video. I grew up on lost creek and coal company bought my family out in 93. I remember growing up in the late 80s and at night when traveling down lost creek you could see the drag line lit up like something from out of this world. The blasting would shake our home and occassionally you could hear the humming of the electric drag line.
i agree with you, i am a strip miner and i make good money. coal mining made kentucky what it is. then people came in and started trash talking coal that dont know what the hell they are talking about. and by the way nurselady, i've worked with several preachersthat are miners, so god bless you
This is what my grandfather done till his death. Wish I could have known him better. I love this song because of what he done and what he was to my mother and father. Maybe someday I can relive time in which he lived on.
My property has 4 strip mines that have recovered and are prime animal habitat. It also provides good hunting land for me & my family. It was strip mined in the 1960s. Believe me, strip mines will recover and they leave behind nice flat land in amongst all these hills. I support strip mining and underground mining but mountaintop removal has got to stop. By the way, I'm located near Jane Lew WV in Lewis County, WV.
My child has just as much future as I did. I went to college, graduated, and am self employed. I don't work for any coal company, but coal miners are alot of my customers. If I raise him to go to school and work like I did. He can have anything he wants just like I can. Sure times are hard but they are everywhere, look at Detroit. I respect all the miners here, strip and deep both. They keep the lights on. They make a very good living also. It's dangerous, but driving down the highway is to.
Alot of ppl talkin shit about the Men and Women who were there workin the Mines to take care of their family,now before you keep puttin em down,just stop and think,yeah they were working the Mines to make ends meet,hell if it came to it I would take a life to ensure my kids ate.
@ wvbackcountry98 Strip Mining and moutain top removal are the SAME thing, either support it or dont. There is contour mining which is often confused with strip mining, contour mining the strip the sides of the mountains and leane the top. I support all forms of mining, strip mining or moutain top removal is how i make a living and support my family, i support it fully, i ask that you please educate yourselves and then make an informed decision!!!
Is this near Long Fork or Mac & Nellie? I'm sure ive deer hunted all around this.. How hard is it to operate this equipment? Rock truck, dozer, etc.? Is it really that bad of a job. If I knew i could run the equipment, I wouldn't mind doing this for a living. If its night shift how do you keep from backing the rock truck over the hill? I can see how it could be stressful at times..
I don't see no solution to mining coal right now. If they ever do find one i'm out of a job. Where I live in ky coal mining keeps everything turning. Left wingers bash mining every chance they get, but they don't have a solution. And they love their lights staying on also.
@rosshorn812 please visit them soon, but dont just look at the active sites like many others do, stop and look around at the older reclaimed part and other sites that are tens of years old. a mine site near my house called thunder ridge is a active mine site, it is a few miles from me and is part of my watershed. there are several others that are in hollows that feed directly in to the river along with 3 active washers. opinions are like assholes, evreybody has one, just dont try to press yours
you are right, there are other way to generate power but they are not able to take coals place. nuclear is clean so they say but you have spent fuel rods witch are radio active to deal with. and where do you think they will put the wind mills? on old mountain top jobs because of there open spaces. before you can put up a good arguement, do your research
@hellbilly074 so you would rather have straight up and down hill side over level ground that is heaven to wildlife and live stock. around here mining is not just a job it a way of life, leave it alone
The new one is a 992G (same platform as the 854G Wheel Dozer). The old loader is a Cat 992C which shares the plattform with the Tiger 690B Wheelsdozer.
i dont really care but im makes me really mad when people that dont know what they are doing try to tell people what they can and cant do with there own private land. if they want it striped, good more jobs. people have forgot that private land means no one has any business on it. they should stay where they live and find something eltse to pick on.
You're right splashcat01 he is ignorant and all he can do is slander, but the truth is we know what we are talking about and he is clueless. Let him hugs his trees who cares what he thinks lol.
