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Topic: Cwm Cynfal copper mine
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 24/01/2020 13:00:58 Subject: Cwm Cynfal copper mine I am thinking that an abseil to the bottom of the gorge would be worthwhile to ascertain whether there is a deeper adit. Apart from the scheme, we could be missing something.
Topic: Exploring with Fighters - a warning to all mine explorers, cavers and URBEXers
royfellows	Forum: General Chat Posted: 24/01/2020 11:39:19 Subject: Exploring with Fighters - a warning to all mine explorers, cavers and URBEXers At least that mob wear head protection, more than can be said for EWF. I wonder if their videos could be seen as an encouragement to risk. If someone emulates them and gets injured, could result in a
Topic: Great County Adit
royfellows	Forum: New recruits! Posted: 22/01/2020 17:05:19 Subject: Great County Adit So in other words, all this is down to our 'wonderful' technology, jolly old satnav route over the cliff etc. Why am I not surprised.
Topic: Fellows lamps forum.
royfellows	Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 22/01/2020 15:53:48 Subject: Fellows lamps forum. I am now using the final version of the Scorpion X16 for general exploration, but a Dragon for working. The X16 is total, trust me. I still have my own Lynx X12, although used quite a bit i
Topic: Great County Adit
royfellows	Forum: New recruits! Posted: 22/01/2020 15:21:57 Subject: Great County Adit I am puzzled, if I have the right photo, how that could be taken for the old Great County Adit in Cornwall. The discharge of water, or lack of it, should be the great give away. Unless I am
Topic: Roy on torches
royfellows	Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 22/01/2020 14:48:23 Subject: Roy on torches Continuing my mini series The Fellows Special described above is going very well. Light and compact enough to slip into a pocket and yet so powerful it is now my spare light of choice. The
Topic: Tipton coal mine portal (photo)
royfellows	Forum: Midlands Posted: 22/01/2020 09:00:29 Subject: Tipton coal mine portal (photo) Windows has Windows Photo Viewer but silly Microsoft has not put a shortcut to it in the menu, at least not in Win 7 which I use. So a lot of people are using software which comes with came
Topic: Great County Adit
royfellows	Forum: New recruits! Posted: 21/01/2020 20:24:14 Subject: Great County Adit Its now obliterated so nothing secret. Unsure where it emerged but the concrete capped shaft other side of the stream connected with it. So I believe.
Topic: South Crofty - current situation?
royfellows	Forum: South West England Posted: 16/01/2020 12:56:46 Subject: South Crofty - current situation? At this point I have to say, (and he wont get his head through the door afterwards), Stuey is an absolute oracle of knowledge, and indeed, usually hits the nail right on the head, even if it needs tra
Topic: South Crofty - current situation?
royfellows	Forum: South West England Posted: 15/01/2020 18:01:27 Subject: South Crofty - current situation? He's unique! EDIT OK, try one of mine "Woke investor grooming" What think?
Topic: South Crofty - current situation?
royfellows	Forum: South West England Posted: 15/01/2020 17:28:37 Subject: South Crofty - current situation? :lol::lol::lol: At his best!
Topic: South Crofty - current situation?
royfellows	Forum: South West England Posted: 06/01/2020 11:35:42 Subject: South Crofty - current situation? It is totally pathetic. A person is what they are, not what they own.
Topic: Cwm Cynfal copper mine
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 27/12/2019 16:54:28 Subject: Cwm Cynfal copper mine [quote="nigeln1"]When I went in here about 10 years ago the collapse at the end of the level was easily dug through in under half an hour to give access to the stope. The highest point of the stope f
Topic: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 27/12/2019 08:57:25 Subject: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog Thank you
Topic: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 26/12/2019 14:21:14 Subject: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog I have been having a photo shoot with all the fancy lighting, I Imolent DX80, 1 x fellows torch 9k lumens, 1 X16 caplamp 9K lumens. In previous threads people have commented that the air is
Topic: Merry Christmas 2019
royfellows	Forum: General Chat Posted: 26/12/2019 13:52:59 Subject: Merry Christmas 2019 About 1430? I think I heard you. I now have a very anonymous looking Skoda, a sort of metallic colour and look for FT in the number plate and a back full of gear.
