White Pit 27/3/13

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon
2hrs
Estelle filled the remaining bags in the dig – hole in floor had been slightly blocked and it was pretty wet down there until hole unblocked. Only about 10 bags spare as rest full. Air not overly special but choice of way on really, either dig out the floor or carry on to left. Floor still needs loads digging out whichever is chosen. Moved onto hauling up bags to Talus until we were too worn out as really need a bigger team of people at the moment – many of the bags are too heavy and there is still a lot of rock to come up.

White Pit 20/3/13

Mark Denning went down at 4:30 with generator and drill to deal with the large boulders at the bottom and break them up to manageable chunks with chisel. Stu Gardiner went down and assisted him and they started digging out the bottom. Estelle Sandford & James Begley arrived at 7pm and Mike Moxon at 7:30 just as Mark left. Stu continued digging in little air for a while. Rest of us moved the rocks and bags up to staging area then Stu ran out of air at bottom, so came and assisted moving the rocks up and making a few of them a bit more manageable. Ready for a haul to start next session.

White Pit 13/3/13

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Sarah Rowlands, Richard Savill
2.5hrs
Hauled all rock and bags from staging area to Talus IV and emptied them into old dig. Found that re-using the skip and emptying them at top rather than in dump spot is easier! Left the bags across the walled area to see if they might dry a little before next week… Sarah and Mike had a bit of a dig but with the large boulder Mark had pulled out of the floor last week right in the way and too big to move, it was very awkward digging. This needs to be dealt with before proper digging can resume…

Wednesday 6th March - White Pit

Estelle Sandford, Mark Denning, Mike Moxon
2.5hrs
Estelle digging first and then Mike followed by Mark. No shortage of easy digging mud, some stal and sandy stuff with the occasional rock. All bags filled up again ready for hauling next time and all are in the upper staging area, so only one haul length to Talus for next week! Mark at the end of digging pulled the really big boulder in the floor out and can see no trace of where the water may have gone in the floor. All traces of water currently dried up and nothing flowing. Does seem to be some slight circulation of air coming down from the ‘mini’ avens above where the water was coming in.

Tuesday 5th March - White Pit

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mark Denning, Mike Moxon, Leonie Woodward
2.5hrs
Around 30 bags plus rocks were manhandled from the dig store area in two stages to Talus IV and emptied. Dig air seems good and the water has dried up to a very small pool after a dry period. Ready for digging tomorrow night now.
(had been trip not logged a couple of weeks back by Mike and Mark which filled all the bags)