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pickering man
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15 years ago

went into smallcleugh sat for the first time and was wonderin if the fall just past prouds sump with big square blocks the size of washing machines on the floor was something new or been there ages

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christwigg
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15 years ago

Was down that way last Saturday and didn't notice anything new.

Do you have a photo ?

bri hache
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15 years ago

They have been there as long as i have been going in.
think i saw your car in the carpark is it a pajero?

pickering man
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15 years ago

that was me yes blue pajero last trip out till spring it getting too bloody cold for stripping off in the carpark thanks for that just wanted to confirm it was an old collapse things are on the move down the end of hard cross cut to the left as you enter handsome mea as well

christwigg
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15 years ago

Aye, if you had been around between 10-12 you might have bumped into us in the car park, but then we relocated for a look at Rampgill Firestone

pickering man
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15 years ago

I thought that white van was a long way from home I think its a hint from mother nature when your socks freeze to the floor :lol:

Mr Mike
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15 years ago

Been there for a long time!

Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk

Dean Allison
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15 years ago

Aye they been there ages but was just down that way today and noticed past there, a lot of new shale has come in from the sides. Also those rails that you cross just before Luke Hall's sump are in a really bad way compared to what they were ljust a year ago.

RJV
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15 years ago

I had a very quick wander up to the Old Flatt Crosscut and back (exploration!) on Saturday morning and it didn't seem noticably different.

The collapse with the mangled tub the same as always and I didn't notice anything much different elsewhere.

The rails are no worse either really, they didn't even rest on anything in the middle for a while last winter.

Dean Allison
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15 years ago

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Its been a while mind since I was up there, maybe the rails aren't as bad as they were, it just seemed a bit different thats all. My memory aint too good though I must admit!

christwigg
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15 years ago

#11

I would say those rails have been detached from the top of one of the posts for over a year.

Not that either post is doing anything to actually support them.

The fluffy rot on them is pretty though

Mr Mike
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15 years ago

#12

The bridge, really could do with getting some new supports, as it will be only time before the existing ones go and someone will end up with a painful crotch or worse.

Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk

christwigg
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15 years ago

#13

Should be a pretty easy job if there is any decent lumps of timber lying around somewhere.

Mr Mike
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15 years ago

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I've got the timber and we have been saying the same for the last 2 years, its one of those...should do it, but.....

Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk

pickering man
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15 years ago

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"Mr Mike" wrote:
Been there for a long time!

thats nice to know came through some rather spicy ground in a local ironstone mine where the ceiling is becoming the floor for a long way on the only way in or out earlier this year and a certain mr chapman only got round to telling us it had been like that for the last thirty years when we where all back out :blink:

pickering man
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15 years ago

#16

out of interest how long has the collapse on the left turn at the end of hard cross cut been there all the maps i have show it continuing to a sump into rampgill

Dean Allison
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15 years ago

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"pickering man" wrote:
out of interest how long has the collapse on the left turn at the end of hard cross cut been there all the maps i have show it continuing to a sump into rampgill

Thats something I have wondered also. Its been collapsed as long as I have been down mines which is only 22 months but I wonder if it would be worth having a go at and trying to shift it?

pickering man
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15 years ago

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The map i have is from martin critchley's nenthead mines report and is dated 1984 and it shows it open all the way then.
It would make an other interesting through trip if it is accesible from the rampgill side

Dean Allison
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15 years ago

#19

Definitely something to think about I reckon 😉

RJV
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15 years ago

#20

Bri and I had an admittedly somewhat lacklustre go at it a few months back with little success. Its only shale though, if you broke it up a bit with a wrecking bar or suchlike you'd soon be through providing you weren't just bringing more down on top of course.

Its a one way trip though, you couldn't get through from Rampgill without it being pre-rigged from Smallcleugh.