Skip and cage shaft headgears | Harworth
Fast Track headgear change | Harworth
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The work content included:-
- Uprating the existing 9 tonne capacity system to accept 2 x 27.5 tonne balance skips
- The construction of an underground loading station
- The construction of a 450 tonne surface headgear tower in structural steel to sit within a concrete outer building
- A surface skip discharge station
- All surface inner tower equipment
- All through shaft systems including rope guides, winch ropes, shaft signals, interlocks, skips and skip plant controls.
Client: British Coal