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My friend described doing this for her dad in uranium mines in the US as a youth. It was her first job. She would set the dynamite bc she could get into the small spaces.
She had female specific cancers twice, and passed away the second time. Refused to disavow the industry or make any connection to the illness until the very end.
I don't think it's real, I've seen videos from these guys a couple times on social media and usually the accounts are full of videos where they "light" dynamite and then walk away slowly.
Like maybe this is a mine, or mines or something but I don't think some of these clips are real.
yeah, the clip with the guys lighting fuses has nothing to do with anything that comes later. lots of editing going on here. super simple to add some explosion noises when they're editing the video.
The kids these day they would rather be picking opium in the shade oand safety of the United States military than work the mines, nobody wants to work anymore.
Yeah that submarine if you can call that bathtub that literally imploded and crushed everybody faster than a human nervous system can react... like a LOT faster... so much so they didn't even feel anything because the nervous system was too slow to detect the pain and send it to the brain so you can feel it
They literally died and don't even know they did and felt nothing
They heard plenty of creaks and bangs before the latest dive. Their special sensors also detected deviances. Unfortunately these warning signs were normalized and ignored by Rush and Oceans Gate. Perhaps Rush needed to show a return on investment to investors that had put tens of millions into the company.
On Dive 80, July 15, 2022, an extreme spike on one of the acoustic sensors was noted during the ascent to the surface. A loud bang was reported by the passengers during this dive, which Kramer determined was the cause for the spike. This coincided with anomalous strain readings, resulting in the next 3 dives following the spike containing a non-linear relationship between strain and depth, before settling back into a linear relationship
Actually, it created a whole lot and Rush said it was seasoning. Then it did a big bang and stopped creaking. The next to depth dive it imploded. So creaking even worked for that thing but they ignored it.
Not a stroke, I just hyper fixated on ocean gate for awhile. They released the acoustic data and it basically did work, not in a, yeah I'd get in one way, but in a those people could've lived if Stockton Rush had any good sense.
I honestly think that book should be mandatory reading in the UK. It’s a brutal and fascinating insight into that world that is increasingly becoming more alien to us modern day people.
I visited an old mine from almost a 100 years ago from before any sort of power tool, even steam. They did indeed use the wood support to know if there was a cave in coming, it wasnt actually supporting anything. Thats what the guide said at leaat. Believe it or not, the living conditions were even worse than these mining videos we see.
From the days of the salt industry until the 1940s, most coal was loaded using hand tools like picks and shovels. Machines were introduced gradually during the early 1900s, allowing miners to load more coal in less time. Mechanization began with undercutting machines around 1900 and advanced to loading machines in the 1920s.
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In 1935, two percent of West Virginia’s coal was loaded by machines; 20 years later, 99 percent was machine loaded.
yea I did a tour through an older mine in Germany, and it was something wild like ten hour shifts and the way in and out took two hours each, which were not included. The life basically consisted of work - sleep - work.
My understanding of the matter, and someone do please correct me if I'm wrong, is that it's not there to reinforce or hold the roof up. It's to give an audible warning via crunching if the roof if about to come down, so maybe you have a few extra seconds to scramble someplace else.
--EDIT-- All of which is to say, fuck that. Fuck it so hard bro.
How did you feel about the guy who could’ve sat anywhere seated directly behind the cable that was towing the cart and could snap and cut him in half in less than a breath.? Lol. There were SOO many problems here. Also, deffo thought you exit the mine before detonating anything in it, not huddle in the scariest corner.
The guy controlling the pulley sitting behind a high tension wire that would split him down the middle of it snapped on the opposite end... This is a crazy video
I literally came here to say, the job I genuinely would want to do less is that one. Sure, he's just chilling now... but without literally anything protecting him from the cable if it snaps. Dude... no. I actively avoid towing people out of shitty situations for the same reason.
It hurts how true that likely is. Which would make sense on why whoever is running all this doesn't bother to have ANY protective barrier because in their eyes it probably doesn't matter much.
The majority of mankind has had to work in grinding conditions their whole lives but we're so insulated from that reality that seeing people still doing it is horrifying.
I'm not saying it isn't horrifying, I'm hugely grateful to work from home in IT, but these guys have 'good jobs' for rural areas of a developing country.
Yeah this guy probably can just make ends meet with jeopardizing his health, while the big shareholders are profiting for just having the funds. This inequality just is a disgrace.
You’ll die instantly instead of suffocating to death from the weight of the mine collapsing in on you. Or maybe you’ll suffocate after a few days of agony when only your exit collapses.
TBF to him, being blown up or crushed to death by the ceiling coming down on him would probably be sweet relief compared to working in those conditions.
