I worked mining coal back in the70s as a side job. My primary job was, you won’t believe it. A RESPIRATORY THERAPIST !!! W mined anthracite coal, which wasn’t mined like the initial coal was mined in this video for sure.
The irony being that it’s such inhospitable work that now with things like automation and robots mining is still done by humans because the robots refuse to work in the conditions
It’s not for everyone. Guy I work with has a brother working in a 28 inch seam of coal, that’s belly dragging low crawling to get anywhere. It’s so low the shuttle car operators have to follow a chalk line on the roof because they can’t stick their heads up high enough to see out
All of our shoring material came from cutting trees and making timber cuttings. This job was dirty and dangerous on the lungs, but a job worse and dirtier is a coal pulverizing plant. We could pulverize coal dirt that it would run off a shovel like water. Talk about a dirtier job. All one would see of a person were his eyes and teeth!!!!🧒🏿🙌🏿
I work in a coal dust plant, and yes it’s about the dirtiest job on the planet. Been many nights leaving for the showers and watching guys disappear into the shadow of the bathhouse because they were completely black. It’s such a inhospitable work environment that when the company tried to introduce automation and robots they simply refused to work.
It’s amazing how so much has changed, yet stayed the same since the 70’s.
Working in a coal mine ii very hard work you have to be safe too enter there is a lot of preparation to enter the mine safe
I worked mining coal back in the70s as a side job. My primary job was, you won’t believe it. A RESPIRATORY THERAPIST !!! W mined anthracite coal, which wasn’t mined like the initial coal was mined in this video for sure.
Strangely enjoyable, thanks.
I love miners
Scary jobs.
I worked in the mines in wv in the 70 and 80s
Miners are human beings. Who knew?
The irony being that it’s such inhospitable work that now with things like automation and robots mining is still done by humans because the robots refuse to work in the conditions
What a pain coal mining is.... I got claustrophobia after watching.. "It's Miller time" !!!
It’s not for everyone. Guy I work with has a brother working in a 28 inch seam of coal, that’s belly dragging low crawling to get anywhere. It’s so low the shuttle car operators have to follow a chalk line on the roof because they can’t stick their heads up high enough to see out
The 1970s were half a century ago. I wonder if any of these guys are still alive.
What state was that filmed in?
Some in West Virginia, some out West somewhere - Colorado or Utah, maybe.
Looks like parts of it is West Virginia, and Pennsylvania
Had to be the bituminous fields because of how soft the goal was.
All of our shoring material came from cutting trees and making timber cuttings. This job was dirty and dangerous on the lungs, but a job worse and dirtier is a coal pulverizing plant. We could pulverize coal dirt that it would run off a shovel like water. Talk about a dirtier job. All one would see of a person were his eyes and teeth!!!!🧒🏿🙌🏿
I work in a coal dust plant, and yes it’s about the dirtiest job on the planet. Been many nights leaving for the showers and watching guys disappear into the shadow of the bathhouse because they were completely black. It’s such a inhospitable work environment that when the company tried to introduce automation and robots they simply refused to work.
load coal!!!!!!!!!
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