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In reply to the discussion: Mining Would Be Exciting For Kids: Trumps Secretary Of Education Wants Legal Child Labor [View all]yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)when I was little and I helped him work in it, he had a two man saw and I would help him cut locust posts to hold up the roof, he had a hand drill and would drill a hole in the seam and tamp in dynamite and the a blasting cap, we would hide around the corner and he used a nine volt battery to blast the coal out (fire in the hole), we would use a wheelbarrow to haul the coal out to his 1950 Chevy pickup truck and then take it to be weighed, he got $5.00 a ton, it was custom coal for home furnaces. When he finally quit working it the EPA made him blow up the entrance.
My dad started working in coal mines when he was a little kid and had every bone in his body broke in a mining accident once, he died from black lung disease.
My Grand Pap came from Wales and was a Welsh coal miner in the old country.
All the guys in my home town voted for trump, they think hes going to bring coal back, its sad.