Cache container

[StonedCachers]

I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..

 

It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).

 

[+Airmapper]

[+CYBret]

See, now that's a geocaching topic.

 

And no...it would suck.....and people would tell you it sucked.

 

Bret

[+sbell111]

The problem with that container is three-fold. First, you will never be able to get the smell of food out of it. Most people remove food odors by running the items through the dishwasher a few times and soaking the containers in bleach (not necessarily in that order). Since the odor will remain, the container is likely to get chewed.

 

Second, as the container is subjected to moisture after it has been placed, the cardboard will pretty much fall apart.

 

Third, the lids on these containers do not seal very well.

[vagabond]

Been thinking of taking my boat out this weekend and doing some slow trolling,

never can tell what you might catch

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Been thinking of taking my boat out this weekend and doing some slow trolling,

never can tell what you might catch

 

[+StarBrand]

I am certain that any thoughtful cacher visiting such a cache would cheerfully point out in a friendly manner that the container could use a little more durability. Might even offer to suggest a lock-lock.

[+Kealia]

[+wiseye]

I would guess thats an example of the cache that you said was a piece of crap and you are right, just not very nice about it.

[+K9 GEEP]

I am certain that any thoughtful cacher visiting such a cache would cheerfully point out in a friendly manner that the container could use a little more durability. Might even offer to suggest a lock-lock.

My log would read this container sucks and then I would take the container and make the hider so mad that they quit altogether

 

want some kibble troll?

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..

 

It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).

 

Please alllow me to reply here as a research scientist and as a former electrical and materials engineer. Your choice of container is excellent, for the following reasons:

• they are food containers, and thus will retain some food smells even after you empty and clean the container. This yummy smell will invite procupines, raccoons, possums and bears who will be willing to act as full-time guardians of your cache to guard it from muggles, priates, thieves and marauding space aliens.
  
• using my super-powerful scientific vision, I am able to see that although the containers you have pictured are indeed made of rolled cardboard, the cardboard container has been rendered entirely waterproof and watertight and also entirely resistant to microbial decay for at least 50 years by the special advanced compounds to be found in the bright red, orange and brown label material. The same treatment gives the cylindrical walls and the ends of the container the strength of a four inch thickness of a specialized SAE grade titanium vanadium stainless steel, and renders the container entirely watertight and waterproof at submersion to depths of 4,000 feet for over 400 years. Thus this container will be more durable and hardy than an ammo box.
  
• Although there have indeed been reports in the past that the plastic lids on containers of this type often do not seal well nor remain in place securely, using my special scientific knowledge and my special mechanical engineering software to analyze the pictures you have provided of these containers, I am able to determine with over 99.999982% accuracy that the lids on these containers are made of tri-layer bonded teflon and Kevlar fabric, with an outer layer of Gore-tex impregnated with titanium iridium shielding, and thus the lids on these containers which you propose will provide perfect service and an entirely watertight and reliable and robust seal for over eighty years.
  

You have chosen your container type amazingly well for your environment, and you should be proud of yourself! I wish you the very best of caching experiences with your most excellent cache placements!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2007 by Vinny & Sue Team

[+Lovey Pigs]

I thinks it's a great Biodegradable geocache container! The challenge is to find the cache before it returns to the earth! I like it! maybe a have come up with a new Cache category?!

[StonedCachers]

Heh are you sure? you don't think the rolled cardboard tube would be a good Idea for a cache? Don't you think it could make it through nine months of rain out of a year?

[+Cpt.Blackbeard]

Heh are you sure? you don't think the rolled cardboard tube would be a good Idea for a cache? Don't you think it could make it through nine months of rain out of a year?

 

There is no problem that can't be fixed with a little duct tape and bailing wire, or chewing gum if your out of wire.

[+gof1]

Gonna use E-Z Wider log pages?

[+Team Dubbin]

looks like someone is just trying to start crap...

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=155775

[+K9 GEEP]

looks like someone is just trying to start crap...

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=155775

Give him a twinke and a bag of funions, turn on Ren and Stimpy and he will forget all about this

[+TMAACA]

You'd be surprised what you can do with thick paper (cardboard)

[+gof1]

looks like someone is just trying to start crap...

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=155775

 

Ya think? And here I thought he was just an upstanding citizen with a question.

[+LandRover]

I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..

 

It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).

 

Please alllow me to reply here as a research scientist and as a former electrical and materials engineer. Your choice of container is excellent, for the following reasons:

• they are food containers, and thus will retain some food smells even after you empty and clean the container. This yummy smell will invite procupines, raccoons, possums and bears who will be willing to act as full-time guardians of your cache to guard it from muggles, priates, thieves and marauding space aliens.
  
