+HesDeadJim Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Is there anyplace to purchase (or ideas on how to make) microcontainers that are in different shapes to make them more fun to hide? I'm thinking that a microcontainer that is shaped like an apple or a pinecone would be a lot more fun to find than a metal cylinder or film cannister hanging from a treebranch. If anyone has any links or information, I'd love to hear from you. Also if anyone has any cool suggestions for micro container shapes or ideas for camouflaging them, please share. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Most geocachers make them. You can however find some on Ebay. Just do a search on geocache. Quote Link to comment
+Pork King Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 ...microcontainers that are in different shapes to make them more fun to hide? I'm thinking that a microcontainer that is shaped like an apple... would be a lot more fun... Also if anyone has any cool suggestions for micro container shapes or ideas for camouflaging them, please share... Fun?? FUN?!?! Apparently you, sir, haven't spent hours looking for a bison tube in the woods... Apparently you haven't had to pretend you were "just admiring the area" in front of 2 million+ muggles trying to eye a nanocache container. Here is a suggestion...Don't place a cache just because the cache container is "cool". Fer instance, if I was looking for a cache container that was/looked like a WWII era artillary shell (I'm a WWII buff...), the "coolness" factor would be negated by the fact that it was hid on the bank of a waste treatment runoff pond. Take into account the location. Just like real estate says..."Location, location, location"! And if you can at all help it, use a full sized container. Remember, GPSr's can only get down to a couple of yards (on a good day). Add to that any amount of error between two recievers, and an area that may have lots and lots of hidey places, and it could be like hunting for a needle in a stack of needles. I'm not 100% against micros, but think: Just because a cache container is tres cool, and just because a cache COULD go there, does it really need one? Quote Link to comment
+Jester2112 Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Great topic on cool containers. Enjoy...I know I have! Quote Link to comment
+HesDeadJim Posted September 29, 2005 Author Share Posted September 29, 2005 Thanks for the information and for the link to the thread! I can see that micros remain somewhat controversial in the GC world and I appreciate the thoughts and opinions expressed here. I'll make sure to take those considerations in mind when I do eventually make my first "hide". Thanks again!!! Quote Link to comment
+TeamAO Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 These ones are usually found at Army-Navy Surplus stores. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I have found micros hidden in apples, a pear, and a pinecone. They have all been fun finds, although the pinecone took a long time to find since the tree was loaded with pinecones at the time we were there. I think the apples and the pears might have come from a craft store like "Michaels." The pinecone was made by the very creative hider. Quote Link to comment
+TeamAO Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Fake things are nice and fun. But, when you get to the point where you come to the location and begin to destroy nature because it may be park of a cache hiding location, or this or that, it's not longer fun...it's disgraceful. What's the point in hiding a cache no one can find? Make them fun, but make them practical at the same time. Quote Link to comment
+Polar B's Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Fake things are nice and fun. But, when you get to the point where you come to the location and begin to destroy nature because it may be park of a cache hiding location, or this or that, it's not longer fun...it's disgraceful. What's the point in hiding a cache no one can find? Make them fun, but make them practical at the same time. Yeah like hiding a pine cone cache in an oak tree and seeing if someone notices Quote Link to comment
+Mudinyeri Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I think these would make FUN cache containers. Be sure to let cachers know that they have to pull the pin to find out what's inside! Quote Link to comment
+darus67 Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Yeah like hiding a pine cone cache in an oak tree and seeing if someone notices Now that idea I like! Quote Link to comment
+TeamAO Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I think these would make FUN cache containers. Be sure to let cachers know that they have to pull the pin to find out what's inside! You ain't gonna put real ones around the the fake one to make the cache harder to find are you? Quote Link to comment
+QDman Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I think these would make FUN cache containers. Be sure to let cachers know that they have to pull the pin to find out what's inside! Mmmmm...pineapple! Quote Link to comment
+treasure_hunter Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Fun?? FUN?!?! Apparently you, sir, haven't spent hours looking for a bison tube in the woods... Apparently you haven't had to pretend you were "just admiring the area" in front of 2 million+ muggles trying to eye a nanocache container. What you dont like a challenge, if you dont like it dont go searching for it. If you goto google and search for Micro Geocache containers you will find some. Quote Link to comment
+Pork King Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I think these would make FUN cache containers. Be sure to let cachers know that they have to pull the pin to find out what's inside! Mmmmm...pineapple! Actually, that is a baseball grenade... THIS is a pineapple grenade. Quote Link to comment
Team Firebird Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Is there anyplace to purchase (or ideas on how to make) microcontainers that are in different shapes to make them more fun to hide? I'm thinking that a microcontainer that is shaped like an apple or a pinecone would be a lot more fun to find than a metal cylinder or film cannister hanging from a treebranch. If anyone has any links or information, I'd love to hear from you. Also if anyone has any cool suggestions for micro container shapes or ideas for camouflaging them, please share. Thanks! Some candys come in fruit shaped containers. Just make sure that you wash them out first, or you will have a cache that becomes an anthill. Actually, a fake anthill would be a good micro. Ideas....Ideas... Quote Link to comment
