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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History:The Drawers
"Night shift, the drawers would come in. They would take the belt to pieces, advance the belt into where the coal had
been taken out, set the belt up again, and they would draw all the timber and planks out of the waste ground where the
coal had been taken, so it advanced, like that, in three shifts. The cutter men, cutting the coal, the duffers�.
Eventually they fitted a fan on the back of the cutter, so instead of paying two men to fill the duff, as the jib
cut the small coal out of underneath, the fan used to throw the duff onto the waste ground, so it hadn't to be filled away."
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