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<Reply # 20 on 1/17/2008 6:26 PM >
|  | | | First of all, put together a little kit to explore with. I suggest the following:
>One pair of synthetic pants that zip-off into shorts
>One DISPOSABLE Underwater camera
>Two GOOD flashlights, one primary, one backup.
>Crappy backpack/messenger bag preferrably water resistant
>Synthetic t-shirt
>Lightweight non-cotton sweatshirt.... fleece etc.
>30' of non-cotton rope
>Lightweight pair of closed-toed water shoes (NOT FLIP-FLOPS!) I suggest Keen's.
Concerning colothes:
Absolutely NO COTTON. Not even socks. Especially not socks.
Cotton absorbs water, gets heavier and draws heat away from your body. As the mountaineers say, COTTON KILLS!
And remember the golden rule:
If it might rain, STAY ABOVE GROUND
http://cat.org.au/~predator/approach.txt
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop... |
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Spano
Location: NJ
Gender: Male
| | Re: How to start draining???
<Reply # 21 on 1/17/2008 8:46 PM >
| | | | Ok guys got all the info i need much abliged
Do everything 110% to the best of your abillities. |
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Origato
| | I started draining.
<Reply # 22 on 1/20/2008 5:19 AM >
| | | | Wow, I got a super mark for my assignment on Urban Exploration culture and society. So I decided to celebrate by going draining. I took some of the advice in this thread and headed off to prepare. As always we prepared our equipment first. On this expo, we were equipped with the following excellent equipment.....
4 humans, some of which were of below average.
1 ute, equipped with 5 seats, 1 engine, 4 wheels, brakes and 1 dog.
5 flashlights, some of which were not waterproof. None of which cost more than $3.
Numerous batteries, all of which were never tested before use, and some of which were flat.
4 backpacks, all UER approved.
2 six packs of beer.
4 individually tailored and suitably fashionable sets of clothing.
4 pairs of shoes, fashionalby matching the clothing ensembles we wore.
1 12 pack of fireworks.
1 slab of beer.
20 candles.
1 cigarette lighter.
2 mobile phones of 'bogan' quality.
1 street directory.
some more beer.
1 spare dog - because you never know when you need one.
The expo proceeded as thus......
The 4 human and 2 dogs loaded on to the expedition mobile, and after some serious and enlightened discussion we decided the best way to find drains was drive to one one of us had noted the other week. So it was a case of "it's down this road, drive there. Can I have a beer now?"
We arrived in the suburb, and commenced that all important part of draining called the Recce. This is where the explorers scout the area, check for possible dangers, plot the location on GPS, photograh it for prosperity and so on. About 30 seconds after getting out of the car we had found the drain entrance, walked in, and decided it was good. We walked back to the car to get our shit together.
The old geezer near the entrance asked us what we were doing. I replied that we were engineering students and were here to photograph the drain. The old geezer told us to watch out for drunken yobbos down there. We promised him we would.
We marched down to the drain, checked our flashlights, discovered one had flat batteries, and walked in. It was exciting. In my third drain! Fucking brilliant! Well it was for the first few minutes. But it went on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, until we got jack of it and decided to pop a manhole and get out.
There was a little junction room, with a manhole in the roof. These little junction rooms were the only feature of the drain. Otherwise it was a 6 foot round concrete pipe that went perfectly straight with no other features and no tags. We decided it would be wise to listen for cars before popping the manhole, so we all sat down and consumed some beer. The beer was brought specifically for this purpose. Consuming.
We didn't hear anything at all except birds, people and the wind above. So Mick who is built like a brick shithouse stood on the bottom rung of the ladder and with both hands, shoved the concrete manhole up out of the way. Up he went and said it was okay, it was in a park.
So the rest of us climbed up, and stood there staring at all these people staring back at us. We were in a park, and these people were playing soccor and has stoped and were staring at us. Mick shoved the manhole back in place. We all kicked it in to the final spot then we looked around again. This family were like having a barbecue right by us and were still staring at us. I was getting pissed off with them so I walked over and said "Hey mate, are you going to be much longer on the barbacue? They don't have anywere else for us to cook around here."
My other mate caught on and said "Yeah, could we like have any of your left overs. We only caught two rats and a rabbit down there today."
This bloke kind of grabbed his wife and kids a bit closer and looked like he was undecided what to do next.
Mick said "Hey guys, you're forgetting your manners. Come on, lets go wash off in the creek first."
We left laughing then walked, and walked, and walked back to where the car was parked. The dogs virtually strangled themselves in happiness in seeing us back.
Yeah, so the third drain was shit, but the expo was fun. We may check out another one on Monday. But this time we will take superiour charged batteries with us. Ones approved by UER.
Caution! This user is a wise ass and may use sarcasm.
Is my back pack good enough for UERing? |
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metawaffle
 
King of Puns
Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
| |  | Re: How to start draining???
<Reply # 23 on 2/18/2008 1:31 AM >
| | | | Posted by dsankt
My friends and I went in the neighbourhood drains when we were 10 years old.
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A quote I like from mountaineer Joe Simpson (the Touching the Void guy):
"I have noticed as I've got older that you just get more scared, because when you're climbing in your 20s, you're young, you're full of testosterone, and you've got no imagination whatsoever. So you can go and do anything. Um, in your 40s, you're scared of your shadow."
http://www.longexposure.net |
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logtec
Location: Logtec is the UER representative for Scarborough, Ontario.
Gender: Male
Nice head, what's in the bag?
| | | Re: How to start draining???
<Reply # 24 on 6/27/2008 3:48 AM >
| | | | become a plumber and get paid to do what you like....
They say "you can't judge a book by its cover!" I say "YES you can, if the cover has a girl on it with a cock in her mouth, its PORN!" if she's 18 and the cock is black, its GREAT porn! |
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