A lot of our grandfathers and great grandfather mined coal like this. Killed them with black lung, which came to be known as emphysema, then copd. Doesn’t matter what it’s called, it’s a fucking horrible way to go
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The way the first guy slumped over while moving away from the dynamite. It must be tiring to have to crouch like that for hours.
Yeah. I bet children would have a much easier time in this cramped spaces…. wait
My friend described doing this for her dad in uranium mines in the US as a youth. It was her first job. She would set the dynamite bc she could get into the small spaces.
She had female specific cancers twice, and passed away the second time. Refused to disavow the industry or make any connection to the illness until the very end.
Sounds that she probably had a connection/ memories to the work she did by helping her father than the industry...
Luckily, the children yearn for the mine
I don't think it's real, I've seen videos from these guys a couple times on social media and usually the accounts are full of videos where they "light" dynamite and then walk away slowly.
Like maybe this is a mine, or mines or something but I don't think some of these clips are real.
There are slow fuses available, it's an old thing. I find it credible.
They're probably designed to be a slow burn
yeah, the clip with the guys lighting fuses has nothing to do with anything that comes later. lots of editing going on here. super simple to add some explosion noises when they're editing the video.
How do you think it was done in 1st-world countries before modern safety regulations and better technology?
Yea I’d rather grow and sell opium
The kids these day they would rather be picking opium in the shade oand safety of the United States military than work the mines, nobody wants to work anymore.
I’ve heard the children yearn for the mines.
If their backs start to hurt just give them opium!
“Dope Sick” storyline was literally this.
Minecraft is just brainwash material to normalize child labor, specifically in mines
Could you have possibly heard "minecraft" instead.
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Suddenly opium seems like a safe alternative
You know janitorial jobs? Maybe they aren't so bad after all.
this and its not even close
coal miner son or opium farmer daughter
No longer permitted
Good! Better prices.
Bold of you to assume that you'd have a choice in that situation.
I made no such assumption
Yeah lmao, that person just wanted something to feed off the karma in the top comment chain. Average reddit comment quality these days.
Love all the load-bearing driftwood.
I think it's for them to know if it's caving in quicker. They will creek before it caves in so they have more time to get out. *To my knowledge
Oh wow same system as ocean gate
Yeah except they have a few seconds to react, not nanoseconds.
Yeah that submarine if you can call that bathtub that literally imploded and crushed everybody faster than a human nervous system can react... like a LOT faster... so much so they didn't even feel anything because the nervous system was too slow to detect the pain and send it to the brain so you can feel it
They literally died and don't even know they did and felt nothing
That's insane tbh
Honestly?
Life goals.(death goals?)Fuck a slow an painful death, something like this or a brain aneurysm would be my choice for exiting this world.
Their existence was literally like flipping a light switch, just turned off.
They heard plenty of creaks and bangs before the latest dive. Their special sensors also detected deviances. Unfortunately these warning signs were normalized and ignored by Rush and Oceans Gate. Perhaps Rush needed to show a return on investment to investors that had put tens of millions into the company.
So, a lot more time to think about how "that's all folks"
Actually, it created a whole lot and Rush said it was seasoning. Then it did a big bang and stopped creaking. The next to depth dive it imploded. So creaking even worked for that thing but they ignored it.
Sorry am I having a stroke? What the hell is this comment?
The system did work for ocean gate, but the ceo (Rush) chose to ignore it.
Not a stroke, I just hyper fixated on ocean gate for awhile. They released the acoustic data and it basically did work, not in a, yeah I'd get in one way, but in a those people could've lived if Stockton Rush had any good sense.
That cracked me up, like the hull of a submarine
Lmao
Underrated comment
This is true.
In George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier novel, he describes how mining companies started using metal bracing instead of wood to shore up their mines.
Deaths rose as a consequence because the metal bracing didn't creak, it just snapped and the miners would be crushed.
The wooden bracing creaked, giving the miners time to get out.
I honestly think that book should be mandatory reading in the UK. It’s a brutal and fascinating insight into that world that is increasingly becoming more alien to us modern day people.
I visited an old mine from almost a 100 years ago from before any sort of power tool, even steam. They did indeed use the wood support to know if there was a cave in coming, it wasnt actually supporting anything. Thats what the guide said at leaat. Believe it or not, the living conditions were even worse than these mining videos we see.
They had airplanes 100 years ago.
And we had electricity 145 years ago.
A lot of mines did not have any power tools, steam or electric, 100 years ago.
By the 1850s, most mines were using steam engines to lower and hoist miners in/out, pump out water, and of course move materials on the surface.
By around 1910, most miners were using power tools of one sort or another to dig.
