Photographs of cave digging at Home Close Hole (2010)

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22JAN10: Start of the 'flat pack' hut construction	31JAN10: Hut with door and some side panels	14FEB10: Hut now with sides and roof	22FEB10: Hut more or less completed
06MAR10: Levelling the site for hut foundations	24MAR10: The spoil heap (borrowed from Caine Hill)	24APR10: Rosie & Alice Audsley emptying Caine Hill spoil bags	26APR10: Jeff Price by the almost complete foundation.
27APR10: Digging hut foundations more or less complete.	27APR10: General view of the intended location of the digging hut.	03MAY10: Jeff drilling a boulder by the shaft, Slug checking all is OK.	03MAY10: Jeff breaking a boulder - (not posed, see the flying stone dust).
03MAY10: The boulder split and ready to be removed	03MAY10: Hauling out the boulder		03MAY10: Got it!
14MAY10: The hut frame arrives at the dig		14MAY10: The framework awaiting cladding.
16MAY10: The completed hut - well almost.	16MAY10: Jeff & Slug watch Chris attack the boulder	16MAY10: The boulder hauled out of position	16MAY10: The remains of the boulder
30MAY10: Slug digging a hole, supervised by Batspiss.	09JUN10: The cleared area at the top of the shaft	12JUN10: Tony digging in anti-horsefly kit.	15JUN10: Preparing MK II hinges.
25JUN10: Les Oxborough working on the shuttering on the top of the shaft.	29JUN10: The sheave wheel for the headframe	01JUL10: Les Oxborough's shuttering for the top of the shaft	01JUL10: "Drip enough on, some is bound to stick"
04JUL10: Formwork and concrete on top of the shaft	04JUL10: Drainage trench between the shaft and the sump.	05JUL10: The Mother Of All Brackets	05JUL10: Drain pipes roughly in position in the trench
08JUL10: The raised and flattened shaft top	08JUL10: Alice excavating the drainage chamber	08JUL10: Les fiddling with the pipework	08JUL10: The grill on top of the shaft; note the hole for the drainage chamber on right.
11JUL10: Les grouting the drain cover	12JUL10: Shaft and the drain cover which defines the lowest point of the collar/apron/whatdoyoucallit?	15JUL10: Les and Alice working on the foundation (blinding it)	16JUL10: The safety cage with four scaffs as a dummy headframe, with the feet in position
17JUL10: The first segment of the pad ready for concreting	22JUL10: Les shovelling concrete, Alice measuring out the cement.	22JUL10: The finished section of the PATIO (with drain)	24JUL10: Les laying concrete, Alice measuring out the cement
24JUL10: The 'patio' three fifths completed	26JUL10: Slug, measuring out aggregate	01AUG10: Tony building the retaining wall. (Photo Ian Gregory)	03AUG10: The second course of blocks part completed
05:AUG10: The completed wall around the shaft	11AUG10: Welding up the tipping skip.	21AUG10: The part completed head frame.	22AUG10: Phil Romford checking the wheel alignment.
28AUG10: The power winch in the engine house.	18SEP10: Alice and Les by the headframe	19SEP10: Jeff and digging bucket	25SEP10: The headframe with traverse and tipping bucket
07OCT10: Mike Wilson fixes the concrete mixer	21OCT10: Cutting the frame for the shaft doors	22OCT10: The part finished shaft doors	28OCT10: The shaft doors
28OCT10: (Labouring the point even further)		23DEC10: Home Close Hole in the snow

Created: 25 November 2008
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