😂 They know their facts alright, these obvious discrepancies are intended to even get the average NPC to comment. It helps the algorithm circulate their videos. 🤑 No need to be concerned about facts when they already know, they got everyone here to comment.
It's raw rock salt ore, but yea you're not the first commenter spreading ignorance and people are eating it up OP haha. If you had any integrity you'd delete or at least edit this comment.
God damn, now you reminded me of Project igi 1, the final missions deep underground where the warhead has to be recovered. I'll install this in a few days. Thanks.
Thought I’d answer some of y’all’s questions as I work in the underground mining world… 1. The machine you see is commonly referred to as a LHD (load, haul, dump), it’s an underground configured loader designed to work in both production & development mining 2. The U/G mine you see in the video is an underground salt mine, where the machinery is quite larger compared to the equipment I am used to seeing in underground hard rock mining applications. 3. These machines are brought underground in two ways. One, they are cut up on surface into individual sections and fitted into what we call “stone boats” and slung under the elevator to be brought underground for reassembly. Two, if the mine is designed around a surface portal ramp then the machine can simply be driven and/or brought underground. 4. These LHD’s can be remotely operated to remove the operator from harms way in an unsupported part of the mine during our “mucking” portion of a round, where the face has yet to be scaled and/or supported, we call this “remote mucking”. This can be done via an operator underground or remotely from surface 5. How do we breathe underground? Any underground mine works off the premises of positive ventilation. Fresh air is drawn into the mine from means of large ventilation equipment on surface, making its way all the way down to the lowest portions of the mine (this can be over 8000+ feet where am used to!). The exhaust air (what the machinery and man power use up), is drawn out of the mine on the premises as how the intake air is drawn in, only taking a different path as not to mix the two. 6. Underground can be claustrophobic at first, but like everything, you get use to it. You either like it, or you hate it, there’s no in between. The hardest and most difficult aspect of working underground however, is the heat. Where I mainly work, we are use to seeing temperatures easily over +26 degrees Celsius, depending on what level and part of the mine you are working in. This is all very variable of course.
Yeah well I have actually built and repaired these machines by a company called Fermel in South Africa. Also helped improved and designed the 18 man carrier. Worked for 3 years under ground at a platinum/gold mine, what most people don't know about a platinum mine is gold is a by product as too uranium of a platinum mine.
Also these machines have fail save brakes which if the machine would loose hydraulic pressure the brakes would lock making it stop so you wouldn't have a run away machine on the slopes. If you have ever had a job like mine there is no one that can drive a vehicle faster in reverse without with just using your mirrors. And oh no touching the walls with a vehicle as the wall can collapse and not everyone gets a special under ground driving licence, even if you have a driving licence top side.
Top scariest jobs (in my opinion) I could never do. 1. Deep Sea jobs, sat diving, welder 2. Underground jobs, mining 3. Electric jobs, power lines etc. 4. Tower climbing jobs 5. Oil Rig worker "roughneck 6. Skyscraper window cleaner I'm sure there are more I forgot to list. The most dangerous job I've had was working around bulls on the ranch, almost been trampled once or twice 😂
Oil platform welder ($147USD/Hr plus "hazzardpay" And you start the second you leave land. I am a rescue operations miner After 12 years of Mining (Nickel,Gold. etc) Only seen 1 cave in after a blast (no one around it)
🎺🌥️1 Thessalonians 4 KJV ✝️🩸 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Colossians 1 KJV 🩸 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
@@TheSkete not sure what you mean. but the format of how its writen. and frequency at which i see similar comments is indicator that very likely is a bot.
@@David-tt1ij Ventilation is force-fed into mines so exhaust fumes get diluted and carried out of the mine. Also , this particular machine is battery powered
Nope, sorry, HELL NO! I'd change cellular tower light bulbs before I'd even think about going into a freaking mine. Props. To you Mr. Mine loader operator!
Dude from The Ruhr here. The area that I live in was THE coal mining region in Germany. Lots of mining and heavy industry was located here up until the 80s. I sat in one of those vehicles once. I did not particularly mind the confined space, but I can definitely understand that this is not for everybody and that some folks give it a hard pass. If you are ever in Bochum, go visit the mining museum. There is a lot of old equipment on display, some of which you can get into / on top of, though sadly not one of these. Mining was and is backbreaking work, despite everything that people say when looking at „the old times“ through rose tinted glasses. Little fun language fact: a common German expression which translates to „gone from the window“ („weg vom Fenster“) is said to go back to diseases that old miners often had, especially silicosis. In the late stages, they had trouble breathing and would stand at the open window to get fresh air while their hacking cough sounded through the garden. And when they passed eventually, it was said that they were „gone from the window“. Today it is used to describe any person or company who is forced to permanently abandon any activity.
I am a mining engineer and I have experienced underground mines with a height of 5.5ft only due to the seam thickness of the coal seam. We have stairs to go down and up the incline. You can't have negative thoughts while you are on the job otherwise you won't be able to go nearly 300m below ground and a walking distance of nearly 1.5km.
Einstein was j-e-wish so he probably didn't poop...based on all the laws against speaking let alone "thinking poorly" about them they probably just exhale and it sounds like talmud.. It's a sick world, and they do seem to be the ones ?? ???? making it so...
