Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Stu Lindsay – joined by
Kevin and Chris Clinton a little later when we were about to blow it!
2.5hrs
Arrived at site and immediately started drilling 3 long shot-holes
on the left (facing towards house), one higher and 2 lower to take off the left
hand wall. I laid the cord under Stu’s instructions and then we exited the cave
and let it off. Waited around 20mins before descending to take a look at what
had happened as it had cleared the worst of the fumes by then. Worked very
well, dig considerably wider now and a large amount of gravel and rocks
blocking the way out. Cleared about a dozen skips from the hole before drilling
two further holes in the lower ledge by the hole with the way on. Left and
behind you can feel quite a long way under, so had to be careful not to just
drill through this and went on an angle. The hole in the floor has about 3-4ft
of drop, draughts pretty well and going away from the house direction seems to
be looking like the way on. Chris flicked the switch for the second bang and it
was considerably louder than before! Left for the pub without checking as pub ‘o’
clock!
Report from Kevin the morning after – ‘been down and cleared
out rock but hole is same size, need a bigger bang!!’
Planning to clear it again before more of Dr Nobel’s though.
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