Saturday 4th May 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Adrian on a fire brigade shout so we first cleared the top stacking space, Pete loading, me on the Naughty Step and Nigel on the surface. 50 minutes later (17 loads), the spoil was cleared and Adrian had arrived and sent to the bottom to start capping. Left Nigel on the surface as nothing to do below. Adrian capped rock until Pete could fit through a gap but as he wasn’t sure he could get back we left it for next time. Had to use a magnet to recover crowbar and capping bar from crack in floor! 3¾ hours. John.

Saturday 20th April 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. Pete and Jude to the bottom with a mix of cement to do walling. The rest of us cleared spoil from the bottom stacking space to the top stacking space then, once that was done, moved on down and started to fill it up again. At the end we moved on up and cleared the top stacking space to the surface, 22 loads. Pete reckons another good cementing session now required. 3¼ hours. John.

Saturday 13 April 2019

 

Wayne Starsmore near the top alcoves. Photo by AV.

Saturday 6th April 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann (later), Adrian Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. Had a look at the bottom and stacked a few rocks on the ledge before Adrian and Barry arrived. With me at the top two positions, Adrian in the middle and Barry filling we spend an hour hauling rocks up from the bottom. Adrian and Barry then swapped so Adrian could do some capping. Pete then arrived and a short while later we called it a day. Good draught coming up from the bottom. Needs a few mixes of cemen. John.

Saturday 23rd March 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. Pete and Jude to the bottom with a mix of cement to do walling to stack muddy gravel behind. The rest of us cleared spoil from the top stacking space to the surface, 40 loads. Adrian and Jude swapped part way through so Adrian could start capping. Once cleared we moved on down and made a good start on filling it up again from the bottom stacking space, which is now clear. 3 hours. John.

Saturday 16th March 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. Pete and Jude to the bottom to start stacking muddy gravel behind walls whilst the rest of us cleared spoil from the bottom stacking space to the top stacking space. Once cleared we moved on down and made a good start on filling up the bottom stacking space again. Adrian did some capping towards the end. 3 hours. John.

Saturday 2nd March 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement sent to the bottom. Pete dug boulders out of the bottom and then Adrian capped whilst the rest of us hauled their spoil up to the bottom stacking space. Pete was then left with Adrian to use up the cement but they also did more capping. The rest of us went out. 3 hours. John.