Pit prop information

A pit prop or mine prop (British and American usage, respectively) is a length of lumber used to prop up the roofs of tunnels in coal mines. Canada traditionally...

candle had been allowed to continue burning. This set fire to a nearby pit prop and started a fire in the shaft. The fire continued burning as long as...

contracted to produce pit props for the overseas market. The wood was driven via a brook to Tommy's Arm (a shipping depot for pit prop and pulpwood located...

shaft on top of the cage, visually checking for problems. Props or pit props Props or pit props are timber or hydraulic supports holding up the roof. Puncheon...

tunnelling shield. But still tunnels are constructed which are secured with pit props and shoring and then are steined or timer supports are set. Techniques...

Mesurier, "after a lifetime supporting other actors with the strength of a pit-prop, gets the main part; he looks, sounds and feels exactly right". Reviewing...

English inventor, known for the "Sylvester", a device for safely removing pit props in mines. Sylvester was born in 1867 in Newbold, Derbyshire; his father...

shipment of coal and associated cargoes, including the importation of pit props. With the demise of mining, the former Timber Pond became a marina, trading...

buildings, bridges, trackways, piles, poles for power lines, masts for boats, pit props, railway sleepers, fencing, hurdles, shuttering for concrete, pipes, scaffolding...

feet wide. The thinnings were graded and the straighter poles used as pit props in the coal industry. Other thinnings had a wide range of uses including...

organisation Intaken piled fathom, a cubic measure used for the shipment of pit props International Pen Friends, an organization providing pen pals International...

firing of a prop gun onstage). Pit orchestras can range from large orchestras to small rock combos (e.g., guitar/keyboards/bass/drums). While a pit orchestra...

intaken piled fathom (IPF) was a measure of volume used for the shipment of pit props. A fathom was six feet and so this was equivalent to 216 cubic feet. Board...

69°17′25.80″E / 34.5768000°N 69.2905000°E / 34.5768000; 69.2905000 The Salt Pit and Cobalt were the code names of an isolated clandestine CIA black site...

lift can be filled with equipment or props from underneath the stage and then raised and unloaded on stage. The pit can be raised so it is level with the...

the River Mersey to various Irish ports carrying cargoes such as grain, pit-props, china clay, mineral ores, manure, timber, and coal, eventually becoming...

print in paperback in 2000. The Cask (1920) The Ponson Case (1921) The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922) The Groote Park Murder (1923) Inspector French's Greatest...

redeveloped in 2003, with design work from TACP/Brooke Millar Partnership. The pit props and steel bands are not for show, but to hold up the mine roof. The water...

been used for building houses and fences, as railway sleepers and as pit props. The termite-resistance and rich, reddish colouring also make it popular...

centuries coal from South Wales was the main cargo and in World War II pit props cut in local forests were the return cargo. The ketch Lizzy was wrecked...

8 – a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage – as Judge Vaughn Walker. In September 2012, Pitt...

purchased half a dozen landed estates in Saxony to supply timber for pit props. At Flensburg in Schleswig, he secured control of the largest Baltic shipping...

furniture pieces, fencing, cladding (shingles) for covering buildings, and pit-props, for which durability is an important factor. In Italy, chestnut is also...