Mike Kushy and Mike Wise. We headed into the cave at 1400 armed with 3x 6ft scaff poles, 2x daren drums of sand and tools. Really hot day today, cool cave and the strongest draught in TPC. Once here, we set about installing the scaffolding frame, which will help retain the chamber floor and allow us to dig down through the rocks. We opted for a triangle frame for now, with MK chiselling out a crack in the rock to get a lovely secure pocket for 1 end of the bar to sit in, with the diagonal bar sitting in a natural recess. This can be adapted later as necessary once we start removing material & things are a little more stable. Some stone work was cemented in to start the process of securing the couple of huge slabs at the head. All materials in the cave used up, bar 1/2 a bag of dust and a container of water, empty bags and drums brought out and left in the lockbox. A good day in starting to secure the boulder floor & giving us access downwards, all we need now is to get as much sand & cement material down there to enable this to continue ;-) .
Bang wire tidied up & left in inclined rift
On the surface for 1830. Mike K.
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