• using my super-powerful scientific vision, I am able to see that although the containers you have pictured are indeed made of rolled cardboard, the cardboard container has been rendered entirely waterproof and watertight and also entirely resistant to microbial decay for at least 50 years by the special advanced compounds to be found in the bright red, orange and brown label material. The same treatment gives the cylindrical walls and the ends of the container the strength of a four inch thickness of a specialized SAE grade titanium vanadium stainless steel, and renders the container entirely watertight and waterproof at submersion to depths of 4,000 feet for over 400 years. Thus this container will be more durable and hardy than an ammo box.
  
• Although there have indeed been reports in the past that the plastic lids on containers of this type often do not seal well nor remain in place securely, using my special scientific knowledge and my special mechanical engineering software to analyze the pictures you have provided of these containers, I am able to determine with over 99.999982% accuracy that the lids on these containers are made of tri-layer bonded teflon and Kevlar fabric, with an outer layer of Gore-tex impregnated with titanium iridium shielding, and thus the lids on these containers which you propose will provide perfect service and an entirely watertight and reliable and robust seal for over eighty years.
  

You have chosen your container type amazingly well for your environment, and you should be proud of yourself! I wish you the very best of caching experiences with your most excellent cache placements!

WooHoo--

I'm going straight out to get one of those containers to replace my tin foil hat. With that kind of shielding they will never be able to scan what little bit of grey matter I have left.

[+Moore9KSUcats]

Well, paper isn't always a problem... it depends on how it is treated! Hubby made a very creative cache container (around a 2 quart igloo container) using paper mache! Unlike typical paper mache, though, he used old latex paint as the "paste" to glue it all together. That "glue" waterproofed it nicely.

 

So far, it has held up quite well. We put it out in March, I think. Granted, Texas has been dry this year, but we have had some real gully-washers from time to time, along with several days of soaking rains recently.

[Mr.Yuck]

looks like someone is just trying to start crap...

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=155775

Give him a twinke and a bag of funions, turn on Ren and Stimpy and he will forget all about this

 

Don't forget the bottle of Yoo-hoo. He called a guy's cache "crap"? Don't most potheads swear by the "live and let live, man" credo?

[+bilbad]

I don't know.. I use those cardboard containers that ice cream comes in and I have to say it has been in adverse conditions of freezing in my fridge for over 2 years... still seems ok to me and water tight... Ice cream is a bit stale though

[+palser]

I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..

 

It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).

 

Please alllow me to reply here as a research scientist and as a former electrical and materials engineer. Your choice of container is excellent, for the following reasons:

• they are food containers, and thus will retain some food smells even after you empty and clean the container. This yummy smell will invite procupines, raccoons, possums and bears who will be willing to act as full-time guardians of your cache to guard it from muggles, priates, thieves and marauding space aliens.
  
• using my super-powerful scientific vision, I am able to see that although the containers you have pictured are indeed made of rolled cardboard, the cardboard container has been rendered entirely waterproof and watertight and also entirely resistant to microbial decay for at least 50 years by the special advanced compounds to be found in the bright red, orange and brown label material. The same treatment gives the cylindrical walls and the ends of the container the strength of a four inch thickness of a specialized SAE grade titanium vanadium stainless steel, and renders the container entirely watertight and waterproof at submersion to depths of 4,000 feet for over 400 years. Thus this container will be more durable and hardy than an ammo box.
  
• Although there have indeed been reports in the past that the plastic lids on containers of this type often do not seal well nor remain in place securely, using my special scientific knowledge and my special mechanical engineering software to analyze the pictures you have provided of these containers, I am able to determine with over 99.999982% accuracy that the lids on these containers are made of tri-layer bonded teflon and Kevlar fabric, with an outer layer of Gore-tex impregnated with titanium iridium shielding, and thus the lids on these containers which you propose will provide perfect service and an entirely watertight and reliable and robust seal for over eighty years.
  

You have chosen your container type amazingly well for your environment, and you should be proud of yourself! I wish you the very best of caching experiences with your most excellent cache placements!

 

 

Vinny & Sue,

 

As a fellow research specialist & lobotomy test subject (Dr. P), I see you failed to see the absence of kryptonite. This too would add to the attractiveness of this type of container by allowing our caching buddy Superman to participate in Stoned Cacher's hides.

 

I hope you are not offended by this additional observation and thanx for letting me jump in here.

 

Gotta Go,

 

Dr. P

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..

 

It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).

 

Please alllow me to reply here as a research scientist and as a former electrical and materials engineer. Your choice of container is excellent, for the following reasons:

• they are food containers, and thus will retain some food smells even after you empty and clean the container. This yummy smell will invite procupines, raccoons, possums and bears who will be willing to act as full-time guardians of your cache to guard it from muggles, priates, thieves and marauding space aliens.
  
• using my super-powerful scientific vision, I am able to see that although the containers you have pictured are indeed made of rolled cardboard, the cardboard container has been rendered entirely waterproof and watertight and also entirely resistant to microbial decay for at least 50 years by the special advanced compounds to be found in the bright red, orange and brown label material. The same treatment gives the cylindrical walls and the ends of the container the strength of a four inch thickness of a specialized SAE grade titanium vanadium stainless steel, and renders the container entirely watertight and waterproof at submersion to depths of 4,000 feet for over 400 years. Thus this container will be more durable and hardy than an ammo box.
  