@splashcat01 by your logic...if a serial killer kills people on land they own then they should be allowed to kill. Fact is, alot of side effects from strip mining and MTR dont STAY on that land and it invades others. The flooding, the rock dust, the coal dust, the poisoned water. I live in WV, lived there all my life and so has my family since before the Revolution and I do not support strip mining or MTR. Its a job killer and is not mining.
i thought i recognized the 992C..the mine i usta work at had a tiger rubber tire dozer..the mine i work at now doesn't have a tiger, but has 3 854G's, 2 690D's and a small Cat that looks like a tiger but isn't labeled as one
im not sure if that's a 988..i'm not sure what it is this point in time, but just by lookin at the chained tire loader, it's the same platform 854G Rubber Tire Dozers are built on
Solar and wind energy technology are becoming more efficient than coal. Don't be like the old guys who figured the automobile would fail and hoped horses would come back.
doctoroe It won't be profitable in our lifetimes. Then there is the problem of manufacturing the solar panels.. They are mostly made in China at this time and factories there have no EPA or pollution reduction equipment.. not to mention the highly toxic chemicals that are used in the production of the solar panels..
you claim you aren't ignorant but you fail to acknowledge the fact that the land is completely restored, at expense to the company AND its healthier afterward more so than before. Attack me personally if you must I don't care but i am stating a fact.
Sorry for the above remark, it sounds like you are knocking coal mining, as for me I retired from UMWA with 41 years of service, most of it was on strip jobs, what do you do, sell windmills ? I will remove the last remark I made to you...Have a nice day......
thanks for the Video. It's funny when you move away from KY the things you miss....little things you never thought about. I grew up in Jackson, KY and Strip Mining was a big part of Breathitt Co. at the time. Be proud KY, never have met nicer folks than the KY people.
Cool video. I grew up on lost creek and coal company bought my family out in 93. I remember growing up in the late 80s and at night when traveling down lost creek you could see the drag line lit up like something from out of this world. The blasting would shake our home and occassionally you could hear the humming of the electric drag line.
The 4 people that disliked that don't no what hard work is
i agree with you, i am a strip miner and i make good money. coal mining made kentucky what it is. then people came in and started trash talking coal that dont know what the hell they are talking about. and by the way nurselady, i've worked with several preachersthat are miners, so god bless you
This is what my grandfather done till his death. Wish I could have known him better. I love this song because of what he done and what he was to my mother and father. Maybe someday I can relive time in which he lived on.
Love the video man, i ran a 992 in a rock quarry around nashville and got alot of operating experince from it, loved it!
My property has 4 strip mines that have recovered and are prime animal habitat. It also provides good hunting land for me & my family. It was strip mined in the 1960s. Believe me, strip mines will recover and they leave behind nice flat land in amongst all these hills. I support strip mining and underground mining but mountaintop removal has got to stop. By the way, I'm located near Jane Lew WV in Lewis County, WV.
My child has just as much future as I did. I went to college, graduated, and am self employed. I don't work for any coal company, but coal miners are alot of my customers. If I raise him to go to school and work like I did. He can have anything he wants just like I can. Sure times are hard but they are everywhere, look at Detroit. I respect all the miners here, strip and deep both. They keep the lights on. They make a very good living also. It's dangerous, but driving down the highway is to.
Keeps your lights on pal!!
Well done 👍.
Eastern KY Shovel baby!!!!! Not trolling, we use 992's here in Western Kentucky too.
Alot of ppl talkin shit about the Men and Women who were there workin the Mines to take care of their family,now before you keep puttin em down,just stop and think,yeah they were working the Mines to make ends meet,hell if it came to it I would take a life to ensure my kids ate.
I enjoyed this video.
I like it. 👍
You got a better, cheaper, and quicker way to keep your lights on??
MINE EVERY LUMP, CUT EVERY TREE, DRILL EVERY WELL!! COAL IS KING HERE IN EASTERN KY WHERE I'M A SECOND GENERATION ELECTRICIAN COAL MINER
@ wvbackcountry98
Strip Mining and moutain top removal are the SAME thing, either support it or dont. There is contour mining which is often confused with strip mining, contour mining the strip the sides of the mountains and leane the top. I support all forms of mining, strip mining or moutain top removal is how i make a living and support my family, i support it fully, i ask that you please educate yourselves and then make an informed decision!!!
what co was u workin for there? i use to work in straight creek at mine 1 for southern coal corp out of west va
Yes i realize that i had some typos in my post, but lets be above any responses to my gramatical errors in any response to my comment.
Does anyone know if this was takin up on Frasier creek?
@catjuicy don stanley and the middlecreek band- a stripminers life
@zliminator well thank you, I try my best;)
I don't know who your blaster was on that job but I know one thing....he couldn't blow his nose....these pics make my back hurt
Is this near Long Fork or Mac & Nellie? I'm sure ive deer hunted all around this..
