LSUFan

I had no idea! Wow. I wish I still had the pics from the recycling magazine we used to have that showed flames shooting up from a road in WA state. They had tire chips burning underground and underneath a brand new road, where they had used the chips for road bed filler. It caused shock waves throughout our entire industry, and actually killed many civil engineering projects that were to include tire chips. I did an internet search and was able to find the following. If you're curious, you can scroll down near the bottom, and read about it. http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/rubber.htm#12

My company is a licensed waste tire processor in the state of Louisiana. Each state has a different set of rules as to what can go where, how much, etc. etc. Some states will require you to have tire transporting permits and documentation, depending on how many tires you plan to move. This is something you will need to look into. The best place to always start for information is your states Department of Environmental Quality, or equivalent agency, depending on what name it goes by. These are usually who administer the waste tire programs for each state. A lot of times, this information can be found online. Some states will allow tires, that are no longer whole, to be buried in their landfills, while some won't allow it at all. The reason a tire has to be cut, sliced, chipped, shredded, etc.......is that it can trap air (and methane gas from decomposing garbage) in a landfill. Believe it or not, tires can burn underground if they have trapped air and/or methane gas. A landfill is just a big compost pile and heats up. Once a tire burns, is when it becomes dangerous. It has several carcinogens in the smoke and the chemicals that will leach from it. Hope this helps anybody who wants to dispose of tires in whichever state they reside.

RustyBeerCan, are you going to activate one where we can see the icon for it.

How about this... HEY!! That is his truck, color and everything. I know he has been busy lately. I'll call him and tell him to get on the forums and take a gander.

So far everything has been in the thousands for the camera. I have seen some cameras that are capable of hooking a gps to them which are in the hundreds. I'm now looking at software that will put the coords on any pics you have. I'm still in the learning stage but this looks interesting. If I'm reading the software pages correct, they will be able to check the time stamps of your pics vs the time of your gps and automatically edit an uploaded pic with the matching coords on your gps. One program I looked at was $229.00. It has a free trial at www.geospatialexperts.com What I'm also looking at is a free picture hosting site along with what I believe I'm reading is the same thing. It can take a garmin gps and match the track log times to the date stamp time on the pic, and insert the lat/long onto the pic. It is free from microsoft. http://wwmx.org/Download.aspx I'm interested in all of this and would really like some advice from anyone who knows about it. Thanks

We had a guest at our event over here in NELA yesterday that had a digital camera that not only took digital pictures, but also stamped the pic with lat/long coordinates on the picture. I did an internet search and found several cameras with this capability, some of which you just had to hook your gps up to. Does anyone out there have experince with one of these cameras or hookups? I'm real interested in maybe getting one.

I think that is a great idea BillsBayou, speaking from the north part of the state. I used 6 historical markers in Ouachita Parish (yeah, I know we're the only one's who call counties by that name ) for one of my favorite caches. Everybody really seems to like it. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d5-4286fb8c06c9 I'll be glad to help or promote this endeavor.

I have to admit that I'm slowly learning to use it myself.

Yeah, the crawfish and the gator on the coin are actually paying homage to 2 LA cachers named Bayoubug and Gatorgrl, who had some good ideas for the artwork.

Here is a lower version of the die art. 9key is correct, in it is harder to see, but I'm posting it here. All of us Louisiana members want to thank 9key for all of his work he has put in the project.

If you take my 5 drunken college years of DNF's (Did Not Feel) anything, and add them to my logged 33 years, then you have my total posts on the birthday cake.

There is a cacher in MS who makes much sought after walking sticks as ftf prizes and such. He does the coupon/certificate thing, which he puts in the caches. You then send him the certificate with all the info he needs, and he custom builds your hiking stick. He'll then mail it to you in a pvc pipe container. I know he goes to a lot of trouble and expense, but they are very popular in our part of the country. A lot of people watch his profile to see when and where he puts the certificates. His geocacher handle is SuperSquid, and the sticks are called SSO's. (SuperSquid Originals) You're just not a true geocacher down here, unless you have a SSO.

