Tuesday 24th September

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Stu Lindsay
1.5hrs
6 skips out of deeper hole 5 and 21 very muddy skips out of the adjacent one (6) using both ends of the rope. Deeper hole has an interesting void below the false floor but the sides need banging now to widen it to make it accessible. We need to do that next trip, hopefully next week. Hole 6 is very muddy and clay and got to a point where the hauling rope so muddy it was impossible to haul anymore, so gave up and went to pub!

Monday 18th September

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon and Henry Dawson.
2hrs
Arrived to find the digger not in usual location, but based on previous discussions about struggling to use it now down to depth and the jaggedness of the rocks at the bottom catching the bags and having less space to keep a 1 tonne bag while digging, we had decided to use the tripod anyway to finish this dig off. We moved the tripod to over that hole first job from the other hole it had been resident over since last year and put the rope back into place. (The hole we have removed it from we want to use the digger on anyway when we do dig that one.) James went in first and started filling buckets with slop and mud as there was a little puddling above the holes in the floor. Estelle on hauling all evening down to a injured foot and then Mike went down to relieve James and realised soon that digging in just old clothes rather than using an oversuit wasn’t the best idea. Henry then went down for the last 1/2hour and broke a larger hole in the false floor and we can see some space below going to about 3ft. Next session needs a decent hammer and chisel but probably the session after will be looking at Dr Nobels best!