Stu Gardiner & Mark Denning
Not the best start to the day, Mark had somehow managed to loose his STEN light, probably from when we were digging on the previous Saturday, he had his helmet attached onto his back pack and it must have come loose and fallen into the grass, we looked everywhere and could not find it.
Anyway, generator rigged up we headed underground, however just as we approached Talus Mark realised he had forgotten the dust masks and had to go all the way back to the van.
At the dig face the drill was plugged in and to my surprise it lasted 2 seconds and stopped, after sometime Mark appeared and by luck he noticed that the generator was on 240v instead of 110v, he switched it over and all was fine.
We set about widening the approach to the current dig face and although the rock was very tough, a combination of many many holes, chisels and plugs and feathers saw the hole wide enough to start removing the loose mud beyond. All bags were filled along with the skips until we had totally filled the digging area to the point where we could just about exit.
The dig face is now workable although a large (loose) boulder will need to be removed somehow to allow the mud beyond to be dug. The choked passage is looking good with signs of a good flow of water, the mud is loose and the small rocks come out with ease.
Future sessions will again see lot's of hauling and a massive increase in spoil being deposited in Talus.
NOTE: We will require another Hilti 8mm SDS as we managed to destroy the end of it.
Total time underground: 7 hours
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