Saturday 21st March 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Capping kit taken to bottom. Whilst Adrian continued capping the conglomerate boulder the rest first moved spoil from the middle stacking space to the top stacking space. Then moved on down and moved Adrian’s spoil up to the ledge then on up to the alcoves. Good outward draught the whole time. Discussion at the end between Adrian and Pete which resulted in decision to move to stronger boulder breaker next week. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 14th March 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. One mix of cement and capping kit taken to bottom. Whilst Adrian continued capping the conglomerate boulder Pete built up above the Slot where the mud was getting washed out. After a while Pete descended to replace John and continued cementing work below the Slot. The boulder is still large. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 7th March 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Last week was too wet but this week was fine. Started by clearing the entrance shaft. Pete loading, John on the Naughty Step, Adrian and Nigel on the surface. 22 loads cleared it. The Pete to the bottom with John above him stashing clatch and rock about 3m up. Eventually Nigel and Adrian arrived, Nigel’s first time this far down. We then moved on up and cleared from the bottom step to the top of the tunnel before we called it a day. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 22nd February 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. There had been a good water flow down the hole over the past week. One mix of cement taken to bottom. Pete used half at the bottom whilst John continued wall of 1^st February a bit higher to create space for clatch. Once cement used up Adrian continued capping conglomerate boulder with Pete and John hauling spoil up bottom rope. Once Adrian had run battery low we moved on up and hauled spoil from the top of the tunnel to the bottom of the entrance ready for a surface haul next week, if it’s not too wet and windy! 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 15th February 2020

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Wayne Starsmore and Adrian Vanderplank. Wet and windy so Adrian sent to the bottom to cap the conglomerate boulder in the floor. The rest of us hauled spoil. First we moved last week’s stash up to the bottom of the entrance. Then moved on down and moved spoil up to the two alcoves. Finally moved it on up to the top of the tunnel. By then the stream flow had increased so we made a run for it. Wayne went to look at the bottom and brought out the drill and capping kit as Adrian has run out of battery power. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 8th February 2020

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Rich Marlow, Mark Le Poidevin and Adrian Vanderplank. Adrian and Pete took one mix of cement to bottom which Pete used wall building. John carried the capping kit down. Adrian and John moved spoil upwards. Just as we had finished clearing the bottom stacking ledge Mark and Rich turned up. After a look at the face they came up and we hauled the spoil on up to the end of the tunnel. They then left and we descended to see how Pete was getting on. He had just finished cementing but didn’t want Adrian to do any capping so John carried the capping kit out again unused. 1½ hours. John.

Saturday 1st February 2020

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. Adrian sent to the bottom to do some capping. Meanwhile with Barry and Jude on the surface, John on the Naughty Step and Pete loading 18 buckets of rocks were hauled out. Then one mix of cement was taken to bottom. After Jude had a look at dig face she came up and waited. Pete loaded spoil at the bottom which Adrian passed on up to John to stack, apart from some clatch which he stowed. Finally John used 1 bucket of cement building a wall for clatch and Pete used the other wall building at the very bottom. 3 hours. John.