Pit Workers in the Old Days #4 (One-horsepower Winding Machine)
1958 - 1963

Mukashi no Yamabito #4 (Ichibariki no Maki)
[Pit Workers in the Old Days #4 (One-horsepower Winding Machine)]
25.5 x 35.6 cm Ink Painting

The one-horsepower winding machine was installed in some pits (yama) around 1905. Such pits were a little more improved than those where coal was carried out only with shouldering baskets (sena) or coal sleds (sura). This mine car was loaded with about 500 kin (300 kilograms) of coal. This kind of winding machine was used only in very small pits mining coal using the fox-hole or badger-hole method (tanukiana-shiki) of mining.

[Translator's Notes: In the above method of mining, only coal near the surface was mined on a shoestring without driving long slopes and using a lot of support units]

The rope used for this winding machine was a zinc wire rope of 4/10 or 5/10 inch in diameter.


Translation Assisted by Mr. Nathan Johndro

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