Topic: Merry Christmas 2019
royfellows	Forum: General Chat Posted: 26/12/2019 11:55:02 Subject: Merry Christmas 2019 Yesterday was Christmas day, and the weather was brilliant. So tradition to the wind, I loaded the car and set off out for the day. A walk around Glyn Ceriog and some underground photography, and then
Topic: RF Light Found
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 24/12/2019 17:13:01 Subject: RF Light Found See if the downlighters come on when you connect the battery, I changed the design a while back and this would narrow it down. Only Scorpions are serial numbered. Oh yes, and be
Topic: RF Light Found
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 24/12/2019 16:59:55 Subject: RF Light Found If its one of new Scorpions (square) there will be a serial number on the base, if so, pm me.
Topic: Merry Christmas 2019
royfellows	Forum: General Chat Posted: 24/12/2019 09:49:36 Subject: Merry Christmas 2019 Happy Christmas from Roy. I live on my own so nothing seasonal really goes on here, but tomorrow, Christmas Day, looks good sunshine, so might just............ So why not?
Topic: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 23/12/2019 15:10:42 Subject: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog [quote="NewStuff"]The blockage that is on the dogleg in the tunnel between the 2 workings? It's what's holding back the entirety of the flooded Aberlas workings that are dived regularly. Most of it is
Topic: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 23/12/2019 14:34:51 Subject: Cambrian Slate, Glyn Ceriog I have been mooching around there and from looking at the mine plan am somewhat puzzled. From the plan I assume that the pink section inc the outer drainage adit is the workings most visite
Topic: Coniston Deep level Video
royfellows	Forum: North West England Posted: 22/12/2019 18:56:49 Subject: Coniston Deep level Video Years ago I managed to get as far as South Shaft from the portal, via a tortuous route traversing the flooded stopes. I have no idea whether that route is still open. Nice video.
Topic: Mine Explorer Journal volume7 ?
royfellows	Forum: Exploration Chat Posted: 19/12/2019 21:04:45 Subject: Mine Explorer Journal volume7 ? I really would like a copy of this. If Mike Moore about, will you be stocking them?
Topic: Fellows lamps forum.
royfellows	Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 18/12/2019 12:49:49 Subject: Fellows lamps forum. Peter is very kind to do this. It would be nice for someone to do a honest review of say my current top lamp, the Scorpion X 12, 'warts and all'?
Topic: Cwm Cynfal copper mine
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 10/12/2019 18:29:13 Subject: Cwm Cynfal copper mine Good work Dave and very professionally done. I bet the weather was appalling, its bad enough here at Great Wyrley, Cannock. From memory I think that more material has come down as I vaguely
Topic: Cwm Cynfal copper mine
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 09/12/2019 14:58:29 Subject: Cwm Cynfal copper mine From BGS memoirs [link]119515[linkphoto]119515[/linkphoto][/link] I am mindful to take a ride up there and do a photo survey of the underground. The adit is easy missed if you do
Topic: Cwm Cynfal copper mine
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 07/12/2019 11:52:01 Subject: Cwm Cynfal copper mine Last night i studied the documentation, the one worth a read is the archaeological report near the bottom of the list. They miss the open adit completely and describe the shaft subsidence a
Topic: Cwm Cynfal copper mine
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 06/12/2019 20:54:34 Subject: Cwm Cynfal copper mine Found it: https://planning.snowdonia-npa.gov.uk/swiftlg_snpa/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=NP5/59/495B&backURL=%253Ca%2520href%253Dwphappcriteria.display%253FpaSearchKey%253D428
Topic: Cwm Cynfal copper mine
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 06/12/2019 18:28:10 Subject: Cwm Cynfal copper mine I cannot do any good with the link I tried searching but all I can find is an old application from 1995.
Topic: Roy on torches
royfellows	Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 06/12/2019 18:17:24 Subject: Roy on torches A bit more on the no nonsense pocket torch using the Convoy host. The host comes complete but without emitter and driver but has a spring to bear against the top of the battery which fits w
Topic: Roy on torches
royfellows	Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 05/12/2019 21:03:03 Subject: Roy on torches I am writing this in hope that it may be of help to people who looking for a decent torch out of the mass of torches on sale. It’s about torches I use or have used, and also about some modding and a h
Topic: Calendar 2020 - Beneficiaries
royfellows	Forum: General Chat Posted: 03/12/2019 19:12:09 Subject: Calendar 2020 - Beneficiaries I OK with this.
Topic: Cwmystwyth - Pugh's via Rosa
royfellows	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 03/12/2019 15:14:45 Subject: Cwmystwyth - Pugh's via Rosa Yes, I was made aware a few weeks ago and should have reported it on here, sorry. Its very recent, since NAMHO in early July.
