Putting the rebuilt highwall miner to work.

[@cadsolid-engineering4009]

Proud to be one of the inventors of this machines (SHM, Terex, Bucyrus, Cat and Gainwell Types).

[@miles5884]

Come on man we need more videos. They are awesome content. Love your videos. That’s all my family has done is mine coal underground. Never a high wall setup. But just wanted to say love your content brother. Stay safe.

[@alexgoldstein7997]

very cool man. I gotta say, if someone drew this machine out on a napkin with those augers strung together like that. I would have said no way that would ever work. LOL But look at it go!

[@HanksWVaRC4388]

Those auger boxes look like the old METEC boxes that we worked on at Meltco W&S Welding back in the late 80's

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

Yes, same thing

[@kevincanterbury-lb7pw]

I worked on one for 3 years its a coal grabbing machine but it a very dangerous job.fola coal mined alot of coal with it we had 2 of them.god bless our coal miners

[@mottthehoople693]

LOL GOD is certainly busy.Blessing your miners your troops your cops etc etc etc

[@TomokosEnterprize]

Interesting set up.

[@redlight722]

That’s a lot of work for that little return 😂

[@RandomGameFun]

this runs 24 hours a day, two 12 hour shifts. It only rests for a few minutes between shifts, one push is 20 feet. In the right seam a beam can be pushed in 5 minutes. So you add ip the math, thats alot of coal. 2 spreads and 1 blasting crew can barely keep enough wall open for one of these, and that's letting the miner crew off weekends and us working Saturdays

[@redlight722]

@@RandomGameFun show us more! Good clip.

[@barryclarke3010]

More of a insight how the beast works,thanks, what happens if the seam is two foot higher than the first/ bottom cut?

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

If it gets higher back in the hole, the cutter can go higher to cut it out but only up to about 5 feet high. If it gets lower, they have to cut rock or abandon the hole. Thanks for subscribing and watching!!!

[@tonymidkiff2108]

I was wondering how y’all control ventilation and explosions with the Highwall miner

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

The miner has 2 methane detectors on it that will shut it down if levels rise just like underground. Then a large air compressor is used to push fresh air back across the cutter head via a large air line connected to the miner.

[@грихаахлебенский]

Грета Тунберг плачет смотря это видео

[@justbe4481]

This is the fuel of the electric vehicle you know to save our environment 😂 from carbon dioxide...

[@ats-3693]

@@justbe4481 It's still more efficient and a lot cleaner for the environment to burn a large amount of fossil fuel in one place to extract the energy from it then distribute the energy for usage, than it is to have lots of people burning small amounts of fossil fuel to convert it to energy themselves. And that holds true even when we are talking about burning large amounts of coal in one single large engine of a powerplant instead of burning small amounts of gasoline in many small car engines.

[@cadsolid-engineering4009]

Important to set bottom point and top point correct at beginning of entry the seam, leave some coal at top to minimize rock fall and have a smooth beginning od making the drive and direction.

[@FrogandFlangeVideo]

Extremely interesting !!!

[@drubradley8821]

That was strange, but really neat. I have never seen such a machine. Does each section have its own flex track umbilical in it, that needs connected, each time you add a section, or is that on a huge wound up spool and the flex track just lays in each troth of each section?... Either way, this was cool to see.

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

It’s all on the huge reel and lays in a trough as it goes in and rolls back up when coming out of the hole.

[@drubradley8821]

@@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 Roger that.. that sounds more effective... I just couldn't imagine the design having male-female hydraulic and possibly electrical connections at every joint.. the auger's seemed pretty self explained with the female hex drive at the end, to transfer the rotation to the already laid out sections. Either way. This was neat. I appreciate your time, and also apologize for asking what is very likely common knowledge, but, I have never seen such a machine the size of a house, in fact, it looks like it is bigger then my house, lol. Last question, I kindly ask. When this machine is right up side of the wall, and this machine starts feeding the full length of these sections/auger conveyer systems far underneath, isn't there a worry of the wall falling over on top of the machine or is that to be expected and the machine can handle such pressure of a falling wall? As soon as I get done with my business trip and have a moment, I am so intrigued by this, I want to look into these further. Is there many BRAND NAMES of these or is these the only one, kinda like the steam shovels that work 24/7 and run for decades?

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

This particular machine was made by Superior Highwall Miners who got acquired by Caterpillar who later decided to stop making them. There is another company that makes a different version and it goes deeper and a lot quicker. They are Eagle Highwall Mining Systems. addcarsystems.com/

[@ekim72]

Very cool machines. My first time seeing mining like this. How long dose it take to dig out a seam like that one? Great vid, keep 'em coming.

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

We work 12 hour shifts so about shift and a half per 800’ hole on this kind of Highwall miner.

[@patrickfitchpatrick1079]

I love watching your high wall videos I just recently subd I've been an underground miner for the last 10 years do to helping recover one of my bestfriends back im March to a underground roof fall I want on the surface I can weld cut do about anything but im green hat on the surface where are you guys mining and would you be interested in a green hat?

[@rickrundle625]

I used to work for SHM in 1999

[@UndergroundBirmingham]

great video

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@UndergroundBirmingham]

@@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 keep ‘em coming

[@scottelswick7592]

What miner was this

[@aolinger680]

so this is where all those clinkers came from.

[@chrisstaylor8377]

Why so for from the wall ?.

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

The corner of the wall wasn’t the best in the world and didn’t want to get anyone close to it. Keep people safe. Machinery can be fixed or replaced.

[@Deanosdesigns]

What are they actually doing

[@OBAViJEST]

nothing apparently

[@Jayjamie]

15:15... 👍

[@AHSolitaire]

This would be one of the MHWM machines at Ben's Creek?

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

No, this one is way down south.

[@mikeeikleberry7383]

where was this miner running?

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

The video was made in Alabama but is not there anymore.

[@davidhead5943]

How long does it take to reload that machine each time ?

[@RandomGameFun]

Whatsoever you mean by reload? If yiu mean set a beam, if the pad man does his job seconds. Just long enough to push the beam forward and drop the pins.

[@hankhungwell231]

You got nothing for a lot of work and money.

[@RandomGameFun]

this runs 24 hours a day, two 12 hour shifts. It only rests for a few minutes between shifts, one push is 20 feet. In the right seam a beam can be pushed in 5 minutes. So you add ip the math, thats alot of coal. 2 spreads and 1 blasting crew can barely keep enough wall open for one of these, and that's letting the miner crew off weekends and us working Saturdays.

[@deaschuder9994]

We had a truck driver killed because of a highwall

[@brandonmorris3717]

waste of time

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

It made pretty good money in this pit alone!!

[@RandomGameFun]

this runs 24 hours a day, two 12 hour shifts. It only rests for a few minutes between shifts, one push is 20 feet. In the right seam a beam can be pushed in 5 minutes. So you add ip the math, thats alot of coal. 2 spreads and 1 blasting crew can barely keep enough wall open for one of these, and that's letting the miner crew off weekends and us working Saturdays