Whitepit - 23/11/11

Mark Denning, Estelle Sandford, Stu Gardiner, Mike Moxon & Henry Dawson.

Continued with the removal of the bang debris and filled bags from the last digging session, these were all hauled up to Talus and stacked.

Work continued on the large boulder, which was reduced in size further more, a significant hole has appeared underneath the boulder which when rocks are rolled down they tumble away for a short distance, the best thing is that we now know that the boulder has an end to it and this will aid the final extraction.

Mud from either side of the dig face has been removed making it even more spacious.

Around 40 skips were taken to Talus throughout the evening.

A Petzl hanger has been installed directly above the dig to aid the hauling of the bags and skips, it is now estimated that to get bags and skips to the base of the first shaft we need 4 people (2x people at the dig, one person at the bolt, and another to move the bags to the base of the shaft).

The plan is to take the generator down on Monday 28th to assist in the removal of the boulder with digging as normal on the Wednesday.

Total time underground 3 hours.




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White pit - 09th November 2011

Mark Denning, Stu Gardiner & Henry Dawson.

Mark and Stu spent 2 hours breaking up smaller boulders and removing around 6 -8 bags of spoil before drilling 6 shot holes in the large boulder, Henry arrived around 20:50 (just before the pub) and placed the cord into the shot holes, with the bang wire in place and rigged up we detonated from Tallus before exiting the cave.

The plan is to leave the site for around 2 weeks to allow the fumes to totally clear before venturing back down and removing the bang debris.

Total time underground: 3.5 hours


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