Tuesday 28th December 2021

John Cooper, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. A rather drippy day, foam on the soakaway. Pete drilled holes in a couple of boulders at the bottom which were then banged, 40gm and 12gm. Will look at the effect on Saturday. 1 hour.

Thursday 23rd December 2021

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. After a delayed start because John forgot the ladder, spoil was moved up from the Tunnel to bottom of entrance shaft and then on up to the surface. Twenty one loads each time, well judged by Jude who was loading, meant the magic number of 42 was achieved. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 18th December 2021

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Spoil moved up from bottom ledge to Tunnel (24 loads according to Wayne). Then we moved on down and spoil moved up from bottom to bottom ledge (now about half full) plus a bit of clatch stuffed in hole a couple of metres up. Probably going to bang the boulder in the floor. 2½ hours. John.

 

Saturday 11th December 2021

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Spoil moved up from bottom to bottom ledge and some clatch stuffed in hole a couple of metres up from the bottom. Both recently placed anchors tightened up ready for use. No real draught for testing so difficult to decide best way onwards. 2½ hours. John.

Thursday 9th December 2021

John Cooper, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Drill taken in to place anchors. While Adrian placed bottom anchor for Nigel (still needs tightening up) John and Jude moved half a dozen loads of  clatch from bottom to a hole a couple of metres up. During exit another hole drilled so top rope can be moved up a few metres to the soakaway area. Drippy. 1½ hours. John.

Saturday 4th December 2021

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Hauled the spoil from the bottom ledge to the Tunnel then on up to the bottom of the entrance shaft and finally to the surface. 19 loads came up from the bottom, but Pete reckoned 21 came to the surface. I don’t believe that count. I reckon the vibration moved the counters along as it’s always a lesser number that reaches the surface. Very little draught but still a few drips. 2 hours. John.