Have you ever seen a kettle bottom? They find these in coal mines throughout Appalachia. They can fall out of the roof of a mine and crush a man to death. This one is down the road from my house a couple miles. It is about three and a half feet across. they can be as big as six feet across. A pretty cool thing to see .
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Indeed that is pretty darn cool . Have seen the photos on the beaches but nothing like this . How the heck did it get there Matt?
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My grandfather was a coal miner, as was my great grandfather and great-great grandfather. They worked in the PA anthracite region. My great-great grandfather was a foremen/inspector at the mines. There was clearing to be done in the back of a long tunnel. The workers said that they had finished, so he had to go and check on the quality of the job done. He always had a partner, usually his Spanish speaking friend and assistant. He told his assistant that he wanted to inspect the mine by himself, and he also told him to go home and get some rest. No more than five minutes later, the entire mine collapsed on him, killing him instantly. His assistant never forgave himself for not going in with him, and committed suicide a few years later. Coal mining is dangerous work, and that rock you have there proves it. It takes great courage to go down a hole, into the inky blackness to get the job done."The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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That's a nice one Matt, up in eastern KY (Letcher co.) Where I'm from there's a place on an abandoned strip mine where they placed 4 or 5 that were all Volkswagen sized right side by side on the edge of the cut visible from the valley below. We use to play on them as kids when we had Campmeetings on top the mountain. They looked like UFO's so we always called them the "Alien Rocks". Lol. It was a good place to pick up tree fossils too, I've seen some impressive fossil prints come out of the mines as well. My partner at work now, has one about that size in his yard that he took a rotary drill and made an awesome looking fountain above a pond in his yard with. Hadn't seen one for a while down here, so thanks for bringing back the memories...Josh (Ky/Tn collector)
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