Wednesday June 11th 2025

 Ed Ford, Hollie London, Mike Waterworth, Trevor Hughes and Mike Wise.

 Took in 2 daren drums of sand and with HL, EF and MWa rotating roles at the front we extracted 35 buckets of spoil which TH hauled up and dumped. MWi made some minor improvements to the surfaces to ease the upper hauling route. Spoil became progressively wetter and digging harder during the session. Draught improved noticeably towards the end. Some decisions are going to be needed regarding rock removal in the floor and on that section which forms the left hand corner, but digging should be possible for one more session.

Dig at the start of the session

Looking onwards around the left hand corner

The base of the dig at the end

Looking around the left hand corner

 Photos and video by Hollie

1.5 hours digging, 2.25 hours overall

 Mike Wise 

Saturday 7th June 2025

Michael Kousiounis and John Gisborne. Met 10am and took in drill, water and 2 daren drums with premixed cement and sand in. JG went for a look at the sharp end, then MK went in and broke up the nuisance rock from Wednesday evening. JG in the meantime started making a mix and sent the first load down to MK to carry on the wall building. A second mix was made and this was used supporting the opposite wall. Buckets filled up ready. Lots of calcite amongst the spoil at the bottom and the floor seems to be drying out well. All daren drums brought out and left with sacks in container, ready to get filled up with sand and taken back in. 2 1/2 hours. Mike.