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  1. You do understand that the person that cuts the tree down in the forest is not the last person to put a saw to it right?

    How many 40' pieces of round lumber with bark on it do you see at home depot?

     

    Not only do the machines in the sawmill mill them down to usable lumber but there is also a yard crew that cut the raw lumber into sizes that fit into the milling machines.

    Really! wow, they should make those pieces of equipment automated so that they can handle large volume and protect the operator...wait they do!

     

    Actually most of the mills use hand held saws in the yard before they go through the "pieces of equipment" that are "automated".

     

    Have you ever even been to a lumber mill?

     

    I know I have. I worked at one when I was younger and have several friends that still do.

  2. The real answer went unnoticed back around post 56. The problem with nails in trees has nothing to do with the health of the tree.. it has to do with the health of the guy who cuts the tree and gets a nail or a saw blade planted in his skull.

     

    Excellent point that I totally overlooked. As a former tree cutter, I can attest that hitting a nail in a tree with a saw is bad news. It can cause the saw to kick back.

     

    And, yes, I DO eat bacon. :)

    Is it normal to cut down trees at chest or head height?

     

    You do understand that the person that cuts the tree down in the forest is not the last person to put a saw to it right?

    How many 40' pieces of round lumber with bark on it do you see at home depot?

     

    Not only do the machines in the sawmill mill them down to usable lumber but there is also a yard crew that cut the raw lumber into sizes that fit into the milling machines.

  3. I have a fake electrical box hide. It requires no tools to open.

     

    I would try to use tools to open it anyway.

     

    On a more serious note, I am planning on hiding a fake electrical box soon but it won't be placed on anything that carries actual electricity.

     

    Could use some ideas on how to hold the face plate to the box without using the machine screws.

    Perhaps just one screw and one magnet?

     

    I also plan on using lettering on it that only a geocacher would know it's a cache.

     

    Grounded

    Electrical

    Outlet

     

    is one I saw in the other thread.

  4. Nice job and congrats. May you enjoy many years of servitude err... I mean marriage.

    One of the best decisions I ever made was to get married. The other one was to get divorced.

    KIDDING!

    I wish you both many years of happiness together.

  5. When I first came to these forums I thought everyone was being rude to me... but later after lurking I realized, no they were just being honest.

     

    Just because someone says something you don't like or don't agree with doesn't mean they are being rude or snotty, and that goes for the reviewer mentioned in the original post.

     

    Once I got over that and stopped taking everything personally, I've had a great time on these forums and learned a lot.

     

    If you feel like lurking for a while though, that's up to you. Best of luck.

     

    Exactly my experience also.

  6. uhmm if that statement was directed twards me i know its against the rules to bury caches, i burried mine most of the way...

     

    You know it's against the guidelines and did it anyways. Need anymore be said?

    hmmm did you not read the part where i said i did not bury it all the way therefore it is not technically buried?

     

    So if someone stabs you but only sticks the knife in part of the way, did they still not stab you technically?

    :):D

     

    I'm really not trying to pick on you. I have nothing against you. As someone else said, I don't even know you.

    Sorry if it seems as though that's the case.

     

    Keep us informed. If it gets approved I am sure we will all apologize for doubting you.

  7. If you feel the need to warn others about the dangers of hiding caches on electrical equipment or creating cache containers that will cause other cachers to start opening up real eletrical boxes, please do so here so we can keep the Cool Cache Containers thread on-topic with actual CCC's.

     

    Mostly my fault about that and I should know better.

    Sorry for derailing that thread.

     

    And, thanks GeoBain for derailing my derailing.

  8. One of the caches I found last month was an ammo can after a 4mile hike with a 2800ft elevation gain.

    The can was full of swag and trash.

    Stickers.

    Rotting rope.

    Rotting orange peel.

    tire gauges.

    broken McToys.

    exploded pen

    rusted novelty buttons

    something muddy/mushy in a ziplock bag

    moldy New Testament

    expired coupons

    Play/Canadian money

    etc.

     

    Several logs going back a year had talked about the degrading quality of stuff in the can.

    I took it all out. Left the working pens. Left the non-rusted tire gauges.

    Left the log book. Left the "free geocoin" poker chips.

    Everything else was put in a garbage bag in my backpack.

     

    I would be willing to take all the Canadian money you find.

  9. If you are trading out, that is one thing. If you are just removing something because you don't like it, that is quite another. Pornographic material doesn't belong in any cache, that's a given. Business cards, unless pornographic, religious tracts, New Testaments, or other non-hazordous items are to be 'traded' out, not removed without trade just because the 'finder' doesn't like whatever it is.

     

    I would think that good pornographic material is worth trading for.