So it's a bit over 100 years ago, but not too much more than that.
100 years ago was 100 years after industrialization began.
So I have to assume you're from (or talking about) a country that even didn't begin industrializing until around World War I at the earliest.
Just because something exists doesn’t mean it’s implemented.
Manual loading, dynamite, and pickaxes/hammers/shovels were absolute standard equipment around the globe for mining well into the 20th century.
If you look at the United States, which was early, mechanization of mining took place from the mid 1920’s onwards and wasn’t the standard until WWII.
For example West Virginia:
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yea I did a tour through an older mine in Germany, and it was something wild like ten hour shifts and the way in and out took two hours each, which were not included. The life basically consisted of work - sleep - work.
The first steam powered pump was patented like 350 years ago
A hundred years ago was 1925, not the middle ages
My understanding of the matter, and someone do please correct me if I'm wrong, is that it's not there to reinforce or hold the roof up. It's to give an audible warning via crunching if the roof if about to come down, so maybe you have a few extra seconds to scramble someplace else.
--EDIT-- All of which is to say, fuck that. Fuck it so hard bro.
Emotional support wooden posts.
I mean... I doubt it's driftwood in... Rural Afghanistan
Well, safety first!
OSHA has entered the chat
and run back out screaming
How did you feel about the guy who could’ve sat anywhere seated directly behind the cable that was towing the cart and could snap and cut him in half in less than a breath.? Lol. There were SOO many problems here. Also, deffo thought you exit the mine before detonating anything in it, not huddle in the scariest corner.
Ironwood timbers! Lol
The guy controlling the pulley sitting behind a high tension wire that would split him down the middle of it snapped on the opposite end... This is a crazy video
He got safety squints so he good👌
I went straight to that too. Sketchy as hell.
OMFG, THATS WHERE I WENT TOO
I literally came here to say, the job I genuinely would want to do less is that one. Sure, he's just chilling now... but without literally anything protecting him from the cable if it snaps. Dude... no. I actively avoid towing people out of shitty situations for the same reason.
I’m glad you said that because I was like “if I were there, I’d rather have that guy’s job.” and now I’d rather not
Idk I’d rather take the easier job with a quick death than the tough claustrophobic job with a long death
I don't know man... that's a lot of earth above them. Collapse could be just as quick.
Or the spot you’re in doesn’t completely cave in with the rest of the system so you get to slowly asphyxiate in the pitch dark
Ghost Ship, bay-beee (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
I assumed he got that job due to being crippled from a previous injury so he gets to sit in the death zone chair
It hurts how true that likely is. Which would make sense on why whoever is running all this doesn't bother to have ANY protective barrier because in their eyes it probably doesn't matter much.
And a couple of his buddies just sprawled out behind him. Not sure what purpose they serve.
To collect the pieces and take his place when the wire snaps. Minimum downtime on the mining.
Yeah his pajamas are spotless.
Still take that job over going underground.
My back hurts watching this
And my lungs
And my eyes.
And my axe!
And my sword!
That dude just fell full weight on his elbow and got buck up like he was on an 1/8 of mushrooms and everything is made out of marshmallows…..
Some people have the genetics to just ragdoll themselves around like it’s nothing
Poverty makes for a great painkiller when it comes to jobsite injuries.
Pretty easy if you are 5'6 and 140 pounds
I know right. Send the kids down, they can stand straight.
Mine too, but it’s probably the spinal fusion I had not the video lol
Well I wish you the best of luck with that back of yours
Body parts I didn't even know I had hurt watching this.
You might think your job sucks, just remember there’s always mining in rural Afghanistan.
That is going to make MOnday morning SOOOOOo much easier. Thanks!
compressor mining in Philippines sucks way more
When you see/read about something dangerous, somebody's probably doing it under water. This formula never changes.
This is why I recommend to people finding a casual desk job were you can get $60-80k a year while only doing about 20 hours of actual work in a week
Yeah okay but where are these casual desk jobs for $60-$80k/year with no college degree?
Yeah you need a degree
There is always Living in rural Afghanistan
Isn’t Afghanistan all rural?
The guy in the chair that presses the button in the somewhat shady part must be the boss
Boss’s son probably. The two older dudes just lounging on a chair behind the pulley operator have it cushy
Bosses brothers.
sitting directly in the trajectory path of a metal cord under tension is crazy work
Soon to be dead boss
Not a fan of turn-of-the-century horror, i see
Some good clean coal 👐
We’re doing coal!! Beautiful clean coal
The quality of Afghan and Pakistani coal is very poor, too. It's worth nothing.
