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loading coal the hard way - jim currie - 02-22-2009

shoot it down bust it up then shovel it into the cars , see the rail on the right.also the lack of supports Confusedhock:
Jim

Re: loading coal the hard way - MountainMan - 02-23-2009

Must be a pre-OSHA image! Reminds me why they call the ceiling "the hanging wall". Nope

Re: loading coal the hard way - nachoman - 02-23-2009

pre-union, too. Labor was cheap.

Re: loading coal the hard way - Squidbait - 02-23-2009

Ya load sixteen tons,
and whaddya get?

Misngth

Re: loading coal the hard way - Ralph - 02-23-2009

Squidbait Wrote:Ya load sixteen tons,
and whaddya get?

Misngth

Yeah, I'm sure those guys owed their souls to the company store! Nope

Ralph

Re: loading coal the hard way - MountainMan - 02-23-2009

Interesting shot, though - five guys with nothing but one pick and one axe. Not exactly high output mining.

Re: loading coal the hard way - jim currie - 02-23-2009

Ralph Wrote:
Squidbait Wrote:Ya load sixteen tons,
and whaddya get?

Misngth

Yeah, I'm sure those guys owed their souls to the company store! Nope

Ralph
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 . Sad so some of the six in the photo might have been a fatality then.
Jim