    It doesn't belong in a cache, of course, but seeing as how porn is a billion dollar a year industry, it MUST have some value.

     

    Internet porn is a billion dollar industry. The printed magazines that are not online are dying.

     

    Although I have an old Vanessa Williams Penthouse that is said to be worth something.

     

    Hey, thanks for adding to the conversation.

     

    Ditto.

  10. If you are trading out, that is one thing. If you are just removing something because you don't like it, that is quite another. Pornographic material doesn't belong in any cache, that's a given. Business cards, unless pornographic, religious tracts, New Testaments, or other non-hazordous items are to be 'traded' out, not removed without trade just because the 'finder' doesn't like whatever it is.

     

    I would think that good pornographic material is worth trading for.

    It doesn't belong in a cache, of course, but seeing as how porn is a billion dollar a year industry, it MUST have some value.

     

    Internet porn is a billion dollar industry. The printed magazines that are not online are dying.

     

    Although I have an old Vanessa Williams Penthouse that is said to be worth something.

  11. That's neat and all but I am SHOCKED that it was approved.

     

    I'll post a link that narcissa did in another thread.

     

    good advice

     

    Do you really think it's a good idea for people looking for your cache to go touching every inch of a transformer box?

     

    Please check out the link.

    Think about this for a second, brlsk... if those transformers were really as dangerous as that blog (and his forum posts) make it sound, it would be required that each one be isolated from the public with strands of concertina wire, right? Sure, I'll admit to the remote possibility of an ungrounded short to the outer shell occurring, and that if that should happen, that touching the shell would be catastrophic, but these things are just right out in the open. Sorry, but I just can't even equate the danger of a cache on one of these things with playing golf in a thunderstorm.

     

    The flaw in that cache, as I understand it, is that it doesn't have a container (a guideline that I find ridiculous).

     

    I somewhat agree with you dog with glasses but, why the need to place one there? because he could?

    Is bringing someone to a power transformer box a nice scenic place? (it might be in this case)

     

    I also played around them as a kid and probably even on them...

    I don't anymore.

     

    People get killed all the time by contacting overhead wires. Should the utility companies bury those or hide them behind concertina wire? no, common sense should prevail.

  12. Not trying to tell you or anyone how to hide caches or where.

     

    Just saying. Nothing wrong with sharing knowledge even if you don't agree with it.

     

    I could go on to say that a power transformer is private property owned by the power company.

     

    I'm not a stick to the rules type of guy. I was just trying to offer some advice.

     

    I will refrain from doing so to you and bittsen.

     

    I know I try to stay away from metal containers that have thousands of volts in them.

  13. If you like that, check out the thread the dog with glasses started. Good stuff there.

    I already read way to many of his threads, lol. The last thing I need to do is search through them all. Could you post a link, it still sounds neat!

     

    Ask the dog. It really is a very cool thread.

    I'm too lazy to look up stuff and provide links.

    (on edit)Dammit! He posted the link while I was typing.

  14.  

    I am sure that anyone that has walked through a forest has stumbled across a tree that has "consumed" an old farmers fence. It just makes me laugh when I see people up in arms about one nail. Didn't anyone have a treehouse growing up? How did we hold them up? Coat hangers covered in camo duct tape?

     

     

    Be careful. The trees will happily go after people too:

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    From Waymark (in Toronto!): http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WM64MH_..._Toronto_Canada

    Now that is awesome!!

     

    If you like that, check out the thread the dog with glasses started. Good stuff there.

  15. Not that I am right... 'cuz I'm only right some of the time...

     

    My guess would be that firetacks would not reach deep enough into the tree to have any effect upon it's life-sustaining function. They reach only into the bark and as such are not known to cause any actual damage to the tree.

     

    A screw or a bolt is made to support weight, thereby reaching deeper (beyond the bark and possibly into or through the cambium layer), causing true and actual damage to the tree. These devices actually cut and remove wood fibers to make way for the threads.

     

    Maybe splitting hair, but at least it is a splittable hair! :unsure:

     

    Kinda what i was trying to say. But said much better.

  16. I'd be impressed if there were even two unique logs out of all the finds. But then, the caches would have to warrant that.

    I didn't log any of the 312 caches that we found on that run, nor most of the other 400+ we found during the rest of the week before GW5. :unsure:

     

    Kinda took the wind out of the sails of those who insisted that we did it for the numbers!

     

    We did it for fun, and it was a blast. :lol:

     

    Thats awesome!!!! It sounds like it would be a blast, thats the reason why i'm looking forward to this so much! We do plan on logging every one of the caches we find.

     

    Unlike some of the other posters here, I wish you luck.

    I would like to see the video when you complete it.

