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Tamarmole
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This week's Edwardian Farm (Wednesday 8-00, Friday 7 -00 BBC2) is looking at mining in the south west with emphasis on the Tamar Valley.

Dolcoathguy
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It was very interesting especially the King Edward mine part and the assaying methods.

I wonder how many people will start looking for leftover copper ore around the Tamar valley after seeing this programme.

Is it really a myth about pasty crusts?

I guess they did not use real actual dynamite, as I would imagine the mine is no longer licensed for explosives.

Although the comment that the last mine in Cornwall closed in 1998, with no mention of recent activities at South Crofty may put a few backs up.

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

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Iplayer Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wmqlb/Edwardian_Farm_Episode_5/

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Very nice. 🙂

Strangely Brown
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"Dolcoathguy" wrote:

I guess they did not use real actual dynamite, as I would imagine the mine is no longer licensed for explosives.

I guess not....If only because the fuse and explosion seem to have been filmed by a camera man and these are generally not considered expendable. :lol:

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Tamarmole
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"owaincbrown" wrote:

"Dolcoathguy" wrote:

I guess they did not use real actual dynamite, as I would imagine the mine is no longer licensed for explosives.

I guess not....If only because the fuse and explosion seem to have been filmed by a camera man and these are generally not considered expendable. :lol:

All we used was a bit of theatrical fuse

Earth Worm Jim
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I quite enjoyed it. Sod drilling my hand, the shaker table was cool.

Peter Burgess
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I liked the big hairy ape. I was expecting David Attenborough to emerge from the bushes at any moment. 🙂

Dolcoathguy
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Wonder if there is any chance of an "Edwardian Mine" series, covering coal & tin mining ? (Although coal mining was covered in the Coal House series on BB3 or 4 recently). The mining part suggested that so much more could be filmed.

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

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I watched this on iplayer last night whilst having me dinner.

I thought it was a fantastic programme and pitched just right, that drill did come across as quite quiet on the show, I've never heard one in action but I'm sure it must be noisier than it appeared?

I'm also sure I've met the chap who was singing to the tree, I can't imagine where but he did look very familiar.

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"ttxela" wrote:
I've never heard one in action but I'm sure it must be noisier than it appeared?

Many years ago when I assisted in blasting the roof of a sump the noise of the drill was deafening and could not see for dust!

(Similar looking drill with hammer action and air hole clearing).

Tamarmole
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"ttxela" wrote:
I watched this on iplayer last night whilst having me dinner.

I thought it was a fantastic programme and pitched just right, that drill did come across as quite quiet on the show, I've never heard one in action but I'm sure it must be noisier than it appeared?

I must admit I was a tad dissapointed at the drilling footage, given the hastle of getting air lines and drill up into the stope we were filming in. Watching the valve opened I expected a roar - then nothing; with the build up they gave it it was all a bit of an anti climax I guess that my Holman 303H at full tilt was just too loud for the film crew's sound kit. It's a shame as it is one of those sounds which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

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"Tamarmole" wrote:

"ttxela" wrote:
I watched this on iplayer last night whilst having me dinner.

I thought it was a fantastic programme and pitched just right, that drill did come across as quite quiet on the show, I've never heard one in action but I'm sure it must be noisier than it appeared?

I must admit I was a tad dissapointed at the drilling footage, given the hastle of getting air lines and drill up into the stope we were filming in. Watching the valve opened I expected a roar - then nothing; with the build up they gave it it was all a bit of an anti climax I guess that my Holman 303H at full tilt was just too loud for the film crew's sound kit. It's a shame as it is one of those sounds which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Hi Rick
I noticed that right away, they go mad and the noise is deafening.
I thought maybe they had a valve on the air pipe and just letting enough through to make it turn for the camera.

Regardless of all this I think it was really good and wish I had recorded it.

I'm glad though you didn't produce that bloody lamp

My avatar is a poor likeness.

Tamarmole
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"royfellows" wrote:

"Tamarmole" wrote:

"ttxela" wrote:
I watched this on iplayer last night whilst having me dinner.

I thought it was a fantastic programme and pitched just right, that drill did come across as quite quiet on the show, I've never heard one in action but I'm sure it must be noisier than it appeared?

I must admit I was a tad dissapointed at the drilling footage, given the hastle of getting air lines and drill up into the stope we were filming in. Watching the valve opened I expected a roar - then nothing; with the build up they gave it it was all a bit of an anti climax I guess that my Holman 303H at full tilt was just too loud for the film crew's sound kit. It's a shame as it is one of those sounds which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Hi Rick
I noticed that right away, they go mad and the noise is deafening.
I thought maybe they had a valve on the air pipe and just letting enough through to make it turn for the camera.

Regardless of all this I think it was really good and wish I had recorded it.

I'm glad though you didn't produce that bloody lamp

We were running the drill as hard as it would go (although I didn't connect an air supply to the leg). It sounded bloody wonderful in the small stope we were in, hence my dissapointment on seeing the footage which was rather tame.

Alasdair Neill
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Just wondering if there is any text anywhere about the practicalities of traditional copper precipitation. All the sites I have seen (Parys Mountain, DGC, Levant) used wide shallow precipitation pits which suggest the ideal conditions would require very slow water movement and large air surface, not ideal in the location shown. I also think the precipitate largely built up on the floor of the pit rather than on the scrap iron, although you obviously do get a deposit on the iron as well. Descriptions I have seen include Henwood (TRGSC 1871) and Parys Mountain agents' reports which I will check when I get a chance.

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Just wondering if there is any text anywhere about the practicalities of traditional copper precipitation. All the sites I have seen (Parys Mountain, DGC, Levant) used wide shallow precipitation pits which suggest the ideal conditions would require very slow water movement and large air surface, not ideal in the location shown. I also think the precipitate largely built up on the floor of the pit rather than on the scrap iron, although you obviously do get a deposit on the iron as well. Descriptions I have seen include Henwood (TRGSC 1871) and Parys Mountain agents' reports which I will check when I get a chance.

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I was wondering about the noise too, was expecting something like a road drill but much faster. Thought the drill may have been set to rotate only (I've used a rock drill for rolling in boiler tubes which had this facility). So it looks like they didn't even record it, I think they should have at least tried to describe the sound, or did they and used too many expletives, hence cutting the sound down 😉 .

Mind you if it's filmed live you don't know how it's going to turn out by which point the opportunity for comment is lost (though the narrator could have said something).

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.