Stuff found in Baugh's Cave, NY

[Sean Ryan]

There's an ongoing cleanup of Baugh's Cave in upstate NY, led by Joe Armstrong. He's hauled out tons and tons of material from this cave in the past few months, which has been a local dump site for the past thirty years. In the spring, this cave wasn't even the 30-foot pit is is now, but a 10-foot mound of garbage.

Stuff found so far:
Bathtub
Washing machine
Backseat of a car
Water heater (which might actually be a furnace: it's at the bottom of a heap of dirt/trash which is being worked through)
Exercise Bike
Artificial fiber rugs (natural fiber rugs have helpfully rotted away)
Microwave
My Little Pony
Multiple radios
Unshattered plates
Shattered plates
Giant chunks of some sort of concrete
Enough tires to build your own playground
Enough bricks to build a deck
Enough lumber to burn every Baugh's litterer in effigy

What other weird stuff have people found in cave cleanups?

[Wayne Harrison]

It wasn't during a cleanup but last year I found some underwear with very nasty-smelling diarrhea right on the main route of a popular Colorado cave. I didn't have the stomach to try and move it.

It was gone the next time I went back, thank goodness.

[Gary Cotney]

Bowling balls in the bottom of Natural Well. Actually it was pieces of what were bowling balls. They must have made some booming echos when they hit.

[Grandpa Caver]

A number of old plastic Halloween masks, enough old shoes to open a Salvation Army store, several childs bicycle frames and one complete bear skeleton (excavated back in the 60's) from an Indiana pit.

1.2 ton of trash removed during the cleanup. Much more remains completely buried under scree & fill dirt.

[Adam Byrd]

An old unopened can of Schlitz malt liquor that had washed in with other debris from a flood.

Man did that go down smooth! (kidding)

[Sean Ryan]

Bowling balls in the bottom of Natural Well. Actually it was pieces of what were bowling balls. They must have made some booming echos when they hit.

I was in Natural Well during Convention. We found a broken piece of circuitry our resident computer guys figured was at least twenty years old. Whoever's throwing his old junk in there ought to just have a garage sale.

[Cindy Heazlit]

A roof. A bed frame. A car console. And of course the obligatory diaper bombs.

http://www.hawaiicaves.org/cleanpuka.html

Then there are the used syringes and colostomy bags.

http://www.hawaiiislandjournal.com/stories/5a03a.html

http://www.caves.org/pub/journal/PDF/V65/v65n1-Halliday.pdf

[Lynn]

Some of the items we have found so far during the Sera Karst Task Force Clean Up Projects.

Car seats, car doors, car tags etc…
Appliances: Washing machine, Clothes Dryer, Refrigerator, etc.
Minnow Reservoir (commercial grade)
Riding Lawnmower
Exercise Bike (worked)
Tons and tons of tires
Bed Springs
High Heels, Purses, etc
Lumber
Truck bed
Barrels
Vintage Iron (clothing)
Milk Bottles
Water Heaters
Fallout Shelter Sign
Roof Shingles
Beer Cans/Bottles

Some photo Links:
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[JackW]

55-gal drum of oil, mostly full
30 gal drum of used oil (mostly empty) but marked property of Safety-Kleen

Others have found a half decomposed calf carcass.
Have heard stories of cow carcasses being in the way of going passage and crawling on/over/ through...