Strip Mining JobThat I Used To Work At In Hazard ,Kentucky

[james77196]

who made this video?

[edmonds6]

this is the only place i can find this song i worked mineing coal for 7 years before all the layoffs in eastern ky and i miss it everyday wish i could go back

[coalrun22]

folks it is simple its earth first and we will mine the other planets later

[WVhoeman]

@Yuffie3982, No i dont not live in WV. any more, although our family company is located their, one reason why coal needs to stay where its at is because its getting america by like it has for years apon years, i am not a hick, i do think like a business man because i am next in line for the construction biz, they way i look at is at the end of the month if the bottom line clears with proft the world goes round. and tmr our coal reserves will still be their.

[WVhoeman]

@Yuffie3982 with all do you respect, i hate to comment in such a way but shut the fuck up, if your not from around kentucky, westvirginia (my home place), ohio, PA, or any other coal mining state you need to keep your mouth shut. yes we all know coal does have its ups and downs but who really gives a shit about animals homes...every been up in a small aircraft near a large strip mine? it doesnt put a damn dent in the forest. screw activist! it is reasonable, COAL !

[WVhoeman]

@Yuffie3982, with all do you respect, i hate to comment in such a way but shut the fuck up, if your not from around kentucky, westvirginia (my home place), ohio, PA, or any other coal mining state you need to keep your mouth shut. yes we all know coal does have its ups and but who really gives a shit about animals homes...every been up in a small aircraft near a large strip mine? it doesnt put a damn dent in the forest. screw activist! it is reasonable, COAL !

[travcmbs]

@Yuffie3982 fuck you

[michaelaustinc45]

My Dad Was hauling Coal From their They Call him mikey doo?

[splashcat01]

ok, if you "green" people want to tell us mountain killing bastards how to live, come to where we live, come to kentucky, west virginia, all those places, tell the hard working men and women what you just told me, see what happens. you will get the worst cussin you ever got. you are threating our way of life,our famlies. come to leslie, harlan, and knott counties. and speak your mind, dont write on youtube and think your gonna change something, man up and come to coal country and tell that to us

[WVhoeman]

@splashcat01 id bust that fuckers head if he walked in town and said that, knowing the place in mcdowell county westvirgins i was rised he wouldnt leave cause the police would probly help out.

[phonest]

@splashcat - most of the land that is being stripped belongs to outside land companies, not to local people. The wealth of the locals is being stolen away by outsiders, leaving destroyed forests and poisoned water.

[southernkyredneck]

is this an ICG job

[jaybo1120]

Is this near Long Fork or Mac & Nellie? I'm sure ive deer hunted all around this..

How hard is it to operate this equipment? Rock truck, dozer, etc.? Is it really that bad of a job. If I knew i could run the equipment, I wouldn't mind doing this for a living. If its night shift how do you keep from backing the rock truck over the hill? I can see how it could be stressful at times..

[tradernorton05]

The lyrics to this song is sad and disgusting.

Its a damn shame what people will do for a dollar.

[kentucky9000]

Weres hardburly! Hello Hazard

[TheRealDaveRage]

looks alot like our operation here on kelly mountain in wv. all same equipment except you had a 992g

[SuperJeremy25]

the old way of mining is what made ky.....this kind of mining is destroying it. theres a difference...at least you can afford your 500 dollar a month truck payment!!!!!

[KYSmokeFans]

Don Stanley

[catjuicy]

great vid! who sings the first song?

[splashcat01]

@catjuicy don stanley and the middlecreek band- a stripminers life

[neace94]

my dad is from hazard kentucky

[Rjbull20]

Love the video man, i ran a 992 in a rock quarry around nashville and got alot of operating experince from it, loved it!

[cudamandan]

That comment was for you nurselady.

