Whitepit 20th april

Mark Denning, Henry Bennett and Henry Dawson
After many hours of tirelessly banging hammers, chisels and plugs and feathers and getting nowhere very quickly, we finally blew the shit out of it thanks to lots of organising on Henry D's side and a bang licence with Henry B. We went down armed with my drill and two not so good battery's and the club drill with 1 battery. As ever best laid plans and all that, the club drill was flat so we only managed to get 4 holes drilled with my battery. Henry B set about rigging our 4 holes with 100 gram which I was told is quite poky. Myself and Henry D then set off up to Tallis taking the bang wire with us. A few minutes later Henry B joined us looking a little puzzled as to why I had unrolled his entire coil of bang wire and was so far away we probably wouldn't even hear the bang. Better safe than sorry I say. After a little messing around with a torch battery for an exploder, success. A bloody good thump woof sound and we legged it so hopefully on the next visit that bloody stal will be blown to bits.

whitepit 9th april

Went down today for 5 hours took nice new lump hammer after breaking the handle on the last one it must of had cave worm .In future must remember to charge both batteries for drill its very annoying to drag it all the way in and its bloody flat anyway digging i dug a 2 ft hole straight down in the floor and only found mud and smaller boulders so i think with another session and a charged drill we might push through this damn stall.

whitepit 6th april 2011

Mark Denning and Vern Freeman digging tonight Still in the stall and Boulder blockage but can see a change in the spoil ahead so hopefully we are coming to the end of the hard digging,This evening myself and vern managed to take some of the floor out with a little of the left hand wall which has left a lot more loose so should make good progress with a couple more trips. 2 or 3 bags of spoil pulled out.