Posted by The tractor vet on February 25, 2016 at 18:09:49 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: BIG MUSKIE posted by stonerock on February 25, 2016 at 13:31:34:
Yep, i have seen it up close and running . along with the other big ones . Hauled coal back in those days . I even worked in a strip mine for a short time running a 992 Cat loader . Started the coal hauling sorta part time with just loading a couple trucks on a Saturday' for a buddy that had seven trucks and sometimes the regular drivers were not up to go load on a Saturday . I was usually off since i was the boss at my day job . Started driving full time when i had enough of the day job . We hauled from the big mines down to the Ma and Pa mines . One little deep mine was run by a father and his two sons . They had a rickity old tipple that we could just get under and had to load from the back to the ft. so the weight would settle the truck down enough so we could get a decent load . When ya went to load you had to go back into the mine and find one of them to come out and load ya. So it was put on your coveralls put your rubber boots on and your hard hat with a Wheat lite and play hunch back for a mile and a half then try and figure out where they were down what shaft . About the same at the Copper head mine if ya had a problem ya had to go find someone and they were all back in the mine , There was a reason why they called it the copper head mine . That one was not as high as the father and son mine as they were in a four foot seam that went for miles . So if the loader did not start you did all you could to get it up and running before you did the hands and knees thing and found something blocking your way in or out.
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