Monday 14th October 2019


John Cooper, Rob Harper, Pete Hellier, Tony Seddon, Wayne Starsmore and Adrian Vanderplank. Started by clearing The Pit. The spoil nicely filled in behind the walls built last Thursday. Then down to the bottom tunnel. Built up a nice stack of spoil ready to haul up the bottom shaft next time. Some discussion on whether to go along or down at the end. Will wait for cold weather and do a smoke test ie in a month’s time when we have cleared the current spoil. 2¼ hours.

Thursday 10th October 2019


John Cooper, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Jude came in to change the SRT ropes on Nut pitch but had difficulty undoing a maillon so that didn’t get done. New rope taken out again. Meanwhile Adrian and John used 3 mixes of cement building up the Spiral Staircase. Only enough cement left for one mix. 1½ hours.

Monday 7th October 2019


John Cooper, Rob Harper, Pete Hellier, Wayne Starsmore and Adrian Vanderplank. Took in another 2 bags of sand. With Adrian loading, John on the ledge, Wayne above him and Pete transferring the loads to Rob a grand total of 73 tubs of spoil were dumped in The Pit. The bottom of Four-Tonne shaft is clear again. Lack of time, or was it will power, means The Pit remains to be emptied. Very drippy tonight. 2½ hours.