I go down to the local trophy shop and get a small ftf trophy made up. Our local ftf competitiors around here really like them. It's something they can add to their collections. Here is a pic of one for my "Looks Greek to me" cache. I had it printed in Greek fonts to match the theme of the cache. The one pictured cost about $6 bucks, if I remember right.

And they said I was crazy for making a working lava lamp geocoin.

I appreciate the compliment from Semper Questio. My daughter also has a kids oriented cache in the same park as GCHN6V. There are also 2 easy micros extremely close by the parking area after you find the full size caches. Our state geocaching club has a LA Highways cache list that shows caches within 1.5 miles of all the major hwys, including I-20. Here is a link to it, if you're interested. It's updated fairly regularly. Hope this helps and you enjoy caching thru Louisiana. http://www.lageocaching.org/index.php?name...ddetails&lid=20

They were neat-looking. I checked on ebay and they had several for sale there. Thanks for showing this Nomad, I may just have to try and bid on one of the varieties to add to my coin collection. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?c...ckel&category0=

I have been trying to garner support from our state geocaching organization for a Louisiana state geocoin. I have had a few responses from some members supporting it, but no overall consensus on it. I think our problem is, we don't know where to start. What are the actual processes in getting a state geocoin made ( I mean with GC and the state organizations involvement in it)? Thanks LSUFan LAGeocaching.org member

Paid for 4 last night. Thanks

I carry one in my backpack all the time. Sometimes it's handy to have when doing a multi or such that gives you a bearing to find the cache. I always use it when hiking in offtrail to caches. My partner and I had to use it find our way out of a MS swamp one time after both our GPS's failed. It really saved our rear-ends that day.

Puppyman, I checked out the link to see what you were talking about because I know our Louisiana website is alive and well. The link pinned is incorrect. It should be LAGeocaching.org instead of .com. I'll email Max Cacher and ask him to update that in the pinned forum. Thanks for pointing that out. LAGeocaching.org member LSUFan

I understand that it's ultimately whatever I want to make of the coin, but I do want to make a coin that others will want to collect, trade, buy etc. My thinking is if I make a coin that everyone really likes, then it will be easier to make trades for. How else am I going to be able to get a Kilted Cacher coin since I don't own a dres......sorry kilt. KC, you know I'm kidding. I really do want one of your coins.

Tozainamboku gave a great explanation of some of the differences for the two coordinate formats. As far as one being better than the other, my opinion is the UTM system is much easier if you want to figure the distances between two points without having to do a lot of mathematics. It's all just straight adding and subtracting (as long as you stay within the same zones and bands of the UTM). It's easier using UTM on paper maps in the field for this same purpose also. Once you understand how both formats work and the measurements for which they represent, you can use either system fairly well, but I still think UTM's are easier for the beginner-----as long as the metric system doesn't bother you. I have written an explanation of these different formats in lesson stages for my local geocaching club and will be more than happy to email them to you if you like. It explains the numbers for both formats and how to read/convert them. If anyone didn't know what the zones and bands I referred to earlier, then you need these lessons. I really believe everyone should know what these numbers mean. You can then impress your non-geocaching friends at parties. It beats card tricks.

I am still in the planning stages of designing a geocoin and was pondering different shapes for it. After seeing all the great coins posted here, I was wanting everyones opinion on if I should just make it round, and not a special shape after all. I'm trying to get a feel for what the professional coinnoiseurs here in the forums prefer. Can you please let me know?

Please put me down for two.

Welch and Max Cacher, I really appreciate the trouble you went to checking that information for me. I really owe ya one. Miragee, I want to thank you for educating me on the map stuff. I have never paid attention to that aspect of, but will now. Teamhawaii1981, that was a great website and I want to thank you for sharing that with everyone. I have bookmarked it for future reference. This is what really makes the sport so enjoyable, as how everyone helps out others. Thanks again everyone.