Geocaching

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Geocaching is a worldwide scavenger hunt that uses a GPS or phone app with GPS. There are over 3 million active caches around the world. Some are as small as a dime, others are big enough to walk into, all of them provide a unique adventure. We invite you to share your stories, photos, and experiences!

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Found the TOTT I Needed (infosec.pub)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by pineapplelover@lemm.ee to c/geocaching@lemmy.world

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Messaged some of the guys who did the cache, they pointed me towards something like this. Got it off of harbor freight, it's named "magnetic pickup tool."

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago

These are useful in general.

Dropped a sock behind the washer? Use the grabber.

Drop a bolt down in an engine bay? Use the grabber.

Wife too far away to physically annoy? Use the grabber.

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My family called these the elephant nose pickers and now my brain refuses to commit any other name to memory.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Which part of them resembles an elephant nose? Or is that it's so long it must be only used for picking the nose of an elephant?

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago

They're long and flexible to get boogers from way up in the elephant's trunk. At least that's the juvenile humor logic.

Usually they're sold as a retrieval tool for dropped bolts in an engine bay. Nobody wants to have to pull a bunch of components to get something you dropped in an area where hands can't fit.