On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 9:39:57 AM UTC-5, Michael Trew wrote:
> On 5/18/2021 8:50 AM, Gary wrote:
> > Dsi1 wrote:
> >
> > > If it was a choice between working deep underground or ripping the
> > > earth apart, I'd say rip away. No man should have to work deep in
> > > the earth .
> >
> > My one grandfather and his father did that for their entire working
> > life...about 50 years each.
> >
> > I got to see the inside of that mine once. Dark, damp and a tunnel going
> > way underground that mountain.
> >
> > That would be a scary place to work all your life.
> >
> >
> >
> There are abandoned coal mines near me... many concerns back in the old
> days. I'd be concerned about a collapse, but primarily as you get
> deeper, hitting natural gas pockets. I used to work for a company
> (Industrial Scientific) making hand-held gas detectors. I learned here
> that miners years ago used to send children (so they didn't risk losing
> a full grown man that could work) into mines with a parakeet... when the
> parakeet quit squawking and fell, best get out of there! Thank God for
> modern gas detectors, and child labor laws.


But no more dead parakeet jokes...

:'(

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Best
Greg