Friday 3rd June 2022

John Cooper, Mike Kousiounis and Geoff Newton. John arrived an hour after the others. Geoff had already cleared the spoil from yesterday. Mike then went down and created more which John and Geoff hauled out. Quite a bit more clatch also hauled out. Two mixes of cement were then done and used cementing at the bottom (rocks sent back down as building material. Current depth 11.6m. 3 hours for John. John.

Thursday 2nd June 2022

John Cooper, Al Mills and Dave Morrison (Tuska). Started by clearing the spoil, 1½ hours. Then breaking up more rock for another hour. Draught is coming from the Wookey end at head height. 2½ hours. John.

Wednesday 1st June 2022

John Cooper. Continued breaking up rock on the solid side. Needs spoil clearing now. Didn’t notice any draught today. 1½ hours. John.

Sunday 29th May 2022

John Cooper joined Mike Kousiounis, Al Mills and Dave Morrison (Tuska) for the end of day session. Geoff Newton left as I arrived. Mike continued with plug and feathers for a while until batteries all dead. Then I did 2 mixes of mortar which Mike used up walling. Used a mixture of rock he created using plug and feathers and some I sent down. 2 hours. John.

Friday 27th May 2022

John Cooper. Continued breaking up rock on the solid side. Didn’t notice any draught today. 1½ hours. John.

Sunday 22nd May 2022

John Cooper joined Mike Kousiounis for the end of day session. Geoff Newton had already left and Dave Morrison (Tuska), Frank Tully and Chris Williams left when I arrived. I did 2 mixes of mortar which Mike used up walling. Used a mixture of rock he created using plug and feathers and some I sent down. 2 hours. John.

Thursday 19th May 2022

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.

 

Tuesday 17th May 2022

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.