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Posts by derrickman
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| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat Posted: 17/04/2013 07:08:12 Subject: Victorian trip - 2013 I've had fidget pie and it's great. The pie I had was in a pastry case so it was like a pork pie, or maybe a pasty. |
| Topic: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England Posted: 08/04/2013 08:06:53 Subject: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored The underlying issue, in many cases, is that there is an unstated presumption in favour of either an internal candidate ( who probably doesn't meet the job spec either ) or a local national, in the ca |
| Topic: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England Posted: 07/04/2013 17:31:16 Subject: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored that's a general comment on heavy engineering disciplines. The miners' strike, various trends in the world markets and the oil price crash of the mid-80s resulted in massive, completely unstructured s |
| Topic: Tresavean - plans/maps? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 07/04/2013 14:52:19
Subject: Tresavean - plans/maps?
[quote="Morlock"][quote="Roy Morton"]I think 'Unwatering Tresavean Mine, by Cyril Brackenbury is on here somewhere hidden away in the mining documents section probably.....anyone? [/quote]< |
| Topic: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 07/04/2013 14:08:56
Subject: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored
re somersetminer, above, there I would beg to differ. I started at CSM in the early 1970s and you would begin Day One by being told that "the object of mining is to make a profit" |
| Topic: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 07/04/2013 11:33:04
Subject: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored
I think the crucial problem with anything of this nature, is that mining pretty much closed down twenty years ago and the people who actually know what it's about, are dwindling fast. Comb |
| Topic: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England Posted: 07/04/2013 04:41:07 Subject: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored Digressing slightly, I've been on Baku these past few months. The powers-that-be here have been spending their oil and gas revenues turning the place into what is described as "the Dubai of the Caspia |
| Topic: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 07/04/2013 04:26:06
Subject: New Cooks Kitchen Headgear to be Restored
[quote="Knocker"]You're missing a zero there Scooptram. I've got to say fair play to the Sedgeman's, they need something like that, they got taken for a mint by ROK's downfall.[/quote] That |
| Topic: Moel Fferna Trip - 11/05/2013 | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Events Posted: 02/04/2013 17:47:33 Subject: New event added 'Moel Fferna Trip May 2012' on 11/05/2013 at 10:00 I don't quite follow that? |
| Topic: Moel Fferna Trip - 11/05/2013 | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Events Posted: 02/04/2013 15:10:03 Subject: New event added 'Moel Fferna Trip May 2012' on 11/05/2013 at 10:00 how big is the pitch? |
| Topic: Porthtowan, Cornwall | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Hello, I'm new around here...
Posted: 01/04/2013 08:03:31
Subject: Porthtowan, Cornwall
I can only second lozz' post, particularly in the light of having a direct professional connection with the whole issue of long-term stability of old workings. Those big Welsh caverns are |
| Topic: have we got any solicitors on here? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 12/03/2013 12:33:22
Subject: have we got any solicitors on here?
I would have grave reservations about IVA and there are definitely a lot of people seriously misrepresenting what can, or can't be achieved. However a friend of mine had a tax problem a wh |
| Topic: have we got any solicitors on here? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 11/03/2013 12:01:11
Subject: have we got any solicitors on here?
there's another question here. No-one should go bankrupt voluntarily for £4,000-odd. The complications are huge. If you are adrift financially and £4,000-odd of lost wages will |
| Topic: cligga head Map | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England Posted: 06/03/2013 10:37:21 Subject: cligga head Map I've got some photos somewhere of that ore chute on 2 Level, taken about 1976. There was a "cunning plan" around that time, to pull or blow the chutes for bulk sampling of the contents by one or other |
| Topic: cligga head Map | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 28/02/2013 18:14:45
Subject: cligga head Map
I thought that back in the 70s, I'm surprised it hasn't collapsed entirely around the shaft, given the traffic in there and the poor state of much of it. Mind you, things were different th |
| Topic: south crofty progress | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 21/02/2013 07:42:18
Subject: south crofty progress
being firmly of the opinion that there really is no substitute for real productive industries producing real wealth, I will just wish them all the best and leave it at that. Between this a |
| Topic: 127 Hours | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat Posted: 18/02/2013 04:52:29 Subject: 127 Hours just watched this on tv last night .... eeeewwwwww..... :P |
| Topic: Mountfield Gypsum Mine - Queries! | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South East England Posted: 16/02/2013 17:50:43 Subject: Mountfield Gypsum Mine - Queries! I'd be interested to see Mountfield. I worked there in 1986-ish on a contract to stabilise the drift through a zone of bad ground and excavate floor pockets for the forthcoming conveyor system. I also |
| Topic: Professional Lamp suggestion | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 16/02/2013 13:10:25
Subject: Professional Lamp suggestion
