gautries clean up

[SamT]

lifted from HnH website

GAUTRIES HOLE Conservation work - November 2004.
Report from Wayne Sheldon - Work has begun on the tidying up of the shakeholes of Gautries Hole and Car Pot, as generations of rubbish has collected in these shakeholes. This has come about as a result of the English Nature's SSSI Cave Monitoring work and is being carried out by volunteer cavers who are removing all of this rubbish to return the shakehole to a more natural state.

This work is being funded by English Nature and DCA who are paying for the disposal of the rubbish using a variety of methods which mainly involves skips and a disposal company who will be collecting all of the tyres. The rubbish that is in the shakehole consists of timber, steel, plastic, tyres and other various pieces of junk.

On the 30th October 2004, ten cavers from two local Derbyshire Clubs gathered at Gautries to begin the process. It's a large job so the plan is to break the work down over three weekends. The first day was spent gathering all of the rubbish together into a couple of piles. To do this many pieces had to be dug out, especially the tyres that had sunk in the quagmire of liquid mud that lines the shakeholes.

This rubbish will be winched out of the shakehole next weekend and put into skips. The tyres will be removed from the site the following weekend.

There's a lot to do and the work is ongoing, anybody who can help out should contact Dave Webb on 01158401109.

 

[SamT]

Himbley bimbley

 

[nickwilliams]

Himbley bimbley

Sleep deprivation got that bad already, has it Sam?

Good luck!

Nick.

 

[SamT]

I was wondering if I could get the two threads (gautries clean up & New stuff in owl hole) to stop being at the top of the forum - but my plan didn't work).

Actually - the sleep thing is not too bad at all (well for me anyway). He's good as gold. Im under no illusion that this could (and probably will) change at some stage though.