Sequence of events on a handfiling face.
Hauxley and Shilbottle, Faces cut at 12 mn for filling in backshift, H=945, S=830.
Nightsift H=515, S=445, stonemen advanced roadways, bumpers/ drawers moved up face conveyor and drew chocks.( H= face drilled also, S= face drilled in filling shift as bumpers didn't want the noise of the driller for listening to roof movements.) Shilbottle drillers in 2hrs behind main set of fillers.
Sequence repeated again starting 12mn.
To maintain continuity half of the faces were in the opposite shift so there was coal production on in both back and fore shifts at any one time.
At Hauxley there were duffers in 3hrs behind cuttermen as, in the Brockwell, there was a 4'' stone band beneath the coal and cut was in this band. This stone duff had to be filled into the goaf.
Shilbottle on the other hand cut in the coal and the duff was filled off by a set of fillers who were an hour or so in front of the main set of fillers.
It was generally accepted that a length was 10 yds/ man
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