I carry a lot of tools. Mainly because I'm not that familiar with what I really need yet and the Dog-O-War has a lot of hybrid stuff on it at the moment. I like to keep the socket set together cause its new and carry heaps of extras because I like to go off road.
Day before yesterday I bought two more tool cases. Both plastic. They tend to break around the clamps though, but they look good, and are lite and compact. So all up I have three which pack together easily and divide up all the crap.
(1) - Electrial (A major issue with the Dog),
(2) - Spanners, drill, mulitmeter, testlight and tape.
(3) - Socket set still in box with nothing missing, yet.
(3) - Nuts, bolts, screws, switches and bits that didn't have anywhere to go.
Even though you ride dosen't use water you do. Carry at least 4 litres at all times. Without food but with water you'll last in the bush during summer about 25 days.
Without food and without water you won't last 4 days.
I have a Gps. I use it to Geocache.
This is a cool past time. Geocaching is like treasuring hunting using a Gps reciever. You go to [/link]www.geocaching.com[/link] and plug in you Latitude and Longitude and it will search a 100mile (160km) radius for hidden caches. From my place here near Newcastle I have 170 to choose from, 10 of which I hid. When you arrive at a cache, which is half the fun then you need to find it which is usually not that hard as it will be within 2-30 meters. Their will be a little log book and some goodies to choose from. The general rule is put two things in take one thing out. I have two kids so I take three things from a $2 shop and they can then choose a couple of things for themselves. When you get home you can then log onto the net and log you cache find, leaving a little note of how you went, how hard it was, attach a couple of pics of the day (under 100k) and clock up you tally of how many you've found/hidden.
Personally I have found 5 and hidden 10. I don't get a lot of time but thats changing soon. Great fun and an excellent excuse to get the Baja out into the bush.
How big is Geocaching?
"As of today, there are 31126 active caches in 149 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 16018 new logs written by 4783 account holders."
Extract from the www.Geocaching.com website.
The Bronze.
[Edited on 11-10-2002 by The_Bronze.]
The_Bronze. Minister of Volkswagenism
1,922 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·
Bronze.
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