Mining is a hard job even today with all those gadgets and equipment. Imagine how hard it was before , without all those things and safety standards? It makes you feel shame for complaining on your working conditions....
@@mickeyconnor830 every comment here is useless.. and they do work in salt mines and ppl use too much salt and make too much useless shit to destroy the whole shit 😂
@@Martins-o9j 28.50 when I started 12 years ago 37ish now About seven years ago I got on the job training to be an electrician/mechanic in my coal mine and we're up to 44.15 If I can do it Anyone can You've just got to want it
I know what that machine is. At Atlas Copco Wagner Mining Equipment Co , now Eperoc I think is the name of the division it’s a LST, that’s what our model of machine was. That’s a big machine. We built LST-5C’s that were a lot lower for drifts under 48 inches high but also the capacity was lower generally at 3.5 tons. We built some machines that size with front end forks as a lift truck that had a capacity of 30 tons. The biggest problem was the front tires would flatten out under the load and they eventually had to foam fill them. A lot of our machines went into hazardous conditions so everything was hydraulic and pneumatic. The only electrical was a small sealed self energizing alternator that powered the lights only. No cameras back in those days. Also our machines had a patented water scrubber exhaust systems designed by the company namesake Eddie Wagner. The first machine I cut my teeth on so to speak when I hired in was a LST-5C the machine from hell to learn on. For a week I didn’t know the front from the back or what I was building 🤪🤪😂😂😂👍. I’ve always said at work if can master building a LST you can build anything. Yep I built a lot of those over the years and many a funny story on my way to the forum, if you know what I mean😂😂😂👍👍. Eddie Wagner really invented or I should say revolutionized the underground mining industry of today with his designs of transport machinery used in the underground mining industries. The first machine he built was I think around 1949. Before rubber tired diesel powered mining equipment they used donkey’s pulling ore carts on rails. A lot of people owe a lot of thanks to Eddie Wagner and his brothers and family that started Wagner Tractor and came up with Scoop Mobile front end loaders and Mix Mobile ready Mix concrete mixers to mount on truck frames and the first fully diesel powered hydraulic log stackers that could lift and remove at one time 20 ton load of logs off a log truck at one shot. The interesting thing is Eddie Wagner had only a 8th grade education but he could out think any college educated mechanical engineer.
The degree only points you in a specific direction and the steps people take to get their. You wont find innovation following in the footsteps of others
Great stuff. Yes indeed Wagner machines are popular in the South African mining industry. Eimco and Toro are also well represented. There was a company in Johannesburg that dealt mainly with sunstrand pumps and motors. Their top guy was a genius who also left school in the eight grade. Industry has a lot of people like that. It's amazing how many engineers you come across who can't read schematics properly and absolutely cannot do diagnoses using drawings. I worked on LHDs for many years and I preferred rebuilding them and rebuilt a lot of them over the years. I mostly worked on eimco 911 913 925 and 915 then moved on to Toro. I loved the work.
@@NicleTicle it could be . Wagner had a relationship with GHH way back in the old days and they might have copied our machines. I think that might’ve been going on. They broke tie’s with GHH. A lot of people copied our machine designs that were the brainchild of Eddie Wager. A lot of companies copied our machines because the patents ran out and theirs nothing you can do about it. In the beginning was Wagner and Joy . Before that it was small rail cars pulled by horse or donkeys and or men just pushed the ore carts on tracks. Eddie Wagner was approached by a company and I forgot who to build a 2 yard articulation, rubber tired , diesel powered machine in 1948 that launched the hole thing. It was so successful he broke off from his brothers to start Wagner Mining Equipment Co. That 2 yard machine we built up till Atlas Copco moved everything to Sweden is really close in appearance to the 2 yard machine today other than upgrades. I’ll have to look again at that video.
Years ago our middle school took a field trip to the Hutchinson Salt Mines in Kansas and it was magical. I'm just guessing that's where this footage came from, but this video seems to show salt mining either way. But at the Hutchinson mine they showed not only the awesome parts of the mining operations, they take you to their museum areas. Apparently the humidity is so low thousands of feet down while surrounded by metric gigatons of salt that it's a wonderful environment to store historically significant artifacts and documents. The museum exhibits that were available to the public included movie props like the Big Guns and Noisy Cricket gun from Men In Black as well as original costumes from The Wizard Of Oz (go figure, we were in Kansas and those people do not like going five minutes without mentioning the movie.) They also stored many important government documents that were not available to the public. Magical place to take kids and adults, I would highly recommend :)
This comment is a bit of a shock to me because I actually know a fair bit about that salt museum (and wasn't expecting to see it mentioned in my feed), I can confidently say that this footage isn't from that mine as it is only 650 feet underground and the equipment they use is orange. As a side note I don't see any bumps that would be reminiscent of a kerf cut so I wonder what kind of mining the mine in the video is using. Either way mines are fascinating and its cool to see Strataca being mentioned
I went there my freshman year of high school, long before they had built the Strataca museum when it was purely a mining operation only. We were the first group of non-employees to tour the operation. My teacher had an inside hookup sort of thing, family or friend that worked there. We were kind of a test/feasibility study for doing the museum. It was pretty cool, naturally we went down the rickety skip/elevator the crew did, hardhats, PBA oxygen generator, tagouts, the whole thing. Rode in the crew truck, a roofless old diesel chevy with crew benches for a bed. Went right up to the working face with the equipment. Even put some of the blasting media in my hand. We got to look in the archives which wasn't much to physically see. Lots of shelves and boxes. But we got to see the original film reels of Star Wars and Gone With The Wind. Ive been there as it is now as Strataca and still highly recommend it but I feel privileged and honored to have the experience I did the first time! Having talked to some of the employees, we got to do & see things that even the people working there don't get to do. Pretty cool stuff! Small world btw!