[splashcat01]

i agree with you, i am a strip miner and i make good money. coal mining made kentucky what it is. then people came in and started trash talking coal that dont know what the hell they are talking about. and by the way nurselady, i've worked with several preachersthat are miners, so god bless you

[SuperJeremy25]

@splashcat01 theres a difference in strip mining and regular old mining...alot more destruction with strip mining....thats not what made ky. its whats destroying it,,at least you can afford your 500 dollar a month truck payment tho!!! wont be no tearing up the mountains in letcher that my fam owns...

[splashcat01]

@SuperJeremy25 i dont have a 500 dollar truck payment, i drive a 96 ranger that costed 1500 there is nothing wrong with stripmining we go in get the coal and put the dirt back, people like you bitch and cry that we destroy the mountains. when we are done the land is acually usable for housing and devlopment, i wish that all the mines in the country would shut down for a while, so when your lights go out you could beg miners to do there jobs and maybe, just maybe give us a little credit

[TennesseeNurselady]

strip miners work for the devil and the land owners of strip mines are being raped and robbed...stop strip mining and bring jobs to eastern ky.. clean coal is a must!!!! the men in NYC and Chicago are getting rich at the expense of the kentucky, va, west va people.. the CEOS dont care about the poor in the mountains! our kids have no future thanks to strip mining

[BrownMasterFlash]

Research has been done:

Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia by Eric Reece.

And please before you judge a book by its title, read it, there are many valid points.

[travcmbs]

@BrownMasterFlash The area that idiot called wilderness had been striped twice before and was the biggest illeagle dump in the county it's in a hell of a lot better shape now.

[hellbilly074]

It is a shame that the people of Kentucky (myself included) have to destroy our mountains to create electricity and jobs. It really hurts.... :(

[splashcat01]

@hellbilly074 so you would rather have straight up and down hill side over level ground that is heaven to wildlife and live stock. around here mining is not just a job it a way of life, leave it alone

[hellbilly074]

@splashcat01 Heaven to wildlife? These strip jobs are just that!! They destroy the mountains which is the habitat for animals!! How fucking ignorant are you? I know these jobs are the only good paying ones for people in that area, but in a few decades when the coal is gone, you are left jobless and the land is a smoking wasteland!

[splashcat01]

@hellbilly074 a smoking waste land ? do you even live around the coal feilds. every old strip job i've been on is crawling with deer, elk, turkey and every other animal you can think of. if that is a wasteland you are the ignorant one.

ban coal , let you bastards freeze in the dark

[hellbilly074]

@splashcat01 There are plenty of other ways to get electricity besides coal. Nuclear being among the best. Yes I have been on several strip jobs, the water is ruined, and all they plant back are locust trees and maybe a few pines.

[splashcat01]

you are right, there are other way to generate power but they are not able to take coals place. nuclear is clean so they say but you have spent fuel rods witch are radio active to deal with. and where do you think they will put the wind mills? on old mountain top jobs because of there open spaces. before you can put up a good arguement, do your research

[brettjacobs101]

@splashcat01 wind,water,air, and solour, can be used for power! they are all renewable resources.

[Kelthuzad126]

You're right splashcat01 he is ignorant and all he can do is slander, but the truth is we know what we are talking about and he is clueless. Let him hugs his trees who cares what he thinks lol.

[splashcat01]

i dont really care but im makes me really mad when people that dont know what they are doing try to tell people what they can and cant do with there own private land. if they want it striped, good more jobs. people have forgot that private land means no one has any business on it.

they should stay where they live and find something eltse to pick on.

[rosshorn812]

@splashcat01

the issues of strip coal mining go beyond the personal property rights of certain individuals who would destroy mountains that have existed for over 450 million years. strip mining destroys water supplies, kills water systems, and removes acres and acres of natural, healthy ecosystems only to replace them with worthless, barren deserts.

[Kenruckyheadhunter]

@rosshorn812 if you think strip mining forms barren worthless deserts than you have ABSOLUTELY no clue what you are really talking about. Most of Peabodys land has become wildlife management areas. alot of mines turn land once unusable for anything into land usable, for anything. here in west KY most of it is reclaimed into gently rolling hills which regrow into woods or become farmland.

