After last nights results in GA you may have more help than you can stand, bottom of a hole with 57' of muck overhead may be the safest place to be! They say God protects fools and children, I am afraid this country is getting ready to find out if this is true or not.
Make room at the bottom of the hole, help may be on the way.
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Drift mining help
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Re: Drift mining help
The "cold" sucks;
Those that have not been there cannot appreciate the fact that the "cold" sucks the heat out of everything.
Humans have to be constantly aware that without a heat source, freezing to death is imminent. I distinctly remember being unable to light a match. That's hard for most people to understand. After striking it, the heat is rapidly sucked out of the match and it is unable to burn. The only reliable type of fire starter is a road flare.
Exposed skin will instantly freeze. So, yes being able to get into a space where you are out of and away from exposure to the cold temperatures makes it possible to work.
- Geowizard
Those that have not been there cannot appreciate the fact that the "cold" sucks the heat out of everything.
Humans have to be constantly aware that without a heat source, freezing to death is imminent. I distinctly remember being unable to light a match. That's hard for most people to understand. After striking it, the heat is rapidly sucked out of the match and it is unable to burn. The only reliable type of fire starter is a road flare.
Exposed skin will instantly freeze. So, yes being able to get into a space where you are out of and away from exposure to the cold temperatures makes it possible to work.
- Geowizard
Re: Drift mining help
Got a family member who used to drift mine for coal in Illinois of all places. He would jack drill and blast to follow the drift. His specialty was stabilizing the walls with gunnite on rebar-basically rough concrete walls. Makes wine caves in California now. First one was Alexander Valley Vineyards in Healdsburg, California.