what he said. I'm a professional contractor and I never bother taking a lamp anywhere that requires any sort of specification. They will always provide them and in all likelihood, won't acc |
| Topic: Is large scale tin mining on the verge of a return in Cornwall? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England Posted: 15/02/2013 15:12:36 Subject: Is large scale tin mining on the verge of a return in Cornwall? Re the defence of charity work by one poster above, I've been working in various Third World countries for many years and from what I can see, for all the money that has been expended on the same old |
| Topic: Requirement for Mine Plans | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat Posted: 13/02/2013 15:21:45 Subject: Requirement for Mine Plans It was always my understanding that MASHAM was and is, a consolidation of previous legislation under various headings having the effect of law and the ACOPS served as clarifications of certain aspects |
| Topic: Requirement for Mine Plans | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 13/02/2013 10:09:08
Subject: Requirement for Mine Plans
[quote="sinker"][quote="derrickman"] I'd say that MASHAM 1993 referred to above, was the definitive answer. [/quote] Yes, however you can't be prosecuted under MASHA |
| Topic: Requirement for Mine Plans | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 13/02/2013 07:53:04
Subject: Requirement for Mine Plans
I'd say that MASHAM 1993 referred to above, was the definitive answer. Combe Down was required to keep Mine Plans, both working and abandonment, under MASHAM although it had no history of |
| Topic: Is large scale tin mining on the verge of a return in Cornwall? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 07/02/2013 13:22:42
Subject: Is large scale tin mining on the verge of a return in Cornwall?
One thing you learn travelling as I do, is the sheer scale of operations of the whole charity/third sector/yuman rights parasite operations. Read Paul Theroux's "Dark Star Safari" for more |
| Topic: Is large scale tin mining on the verge of a return in Cornwall? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 07/02/2013 12:56:49
Subject: Is large scale tin mining on the verge of a return in Cornwall?
that's why air receivers all have a tap on the bottom.... job for the banksman on any tunnel site ;) Brea Tin, there's a name from the past. The owner there had a father-and-son operation w |
| Topic: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines | |
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derrickman |
Forum: North West England
Posted: 05/02/2013 23:43:21
Subject: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines
[quote="droid"]Worth watching Mark williams' Industrial revelations for a good description if ore concentration. Filmed in Cornwall I believe. [/quote] better than Rory McGr |
| Topic: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines | |
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derrickman |
Forum: North West England Posted: 05/02/2013 20:20:12 Subject: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines I don't really see why Portillo's series would have much of a budget. Most of it consists of pieces to camera and the camera gear is clearly hand-portable and small enough to go on trains.I doubt that |
| Topic: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines | |
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derrickman |
Forum: North West England Posted: 05/02/2013 09:43:22 Subject: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines Ah, I know that one! I have a niece who is a qualified archaeologist and has one one occasion been involved. Her opinion is that no useful work is, or could be done under the conditions. of course, yo |
| Topic: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines | |
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derrickman |
Forum: North West England Posted: 03/02/2013 13:21:51 Subject: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines will never get Time Team past the domestic authorities, not enough people rushing in and out yelling at each other. Not enough homosexuals, or that vet with a shaved head who looks like a pig as a res |
| Topic: Nice head/cap lamp for a 'newbie'? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Lamps & Lighting
Posted: 18/01/2013 08:08:59
Subject: Nice head/cap lamp for a 'newbie'?
[quote="RJV"]You'll get a Raptor/Chinese Mining Lamp type lamp for the budget you're talking about. Had one for years and they do the job perfectly well. Can also whack an insert in one at |
| Topic: Stuff on the move ???? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 09/01/2013 08:31:31
Subject: Stuff on the move ????
I think the changes in the weather, especially rainfall patterns, in recent years have a lot to do with it. The whole issue of ad-hoc car parks in the SW is going to continue to be a probl |
| Topic: Moscow??? , anyone there ?? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Hello, I'm new around here... Posted: 19/12/2012 05:26:00 Subject: Moscow??? , anyone there ?? the bit about "going places never seen before" on a weekly basis sounds a bit Trekkie, too.... |
| Topic: Moscow??? , anyone there ?? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Hello, I'm new around here...
Posted: 18/12/2012 16:08:25
Subject: Moscow??? , anyone there ??
I was in Sakhalin earlier this year and gold-digging is thriving there! I don't mean the sort you do with a pan, either.... Same goes for "ugly counterparts", the main difference I can see |
| Topic: Moscow??? , anyone there ?? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Hello, I'm new around here... Posted: 18/12/2012 07:39:04 Subject: Moscow??? , anyone there ?? I've known a fair few blokes who have acquired Olgas and Svetlanas, both words appear to be Russian for "large hole in wallet", "boyfriend in Mafia" "buy me a flat/car/passport" or some combination o |
| Topic: Moscow??? , anyone there ?? | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Hello, I'm new around here...
