Meaning of scoop driver | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who operates the scoop that stokes a coal-based generator.
2. One who operates an automated mining scoop.

Examples

“The chief stoker who holds the handle⟳ and manipulates the scoop is known as the scoop-driver.”

“An unskilled man may, with very little practice, soon qualify⟳ himself as a scoop-driver — indeed, men who have⟳ been in the retort-house comparatively a few days have⟳, within that short time, been able to do the charging in cases of emergency.”

“When the scoop is opposite the mouth of the retort, the scoop-driver drives the machine, and the impetus obtained by the 5 ft. tribution of coal in the retort, which is obtained with a scoop as compared with charging by shovel.”

“After expressing a desire to be a scoop driver, Mr. Collins trained him for this job and Mr. Amburgey began operating the scoop " a couple of weeks " after the opening of the Number⟳ 9 mine.”

“"Got to go, boys," he said, interrupting an impassioned sermon by the scoop driver about the lineage of the University of Louisville's quarterback.”

“Each section had a foreman, a repair⟳ man, a miner operator, and a miner helper, two bolt men, two shuttle car drivers and most of the time, a supply⟳ man and a scoop driver. The scoop driver would clean⟳ up all the loose coal the mining machine couldn't get⟳.”

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