05-08-2012, 10:02 PM
Hi again I have only just found your latest replies been on the mine exploration forum! what a mix eh.
Yes I thought of a twin wire transmission line, in my case probably cheap speaker wire with maybe a simple inuctive AF loop coupling maybe, I shall experiment one day.
When going underground into old workings I never go alone and also give the sentry ETA for exit, we never go in if rain threatens, always at least one of us has a proper miners cap lamp (the old Oldhams are still kicking around for sale) If the air gets bad (you get a sense for this) we imediately back track, we never touch any old support timbers or do anything stupid, we are mainly ex miners. I don't do much mine exploring now but used to do a lot in my younger days, Cligga mine near St Agnes was always a good favourite I took my now wife in tjhere once... to explore the workings you understand...the mine workings that is.
We had underground trains down the gold mine in Canada but they were pulled with large battery locos we called them Paddy Trains, if you missed it it was a long walk in, no such luxury down the Cornish tin mines we had to walk every where underground except to say at Geevor where at the bottom of Victory Shaft there was a sub incline shaft that descended way down under the sea it had track running all the way down, the car that carried the men down was wedge shaped for obviouse reasons, some times when you wanted to come back up the winder driver had b*****d off or gone to sleep so we had to walk up, it was like walking up Snowdon but underground. When the mine closed I was kept on for care and maintainance, by that time the scrappies had bought the place and had flogged the whole of the sub incline conveyor system to some umba gumba mining corp in Soputh Africa, we had the job of stripping the whole lot out including the drive engines, every time you dropped a spanner you had to walk down the sub incline to retrieve it then walk up again, what a gas. My claim to fame was that I rescued the bronze Queens Plaque from the head of the sub incline shaft (the Queen opened the shaft when it was completed) the mine is a tourist attraction now, I believe the Queens Plaque is still there somewhere.
If you are ever on a visit to Cornwall Geevor Tin Mine is well worth a vist, if you go through the mill and the tin floors you will see some of my carpentry handywork in there from back in those days, I was the mine sawyer and carpenter during it's last dying days, somewhere I have a photo of myself and the rest of the crew from when we cut the main cage rope for testing and reconection to the kinghook we had to manually pull the rope with kinghook attatched over the sheive wheel (winder drum in neutral) and drag the end into the engineering shop in order for it to undergo the operation, quite a tug I can say, if I ever find it I will post it ( in general chat) it is quite interesting if anyone is into mechanical stuff etc.
Lawrence.
Yes I thought of a twin wire transmission line, in my case probably cheap speaker wire with maybe a simple inuctive AF loop coupling maybe, I shall experiment one day.
When going underground into old workings I never go alone and also give the sentry ETA for exit, we never go in if rain threatens, always at least one of us has a proper miners cap lamp (the old Oldhams are still kicking around for sale) If the air gets bad (you get a sense for this) we imediately back track, we never touch any old support timbers or do anything stupid, we are mainly ex miners. I don't do much mine exploring now but used to do a lot in my younger days, Cligga mine near St Agnes was always a good favourite I took my now wife in tjhere once... to explore the workings you understand...the mine workings that is.
We had underground trains down the gold mine in Canada but they were pulled with large battery locos we called them Paddy Trains, if you missed it it was a long walk in, no such luxury down the Cornish tin mines we had to walk every where underground except to say at Geevor where at the bottom of Victory Shaft there was a sub incline shaft that descended way down under the sea it had track running all the way down, the car that carried the men down was wedge shaped for obviouse reasons, some times when you wanted to come back up the winder driver had b*****d off or gone to sleep so we had to walk up, it was like walking up Snowdon but underground. When the mine closed I was kept on for care and maintainance, by that time the scrappies had bought the place and had flogged the whole of the sub incline conveyor system to some umba gumba mining corp in Soputh Africa, we had the job of stripping the whole lot out including the drive engines, every time you dropped a spanner you had to walk down the sub incline to retrieve it then walk up again, what a gas. My claim to fame was that I rescued the bronze Queens Plaque from the head of the sub incline shaft (the Queen opened the shaft when it was completed) the mine is a tourist attraction now, I believe the Queens Plaque is still there somewhere.
If you are ever on a visit to Cornwall Geevor Tin Mine is well worth a vist, if you go through the mill and the tin floors you will see some of my carpentry handywork in there from back in those days, I was the mine sawyer and carpenter during it's last dying days, somewhere I have a photo of myself and the rest of the crew from when we cut the main cage rope for testing and reconection to the kinghook we had to manually pull the rope with kinghook attatched over the sheive wheel (winder drum in neutral) and drag the end into the engineering shop in order for it to undergo the operation, quite a tug I can say, if I ever find it I will post it ( in general chat) it is quite interesting if anyone is into mechanical stuff etc.
Lawrence.
