John Cooper, Pete Hann, Simon Richards (Nik
Nak), Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Adrian filled the bucket and the
rest of us hauled up the spoil in the main shaft. 41 buckets moved. 2 hours. John.
John
Cooper, NikNak, Pete H, Jude & Myself. With the
Thursday team being intermittent to say the least, we put in a big hauling
session clearing mainly clatch, but there was still a lot left to clear. Adrian.
Pete
Hann, NikNak & Myself. Another good
digging session at the bottom. We seem to be finally through the layer of small
stones mud & clatch with more larger rocks appearing in the North and in
the middle and the South is still heavily calcited in rocks. A damp session but
rewarding. Adrian.
Pete, Nigel & Myself. With the bottom of the shaft now totally empty with massive effort from ourselves and the Thursday team it was time to continue digging at the bottom again. Three hours of clatch hauling then commenced with at least 30+ buckets hauled to the bottom of Four Tonne Shaft. When I managed to get a look at the bottom it looked like we had cleared the majority of clatch out and were getting into larger rocks. No discernible draught was detected and the North end is the more promising of the two ends. Good session but with no sign of a breakthrough soon. Adrian.
NB The reference to the "Thursday Team". As well as the regular Saturday/Monday team there was a "clearing" team moving spoil upwards on a Thursday evening. However there doesn't appear to be any written record of their work. John.