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garyj
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16 years ago

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Photograph: 🙂 Worked on this crusher for a while in 1975 brings back memorys.garyj

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Morlock
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16 years ago

I worked for a company that made scrap balers in the 60s, they tried a few experiments with baling refuse, scrap foam etc.
Lots of comical teething troubles. 😉

Gwyn
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16 years ago

I think the rubbish referred to here is slate waste or "rubbish" slate of which there is still a fair amount, despite garyj's best efforts!

Peter Burgess
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16 years ago

I did wonder! Why would a "refuse destructor" appear on a mine-related website? All becomes clear now!

garyj
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16 years ago

i did work on this crusher ,crushing slate waste from the splitting sheds

grahami
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16 years ago

OK - I shouldn't have used the word "Rubbish" then - "slate waste" crusher perhaps. Whatever, it was this crusher's output which buried the "Lord" and "Lady" bastions to their tops and which has contributed to the "ramparts" around Princess May - some output went to the fullersite mills of course, though how the split was determined I don't know..

Grahami

The map is the territory - especially in chain scale.

Peter Burgess
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16 years ago

"Peter Burgess" wrote:
I did wonder! Why would a "refuse destructor" appear on a mine-related website? All becomes clear now!

If I had bothered to check the context of the image by looking at the related gallery, perhaps I would have realised. My error.

JohnnearCfon
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16 years ago

I wonder why they needed to crush it before tipping it? I can understand precrushing it for the Fullersite plant.

Does that mean "rubbish wagons" should be renamed "slate waste wagons"? - I don't think so, they were normally known thus I believe! 😉

Morlock
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16 years ago

Ahh, all becomes clear. 😞