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I spent 7yrs working down the mine. Unlike a lot of other mines in the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire area the one I worked at harvested coal from thin seams so used a machine on the coal face called a trepanner and not a shearer that the bigger coal faces did.

Spending countless hours crawling along the coal faces on my hands and knees with a belt on that held a battery for the cap lamp, a self rescuer, 2 adjustable spanner’s, a pair of pliers, a large flat blade screwdriver, a small pouch containing several sockets and a ratchet (which would all eventually gather under the belly) was not fun in anyway.

Riding the conveyors could be interesting depending if someone from the outgoing shift had decided to empty their bowels just before the scraper therby smearing it all along a length of the belt for all to smell......(no joke).

Being on the coal face with the hydraulic chocks/roof supports advancing, (so leaving the void behind where the coal was) could also be an experience as the ‘roof’ would not always collapse in straight away and sometimes it was several metres before it did and when it did it went with a loud noise forcing the air out. Some coal faces were really hot places to work and others were like working in a continual heavy rainstorm as the water ran in from the roof.

I really wouldn’t want to have to go back to doing it again.

 

oh lovely, i'm so sorry. sending you both lots of love and so many positive vibes.
keeping everything crossed and hoping for him to pull through xxx
call me anytime xxxx

 

So sorry to hear the sad news about your beautiful dog . Hope he pulls round .

 

Ohh sweetie
I know how that feels !
One of my Dachshunds had the same about 4 months ago ,and I thought it was the end
That particular drug worked really well for her
All the best X

 

that's all

 

That's sad. Went through much the same with our mutt last year. Unfortunately, they don't last forever ...

 

What does Flying Pickets...... mean ? for the English impaired.

 

So sorry i hope he will pull through.

Best wishes X

 

English acapella pop group. Big hit with cover of Yazoo’s “Only You”

 

don't listen to @Jack Tatty (though there was a group made up of auf wiedersehen pet actors, i think)
flying pickets were picketing miners (in this instance) from other pits travelling to come out in solidarity with other pits in different areas.

 

Beware there are different sorts of English on here so answers can confuse , someeven have picket fencing and are flying objects over them

 

Sending some your way. Fingers crossed he gets better.