Longest UK dig?

[Pie Muncher]

Anyone have any idea which are the longest digs from around the UK. I'm thinking meterage not years spent gigging although even that information would be interesting to know I guess.
Cheers.

 

[Pony]

Verticaly it must be Templeton. As for horizontal it won't be one of mine. After a dozen or so sessions mine become "A site with excellent prospects and it ll cost you a pint".

 

[cavermark]

Verticaly it must be Templeton. As for horizontal it won't be one of mine. After a dozen or so sessions mine become "A site with excellent prospects and it ll cost you a pint".

How deep?

Titan surface dig is pretty deep too?

 

[cavermark]

Anyone have any idea which are the longest digs from around the UK. I'm thinking meterage not years spent gigging although even that information would be interesting to know I guess.
Cheers.

It might be hard to define as most digs have some short open sections - strictly speaking it ought to be longest continuously dug out section...

Volume removed would be an interesting one too (Templeton may win this) but very hard to measure accurately...

 

[langcliffe]

Notts II to Lost Johns seems quite long when you're in it!

 

[bograt]

I suspect Treasury to The Trenches in Peak might be a contender, Yards and yards of glacial cr*p dug out because certain people couldn't handle Windtunnel, the original dry route to Speedwell.
Mind you, a little bit of cave was discovered due to the easier route.

 

[estelle]

It might be hard to define as most digs have some short open sections - strictly speaking it ought to be longest continuously dug out section...

shame J'Rat isn't around any more as i bet he'd have been able to give intimate details on what was dug out on some of the very lengthy Mendip digs.

 

[cavermark]

It might be hard to define as most digs have some short open sections - strictly speaking it ought to be longest continuously dug out section...

shame J'Rat isn't around any more as i bet he'd have been able to give intimate details on what was dug out on some of the very lengthy Mendip digs.

Meterage should be roughly estimateable from surveys though, if you know where digging started and ended.

 

[TheBitterEnd]

The three counties system

What constitutes a "dig"?

 

[dunc]

What if you dig, then find a brief bit of open passage before having to dig again - is that one or two digs?

Skylight in Ireby, that might have been dug for about 100m - 

 

[cavermark]

The three counties system

What constitutes a "dig"?

I'd define it as "the point at which material has to be removed in order for a person to fit through, onwards, until it enlarges sufficiently for a person to fit through again"

As I said earlier, many passages thought of as "dug" have short "open" sections that didn't need digging to get through (eg the Ireby roof tube).
To make a fair comparison, lengths should only be of dug out sections, unless open sections up to a certain length are allowed..
(Then of course some passable sections are often enlarged to hands and knees size etc. to ease hauling/install railways etc.)  :-\

 

[Pie Muncher]

OK, my omission, should maybe have said longest continuous dig. If you no longer have to dig to get on, it's not a dig anymore If the way on is blocked or you can't get through, it's a dig, yes?

 

[mikem]

Verticaly it must be Templeton. As for horizontal it won't be one of mine. After a dozen or so sessions mine become "A site with excellent prospects and it ll cost you a pint".

How deep?

Titan surface dig is pretty deep too?

Two hundred and thirty nine & a half feet apparently...(not from the pony's mouth)

Mike

 

[braveduck]

The little Green men's dig in Irby II Inlet/Outlet 14 is continuous at 80Mts and still going.
Much of it dug to walking size to make mucking out easier.

 

[braveduck]

I must try harder! The little Green men's dig is Inlet/Outlet 8 in Notts 2.
Sorry about that.

 

[cavermark]

This suggests total vertical range in the Titan dig (entrance shaft plus internal shaft) is about 80m....

240feet = 73m....

 

[mikem]

The 239.5 feet is depth of Templeton, Titan entrance shaft only requires a 50m rope....

Mike

 

[bograt]

This suggests total vertical range in the Titan dig (entrance shaft plus internal shaft) is about 80m....

240feet = 73m....

Careful there Mark, the majority of Titan was climbed from inside, the "dig" to (or from) surface was not a lot (MOOSE, help me out here!!)

 

[cavermark]

The surface shaft was dug (and blasted through solid rock) 45m vertically until a bedding was enlarged to the "breakthrough window".
Digging the opposite way from the breakthrough window continued horizontally a short way and then down (in the hope of finding the other side of the Western passage choke). This is the 35m vertical that Dave Webb mentions in my link (I'd need this distance confirming though).
I think this can be considered a continuously dug vertical range. 

 

[bograt]

Hmm, 45m= 147ft approx., Templeton is 239.5ft, work it out