This is an image of a shuttle car collecting product from a Heliminer; the mined potash passing over the front of the Heliminer for collection in the cargo area.
Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
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Looks kind of space age, but this is strictly utilitarian; designed to get product (potash) from the back of the miner onto a moving belt system. Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
I suspect that I’d have to shout to make myself heard with this going flat-out in front of me! Notice the crush stacks on the right hand side of the image. Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
A close-up of the cutting face of a Heliminer; like a rotary miller with attitude! Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
Here, again at rest, is a Heliminer and Shuttle Car combination. Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
A Heliminer is a Remote Mining Vehicle; this posed shot shows the beast at rest. The mined product is collected in the powered scoop at the front and passed along a belt to the following shuttle car. When full the shuttle car connects to a horizontal belt system and discharges its load for transfer to the surface storage. Pretty cool beast ehh! Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
Then we make the top of the shaft nice and pretty ready to build the tower on! Alan Franks has told us: “This is excavating for shuttering to be installed for the Fan drift. ( Fans were sited at the top of this). Myself and two other men spent a week trying to retrieve the shuttering after concrete had been poured and set, with it being in like a valley as you can see, the mud kept sliding down as quick as we could dig out. We saved a few shutter panels but after the week we were told to leave the rest and they were just backfilled and buried.This would be around Christmas time 1969.” Image and update information courtesy of Alan Franks.
Soon have this finished now; the top of the shaft nearing completion. Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
Constructing the top of the shaft, which will be the base of the tower. Image courtesy of Alan Franks.
Using a dragline bucket to sculpt the top of the shaft opening. Image courtesy of Alan Franks. |
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