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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill, > > > > This is actually near San Antonio/Helotes area. > > > > Geary > > > > *From:* Bill Bentley <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, March 15, 2021 8:21 PM > *To:* [email protected]; Geary Schindel < > [email protected]>; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] Crane Bat Cave Clean Up, Sunday, March 14 > 2021 > > > > External Email > > 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. 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