Tuesday 5th April 2022

John Cooper, Mark Helmore, Dave Morrison and Andrew Thompson. Quite a bit of clatch removed. Plug and feathers used to break up a few boulders. One mix of cement used to build wall. Measured depth 9.7m but did fill up the hole again so probably 9.5m now. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 2nd April 2022

Mike K, Andy T and Mark H. Removing the large boulder and clatch. Surprised how low we are after John’s sessions. Roof looked very suspect towards Wookey so cemented 2 bags of sand early for support, Chris W joined us and so did John later. 6½ hours. Mike.

John Cooper took over from Mark Helmore for the last cement mix of the day. Others were Mike Kousiounis, Andrew Thompson and Chris Williams. They had been there all day whilst I only joined after I’d finished in Dave Mitchell’s Dig. Mike had removed the big pointy boulder but decided more support was required before proceeding further along. 1 hour for me. John.

Friday 1st April 2022

John Cooper, Dave Morrison, Geoff Newton and Andrew Thompson. Quite a bit of clatch removed. Spent some time working on the pointy boulder but it just splintered when drilling the end. Eventually it wouldn’t release a plug and broke the tip off the drill bit. Dropped the boulder so it is now possible to drill the top of it. Depth at end of session was 9.4m. 3 hours. John.

Wednesday 30th March 2022

John Cooper, Dave Morrison and Andrew Thompson. Depth at end of session was 9.2m. Plug and feathers used to break up boulders. Quite a bit of clatch removed. Some cementing done at end. Need more sand and cement. 3 hours. John.

Tuesday 29th March 2022

John Cooper and Andrew Thompson. Depth at start 8.5m. Plug and feathers used to break up boulder. Not very effective at start because boulder surface kept fracturing. Eventually got it sorted. Bit of cementing done at end. 2 hours. John.