Saturday 23rd February 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement sent to the bottom. Whilst Pete and Adrian capped and cemented the rest of us hauled their spoil up to the bottom stacking space. We then left Pete and Adrian creating more spoil and cementing whilst the rest of us moved the spoil on up to the top stacking space and then on up to the surface. Total of 17 loads. 3 hours. John.

Saturday 16th February 2019

John Cooper (late arrival after helping in Bagpit), Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement sent to the bottom. Whilst Pete and Jude cleared spoil and did a bit of cementing at the bottom the rest hauled spoil to the surface. I arrived as Adrian hauled load 30 to the surface, Nigel was filling and Barry was on the Naughty Step. I joined Adrian and hauled another 22 loads to leave plenty of stacking space for next time. Total of 52 loads. 1 hour for me. John.

Did anyone mention mud? Photo by AV.

Saturday 9th February 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement sent to the bottom. Whilst Pete cleared spoil and did a bit of cementing at the bottom the rest of us hauled up to the bottom stacking space. Adrian then replaced Pete and did some capping with the debris being moved up to join that previously raised. The second bucket of cement was then sent down to Pete and Jude. The rest of us hauled all the spoil from the bottom stacking space to the top stacking space. Will need to do a surface haul before much more can go on the top stacking space. 3½ hours. John.

Saturday 26th January 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Wayne Starsmore and Adrian Vanderplank. One mix of cement sent to the bottom. Whilst Adrian capped rock at the bottom the rest of us moved it up to the lower intermediate stacking space. Then Adrian left the bottom to Pete who was able to cement up whilst the rest of us moved spoil from the lower intermediate stacking space to the upper intermediate stacking space. 3 hours. Pete’s flat front tyre then delayed us another hour. John.

Saturday 19th January 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Geoff Newton, Jake Tebbutt, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement sent to the bottom. Whilst Pete and Adrian capped and cemented at the bottom the rest of us moved spoil from the lower intermediate stacking space to the surface. 48 loads removed. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 12th January 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. One mix of cement sent to the bottom. Whilst Adrian capped rock at the bottom the rest of us moved it up to the lower intermediate stacking space. Then Adrian left the bottom to Pete who was able to cement up and also lift more rock out. The lower intermediate stacking space getting rather full now. 3½ hours. John.

Saturday 5th January 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement sent to the bottom with Pete. To start Adrian capped rock at the dig face whilst the rest of us hauled it up to the lower intermediate stacking space. Then Pete cemented whilst the rest of us hauled from lower intermediate stacking space to the top intermediate stacking space. 3½ hours. John.