That's right. It's a salt mine. We had a problem getting our delivery of salt for gritting the roads a few years ago as one broke down under ground blocking the passage.
@@michaelw4258Never thought Germans would use zip ties to install cameras on such a nice vehicle. He transfers "salt ore" efficently tho, so you might be right.
They have slopes and rails that can transport stuff up and down as nessassary. them scopes usually are driven down. maintence is done under ground but some cases theyll bring them up to get overhauled or something. seen it done lots of time. more in the coal industry then in salt.
A scoop. That’s what we called them in the mining industry. And the majority of them don’t have any cameras on them. If they did, the sorry dogs operating them, would have them out of operation by the time they moved 20’. There’s a different set of rules for underground workers. If you see a piece of equipment moving (which is called tramming in the mining industry), you’d better get out of the way. They have the right of way. If you get run over by one, it’s your own fault. “Committed Suicide.”
Seen 6 operators flip out on a job 890 ft straight down building a Liquid Butane storage unit ! The first cut was 8x24 and sec cut was 12'x24' making total cut 20'x24' main shaft 24'x24' then you A-K shafts that was off set off the main shaft that was 300' long !Blast have safety meeting wait 30 min Mine supervisor and safty person go down check everything then everyone down in the whole everyone rode a eight yard skip pan down let drilling crew set and two operators ran these low profile wheel loaders they called them Muckers ! We had two enclosed cab muckers but oe was always broke down ! Had a back open cab with a old straight pipe Detroit Diesel V8 it was manual shift so thw other operator said he couldn't run it so i had to ! You had to run that old girl wild open with ear plugs and muffs it was so loud in them tunnels ! The above ground guys always knew who was operating the open cab because they could hear it up top if i was operating !
My question is what operator breathes. The desiel engine must consume nearly all O2 in the tunnel. So if the glass I see in one of your posts means self-contained cabin. Do I assume an air supply has been added to allow operators to breathe properly. Or does this jod have high levels of asfication deaths?
Most proper mining operations use a technology invented called "ventilation" that adds small seperate shafts with fans that move bad air out and breathable air in.... @@daniellafferety4025
@@daniellafferety4025 you can't see it in these pictures near the working front of the salt layer, but there are large air supply tubes that exchange the air within the mine, operating 24hrs a day to take out bad air and supply the machines and miners with constant fresh air.
I used to do building work in a Gypsum mine where they used these. We used to meet with the miners on the surface and then drive down into the mine in Land Rovers, the miners would go off and mine and we would go off and build. Amazing experience.
I had to scroll for 5 minutes to find a comment like this. Exactly. Why is the roof span so far? Seems like they would want some columns every so often?
@@travishackney7771 although some mining equipment do run 600v by cable , a scoop wouldn’t make sense with how much movement it does, you would have issues with the cable constantly . Usually remote operated and run on diesel .
You clearly don't know the definition of "ore" 😂 "a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or *valuable mineral* can be extracted" salt is a mineral 😂
@@mollycollins498 Most people dont go around saying "Salt Ore" like they do Copper ore, Lead ore, iron ore, silver ore, gold ore, etc. Instead they say mineral Salt, industrial salt, table salt, and so on. Im aware that all ores are minerals, but doesn't mean everyone calls all minerals ores.
Just watching that creeps me out. Couldn't work underground. I had no trouble with heights, used to regularly work 60 metres up on refineries but no way I could do 2 miles underground. Respect to the guys who do.
Claustrophobic folks need not apply.
I wage no woman does this job.....
@@nickconder6272They do. Though nice pointing out the misogyny.
@@nickconder6272 We have several women on our crew and one of them is our most productive operators.
@@nickconder6272 Although you don't seem very good at wagers you do seem quite good at stereotyping.
I got claustrophobic just by watching this video!
wish these sites would get their facts right. Its a salt mine, not ore.
😂 They know their facts alright, these obvious discrepancies are intended to even get the average NPC to comment. It helps the algorithm circulate their videos. 🤑 No need to be concerned about facts when they already know, they got everyone here to comment.
Ore is anything mined.
Never heard of metallic sodium huh?
It's raw rock salt ore, but yea you're not the first commenter spreading ignorance and people are eating it up OP haha. If you had any integrity you'd delete or at least edit this comment.
U could probably weld this salt 😅😂😅😂
Hats off to the people who do this subterranean work. I couldn’t imagine being 2000 feet under ground. I would definitely freak out 😮
I know I saw this in igi 2 mission 2
God damn, now you reminded me of Project igi 1, the final missions deep underground where the warhead has to be recovered. I'll install this in a few days. Thanks.
Females are not applying voluntarily, causing a problem to the "gender gap" narrative.
