Older and more dangerous..... They are not used much anymore called Willcox section mining... You cut the length of the miner and back out and set timbers and then set over and take another cut.... It's the best coal that our good lord and the good earth together has ever produced..... It's...
I have my Pawpaw's SK and SK-Wayne tools that he financed from the company store owned by the coal company that he worked for in the late 50'and into the 80's. They would hold the money from his check to pay the bill and he would work a "double" (16hrs 6" inches from hell) every Friday so his...