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You must be an Uber-Cacher yourself! Every attempt I made at drilling out pinecones resulted in disaster! Not an easy task...

Yep. I emailed her. She did that on a shrinkydink. She said it took a few tries to get it right. Sure are some good ideas here. But just what is a shrinkydink? Another great toy from the 70's. Shrinky dinks were sheets of paper thin, clear lexan plastic that you could draw on with magic markers. (Or you could sand it and use colored pencils) You would do your design and cut it out. You put it on a baking sheet and stuck it in the oven.The plastic would shrink and you would have a small thick pendant.

I made this one up to irritate the missus. The etched metal pendant measures about 3/4". It was made in one of those photo style machines you find on the boardwalk. The TB tag was rolled around a socket so the bug will drop right into a film can or M&Ms tube. My wife doesn't like micro caches.

Watch eBay for ammo cans if you don't have a source that's local. There are a few sellers that have these for sale in lots. I bought them in a lot of 6 and even with shipping they came out to about $6.00/can. I just picked up some cylinder-shaped imitation lock & locks at Wal-Mart. 4 sizes for $2.00. I'll place a few and see how they hold up. As for micros, I've found several M&M's tubes that have been out for a while and were still dry inside.

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Sounds like those "safes" they sell in some of those oddball household goods catalogs. I have an Old Milwaukee beer can here like that. The top of the can screws off to reveal a storage space. I'd like to use it as a cache but I be afraid someone would CITO it...

I have to agree that East Coast Choppers is one of the funniest bugs out there. I didn't see the humor with Chain Chomp until I clicked on the picture of the guy carrying this thing out of a park. I loved it. I know the screwy guy who owns Mary Proppins. That one was inspired by Chain Chomp and Cindy the Cinderblock...

How about this one? It's an antenna topper wih a bison tube stuck inside. It was ziptied to some thick shrubbery at a mall where a new Bass Pro Shops recently opened. The coloring of this thing made it disappear in the bushes. I ended up archiving the cache since it was pretty high maintenance and the mall had security patrolling the area. Some cachers had trouble with the mall cops. This is the cache page.

Congrats Lynn!!! I'll see you out on the trails but don't expect me to keep up!!!

Mary Proppins This one is a little bigger but probably weighs about the same... It's been touring event caches in the area but I wouldn't be surprised to see it turn up in the woods at some time.

This heavy little bugger was at a weekend event. The Third Rail of Geocaching

KA, I've contacted my friend MissPlaced about one of the turnpike caches. When I hear back from her, I'll mention some others I could tend to. As far as my poor lost little ammo can, I think it's long gone or under a debris pile someplace...

I'd like to adopt some of the SBUX caches in Middletown, PA. I'll post some notes on the ones that I want. Sticking with the geolitter theme.... I lost a big fat ammo can when a creek flooded during Hurricane Ivan. Would this be considered geolitter? Is there anybody in Deleware or Maryland that has seen a lost ammo can?

I thought about doing a multi or puzzle cache where the first stage would be in the front yard. The stage would just be numbers or a set of coordinates written on a lawn ornament or tacked to a telephone pole. These could even be visible from the street so cachers wouldn't have to get out of the car. I live on a dead end road so cars turning around at the end wouldn't look very suspicious either.

I found two real good places to get Sac dollars. My bank hates these things and will gladly exchange them for paper money. I'm sure other banks feel the same way. Also if your local post office has a stamp machine in the lobby that takes bills, it probably gives out dollar coins (Sac and SBA dollars) as change.

East Coast Choppers TB

Send it out and somebody will want to try and move it. We have a propeller blade out there that's over 5 feet tall and weighs in around 40 lbs. The cacher that currently has it isn't too active in the winter but as soon as the weather gets a little nicer I expect it to be on the move again. Big travel bug

Actually, I thought about that. It looks like you can set the number of pictures these things take. (something like 1 to 6) It takes the set number of pictures and goes into "hibernation" for 120 minutes. If a cacher is STILL there after 120 minutes when the cam wakes up then I would get some more pictures. (probably real funny ones after a 2 hour search.) Now, keeping this topic on track... Most of my urban caches are close to my home or work coordinates. When I'm out, I'll usually go a little out of my way to see if anybody is looking for them. I've never "caught" anybody but a co-worker saw someone near one with a hand-held device of some type...

I've been thinking about buying one of those camouflaged motion sensing cameras that hunters use to photograph game. I've seen these in sporting goods stores. Strap it to a tree near your cache and point it in the direction of ground zero. You may get some entertaining pictures, maybe some shots of some neat animals, and it would also be a way to see who visits the spot and doesn't log it. (I have one nasty hide out there that I know is getting DNFs but they're not being logged.) Like this: Stealth camera These go on sale from time to time...I may have to buy one.

My wife finally got around to taking the Christmas tree down yesterday afternoon. When I got home she asked me why there was a geocache hanging in the tree. She finally found the camouflaged bison tube I hid in there last month. Although there was a logsheet inside, she didn't sign it.

I'm close by. Let me know if I can help out...

My bug

How could he not? I think I saw something about this one someplace....hmmm... My bug is bigger... The payphone is a cool idea though. I was going to buy one at a flea market this fall, make a cache container out of it, and put it out in the middle of the woods. Oh yeah, the picture of the fellow carrying "Chain Chomp" out of the woods is hilarious!

We work for an airline and we managed to get our hands on this item. It was no longer economical to repair and it was going to be scrapped. This thing was a big hit at our event cache today and another cacher has already picked it up. Maybe it will actually get released out into the wild.

Here's a brand new one I just finished. She may not be the biggest, heaviest, or the coolest but I bet she's the most expensive. These things run just a tick under $50,000.00 new! I'm releasing her at an event cache tomorrow. We'll see how she "flies" Mary Proppins