Shaft Inspection Part 2: Checking the waste water flow

[@colly0410]

Never liked getting on & off the cage at insets: I'd always look down & see the pit bottom lit up & scared myself... I worked down Moorgreen & Hucknall pits

[@kennethcrowther2277]

How deep?

[@colly0410]

@@kennethcrowther2277 Piper seam inset at Moorgreen was about 700 feet down & Low main seam pit bottom at 900 feet. At Hucknall Main Bright seam inset 900 feet down & Deep Soft seam pit bottom 1800 feet...

[@kennethcrowther2277]

@colly0410 thanks for that. Blows me away just how deep those shafts get.

[@MattyEngland]

Interesting video. Cheers.

[@andykopgod]

Brilliant, how deep is the shaft?

[@worldwidefreeride92]

Ey up, ain’t that lad wit green helmet on a manager from Big K? Looks familiar

[@project182r3]

Yes it is

[@liamshort1753]

Sure is him the big K shouldn’t have closed could’ve kept it open for longer or turn it into a museum instead of everything getting buried

[@joanndenman6343]

I love caphouse

[@martsstricky1988]

Looks like mr Wordsworth from big k n also sounds like manager Shaun also from big k int start of video 1.

[@tyronedarlow5339]

Selby was deep shafts cut c it at bottom lit up

[@mick35w]

So is that an old worked level they go into?

[@danielthomas7629]

Yes, I imagine that would have been a workable landing at one point or some part of a drainage system.

[@TonyBanks21]

How Deep is the shaft ?

[@rosewhite---]

215 yards

[@bobjones8372]

Might be safer if you just welded the gate shut, and just cut your way out when you need to. Safety gone mad, the planned way to end mining, insane regulations all but killed USA mining too, how sad, and an insult to our ancestors, who risked their lives daily, just so their ancestors destroy the job they loved and were so proud of. Glad youre keeping some alive anyway.

[@totherarf]

I realise the irony in the comment, but few miners would object to fewer of them getting killed! At one point mining was the 3rd most dangerous occupation ...... it was far safer to be a soldier!

[@bobjones8372]

I looked at my uncle and 2 cousins with pride and the highest respect. If anyone insulted or belittled them you would have to deal with an enraged little kid, the woke joke mob, just wants to end USA mining half the new regs are just to cause the mine owner and miners endless hassles and expense.