Digging depth/lengh per year

[Owld Butt]

As a member of the Dropper digging team some of us had a discussion last Wednesday on our rate of progress, Having dug there for 15 years myself as have 2 other members of the pressent team our progress is about 3.25 meters per year, As the dig is vertical and we have used about 350MTS of scaffolding 1000 clips 4tons concrete RSJs etc to a depth of about 50 mts, :doubt: :doubt: :doubt: Is this rate of progress as good as worse or better than digging teams..

  Cheers awaiting your comments

 

[AndyF]

I don't know our figures, but it sounds similar to Waterways Swallet, though the "rate" varied enourmously year by year as enthusiasm waxed & waned. We probably used 500 clips and several hundred lenghts of scaff, but no cement...

 

[graham]

We started Tynings Great Swallet in 1984 (or was it 85?) We are about 55 -60 m down which makes an average rate of less than 2 1/2 m per year, though like all digs this has been in fits and starts rather than steady. (& the boys are there this evening, I believe & recent progress has been very good).

I don't know how much scaff/bang/cement have been used in that time but I do know that some of the team complain they have to work longer hours these days.  :-\

 

[whitelackington]

We started Tynings Great Swallet in 1984 (or was it 85?) We are about 55 -60 m down which makes an average rate of less than 2 1/2 m per year, though like all digs this has been in fits and starts rather than steady. (& the boys are there this evening, I believe & recent progress has been very good).

I don't know how much scaff/bang/cement have been used in that time but I do know that some of the team complain they have to work longer hours these days.  :-\

do you mean vertically down Graham or down a bit and along a bit.
Even Templeton is not quite 60 metres down.

 

[graham]

Vertically. See the survey in UBSS Proceedings 23 (2) 2005, and add a few metres at the bottom.

 

[truescrumpy]

Please don't get me start on that again !!! 

 

[paul]

In the Peak, we have a new incentive to get digging.

See Free Rope.

Presumably a dig downwards wil make the prize more of an incentive!