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Bog
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i fancy a crack at dawkes crawl anybody know much about that or the dig in dog house in lower cales dale
Digging, Things that should be looked at again ?
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Salty
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Yeah, it was a nice little trip last night! Until seamoose accidently pissed down the corckscrew! :bash:
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Bog
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also critchlow has a force ten gale blowing out of it
something is living in there though
something is living in there though
Iain Barker
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could be the "Beer Fairy"! :shock:
underground
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Iain Barker said:
Gate the f***** quick then! :shock:
Iain Barker
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In reply to Bog - it's a bit early yet for Dawkes Crawl to unwater. John Beck tells me that even in the 1976 drought it was sumped in June. Still early in the year yet, better put a watching brief on it through the summer (if we have one this year!).
Mrs Trellis
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Do you think Critchlow connects, by rifts perhaps, with the mine workings further down the dale ?
Like the publican said - there is a terrific draught.
Like the publican said - there is a terrific draught.
Mrs Trellis
Well-known member
Been thinking about other possible dig sites to be revisited - what about Wormhill Springs? Go on a warm day and it's definitely cool cave water. Probably need mechanical assistance.
Rob
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Had a poke down Ivy Green Cave yesterday. Indeed it is a bold climb to get there. No draught anywhere that i noticed but that is one nice tube. Didn't make it to the very end due to big pool of ming as wearing normal clothes! Will return soon with wellies and oversuit, and possibly a rope!
Does anybody know the story behind the quick lime?
Does anybody know the story behind the quick lime?
Cave_Troll
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yes rob i do know, and i'll tell you in the pub this evening.
I've probably told you before in fact.
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I've probably told you before in fact.
C_T
AndyF
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Hi
Wormhill Springs is definitly interesting, and has a large catchment. In some respects it is similar to Ilam risings. I suspect, though, that penetration is more likely via sinks than at the resurgence, which is likely to be sumped/shallow for some distance. There aren't obvious sinks to dig though, as the quarry has probably obliterated many, so we may have to wait until it closes....
Wormhill Springs is definitly interesting, and has a large catchment. In some respects it is similar to Ilam risings. I suspect, though, that penetration is more likely via sinks than at the resurgence, which is likely to be sumped/shallow for some distance. There aren't obvious sinks to dig though, as the quarry has probably obliterated many, so we may have to wait until it closes....
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darkplaces
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Shute Shelv cavern is being dug again.
Rob
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Heard from a little birdy that some kids today went down a shaft near here (~80m south of the road, in the trees, under a big boulder). They said it went down ~8m to a rubble filled blockage. Bit of a draft coming out. Maybe "No Name Mine" from the 1953-4 reports from The Stockport Potholers.Mrs Trellis said:
They also said they didn't find any open shafts further West along the rake, although there were two quite small shaft tops that were ~50cm deep to rubble blockage. No sign of the ~4ft diameter Cockshead Mine....
DAN
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The Big Quarry (Basalt) at the back of water Swallows has a couple of Swallets which they Pumped the water from the quarry into. The first swallow is somewhere under the tipping at the far end of the quarry by the main road there had been a 30 inch pipe to it, which was still visible at the time of the quarry being shut 15 years ago. The pipe was broken by heavy vehicles and as a result the quarry was nearly shut. They found a new Swallow at the opposite corner of the quarry which is in a Concrete Bunker and is still visible. This swallow use to take a lot of water and never backed up except when plastic bags got sucked up by the pump. This water comes out somewhere in the river bed before Wormhll Riseings.
Dan
Dan
John B
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Dawkes Crawl (named after a passing caver who was conned into lending Dave Gill a carbide lamp base when own his exploded outside just before the great push). It is a very long crawl, mostly flat out, and ending at some breakdown in a very small passage with the draught howling through it. I don't remember anywhere to sit up or turn round except at the end.
21st August 1976: Diary entry. "Ted (Mullins) and I went to the choke at the end of Dawkes Crawl. It is the most demoralising, claustrophobic crawl I have ever been in and we worked for a long time, removing three fair sized boulders. We advanced about 7ft, but could not move any more material. We crawled exhaustedly away."
Best of luck!
21st August 1976: Diary entry. "Ted (Mullins) and I went to the choke at the end of Dawkes Crawl. It is the most demoralising, claustrophobic crawl I have ever been in and we worked for a long time, removing three fair sized boulders. We advanced about 7ft, but could not move any more material. We crawled exhaustedly away."
Best of luck!
