[PBSS] 5 Mouth

[Walter Feaster]

Yes I would be interested in this.

Walter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. LaRue Thomas" <jlrbills at sonoratx.net>
To: <Pbss at caver.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 11:06 AM
Subject: [PBSS] 5 Mouth


> Guys,
> Don't have time for much, but...
> We have been offered the dig. The cave is now about 18 feet by 40 feet of
> dug-into floor, but the diggers were not going out to the edges. Johnny 
> has
> it set up with a structure holding an electric winch for buckets for 
> rubble,
> and he'll bring a generator or welder out to power the winch. The room is
> about 8-10 feet tall and the buckets are coming up about 12 feet?
>
> Johnny has a bobcat he will have us use to haul the tailings to an area 
> not
> far away but where they will not just wash back in.
>
> This place is fewer than 4 miles from my house. I didn't ask about camping
> on site but I'll bet we can after the first time.
>
> It's set up because his ranch hand's sons have been digging off & on for
> about 3 years but the last one graduated last night. Johnny has been 
> having
> them sift for bones and tools and we would want to do that, but perhaps do
> it in-cave so we can photo document a general location and depth.
>
> The whole cave is daylight because it has 4 healthy openings and one small
> one.
>
> A couple from I think Cowtown Grotto is coming out this weekend from
> Punkin/Deep but Jerly said she told me, first, so even if they want to dig
> we have first dibs.
>
> 4-6 people could have a good rhythm going, more than six on a trip at a 
> time
> would work but not many more or we'd be tripping over each other I think.
>
> Jeryl & Johnny would like us to dig in both July and August, even though
> it's hot. They do not have hunters, though...
>
> The only hurry is that I leave for camp tomorrow noon, no internet, no 
> cell
> service there,  and I'd like to be able to send her a card my 1st couple 
> of
> days out.
>
> Sorry I couldn't give us more time. My thinking is, we'd enjoy it greatly
> and if we behave ourselves thre are quite a few more caves in the area 
> that
> we might eventually get to see.
>
> I vote yes! Jacqui
>
>
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