whats a 3 chain??? Norong Central, Victoria, Australia
By tattboy1 on 20-Jul-11. Waypoint GC30GPP

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This one has gone missing as I hate to say spent a good 45 digging around so will archive it

Looked around abit for this one not many spots so questioning if still here? Could owner check if still in play?

Long grass and recent floods made me very wary. Sadly no luck.

TFTC

Actually had time to stop and grab this one today. Cooler and no wriggling sticks.
Thanks for the cache and a chance to get out for the afternoon.

Travelling around Australia.

Another beautiful day. Mr Felix wrote a list for caches to tackle today, so after packing some lunch it was time to head out and explore our way around Rutherglen and surrounds.

Long day with us getting back just on dark.

TFTC tattboy1

TFTC

Took a detour while heading to drop off kids for the night. Gingerly made way through the long grass to make a quick find.
Thanks tattboy1 for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#3046

Drove by today rather than look, was on my list but time got away from me. The 3, 2 and 4 chain roads are all old stock routes. I reckon you could still find the old stock reserves if you looked hard enough. Small paddocks with trees close to water. The Long Paddock, the road up north, is the classic route. They are all over Australia. And when the Joe Blake season is over, I am going to snag this cache!

Easy little cache on a long road.

Picked a hot day to go caching, planned to do last weekend but had knee problems (again) but today it was a quick find, the grass was shoulder high here so made plenty of noise to scare any wriggles, the cache was found quickly and a quick retreat was had. TFTC

Found with one partner looking up and one looking down. You won't guess which one was right! The log was dry. TFTC, tattboy1.

Another cache for a smiley? Yep! A short drive off the main highway had us at GZ, and the cache located as per the hint. All good so far. However, there was water in the cache itself, and the log book was totally saturated - it was impossible to separate any paper to write a log. So we cleaned the cache up and put a new log book in. We then built up a little base with sticks for the cache to rest on so that it is up out of the "water table".

Found at 11.50am on 23rd September 2015. TFTC,

Let doc go looking for this one. Log was very damp but he eventually signed it. TFTC

Edited for date

This entry was edited by docNwitchjy on Saturday, 15 August 2015 at 10:24:12 UTC.

Catching up on logs, apologies for the tardiness TFTC

Visited

Tftc

It was in a smart spot

Long grass

#1523 Our 1st of 11 finds for the day. We had been past this cache last summer but wasn't keen to traverse the long grass, so we decided to drive on. Today we had far less concern so we stopped and found the cache quickly along this boring road. TFTC tattboy1.

Finally coordinates took us straight to it makes a difference with a new operator

TFTC - Nice easy one to start the day

I beg to differ - the Hume Highway is the most boring road to drive on. In fact it's sooo boring I actually choose to drive on any back road I can find, including this one, just to avoid the numbing drone of motoring along the Hume. Mind you though, at least the Hume contains most of the dipsticks to a stretch of black ribbon between Melbourne and Sydney!
TFTC

Last cache of the day as it's getting dark so will be heading home after a day visiting this lovely part of the country. Nice easy find.

TFTC TNLN

Continuing caching this am and we found this well hidden cache.
TFTC tattboy1

16:45. You are right, it is a rather boring road. And today a very soggy ditch after about 75 mm of rain yesterday and overnight. Only one wet shoe though. TFTC

Found with Indianagleeson while visiting the area for the weekend TFTC
Log is a little damp and was not a fan of cache guardians! But thankfully no snakes today!

TFTC!
Log was a little damp......loved the walk in, I wasn't even worried about snakes!
Found with Shellumbus.

A chain is a unit of length. It measures 66 feet, or 22 yards, or 100 links, or 4 rods (20.1168 m). There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. An acre is the area of 10 square chains (that is, an area of one chain by one furlong).

On the way back from Rocky with Taddy the Muggle.

He was kind enough to pull up and let me go and find this cache.

We had just been to Buller's to get some bulk Tawny Port and after three days on the road, we were finally heading for home. (mine)

It was a quick find after walking through the long grass. I signed the log and replaced the cache in its hide.