Could u imagine a cave in.
Lol imagine that deep and alone..nope..couldn't be me..these humans are brave!
Thought I’d answer some of y’all’s questions as I work in the underground mining world…
1. The machine you see is commonly referred to as a LHD (load, haul, dump), it’s an underground configured loader designed to work in both production & development mining
2. The U/G mine you see in the video is an underground salt mine, where the machinery is quite larger compared to the equipment I am used to seeing in underground hard rock mining applications.
3. These machines are brought underground in two ways. One, they are cut up on surface into individual sections and fitted into what we call “stone boats” and slung under the elevator to be brought underground for reassembly. Two, if the mine is designed around a surface portal ramp then the machine can simply be driven and/or brought underground.
4. These LHD’s can be remotely operated to remove the operator from harms way in an unsupported part of the mine during our “mucking” portion of a round, where the face has yet to be scaled and/or supported, we call this “remote mucking”. This can be done via an operator underground or remotely from surface
5. How do we breathe underground? Any underground mine works off the premises of positive ventilation. Fresh air is drawn into the mine from means of large ventilation equipment on surface, making its way all the way down to the lowest portions of the mine (this can be over 8000+ feet where am used to!). The exhaust air (what the machinery and man power use up), is drawn out of the mine on the premises as how the intake air is drawn in, only taking a different path as not to mix the two.
6. Underground can be claustrophobic at first, but like everything, you get use to it. You either like it, or you hate it, there’s no in between. The hardest and most difficult aspect of working underground however, is the heat. Where I mainly work, we are use to seeing temperatures easily over +26 degrees Celsius, depending on what level and part of the mine you are working in. This is all very variable of course.
I think of Kentucky looking at this thing
It’s so much bigger than what I’m used too as well. Almost all of our equipment was quite a bit shorter in underground coal mining.
Actually its all Ai ran not need for a operator! Pretty impressive
Yeah well I have actually built and repaired these machines by a company called Fermel in South Africa. Also helped improved and designed the 18 man carrier.
Worked for 3 years under ground at a platinum/gold mine, what most people don't know about a platinum mine is gold is a by product as too uranium of a platinum mine.
Also these machines have fail save brakes which if the machine would loose hydraulic pressure the brakes would lock making it stop so you wouldn't have a run away machine on the slopes. If you have ever had a job like mine there is no one that can drive a vehicle faster in reverse without with just using your mirrors.
And oh no touching the walls with a vehicle as the wall can collapse and not everyone gets a special under ground driving licence, even if you have a driving licence top side.
It even got F1 style slicks on it.
The thing is slammed
@@МартинЙотов-ю9цfr 😂
practically dead flat surface huge load and a Sh*t ton of torque. slicks will provide the traction you need.
@@МартинЙотов-ю9ц built like a heavy duty dragster.
Idk how they got surface so clean, in copper mines these tires wouldnt last a day :o
Takes a special type of person to get in these mines. Not something I could do so hats off to the fellas who do.
Mama always told me I was special
Technically, a Ford Fiesta can also fit under there. It’s 1.4m in height
Uh huh. And what generation?
@@ronaldjensen9919 latest gen
I’m pretty sure all cars could
@@andyelwell3172most*
Imagine drifting with it under there
Top scariest jobs (in my opinion) I could never do.
1. Deep Sea jobs, sat diving, welder
2. Underground jobs, mining
3. Electric jobs, power lines etc.
4. Tower climbing jobs
5. Oil Rig worker "roughneck
6. Skyscraper window cleaner
I'm sure there are more I forgot to list. The most dangerous job I've had was working around bulls on the ranch, almost been trampled once or twice 😂
Camera man for the View .
I agree 1000%
And not a feminist in sight asking for more female workers...
7. Answer my wife
Oil platform welder ($147USD/Hr plus "hazzardpay" And you start the second you leave land. I am a rescue operations miner After 12 years of Mining (Nickel,Gold. etc) Only seen 1 cave in after a blast (no one around it)
Nah this is an indie horror game in the making
That should really be one. 😮😊❤
Like the idea. ❤
Looks like a salt mine.
🎺🌥️1 Thessalonians 4 KJV ✝️🩸
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Colossians 1 KJV 🩸
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Although I don’t mind the verse I find it’s a weird response to the op’s comment? An yes it’s a salt mine!
@@denniscrane9753very likely a bot.
@@emerybryant- So they've got "Saved" 'bots now? What interesting times we live in...
@@TheSkete not sure what you mean. but the format of how its writen. and frequency at which i see similar comments is indicator that very likely is a bot.
*_"Jesse, we have to mine, Jesse"_*
*_"THAT'S SICK, YO!!"_*
Lol came to the comments to find exactly this 🤣
Bro that's actually him 😂
"JESSE GET IN THE 6 FOOT EXCAVATOR JESSE"
It's getting kinda salty in here, Mr white
I know I saw this in igi 2 mission 2
Brings a WHOLE new meaning to the term 'lowrider'.
Not a job for me.
😂😂😂
Nice
I was a coal miner, roof caved in on me and I got out of that before something went worse
If it pay 8000 dollars I do
Sign me up.. for not having this job.
Its called a scoop ram. We have them in Canada. I grew up underground.
