Posted by The tractor vet on January 29, 2014 at 21:03:36 from (75.19.125.103):
In Reply to: Coal mines posted by TGIN on January 29, 2014 at 19:05:36:
Well i know Consol is gone from Cadiz Ohio .and i know that the big stripping shovels either have been scraped or shipped out of country . There are just a hand full of the old coal companys still mining and most are deep mines . 99% of us old coal haulers are out . At one time this county i live in was knowen as the owner operator capital as we had more owner operators per capita . We had the coal buckets we had steel haulers and we had the guys that pulled refers . About ten miles sout of me is where the strip mines were and on south . At night if you were up in a plane you could see all the drag lines working for miles . The coal hauling days were a blast , we had fun and ya got to know everybody . Things went south in Dec of 79 i was one of the lucky ones due to the fact that when i stepped up to a new truck in 77 i got away from a day cab and a tri axle and went with a new 4300 I H eagle with a sleeper for two reasons , one to get all the junk out of the cab and get it ina storage area and two i was getting tired of sleeping over the steering wheel during the winter months while hauling road salt , and i wanted a tandem so i could travel into Pa. and W. Va. with out throwing up a big red flag sayen i am and Ohio Coal bucket and i am heavy . sso i ordered a new East tandem dump built to my spec.'s that would still haul them 45 tonners and be lighter . I ended up with a total light weight of 27400 lbs full of fuel with all my junk lot better then a 32500 light weight as before . When the steel mills went down and the need for coal was gone i was able to stay busy hauling other stuff . My salt hauls to the west to the feed mills going out and scrap coming back still made for a good week. But by 83 things were going down hill again and it was time to hang it up.
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