Return To Reservoir Hole

[PeteHall]

I did have a contact at a quarry on the edge of Mendip, had about 200m of belt off him in the past. Let me know if you are interested and I'll see if I can get hold of him, been a couple of years...

 

[The Old Ruminator]

OK Pete. Thanks for that. Will see how Mr O'Doc gets on with Oscar Meyer.

 

[KrissGC]

How would I get to join the digging team here?

 

[Laurie]

How would I get to join the digging team here?

You have to be over 90.  :

 

[The Old Ruminator]

How would I get to join the digging team here?

Possibly something going over Winter. Speak to Mike Kushy at the Wessex Cave Club. Also possibly some maintenance work ( not sweeping up bat poo ! ). Message Mrodoc on here.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

The conveyor belt has been obtained now.

 

[shotlighter]

The conveyor belt has been obtained now.

Grief, I knew you were serious about your digs.
Is the Dosco etc. on back order?

 

[mrodoc]

To allay concerns about digging material being taken in and left, this conveyor belt material is lightweight from a food processing plant. You can carry 20 metres of it about fairly easily but shorter sections needed for moving it underground as it is still bulky. I reckon if you could heat seal along the seams you could make Swaygo like bags out of it. Anyway if it gets used anywhere I am sure you will hear about it .

 

[dugadig]

Sounds interesting..  I'm sure we will hear all about it!  :
Good luck. 

 

[mikekushy]

I've got this Sunday free if anybody wants to join me in RH?

4 people would be needed ideally.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Mike dont be scared off by that huge meteorological balloon that Peter has left inflated at the dig . He had some bazaar notion of blocking the bigger passage with it to see how much the dig passage draughts. Some tidying up in Chain Chamber is due as well. ( Part of winter maintenance work particularly Willies old wash tub ).

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Its a shame all of the photos got deleted when Postimage ( W*nkers ) changed the URL Code.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Here is the geology at Jill's with the dig representing the latest phase in the draining of the cave. When the phreatic lift at Topless Aven finally became inactive water drained from Grand Gallery via Potter's Heaven and Jill's Slither. Reservoir Hole is confined between two major faults both of which can be seen in The Frozen Deep. It does look as if Potter's Heaven and Jill's is following a route along strike and minor faults to progress towards the Golgotha fault rather than run under The Frozen Deep. The chamber at the end of Potter's which I have named " Never Ever Land " ( sort of antithesis of "Never Land " ) remains unsurveyed and unentered since discovery due to the horrible nature of the end of Potter's . ( Flooded during the survey work ).



Wash Tub. Chain Chamber.



Chris Milne in Jill's dig last Winter.



Roof pendants and enlarged fault or joint at Jill's .



The horror that is Potter's Heaven now best avoided. ( Hence "Never Ever Chamber" ).

 

[mrodoc]

The chamber at the end of Potter's which I have named " Never Ever Land " ( sort of antithesis of "Never Land " ) remains unsurveyed and unentered since discovery due to the horrible nature of the end of Potter's . ( Flooded during the survey work ).

Not strictly true as Ali M and I did two digging trips there and the biologists did some sampling in the sump at a later date. It could be dug in the summer months when it draughts (one of the biologists askfd why we weren't digging it for that reason). However the intermittent draught suggests, to me, that there is a U tube in the choked section between Never Ever land as Nick has called it and the main conduit that is flooded for long periods making it a poor prospect for digging.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Ooo. Do leave your giant balloon in place for Tuesday. I must get a photo.

Potter's never dries out as far as I know. Even when not flooded it is horribly gooey and sticky. I made no effort to see the chamber at the end as getting there would have meant being plastered. I recall Peter saying that Never Ever Land does rise up out of the mud a bit but the journey there would put most folk off. Jill's dig is almost civilised by comparison and when the tube has been floored with conveyor belt it should make removing the dig tray much easier as it continually sticking hampered operations last year.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Roof pendants and sediments in Potter's Heaven. There seems to have been sequential development here with the conduit originally phreatic. The stal overlying the sediments in some places indicates that the passage was open and relatively dry for some time.





Incoming !  Jill's dig.



Black stal. Jill's Slither.



Mud bank at the very end of Jill's dig. Water pushed through the hole appears to enter a bigger section with a pool.

 

[mrodoc]

Ooo. Do leave your giant balloon in place for Tuesday. I must get a photo.

Potter's never dries out as far as I know. Even when not flooded it is horribly gooey and sticky. I made no effort to see the chamber at the end as getting there would have meant being plastered. I recall Peter saying that Never Ever Land does rise up out of the mud a bit but the journey there would put most folk off. Jill's dig is almost civilised by comparison and when the tube has been floored with conveyor belt it should make removing the dig tray much easier as it continually sticking hampered operations last year.

If it's that clean you can dig at the sharp end next week