Re: [Texascavers] Crane Bat Cave Clean Up, Sunday, March 14 2021

[galen falgout]

I’ll have my diamond bit micro shaving kit ready for ua just tell me when.
Sorry I couldn’t make it but I’m in up in Alabama working on a cave gate
project with Crash. We stopped by the NSS Headquarters last week to pick up
a pile of books to give to everyone who registers for the Cave management
thing in November. Had a good tour of the headquarters things are looking
great there!

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 9:09 PM Geary Schindel 
wrote:

> Bill,
>
>
>
> This is actually near San Antonio/Helotes area.
>
>
>
> Geary
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Bentley 
> *Sent:* Monday, March 15, 2021 8:21 PM
> *To:* texascavers@texascavers.com; Geary Schindel <
> gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org>; bexargro...@googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] Crane Bat Cave Clean Up, Sunday, March 14
> 2021
>
>
>
> External Email
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> I have been all over King mountain and any other hill all the way to
> Indian mesa around Crane Texas, I did not even know there was a cave there,
> more or less with bats, I must have missed that one, but I do tend to
> forget things these days.
>
> Bill
>
> On 3/15/2021 8:09 PM, Geary Schindel wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
>
>
> The San Antonio Kickoff for the International Year of Caves and Karst was
> last Sunday, March 14, 2021.
>
>
>
> I want to thank everyone that came out to the Crane Bat Cave property
> cleanup. The weather was cool and overcast and we were able to fill two
> twenty-yard roll offs with ranch waste. We also created some piles of trash
> we had drug out of the weeds which will make cleaning up the property
> easier in the future. Materials ranged from shingles, sheet metal, an old
> chicken coop, boards, old swing set, wire, fencing, more wire, glass, and
> more sheet metal. There was also a large metallic disc that was too large
> to pick up and was hot to the touch. We tried to break it up with a
> sledgehammer, axe, grinder, reciprocating saw, cutting torch, and couldn’t
> dent or even scratch it (You know if Paul and Stephen Bryant can’t tear it
> up, it has got to be tough). We figured we could get some worth decent beer
> money with it at the scrap yard.  We could hear something moving around
> inside but couldn’t see in the windows. I slapped a yellow bat sticker on
> the thing and left it for the next cleanup.
>
>
>
> We had about 28 people attend the event. I think the Aggies drove the
> furthest to get there and always put in a great effort. Others came from
> Austin and the rest from the San Antonio area. Here is a list of people
> that attended. (I’m sure I’ll get some of the names wrong but folks need to
> learn how to write their names so an old man can read them.)
>
> Mike Yang (Austin), Alan Montemayor (aka Curly Merkin), Nat Clark, Kori
> Dunaway, Richard Silver, Adam Dow, Mauri Attil, Marco Ramos, Srirm
> Madabushi, Tom Florer, Mark Dobson, Mark Walker, Sara Ranzau, Liz Brearley,
> Catherine Daas, Dilan Klessel, Alyson Lipsett, Garry White, Bobby Randolph,
> Isabell Petersen, Chelsea Parada, Paul Bryant, Rebecca Bryant, Liam Bryant,
> Stephen Bryant, Marrin Atzil, Leia Hill, Geary Schindel, and Engledink
> Humperbert (British singer that provided entertainment.)
>
>
>
> The Crane Bat Cave property was acquired to protect the contributing zone
> of the Edwards Aquifer and will be used as a nature preserve. We
> contributed about four hours labor each with 28 people for a total of 112
> person hours of work. At $15 per hour, our efforts were valued at $1,680. I
> used the $15 amount since we’re dealing with skilled caver labor and many
> have prior  experience picking up trash along the highway (the orange
> jumpsuit crowd). I would have valued the work even higher, but we couldn’t
> get the metal disc cut into smaller pieces. Maybe Galen will come down next
> time and do a little micro-shaving with some diamond bits.
>
>
>
> Jim Bowie’s buried silver was not found under the trash piles but I’m sure
> it’s there. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
>
>
>
> Thanks to everyone that helped. It was nice to get folks together, do a
> little socializing (at a distance) and I  It has earned us a lot of good
> will with the city.
>
>
>
> Geary Schindel
>
> *Geary M. Schindel, P.G.*
>
> Senior Hydrogeologist
>
> www.edwardsaquifer.org
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Re: [Texascavers] Crane Bat Cave Clean Up, Sunday, March 14 2021

[Geary Schindel]

Bill,

This is actually near San Antonio/Helotes area.

Geary

From: Bill Bentley 
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 8:21 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com; Geary Schindel ; 
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Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Crane Bat Cave Clean Up, Sunday, March 14 2021

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I have been all over King mountain and any other hill all the way to Indian 
mesa around Crane Texas, I did not even know there was a cave there, more or 
less with bats, I must have missed that one, but I do tend to forget things 
these days.

Bill
On 3/15/2021 8:09 PM, Geary Schindel wrote:
Folks,

The San Antonio Kickoff for the International Year of Caves and Karst was last 
Sunday, March 14, 2021.

I want to thank everyone that came out to the Crane Bat Cave property cleanup. 
The weather was cool and overcast and we were able to fill two twenty-yard roll 
offs with ranch waste. We also created some piles of trash we had drug out of 
the weeds which will make cleaning up the property easier in the future. 
Materials ranged from shingles, sheet metal, an old chicken coop, boards, old 
swing set, wire, fencing, more wire, glass, and more sheet metal. There was 
also a large metallic disc that was too large to pick up and was hot to the 
touch. We tried to break it up with a sledgehammer, axe, grinder, reciprocating 
saw, cutting torch, and couldn't dent or even scratch it (You know if Paul and 
Stephen Bryant can't tear it up, it has got to be tough). We figured we could 
get some worth decent beer money with it at the scrap yard.  We could hear 
something moving around inside but couldn't see in the windows. I slapped a 
yellow bat sticker on the thing and left it for the next cleanup.

