(NOTE: Images on this page will enlarge if you click on them).
 03FEB09: The dig under 6 inches of snow. |
 31MAR09: Freeing a rusted-up screw-jack needed for the shaft. |
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 03APR09: Fabricating one of the bottom straps for the shaft. |
 03APR09 The jacks and bottom hooks about to be checked for size |
 08APR09: The completed assembly of jacks and bottom straps. |
 19APR09: Tim Large and Jeff Price about to spring into action .... |
 19APR09: Duncan Butler digging below, Tim Large hauling, Jeff Price as bucket monitor. |
 19APR09: Tim Large at the winch. |
 20APR09: The bottom of the shaft showing ladder, strappings and the jacks. |
 20APR09: Bottle jack and bottom attachment for a strap in position. |
 20MAY09: The "new" security grill fitted to the entrance. |
 04JUN09:10 tons of aggregate delivered to the site. |
 18JUL09: Temporary shoring and run-in at the base of the shaft |
 18JUL09: Temporary shoring and run-in - detail |
18JUL09: Stu Lindsay and Chris Batstone draining the pond (playing mud-pies) |
 02AUG09: Annie Galloway, Alice Audsley & Roger Galloway digging a trench for drainage pipes. |
 02AUG009: Roger Galloway trimming the hole he has just drilled. |
 02AUG09: Two new blue drainage pipes in the shaft. |
 05AUG09: The drained, but still soggy, depression. |
 05AUG09: The drainage sump (a yellow plastic bucket). |
05AUG09: For comparison, the undrained next depression with a 16 inch deep pool at the bottom. |
10AUG09: Cracks in the drying mud. |
Created: 25 November 2008
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