Deep mined coal used in my Hitzer

Hoytman · Post by **Hoytman** » Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 1:52 pm

Jack, you remind me of my late grandpa. Good on you!

That music link fits me fine. Blues is great...specially the gospel kind.

Heard my grandparents sing that inspirational many times growing up and heading home with them after church. I'm not from the south, but grandparents were...and it's instilled in all of us...and proud of it. Seen my great Aunt Mary break coal many times as a kid. I can still recall looking out the bedroom window right about day light...over looking the route from London to Manchester, seeing the headlights down on the road, the fog in the valley, hearing those old roosters uh crowin', all while listening to the coal train whistle in the distance coming our way.

My dear old great Uncle Dill used to walk those railroad tracks many uh time...drunker than a skunk and singin' "Amazing Grace...how sweet the sound"...that was until he turned all over to the Lord above and got saved. Heard and seen him kneel and pray many uh time near that old Warm Morning stove just before bedtime. People don't hardly do that anymore...me included. Shame on me!

Thanks for the tour down memory lane. It's brought happy tears to my eyes.

CorrosionMan · Post by **CorrosionMan** » Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 2:24 pm

4 percent white Ash ?

Sweet!

Hambden Bob · Post by **Hambden Bob** » Sat. Dec. 22, 2018 2:05 am

A Man's Got To Know His Limitations!
Well,Our Good Friend Jack hasn't hit the wall yet! You just keep it coming,Buddy!!

gardener · Post by **gardener** » Wed. Dec. 26, 2018 10:06 am

BunkerdCaddis wrote: ↑
Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 10:25 am
Dang, I was interested in the answers to those questions myself...

I asked Jack if I could post his reply for you, he said okay.
Sorry for not getting around to it til now.

"Gard I will answer all .Large lumps .The miner saves dynamite by Not blasting the vein real hard . Satisfaction .See next .As a child I live half mile from Lehighs refuse banks which had some good coal in the mountains of breaker waste dumped there .Dad would crack the lumps at the site put in potato bags an carry home to our house .Cheaper .Next .I pay 100 bucks a ton an my time .Not cheaper . Quality .Next . I know the owner about 15 years honest straight forward tough miner .So me I can recognize junk hard or soft coal . Its a wondrfull trip going to the mine meeting his 2 or 3 men. Just the atmosphere at the mine .Very relaxing for me . I crack to nut an pea size then screen coal . Tradition .Dothis Google Alfred Brown 7 foot slope .Shows the mine .Merry Christmas Jack"

BunkerdCaddis · Post by **BunkerdCaddis** » Wed. Dec. 26, 2018 5:11 pm

gardener wrote: ↑
Wed. Dec. 26, 2018 10:06 am
I asked Jack if I could post his reply for you, he said okay.
Sorry for not getting around to it til now.

Thank you sir, no worries!

Post by **StokerDon** » Wed. Dec. 26, 2018 6:40 pm

Thanks gardener, thanks Jack!

That's a pretty interesting video.

Here's another independent anthracite mine video. It's the R&R mine, I love the part where he says 'I'll go start the fan".

-Don

gardener · Post by **gardener** » Thu. Dec. 27, 2018 8:47 am

Den034071 (Jack)

I watched the video. Those large chunks of coal you got, how do they bring those up at the mine, at least in the video the times the bucket came up it looked like small pieces in the bucket.

Do they have a cart they load up and bring it up the access path?
or do they specially load the bucket with the large chunks you got?

charlesosborne2002 · Post by **charlesosborne2002** » Thu. Dec. 27, 2018 9:03 am

KingCoal wrote: ↑
Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 1:31 pm
take a real good look at that mug, jack is also still messing around on roofs and doing masonry too.

"not to many of his age are doing any of it."

And hardly any of a young age doing it.

Shaun643 · Post by **Shaun643** » Sun. Jan. 06, 2019 9:54 pm

Wow that's great I wish I lived in coal country. Only way I can get coal is in a bag