[rosshorn812]

@splashcat01 if you believe that one person's right to remove MOUNTAINS to help fuel our completely unsustainable, greenhouse gas-creating economy in exchange for monetary wealthy is more important than the average person's right to a clean water supply, then you must be A) misinformed B) corrupt C) a damn fool or D) all of the above (making you a FUCK)

[splashcat01]

@rosshorn812 youre a goddamn idiot if thats the bullshit you belive, got to youre perfect world and stay there, i am a 20 year old strip miner that was born and raised in leslie county kentucky. there are old mines all over and my water is fine, there are fish in the river by my hose and its crystal clear, the mountains are full of wildlife, you motherfuckers are running you mouth over some theing you have no clue about. if your so smart to judge me lets your dumbass find somethin better

[rosshorn812]

@splashcat01 the simple fact that it does not affect you does not excuse the fact that it affects others. I have great respect for your ability to do a hard day's work, but I do not respect the work itself or the intent of those you work for.

now, you are telling me that I am an idiot and that I have no clue about strip mining. inform me. tell me something real that I don't know about. I want to learn, truly. I intend to visit strip mining sites and the appalachians.

[splashcat01]

@rosshorn812 please visit them soon, but dont just look at the active sites like many others do, stop and look around at the older reclaimed part and other sites that are tens of years old. a mine site near my house called thunder ridge is a active mine site, it is a few miles from me and is part of my watershed. there are several others that are in hollows that feed directly in to the river along with 3 active washers. opinions are like assholes, evreybody has one, just dont try to press yours

[rosshorn812]

@splashcat01 also, how long have the mines near you been inactive and would the river by your house been a part of the watershed involved in the strip mines?

[rosshorn812]

@splashcat01 we must live as if the world will continue past our lifetime (because it will).

[cardinalsboi22]

@splashcat01 by your logic...if a serial killer kills people on land they own then they should be allowed to kill. Fact is, alot of side effects from strip mining and MTR dont STAY on that land and it invades others. The flooding, the rock dust, the coal dust, the poisoned water. I live in WV, lived there all my life and so has my family since before the Revolution and I do not support strip mining or MTR. Its a job killer and is not mining.

[Kelthuzad126]

go away hellbilly you dirty hippie!

[hellbilly074]

I'm far from being a hippie, you ignorant piss ant. I just hate destroying the only thing that Kentucky has going for it.

[Kelthuzad126]

you claim you aren't ignorant but you fail to acknowledge the fact that the land is completely restored, at expense to the company AND its healthier afterward more so than before. Attack me personally if you must I don't care but i am stating a fact.

[hebintn]

Disgusting! We can put men on the moon, but we can't generate electricity without destroying God's creations.

[riverlifeva]

Oh yeah.. I get loads of entertainment from watching the environment destroyed.

[zliminator]

Spoken like a true tree-hugger.

[riverlifeva]

@zliminator well thank you, I try my best;)

[zliminator]

Doehhh!

[riverlifeva]

@zliminator yeah that fits you better .

[cudamandan]

This is what my grandfather done till his death. Wish I could have known him better. I love this song because of what he done and what he was to my mother and father. Maybe someday I can relive time in which he lived on.

[KILLERKROW23]

so these are the people that cut the tops off of the mountains in Eastern KY?...Nice job...Its right up there with kicking puppies...or kids...

[cudamandan]

Keeps your lights on pal!!

[cudamandan]

You got a better, cheaper, and quicker way to keep your lights on??

[cudamandan]

I'm self employed pal. Work hard six days a week. And you?? I'm all for other forms of energy, but it ain't goona happen soon and it won't be cheap.

[wvreject]

Sorry for the above remark, it sounds like you are knocking coal mining, as for me I retired from UMWA with 41 years of service, most of it was on strip jobs, what do you do, sell windmills ? I will remove the last remark I made to you...Have a nice day......

