[modeleng] Re: are ye all trying to tell me something...

Hi Ken,

The Man engine basically consisted of long baulks of timber bolted together 
so that it stretched the entire height of the shaft which had hand and foot 
holds fixed to it. I dont know the height of the Levant shaft but the 
headworks are on top of a cliff and the actual mine was out under the sea so 
it was pretty deep.  It was stroked up and down vertically driven by a beam 
engine. The basic technique was to step on at one platform and then step off 
and the next as the timbers went up and down. It did not carry ore. I 
haven't exact details available at the moment but something broke that held 
the timbers at the top and the whole lot collapsed down the shaft as a shift 
was changing taking the men with it. Just to further the imagination of 
using it, the  usual form of lighting down a Tin Mine was candles stuck onto 
each miners hat so imagine having to grab something moving in an almost 
pitch black environment.
With regards to meeting somebody coming the other way you could probably see 
if somebody was aready on a step and either let it pass or did a very smart 
change over as I would think that there would be a slight dwell as the beam 
engine reversed direction.

Regards

Clif
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Subject: [modeleng] Re: are ye all trying to tell me something...


>
> In a message dated 20/11/2006 19:39:54 GMT Standard Time,
> clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> The
> Levant mine has been partially restored and the engine put back into 
> steam.
>
>
> Sorry, I should have said Clif not Roger.
> Is my interpretation of the principle correct, what happened when someone
> coming up met someone going down, the refuges on the mine shaft walls must 
> have
> been big enough to hold several miners, and what about the tin ore, were 
> they
> carrying that as well?
> It all seems very dangerous to me.
> Ken Jones in sunny (at the moment) Berkshire.
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