Scratchy Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 My brother and I are interested in hiding a cache but have a few questions. We live on 20 acres of wooded land and would love to do a difficult mulit-cache where the seeker would have to find multi waypoints and actually dig it up. I know you don't encourage the use of shovels but if it's on our own property, is that ok? Please let me know your input Thanks Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 I get it... you want all the trees and topsoil cleared off your property, right? Using free labor from digging geocachers? Seriously.... my average position error is around 18 feet. I'll dig a circle 18 feet in radius, looking for your cache (this assumes you set YOUR coordinates with a Trimble). Times how many legs for your multicache? This is why buried caches are prohibited. x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x I was formerly employed by the Department of Redundancy Department, but I don't work there anymore. Quote Link to comment
+LaPaglia Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Scratchy:My brother and I are interested in hiding a cache but have a few questions. We live on 20 acres of wooded land and would love to do a difficult mulit-cache where the seeker would have to find multi waypoints and actually dig it up. I know you don't encourage the use of shovels but if it's on our own property, is that ok? Please let me know your input Thanks My first Markwell Look here, its been discussed Lapaglia Muga Muchu (forget yourself, focus) Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Digging is not generally approvable, but I know a few slip through. What you'd have to do is have coords that take someone NEAR something precise, so they can locate the PRECISE thing Then, you give PRECISE instructions on how to find it, ie: 77 feet @ 315 degrees magnetic toss in $50 and maybe I'll come on down canadazuuk Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 If you own the land, and you say dig. They dig. Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
rjt Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Clearly tell that it's your land in your cache introduction. I think the admin will allow it after reading. Quote Link to comment
Cape Cod Cacher Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Old joke, man calls police and sys his neighbor is hiding pot in hollow logs in his back yard. Police show up, chop and split logs, don't find anything and leave. Man calls up neighbor and asks if the cops came by and chopped up logs. Neighbor says "Yes", man says " Happy Birthday"... Are you looking for a free way to till your garden? Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 If it's your land, fine. But consider the mess seekers will make of the area by digging all over the place. "An appeaser is one who keeps feeding a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last" -Winston Churchill Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Well this thread has opened a different can of worms. If you like to fish just follow the cachers, when the earth is turned over, get your can, fill it with some fresh worms and go fishing. Tahosa - Dweller of the Mountain Tops. Quote Link to comment
South_Cache Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Dad, It was great to get your last letter. I am sorry you are feeling so bad lately. Be sure and don't let the Sheriff know about all the bodies I buried in the field behind the barn. Your son... A month later he writes again... Dad, I am glad you are feeling better. I am glad to hear that the FBI and Sheriff's deputies did such a great job digging your new potato patch. I told you I would find a way to help out. Your son.. South Cache "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the tops." Robert M. Pirsig Web Hosting Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Come on guys. What better means of knowing where the cache is at than by looking at the freshest hole! This one would be easy. Unless he had an acre of leaves to cover his sandlot with. Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
MarcusArelius Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 You also need to consider the environmental impact regardless of who owns the land. For example, will mud from all the digging run off into streams? Marcus Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 quote:Originally posted by MarcusArelius:You also need to consider the environmental impact regardless of who owns the land. For example, will mud from all the digging run off into streams? Marcus Yes and no. The amount of area plays a part in NPDES requirments. If you can dig that amount with a shovel then you are one mighty digger. There is no way the amount of land that you would dig with a GPS saying you are in ground zero would ever make this a consideration. Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+rayt333 Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 I really do not think this would be a good idea, I for one would not bother with looking for a buried cache. Why not? Well let's assume the person hiding the cache had a 20 foot accuracy and the seeker had a 20 foot accuracy also, but the hider was at the nothern part of hir 20 foot circle and the seeker was at the southern part of that 20 foot circle, so now we are speaking about a 40 foot circle and this can be a lot of digging. And if the last person dug 10 holes and you check each of them before either giving up or digging some of your own then before long the whole area would be dug up. Like I said I wouldn't even bother with this type of cache, but maybe others would like that kind. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 I'd borrow a metal detector and cheat. Oh and if you dig a big enough hole that would be a cave. Then the local cavers guild would want you to stay away so they could protect their cave which used to be your hole from you. Did you know that where the dirt has been dug recently you can make a metal probe and probe the ground without digging... A coat hanger would work if it wasn't too deep. Nevermind, rayt333 you said you wouldn't bother. Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 If it's you're land than go ahead and do it, but you really need to have some better way to zero out before you start to dig. Maybe line up a sight from one tree to another or so many paces in some direction from a reference point. Don't give the seaker the exact directions but make them figure it out from a set of clues. Also, make sure there is some way for the seaker to verify they've done it correctly before they end up digging. I have one burried cache. It's burried in a sand bar along a local river. It's about 1/2 mile walk from the parking and is private property. There is a public fishing access all along the area so people are allowed to be in the area. You can dig in the sand all you want and withing a few days the area will be either blown smooth by the wind, or chopped up more by a herd of cattle passing through. I also have exact directions on how to find the cache in the hint. george Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Quote Link to comment
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