What's your source? That looked like really pure stuff
We see this as insane from a modern perspective but if you go out west in the US and tour an old mine it was likely created the same way
And not that long ago.
That episode of Dirty Jobs in a coal mine wasn't much different than this.
100% they were. There are a couple mining museums in my area and this is exactly how it was.
Those poor fucking people having to work like this
The majority of mankind has had to work in grinding conditions their whole lives but we're so insulated from that reality that seeing people still doing it is horrifying.
I'm not saying it isn't horrifying, I'm hugely grateful to work from home in IT, but these guys have 'good jobs' for rural areas of a developing country.
Yeah this guy probably can just make ends meet with jeopardizing his health, while the big shareholders are profiting for just having the funds. This inequality just is a disgrace.
“Developing” seems a little generous. I imagine that equipment was bought used from the Soviet Union.
Some of it looks like it was bought from the East India Company.
They need to improve their working conditions
My heart aches the whole time I see it.
Nope.
"16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt"
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FALLOUUUUUUT
That's cool and all but we gotta talk about your user name big dog
I thought I was the only one who caught that.
FINALLY someone points it out! Like wtf is that??
I got the black lung Pop.
Merman!!
Gotta love the occasional half assed supports
Minecraft IRL sucks
Awful. That looks fucking awful.
Ill take the trolly cart operator outside the mine job please
Waiting for that high tension cable to snap in you face? At least you have fresh air I guess.
You’ll die instantly instead of suffocating to death from the weight of the mine collapsing in on you. Or maybe you’ll suffocate after a few days of agony when only your exit collapses.
Or black lung
That wire is under a LOT of tension… fuck that if it snapped.
Did anyone notice they said “Go, go, go” after lighting the fuse? Why in English?
the guy filming might not be a local
Just like English people, the English language gets everywhere. Oh, and more bang for fewer syllables.
I imagine the Brits occupying nearly every place led to lots of English speaking populations!
This might blow your mind, but English is a global language. 😱
If you watch foreign shows and movies, youll notice theres always English words and phrases sprinkled in
Dude is more casual lighting dynamite than I am lighting small fireworks
These poor men 😭
Their backs must be in excruciating pain on a daily basis.
fuck all this shit
At least they're not in flip flops
Guy moves like I do in my dreams
Nice safety headscarf
Yea , that stock of wood sint holding shi💔
If there’s one job robots and AI should take over, it’s definitely this one.
Shit, it worked for Daniel Plainview.
Go go go, proceeds slowly as possible
TBF to him, being blown up or crushed to death by the ceiling coming down on him would probably be sweet relief compared to working in those conditions.
I already got back Problems just watching this
Is there a reason they dont make the tunnels standing size?
They are only interested in the coal seam, not the underlying and overlying shale.
And here I groan when I drop the 19mm wrench when sitting at my desk.
Wild how much it looks like some of the abandoned mines from 100y ago here in the US.
Mofo stumbling like Jason Voorhees was on his heels!
This is a horrible job. But also looks so satisfying like popping bubble wrap, cracking my knuckles, etc.
16 ton and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
Even in mines where safety is a must there are desths, imagine the amount here.
Life isn’t so bad
Well, at least they wouldn’t have to pay for burial
I could do that job...
No, not that guy, the other guy operating the winch.
Coming soon (again) to the United States, if certain folks have their way.
Was all that just to be able to load and dump 1 little car at a time?
A job where being short af is super beneficial
That whole operation is running on string and sticks, but my car wont start if the orange light is on.
For Rock and Stone!
A lot of our grandfathers and great grandfather mined coal like this. Killed them with black lung, which came to be known as emphysema, then copd. Doesn’t matter what it’s called, it’s a fucking horrible way to go
Thing people forget this was us 100 years ago
I’m alarmed by the lack of safety sandals
Is there a part of Afghanistan that isn’t rural?
Oh my god I’m grateful, Jesus any of that can fall completely down at any given time pinning you alive in darkness, fuckin nightmare.
50 shades of black
That was some slow get away
think about the poor mountains they’re going extinct
How do they decide who gets to be chair car engine pulley system guy?
Seniority. I’m sure they’re unionized. /s
Is this why they made dwarves short in fantasy?
What are they mining?
Mining in the loosest sense of the word
This what the coal people on America want back lmao
:(
What are they mining. Is that coal? Or something else?
Glück Auf!⚒️⚒️⚒️
Uh, nope.
From Osha to Insh'Allah
God I can never imagine working like this. Mining in India is also similarly done
Rural Afghanistan?
As opposed to urban one? Like skyscrapers and taxicabs Afghanistan?
I rather flip burgers.
Fuck, you know it's serious when he's got shoes on.
Is this not an episode of little house on the prairie