Kelvin Schiefelbein

摘要

What is your earliest mining memory? Starting out at Westfalen colliery at Redbank Ipswich. I was a "boot-end boy" and as the mine did not have a breaker feeder my job involved standing on the grizzly to break the lumps with a 10-pound hammer. The continuous miner was a Marietta borer miner and it produced lumps of slabbed coal from roof partings. I was really keen to impress but the crew was equally keen to sort me out ... they would load as big a lump as they could get into the shuttle car just before crib to stop the show and ensure they had a good sit down for cards.