legendrider
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Last Thursday Mark H and myself floor-boarded the last section, and thereby completed our (with Col H) dig through the collapses on Rampgill Cross Vein.
The digs represented 65ft of horizontal progress over two separate blockages and consumed around 1000 sandbags, 700ft of treated 5x2 timber and several score scaffolding poles and clamps, assorted M24 threaded bar and nuts, and dozens of hours core-drilling stemple holes. Oh, and a 150ft bucket ropeway designed and built by Col H, complete with Bull Rail to lift the bucket off the rope and run on steel channel into the lower, scaff-supported dug section to the forehead.
Space here precludes a full account of everything which was done, but it is now possible to enter Scaleburn to visit the Horse Whim, Top Sill Steps etc, then take the cross-vein for 820ft to arrive at Rampgill Vein just outbye the Norpex Door. A complete circuit from Scaleburn Junction in Rampgill, via the Cross-Vein, outbye along Rampgill Vein to Whisky Bottle Junction and back to Scaleburn is approximately 1 mile!
MARK
The digs represented 65ft of horizontal progress over two separate blockages and consumed around 1000 sandbags, 700ft of treated 5x2 timber and several score scaffolding poles and clamps, assorted M24 threaded bar and nuts, and dozens of hours core-drilling stemple holes. Oh, and a 150ft bucket ropeway designed and built by Col H, complete with Bull Rail to lift the bucket off the rope and run on steel channel into the lower, scaff-supported dug section to the forehead.
Space here precludes a full account of everything which was done, but it is now possible to enter Scaleburn to visit the Horse Whim, Top Sill Steps etc, then take the cross-vein for 820ft to arrive at Rampgill Vein just outbye the Norpex Door. A complete circuit from Scaleburn Junction in Rampgill, via the Cross-Vein, outbye along Rampgill Vein to Whisky Bottle Junction and back to Scaleburn is approximately 1 mile!
MARK