Monks Park Quarry, Wiltshire. Oct 2010

[professor frink]

Nice one Harv, looks like a grand day out.

 

[klempner69]

Great stuff Dub,I see the fork-lift beast is now in the garage topside!

 

[chaoticreason]

Amazing shots of a place I will never go.Not keen on the down under,but it's like a good horror movie,you don't wanna be there but you can't get away from the scary fact its; there!
I crawled twenty yards up a tunnel the other day and was sh.....g it.
Hats of! or rather hats on,cheers for the explore.

 

[Urban-Warrior]

Great shots there fella, This place is amazing.. I really must get my report done tonite

 

[klempner69]

Amazing shots of a place I will never go.Not keen on the down under,but it's like a good horror movie,you don't wanna be there but you can't get away from the scary fact its; there!
I crawled twenty yards up a tunnel the other day and was sh.....g it.
Hats of! or rather hats on,cheers for the explore.

It really isnt that bad honestly..before I first went under i was thinking it would be lacking in air,and I would feel claustraphobic,but I have never felt any of these in all the mines/quarries I have had the good fortune to have been shown.If you get the chance try a visit and I reckon you will love it after.

 

[tommo]

thats so true, u can never tell if u like it till u try it and its far from small inside, if u can do a ROC post then u can go underground,

take bones as an example, he wasnt feeling to confident about going underground last year- with small spaces and crawls but i tell u what, he has done everything wiltshire has to offer and done it very well and got over any issues he has even down to the smalliest of holes, but i am sure he will tell u its worth it for some of the places he has been and got to see

 

[crickleymal]

Amazing shots of a place I will never go.Not keen on the down under,but it's like a good horror movie,you don't wanna be there but you can't get away from the scary fact its; there!
I crawled twenty yards up a tunnel the other day and was sh.....g it.
Hats of! or rather hats on,cheers for the explore.

Try the Wiltshire quarries if you get a chance. There's plenty of space there, you could ride a mountain bike around some of the places.

 

[krela]

Try the Wiltshire quarries if you get a chance. There's plenty of space there, you could ride a mountain bike around some of the places.

Ppl HAVE ridden a mountain bike around some of them! haha

 

[oldscrote]

Looking at the photos again the second one is a very sad Samson arc shearer or coal cutter the poor thing is minus it's tracks and is a very rare bird indeed.Bath and Portland started to use them in about 1948 to speed up stone extraction and were a great improvement on the old hand sawing method tho they wasted a lot of stone as the cut is about 7inches wide.As far as I know they are still in use in the working quarries 60 years later.They run on compressed air and I last saw one working in Westwood quarry about 10 years ago.

 

[tommo]

Looking at the photos again the second one is a very sad Samson arc shearer or coal cutter the poor thing is minus it's tracks and is a very rare bird indeed.Bath and Portland started to use them in about 1948 to speed up stone extraction and were a great improvement on the old hand sawing method tho they wasted a lot of stone as the cut is about 7inches wide.As far as I know they are still in use in the working quarries 60 years later.They run on compressed air and I last saw one working in Westwood quarry about 10 years ago.

this one did come out of westwood, so it may be the same one, originally it was in the service shed at monks park, this has since been knocked down and the coal cutter put in to the big shed, last year we had a look through the logs in the service shed, it mentioned all about the servicing of stuff like this including there dates and times and whar machine come from where and also all the parts stores that where there the also had all the bits to keep them running up stairs in the shed

these are a couple of pucs taken back then, not great but was getting use to my camera then lol, i do have more but cant find them at the moment, u can just make out that cutter in the first pic on the left

 

[oldscrote]

The Samson coming from Westwood quarry would make sense as they stopped stone extraction there a few years ago.

 

[klempner69]

This is another angle of the cutter on the operating table