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Old 05-10-2017, 07:12 PM
Alan J. Alan J. is offline
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The gummer was what was used to clean the scufflngs from the cut into the track behind the machine. These were coal scufflings at Shilbottle and were filled away by the fillers prior to shotfiring. At Hauxley in the Brockwell there was a band of stone below the coal so the scufflings were stone, this had to be filled into the goaf by duffers who followed the cutting shift by a couple of hours. It was a job no one wanted because of the shift times and the fact it was heavy work, it usually fell to the lads newly from the training face until they cold get onto other facework.
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