• Although there have indeed been reports in the past that the plastic lids on containers of this type often do not seal well nor remain in place securely, using my special scientific knowledge and my special mechanical engineering software to analyze the pictures you have provided of these containers, I am able to determine with over 99.999982% accuracy that the lids on these containers are made of tri-layer bonded teflon and Kevlar fabric, with an outer layer of Gore-tex impregnated with titanium iridium shielding, and thus the lids on these containers which you propose will provide perfect service and an entirely watertight and reliable and robust seal for over eighty years.
  

You have chosen your container type amazingly well for your environment, and you should be proud of yourself! I wish you the very best of caching experiences with your most excellent cache placements!

Vinny & Sue,

 

As a fellow research specialist & lobotomy test subject (Dr. P), I see you failed to see the absence of kryptonite. This too would add to the attractiveness of this type of container by allowing our caching buddy Superman to participate in Stoned Cacher's hides.

 

I hope you are not offended by this additional observation and thanx for letting me jump in here.

 

Gotta Go,

 

Dr. P

Dear Dr. P.:

 

You have made some salient -- and in fact, quite excellent -- points, and I am rather ashamed that I missed the no-Kryptonite feature. You are right, this adds yet one dimension of excellence to this very wise cache placement. In fact, my colleagues and I shall shortly be authoring an invited article for the esteemed Physics Review Letters B journal wherein we shall explore the subtle ramifications of zero or near-zero quantum emissions from stabilized coherent solid state cardboard which has been exposed to intrinsic stochastic modifications for improved tensile strength and material properties as discussed in my earlier letter above and now we shall be sure to add a paragraph or two about the fact that there are no detectable levels of Kryptonite in the material nor in the subquantum subspace occupied by the physical instantantiation in the non-Reimannian 4-D world intersect of the proposed cache container.

 

Thank you. I am humbled and honored at your esteemed response.

[+mudsneaker]

 

sweeet, now Ive got my troll thread to laugh at for the evening!

 

oh oh, gotta be on topic so uhh, ya , bad container choice n stuff.

[+Bill & Tammy]

I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..

 

It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).

 

 

Why stop at the container? The cappuccino or chocolate left inside would make a tasty treat for a wearied cacher. Might also want to add a package of marshmallows though.

 

hey, I heard sbell111 was eaten by a troll earlier?

[+sbell111]

Why stop at the container? The cappuccino or chocolate left inside would make a tasty treat for a wearied cacher. Might also want to add a package of marshmallows though.

 

hey, I heard sbell111 was eaten by a troll earlier?

It was just a flesh wound.

[vagabond]

I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..

 

It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).

 

 

Why stop at the container? The cappuccino or chocolate left inside would make a tasty treat for a wearied cacher. Might also want to add a package of marshmallows though.

 

hey, I heard sbell111 was eaten by a troll earlier?

 

Don't forget the dehydrated water

[+tollerdudes]

[+CM-14]

looks like someone is just trying to start crap...

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=155775

 

What's "prolly" mean anyway?

[+The Blind Acorn]

 

"prolly" the best forum threads i've seen in a while.

 

Edited February 12, 2007 by The Blind Acorn

[+Arndtwe]

Been thinking of taking my boat out this weekend and doing some slow trolling,

never can tell what you might catch

 

[+Glenn]

<snip>

 

Give it a good think coat of wax inside and out and you should be good to go.

 

BTW: What the heck is a tim hortons?

[+gof1]

BTW: What the heck is a tim hortons?

 

Didn't he hear a who?

[Clan Riffster]

BTW: What the heck is a tim hortons?

http://www.timhortons.com/en/menu/menu_merchandise.html

[+briansnat]

Edited February 12, 2007 by briansnat

[+stormcloud]

Tim Hortons in like a Starbucks only better coffee. Once owned by Wendys but spun back off as an independate coffee company. Oh yeah they sell donuts too.

[general_tupperware]

**MODS**

This thread was meant to make fun of the cacher cookiedoe, who placed such a cache when he started caching. StonedCachers called the cache crap, and various people were upset. StonedCachers is rtying to prove their point.

This thread is meant to damage--please close it.

Edit: Spelling

Edited April 3, 2007 by general_tupperware

[+briansnat]

**MODS**

This thread was meant to make fun of the cacher cookiedoe, who placed such a cache when he started caching. StonedCachers called the cache crap, and various people were upset. StonedCachers is rtying to prove their point.

This thread is meant to damage--please close it.

Edit: Spelling

 

And what was your point in bumping a thread that was buried 4 pages back had sunk into forum oblivion?

Edited April 3, 2007 by briansnat