We had about 28 people attend the event. I think the Aggies drove the furthest 
to get there and always put in a great effort. Others came from Austin and the 
rest from the San Antonio area. Here is a list of people that attended. (I'm 
sure I'll get some of the names wrong but folks need to learn how to write 
their names so an old man can read them.)
Mike Yang (Austin), Alan Montemayor (aka Curly Merkin), Nat Clark, Kori 
Dunaway, Richard Silver, Adam Dow, Mauri Attil, Marco Ramos, Srirm Madabushi, 
Tom Florer, Mark Dobson, Mark Walker, Sara Ranzau, Liz Brearley, Catherine 
Daas, Dilan Klessel, Alyson Lipsett, Garry White, Bobby Randolph, Isabell 
Petersen, Chelsea Parada, Paul Bryant, Rebecca Bryant, Liam Bryant, Stephen 
Bryant, Marrin Atzil, Leia Hill, Geary Schindel, and Engledink Humperbert 
(British singer that provided entertainment.)

The Crane Bat Cave property was acquired to protect the contributing zone of 
the Edwards Aquifer and will be used as a nature preserve. We contributed about 
four hours labor each with 28 people for a total of 112 person hours of work. 
At $15 per hour, our efforts were valued at $1,680. I used the $15 amount since 
we're dealing with skilled caver labor and many have prior  experience picking 
up trash along the highway (the orange jumpsuit crowd). I would have valued the 
work even higher, but we couldn't get the metal disc cut into smaller pieces. 
Maybe Galen will come down next time and do a little micro-shaving with some 
diamond bits.

Jim Bowie's buried silver was not found under the trash piles but I'm sure it's 
there. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Thanks to everyone that helped. It was nice to get folks together, do a little 
socializing (at a distance) and I  It has earned us a lot of good will with the 
city.

Geary Schindel
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Senior Hydrogeologist
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Re: [Texascavers] Crane Bat Cave Clean Up, Sunday, March 14 2021

[Bill Bentley]

I have been all over King mountain and any other hill all the way to 
Indian mesa around Crane Texas, I did not even know there was a cave 
there, more or less with bats, I must have missed that one, but I do 
tend to forget things these days.


Bill

On 3/15/2021 8:09 PM, Geary Schindel wrote:


Folks,

The San Antonio Kickoff for the International Year of Caves and Karst 
was last Sunday, March 14, 2021.


I want to thank everyone that came out to the Crane Bat Cave property 
cleanup. The weather was cool and overcast and we were able to fill 
two twenty-yard roll offs with ranch waste. We also created some piles 
of trash we had drug out of the weeds which will make cleaning up the 
property easier in the future. Materials ranged from shingles, sheet 
metal, an old chicken coop, boards, old swing set, wire, fencing, more 
wire, glass, and more sheet metal. There was also a large metallic 
disc that was too large to pick up and was hot to the touch. We tried 
to break it up with a sledgehammer, axe, grinder, reciprocating saw, 
cutting torch, and couldn’t dent or even scratch it (You know if Paul 
and Stephen Bryant can’t tear it up, it has got to be tough). We 
figured we could get some worth decent beer money with it at the scrap 
yard. We could hear something moving around inside but couldn’t see in 
the windows. I slapped a yellow bat sticker on the thing and left it 
for the next cleanup.


We had about 28 people attend the event. I think the Aggies drove the 
furthest to get there and always put in a great effort. Others came 
from Austin and the rest from the San Antonio area. Here is a list of 
people that attended. (I’m sure I’ll get some of the names wrong but 
folks need to learn how to write their names so an old man can read 
them.)


Mike Yang (Austin), Alan Montemayor (aka Curly Merkin), Nat Clark, 
Kori Dunaway, Richard Silver, Adam Dow, Mauri Attil, Marco Ramos, 
Srirm Madabushi, Tom Florer, Mark Dobson, Mark Walker, Sara Ranzau, 
Liz Brearley, Catherine Daas, Dilan Klessel, Alyson Lipsett, Garry 
White, Bobby Randolph, Isabell Petersen, Chelsea Parada, Paul Bryant, 
Rebecca Bryant, Liam Bryant, Stephen Bryant, Marrin Atzil, Leia Hill, 
Geary Schindel, and Engledink Humperbert (British singer that provided 
entertainment.)


The Crane Bat Cave property was acquired to protect the contributing 
zone of the Edwards Aquifer and will be used as a nature preserve. We 
contributed about four hours labor each with 28 people for a total of 
112 person hours of work. At $15 per hour, our efforts were valued at 
$1,680. I used the $15 amount since we’re dealing with skilled caver 
labor and many have prior  experience picking up trash along the 
highway (the orange jumpsuit crowd). I would have valued the work even 
higher, but we couldn’t get the metal disc cut into smaller pieces. 
Maybe Galen will come down next time and do a little micro-shaving 
with some diamond bits.


Jim Bowie’s buried silver was not found under the trash piles but I’m 
sure it’s there. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.


Thanks to everyone that helped. It was nice to get folks together, do 
a little socializing (at a distance) and I  It has earned us a lot of 
good will with the city.


Geary Schindel




*Geary M. Schindel, P.G.***

Senior Hydrogeologist




www.edwardsaquifer.org 




210.222.2204 ext 346Mobile: 210.326.1576




900 E Quincy
San Antonio, TX 78215




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