What's the next project for you UGM/AMR bums?


Whatcha all doin' this Saturday, at least after Alfred Brown?

xox
~S

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nothin right now..... its either gonna be a real big one, or none at all........ this sat after the mine im going out to eat with the better half.

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I can't speak for the rest of UGM but I know I have about all I could handle now without any new projects

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mike doesn't do amr / ugm project anymore.... he does jeddo highland projects...

I hope he is liking his new job. Nothinig like working on big Tonka toys.

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May go photograph the old Pocono Drag Lodge in Bear creek, its an abandoned drag strip. Lots of big names raced there back in the day. it operated between 1964 and 1972, drag racings "golden era" Anyone want to come along Sat morning can email me at cudaman76@yahoo.com. I may not be able to go though so If I cant go we can set another time up.

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Thats exactly what that stuff looks like from a distance........ big tonka toys. It's still a little different feeling when your close to the 8700 and the operator starts to swing!

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btw, shana, i think i gotta work with my dad after AB

Banks, are you still at Harmony?? Reason I ask is I just finished up new miner training and some guys in my class are going there.

Is miner training for anthracite miners any different than other coalminers?

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naw, i'm back in school now.. just working at Alfred brown on the weekends. i miss it there actually... they seem to always be hiring there. when i was at training there were 2 guys there headed to harmony. at the time i hadnt put an application in yet. do you have a mine in mind? sorry if you mentioned it before on the forum..i can't remember right off hand


in terms of the msha videos and such its all the same as bituminous. in fact the videos are tailored to bitty operations. the difference is the instructor in tremont (Paul Wagner) tailors the class more for pitch mining, which is good. he tells a lot of anthracite stories and shows some good old videos put out by the Independent [Anthracite] Miners Association.

I was thinking about applying at Kimmels but I hear good things about Harmony. Only thing is at Harmony I would have to relocate but I guess thats just part of the fun

"but I hear good things about Harmony"

hmm, you should pm banks...... im not posting anything on this. but i can tell you he doesnt work there anymore. banks, mike a. and myself are working at alfred brown coal co. 7 foot slope in new philly.

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OK, *Stupid Question Alert*

Do truck drivers have to have any special mine training? If memory serves me correctly, they do in the Southern bitty mines.

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I think it depends on exactly what your doing. If your taking coal from the breaker to a customer I don't think you do. If your in a big stripping operation I think you'll need MSHA surface training, site specific training, and then you have to be trained on whatever truck your using. I know it gets a little silly, by the time your done you'll have a glove box full of pink MSHA slips!

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