Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's)

[+Lil Devil]

... I have offered to meet the reviewer at the site to verify, or change things as necessary.

Now *that* is the correct way to work with your reviewer when your cache is wrongly archived. Superfly should take lessons from you.

[Art Carnage]

Due to the fact that the my cache was archived today, I would like to issue an apology to this forum. I implied that I buried the cache at this location with a pointy object. That is in fact false. There was a depression here and I put the pole inside and kicked sand around the edges, stamping things down. No pointy objects were used and I'm sorry if I gave anyone the wrong idea or if anyone thought I was bending the rules. I have offered to meet the reviewer at the site to verify, or change things as necessary. Thank you.

Looks like a duck. Quacks like a duck. You said it's a duck.

 

Sorry, but it looks buried to me. Your use of the word "depression" for what is clearly a hole over 2 feet deep (by your own admission) says to me you're trying to spin things.

[Clan Riffster]

Can we keep this thread for cool cache containers, and save the bickering for another thread?

I'd hate to see the mods shut this one down for being off topic.

[aginsa]

Sorry, but it looks buried to me. Your use of the word "depression" for what is clearly a hole over 2 feet deep (by your own admission) says to me you're trying to spin things.

I verified the site with the reviewer prior to my hide (by several weeks - easily verfied by reviewer). So, yes I searched hard for the right placement.

 

My question now is how do I clear this mess up? I only want to see all the time and effort I put into this cache enjoyed by others. Hopefully I will hear something soon.

 

I dont want to hyjack this thread so please post to a new topic if you would like to discuss further. Ha ha posted right before me Riffster

Edited November 20, 2009 by aginsa

[+Prime Reviewer]

I verified the site with the reviewer prior to my hide (by several weeks - easily verfied by reviewer). So, yes I searched hard for the right placement.

Just to clarify. only the general location (based on the coordinates given) was given the OK, as far as proximity issues were concerned. You said nothing about how you intended to place the cache.

[+kraushad]

One in my area is a 35mm film canister under a lamp post skirting... very clever!

 

Just kidding - seriously, it is a 35mm film canister, but it is wedged in the bottom of a plastic bird feeder.... maybe not original, but hanging up, it certainly didnt look obvious, until I realized on my 3rd visit that the feeder never seemed to have food in it. The only thing visible was the lid (barely) underneath.

[+Knight2000]

We considered this but eventually scrapped the idea for multiple reasons. (Money and people wouldn't follow the instructions.)

 

Night cache.

 

A faux front of a playhouse. Imagine a little window with possible a window planter on the sill. A small kid bench under the window. Have a nicely decorated ammo can under the bench. The window would be a dark plexi glass. There would be a switch attached to the ammo can. A wire with magnet to attach it to the ammo can. When you would pull the ammo can out for your "easy" find it would trigger a light in the window that shines on a scary face/mask behind the window.

 

We figured at least $100 to build but we really felt that everyone would skip the rule to only find after dark so what would be the point?

 

hehe

[+natterjacktoad]

We figured at least $100 to build but we really felt that everyone would skip the rule to only find after dark so what would be the point?

 

You could have got round that by creating a puzzle night cache which consisted of following firetacks which could only be seen after dark....??

[+Knight2000]

We figured at least $100 to build but we really felt that everyone would skip the rule to only find after dark so what would be the point?

 

You could have got round that by creating a puzzle night cache which consisted of following firetacks which could only be seen after dark....??

I suppose but the only reasonable place that I could think to put it was on our property which I can't see how the firetacks would work unless I put them on utility poles.

[calgriz]

I have just found some many varied and useful sturdy GC containers at my local 99Cents store. I have found many tin boxes and plastic ones for very little cost. Also my local craft store, Micheal's and Jo-Ann's still had many possible GC containers and multi colored duct tape rolls on sale left over from Halloween.

