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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Ah yes, that Coppice Shonky Shaft. I believe it only had two 'ropes'? for support. What a foul smelling, damp uptake shaft that was. The Mickley seam and the shaft were permanently flooded to just below the Low Main boarding Station. Before they installed the proper full length boarding platform, when the cage stopped there to let you (thankfully) off it, there was a foot and a half of nothing between the front of the cage floor and the older wooden platform, which used to be pushed out by the Onsetter, with a fixed lever. It was a case of 'eyes front' and a very hopeful jump across that un-nerving gap. One day, an electrician/mechanic, boarded the cage at the top. The poorly defensive metal netting 'door' was dropped into place and it set off downwards. Several yards down the shaft, the cage tilted sideways and the only way the bloke stopped himself sliding under the wide gap at the bottom of the mesh door and a long, deep plunge into the waiting water below, was to insert his fingers into a couple of the round ventilation holes which covered the floor of the cage and hang on for dear life. We were assured that this could NEVER happen again, by those who never rode it. The worry of another 'tilt' lived with those who rode that cage for a great long time afterwards. Azzabuv.[/quote]
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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 4/25/2005 2:04:43 PM by Azzabuv

Coppice Colliery
replied on: 4/25/2005 2:02:31 PM

Ah yes, that Coppice Shonky Shaft. I believe it only had two 'ropes'? for support. What a foul smelling, damp uptake shaft that was.
The Mickley seam and the shaft were permanently flooded to just below the Low Main boarding Station. Before they installed the proper full length boarding platform, when the cage stopped there to let you (thankfully) off it, there was a foot and a half of nothing between the front of the cage floor and the older wooden platform, which used to be pushed out by the Onsetter, with a fixed lever. It was a case of 'eyes front' and a very hopeful jump across that un-nerving gap.

One day, an electrician/mechanic, boarded the cage at the top. The poorly defensive metal netting 'door' was dropped into place and it set off downwards. Several yards down the shaft, the cage tilted sideways and the only way the bloke stopped himself sliding under the wide gap at the bottom of the mesh door and a long, deep plunge into the waiting water below, was to insert his fingers into a couple of the round ventilation holes which covered the floor of the cage and hang on for dear life.
We were assured that this could NEVER happen again, by those who never rode it. The worry of another 'tilt' lived with those who rode that cage for a great long time afterwards.
Azzabuv.

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