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rufenig
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14 years ago

Here is a film I came across.
It shows mining a tunnel at Dounreay which was later used for waste disposal and which exploded causing many problems.
The film shows 1950 drilling, an Eimco and the use of a "Slusher"
The Slusher must be similar to that used at Force Craig.

http://www.dounreay.com/news-room/dounreay-tv/tunnel-history
Mining starts about 1-30

😞 Well I found it interesting 😢

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Morlock
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14 years ago

Very interesting. 🙂

scooptram
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14 years ago

nice bit of film loved the old slusher loader think holmans had a play around with something like that ,didnt work that well as for the slusher its self we still use them for clearing the stopes over here

Manicminer
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14 years ago

The loader part looked like a ramp with a pulley on the end.

Spent many an hour leaning over a slusher watching the hoe go back and forth in the mist from the compressed air.

Gold is where you find it

derrickman
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14 years ago

"scooptram" wrote:
nice bit of film loved the old slusher loader think holmans had a play around with something like that ,didnt work that well as for the slusher its self we still use them for clearing the stopes over here

there was one set up in Holman's test mine, CSM students dragged it to and fro on their induction course for many years. Is it still there?

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

scooptram
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14 years ago

dont know will have a look next time im in there i remember it in the mine but its probbly stuck in a old drive some where as i said will have a look and try to get some pics of it

Alasdair Neill
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14 years ago

The slusher ramp was probably first used in the UK in driving the Milwr Tunnel extensions ca 1930, I don't think rocker shovels had then been introduced at least in the UK. See the articles on driving the Milwr tunnel in Trans. Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.

derrickman
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14 years ago

I don't know about introduction of slushers, compressed air winches were certainly in use in Cornwall by the 1890s. The miners of the day would have been familiar with them from working in South Africa. They weren't much used in Cornwall as they were not usefull in the near-vertical stoping systems there; the Holmans one was a demonstration piece.

however they were used in coal mines at quite an early stage, before the introduction of the panzer conveyor and continuous cutter

The eimco rocker shovel was first introduced in about 1938 so I would expect that they first appeared in Cornwall somewhere after WW2

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.