Take A Ride Into A Mine (CBS News)

[quedquis]

Minecraft: TOO MUCH COAL!

[slix1991]

nice , do they have emergency stuff there i mean if smth happened ( i wish nothing will happen )

[doxvr]

black faction

[vlasktom]

I'm on my way to joining the underground coal mining industry.

@nikon47130 the commute really is the most dangerous part of the work day. underground mining is between farming, which is more dangerous, and cement mixing, which is less dangerous. more people died in farming accidents in 2010 then underground mines in the united states

[BboyDirtyChopsticks]

crazy shit!

[iAMScootaG]

I went down a coal mine today, its really interesting and i think i might take it up as a career. Its a really hard job but its probably one of the best, the moneys great but not only that but you get to meet some great people and become good friends with them.

[jmcnallyua]

Underground Coal Mining For Life

[TheRiff404]

makes me proud to be a west virginia coal miner. proud of what i do for a living

[arthur2011ist]

I am a Miner, that is very challenge work at mine specially on field, it should be covered high salary and good accommodation, we need a miner network

[zGunxShiiiVideoVault]

@arthur2011ist As do I brother and I agree 100% stay safe

[DolittleMccoy]

I worked at this mine

[mickfoley3005]

My dad has worked in a mines for 30 some years and I plan to do the same

[UndertakerFan56]

WOW

[edmonddantes64]

They dig out 8 TONS of coal/rock every minute!!!!

I can feel the global warming!

[ta68oweya1]

@edmonddantes64 Yea but u have no problem flipping on your lightswitch or using your computer

[Banthis62]

@edmonddantes64 You wouldn't understand anything about it man, when you're 6 inches from hell down there just so your family can eat and have a roof over their head

[daniil0387]

солидная шахта ! техника везде , одним словом зашибись!

[Betsy440]

God Bless these coal miners and keep them safe...

[chillaxer1993]

how do they prevent black lung

[TheDocmhz]

ahh nice 29" is pretty darn low.. Is that the lowest point or is that the average vein height? Im sure ours hits low spots and places at around 29-32" but its average 34-36"..

[UTubeVideoBuzz]

And just think My Grandpa had to use a Pic Axe in 1940 to dig for Coal

[M1A1able]

i worked at monterey mine in illinois... UMWA laid off in 2007. we had trucks to drive around in.. i used an s-10 that had a mazda diesel in it...it was very fast. from what ive heard.. that place is a gold mine compared to most places... we had the wire mesh, i was a beltman.. went around cleaning spills off the ground.. it was a longwall operation. pretty amazing

[GeeDurty]

I work in this mine everyday. it is mccoy # 15, pikeville kentucky.

[cazkez123]

as an ex miner in the uk i respect you, you are also lucky guys as most of our mines are now closed i miss this life so much. good luck

[jb111082]

@GeeDurty are they hiring any green hats? Just got my underground card and need a job.

[haterseg]

i work in a pa mine..its low coal and there's so much air across the last open cross cutt black lung is a thing of the past... i dont wear a mask at all.. i try not to breathe much when i empty out my dust box.. other then that its fine....we use 6 or 8ft super twist bolts and bend them in half to get them in..our jloc glue sets up in 6 seconds. so you better hurry gettn them in.

[TheDocmhz]

This is not at all Old School in West Virginia..

Its either this setup..exactly to the tee, or Longwalls..The mine I work in is exactly setup like this one, only were in low, very low 34" coal..

[kfx400660]

@TheDocmhz come on down to logan co 29 to 31 thats low coal

[defnet]

using some old school gear in this video, most modern coal mines use auto bolter miners (ABM) which mine the roadways and bolt at the same time. Ive worked at an underground coal mine in Australia for 3 years, not the safest or most glamorous place to be, but with the right systems and people, coal mines are much safer today than they were 20 or even 10 years ago, and Australia has had some major mining disasters in the past.

[MrBigbadjohn81]

i'm a coal miner and i heard them make a comment felt like a ride into hell. well its cause you only bout six inches from it.

[mistersmith6000]

8 tonnes a minute and no masks - why don't they have to - by law - wear masks? Is this the 1850s??

[2008crazyninja]

amazing

[berlymaiden]

Damn. Even the mexicans wouldn't want anything to do with that kind of work. What about breathing that shit? Are these people all tarted?

