John Cooper. Plug and feather at the bottom to make it a bit roomier. Came out and assisted Tuska and Satanic putting in fence posts around the dig. 2 hours. John C.
John Cooper. Plug and feather work at the bottom making it wide
enough to work. Came out to help Al Mills and Dave Morrison plant some fence
posts they had spent the day digging holes for. 2 hours total. John.
John Cooper and Geoff Newton. Half an hour delay in starting as
we assured Zot’s niece, who lives in the end house next to where we park, that
her garden was not subsiding into a shakehole but just the cracks from a dry
summer. Advised her just to monitor the slight depression over the years, not
weeks or months! Once started we cleared the seven buckets of mud and five
buckets of rocks left at the foot of the entrance shaft. Geoff then went to the
front whilst John emptied the mud from the small buckets and returned them to
the bottom of the entrance. Then John descended to chamber 3 moving the buckets
along to Geoff at the dig face. The buckets were then filled and passed to John
who stashed them in chamber 3. Two larger rocks were also dug out and passed to
John who stashed them in chamber 2. Finally we cleared the spoil, the two rocks
from chamber 2 to chamber 1 whilst the buckets took the direct route from
chamber 3 to chamber 1. All the spoil was then moved along to the bottom of the
entrance shaft before finally being cleared to the surface. 2 hours. John.
