s_allshorn
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Put my talk together today. 18 minutes on the run through. The subject has changed from that advertised. I thought a talk on shaft sinking might be a little dull. So I'll be telling you all about our digging efforts to find a link between the 3 Counties System and the Kingsdale caves. Far more exciting and better pics 
I had a sneak preview - it's excellent 😁Put my talk together today. 18 minutes on the run through. The subject has changed from that advertised. I thought a talk on shaft sinking might be a little dull. So I'll be telling you all about our digging efforts to find a link between the 3 Counties System and the Kingsdale caves. Far more exciting and better pics
Goydenman
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Bet its great stuff, gutted I'm missing it all with covid 😷. I also think that the sinking shafts would be good too as digging teams working autonomously would value swopping techniques. Which is why I think each year a mix of exploration updates and swopping ideas/techniques would be brillPut my talk together today. 18 minutes on the run through. The subject has changed from that advertised. I thought a talk on shaft sinking might be a little dull. So I'll be telling you all about our digging efforts to find a link between the 3 Counties System and the Kingsdale caves. Far more exciting and better pics
Pitlamp
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What a cracking day it was!
A massive thank you to Sam, who shouldered the main organisation and made sure we were well fed and watered. Also to Matt & Gary for masterminding the AV side of things and making it work seamlessly. Also to the many presenters, all of whom were great. We really must do this again in the future.
Sorry you couldn't join us Chris; I hope you shed that virus soon, with no lingering effects. That other matter we were going to have a natter about; once you're feeling right I suggest we have a 3-way email conversation.
A massive thank you to Sam, who shouldered the main organisation and made sure we were well fed and watered. Also to Matt & Gary for masterminding the AV side of things and making it work seamlessly. Also to the many presenters, all of whom were great. We really must do this again in the future.
Sorry you couldn't join us Chris; I hope you shed that virus soon, with no lingering effects. That other matter we were going to have a natter about; once you're feeling right I suggest we have a 3-way email conversation.
kay
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We missed you, wondered what was up. Hope you're well soon.
Balmerfish
Member
Thanks to all - this was a very enjoyable day.
MJenkinson
Member
Great presentations and really interesting to see the amount of work being done outside my "home patch". Frank's presentation about the "chums" had me laughing out loud.
Happy to do a talk on shafts next time. Basically some of our core group are tradesmen so we naturally keep things square, level and upright. We use a spirit level for example. We have a lot of fun with the cutting of scaffold poles depending who is on duty at the dig. We have the 'plumbers cut' nice and square where the saw does the work. Then we have the 'poet's cut'. I'll leave that to your imagination but the miscreant gave by far the most amusing talk of the Forum
s_allshorn
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"I'll leave that to your imagination but the miscreant gave by far the most amusing talk of the Forum."
Only for those afflicted with chumvision and chumhearing.
Only for those afflicted with chumvision and chumhearing.
Pie Muncher
Member
Still waiting for the Pedigree Chum gag ;-)
s_allshorn
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I couldn't I'd have made a dog's dinner of it.
Robert Scott
Member
Many thanks to Sam for organising this event. And not forgetting Matt and Gary together with other York CC folk who sorted stuff out. And of course, the presenters. Thank you all.
Pitlamp
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Apparently I made a somewhat embarrassing error in my bit about Austwick Beck Head at Sunday's NEF. Just to confirm, for anyone left wondering; the passage floor is around 100 million years older than the roof, not the other way around (stupid boy!).
OK, OK, I'll put the dunce's hat on and stand in the corner. Apologies for the slip of the tongue.
Many thanks to Fay and Richard for quietly mentioning this afterwards. Hope you enjoyed it all the same.
Here's the photo in question, for interest. That Ordovician floor is an ancient sea shore, just before the waves rose over it and started to deposit the cavers' favourite rock in a tropical ocean (i.e. the roof).
You can almost hear those waves, crashing nearby . . .
OK, OK, I'll put the dunce's hat on and stand in the corner. Apologies for the slip of the tongue.
Many thanks to Fay and Richard for quietly mentioning this afterwards. Hope you enjoyed it all the same.
Here's the photo in question, for interest. That Ordovician floor is an ancient sea shore, just before the waves rose over it and started to deposit the cavers' favourite rock in a tropical ocean (i.e. the roof).
You can almost hear those waves, crashing nearby . . .