02-22-2009, 09:15 PM
shoot it down bust it up then shovel it into the cars , see the rail on the right.also the lack of supports hock:
Jim
Jim
loading coal the hard way
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02-22-2009, 09:15 PM
shoot it down bust it up then shovel it into the cars , see the rail on the right.also the lack of supports hock:
Jim
02-23-2009, 06:52 PM
Must be a pre-OSHA image! Reminds me why they call the ceiling "the hanging wall".
02-23-2009, 07:36 PM
pre-union, too. Labor was cheap.
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02-23-2009, 08:40 PM
Ya load sixteen tons,
and whaddya get?
02-23-2009, 09:10 PM
Squidbait Wrote:Ya load sixteen tons, Yeah, I'm sure those guys owed their souls to the company store! Ralph
02-23-2009, 10:31 PM
Interesting shot, though - five guys with nothing but one pick and one axe. Not exactly high output mining.
02-23-2009, 11:34 PM
Ralph Wrote:they did this is a shot of the workers getting ready to setting up the short wall in the victor america mine in mount Harris co (a company town ) in 1942. the same year that a explosion killed 34 miners . so some of the six in the photo might have been a fatality then.Squidbait Wrote:Ya load sixteen tons, Jim |
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