+Mudinyeri Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I think these would make FUN cache containers. Be sure to let cachers know that they have to pull the pin to find out what's inside! You ain't gonna put real ones around the the fake one to make the cache harder to find are you? Nah, I was thinking more along these lines for a perimiter defense: I think that might bring the difficulty level up to a 4 or so. Quote Link to comment
+Wacka Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Team Alamo and bthomas and others were looking for a cache at night and found an old grenade! They called the cops and the bomb squad came out. Some of the volunterr firemen in the area were cachers, so they didn't have to explain why they were there. Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Yeah like hiding a pine cone cache in an oak tree and seeing if someone notices Now that idea I like! Heh.... I had a pine cone in a Magnolia tree once... Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 If you are good at finding hard caches, the occasional pear hanging from a Juniper tree, or apple hanging from a pine tree are a quite enjoyable change. I doubt the finder was referring to hiding a pet id tube in a fake almond, but rather something bigger like a fake pumpkin. Another fun item to hide caches in are garden critters. http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=prod...ogId=STATUARIES Quote Link to comment
+Lacrosse Fox Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 My house has a fake gator in the garden. its three peices. i thought itd be cool to hide it near a lake or pond or river. have some fun with that. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 This is one of my favorite finds: I did something similar with a plastic Blue Whale toy I found at a thrift store. The hide is on a hill with a view of the ocean . . . on a clear day. Quote Link to comment
+Team Perks Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 I've found a lot of creative containers in random places--eBay, crafts stores, home-building supply stores, toy stores, even the grocery store. Bear in mind that even "creative" containers can reach the mundane if there are too many of them. My old area suddenly exploded with fake critter caches for awhile. "Oh look, another fake hedgehog." I can't even begin to count how many fake apples I've found in pear trees, or fake oranges in pine treest, etc. On the other hand, I haven't seen a single "critter cache" for miles around my house, so that type of hide would be reasonably unique to my immediate area. Quote Link to comment
tossedsalad Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 I am puting a cache in a trout stream. It is a multi and all the waypoints before the final are micros. I use a 4 ml NUNC cryovial cast into a concrete fish. I bought the molds for about $10 apiece. Let's see, I think I have two fish, a starfish, a whale, a turtle and a small gator. I saw the molds for the three piece gator that looks like he swimming in your yard, but it was $60 or so for this one critter. The stream has a lot of crayfish, so I really wanted to make a small lobster, but the only ones I could find were much too big. If anyone wants any of these critters, I can make a couple for you. None are large enough to make into a larger size cache though. They are all micros, and not large ones at that. A 4 ml NUNC cryovial is not very large. I could use a fatter Bison tube I guess if you want room for a larger log sheet, but I would need you to buy the Bison tube. Concrete is pretty cheap and I am getting pretty good at making these. I have not been able to make a good rock though, so I bought a 1/2" masonry drill and used a real rock. Quote Link to comment
+GRANPA ALEX Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Found a fresh idea this weekend . . . someone had carved a hole in a golf ball and placed a small bison tube in it, placed it near a disk golf course. The best containers for hides are made from what is common in the area of the hide . . . carved out pine cones, sticks, rocks/stones - they can be placed in the open free of muggles but serve as great hides. Quote Link to comment
+ATMA Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Although this thread is funny, dont yall think that talking explosives is going to give geocaching a bad image? You know how it goes, as soon as something becomes fun, they outlaw it. Quote Link to comment
+darus67 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 I have not been able to make a good rock though, so I bought a 1/2" masonry drill and used a real rock. That should go into the "most spent to place a cache" thread! Quote Link to comment
tossedsalad Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 (edited) I have not been able to make a good rock though, so I bought a 1/2" masonry drill and used a real rock. That should go into the "most spent to place a cache" thread! The bit only cost $4. It was a bit frustrating to try to make a fake rock after reading about people doing that by making molds of real rocks and then pouring concrete. I bought latex rubber mold builder for $20 and found that it takes forever to get a good mold of even a small rock since you have to build it up in layers... many, many layers. Then I found that it is hard to cut the mold open so as to remove the rock and still be able to pour concrete into the mold without it running out. You also have to make a support for the mold since the rubber deforms under the weight of the concrete. Finally the fake rock will have lots of air bubbles on the surface unless you have some way to vibrate them out. In the end I have a small fake rock with a pock marked surface and no place to put a log. Trying to make one large enough to hide an ammo box would be a lifetime project. I think I will try paper mache. Edited October 7, 2005 by tossedsalad Quote Link to comment
tossedsalad Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Oh, I think I did describe the concrete fish cache in that thread. Quote Link to comment
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