This pine wood was special planted to grow pines for Pit-props for coal mines last century.
Wikipedia :
My Wood is the general name for all the wood in the underground workings of coal mines is used as support material. It generally takes the custom sawn softwood. The most common type of wood is pine..
The wood is used to protect the miners against stone falling, also need to ensure that the mines and spaces for short or long periods of transport, traffic and air remain open.
Not all the wood is suitable to be used as a mine timber. My Wood should have great support and flexural strength and must also be informed of any undue pressure. Experience has shown that conifers, especially pine, best meets these requirements. The mines can only use wood, which is perfectly healthy, well peeled and has no adverse cracks or other defects.Further, the law and be smooth and there are few knots in it
My Wood has been until well into the 20th century, the only support material in pillars, stone corridors and galleries of the mines. The demand for my wood was in the heyday of the underground coal mining very large. Large areas of spruce have been planted to supply this wood
This looks so pretty and the path so nice and even I'd want to walk in there and take pictures! And I imagine the pines smell wonderful too- they do here.
Thanks for sharing its interesting history
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