O/T Ex miners.

[gm_gm]

Sorry brin ...but that video you have posted is a disco mk 11 a and not a lh1300 ...the Lh actually meant low height ....come on pal get the facts reyt ������

I was thinking the same Villa but politeness stopped me posting

[crashbang]

Brin was sat on the drivers knee. thought he was higher up.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

What mine is this pal? Is it up and running or has tunnelling just started? I use to drive Dosco heading machines and the LH1300 Road header. Those that worked underground would know what I'm on about.

Apologies for the background music but here's one.....

Who now sells such items?

The Chinese ?

[crashbang]

Who now sells such items?

The Chinese ?

dosco.com

[crashbang]

sorry link not turned up but they do sell them

[crashbang]

http://en.china-dosco.com/

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Seems they are now German owned

[jakethemiller]

As for going down t'pit....nowt finer. I bet not many on here could have done it.[/QUOTE]

You're right Brin, I've been down Maltby and Howarth and the mining museum, I wouldn't have wanted to work there. But has you say the camaraderie must have been good.

[Brin]

VillaMiller, I stand corrected pal. I should have realised the two star gatherers on the elevating front skirt were missing also the fact that the paddles didn't run up the side going towards the driver, they gathered below and fed it up a chain to propel out of the back where the driver sat. This is a LH 1300. As for LH meaning low height, we set 16ft x 14 ft rings so where's the 'low height' come from?

[villamiller]

VillaMiller, I stand corrected pal. I should have realised the two star gatherers on the elevating front skirt were missing also the fact that the paddles didn't run up the side going towards the driver, they gathered below and fed it up a chain to propel out of the back where the driver sat. This is a LH 1300. As for LH meaning low height, we set 16ft x 14 ft rings so where's the 'low height' come from?

The low height comes from the height of the m/c which was about 1.5m considerably less then the mk2a which was over 2m ,you could set 16ft rings because the boom was massive and this could be extended or reduced to suit any job ......a brilliant m/c