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 |
21MAR11: The headframe showing cable guide and traverse chain. |
26MAR11: Les working on the drainage sump |
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. |
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 |
15JUN12: The draughting opening |
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 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 driving the winch |
29AUG11: Mike Wilson at the door of the engine house |
29AUG11: Alice working on the bank |
04SEP11: Sunflowers and stacked-n-wrapped plywood |
24SEP11: Annex chamber 'before' |
24SEP11: This is shuttering?? |
24SEP11: The boulder floor |
24SEP11: Detail of the two rifts |
24SEP11: Roof support |
08OCT11: Looking into Annex chamber |
08OCT11: Rough Diamond Rift |
08OCT11: A closer look into Rough Diamond Rift |