[+buzzy_cacher]

We think our cache the AE2 is pretty cool as it is a remote control submarine. You first have to find the remote control, which operates the cache. The cache is hidden below the surface and the remote control allows the user to raise the sub to the surface. Once you have done with the swaps and stuff you then use the controller to submerge the sub back below the water.

 

This cache is so cool! AWESOME!!!! ONE OF BEST CACHES I'VE EVER SEEN (although I haven't seen that many... but still, it counts for something!)!

[knowschad]

This cache is so cool! AWESOME!!!! ONE OF BEST CACHES I'VE EVER SEEN (although I haven't seen that many... but still, it counts for something!)!

I have seen quite a few, yet I still have to agree with you (awesome from the finder's standpoint, that is. Very high maintenance for the hider though, I'm sure!!

[+buzzy_cacher]

Wow, I finally finished reading the whole thread and taking pics of my favs. Cool caches! More caches like these (but maybe a little bigger) are on different threads about the biggest caches, etc.

Edited December 4, 2009 by buzzy_cacher

[+buzzy_cacher]

test

[+cachensfun]

These pics are of a cache we own. It is placed on our property Therefor we could dig the hole needed to place the post. We are not sure how we thought of this but people seem to have fun hunting it.

well here are the pictures.

 

cachensfun

 

 

 

[+2FastLX]

Here's a couple more pics of some other containers I have made...

[GOF and Bacall]

There is a market for those if you can price 'em right.

[M.TEX]

wow ! I have seen lots of cool containers...but this one is VERY VERY COOL !

Congrats !

[knowschad]

Awesome containers! Not much as far as camouflage, of course, but they are beautiful in their own right! I take it you are a machinist?

[+Knight2000]

These pics are of a cache we own. It is placed on our property Therefor we could dig the hole needed to place the post. We are not sure how we thought of this but people seem to have fun hunting it.

well here are the pictures.

 

cachensfun

 

Is it the mailbox? I don't get it.

[GOF and Bacall]

Looks to me like the cache is wired to the wood. The cache goes in the pipe first followed by the wood and topped off by the mailbox that is attached to the wood.

[+cachensfun]

Looks to me like the cache is wired to the wood. The cache goes in the pipe first followed by the wood and topped off by the mailbox that is attached to the wood.

 

Correct

[GOF and Bacall]

Looks to me like the cache is wired to the wood. The cache goes in the pipe first followed by the wood and topped off by the mailbox that is attached to the wood.

 

Correct

 

YAY! I got it right. That's the second time today.

[+cachensfun]

Good job. I now allow you to pat yourself on the back.

 

P.S. Please post pictures of thet LOL

[GOF and Bacall]

Good job. I now allow you to pat yourself on the back.

 

P.S. Please post pictures of thet LOL

 

I sayd I us smarret not cordenayted.

[+mizdeeds]

These pics are of a cache we own. It is placed on our property Therefor we could dig the hole needed to place the post. We are not sure how we thought of this but people seem to have fun hunting it.

well here are the pictures.

 

cachensfun

 

Love this one! It is going on my must-do list. I feel a trip to SW Mich in my future.

[+Da Beast]

heres a couple that i have made up but not hidden yet

 

i still have to touch up were you can see the glue but you cant really see it (it just shows up more in the pic with the flash and all)

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 2009 by TheBeast420

[Clan Riffster]

Beast, it's a beautiful thing!

Similar to how I do my camo.

If you switch to an adhesive that blends better with the camo, you won't have to worry too much about bits falling off.

I've experimented with several various glues, and I'm stuck on Liquid Nails Roof Repair.

It goes on black, and stays that way.

When I used clear silicon, I found that exposure caused it to turn milky, which really stood out.

[+Da Beast]

Beast, it's a beautiful thing!

Similar to how I do my camo.

 

If you switch to an adhesive that blends better with the cao, yyouyu't have to worry too much about bits falling off.