'Scrat' visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.

TFTC tattboy1

Make it phew - no snake today !!! Thanks Tattboy1

12:52
From our base in Mulwala, the plan was to cache our way in an anti-clockwise loop along the Victorian side of the Murray to Wahgunyah and back along the NSW bank. Three chains or maybe three cricket pitches!

Feed back to CO: These containers are not renowned for being waterproof, which is probably why your log book is damp.

Our thanks to tattboy1 for bringing us here.
10805

I had always wondered what the measuring chain looked like, so thanks for the picture on the caching logs. I was looking out for the 3 Chain Road sign but must have missed it. I seemed to be travelling on Federation Roads going east-west and north-south. Thanks very much for this cache, the log was slightly dampish. LNTN

I called past this avo with my mum as I was showing her a bit more about geocaching. I showed her this one as it was close and visited a TB. I was delighted that my App showed the name of the road as Three Chain Road - just a shame not too far down on the map it also said federation way thanks again Cheers TeamThommo

Day sixteen of my holidays, travelling from Hay to Bright, picking some caches along the way to break the journey. Found most, but missed a couple. I missed this one at first glance, then found it a few minutes later when I checked a bit harder.

My thanks to tattboy1 for the cache.

I can't tell you how much I am glad that this cache is called 3 chain and not federation something. This IS the 3 chain road and always will be to locals who grew up here before the 2000's. I agree it is a boring road and it is very easy to speed along, traffic cops love it along here! I'm home with my geo family for the weekend at my parents place in Wahgunyah so we stopped and grabbed this one on the way back to Gippsland today.
I can remember floods, fires, car accidents, flat tyres, yabbying trips, wheat and hay collection from various places along this road. I have friend who lives down nearby McPhersons Rd. Lots of memories. I listen to a wide variety of music (currently in the area this weekend to see the Hilltop hoods at the Kinross woolshed) and I'm not much of a country music fan but I do have a soft spot for Lee Kernaghan, I own most of his CD's. He grew up not far away in the Albury area and had family scattered across the district. He sings a beautiful song called "3 chain road" and I suspect it maybe about THIS 3 chain road as at one of his concerts he said it was written about a road near where he grew up. I have included a photo of a 'chain' that I found in a nearby abandoned house about 20 years ago. They were used to measure distance back in the day. TFTC tattboy1 SL TNLN TBV
~~~~~
Billy was a drover
He lived out on the three chain road
Fell in love with Mary and they married
She made his shack a home

He drove them off to Queensland
And it hurt to have to leave her on her own
But she promised she’d be waiting
When he brought the cattle home

There’s a lonesome wind blowing down
The three chain road tonight
It’s sending out a warning as she blows
Billy don’t go riding down
The three chain road tonight
The wind is crying Billy please don’t go

Billy came home early
He wasn’t due for many days
Walked into the cabin and found his Mary
In a strangers arms she lay

In the blindness of his anger
The fatal shots rang out from Billy’s gun
In that smoky silence he knew
And he wept for what he’d done

There’s a lonesome wind blowing down
The three chain road tonight
It’s sending out a warning as she blows
Billy don’t go riding down
The three chain road tonight
The wind is crying Billy please don’t go

Billy walked out slowly
He knew what must be done
Somewhere in the darkness a shot rang out
Billy’s time had come

They say his spirit’s out there
You can feel it every time the cold wind blows
It’s warding off the strangers
Who come by the three chain road

There’s a lonesome wind blowing down
The three chain road tonight
It’s sending out a warning as she blows
Billy don’t go riding down
The three chain road tonight
There’s a lonesome wind blowing down
The three chain road tonight
It’s sending out a warning as she blows
Billy don’t go riding down
The three chain road tonight
The wind is crying Billy please don’t go

This entry was edited by TeamThommo on Monday, 17 November 2014 at 09:08:37 UTC.

