Friday 24th June 2022

John Cooper and Geoff Newton. Geoff loading and John hauling. Nice draught from the Wookey end. John then took over at bottom with a mix of cement and fixed a scaffold bar as a roof support. I think it may be necessary to completely wall up the bottom left hole. 2½ hours. John.

Thursday 23rd June 2022

John Cooper, Al Mills and Dave Morrison (Tuska). Al and Tuska arrived mid-morning and made a start on fabricating a shelter for the winch. John arrived about 12.45 and after helping a bit descended and sent up spoil. This revealed the winch had been moved quite a bit by the sheep so had to be repositioned several times. When it started spitting with rain a halt to hauling was called. John ascended and continued helping with the fabrication. The rain held off. 2 hours for John. John.

 

Wednesday 22nd June 2022

John Cooper. Continued breaking up rock. Needs a good clearing session now then a tunnel roof constructing. Draught coming from Wookey end today. 2 hours. John.

Monday 20th June 2022

John Cooper, Mark Helmore and Mike Kousiounis. Mark inspected bottom and did not like the lower hole on the left. Decided far better to go back up a bit and follow solid wall along. Started to demolish the wall and when Mike took over he was excavating clatch from behind it. Managed to retrieve his ear defenders. Finally used the remains of his Swildon’s cord to pop a couple of boulders. Not too loud and fumes quickly came out. 3¼ hours.John.

Thursday 16th June 2022

John Cooper and Dave Morrison (Tuska). Took across 4 bags of sand, 1 bag of cement already there. Put electron ladder don then John life lined Dave down. After inspection life lined him back out. Dave thinks best to tackle the higher level hole along the solid right wall rather then the lower left which goes into nasty breakdown. Then John went down and did a bit of plug and feather work. 2 buckets of spoil. 2½ hours. John.