Mike A wrote:
Actually if your going to bolt with a leg you wont use wooden timber you'll use temporary steel jacks. Of course If its a low budget operation wooden timber can be used in lieu of bolts but they would be in the way latter on when you switch over to mechanized mining. Now if you want to increase your production while your developing you could use drags (slusher hoists ) and v buckets and drag right into your buggys. You'll have to build a ramp at each breast or room as it is to drag right in the car but it would be worth it.
Im not familiar with the drags (slusher hoists) and v buckets. I think i might have an idea how this would work but then again i could be imagining something completely different. A re there and diagrams or photos available of how this type of set up works?
But i was thinking more along the lines of using a side dump model mucker with rubber tires or with tracks (not rail mounted) to load coal into a car. And then have a cable and hoist set up to pull the loaded car back out of the entry and out of the mines and into the yard. When the car was empty it would be light enough to either pull or push into the entry and back into the face.
One thing you would often encounter is draw rock falling out from between the roof bolts and im thinking a mucker would be best suited to clean this type of debris from the entries.
Does any company presently make a diesel powered mucker?
Or would a diesel powered mucker be considered under powered?
Or do they make a diesel powered mucker that will growl like a air powered mucker?