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Protected: Yarnfield Primary Mine Exploration Photos, May 2016

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LCMLA Revalidation Workshop April 2016, Photos

Here’s a few photos and some of the data from the tyrolean rigging we did[…]

Broad (load bearing?) belts for Cave/Mine Leader trips

  Belts are not PPE kit, as such they are not tested and not rated.[…]

Re-bolted SRT pitch (with options) in Penarth

Yesterday I finally had some time to re-bolt the free hanging pitch in Penarth Slate[…]

Bolting & Rigging in Mines

Popped into Parc Mine today (No. 2) to have a little look at a pitch[…]

Pull test on traverse line knots

One of the things that came up on a recent training course was a conversation[…]

Forces in SRT

Having run a SRT session today we took the opportunity to fit the load cell[…]

Places available: Cave to Mine Transfer and Module 1 assessment

Cave to Mines Transfer Training, 7th Dec 2015 (£90) During the North Wales Panel courses[…]

Robin’s Garden, Cwmorthin/Wrysgan

Had a little look around Robin’s garden from the air today…

More data on tyroleans

I’ve complied some more data on a fixed tyrolean/zip line I use with groups, and[…]