Saturday, June 23, 2018

Saturday 23rd June 2018

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank, and Barry Wilkinson. With Barry and Wayne on the surface, me on the Naughty Step, Adrian filling and Geoff just above him 55 loads were hauled from the Intermediate stacking point to the surface whilst Pete and Jude were digging at the bottom. Adrian, me and Geoff then went further down and with Jude filling at the bottom stacking point and me stacking the four of us hauled up about 12-15 loads to the Intermediate stacking space. I then went out leaving the remaining 4 cementing and moving rocks from the face to the bottom stacking point. 2½ hours.John.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Saturday 2nd June 2018

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank, and Barry Wilkinson. Cementing and clearing spoil from the bottom to the intermediate stacking space. 2½ hours.John.

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Saturday 26th May 2018

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank, and Barry Wilkinson. Hauled 26 loads to the surface from the intermediate stacking space whilst Adrian and Pete were capping at the bottom. Then moved rocks from the bottom to the intermediate space whilst capping continued. One mix of cement taken in and used at the end of the session. Nice outward draught. 3 hours.John.

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Saturday 31st March 2018

John Cooper, Geoff Newton, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank, Barry Wilkinson and Jonathan Williams. Very wet with a nice spout coming out of the wall about 3m down the entrance shaft. Jonathan at the face backed up by Geoff in the bottom tunnel. Me loading the bucket with Jude above me, Barry above her and Adrian stacking. We hauled rocks up from the bottom stacking space to the intermediate stacking space until Jude and Adrian were sufficiently cold. 1 hour. John.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Saturday 14th October 2017

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton and Barry Wilkinson. 42 loads hauled from the intermediate stacking space to the surface. Intermediate stacking space now clear. 1¾ hours. John.

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Saturday 7th October 2017

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. 10 loads hauled from the intermediate stacking space to the surface before I descended and helped haul spoil, created by Adrian and Pete capping, from the bottom to the intermediate stacking space. 3 hours. John.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Saturday 19th August 2017

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. 22 loads hauled from the intermediate stacking space to the surface before more spoil created at the bottom. 1½ hours.John.