I've experimented with several various glues, and I'm stuck on Liquid Nails Roof Repair.

It goes on black, and stays that way.

When I used clear silicon, I found that exposure caused it to turn milky, which really stood out.

 

Thanks Riffster i will try that try i still have four more ammo cans to do how hard does the liquid nails harden? or does it stay rubbery, i am going to cover a can with pine needels and cones with a little dirt, and i am thinking that it would be better hard so it would be less likely that the camo woud fall off due to being handeld

ya i tryed carprnters glue it got good and hard the camo stayed on real good i even put gloves on and rubbed it all over but when i put it out on my porch to see how well it would handel being wet it got all gooy

i should have known that was going to happen

[Clan Riffster]

Because the Roof Repair includes asphalt as an ingredient, it maintains a slight degree of flexability.

Just enough to keep from crackling when heat/cold change the size of the container.

Upon deployement, they look like this:

What happens over time, is the individual pieces of moss get brittle, breaking off near the surface of the adhesive.

If you use a dark adhesive, like the Roof Repair, you end up with a fairly dark, stubbly can, that still blends pretty well.

This can was pulled after a couple years in a wetland:

Repairs are simple, as you just add another layer of Roof Repair to the stubbly surface, then apply more camo.

 

Good luck!

 

Edit to add:

I do Lock & Locks using a similar method.

Roof Repair on the lid, and camo stencil on the sides.

Wiggle it down into leaf litter and it disappears.

Looks like this before it gets hidden:

[+Hockeyhick]

One stage of one of our multi has this waiting for you. It is fastened in place, and as secure as it is supposed to be!

 

About an hour with a few shop tools and a good plan...

 

 

 

 

[Clan Riffster]

Holy Crap! That is just too freekin' kewl!

Uh... How much bribery would it take to get those plans PMed to me?

[+mizdeeds]

Holy Crap! That is just too freekin' kewl!

Uh... How much bribery would it take to get those plans PMed to me?

 

There is one of those here in Michigan, but it's not a multi, just the cache itself. Took me 2 tries to find it too. VERY clever!!

[M.TEX]

Ohhh yeahhhh that's some cool looking container indeed !

 

I will also ask you to send me details about the way you did....I hope you can share the info.

[+SaltercreaseRangers]

Here's a couple more pics of some other containers I have made...

 

FANTASTIC shop skills !!

[+bittsen]

I don't know if this qualifies as a cool cache container or not but it should end up being cool camo by the time its placed

 

 

 

I might paint the bison tube to look like a piece of wood or I might just leave it as-is and push it into some moss or something.

 

I found the cockroach in a cache and traded out for it just because it looked pretty realistic and I wanted to turn it into a cache.

[+Dgwphotos]

I don't know if this qualifies as a cool cache container or not but it should end up being cool camo by the time its placed

 

 

 

I might paint the bison tube to look like a piece of wood or I might just leave it as-is and push it into some moss or something.

 

I found the cockroach in a cache and traded out for it just because it looked pretty realistic and I wanted to turn it into a cache.

 

If you're ever up in the Kent, WA, area, Prying Pandora has a few caches like this.

[M.TEX]

OK what if a bird, or cat find your cache ??? It will turn in a good plastic meal....

Edited December 7, 2009 by M.TEX

[+buzzy_cacher]

If you have painted ammo cans would you mind posting them in the ammo can art thread, as well as this one if you'd like. Ammo can art thread is specifically for ammo can art.

[knowschad]

'May 12 2004, 11:47 AM' post='906195'] Did this thread die?

Nope. Edited December 7, 2009 by knowschad

[+bittsen]

OK what if a bird, or cat find your cache ??? It will turn in a good plastic meal....

 

A bird or cat won't eat it. It tastes nothing like a real cockroach. I checked to be sure.

[Clan Riffster]

OK what if a bird, or cat find your cache ??? It will turn in a good plastic meal....

