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.
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.
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.
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.
John Cooper and Mike Kousiounis. Cleared some spoil then 3 mixes of
cement used by Mike building walls. No sand left but 1 full bag cement. 3
hours. John.