Posted: 17/12/2012 10:08:39
Subject: Moscow??? , anyone there ??
doing what in Moscow? Moscow is a city the size of London with chaotic public transport and significant security issues for expats. Most things in Russia are a secret of some sort and the F |
| Topic: Golden Age Of Steam. | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 12/12/2012 05:55:32
Subject: Golden Age Of Steam.
From recollection, Charlie Daniels was the quiet one because he stammered when he spoke? Tony Brooks joined CSM during my time there, one of the new staff who appeared as part of the move t |
| Topic: Golden Age Of Steam. | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 11/12/2012 17:20:14
Subject: Golden Age Of Steam.
Dave Kneebone was one of the CSM instructors when I did my induction course at Holman's Test Mine for CSM... 1974.... I knew Robin Daniels at British Gypsum in Mountfield in the mid-80s. I |
| Topic: Bomb Sight | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat Posted: 10/12/2012 15:07:21 Subject: Bomb Sight interesting site. I'm sitting here in Baku waiting for the local, steam-driven internet to load it... there were two bomb-damaged houses in the street I was born in and I can see a "strike" shown that |
| Topic: Anyone fancy going Ghost Hunting at a Secret Mine? £17.50 | |
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derrickman |
Forum: South West England
Posted: 09/12/2012 19:59:52
Subject: Anyone fancy going Ghost Hunting at a Secret Mine? £17.50
I think we are in Phineas T Barnum territory here. I've been on "ghost walks" in York and Whitby and they were quite amusing and worth the fiver. The "Whitby Dracula walk" is also quite go |
| Topic: Glynrhonwy - the saga continues | |
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derrickman |
Forum: North Wales Posted: 09/12/2012 17:22:45 Subject: Glynrhonwy - the saga continues the only thing that really needs saying is to look at EDF's Chinese investors. Their eggs are in the basket marked "nuclear" and sooner or later they will get on with it and build their much-delayed, |
| Topic: caving accomodation | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 09/12/2012 15:57:23
Subject: caving accomodation
various views on the subject! http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=8547.0 http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=8155.0 I only wore the Whernsides ( which wer |
| Topic: been there, done that.. | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Lamps & Lighting
Posted: 09/12/2012 11:36:35
Subject: been there, done that..
I have an ex-Geevor fibre helmet in my loft. photo here http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/tin-mining/background_clip_commentary.shtml of what is claimed to be Cornish miners, I see |
| Topic: caving accomodation | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat Posted: 09/12/2012 11:14:06 Subject: caving accomodation chickens... what about the "Chicken Shed" at Whernside Manor? Still got my "Whernside welly" caver's boots from the 1970s..... rubber lace-ups with vibram soles. Wore them about 3 times, gave up and h |
| Topic: Glynrhonwy - the saga continues | |
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derrickman |
Forum: North Wales Posted: 08/12/2012 15:49:42 Subject: Glynrhonwy - the saga continues there is a lot of money to be made in "green" energy scams if you have your hands in the right pockets in the House of Knaves; I think the chances one brick being laid on another in any foreseeable fu |
| Topic: caving accomodation | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat Posted: 08/12/2012 15:19:53 Subject: caving accomodation I remember the "goat barn", we once used it as a base for a 3 Peaks walk. |
| Topic: caving accomodation | |
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derrickman |
Forum: General Chat
Posted: 08/12/2012 09:38:25
Subject: caving accomodation
.. seems to have been an issue lately. Partly because I've just moved my caravan from its site in the Peaks as it was really not getting used and anyway, ttxela insists the Orpeus hut is mu |
| Topic: been there, done that.. | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 08/12/2012 09:21:35 Subject: been there, done that.. I see the claim here http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=12192.0 that the Caving Supplies helmet was/is a variant of the Edelrid UltraLite - is this true? |
| Topic: LED lamps.. | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Lamps & Lighting
Posted: 08/12/2012 05:59:06
Subject: LED lamps..
joking apart I would always have reservations about any HSE related claims for any Chinese made item. I bought a Chinese-made caplamp in 2009, one of those Oldham-knock-off ones with the li |
| Topic: been there, done that.. | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 08/12/2012 04:50:28 Subject: been there, done that.. must admit that I never learnt to tell the difference between the various fibre hard hats. The club I then belonged to ( 4C's in Cambridge ) had a sack of them which had been obtained very cheaply at |
| Topic: been there, done that.. | |
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derrickman |
Forum: Lamps & Lighting
Posted: 07/12/2012 16:22:14
Subject: been there, done that..
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/centenary/look/cabinet/helmet.html http://www.shurdington.org/gharmirdum/Photos/HelmetLamp.jpg .. especially the chinstrap on the first one! |
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