Scoop Tram, drove one for years..
You what? 😮
What about breathing the exhaust fumes underground. 😮😮😢😢😢😮
Thanks
@@David-tt1ij Ventilation is force-fed into mines so exhaust fumes get diluted and carried out of the mine. Also , this particular machine is battery powered
Nope, sorry, HELL NO! I'd change cellular tower light bulbs before I'd even think about going into a freaking mine. Props. To you Mr. Mine loader operator!
At first I thought it was the size of a remote controlled car
Me to lmao then he said its 6 fooot tall
.
Same lol
Dude from The Ruhr here. The area that I live in was THE coal mining region in Germany. Lots of mining and heavy industry was located here up until the 80s.
I sat in one of those vehicles once. I did not particularly mind the confined space, but I can definitely understand that this is not for everybody and that some folks give it a hard pass.
If you are ever in Bochum, go visit the mining museum. There is a lot of old equipment on display, some of which you can get into / on top of, though sadly not one of these.
Mining was and is backbreaking work, despite everything that people say when looking at „the old times“ through rose tinted glasses.
Little fun language fact: a common German expression which translates to „gone from the window“ („weg vom Fenster“) is said to go back to diseases that old miners often had, especially silicosis. In the late stages, they had trouble breathing and would stand at the open window to get fresh air while their hacking cough sounded through the garden. And when they passed eventually, it was said that they were „gone from the window“.
Today it is used to describe any person or company who is forced to permanently abandon any activity.
If you want to go into a real salt mine, like 750 meter (I think?) underground. Go to "Erlebnisbergwerk Merkers"
Jetzt verstehe ich endlich woher dieser Ausdruck kommt. Danke.( 35 Jahre gewohnt in Oer- Erkenschwick)
Great Museum went a couple years ago.
They see me Rollin and
They be hatin
Unloading and tryna catch me ridin loaded
Tryna catch me ridin loaded
😂😂😂
I am a mining engineer and I have experienced underground mines with a height of 5.5ft only due to the seam thickness of the coal seam. We have stairs to go down and up the incline. You can't have negative thoughts while you are on the job otherwise you won't be able to go nearly 300m below ground and a walking distance of nearly 1.5km.
It's almost impossible not having negative thoughts.
@@RBtutoriais if you are focused on your job and have the right company it's not that hard.
what do you mean negative thoughts? you mean the fear of the mine collapsing?
@@SlavicUnionGaming yeah.. That's one of many.. Explosion, collapse, inundation, tripping..
What's the reason that they don't just create a higher tunnel so that less specialized equipment can be used?
You couldn’t pay me enough to do that
Be in a room with a ceiling taller than the room you're currently in?
@@brianvalenti1207I think he means working as a miner thousands of feet inside the earth
It's a good job. Roughly $100,000 a year
What about 5 billion dollars?
@@chiefusb465thats on the low end, shaft miners are likely to make 250 to 300
“Dam nice car bro. Is that thing even street legal?”
“Fuk no”
The driver operates the loader with buttons and gears. No shit Einstein
Einstein was j-e-wish so he probably didn't poop...based on all the laws against speaking let alone "thinking poorly" about them they probably just exhale and it sounds like talmud..
It's a sick world, and they do seem to be the ones ?? ???? making it so...
AI generated nonsense
As opposed to verbal abuse and sexual favors...
@@tylerkinley268 no, A.I. is taking over those as well, A.I. generated Corn is replacing women O.F.
It could operate with a touchscreen
It’s awesome but there’s not enough anti anxiety medicine in the world to get me in that thing 2000 feet under ground 😅
We dismantle them into about 6 pieces and are lowered in the service shaft and re-assembled in a workshop underground
Honestly working underground is about like working in a parking garage
Salute to the men who works in harsh and dangerous conditions.
If bruce Wayne was a construction worker
😂
Bat Mobile
Straight from an Aliens movie!
There's the comment I was looking for.
? Total recall
I was going to post your comment, this is indeed very similar to the Armored Personnel Carrier M5777 from the Aliens 1986 movie 😅 !!!
"Ripley you've blown the trans axle, you're just grinding metal"
Nah this is real life homie and u don’t understand that aliens are actually fallen angels.
Looks like a vehicle you'd find in Red Faction: Guerrilla
Bros in the GTA bunker
Underrated comment
Mining is a hard job even today with all those gadgets and equipment. Imagine how hard it was before , without all those things and safety standards?
It makes you feel shame for complaining on your working conditions....
Safety standards have over populated the earth 😂😂 we use salt too much anyway so its useless job mostly
@@elgo7898What a useless comment you've left there, I bet you're so proud
@@mickeyconnor830 every comment here is useless.. and they do work in salt mines and ppl use too much salt and make too much useless shit to destroy the whole shit 😂
I feel no shame, I’ll still bitch and complain about my job😂
I agree with you man . Don’t listen to these fools 😂 here bragging about the planet being over populated 😂😂😂 my days
My man is IRL branch-mining below Y -10 ⛏️
I would definitely pass on this job... thank you.!!!
No doubt !!!!!!!😂
Feels like this should be remote operated. I’m sure there’s a lot of safety involved but still, I’d be scared of those tunnels collapsing!
