Return To Quarter Way Up Hole

[The Old Ruminator]

Well its a bit safer after today.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Hopeful signs in the deep dig.

 

[Maisie Syntax]

Todays dig 1

https://flic.kr/p/2rQBiYs

Appreciate your use of the term 'the old chap', although I hope you are meaning in the sense of example 1 (below), rather than example 2 (taken from Wiktionary).

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Oh dear. Such is our language demeaned by alterating the meanings . I got told off for using the word " dosser " on Facebook when in my day it just meant somebody sleeping away from home. I shall revert to " Uncle Brian " as he is rather avuncular and nothing like a dick at all.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Todays video. Top dig mothballed now so we can concentrate on the deep dig.

https://flic.kr/p/2rRFwFr

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Winch working well at the deep dig.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Todays Jolly.

Attending. Me, Nigel , Pete, Peter , Nigel and Mike.

With the winch four were happy at The Pit. Peter poked prodigiously at Poker's Progress revealing more of " the arch ". Mud filled with a solid waterworn bedding roof. Rocks and mud in the floor. To me it improved prospects here but not all agreed. At least it could be worked with a team of two capping if numbers were short.
I spent the day lying in the puddle in the tube tub hauling. Loads came out from below now neatly stacked along the tube. Nigel had to prop the big boulder part way up as it wiggled a bit. A horizontal prop would be good then the ladder can be attached. Moving forward the fault rift narrows to 200mm. Using my torch I can look forward in solid rock to more small rocks a metre ahead. On both sides its possible to detach slabs from the walls which will widen the rift to maybe a metre. This was started on the fault wall but left bits undermined further up. I guess they could be pinned or propped horizonally . If every thing is secure we could move forward perhaps a metre next week just by widening the rift.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

 

[The Old Ruminator]

A productive day in The Pit at QWUH . Ladder installed with more scaffolding and a metre of new passage discovered ( only by remote camera ). Well this is Mendip.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Where no human has ever crawled, grovelled or even seen . Mendips latest new passage ( ish ). A metre wide and a metre plus long. Like I said almost amazing for Mendip. Remote camera view.

 

[asheshouse]

Wow!

 

[Lankyman]

Remote camera view.

You should get in touch with these folks

Robots descend into lava tubes to prepare for future Moon bases

Hidden lava tunnels on the Moon and Mars could one day shelter human explorers, offering natural protection from radiation and space debris. A European research team has unveiled a bold new mission concept that uses three different robots working together to explore these extreme underground...

www.sciencedaily.com

 

[mrodoc]

Anybody in the ESA on the forum who wants to try out their new robot in a cave?

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Having got the ladder in with much effort and swearing we have established a lot more stacking space behing it.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Mr O'Doc " at work " in Poker's Progress.

 

[VWScully]

Wow, looking good! More progress from when I saw it last year with @mrodoc !

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Wow, looking good! More progress from when I saw it last year with @mrodoc !

We old folks dont hang about.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Yuk --

https://flic.kr/p/2rXv9UZ

 

[The Old Ruminator]

%50 of yesterdays team.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

https://flic.kr/p/2rYhLZ2