684 Comments for Hasard Cheratte (Coal Mine)

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This place is gorgeous
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Astonishing. In Germany or France or also in Italy Terninal could be repaired and a museum of modern art relocated inside. Itself a masterpiece of art déco.
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Gerschick gatter? Oops, german roll over from the previous page.
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Q or 2?
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Very creepy Motts! You go in first Ozzy.....
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I have a thing with lit matches and open pipes........
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Motts, did you see whether there was still cable wrapped around that drum?
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The scary thing with electric motors like that is, if you cleaned it off and gave it a bit of juice it would probably start spinning again. They are nearly impossible to kill.
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What floor was this on? If it's anything other than ground floor, it makes you wonder how a seed for a fern ended up there!
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I'm guessing shower stalls. See the pipe running overhead? There are most likely shower heads in each directly over the place to stand.
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I would drop a marble down it and listen to the rattle
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Definitely grease. Believe it or not, those elevators get up to a pretty high speed to get the workers up or down quickly. That wheel would have been wound up to a pretty high speed, enough to throw a few drops of grease off here and there.
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No cables eh? That must mean that the elevator has been removed or dropped to the bottom.
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Let's go and find IT. Even if it's not a sewer pipe.
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Congratulations from Lithuania !