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This one could use a few more moves, but I think it's
promising. I tested it this morning and it was
reasonably satisfying. None of the moves below are
new, just "reinterpretations" of existing ones.

The scenario: you're a coal/diamond/palladium/whatever
miner circa 1890.

The moves: 

1) pickaxe (like the "fireman")

http://www.shovelglove.com/fireman.html

2) shovel the coal (or whatever)

http://www.shovelglove.com/shovel.html

3) pump the water that is filling up the mine shaft
(like churn butter)

http://www.shovelglove.com/churn_butter.html

4) prop the ceiling which is threatening to cave in
(like tuck bales)

http://www.shovelglove.com/tuck_bales.html

5) stoke the smelting oven

http://www.shovelglove.com/stoke_oven.html

The big one that's missing is "push the mining cart,"
but I have no idea how to mimic that with a
sledgehammer or anything else I have lying around the
house. "Get the hell out because the canary just died"
might be a good excuse to run around the block a few
times. If pickax gets old, "attack the scabs" is a
good stand in.

Reinhard