+team lagonda Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 (edited) Would be a great way to hide/save stuff..go to the middle of the woods somwhere where everything looks the same ''no landmarks'' and bury what you got to hide and only you have the coords....probly better than mellon bank.... Edited December 25, 2007 by team lagonda Quote Link to comment
+x_Marks_the_spot Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Would be a great way to hide/save stuff..go to the middle of the woods somwhere where everything looks the same ''no landmarks'' and bury what you got to hide and only you have the coords....probly better than mellon bank.... It rather depends on what you're hiding. In any case, I don't think it would be a great idea to go into the middle of someone else's woods or in the middle of U.S. Government woods and start digging to bury things. That sounds like a good way to get arrested for trespassing or vandalism, get shot, have your stuff get lost, or some combination of the above. If you own some wooded land and you think your stuff would be safer under ground subjected to rain, heat, freezing, critters, dry rot, etc. than if would he in a nice, clean, secure safe deposit box or storage locker, then go crazy-go-nuts. Be honest, though: who did you kill? And what's a "mellon bank"? Quote Link to comment
+TexasGringo Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Be my luck that the next day a Bull-Dozer crew moves in to build a new sub-division. Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 x marks the spot..thats exactly my point ''whats a mellon bank?''..here today,gone tomorrow..best hide some stuff on your own.... Quote Link to comment
+vw_k Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 I find that melons are best kept slightly refrigerated, when buried underground they decompose too quickly! Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Didn't you just post to a thread agreeing with how caches get muggled all the time? Do you REALLY think this is a great way to hide valuables?! Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted December 26, 2007 Author Share Posted December 26, 2007 (edited) 32,,dont recall that thread..a well hide cache with no landmarks shouldnt be muggled..and with you the only one having the coords.... Edited December 26, 2007 by team lagonda Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 32,,dont recall that thread..a well hide cache with no landmarks shouldnt be muggled..and with you the only one having the coords.... post #14 We often hear of desperate cases like this..one must learn to put up with the misfortunes of this world and endevor to carry on,even if the said cache is never found..most people learn to manage and after a while even place a new cache .. so be brave and open your eyes to the new scene thats opening up befor us.... Kind of tongue in cheek, but, still... Quote Link to comment
+Lacomo Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 If I were you I would put the valuables in a lock box at a bank. Then "go to the middle of the woods somwhere where everything looks the same ''no landmarks''" and hide a cache. Don't bury it though. Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted December 26, 2007 Author Share Posted December 26, 2007 32....LOL.... Quote Link to comment
+Elminster7781 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 (edited) I live in Ligonier, don't remind me of the Mellon's They literately own most of this little town. Edited December 26, 2007 by Elminster7781 Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted December 26, 2007 Author Share Posted December 26, 2007 yet another reason not to put nothin in a bank er stocks.... Quote Link to comment
TinyMoon & The Pumpkin King Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 You're hoping that HUMANS don't find your cache. What's to stop an errant woodchuck, skunk, coyote, porcupine etc. from coming along and finding it? And don't forget Mother Nature and the occasional flood, forest fire, earthquake...okay 'nuff said. Things can happen to your stuff even if no one else knows it's there. Quote Link to comment
TinyMoon & The Pumpkin King Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 You're hoping that HUMANS don't find your cache. What's to stop an errant woodchuck, skunk, coyote, porcupine etc. from coming along and finding it? And don't forget Mother Nature and the occasional flood, forest fire, earthquake...okay 'nuff said. Things can happen to your stuff even if no one else knows it's there. Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted December 26, 2007 Author Share Posted December 26, 2007 (edited) i,ll take my chances from and odd erant woodchuck over a corperation owned greedy bank president any day....enron/haliburton comes to mind Edited December 26, 2007 by team lagonda Quote Link to comment
