Mike Kushy and John Cooper.
AM- set off charge, laid and fired in half hour.
PM- after setting charge at Valinor we cleared WR. About 2 hours clearing. A bit of movement after the charge, some large boulders in the horizontal bit have dropped and some of the concreted boulders have moved slightly. Not too concerning though. Ready for drilling. Mike.
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| Bottom after clearing. Photo MK. |
Mike Kushy, Dave Morrisom and John Cooper. Mike and Dave clearing out bang spoil. Some of the charge didn't go off for some reason, never mind though as the blocks we want to bang had shifted from the charge that did go off allowing removal. Cleared enough ready for drilling. John joined us at the end. Good draught. 2 1/2 hours. Mike.
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| Looking into the chamber at the bottom, all seems to be holding up okay. Photo MK. |
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| The bottom after clearing. Red block wiggles and will come out. Blue
crosses supposed drilling point. Yellow crosses maybe to be drilled,
would be good to get out. Photo MK. |
John.Cooper and Mike.Kousiounis. Setting charge in holes drilled by John mid week. All went off fine. No sign of any newts in the tunnel. 1 hour. Mike.
Pete Hann, Jude and Adrian Vanderplank, Nigel Graham as surface support.
All down the entrance shaft to firstly look at Johns drilled shot holes, (Very nice!)
Then on down into the original dig, a couple of times there seemed to be a strange grunting noise particularly in the more snug sections, strange?
Pete was impressed with the bedding chambers and thought they could be quite photogenic. We went to both ends, but not the very ends and I missed the way into Tooth dig, and found myself looking at a small bucket and rope and an even smaller hole and thinking if they’ve gone through that I’m seriously impressed. A steady trip out, looking for draughts and anything else which might be of interest. Adrian.
PS from John Cooper. When Pete returned the key he said "Don't ever give me that again!"