     

    But! be prepared to come back here and eat crow if it doesn't work out.

     

    If you beat the "record" and sign each log by hand with only 3 or four people and are not on a power trail?

    excellent.

     

    Try not to break any laws while doing this and stay safe. No "record" is worth risking your life (unless your last name is Knievil.)

     

    Good luck!

  17. I have noticed a bit of hypocrisy when it comes to night caches that is somehow overlooked by the fake hippie types. The ones that think that walking on wild grass is damaging the eco system and now cry when they see a baby seal (but only since they started geocaching)!

     

    Why is it 100% acceptable to people to place fire tacks in trees, but if a person were to nail something into a tree or screw an apparatus into a tree then they immediately are taken to task by cachers and reviewers alike?

     

    Let's hear the weigh in!

     

    Now that you mention it, it is a bit odd.

    I know nothing specific about fire tacks but if they are indeed just tacks then I have stepped on a tack.

    It didn't kill me (hurt like heck).

    I think driving a screw or nail into me might hurt me a little more.

     

    (I have been compared to a tree by my wife a few times. I just stand there and drop stuff that she has to pick up)

     

    That's the only reason I can think of.

  18. We might have Hula-Hoop, Pet-Rock, CB, POG, or Tomagachi level fad, but it won't last more than a year or two. Then a couple years tapering down as the hordes abandoned caches are archived and CITO-ed.

     

    Geocaching is not like announcing a new web browser to compete against existing products, or a new kind of phone to compete against other smartphones. If it were, perhaps the other alternative listing services might be more important. Although geocaching has grown, when was the last time you navicached or terracached?

     

    For better or worse, caching is identified with Groundspeak: the number of listings, its core of volunteers, its commitment to keeping the game accessible to all, and its partnerships. not only with various companies but with groups like the Geological Society (earthcaches), have helped make it unique. In a game where the number of listings mean everything, it has protected its resources (whether it be from Buxley's maps or scraping from various apps). And once you have a certain number of finds identified with this site, are people willing to start over? A find on another listing might be fun, but will it improve your world-caching numbers?

     

    Somehow I don't see google or other corporate organizations moving to take over Groundspeak and dominate this particular game. How many bomb squad reports do they want to deal with? But they could take an interest in location-based gaming and release other activities to compete with this one.

     

    To the extent that smartphones have fueled some of the growth in caching. by making the game accessible without having to buy a separate gadget, the industry also has led to the development of several location-based games, including Gowalla, Foursquare, or iSpy. It takes a certain critical mass for any of these games to succeed. Geocaching has grown because it seems to have reached that kind of mass and it has reached that mass because it has grown -- you can find a geocache wherever you go. There is no reason not to believe that other games will reach that level. I don't know the numbers, but Gowalla might be out-Waymarking Waymarking by making an easy to use game that can be played on smartphones, that is linked to social networking, icon collecting. certain levels of accomplishment, and the ability to take you to various types of places.

     

    Social networking is certainly one thing that is driving many location games, so perhaps that is why we are seeing "friends,""like buttons," and new icons for certain events (just like Gowalla!). But a Gowalla trip that takes you to various coffee sellers might be better suited for those interests than finding micros in a lamp post.

     

    So I think there might be other location-based games that are linked to smartphones that could rival geocaching. Google could certainly push its own android location-based applications that might provide alternatives to caching ("Google Earth, The Game"). But as long as people find geocaching to be fun, this site will continue to define it.

     

    Two years from now, maybe everyone will be playing Traveler's Quest, GPS Mission, or something that has yet to be released, leaving us to cache. So just as letterboxers have continued to letterbox, geocachers will continue to geocache. And the next big fad may be on the horizon.

     

    ^that.

  19.  

    I have one nano ready to place but i'm not going to place it until I find somewhere other than the bottom of a park bench.

     

    I had a nano that I got as a FTF prize in a cache. I also carried it around in my pocket until I could find a place

    that I liked to hide it. That lasted about a month before I lost it somewhere.

     

    That's funny because I obtained mine from a cache also.

    I have also lost it a few times but it keeps turning up somewhere (it even went through the clothes washer once).

    It currently is stuck to my fridge until I find a worthy place for it.

  20. whelp,,just becauce i pay taxes doesnt give me the right to go distribute my junk through out the parks,gamelands,mall parking lots and whatever..imagine if everyone did that..soon you wouldnt be able to walk through those places..i mean,with your way of thinkin i could just go throw my weekly garbage out at the mall..what the hey,,i pay my taxes..

     

    If you consider caches junk or garbage then you are playing the game wrong.

    Also, parking lots are not funded by tax payers. They are private property.

    :unsure:

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