2015

 Dave Mitchell’s Dig 2015

 18/05/2015 Jude, Pete, Myself, Barry
(?Site inspection?). Adrian.

06/06/2015 Pete, Jude, James & Myself.
Scaffolding tripod erected with a pulley. The bottom was secured with cross bracing which made the tripod far more stable. Adrian.

14/06/2015 Pete, Nigel, Jude & Myself.
A cementing & stabilizing session with Pete working on the lower wall and me just above building a wall behind the fixed ladder. Adrian.

04/07/2015 Pete, Nigel & Myself.
A digging session. 100 buckets! Adrian.

11/07/2015 Pete & Myself, Nigel?, Barry?
Cementing & walling session. Adrian.

20/07/2015 Pete, Jude, Myself.
More walling & cementing. Rock now being imported from Pigs Hole in Cheddar. Adrian.

25/07/2015 Jude, Nigel & Myself.
Me to the bottom to do a bit of walling. A token 5 buckets hauled out. Adrian.

27/07/2015 Jude, Pete & Myself.
In less than clement weather Pete to the Naughty Step & Jude to the bottom. 16 buckets hauled out then some slumping started to occur. 1 bucket of cement then mixed for Pete to start building some more walls. Adrian.

03/08/2015 Jude Pete & Myself.
Building and cementing walls. Drippy down the bottom. Adrian

08/08/2015 Pete, Nigel & Myself.
Mainly cementing but a bit of hauling as well. Nigel’s attire at the surface was slightly suspect. Budgie smugglers and a T-shirt wrapped around his head! Adrian.

10/08/2015 Jude, NikNak, Pete H & Myself.
A really good hauling session. Eventually we seem to be getting some larger rocks appearing at the bottom. A bit of undermining of the walls was carried out by Mak – oops, I mean NikNak – but hopefully not too serious. Adrian.

05/09/2015 Pete, Nigel? & Myself.
Digging & cementing. Adrian.

28/09/2015 Pete, Jude, Myself.
Cementing. Adrian.

03/09(?10)/2015 Pete, Nigel, Myself.
Digging and cementing. Adrian.

05/10/2015 Jude, Pete, (NikNak?), Myself.
Wet day. Digging. Adrian.

17/10/2015 Pete, Nigel, NikNak (almost) & Myself.
26 buckets hauled out, 2 buckets of cement in. Adrian.

19/10/2015 Jude, Pete, NikNak & Myself.
5 buckets of spoil out, 4 buckets of cement in! With Pete at the bottom hauling out spoil digging seemed to be going well. Unfortunately, one of the rocks in the floor slipped downwards, and part of the wall as well. Digging in the floor then stopped and with the help of a crowbar and chisel as temporary RSJ’s Pete did some remedial wall building. Hopefully this will stabilize this section of wall. We shall see! Adrian.

Saturday 24^th October 2015. John Cooper, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton and Adrian Vanderplank. A dozen small tubs of spoil hauled out by Geoff and I before 3 tubs of cement and some rocks sent down for Pete to build a supporting wall. 2 hours in the rain. John.

07/11/2015 Nigel Graham, Pete Hann & Myself.
Pete down to the bottom, myself to the Naughty Step. The remedial work on the wall looks like it has worked, and there was no sign of subsidence or cracking. Forty buckets of spoil removed with signs of a good draught and small holes between boulders! Adrian.

Saturday 19^th December 2015. John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Mike Kousiounis. 40 loads hauled out on a wet and windy day. 2 hours. John.