Secret Room 2 ....... "Nazi Bunker"

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These were taken without a light.....

Edited by CY88 on Friday 6th June 21:45

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Holding camera down through that opening....



Where's that light??

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Parrot of Doom said:

I have the distinct impression that this thread is to take just about the biggest bullst turn in the history of PH......

Cue me uploading a photo of osama bin laden?

Next batch of photos uploading now....

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moleamol said:

CY88 said:

These were taken without a light.....

Erm, it's the focus light, that the camera uses to aid autofocus.

What I mean is that there's no light inside the tunnel.... the flash is just hitting the door frame, and its obviously deep enough not to light the inside.

We had to take apart a table lamp and tape the bulb to the end of a pole to remedy this.

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Zeek said:

CY88 said:

Dave's head must be huge. It dwarfs the boulder

That little rock's not the boulder.... this one is..



and we managed to get power out to the entrance and sort a light out...






(he's not going to thank me for posting that last one)

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Parrot of Doom said:

hmmm, take a closer look at that image. I think you might just want to stop where you are....



/edit - stupid swear filter

Perhaps that is a good place to stop

The rest of the pictures can wait for tomorrow?

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Okay. We managed to get the lamp inside at last.....



By this stage we were "whooping" like slightly crazed americans, and my wife ran out to see what was going on. It looks (and smells funnily enough) dry so far.

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@ Gretchen, I estimate that the floor is 12-15 foot down.

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srebbe64 said:

....and?

you did see the size of the hole we're working with at the moment?

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My wife took a picture of us trying to find the best angle to photograph...whilst I remind Dave not to drop my DSLR.




Right, does the PH collective want to see something cool.....?

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Okay, just before the cool one, here's a slight better version of the last...

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Right, because of the angle of the entrance hole and the fact that the partially open door is in the way, we can't get the camera down anywhere near the floor yet

But we can position it looking along one side of the roof, and we can't see the end yet

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Another, slightly better shot

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I'm afraid that that's it for today folks. It was getting too dark to stumble around on those rocks anymore, so we covered the hole with a big rock again (just in case any inquisitive cats come exploring in the night) and headed back to base

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Morning all! Having had a nice breakfast, I'm now trying to work out a way I can save the boulder, and move it without breaking it. It will serve as a nice "Temple of Doom" reminder

The digger operator is not coming back until 8.00am on Sunday morning, so I'm not going to get any serious digging done until then.

But I will post some more updates later today

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Right. Some updates.

I've just been on the phone to Dave. He's been rigging up a video camera on a pole set-up as suggested. Not sure if it will work, but he's coming back in a moment to try.

I'm also fairly convinced that I want to try to keep the boulder, although some more heavy machinery arrived several minutes ago....













(the name on the side of that thing must be ironic, no?)

The guys that delivered the hammer drill said that they too might try to save the boulder if it were them. One also said that it may be worth a bit of money. Only trouble is they too reckoned i'd need a bigger digger / crane if I wanted to save time in moving it . Its a dilemma, break it and go into the tunnel, or risk delaying things? I'm thinking that maybe some more shrubs can be sacrificed to the left of the thing, and roll it into a new position that way?

What do people reckon? Keep the "Temple of Doom" Momento or not? I've not dared look at the cost of the last few days yet!

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Munter said:

Mind you how you stop the boulder after it starts to roll I have no idea....

And there lies the problem (otherwise I'd probably have tried to pull it with a V8 Land Rover).

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Oily Fingernails said:

88....surely some one on the channel islands has a Tractor?

Funnily enough the digger was delivered on a trailer towed by the biggest tractor I've ever seen! I forgot to take a photo though. Doh!

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central said:

CY88 said:

Oily Fingernails said:

88....surely some one on the channel islands has a Tractor?

Funnily enough the digger was delivered on a trailer towed by the biggest tractor I've ever seen! I forgot to take a photo though. Doh!

Gratuitous tractor pic -

Thats the one!

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I had 3 blokes come round this afternoon. The digger-driver, a "rock"-man, and someone who works with the driver. We were discussing how best to proceed now. Having taken advice from them, it would seem that I have some decisions to make.

I need to go out now, but I'll update on the details later. Needless to say, he's still coming back at 8am tomorrow.

Oh, and Dave got some video. To be honest it was a real pain, and the footage raises more questions than it answers. Hopefully that will be up later too.