Collapses are a problem but very rare the cabin is designed to handle A LOT of weight if a collapse happens.
These can also be remote operated if risk of collapse is high
2000 ft below ground? That thing would be smashed like a pancake, driver would die instantly.
Underground coalminer here
We call that a scoop car
That's a fun one to operate
How much do y’all earn for this fr
@@Martins-o9j 28.50 when I started 12 years ago
37ish now
About seven years ago I got on the job training to be an electrician/mechanic in my coal mine and we're up to 44.15
If I can do it
Anyone can
You've just got to want it
I know what that machine is. At Atlas Copco Wagner Mining Equipment Co , now Eperoc I think is the name of the division it’s a LST, that’s what our model of machine was. That’s a big machine. We built LST-5C’s that were a lot lower for drifts under 48 inches high but also the capacity was lower generally at 3.5 tons. We built some machines that size with front end forks as a lift truck that had a capacity of 30 tons. The biggest problem was the front tires would flatten out under the load and they eventually had to foam fill them. A lot of our machines went into hazardous conditions so everything was hydraulic and pneumatic. The only electrical was a small sealed self energizing alternator that powered the lights only. No cameras back in those days. Also our machines had a patented water scrubber exhaust systems designed by the company namesake Eddie Wagner. The first machine I cut my teeth on so to speak when I hired in was a LST-5C the machine from hell to learn on. For a week I didn’t know the front from the back or what I was building 🤪🤪😂😂😂👍. I’ve always said at work if can master building a LST you can build anything. Yep I built a lot of those over the years and many a funny story on my way to the forum, if you know what I mean😂😂😂👍👍. Eddie Wagner really invented or I should say revolutionized the underground mining industry of today with his designs of transport machinery used in the underground mining industries. The first machine he built was I think around 1949. Before rubber tired diesel powered mining equipment they used donkey’s pulling ore carts on rails. A lot of people owe a lot of thanks to Eddie Wagner and his brothers and family that started Wagner Tractor and came up with Scoop Mobile front end loaders and Mix Mobile ready Mix concrete mixers to mount on truck frames and the first fully diesel powered hydraulic log stackers that could lift and remove at one time 20 ton load of logs off a log truck at one shot. The interesting thing is Eddie Wagner had only a 8th grade education but he could out think any college educated mechanical engineer.
The degree only points you in a specific direction and the steps people take to get their.
You wont find innovation following in the footsteps of others
Great stuff. Yes indeed Wagner machines are popular in the South African mining industry. Eimco and Toro are also well represented.
There was a company in Johannesburg that dealt mainly with sunstrand pumps and motors. Their top guy was a genius who also left school in the eight grade.
Industry has a lot of people like that. It's amazing how many engineers you come across who can't read schematics properly and absolutely cannot do diagnoses using drawings.
I worked on LHDs for many years and I preferred rebuilding them and rebuilt a lot of them over the years. I mostly worked on eimco 911 913 925 and 915 then moved on to Toro. I loved the work.
@@BrandonDenny-we1rwyou are a genius
thats an SLP14H from GHH in Germany and the capacity is 14 Tons
@@NicleTicle it could be . Wagner had a relationship with GHH way back in the old days and they might have copied our machines. I think that might’ve been going on. They broke tie’s with GHH. A lot of people copied our machine designs that were the brainchild of Eddie Wager. A lot of companies copied our machines because the patents ran out and theirs nothing you can do about it. In the beginning was Wagner and Joy . Before that it was small rail cars pulled by horse or donkeys and or men just pushed the ore carts on tracks. Eddie Wagner was approached by a company and I forgot who to build a 2 yard articulation, rubber tired , diesel powered machine in 1948 that launched the hole thing. It was so successful he broke off from his brothers to start Wagner Mining Equipment Co. That 2 yard machine we built up till Atlas Copco moved everything to Sweden is really close in appearance to the 2 yard machine today other than upgrades. I’ll have to look again at that video.
This is a nightmare for claustrophobic folks. 😊
I got cancelled for being claustrophobic🎉
Fantastic tecnology 😮
*R1700 LHD. Called a "Load Haul Dump"*
No it's a SLP-14H. The Recordings are from a German children's show "Sendung mit der Maus"
Years ago our middle school took a field trip to the Hutchinson Salt Mines in Kansas and it was magical. I'm just guessing that's where this footage came from, but this video seems to show salt mining either way. But at the Hutchinson mine they showed not only the awesome parts of the mining operations, they take you to their museum areas. Apparently the humidity is so low thousands of feet down while surrounded by metric gigatons of salt that it's a wonderful environment to store historically significant artifacts and documents. The museum exhibits that were available to the public included movie props like the Big Guns and Noisy Cricket gun from Men In Black as well as original costumes from The Wizard Of Oz (go figure, we were in Kansas and those people do not like going five minutes without mentioning the movie.) They also stored many important government documents that were not available to the public. Magical place to take kids and adults, I would highly recommend :)
This comment is a bit of a shock to me because I actually know a fair bit about that salt museum (and wasn't expecting to see it mentioned in my feed), I can confidently say that this footage isn't from that mine as it is only 650 feet underground and the equipment they use is orange. As a side note I don't see any bumps that would be reminiscent of a kerf cut so I wonder what kind of mining the mine in the video is using. Either way mines are fascinating and its cool to see Strataca being mentioned
I went there my freshman year of high school, long before they had built the Strataca museum when it was purely a mining operation only. We were the first group of non-employees to tour the operation. My teacher had an inside hookup sort of thing, family or friend that worked there. We were kind of a test/feasibility study for doing the museum. It was pretty cool, naturally we went down the rickety skip/elevator the crew did, hardhats, PBA oxygen generator, tagouts, the whole thing. Rode in the crew truck, a roofless old diesel chevy with crew benches for a bed. Went right up to the working face with the equipment. Even put some of the blasting media in my hand. We got to look in the archives which wasn't much to physically see. Lots of shelves and boxes. But we got to see the original film reels of Star Wars and Gone With The Wind. Ive been there as it is now as Strataca and still highly recommend it but I feel privileged and honored to have the experience I did the first time! Having talked to some of the employees, we got to do & see things that even the people working there don't get to do. Pretty cool stuff!