How hard is it to operate this equipment? Rock truck, dozer, etc.? Is it really that bad of a job. If I knew i could run the equipment, I wouldn't mind doing this for a living. If its night shift how do you keep from backing the rock truck over the hill? I can see how it could be stressful at times..
@zliminator yeah that fits you better .
I don't see no solution to mining coal right now. If they ever do find one i'm out of a job. Where I live in ky coal mining keeps everything turning. Left wingers bash mining every chance they get, but they don't have a solution. And they love their lights staying on also.
Daniel Sizemore u sure as he'll said it right my man.
my dad is from hazard kentucky
@rosshorn812 please visit them soon, but dont just look at the active sites like many others do, stop and look around at the older reclaimed part and other sites that are tens of years old. a mine site near my house called thunder ridge is a active mine site, it is a few miles from me and is part of my watershed. there are several others that are in hollows that feed directly in to the river along with 3 active washers. opinions are like assholes, evreybody has one, just dont try to press yours
you are right, there are other way to generate power but they are not able to take coals place. nuclear is clean so they say but you have spent fuel rods witch are radio active to deal with. and where do you think they will put the wind mills? on old mountain top jobs because of there open spaces. before you can put up a good arguement, do your research
is that montgomerycreek?
@hellbilly074 so you would rather have straight up and down hill side over level ground that is heaven to wildlife and live stock. around here mining is not just a job it a way of life, leave it alone
I worked up there a year 😂
That comment was for you nurselady.
CAT 992D & 992G LOADING SHOW.
My Dad Was hauling Coal From their They Call him mikey doo?
The new one is a 992G (same platform as the 854G Wheel Dozer). The old loader is a Cat 992C which shares the plattform with the Tiger 690B Wheelsdozer.
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i dont really care but im makes me really mad when people that dont know what they are doing try to tell people what they can and cant do with there own private land. if they want it striped, good more jobs. people have forgot that private land means no one has any business on it.
they should stay where they live and find something eltse to pick on.
You're right splashcat01 he is ignorant and all he can do is slander, but the truth is we know what we are talking about and he is clueless. Let him hugs his trees who cares what he thinks lol.
@splashcat01 by your logic...if a serial killer kills people on land they own then they should be allowed to kill. Fact is, alot of side effects from strip mining and MTR dont STAY on that land and it invades others. The flooding, the rock dust, the coal dust, the poisoned water. I live in WV, lived there all my life and so has my family since before the Revolution and I do not support strip mining or MTR. Its a job killer and is not mining.
i thought i recognized the 992C..the mine i usta work at had a tiger rubber tire dozer..the mine i work at now doesn't have a tiger, but has 3 854G's, 2 690D's and a small Cat that looks like a tiger but isn't labeled as one
im not sure if that's a 988..i'm not sure what it is this point in time, but just by lookin at the chained tire loader, it's the same platform 854G Rubber Tire Dozers are built on
Solar and wind energy technology are becoming more efficient than coal. Don't be like the old guys who figured the automobile would fail and hoped horses would come back.
doctoroe It won't be profitable in our lifetimes. Then there is the problem of manufacturing the solar panels.. They are mostly made in China at this time and factories there have no EPA or pollution reduction equipment.. not to mention the highly toxic chemicals that are used in the production of the solar panels..
tree hugers and liberals dumb sheep belive everything their told, have no brain of their own to think for themselves!
you claim you aren't ignorant but you fail to acknowledge the fact that the land is completely restored, at expense to the company AND its healthier afterward more so than before. Attack me personally if you must I don't care but i am stating a fact.
so these are the people that cut the tops off of the mountains in Eastern KY?...Nice job...Its right up there with kicking puppies...or kids...
Sorry for the above remark, it sounds like you are knocking coal mining, as for me I retired from UMWA with 41 years of service, most of it was on strip jobs, what do you do, sell windmills ? I will remove the last remark I made to you...Have a nice day......
I'm self employed pal. Work hard six days a week. And you?? I'm all for other forms of energy, but it ain't goona happen soon and it won't be cheap.
This is where my dad (rest his soul) grew up. No wonder he packed up and moved to Ohio.
Oh yeah.. I get loads of entertainment from watching the environment destroyed.