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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History: Installing Girders
"Now, in the Mothergate, we had to put ten foot girders, so first of all, we had to shut this bottom
right up to the face, so that the engine, the two motors for the belt went in there, so that was called the
'bottom canch'. You shut it right up to the face. Now, further back, when you had to put the girders in, you
had to take that stone down, it's difficult to explain and the girders went in, ten foot girders, you had to shut
that stone down, you see. Difficult to explain but that was the awful work, when you had to what they call 'shut the
bottoms', because sometimes it was that deep, the bottoms, you had to shut it in layers, put holes in one layer,
fire that stone, get rid of it, and then put more holes in there to shut that stone. When you were shifting a big
heap of stone, you haven't got a bottom like that you just slide a shovel on. When that's been fired, there's
no bottom at all, and you're trying to put a shovel into big stones and really difficult work."
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