11FEB11: Creeping shutter |
16FEB11: Drilling jig being built |
26FEB11: The completed drilling jig and shutter |
26FEB11: Detail of the shuttering |
26FEB11: Demonstration of the drilling jig |
09MAR11: Digging Shield, detail of slots for rebar |
17MAR11: Les sorting gravel |
17MAR11: The improved drainage sump |
19MAR11: The part completed sump |
19MAR11: Les working on the sump |
20MAR11: The jig/shutter with some rebar in 'position' |
20MAR11: Bending 10mm rebar |
20MAR11: Trevor Hughes' joke |
21MAR11: The headframe showing cable guide and traverse chain. |
02APR11: The completed hyper-drain/wishing-well |
02APR11: Alice emptying the kibble |
02APR11: The first kibble-full of rubbish |
Phone, laser powered skip-counter and signal lights |
09APR11: Slug, Dave, Jeff & Chris in the noon-day sun |
09APR11: Alice preparing the BBQ |
11APR11: Richard Witcombe, mixer man |
19APR11: Looking up the shaft |
13APR11: The shutter, concrete and temporary rebar supports for the fill |
13APR11: The shutter held in place by an Acrow prop |
19APR11: The completed concrete plug #1 |
19APR11: The modified shutter (I think it looks much the same as before). |
26APR11: Two sectors finished, shuttering ready for the next one |
26APR11: Shuttering in position behind the ladder |
29APR11: Close up of the solid rock |
29APR11: The shield with rebar supports |
01MAY11: Duncan Butler grinding the lip off the inside of the digging bucket |
01MAY11: Jeff, Nick and Ian pondering the eternal verities. |
29MAY11: Man watering plants - (I was set up for this one!) (Photograph (c) Stuart Lindsay - the rat.) |
29MAY11: Jeff on the mixer, Chris and Alice lowering concrete. (Photograph (c) Stuart Lindsay) |
31MAY11: Home Close Shaft bottom |
31MAY11: The last two sections of underpinning |
01JUN11: The completed ring of underpinning |
01JUN11: The last two sections of underpinning |
14JUN11: Jeff at the end of the first REAL digging session |
14JUN11: Void on the left, solid dolomitic conglomerate on the right |
14JUN11: Looking into the 'rift', mudstone boulder on left, solid rock on right |
26JUN11: Stu Lindsay having just seen great things |
29JUN11: Shaft bottom with pit below the ladder |
29JUN11: left hand wall supported by Acrow |
29JUN11: Looking into the Riftlette |
29JUN11: looking closer into the Riftlette |
29JUL11: Jeff admiring the shaft shelter |
31JUL11: The shuttering for segment 7B |
31JUL11: The shuttering for segment 7B |
31JUL11: The shuttering frame for segment 7B |
31JUL11: The way on, but it's blocked for now |
31JUL11: The shaft bottom |
09AUG11: Drilling the side rails of the ladder
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09AUG11: Ladder clamped for welding
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09AUG11: Completed ladder
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29AUG11: Mike Wilson at the door of the engine house |
04SEP11: Sunflowers and stacked-n-wrapped plywood |
09SEP11: Tim Large unbolting the shuttering |
10SEP11: Tim's Rude Shelter |
10SEP11: Stu Lindsay flat out after digging |
10SEP11: Lunch by the shaft |
17SEP11: Looking into the extension
Photo: Stuart Lindsay |
17SEP11: Lunch, eaten while sheltering from the rain
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24SEP11: Annex chamber 'before'
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24SEP11: The boulder floor
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24:SEP11: Fragments of boulder
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24SEP11: Stu, Tim and Alice tearfully contemplating the ruination of the dig |
24SEP11: Detail of the two rifts |
24SEP11: Roof support
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08OCT11: Looking into Annex chamber |
08OCT11: Rough Diamond Rift |
08OCT11: A closer look into Rough Diamond Rift |
15OCT11: The concreting kibble |
22OCT11: The way on at the end of Rough Diamond Rift |
05NOV11: Stu digging in Annex chamber |
10NOV11: Tim creating an atmosphere! |
10NOV11: RD Rift (getting smoother) |
11DEC11: Stu, Jeff and Tim setting up the first panel |
11DEC11: Stu and Jeff cutting a ply panel |
17DEC11: Stu and Mike fixing the shelter |
27DEC11: Jeff, Stu, Mike, Roger,
Annie & Alice drinking
hot Gluhwein
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