{"id":56232,"date":"2009-11-30T22:16:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T22:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56232"},"modified":"2017-04-11T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:05:22","slug":"shaftmen-at-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56232","title":{"rendered":"Shaftmen at work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shaftmen-002-BW-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shaftmen-002-BW-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shaftmen-002-BW-1-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shaftmen-002-BW-1-394x300.jpg 394w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shaftmen-002-BW-1-150x114.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shaftmen-002-BW-1-400x304.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bet you thought it was all machine work; part of the record-breaking team of shaftmen at work. Showing concrete being poured through\u00a0a metal pipe from the surface (visible to the right of the 1st man). These were called \u2019Elephant\u2019s Trunks\u2019 as they were short lengths linked together to make them flexible and they looked like an elephant\u2019s trunk. The concrete was vibrated using\u00a0a compressed air vibrating poker, to make sure the concrete was mixed properly to stop it honey combing, the man on the left is doing this.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Image\u00a0 and words courtesy of Alan Franks.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Bet you thought it was all machine work; part of the record-breaking team of shaftmen at work. Showing concrete being poured through a metal pipe from the surface (visible to the right of the 1st man). These were called \u2019Elephant\u2019s Trunks\u2019 as they were short lengths linked together to make them flexible and they [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potash-mines","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56234,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56232\/revisions\/56234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}