DAY 1 0 / 170 CWT CLEAR
HEATHERPULL2 TUBS
AT THE RICK
How much coal goes on?
Every tub is ten hundredweight. More coal means more resistance, and the light does not wait.
DAY 1 DOWN
The sledge is at the road head.
Twenty hundredweight on the tally board.
A fresh rope costs the getter a day. A made road costs as much, and the rain takes it back.
CRANAGE
The coal is ricked at the top and the rails have not come. Six men, one sledge and one rope have to bring a hundred and seventy hundredweight down to the road head before the shift ends. Tap the heave on the call, hold it through the pull, and let go to breathe. Watch what is under the sledge, and remember that a made road costs a whole day.
The team stand easy.
The sledge, the rope and the light are all where you left them.
Three things and a day.
- SPACE / K
- The heave. Press it on the call, hold it through the pull, and let it go while the team breathe. A called and breathed rhythm builds momentum; a hand that never lets go grinds the rope to nothing.
- A / D or ◀ ▶
- Steer the line. The moor is not one surface: hard rock, heather, the mire in the hollow, and whatever road you have made. Rock is fast, heather is slow, and the mire will not move a loaded sledge at all.
- E
- Stop the sledge and make track where it stands. It costs the rest of the day and the load goes back up to the rick, but a made road carries a heavy sledge in half the time — until the rain washes it out.
- 1–4 / ↑ ↓
- Choose the tubs at the rick. Every tub is ten hundredweight and every tub is more than twice the drag of the last one.
- M / ESC / H
- Mute, hold, and these notes.
Bank a hundred and seventy hundredweight at the road head inside ten days and the quota is made. The light is the whole of each day: whatever is still on the moor when it goes stays there.
The quota stands.
The tally board is short and the men go home.