[Texascavers] virtual ridgewalking

2017-07-02 Thread David via Texascavers 
NASA released an interesting aerial photo today from Mars.

It features some very unique geological formations.

If you click on the link below and then click on the image once
it should expand.


https://static.uahirise.org/images/2017/details/cut/ESP_050406_1585-2.jpg

There are some round crater like formations that all have a pointed slope
heading
towards a crater.  I spent some time looking at this image and did not
see anything
that might be a cave, but there are plenty of opportunities for either a
shelter cave or
a natural bridge.

I have no idea what the scale is of the photo, but a wild guess would be
about 20 miles
across.So whatever those formations are, they are probably really large.

The news story is calling this area the Niagara Falls of Mars, and they are
claming the
formations are due to a lava flow. I am not sure if I agree with that,
but there does
seem to be erosion caused by something, maybe sand-blasting from the witn
and the
dust in the air. The falls look more like glacial calving to me.
Either way, it looks like
a very inhospitable place to live.

This image may also be in 3D on another web-site.

David Locklear
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Re: [Texascavers] speleo-vehicle related

2017-07-02 Thread Charles Loving via Texascavers 
Sheesh Locklear you have a Black Cloud over you. Why don't you get Savas or
one of the caver mechanics to fix your Lemon. They are most trustworthy.
Karst Walker for one has fixed my vehicle on occasion between trips to
Menard. You whine too much and are loosing credibility.

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 12:23 AM, David via Texascavers <
texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:

> This post is related to late model vehicles.
>
>
>
> In the event that any cavers or friends of cavers out there ever decide to
> purchase a Toyota Tundra
> or Toyota Sequoia, I just thought I would let you all know that if your
> motor ever does need
> to be replaced what the going price is for a "used motor" on e-Bay.
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/2007-Toyota-Tundra-5-7L-Engine-
> Motor-8cyl-OEM-58K-Miles-LKQ-153892788-/192224636701?fits=
> Year%3A2009%7CMake%3AToyota%7CModel%3ASequoia=item2cc17b2f1d:g:
> 9hgAAOSwT5xZSxQA=mtr
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-Toyota-Tundra-5-7L-Engine-
> Motor-8cyl-OEM-43K-Miles-LKQ-152639713-/362004718021?fits=
> Year%3A2009%7CMake%3AToyota%7CModel%3ASequoia=
> 864020893=item544929a1c5:g:jlgAAOSw-29ZPEjk=mtr
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/2010-Toyota-Tundra-5-7L-Engine-
> Motor-8cyl-OEM-120K-Miles-LKQ-140830971-/362018163598?fits=
> Year%3A2009%7CMake%3AToyota%7CModel%3ASequoia=
> item5449f6cb8e:g:z9wAAOSw9~5ZTZtM=mtr
>
>
> I can only hope now that the auto mechanic will make a faithful effort to
> purchase the best motor that he can find.  Of course, he will charge me
> an arm just for doing the work of finding the motor and delivering it to
> his shop.How can you trust a stranger to make such an important decision
> for you ??
>
> One of the ironic things to my newest predicament, is that I have about $
> 1,000 worth of tools in my rental storage unit.   I once put a
> motor in my speleo-station wagon by myself, and I even took a class at A
> to restore an old 1952 Ford 8-N tractor from a rusty
> state at a junk-yard to a pristine state of museum quality.But there
> is no way I could pull that Sequoia motor out and put a new
> one in by myself.
>
> The mechanic alleges that the combined cost of labor and other parts is
> nearly twice the cost of whatever motor
> he ends up purchasing.
>
> With my current string of misfortune, I will drive the Sequoia off his lot
> in about 2 weeks and on the way home, the transmission with 190,000 miles
> will fail before I even get home. I just have to be optimistic that no
> more repairs will be needed for a year.Right ??
>
> Either way, my personal life is going to have to become far more sedentary
> than it already was.  ( I had gone completely
> stir-crazy before this event ).   This fiasco may have even been my
> last road-trip.
>
>
> I went to my 35 year high-school reunion last night and that sort-of
> cheered me up, as some of my classmates were also knee-deep in
> guano.   Their parents were caring for their kids, or they had temporarily
> moved back in with their parents, or were on their 4th marriage,
> or were too drunk to remember why they came to the reunion.It was
> almost like an alcoholics anonymous meeting.   Most
> of us had had similar setbacks in life, with car-accidents, lost friends
> and family and failed jobs.We mostly talked about when we first got
> a microwave oven, and how many of our bones and muscles ache. I wish I
> had gone to a high school in a karst area with a caving club.
> Then the reunion would have been cool.
>
> David Locklear
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[Texascavers] internet video related

2017-07-02 Thread David via Texascavers 
For those of you who will not watch YouTube for security reasons,


someone has devised a way to watch any Youtube video by just changing 3
letters
in the URL from "you" to "hook."