Worse case scenario, it becomes a mobil cache, and the difficulty goes up quite a bit.

[+mchaos]

This is my most recent hide. Seems to be popular so far and every one likes it. It is a micro, and the log is inside the remote. Worked out nice as the remote had its on water proof gasket.

 

 

I called the cache, "I think I lost my keys!!!"

 

Already mentioned but thanks for this cache idea! They do pop apart easily with something rigid. I use Tyvek for all my logs in caches like this. They can get soaked and it won't matter.

 

How do you find Tyvek to be used like this? I'd like to get some but only knew of it being used in products.

 

Glad that I could inspire others!!! I wonder If I am the first. I wouldn't be surprised if I was not, but I would stoked if I was. I thought it was a good Idea.

 

I actually found the keys I used while I was out caching. Thought I could use them. No worries, they look like they had been there for a long time so I doubt any one was looking for them any more.

[+popokiiti]

I was browsing through this thread this morning, hoping for some evil ideas! It was a good job I did - we decided to go and grab a few caches, and the first find was similar to a couple I saw here. I probably would have passed it by if not for you folks! It was hidden by 1dan and was a great CCCC.

Thanks for such a fun thread - we need an "evil" hide as a revenge to caching friends. All ideas welcome - please!!!

 

edit - attributed cache hide to wrong cacher

Edited December 20, 2009 by popokiiti

[+popokiiti]

heres a couple that i have made up but not hidden yet

 

i still have to touch up were you can see the glue but you cant really see it (it just shows up more in the pic with the flash and all)

 

 

 

Have to remember these pics when looking for your caches Beast! We are also from the Land of the NW and ND, and met you at the Cadboro Bay Event for Bleuet and Thinkerbell and family.

[+Evshro & son]

One stage of one of our multi has this waiting for you. It is fastened in place, and as secure as it is supposed to be!

 

About an hour with a few shop tools and a good plan...

 

 

 

 

 

WOW! I too would like to know exactly how this was done. Stellar job!

[+Scuba4jews]

Not very distinct, but very water and weathr proof.

[+GMPARTSPRO]

This is one I found today, we have a local cacher by the name of Drgoby who is ingeniuos when it comes to hiding places and containers.....this was one of my favorites, found at a lake.........

 

Thank's again Drgoby!

 

[+rudolphs]

We have a multicache with a few interesting containers...

1. A hole drilled in a tree, with the bark used to make a plug for the hole with cache inside. It is nearly invisible, even from 3 feet away, even when you know exactly what you are looking for.

2. A huge machine bolt (5" long, 1" thick) that was screwed all of the way into a tree, above head hight. You had to get the right sized wrench, unscrew it for about 20 minutes, retrieve the micro from inside the bolt, and then put it all back, including screwing it all of the way back in. The challenging part was that there were several of these bolts in the tree (each required a different wrench), and only one had the cache in it. Naturally, cachers started with the lowest bolt because it was easiest to reach, and it just so happened that the one with the cache in it was the highest.

The average completion time for this multi, including all 6 stages, was about 9 hours.

Edited December 29, 2009 by rudolphs

[+Team Noodles]

We have a multicache with a few interesting containers...

1. A hollowed out brick

2. A hole drilled in a tree, with the bark used to make a plug for the hole with cache inside. It is nearly invisible, even from 3 feet away, even when you know exactly what you are looking for.

3. A huge machine bolt (5" long, 1" thick) that was screwed all of the way into a tree, above head hight. You had to get the right sized wrench, unscrew it for about 20 minutes, retrieve the micro from inside the bolt, and then put it all back, including screwing it all of the way back in. The challenging part was that there were several of these bolts in the tree (each required a different wrench), and only one had the cache in it. Naturally, cachers started with the lowest bolt because it was easiest to reach, and it just so happened that the one with the cache in it was the highest.

The average completion time for this multi, including all 6 stages, was about 9 hours.