This mine in the video looks so similar. From the slusher, single boom track mounted jumbo and the slusher. The good ol days 😎 Unfortunately my partner was killed operating an Eimco 22 mucker. In the Trixie mine Eureka Utah, 2001. A lifter hole had booted, he couldn't see it with all the loose on top of it. as he mucked the loose towards the toe of the muck pile on the left rib. He hit that solid rock that was supposed to have been blasted. Caused his body weight to shift forward. Driving the mucker forward and raising the bucket. The bucket was stuck in that solid rock below the collar of the booted hole. the energy had to go somewhere, it caused the machine to raise and fall against the left rib. In a split second he was fatally crushed. The machine finally settled back in position. He had 34 years of experience. I've been all over the country and he was one of the best muckers I've ever seen. Just a split second and he was gone... I was afraid of those over shot muckers after that. In fact, I went out on the surface and drilled holes for a few months. Finally I had to get my butt back down there and conquer that fear. When i stood on the side of that machine my hands shook so bad. ...easy and steadily I pressed forward, mucking one round after another and finally mastered that fear. It messed me up for a while. I have a deep respect for every machine in those mines and the men that operate them. God bless you and your families. Much love.
@JoryDion
Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear about your partner. That would be devastating. I have had the same partner on and off for 10 years or so and he is like my work wife now
@pedromaguina1857
4 жыл бұрын
Being an underground miner is a unique experience!!! Regards from Peru!
@BeWater2019
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the time I almost died at New Quirke Mine, Elliot Lake, Ont. in the late 80s.
@JoryDion
9 жыл бұрын
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@mattgirvin2676
9 жыл бұрын
Awesome video Jory! I'm going to re-share it. Good luck with your job search and business!
@JoryDion
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@billieboycayabas8365
4 жыл бұрын
I'm a miner here in the philippines
@daveduplessis6744
Жыл бұрын
Oldschool.
@JoryDion
Жыл бұрын
Big time
@twinperun1765
5 жыл бұрын
This Looks cool
@nickdee5764
7 жыл бұрын
By far one of the scariest jobs I've ever seen. Any chance I could try it for a day and what's being mined, diamond?
@JoryDion
7 жыл бұрын
NIck Dee copper,zinc,gold,lead,silver. trying it for a day is not the easiest. lol people can get hurt easily
@nickdee5764
7 жыл бұрын
Jory Dion undoubtedly dangerous but just about as bad ass as it gets! Thanks for digging holes man, I appreciate your work.
@aaronkeeth651
3 жыл бұрын
some hi dollar Operations.... canada potash?
@JoryDion
3 жыл бұрын
Hard rock. Zinc ,Copper, Gold etc
@BeWater2019
Жыл бұрын
One wouldn’t need to drill and blast in potash.
@JoryDion
Жыл бұрын
Ya for sure not potash 😆
@maritimemisfits3360
6 жыл бұрын
looks like a mechanics nightmare
@JoryDion
6 жыл бұрын
job creation ;)
@gragor11
5 жыл бұрын
I had fun bucking around on a muck machine digging out tunnel rounds. One of the better jobs when one is on the step and not in danger of getting pinned to the wall. Nice loose. Did it break anything? You guys were dancing on that platform keeping your toes away. I trammed on the 700 level at Giant Yellowknife and on the 200' level at Keno 700. Always good for a derailment or 2. Once lost a 5 ton car and 2nd hopper into the orepass when the train got sucked backwards when the ore didn't come out of the last hopper, instead flipping over off the tracks and onto the grizzly pulling the rest of the train with it. 1st car upside down separated, 2nd to last flipped up on side and hopper dumped onto grizzly, 3rd to last car up on 2 wheels jammed onto edge of ore pass, 3 more cars and then battery loci stuck at the end of the tunnel. That's when I noticed all the rock bolts and snatch blocks for dragging these cars back out onto the tracks again. Good thing the charging station was handy with a second loci in it. Managed to get both tubs out of hole above the grizzly back up to track level and one back onto its dolly and the rest of the train back on the track but had to leave one set of dollies for the cross- shift to deal with. I'm sure they were happy. The next day I found myself a nice long piece of lagging and bolted it across the mouth of the chute where the tops of the tubs could bang against it at the end of their normal travel but not tip over and fall into the hole. Never again did I leave such a mess for my cross shift. Funny you know no one ever told me which end of the train to start unloading first. Apparently it was a mistake to start at the loci end first so that by the time I was unloading the last car there was no weight ahead and there was nothing to stop the whole thing from tipping. I lost a good portion of a train under a chute one day when 3 planks knocked out of the side of the ore pass in a 30 story tall Ore/Waste/Skipway/Manway/Escapeway and a hell of a lot of muck came down outside the chute and buried the tiny loci and its 3 ton cars. They had to hoist a 24" gage muck machine up from the other mine transport it in on flat car and drag it up to my level on an inclined skip car we used to nip timber on to get it in there. I heard it took a few days to dig the train and the ore pass unloading pocket out. But I never saw it again as they had sent me over to another place chipping ice out of really old tunnels that were going to be stripped by the miners to open up the new old area. Again. Thanks for sharing. Bringing back lots of memories.
@Porty1119
4 жыл бұрын
Stories like that are why I'm not opposed to trackless equipment.
@aaronkeeth651
3 жыл бұрын
i have been dealing with sticky muck and depending on how much build up in the tubs(no water for washout available) chain the trucks/dolly to the track to avoid any extra shifts in weight and overtopping.
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