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amuse-Goose

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Can a TB be placed on your OWN property to get it on its way (rather than placing it in your own/another cache)? For example: hanging the TB from my chain link fence for someone to park > pick up > leave in a cache of their choice. Understood this would be an "At Your Own Risk" situation. No dogs or otherwise that may pose danger to other cachers, and I'm home all day working for the government :laughing:

 

Thank you!

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There's nothing in the guidelines prohibiting you from placing one of your trackables somewhere other than a cache or an event. But I'm not sure how effective that would be at "getting it on its way". How would you expect geocachers to find out about the trackable, so they could pick it up before a non-geocacher took it?

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If you want it to keep track of mileage, you must start it in a cache. That's how it garners distance -- with the coordinates of the placement(s). No starting coordinates for the first pick-up means no mileage accrual until placed into the SECOND cache.

 

Add to that, just how would you expect a 'cacher to find it hangin' on a fence and no reason for the 'cacher to be there in the first place?

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There's nothing in the guidelines prohibiting you from placing one of your trackables somewhere other than a cache or an event. But I'm not sure how effective that would be at "getting it on its way". How would you expect geocachers to find out about the trackable, so they could pick it up before a non-geocacher took it?

 

My apologies. Being a "newbie" (or in this case: tadpole) to caching and TBs, I was under the initial impression that a TB was something in and of itself - that you create a page just for the TB, with coords to "pickup", and not within a physical cache. Come to think of it, I made the mistake leaving my first TB in my own cache in Sanibel, FL on honeymoon without realizing it required a maintenance plan (we were already on our way home before I could snag it back). Thankfully, a couple were kind enough to rescue and place in a nearby cache which has been on the move ever since.

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I believe there is nothing which states that this is not allowed however like Gitchee-Gummee said, the distance counter wouldn't start until it reaches the second cache and also, do you really want someone knowing where you live??

 

As stated, I realize it's an "At Your Own Risk". You'll have to excuse my idiocy - the question was posed late last night, and I've been sick with "walking pneumonia" over the past week, so maybe the codeine was kicking in...

 

I'm not really concerned, being the distance of where I thought of placing the TB isn't at my front door. Said fence is out a bit. However, not only is it at MY own risk, but thinking logically here, I wouldn't want to pose risk to the cacher picking up the bug. No dogs, or anything that could physically hurt somebody, but quite possibly nosy neighbors.

 

Long story short, I'll be taking a different, more traditional approach at planting my TB.

 

Many thanks to all who have responded!

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My apologies. Being a "newbie" (or in this case: tadpole) to caching and TBs, I was under the initial impression that a TB was something in and of itself - that you create a page just for the TB, with coords to "pickup", and not within a physical cache.

No need to apologize. It actually sounds like an interesting idea. I was surprised (and a little annoyed) when I first discovered that TBs never have any location of their own. I was logging someone's TB on their car, and I thought I'd be able to say where it was at the time.

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Why not drop the TB in a nearby cache you have already found?

 

Already have one in mind :anicute:

There was a cache across the street from my house that I always used to "dip" (aka Visit) my TB in before sending them off. Unfortunatly, that cache was arcived, and there is a new one that I have DNFed 3 times. Can't really dip a TB in there until I have found it...

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