RoombaCats has a pro tip for when you are unsure of a birdhouse location or how much traffic the area might get. Make a very simple dummy birdhouse cache container and hang it in the area you are considering. If it is not damaged after a period of time, you can feel more confident that it is a good/safe location for your real cache.
Great tips! I approve this message. Lol. In the message to the reviewer, I have been asked to write, “Coordinates check only. Do not publish.” It is heartbreaking to hang and have to move and rehang a birdhouse because of a proximity conflict.
Avoiding screws is debatable topic. Couple of screws won't make big damage to the tree. Alternative way how to attach the cache is wire - and it does damage to the tree after some time when it grows bigger. So from point of view "nature friend" wires are worse than couple of screws. Thanks for video and each of tips is worth of separate show actually. :)
Yes I agree with the screws. I have friends who are arborists and we have talked about this. I would much rather use screws but it if places don’t understand that. Thanks for watching.
Set up the cache page on the website LONG before actually submitting the cache for review. Take your time and set up a nice page with necessary details, waypoints, attributes, etc. For the reviewer's sake there is no such thing as too much information (for the reviewer to see and not the public). As you set up the cache page, you can do it in stages... just save in between and don't submit it for review until you are very happy with the cache page. For my first gadget/puzzle cache, there was a LOT of important information on the cache page, and it took me several hours to get it right. Don't wait until the last second to set up the cache page. You will be all excited to get you cache submitted, but do NOT short-change the cache page. Remember... that is the "public-facing" aspect of your cache for the world to see, and making a good cache page can go a long way to getting cachers to WANT to find your cache. This is perhaps, not as important for simple traditional caches or "park-n-grab" caches, but for more complicated gadget/puzzle caches, to me it is a MUST!
Think long time too: Will this cache be safe in this location in the long run? will you be able to return to this place for maintenance? Are you committed to following up the cache, exchanging logs and boxes with wear and tear?
What other Tips would you give?
RoombaCats has a pro tip for when you are unsure of a birdhouse location or how much traffic the area might get. Make a very simple dummy birdhouse cache container and hang it in the area you are considering. If it is not damaged after a period of time, you can feel more confident that it is a good/safe location for your real cache.
That is another great tip. I love that. That is a place holder cache.
Great tips! I approve this message. Lol.
In the message to the reviewer, I have been asked to write, “Coordinates check only. Do not publish.”
It is heartbreaking to hang and have to move and rehang a birdhouse because of a proximity conflict.
Yes very true. Glad you approve and no cache was hurt in the making of this video. 😂
Avoiding screws is debatable topic. Couple of screws won't make big damage to the tree. Alternative way how to attach the cache is wire - and it does damage to the tree after some time when it grows bigger. So from point of view "nature friend" wires are worse than couple of screws.
Thanks for video and each of tips is worth of separate show actually. :)
Yes I agree with the screws. I have friends who are arborists and we have talked about this. I would much rather use screws but it if places don’t understand that. Thanks for watching.
Set up the cache page on the website LONG before actually submitting the cache for review. Take your time and set up a nice page with necessary details, waypoints, attributes, etc. For the reviewer's sake there is no such thing as too much information (for the reviewer to see and not the public). As you set up the cache page, you can do it in stages... just save in between and don't submit it for review until you are very happy with the cache page. For my first gadget/puzzle cache, there was a LOT of important information on the cache page, and it took me several hours to get it right. Don't wait until the last second to set up the cache page. You will be all excited to get you cache submitted, but do NOT short-change the cache page. Remember... that is the "public-facing" aspect of your cache for the world to see, and making a good cache page can go a long way to getting cachers to WANT to find your cache. This is perhaps, not as important for simple traditional caches or "park-n-grab" caches, but for more complicated gadget/puzzle caches, to me it is a MUST!
You are so right. I love this tip. The cache page is very important. Thanks for commenting this.
Think long time too: Will this cache be safe in this location in the long run? will you be able to return to this place for maintenance? Are you committed to following up the cache, exchanging logs and boxes with wear and tear?
Yes very true. That is why I don’t have a lot of caches out. I may make a lot but I only will put out what I want to maintain.