Below is an example ( using a new caving video ):


  https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=QQ8UtzMmM2o



Unfortunately, it will only play 720p, so you loose some quality.

I have no idea if this is a good or bad web-site, or if it really does what
it advertises, or if there are better ways to watch a YouTube video.

David Locklear
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Re: [Texascavers] O9 Well

2017-07-02 Thread Julia Germany via Texascavers 
Be sure to check out the fotos taken and posted by Bennett on FaceBook.

- from julia's cell

Julia G Germany
c: 281.979.9208
e: ju...@trigrants.com

On Jul 2, 2017, at 13:06, Galen Falgout via Texascavers 
> wrote:

Good job guys!!

On Jul 2, 2017 9:48 AM, "Ben Hutchins via Texascavers" 
> wrote:
Well was fixed in short order:
Thanks Bennett, Bev, and Ken. Great when cavers represent to other people on 
the land (which actually seems to happen a lot).

Ben H

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Sam Young via Texascavers 
> wrote:
I was wondering about the business at O9 Well.  Did someone get down there and 
clean the broken rods out of the pipe?

Many years ago that would have been my father's job.  He would not have gone 
down the drop but would have pulled the pipe out with his pickup.  My father 
was Peck Young, the area windmill man.  He installed that Aermotor windmill 
which stands over O9 well and took care of all of the windmills for the Noelke 
family which leases university land in the area.  I was my dad's helper in the 
Summers and I have been to many Noelke windmills but never to O9 well.  I do 
remember that he told me once that he slid down the pipe.  He did not say how 
he got out - probably rode up on the hook at the end of a cable as his helper 
pulled him out with the pickup.

Pardon my nostalgic diversion.  If anyone is interested, I have written up some 
stories about windmilling with my father on our website.  Contact me off of 
TexasCavers and I will send you the link.

. Sam Young

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Re: [Texascavers] O9 Well

2017-07-02 Thread Galen Falgout via Texascavers 
Good job guys!!

On Jul 2, 2017 9:48 AM, "Ben Hutchins via Texascavers" <
texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:

> Well was fixed in short order:
> Thanks Bennett, Bev, and Ken. Great when cavers represent to other people
> on the land (which actually seems to happen a lot).
>
> Ben H
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Sam Young via Texascavers <
> texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering about the business at O9 Well.  Did someone get down
>> there and clean the broken rods out of the pipe?
>>
>> Many years ago that would have been my father's job.  He would not have
>> gone down the drop but would have pulled the pipe out with his pickup.  My
>> father was Peck Young, the area windmill man.  He installed that Aermotor
>> windmill which stands over O9 well and took care of all of the windmills
>> for the Noelke family which leases university land in the area.  I was my
>> dad's helper in the Summers and I have been to many Noelke windmills but
>> never to O9 well.  I do remember that he told me once that he slid down the
>> pipe.  He did not say how he got out - probably rode up on the hook at the
>> end of a cable as his helper pulled him out with the pickup.
>>
>> Pardon my nostalgic diversion.  If anyone is interested, I have written
>> up some stories about windmilling with my father on our website.  Contact
>> me off of TexasCavers and I will send you the link.
>>
>> . Sam Young
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Re: [Texascavers] O9 Well

2017-07-02 Thread Ben Hutchins via Texascavers 
Well was fixed in short order:
Thanks Bennett, Bev, and Ken. Great when cavers represent to other people
on the land (which actually seems to happen a lot).

Ben H

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Sam Young via Texascavers <
texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:

> I was wondering about the business at O9 Well.  Did someone get down there
> and clean the broken rods out of the pipe?
>
> Many years ago that would have been my father's job.  He would not have
> gone down the drop but would have pulled the pipe out with his pickup.  My
> father was Peck Young, the area windmill man.  He installed that Aermotor
> windmill which stands over O9 well and took care of all of the windmills
> for the Noelke family which leases university land in the area.  I was my
> dad's helper in the Summers and I have been to many Noelke windmills but
> never to O9 well.  I do remember that he told me once that he slid down the
> pipe.  He did not say how he got out - probably rode up on the hook at the
> end of a cable as his helper pulled him out with the pickup.
>
> Pardon my nostalgic diversion.  If anyone is interested, I have written up
> some stories about windmilling with my father on our website.  Contact me
> off of TexasCavers and I will send you the link.
>
> . Sam Young
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