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1910 - Bar or chain coal cutter
Hopkins Black Star bar or chain cutter working at Ashington Colliery undercutting a coal face, c1910. Taken from album produced by the Ashington Coal Company, c1911. Powered by compressed air, the cut is started by hand, and then the machine jib is fed into it. The cutter has pick points on a chain which is rotated around the jib which is about 4 inches thick by four foot wide. The cutter travels the length of the face, using a rope anchored to a prop at the far end. A drum on the back of the machine winds the rope and the cutter pulls itself along.
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This photograph is from the People's Collection of photographs held at Beamish Museum and is reproduced by kind permission. |
Image Reference: (DMM) P-07662-14-0139 (Beamish) 7185
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