film of 1968 hand winching Seedlow mine. by Pegasus Caving Club

[Sean the Miner]

 

[tomferry]

Absolutely brilliant 10/10 love the tractor seat on the plank of oak . Thanks for sharing.

The landrover with sanky style trailer is star of the show . Looks a series 2 ?

 

[Rob]

Nice video. I wonder what they all found down there.

Eldon dropped a couple of the shafts near by a few years ago, but not the main Seedlow shaft.

Above the Sough - 10/11/2019

www.eldonpotholeclub.org.uk

 

[Goydenman]

Thanks for sharing...enjoyed it

 

[Fulk]

Intersseting – it looked to me as though the people going down were not clipped on/strapped in to the chair.

 

[Rob]

I thought they mostly had an additional belay rope though?

 

[pwhole]

Nice video. I wonder what they all found down there.

Eldon dropped a couple of the shafts near by a few years ago, but not the main Seedlow shaft.

Above the Sough - 10/11/2019

www.eldonpotholeclub.org.uk

Interesting stuff - I wonder why the ginging went so deep? It can't still be shale on surface up there - maybe the loess was especially thick!

 

[Rob]

Interesting stuff - I wonder why the ginging went so deep? It can't still be shale on surface up there - maybe the loess was especially thick!

I assumed because the shafts up there are all on the rake (rather than adjacent to) that the tall ginging is actually backfilling of old open rake workings, to bring the shaft top up to general surface level. I'm sure many here know better though...

 

[AR]

It's more usual to see packwall filling the vein gap and bare rock sides with shafts directly on the vein, but I have seen other examples where the ginging goes further than it apparently needs to, possibly where the shaft is going through more fractured beds.

As for what's down the Seedlow shaft, there's a paragraph in John Beck's article on the Wardlow Basin in PDMHS Bulletin 7-2 - 240ft to a choke, with some bits going off that were felt too sketchy to enter.

 

[LJR]

Intersseting – it looked to me as though the people going down were not clipped on/strapped in to the chair.

The chap with the red ammo tin is on a short belay to the main rope shackle. Having said that, the short belay looks like it is bailer twine and that's old bailer twine, not modern polyprop stuff!
I never liked the idea of lowering on a brake band as done in the film. PDMHS always lowered by turning the handles.
Doesn't Cheg look incredibly young!