[cudamandan]

I don't see no solution to mining coal right now. If they ever do find one i'm out of a job. Where I live in ky coal mining keeps everything turning. Left wingers bash mining every chance they get, but they don't have a solution. And they love their lights staying on also.

[TennesseeNurselady]

@cudamandan your children have no future.. the coal companties dont care about u or your family.. they worry about getting rich and they are using u for the devils work!!!!

[cudamandan]

My child has just as much future as I did. I went to college, graduated, and am self employed. I don't work for any coal company, but coal miners are alot of my customers. If I raise him to go to school and work like I did. He can have anything he wants just like I can. Sure times are hard but they are everywhere, look at Detroit. I respect all the miners here, strip and deep both. They keep the lights on. They make a very good living also. It's dangerous, but driving down the highway is to.

[LiquidEdge41568]

Loader also has chains on it to give it traction.

[stellastacy]

on a hill side in hazard was about my life after 41 years married to a man named Ranger.he left meand his family .for another woman...

[dustystix76]

i thought i recognized the 992C..the mine i usta work at had a tiger rubber tire dozer..the mine i work at now doesn't have a tiger, but has 3 854G's, 2 690D's and a small Cat that looks like a tiger but isn't labeled as one

[awsomeokid13]

the old cat loader is that 988c

[dustystix76]

im not sure if that's a 988..i'm not sure what it is this point in time, but just by lookin at the chained tire loader, it's the same platform 854G Rubber Tire Dozers are built on

[catografie]

The new one is a 992G (same platform as the 854G Wheel Dozer). The old loader is a Cat 992C which shares the plattform with the Tiger 690B Wheelsdozer.

[cowbubbles]

do you know where belfere KY is down toward wilppson WV.

[KYSmokeFans]

yes sir sure is

[popcorntrucker]

what mine is this? icg

[zprice16]

its chained to get better tracktion

[drphibes46]

I use to deliver diesel fuel to jod sites like this! when they seen the fuel truck coming up the hill they would radio all vehicles and form a line and pass the fuel hose around. I probably delivered right to this Place

[120000000]

it was chained up in the front to keep from busting the tires

[mccormickchainsaw]

why was the one cat loader chained up in the front?

[spanky628]

I enjoyed this video.

[hfpitman]

hfpitman im a ky man an grew up there an its a great beautiful country.

[matt78tv]

Cool video. I grew up on lost creek and coal company bought my family out in 93. I remember growing up in the late 80s and at night when traveling down lost creek you could see the drag line lit up like something from out of this world. The blasting would shake our home and occassionally you could hear the humming of the electric drag line.

[rapidrampuri]

hey ky smoke nice video im in between vicco and hazard at viper small world bro keep on keepin on

[WVLinda]

Nice video, to the guy wanting to kno the first song its Strip Miner's Life by Don Stanley, im on my moms account at the moment but im a strip miner in wv for Massey Energy, thats gotta be the best song ever made.

[atthebasspond]

Why thanks WVLinda. I was doing a search on the internet for a clip of that song and found this site. I'm Don's wife and I'm sure he'll appreciate what you said. He was a strip miner himself for 20 years.

[JoyWKY]

nice video im wanting a job as a surface miner when im older my dads a forman at one in ky im going to try to fill his shoes someday

[zprice15]

hey great video and everything i saw a992G on there im really only 13 but i love strip mining i know a lil bit bout it my dad has g speards on his job.if u dont care if u get any more send me some pictures or something and send me the name of that first song thanx

[hunterguy18]

Thats a pretty good video. Im from Harlan County and Im just about out of high school and I need to start looking for job and I would like to work on a strip mine so i was wonderin what type of qualifications do you need for that type of job.

[KYSmokeFans]

Thats where we are right now at the Perry/Breathitt Line

[tyoung317]

thanks for the Video. It's funny when you move away from KY the things you miss....little things you never thought about. I grew up in Jackson, KY and Strip Mining was a big part of Breathitt Co. at the time. Be proud KY, never have met nicer folks than the KY people.

[catleefs]

CAT 992D & 992G LOADING SHOW.