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grahami
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15 years ago

#41

Hear hear! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Grahami

The map is the territory - especially in chain scale.

derrickman
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15 years ago

#42

"royfellows" wrote:
If only I could go back to my youth with any bloody camera.

The places where 'I was there' but never bothered to take photographs.

Wasted youth!

I would settle for being 25 again, with or without a camera....

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

royfellows
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15 years ago

#43

Your as old as you feel Mr Derrickman.

Nothing like being retired and having the health to enjoy it.

My avatar is a poor likeness.

derrickman
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15 years ago

#44

"royfellows" wrote:
Your as old as you feel Mr Derrickman.

things are worse than I thought, then....

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

royfellows
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15 years ago

#45

"derrickman" wrote:

"royfellows" wrote:
Your as old as you feel Mr Derrickman.

things are worse than I thought, then....

:lol: :lol: :lol:

My avatar is a poor likeness.

Boggy
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15 years ago

#46

one of the best ideas is the resealable plastic bag for your bog roll and cigs/lighter.....invaluble items for a long trip.
failing that it has to be the greater light output/longevity of modern lighting which has truely opened up both the mines your in and the photo opotunities.....my earliest days underground involved flash ribbon.messy job.

if its a hole explore it...

derrickman
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15 years ago

#47

you take bogroll on trips? :thumbdown: Ttxela gets snotty with me just for suggesting I use a carbide lamp in case I leave spent carbide behind.....

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

Boggy
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15 years ago

#48

its for blowing my nose on trust me.

if its a hole explore it...

derrickman
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15 years ago

#49

I've always carried a handkerchief inside my helmet, I don't suppose that's eligible as an innovation but it's very useful

... how about office laminating machines?

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

Mr Mike
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15 years ago

#50

Bog roll and plastic bag has saved the day many a time - when you goto go, you goto go, better out than in your undersuit!

Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk

derrickman
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15 years ago

#51

thank'ee koindly, yung zurr.....

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

ttxela
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15 years ago

#52

"derrickman" wrote:
I've always carried a handkerchief inside my helmet, I don't suppose that's eligible as an innovation but it's very useful

... how about office laminating machines?

A good thought, however I find laminating bogroll makes it too shiny, however it does make it easier to economise by using both sides.......

Boggy
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15 years ago

#53

shudders at the thought of that rough/smooth stuff we got in schools in the 70s.
for a quick subject change before it occours to someone to ask if laminated bogroll is reusable....
how about those garden candles that the wind wont blow out...handy for when your lights fail,however ive found wind up torches to be a pain.

if its a hole explore it...

Bill L
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15 years ago

#54

Well, perhaps the best innovation is the internet - pathetic old gits like me can share in all the excitment without getting out of a chair . . . sad or what?

derrickman
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15 years ago

#55

for those wishing to pursue this topic to its (il)logocal conclusion I would suggest the following background reading;

1) Stephen Fry, "The Liar" ;- "two sheets; one to wipe, one to polish"

2) Ranulph Fiennes "Mind Over Matter" and Mike Stroud "Shadows in the Wasteland" ;- two accounts of the same trans-Antarctic expedition, where the whole subject of tents, plastic bags, frost-bite and their attendant ramifications are treated in far more detail than anyone could possibly wish to know

a propos rough/smooth, if there was ever an incentive to do well at 11-Plus, that may well have been it....

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

Earth Worm Jim
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15 years ago

#56

Ginsters pies. :lol:

IMO, the internet has done more for mine exploring than all other inventions I can think of.

derrickman
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15 years ago

#57

Ginsters??... :blink: :thumbdown:

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

Earth Worm Jim
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15 years ago

#58

"derrickman" wrote:
Ginsters??... :blink: :thumbdown:

Food of the Gods is Ginsters. :tongue: 😉

ttxela
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15 years ago

#59

"Earth Worm Jim" wrote:

"derrickman" wrote:
Ginsters??... :blink: :thumbdown:

Food of the Gods is Ginsters. :tongue: 😉

Snickers flapjacks are my underground food of choice.

Earth Worm Jim
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15 years ago

#60

"ttxela" wrote:

"Earth Worm Jim" wrote:

"derrickman" wrote:
Ginsters??... :blink: :thumbdown:

Food of the Gods is Ginsters. :tongue: 😉

Snickers flapjacks are my underground food of choice.

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