Ed Ford, Sam Hill, Meghan Hughes, Mike Kushy and Evan Stokes. We all got into the cave for 1100. Bag of sand each and a drill down to TPC. MH and ES first time in, so they went through to MHH and brought back whatever tools they could find in there. Back in TPC SH, MH and ES went to attack the higher dig. EF and MK took on the lower dig.
At the lower dig we both looked into the ongoing passage for a while humming and harring about whether to build straight away or push a bit, we decided to push on a bit and gained roughly 4m. At the bottom it seems everything wants to head back under the main trunk and towards MHH above, this is certainly where most of the draught is coming from. Lots of blocks in the way though. We didn't want to get ahead of ourselves so we decided to do that building. An extra scaffold bar was braced across the main trunk and 4 big mixes used up. 1 drum of cement in cave, 2x dust bags and 1 building sand. We all got back to the cars for 1630. Mike.
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| Scaff Dig. Photo MK. |
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| Scaff Dig. Photo MK. |
SH, ES And ME left the others pushing the scaff dig and started on the top dig. ES and ME took turns digging the slop out of the now soggy dig face (getting deja vu here) and passing back up to SH who emptied them. After a while this was deemed a bit to desperate so enlargement of the hole and wall building was done. Following this we set to improving the haul for the dig. So SH showed the other two how to P&F and in no time we had moved a lot of rock and now have a smooth sloped ready for a drag tray and rope. Future digging will be much easy now. ES & ME then left to surface and SH took on water collecting for the concrete factory opposite. Water is very much still flowing as it doesn't back up to much. Sam.
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| Higher Dig. Photo MK. |
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| Higher Dig. Photo MK. |
