I worked at Rufford never really looked around the pit top, spent my time underground. 107s Hazel 109s Hazel Seam closed. 155s 122s 6s Blackshale dev And others. 😁 Happy days.
Great vid, I always wondered what it looked like, iused to cart red sand out of there in the mid to late 90s for enemix, I love looking round old derelict workings imaging how it was and who worked there and what they did, thanks for sharing, I looked in the past for Rufford pit but nothing came up
@A P Yep! Fully agree with you there mate, as for salvaging everything out a pit, would still be doing it to this very day, wasn't economical to try and get everything out, many roadways accessible, but not big enough or wide enough to get stuff out, at Shirebrook Colliery there was 'Load all Dumps' ....Big low profile diesel powered vehicles, just left there, only way to get it out would be to ''back rip'' the roadways to enable the loader out, would cost millions to do that, so left as is instead, drained of all fluids, same with Dowty Chocks, just how on earth do you get them out ? You can't, so they stayed there, maybe in years to come such mines will be excavated again and they will look in awe how we/you and every other miner worked in such terrible conditions, It'll never happen in our lifetime, but in a few hundred years they'll be doing it, just like they are doing now in recovering things from WWI & WWII & old tin & lead mines.
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Great video, loved the big twin stage piston compressor and how Tidy everything looked. Looked like a 510 Commander in the sandpit.
I worked at Rufford never really looked around the pit top, spent my time underground.
107s Hazel
109s Hazel
Seam closed.
155s
122s
6s
Blackshale dev
And others.
😁 Happy days.
Hello from Hopo! As he used to work here. 😁😎 Great video.
its seems along time ago
Great vid, I always wondered what it looked like, iused to cart red sand out of there in the mid to late 90s for enemix, I love looking round old derelict workings imaging how it was and who worked there and what they did, thanks for sharing, I looked in the past for Rufford pit but nothing came up
pro trick: you can watch series at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies during the lockdown.
@Derrick Trevor definitely, been using Flixzone for since december myself :D
Another great video Brent, thanks for sharing
Steve Elliott cheers Steve more to come when I can find them
Bilsthorpe photos link ruclips.net/video/bFlYbyM3xGk/видео.html
Another video of Bilsthorpe posted hope you like it
Ps was the red sand anything to do with the pit or just a separate entity, thanks agian
When the sand was extracted the sand pits were used as lagoons for the slurry from the coal preperation plant
I worked there with a contact company. Then worked on the closer of it disgusting that everything was left under ground 😡
@A P Yep! Fully agree with you there mate, as for salvaging everything out a pit, would still be doing it to this very day, wasn't economical to try and get everything out, many roadways accessible, but not big enough or wide enough to get stuff out, at Shirebrook Colliery there was 'Load all Dumps' ....Big low profile diesel powered vehicles, just left there, only way to get it out would be to ''back rip'' the roadways to enable the loader out, would cost millions to do that, so left as is instead, drained of all fluids, same with Dowty Chocks, just how on earth do you get them out ? You can't, so they stayed there, maybe in years to come such mines will be excavated again and they will look in awe how we/you and every other miner worked in such terrible conditions, It'll never happen in our lifetime, but in a few hundred years they'll be doing it, just like they are doing now in recovering things from WWI & WWII & old tin & lead mines.
And then if they did recover the equipment there was no onward market for it