+x_Marks_the_spot Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 x marks the spot..thats exactly my point ''whats a mellon bank?''..here today,gone tomorrow..best hide some stuff on your own.... "Here today, gone tomorrow" sounds more like what will happen to your stuff if you go bury it in the woods. Making things "secure" by burying them in the woods only really works if you're in a movie. But the next time a rogue CIA agent is chasing you trying to recover some important documents while your love interest is being held hostage by the KGB, go ahead and give the bury-stuff-in-the-woods thing a try. While you're entertaining this delusion that your safe deposit box will disappear into thin air if the bank collapses, you may also want to look into who the third shooter on the grassy knoll was, where Hitter's brain is being stored, and why the alien bodies the government has recovered are being kept secret. And I wouldn't try to hide valuables with Haliburton either, since it isn't a bank. Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 i,ll take my chances from and odd erant woodchuck over a corperation owned greedy bank president any day....enron/haliburton comes to mind They actually CAUGHT the perpetrators at Enron and Haliburton. There could be some forest badger wearing your gold Rolex and you would NEVER find him! Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 i,ll take my chances from and odd erant woodchuck over a corperation owned greedy bank president any day....enron/haliburton comes to mind They actually CAUGHT the perpetrators at Enron and Haliburton. There could be some forest badger wearing your gold Rolex and you would NEVER find him! He said Badger! Quote Link to comment
me_chris Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 The FDIC doesn't insure stuff buried in the woods... it does, however, insure any melons I put in the bank Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Well, to get back on topic, and to try to address the OP's original question seriously, here goes with my effort: We all know, if only from reading history books and tales of buried and since-recovered treasures (large and small) that people have been hiding/burying valuables in wilderness and near-wilderness areas for a very long time, and, in the better thought-out efforts, with reasonable success. In fact, we know from the public record (including tales from treasure-hunting books and websites) that a good number of these older buried treasures have survived, reasonably intact, for hundreds of years at times. We also know that a good number of folks even nowadays continue to hide valuables in remote areas, given the relatively constant but rather low rate of tales which appear in the popular media about such things. Of course, as some of the other posters have pointed out, if you were to want to hide valuables in the wilderness nowadays, given the furious rate of land development in many of the Westernized countries, you will need to pick your spots somewhat more carefully than in the past, choosing only spots which are likely to remain immune for some time to muggle activity and immune to development efforts involving earth-moving equipment (bulldozers, etc.) And, you will want to be VERY wary of using any kind of metal boxes or components, as it is a fact of life that amateur treasure-hunters and artifact-hunters regularly sweep many county, state and federal parks and wilderness areas with metal detectors, looking for any hidden metal objects. Quote Link to comment
gallet Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 If wasn't until after I got my first gps that I realised one of the most frustrating conundrums regarding motorbiking was solved. Now when we ride to a bushwalking spot we can put our helmets and jackets inside a big black garbage bag and hide it somewhere nearby, yet difficult to stumble upon. Quote Link to comment
montyxc Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 It would probably work for a while. Unless you reset your GPS, like I did, without backing it up and lose all the user data. But don't fear, if you post the coordinates in this forum you will never lose them. Just maybe the said valuables. Quote Link to comment
+Hoosier Ranger Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Pirates buried treasure in the woods, and even after hundreds of years much of it still hasn't been found, even after providing all those maps, ciphers, and secret codes so popular in puzzle caches by geocachers. Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Pirates buried treasure in the woods, and even after hundreds of years much of it still hasn't been found, even after providing all those maps, ciphers, and secret codes so popular in puzzle caches by geocachers. Those were different times...and the pirates didn't have much of a choice. Quote Link to comment
+fairyhoney Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I used to bury things when I was a young child. Never could refind what I buried, though. Quote Link to comment
+geowizerd Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 A friend of mine who runs a fence company in WV has buried tens of thousnads of dollars under some of the fenceposts on his land (about 20 acres). Some have thousands in them, some just chump change. If he ever needs it, he knows where the good ones are. But his plan is to watch the melee and madness from heaven as his kids tear up his property the day after he dies.... Quote Link to comment
WashoeZephyr Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 A friend of mine who runs a fence company in WV has buried tens of thousnads of dollars under some of the fenceposts on his land (about 20 acres). Some have thousands in them, some just chump change. If he ever needs it, he knows where the good ones are. But his plan is to watch the melee and madness from heaven as his kids tear up his property the day after he dies.... That's Brilliant!!!! We buried a time capsule in high school in the early 80's, wonder what ever became of it. Hmmmm. Quote Link to comment
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