[zippin44]

I knew nothing about mining until now. It's a tough dangerous job. Reminds me of the fishermen who go out on freezing cold stormy seas - another really dangerous line of work. There's a lot of pride in what all these guys do and I surely wouldn't want to take anything away from that. But it's a shame much of that coal goes to China, who hates the USA. And, burning that coal is slowly poisoning ourselves with all the mercury. Hell, you can't eat half the fish you catch. Must be a better way!

[PattyWV]

My dad was a roof bolter for Reliable Coal in Preston County WV. his name was Melvin Strahin or "Blue" as he was known in the mines.

My son works at Jenmar in Preston County making mining bolts.

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[charliepc56]

In the early 1970s, I worked in seems that were as low as 26 to 36 inches. We didn't have continuous miners that would cut the roof rock for more height. In some of the mines I worked, the coal was drilled and blasted then loaded into cars for the trip outside. I got my back broke in a roof fall in 1982 and was paralized. That ended my mining career, but I loved working in the mines and I would go back in a heartbeat if I could. Thanks..

[PrestonSteamer]

Bloody Hell , Thats One Big Mine lol

[mariotpoppinz]

FUCK MINERS

[squidman14]

fuck you why would u say that. i bet they could kick the shit outta any day they wanted to

[captainzaj]

i am from eastern also try bolting 500 ft a day on a 40 ft cut plan two miners 2 miner men 2 bolters 1 pin crew. now thats coming with it

[berlymaiden]

oh yeah well i work at a burger joint

[haterseg]

I'm a swickley seam roof bolter in pa..We run 8 ft supertwist bolts full resin. were a low coal mine and i see how dry they are and the fact they get to stand.. try using a fletcher dual head bolter with wetheads in a 20ft cutt merely 54 inches high. we bend our bolts into z's so we can get them into the top..by the way.. 1st glue is a 10 second quickset glue to hurry lol.. this video makes mining and bolting look so easy... come to swickley's seam and bring knee pads and a snorkel.

[mvthecoaldog]

54 inches? 54 inches is high coal..try putting up 4 ft. glue bolts in 32-36 inch high coal behind a set of bridges. 14-15 30 ft.cuts a day, and thats not counting what day shift left down.

Or try a 300 galis out in 38-42 inch coal under a holler and every hole you drill water pours out like a shower and put up 8ft. glue bolts.

SW Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Southern West Virginia is coal country. We have to mine it, in PA and Northern WV they farm it.

[NevadasDesertRebel]

id like to check out a coal mine im an underground gold miner and this is quite a bit different

[fishsardwriches]

Yawn..that mine in N.M is the only underground coal mine in N.M.and only been there for 7 years..you aint got shit on KENTUCKY .west virginia,or Penn. mines,,try a couple of hundred years of mining then talk in response to ..bushdogpup comment

[jbark61]

haha i am from eastern ky and i totally agree with you

[mvthecoaldog]

No, the Camera guy is not inby..unless they rockdust the face before they bolt it...haha

My old man worked for Mccoy back in the late 90's..bossed for them at Bishop Branch

[RC2222222222]

at 3:24 is the camera guy inby the ATRS?

[rebelspirit01]

I have news for everyone. I now live in MN and I can tell you they have their own poor and they have REDNECKS TOO. They really have no right to talk about us. I perfer Kentucky anytime over the North

[jannalover1]

This is the Mccoy Elkhorn mine #15, in Pikeville Ky. I work in this mines, 3rd shift and this mines is dangerouse, and if anything happens in it we would be screwed

[Renard380]

I'd love to do that 20min ride :D

[bushdogpup]

im a miner in the four corners area, our seams are about 14ft, thick, I guess we are one of the better mines. We work smarter not harder.Waferflow NM.

[hess400]

Is this McCoy Elkhorns # 15 shaft mine In Pikeville Kentucky?

[joemc111]

My friend in Maryland use to work in a deep mine in West Virginia. He told me that the most dangerous thing about working the mines was the drive to and from work.

[RC2222222222]

i'll go along with that

[nikon47130]

@joemc111 ur friend in maryland is wrong...its prob the safest part...

[sparky1990lll]

@joemc111 your a dumb ass thats y upper big branch had 29 people killed sago had 11 killed aracoma got 2 killed.. u stick ur head in between 2 rocks for 10 hours a day

[LeMaeNaDe]

@sparky1990lll Please learn to speak correct English before you go and call people "Dumb ass".

