Mike Kushy, Rob Harper, Geoff Newton, Monica B, Valerie ?. A lot of mud and rubble was first removed from the “passage” ahead. Then all the remaining sand and cement was used to concrete in boulders, rubble etc to stabilise the first metre or two of the “passage” roof. Work in progress. 3½ hours. Geoff.
John Cooper, Rob Harper, Al Mills and Dave Morrison (Tuska). Surface levelling work all day. Attempt to erect cover showed up weakness in design. Back to the drawing board. 7 hours. john.
John Cooper. Continued breaking up rock. Took in a couple of short bits of scaffold tube which will be used in building a roof over the ongoing tunnel. 1½ hours. John.
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.
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.