John Cooper. Took across 6 bags of sand. Took my drill down but
discovered I’d left the main battery on charge at home. Continued breaking up
the same rock as Tuesday. Made a little progress before running low on battery
power. Then a voice from above turned out to be Wayne out on a run. He
volunteered to get his drill so I continued working until I had no power left.
Then Wayne returned and lowered his drill. I continued breaking up the same
rock, it’s nearly gone now. 2 hours. John.
John Cooper and Wayne Starsmore. Took across 2 bags of cement and 4
bags of sand together with the refilled water drum. Took my drill down. My plug
and feathers used to break up a bit of the rock freeing up 4 sets of Mike’s PFs
in the process. Still not quite removed. One mix of cement used building up
walls using the debris. Nice draught from the down-dip end. 2½ hours. John.
Cutting up angle beams to help stabilise the loose wall that keeps peeling away. All went well and started building up off the beams. Managed to leave an open space towards Wookey also. 2 mixes used. MK, AT, MH and DM. Mike.
John Cooper and Andrew Thompson. Two mixes of cement used building up
the wall at the Swildon’s end using rocks from the surface. Still not looking
safe. 2 hours. John.
John Cooper joined Dave King and Mike Kousiounis for the end of day session. Geoff Newton had already left. Sent a bit of mortar and some rocks down to Mike for walling. 1 hour. John.
John Cooper and Andrew Thompson. Andy at the bottom and John on the
surface. Andy started by breaking up the big rock left by Mike and then another
one from the side. John hauled the bits to the surface. Then some clatch hauled
out. Finally a few rocks broken up for Mike to use as walling material. Depth
now 10.8m. 6 bags of sand, 2 bags of cement and 2 containers of water on site.
2 hours. John.
