With Mike, Sam and John. After a free climb down and pushing forward, twisting down through the boulders (hanging death), past some nice formations, then after a few squeezes down to where I was asked to sit and pass rocks to the man above. Rock after rock as they kept coming. Until Mike broke the drill bit and that ended the rocks. After that down to the end of the dig to take a look, where we dug a few buckets and took them up. Climbing back up to the surface, taking in the formations. Ray.
Ray Bell, John Cooper, Sam Hill and Mike
Kousiounis. Tooth Dig. Clearance session. Mike took in his drill to break up
the bigger chunks of rock. I stacked the spoil being passed up to me for about
an hour. Then Mike broke his drill bit when only a couple of rocks were left.
That’s two sessions in a row! This time it sheared completely at the shank rather than just
one of the four tungsten carbide tips breaking. Gentle outward draught this
evening. 1½ hours for me. John
Michael Kousiounis, Samuel Hill, Ray Bell and John Cooper. Clearing spoil back. MK broke up the bigger blocks ahead whilst everyone else cleared stuff right back. All the alcove and passages in Tooth Dig are now clear (apart from one big boulder that was left due to drill bit snapping). JC left after this whilst the others went to see the end. We finished off by filling all the small buckets with sand from the alcove. These were then taken back on the way out. 3 hours. Mike.
