Must be they have the best Zulu’s they can get running the mines now!
Sirhr
Because “mines and shit…”
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Must be they have the best Zulu’s they can get running the mines now!
Sirhr
My bad, I thought this was a thread about mimes. This is totally different... oh well
Pretty sure that thread went quiet some time ago.
Not that big a deal, depending on what got torn up in the shaft. Same happened at one I worked in. Much smaller, only 1250 ft deep, 50 hands underground. Loading pocket didn't latch the north muck skip dump door correctly and it opened on the way up. Drug the shaft wall until it got to the 400 ft level when it had room and opened, dumping about a third of the 7.5 ton load. Hoistman got bells on both sides, shut down and called me. The shaft repair guys and I rode the top of the mancage up slow to inspect the shaft and find the wreck. Not much to do so we bled pressure off the air and water lines shut down electrical, declutched the muck hoist drums, rode the top of the south skip down and dumped the rest down the shaft. Put a come along on the the door and closed it enough to get it out the top to the mechanics for repair.
Ran a close shaft inspection, cleaned the steel, replaced one guide. Pressured up slow and went back to work. Never shut down mining. Took a shift to replace the bent up skip door to go back to mucking.
But a story like this does sell papers and clicks.
Thank you,
MrSmith
Ran a close shaft inspection, cleaned the steel, replaced one guide. Pressured up slow and went back to work. Never shut down mining. Took a shift to replace the bent up skip door to go back to mucking.
But a story like this does sell papers and clicks.
Thank you,
MrSmith
No injuries. No one is exposed in an production shaft unless repairs are being made. Then the Hoistman controls and coordinates all access and movement in the shaft. To be in a shaft during operations would be akin to walking down an interstate highway lane. A shaft is a travelway, not a work area.
During repairs you're standing and working off of the horizontal shaft steel. This holds the vertical air pipe, water pipe, electrical cables, com cables, divider screens, guides, etc about every 10 feet. Approximately 6 or 8 inch I or H beams. You are always tied off. In the case I mentioned above it was 400 feet to the surface and 800 feet to the bottom. And one of the most important lessons learned is to pay attention, gravity only works one way and it never gets tired.
Thank you,
MrSmith
Yeah…. But you know what you are doing and aren’t two generations removed from shooting monkeys out of trees with a blowgun…
Sirhr
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