Bath Swallet and Rods Pot connected

[graham]

Ho Hum

From the top of the page where that file is to be found:

In the first instance, we are making available ?Survex? 3D files of certain caving areas. "Survex" is probably the most commonly used cave survey software in the UK and its viewer is one of the most flexible and easy to use. You can download Survex for free.

 

[Burt]

Did the Rods/Bath connection yesterday. Great fun and huge credit to the diggers.
I've only done this trip once before, and distinctly remember coming out of Bath's through a fairly large (walking) size passage. However yesterday I came out through a climbing boulder ruckle. Next to that entrance was another which had been blocked by washed in debris. Am I going nuts or is the blocked entrance the one I remember?

 

[graham]

Did the Rods/Bath connection yesterday. Great fun and huge credit to the diggers.
I've only done this trip once before, and distinctly remember coming out of Bath's through a fairly large (walking) size passage. However yesterday I came out through a climbing boulder ruckle. Next to that entrance was another which had been blocked by washed in debris. Am I going nuts or is the blocked entrance the one I remember?

Sorry, Burt, but I reckon you are going nuts.

 

[cap n chris]

Confusing it with Read's Cavern, perchance?

 

[Burt]

Not a chance, Chris. Stand looking at Bath Swallet entrance, then about 6m to the right there is a really obvious other entrance, part filled with spongy debris. Could this be the one?

 

[graham]

Burt

That depression has been dug in at least three places. Though only the current route has broken into cave, water has gone down in several places in the depression. However, there has never been a walking size entrance here.

 

[cap n chris]

 

[whitelackington]

I think The Rod's / Bath through trip is excellant
a super addition to Mendip, almost certainly the most fun trip under Burrington.

 

[Andy Sparrow]

I think The Rod's / Bath through trip is excellant
a super addition to Mendip, almost certainly the most fun trip under Burrington.

Just wait till we have the Bath Swallet to Drunkards Hole through trip!  (actually you might have to wait a while - but there's a good chance it will happen, eventually)

 

[Burt]

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Just wait till we have the Bath Swallet to Drunkards Hole through trip!  (actually you might have to wait a while - but there's a good chance it will happen, eventually)
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Visited the dig during this trip, and it looks like a very unpleasant place to be - mud, mud, mud! - and the very sticky type. yuk!

 

[pete h]

Just wait till we have the Bath Swallet to Drunkards Hole through trip!  (actually you might have to wait a while - but there's a good chance it will happen, eventually)
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Visited the dig during this trip, and it looks like a very unpleasant place to be - mud, mud, mud! - and the very sticky type. yuk!
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If you were in Bath Swallet and visited a dig it wont be Andy's as he is digging from Drunkards, the dig in Bath is Aubrey's and is not heading towards Drunkards.

 

[whitelackington]

May we enquire has the "P" bolting on Purple Pot now been completed?

Yes, and yes.

On the CSCC website it claims there are two "P" bolts @ Purple Pot and they will next be checked in January 2009.
How many "P" bolts are now @ Purple Pot?

 

[graham]

May we enquire has the "P" bolting on Purple Pot now been completed?

Yes, and yes.

On the CSCC website it claims there are two "P" bolts @ Purple Pot and they will next be checked in January 2009.
How many "P" bolts are now @ Purple Pot?

825

 

[menacer]

825

:spank: Stop winding poor Mick up.....im worried about the day he finds out that the Chinese are producing the next generation eco anchor for British Caves as it is...
I wonder how much fossil fuels theyll burn and nuclear power stations they will be building in order to provide us with 825 bolts for Rod's...
Ooops sorry wrong thread...

CSCC website now updated - Thanks Graham for the info 
http://www.cscc.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=equipment:start

 

[Mr Boost]

Just out of curiosisisisty  , How long did it take to make / dig  the Rods /Bath connection ?    Not worried about the precise working hours !

 

[graham]

825

:spank: Stop winding poor Mick up.....im worried about the day he finds out that the Chinese are producing the next generation eco anchor for British Caves as it is...
I wonder how much fossil fuels theyll burn and nuclear power stations they will be building in order to provide us with 825 bolts for Rod's...
Ooops sorry wrong thread...

CSCC website now updated - Thanks Graham for the info
http://www.cscc.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=equipment:start

Oh shit, yeah, I'd forgotten that, he'll have a duck-fit.

Just looked at the CSCC list, nice one, Carm. 

 

[graham]

Just out of curiosisisisty  , How long did it take to make / dig  the Rods /Bath connection ?    Not worried about the precise working hours !

Well, both caves were first dug in the 1940's, so about sixty years, on and off.

 

[cap n chris]

Ah, but out of curiosisisity how many of the intervening decades were on and how many were off?

 

[whitelackington]

May we enquire has the "P" bolting on Purple Pot now been completed?

Yes, and yes.

On the CSCC website it claims there are two "P" bolts @ Purple Pot and they will next be checked in January 2009.
How many "P" bolts are now @ Purple Pot?

825

Rod's Pot
Anchor Number Next Test Due
RP-PP-01 11-Jan-09
RP-PP-02 11-Jan-09
RP-PP-03 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-04 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-05 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-06 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-07 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-08 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-09 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-10 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-11 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-12 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-13 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-14 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-15 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-16 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-17 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-18 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-19 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-20 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-21 11-Jan-10
RP-PP-825 11-Jan-10
Graham was right there are 825

This nonsense taken today from The C.S.C.C. Website

 

[graham]

Ah, but out of curiosisisity how many of the intervening decades were on and how many were off?

If I am commissioned to write this history, it'll cost you ?60 per five thousand words.