[aussie4runnerlover]

sure is a good job

[SteeltownPride]

I went today and passed my test and am now a red hat.

[xxxragexxx40965]

hold on i wanna say something yeah appalacha is poor but its not as poor as this 20 20 thing made it sound like we were total rednecks i took offense to this because these things is what makes the north look smarter and better i live in middlesboro and we are not as bad as some of these people im sorry for all the poor counties out there but they could have showed us in a positive way thats all im saying

[jtaylor6]

My dad is actually in this video. He's the one riding down with the journalist. This company has one of the best records in Eastern KY. I promise you this is not a show mine, but one that is typical. It is the strict safety codes of MSHA that make a mine like this. Way to go Dad!

[tvnewsbadge]

I can't believe how spacious that mine is.

In the ones I've visited in Southwest Virginia, you had almost that to crawl.

[rocketrig]

Amazing..... It feels like movie THE CORE ;)

[tripdau]

its dangerous work but damn does it pay well ...i didnt even graduate highschool and my first year underground working as a shear operater i made 107 thousand

[DolittleMccoy]

I live in Eastern Ky.

I Ran a Roofbolter in the very Mine.

Pretty cool to see it on youtube.

[scrubways]

I work in the mines as well. This mine looks like a show mine. We have 5 ft height but the conditions & equip. looked a lot better in the video than the hole I work in.

[thcthc]

RESPECT to u and all miners!!!!from all the way across the atlantic

..! oh yeah and about the equipment...they allways show it like this on tv...

[rdkingjct]

I work in the mines. They do have mask that help reduce the amount of dust you breath. Rarely does anyone wear them. The work is very physical and the mask make it hard to breath deep and they make you get hot. Imagine running a marathon and cutting the amount of air you can take in by a third. That's what it is like to wear a respirator while working underground.

[thcthc]

RESPECT TO YOU TO...i didnt know till today how many miners are still in the usa...beacuse in my country there is only one more mine left...SADLY..beacuse my granpa worked 30 years down under..and the other granpa 6 years..and he said..if he would be young again he would work there again and again and again...oh about the masks...hehehehe,,,you are right.,,

[kittkatt032]

A little more technology then back in the day when coal minors had to pretty much do it manualy. But i'm sure it's still not an easy task, and very dangerous as well. God Bless each of them!

[kittkatt032]

You would think they would have some kind of mask or somthing to keep from breathing in black caol dust.

[pickandshoveldotorg]

Good video,I'm sorry to hear about your father. My heart goes out to you all.

[haircutter2024]

I lost my father in the Sago Mine Disaster and I went down into the mines to where the men was barricaded and trust me this video really doesn't show the true mining experience.

[Keegansmom320]

James River Coal Company

[fretburnermann]

i wish i could stand up like that in in 36 inch coal in eastern ky

[wagons41]

must be nice gettin to stand like that...our seam is only 42 inches

[dieselman1988]

so where do u work at

[KC1967]

i have loads of respect for these men...

[Jtui]

Im glad to hear somebody finally say that...Im from northeastern Pa, and if you know your history, thats the heart of anthracite coal...and there is no room to walk in our mines even todayy. its just as dangerous...if you watched the news lately the the accident that happend at the harmony mine were one guy died. i live an hour away. and knows somebody that works there

[chaminda123]

I am studying mining engineering and I do hold a lot of respect for the workers....many of them work around few weeks per shift....full of back breaking work, dark, dim, noisy....and coal mining itself poses an enormous amount of threats: spontaneous combustion, wind blasts, methane suffocation, collapse...list goes on...

[ugmbanks]

who is this? jude?

[Jtui]

No its nick lmao

[spooln]

cheers bro

[tvnewsbadge]

That's looks like a real luxury mine... you can acutally get to stand up.

In my neck of the woods, Southwest Virgina, the roofs are so low that you almost have to crawl

[spaddad]

i am a surveyor and have spaded mines for 10 years in a lot of different mines, this was really nice compared to the 24" Elkhorn seams and Van Lear seam dog holes in Knott and Johnson Co. KY, i got started in...can't say i miss the gas in the pond creek seams though. LOL

be safe in there

[Blitz350]

This is a bituminous mine. This is where they mine the what is basically garbage coal. In the Anthracite Region we stack the stuff mined here on the "useless" pile.

[thenekom]

anybody happen to know what mine this is?