Topic: Calendar 2020 - Beneficiaries
royfellows	Forum: General Chat Posted: 03/12/2019 12:26:53 Subject: Calendar 2020 - Beneficiaries I endorse COMRU, big time! Yes. :thumbsup:
Topic: Craig -y -Dinas Upper Silica Mine
royfellows	Forum: South Wales Posted: 20/11/2019 13:31:54 Subject: Craig -y -Dinas Upper Silica Mine I have posted this on UKC in response to a query with regard to any progress on restoring the Public Right of Way which gives a short route up to the mine. I can only do so much myself: I h
Topic: Glyn Llugwy
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 15/11/2019 20:42:48 Subject: Glyn Llugwy I think that you may have been able to get further then me and from my vantage point at that time it looked like the engine shaft coming in, but now we know its simply a high section of the roof.
Topic: Glyn Llugwy
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 15/11/2019 17:32:50 Subject: Glyn Llugwy I will have to take another visit. Thinking... was the area into deep water having anything like a collapse, rocks, timbers, whatever, over on the left? Also, what could you see
Topic: Glyn Llugwy
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 15/11/2019 14:22:00 Subject: Glyn Llugwy Nice photos, did you lower the water level? And get any photos of the stope? Oddly, I cannot remember the ladder, only the stope and the climb up to a higher level. My impre
Topic: Hospital level, Coniston
royfellows	Forum: North West England Posted: 14/11/2019 15:16:03 Subject: Hospital level, Coniston A few more thoughts, and this is pure conjecture Hospital Level could be so named simply because it connects with Hospital Shaft. Hospital Shaft, I have no date for its commencement but cou
Topic: Hospital level, Coniston
royfellows	Forum: North West England Posted: 13/11/2019 21:08:27 Subject: Hospital level, Coniston This is a very good question. Some connection with Greenwich Hospital, London Lead Company suggests itself, except that Hospital level was driven about 1864 when John Barratt was running th
Topic: Speedwell mine
royfellows	Forum: South West England Posted: 12/11/2019 15:52:45 Subject: Speedwell mine Years ago I came out in a wetsuit covered in yellow and orange crud, it was hanging off my face and helmet. There was two young ladies sunbathing topless right outside, I remember the one taking her
Topic: Cwmystwyth Maillions
royfellows	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 11/11/2019 10:01:47 Subject: Cwmystwyth Maillions Sorted, and was no where near a bad as was indicated. I have them here. The issue related to a safety line which was fitted to the main ladderway and then extended across a plank which is a
Topic: Glyn Llugwy
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 08/11/2019 21:10:21 Subject: Glyn Llugwy I am only aware of one accessible higher level and that connects with DA at a slightly higher level at kings Cross, you will see inside, a little climb up of a few feet only. Left goes to deepening wa
Topic: Glyn Llugwy
royfellows	Forum: North Wales Posted: 08/11/2019 17:49:49 Subject: Glyn Llugwy Its been years since I was last in there, the deep adit is very wet and right by the side of the main road. The upper adits are blocked but there is open stope to daylight by the side of th
Topic: Photographs Of Graiggoch (album)
royfellows	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 05/11/2019 10:48:42 Subject: Photographs Of Graiggoch (album) Can we do something on this? I think that Dave's suggestion is best way forward. All this sort of thing can be difficult. Wemyss was taken over by Frongoch so is technically part of th
Topic: Glencoynedale
royfellows	Forum: North West England Posted: 05/11/2019 10:38:44 Subject: Glencoynedale Bit of a story here. I used to partially descend solo in the 1990s. First trip I got down to about the last of 3 sections below what I understood to be the 48 fathom level. This is the one
Topic: Glencoynedale
royfellows	Forum: North West England Posted: 04/11/2019 19:27:50 Subject: Glencoynedale I believe that the Glencoyne level is currently locked due to the dangerous state of the descent. The chain ladder has been cut away by persons unknown and this is now SRT. There has been some further
Topic: Cwmystwyth Maillions
royfellows	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 04/11/2019 14:48:36 Subject: Cwmystwyth Maillions I have just received a photo of the offending maillon and it looks horrific. I suspected a different location to that assumed. Will forward the picture to SCMC and get back on it. The
Topic: Cwmystwyth Maillions
royfellows	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 04/11/2019 14:01:43 Subject: Cwmystwyth Maillions I have had a reply from an officer of SCMC, quote: "I am far from clear about where is being referred to but think it is the long ladder. I certainly went that way as part of NAMHO 2019 but

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