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Historical | Coal Mining hand cut

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This section takes a look at working the coal by hand:

  1. undercutting the coal
holing 1 -m

Undercutting in the soft floor (JST)

holing 2 -m
pleasley#13 a -m

Undercutting in the coal when the floor was too hard  for hand work (JST)

dropped coal 2 -m

After removing the supports the coal falls in large lumps  (JST)

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