[:(!] Went for a drive with the geowife for a couple hours, picking up a few caches along the way and this was one of them, parked the geoKa as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was located and it was in hand in a matter of minutes.

I like it

Another one of the list

LNTNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Tattboy1 [^]

[Blue]# 11045 Found on the 2nd Vic leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure.[/Blue]
Another nice spring day for a drive around Rutherglen while on a stopover.
Hardly any muggles around and mostly good quick finds.
Thanks for the cache tattboy1,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Had to search a bit but a good find tftc

Not the most boring. TFTC

Found @11:24
Did this one after an overnight stop in Corowa on our way home from Canberra.
Took Squinky, left ninja
SL Thanks for the cache tattboy1.

First one for the day. Camping with hubbies fathers friends

Found # 9502

staying at Rutherglen, we hit the caches in surrounding areas, good hint

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache tattboy1

Tftc

1819. Nabbed it !!! signed log 11:30am
Easy !! 3 chains a cricket pitch.
tattboy1- TFTC -

Found at 4:02 PM GAFF3. 3 chains is 66 yards if you really want to know
This took us a while as we mis-understood the hint, which implies it is along the fence line.
Thanks tattboy1.

Great hint lead to a easy find. Cache was a bit water logged I dried it out and returned it to its hiding spot. SL TNLN TFTC

#30 today. Had to grad the torch out to go looking for this one. Easy even in the dark.

Quick find TFTC

easy find. tftc.

[586] 1.20pm

Nice easy find after lunch in Rutherglen. Mon liked ewe's with young lambs. Coordinates were good.

an easy find on yes, a pretty boring road but collecting caches in the country as the setting sun lights the last of the day always does it for me. tftc tattboy, cheers,splittie.

Find 18 for day

You're right....it is a rather boring road. We were surprised how nice the paddock looked near the cache as the sun was setting though. No problems finding this one, had a few cars pass as we were looking but did the standard stop and point.
TFTC.

Got it , second pass

Found with SpyGirl after having a BBQ lunch with a cousin who lives nearby.

What is a 3 Chain?

Well a chain is a unit of length, that originated in Britain once commonly used in surveying and measurement of land.

One Chain (100 links) is equivalent to roughly 20.1m which also the distance between wickets on a cricket pitch.

In Australia the standard road widths (the distance between properties on each side of the road), of all the different types of roads were set out using Chains as the preferred measurement of the time.

Half a Chain = standard width of a Laneway.
One Chain = standard width of roads in urban areas.
Two Chains = standard width used for local rural farming roads.
Three Chains = standard width of roads between smaller towns.
Five Chains = standard width for Major Roads & Highways.
Ten Chains = standard width for roads used as Stock Routes.

This road being the most direct road between Wangaratta and Corowa, it is likely that it would be 3 Chains wide.

If I had a 100 link chain on me today I would have measured to make sure, but just looking at it I reckon you could probably lay out 3 Chains between the fences on each side of this road.

Thanks for the cache tattboy1.

Nice one tattboy 1 Co-Ords spot on. TFTC

60.3504 metres of course
Which is a lot shorter than this road is long.
Maybe it is the width of the road alignment ?
Who knows !!
Consult the original survey plans for the district

I got the measure of the 3 chain cache out along 3 chain road today [^]

TFTC

tftc grabbed Geocoin

not sure where this might be.

Lovely straight road 3 chains wide, that's 3 cricket pitches, passing through rich cropping and grazing country. Took TB left geocoin TFTC

It was a quick find, we headed down from the North before heading back into Rutherglen so the drive wasn't that boring only 5km.... TFTC Left TB

20/09/12 9:22 Find #2233 . The only reason I found this cache on the Wahgunyah-Wangaratta Road a.k.a. Three Chain Road a.k.a. Federation Way was because it was there [B)]

Nice way find here! Yes this road is boring!! TFTC TNLN

ummm.... yeah, it's pretty average as roads go. Thanks for the cache to break up the journey.

3 chain is just a bit more than 2 chain, but not quite as much as 4 chain - any other questions?
We did wonder why this cache was in the middle of nowhere on this road.
A quick find that broke up the journey.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found with geodebnpaul

