On 01 May 2006 20:14:52 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:

EricP wrote:
Just watching Dibnah build his mineshaft in the back garden for the
umpteenth time and it jars on me, so I thought I would come here and
see if anybody has the definitive word.

Dibnah is bricking his shaft from the bottom. This basically means he
must remove the earth from under the bricks in order to lay the
courses, rather like building a high wall from the bottom. This seems
a very dangerous procedure and certain death when a certain weight of
brickwork is met.

You may have missed the 'hammer out radial spikes a fair distance into
the surrounding soil' step that was in there somewhere.

I did. Thanks )