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Found the TOTT I Needed (www.harborfreight.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/geocaching
 

Messaged some of the guys who did the cache, they pointed me towards something like this. Got it off of harbor freight, it's named "magnetic pickup tool."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

These are useful in general.

Dropped a sock behind the washer? Use the grabber.

Drop a bolt down in an engine bay? Use the grabber.

Wife too far away to physically annoy? Use the grabber.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My family called these the elephant nose pickers and now my brain refuses to commit any other name to memory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Which part of them resembles an elephant nose? Or is that it's so long it must be only used for picking the nose of an elephant?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They're long and flexible to get boogers from way up in the elephant's trunk. At least that's the juvenile humor logic.

Usually they're sold as a retrieval tool for dropped bolts in an engine bay. Nobody wants to have to pull a bunch of components to get something you dropped in an area where hands can't fit.