day out with koda67 ,quick find , mind the kiddies near the road on this one. TFTC

Nice quick find, for once! TFTC

Out and about for a quick caching run on the motorbike. TNLN TFTC

out on a family with taz-bud and nanna.c easy find tftc
left dragonfly and leaf

do they still teach kids today about chain ?, must be showing my age because i was taught that at school. tftc

easy find
left butterfly and motorbike
tftc

#1215 2nd of 13 for the day as we returned to Melbourne after a few days in Corowa. Thanks tattboy1.

A chain is a unit of length. It measures 66 feet, or 22 yards, or 100 links[1], or 4 rods (20.1168 m). There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. An acre is the area of 10 square chains (that is, an area of one chain by one furlong). The chain has been used for several centuries in Britain and in some other countries influenced by British practice.
TFTC !!!

1130 11/6 log to follow

Thanks Tattboy1. A quick find after a small detour heading home from Yarrawonga. Lots of grass. Glad it wasn't a hot summer day. TFTC.

# 380. Mmmm, thought this was going to be a DNF. The grass was still way too long for my liking on a warm day. Got to the fence and up and down I went. No obvious sheep trails to follow here although a few found it over Easter. Just as I was about to leave I had an aaah haa moment and there the little blighter was!! What a relief. Took: Nothing, Left: A pathtag keyring. Thanks tattboy1.

Found by The Empire + H with tackle_head
While everyone was packing up and leaving the Oz Mega, we were off caching as we had one more full day in Albury/Wondonga. Thanks for the cache tattboy1.
- M

Found by - H - with The Empire and tackle_head
Out for a day of caching with the boys. A bit cold today but always fun and games with these two.
TFTC tattboy1

A great day hangin with The Empire and H - tftc on a fun day

This cache needs some TLC. Log book is a little damp.

Have placed log in a bag so should fight off the damp!! Please hide as you found as it keeps ending up in the paddock!!

nef tftc

Found today whilst attending OZ MEGA. Did the tour of Ruthergen/Corowa an picked up 33 smilies for the day. Thanks for the cache in such a wonderful area.

9th for the day, not boring for me, thanks TFTC / TFTH / SL

Found on a cache raid of the area while heading to the MEGA. Sure is a long straight road TFTC.

An odd spot on the side of the road. No problems with the cache. Thanks.

6512.37 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2000 Finds Achievement A#125

Albida

What a lovely dry road, I can say this as just helped hubby get un-bogged. Be kind to the road, straight as it is! TFTC.

1977.Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1055.This was a little wet so drained the container and wrapped in plastic bag.We had a procession of vintage vehicles pass us as we waited to walk back.SL Tnx tattboy1

Found with DazRascal and Geoson Adam on a dash around the local area.
Found easy enough just before the storm hit.Although the log is a little damp.
Cheers TFTC.

8th of the Sundays arvo drive with Big and Little Ez.

Was in the are so stopped by and Big Ez jumped out to make the find.

TNLN, Cheers.

After a couple of dnf i had to have a look but rest assured it is still there

Finally having the opportunity to grab a long weekend away we decided to try and clean up a few caches in Albury and surrounding areas hoping to allow for more socializing at the upcoming mega event. Today we made sure we took the time to do the caches that we haven't had time to stop for or that have just been just a little too far off our beaten track. 3 chain road maybe a little boring to drive along but trying to find this cache certainly wasn't. We jumped out of the car and followed the needle to gz expecting a nice quick find but we came up empty handed. We expanded our search quite a few metres in each direction but with limited places to hide a cache we were starting to think that this maybe a DNF. One more look along the fence line before leaving then we spotted something in the farmer's paddock about three meters inside the fence line. Mark jumped the fence and sure enough a 400ml sistema complete with log book
We added our name to the log and re hid the cache in a more logical location, we're not sure how it got out there but at least it's on the right side of the fence now
Thanks tattboy1 for the cache

DNF Well I don't know cause I didn't find it. :- (