Small world btw!
It's good to see that Tuvok got over his disease, and is getting steady narration work. :)
That's right. It's a salt mine. We had a problem getting our delivery of salt for gritting the roads a few years ago as one broke down under ground blocking the passage.
Not a place for the driver to suddenly have a case of diarrhea explosion!! 😲
It's the perfect place, no one else is in the mine. You can quickly get out, blast off, then get back in and no one will know.
Only one day salt from the store will have different color and smell))).
Haha little does he know you just poop in the return entry
And wipe your ass with rock salt.
NO WAY not me. Like working in a coffin. God bless you and the work you do.
My question is, how do you get that 2000 feet underground?!?!
In pieces😊.Assembly ist done in the mine. The parts size fits to the tranpot capability of the lift.
I think IT IS an German Salt Mine.
@@michaelw4258Never thought Germans would use zip ties to install cameras on such a nice vehicle. He transfers "salt ore" efficently tho, so you might be right.
Once down in the mine, the machines will never see daylight again.
They have slopes and rails that can transport stuff up and down as nessassary. them scopes usually are driven down. maintence is done under ground but some cases theyll bring them up to get overhauled or something. seen it done lots of time. more in the coal industry then in salt.
You can go underground vs by a ramp or a shaft... most of the time, the scoop would go underground in one piece via ramp and all in pieces via shaft.
The first loaders have no cameras installed to them. Imagine the skills of those operators.
as an introvert who loves to get into dirt and tight places , id love this
Not my claustrophobia giving me anxiety and difficulty in breathing while watching this from the comfort of my bed. 🥵
If you get claustrophobia from this place, you wouldn't be able to be in most houses or vehicles.
Tf is this shit
I ran one of these underground at the coal mines an the pipe shop .Battery operated scoop .
Man, they couldn't pay me enough to do that job.
But shout out to all the Mole Men.
A scoop. That’s what we called them in the mining industry. And the majority of them don’t have any cameras on them. If they did, the sorry dogs operating them, would have them out of operation by the time they moved 20’.
There’s a different set of rules for underground workers. If you see a piece of equipment moving (which is called tramming in the mining industry), you’d better get out of the way. They have the right of way. If you get run over by one, it’s your own fault. “Committed Suicide.”
Which mines are you talking about? At least here in Germany all loaders had cameras installed and working.
Seen 6 operators flip out on a job 890 ft straight down building a Liquid Butane storage unit ! The first cut was 8x24 and sec cut was 12'x24' making total cut 20'x24' main shaft 24'x24' then you A-K shafts that was off set off the main shaft that was 300' long !Blast have safety meeting wait 30 min Mine supervisor and safty person go down check everything then everyone down in the whole everyone rode a eight yard skip pan down let drilling crew set and two operators ran these low profile wheel loaders they called them Muckers ! We had two enclosed cab muckers but oe was always broke down ! Had a back open cab with a old straight pipe Detroit Diesel V8 it was manual shift so thw other operator said he couldn't run it so i had to ! You had to run that old girl wild open with ear plugs and muffs it was so loud in them tunnels !
The above ground guys always knew who was operating the open cab because they could hear it up top if i was operating !
Thanks for sharing.
My question is what operator breathes. The desiel engine must consume nearly all O2 in the tunnel. So if the glass I see in one of your posts means self-contained cabin. Do I assume an air supply has been added to allow operators to breathe properly. Or does this jod have high levels of asfication deaths?
Most proper mining operations use a technology invented called "ventilation" that adds small seperate shafts with fans that move bad air out and breathable air in....
@@daniellafferety4025
@@daniellafferety4025 you can't see it in these pictures near the working front of the salt layer, but there are large air supply tubes that exchange the air within the mine, operating 24hrs a day to take out bad air and supply the machines and miners with constant fresh air.
@@daniellafferety4025they pump air down into the mine at high volumes so the exhaust gets displaced quickly
Minecraft should own this
Bro took stancing to another level 💀
Hell No 😮
I showed this to my wife and she said: "...I get scared when I get lost in *Minecraft* (let alone this)" 😂
So miner's can finally get ahead of the company store and load 16 tons in 2 buckets 😂😂😂
I used to sing that song once in awhile at work. It almost always got a laugh.😬
@@LanceHotz-yn2siyou load 16 tons and what do you get?
