GPS ~ Hand Held Ones?

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

British cabby here has one in his motor and it fasinates the shit out of me! Keeps popping up with which land we're moving through. Great fun!

 

And he tells me Argos do hand held ones for about 40 E's? Be a laugh to wander about the fields with one and see where it said I was, I thought. But could it tell me that? Or would it just feed me Grid Ref's, or what?

 

Anyone know any thing, please?

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

i done a course on mole control last year and the guy who took the course thought they where the best thing since sliced bread.ye can mark yer traps down with them and they'll take ye strait back to the trap, that guy also done alot of spraying out on the hills(ferns) and said he had lost his 4x4 on more than one occation but since gettin the gps he had no more worries !

[ade33uk 86]

i bet you would enjoy this site http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx good fun and you get to see some interesting parts of the country you will have to put your postcode in to see whats nearest to you . if you put the cordinates into google earth http://earth.google.com/ you can get a satelite picture of the area aswell .

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Bloody hell! I've just spent quite some time looking at these things. Now my brain's fried! I think I'll just as likely wait till I happen across one in a shop somewhere and buy it. How on earth is anyone mean't to make an informed choice out of so many?!

 

Then again; Maybe I'll just wait till Mr Novelty Seeker, Dean O' gets wind of them and buys one! See what that's like

[SNAP SHOT 194]

Ditch, The sat nav's put up townlands, roads etc, handheld gps you have to go for is mapped to see where you are the downside of these is the battery life. on some of the old ones we're talking 20 to 25 mins top's.... then in the middle of things dead batteries and it would take 10 mins to find satellites again check out plenty of comments about them before you buy. check out gps.ie then handheld gps on left of screen.. and as you will see the mapping gps's are a little bit more expensive.......

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Cheers for that, mate. I guess ye can only expect to get what ye pay for? I was looking at some of the Explorist range earlier. One about third from their bottom of range caught my eye. Probably around the £100 mark.

 

Thing is, I'm not really entirely sure what I'd ever Do with the damn thing! I mean, I've been setting traps all my life and never yet managed to lose one through not knowing where the hell I'd put it! Snares, I'll grant ye, can be a whole differant ball game! But even there I'm thinking ,ore of fox snares throughout some horrible bloody plantation where every ride and tree is identical.

 

What do ye reckon? Could one ever justify a decent outlay? Or is it just a silly novelty I should grow up and get over?

[SNAP SHOT 194]

As you say having never lost a trap you have to stop and think is it going to make my life any easier, if the ansewer is yes then look into it further, if no then put the money to something you would use often, and would be of use.

if your spreading snares over miles then yes they would be handy. if not buy something else. then just use dean o's when he buy's his