When the byways were abundant with beer cans, we would crush them and put one or more to cover every hub and or rebar we set.
The dawn of aluminum beer cans made it all the easier because they last rather well underground and bottom up, especially a handful of them in rural dirt roads.
When we would return, it was much easier to poke around and find the buried can than a 60d nail with bottle cap in the days before metal detectors.
Bathey for me. I don't set a washer for our mag nail control points. I find them unsightly, perhaps confusing and unnecessary in most cases.?ÿ We enjoy noting the location and the subsequent hunt. Yesterday we recovered a PK nail we set in 1984. ????ÿ
Still find quite a few cheap beer cans like Keystone littering out here in Oregon, even with a $0.10 bounty, I guess when your are full of cheap beer that doesn't enter into the thought process.
SHG
Ditched beer cans are frequently full of dead slugs around here. Be careful which way the opening is pointed when you step on it.
That is by far one of the hokiest websites I have seen in a while.
An old party chief I worked with uses pennies.