@@friedpistonrings8533
A very sore back.😁😁😁
Or, if you're Tennessee Ernie Ford
you get a Sh-t Ton of money. 🤭🤭🤭
That job would be my worst nightmare.
I agree fully
That man is going to permanently be looking to the right lmaoo
I used to do building work in a Gypsum mine where they used these. We used to meet with the miners on the surface and then drive down into the mine in Land Rovers, the miners would go off and mine and we would go off and build. Amazing experience.
Whats keeping up the roof of the mine ☝🏾🤔
I had to scroll for 5 minutes to find a comment like this. Exactly. Why is the roof span so far? Seems like they would want some columns every so often?
Roof bolts
@@basedindividual22 i believe it would he harder for the loader to weave through colums holding up the roof.
It really look like a car from a game called “GRIP : Combat Raceing” 😂i love it
Tbh an aerodynamic bulldozer is quite a cool concept
that would make zero sense...
@@TireSlayer55 indeed. It's nonsensical & impractical, which makes it quite an unique concept. Like that old cab-under-truck thingy back in the 70s
@@thisprojectisretired1164what’s it called?
This is straight outta thunderbirds
No, the stuff in Thunderbirds is straight outta reality, just scaled up and more rugged.
People over 9ft gonna struggle walking through these tunnels 😂😂😂😂
Its called an LHD, Load Haul Dump. They can be remotely operated via RC, or from a computer on surface, some are operated by man though.
And they probably still paying the driver $20 an hour😂
They should modify one of these for the next Batmobile.😮
"To be able to squeeze in tight spaces”😭💀
Should be remote control cause if the cave breaks your dead
Would not be possible interference with the signal would be crazy
@@destroyerthewolf or maybe a long cord lol
@@destroyerthewolfthere are quite often WLAN Access Points every view meters. Some drive completely automated, but most a driven by a driver
@@gordonbloe6959 typically LHD’s are driven to the face or stope and then on remote function while the LHD goes too unsupported ground .
@@travishackney7771 although some mining equipment do run 600v by cable , a scoop wouldn’t make sense with how much movement it does, you would have issues with the cable constantly . Usually remote operated and run on diesel .
The most important question: How much money does he get for this dangerous work?
"Ore" shows a salt mine
You clearly don't know the definition of "ore" 😂
"a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or *valuable mineral* can be extracted" salt is a mineral 😂
@@mollycollins498 Most people dont go around saying "Salt Ore" like they do Copper ore, Lead ore, iron ore, silver ore, gold ore, etc.
Instead they say mineral Salt, industrial salt, table salt, and so on. Im aware that all ores are minerals, but doesn't mean everyone calls all minerals ores.
Sodium metal is extracted from the salt(NaCl) in its molten state with electrolysis.
@@jaydons7602Most people don't call cheese "solid-milk". Doesn't mean it isn't.
It's technically still "ore" at this point.
Made in GERMANY ??? I guess ....
GHH, Gelsenkirchen Germany.
Multiple places. CAT UGM makes them (American company), and even a south African brand. There's even graders!
This is a good miner😂😂😂
What happens when it breakdown?
The send a mechanic to fix it. Like any vehicle. Are you okay?
Call AAA silly.
The driver gets out and walks back for help. The ceiling is nine feet high.
Call the fitter and wait 😅
We call mechanics or anything else we need over the CB radio.
Glückauf! ⚒️
Terrible
That’s got to be so good breathing in all that diesel everyday
Imagine the intense maintenance that's goes in this vehicle to make sure it never breaks down mid way
I'd never do this job. Imagine if the whole mine caves in
It's the low roof and sheer expanse without a column in sight that gets me.
Jesse started a whole new life and career in Alaska
neat machines , i repaired a broken chasis on one of these , in a salt mine too
"A clear view"
Meanwhile the video feed looks like a bank security cam
Fun to watch them work in the mine. Loud booms from the mountain caving in behind you!
Lamborghini also fit perfectly 👌
Looks kind of like that tank-like thing from Aliens
Scania got self-driver mining trucks ... fully autonomous and actually way cooler looking.
Interesting idea for a driving horror game, just driving one of these in first person with just the cameras to look around
Just watching that creeps me out. Couldn't work underground.
I had no trouble with heights, used to regularly work 60 metres up on refineries but no way I could do 2 miles underground.
Respect to the guys who do.
I wasn't really amazed until he said 14 tons at once, that's a LOT for such a vehicle
The new Minecraft Low Caves update is looking siiiick
One could almost say its UNDERRATED for the job! 😂
Bro got his driving license in underground tunnels
Imagine being 2k feet below ground and then you start feeling a rumble... John Jones 2.0 😬
This would make the setup for a great horror game. Operating one of these and trying not to be caught
Imagine reversing and seeing the cave collapsed behind you on a small camera
I'll tell my kids that the driver is Jesse pinkman😊
The Aliens movie's SFX team def deserves some royalties for helping the design team out on this IRL loader
Wow. Wud freak me out and very claustrophobic. Hats off to these men
Mining is such a dangerous job. I used to be a gypsum miner. And my scars look nasty 😢
When a soviet tank designers apply for a construction vehicle designer:
Somehow, it reminds me the armored fighting vehicle in Aliens.