The Mother Of All Caches

[+rusty_tlc]

I work in an industrial section of town. Across the alley, actually pretty big since every building has loading docks, is a juice dispenser company. The sell dispensers but the real money in in selling the concentrate. Walking through the place is like reading a soda can. Potassium benzoate and erythorbic acid by the pallet. What catches my eye is the gigantic stack of food grade 55 gal drums beside the last loading dock. These are the kind with the cam lock ring on top that can be opened and re-sealed.

 

Lets make the following suspensions of belief for a moment;

- All odor could be removed from the drum.

- Somewhere somebody would grant permission to hide a 55 gallon drum on their property.

 

Would this be the mother of all caches or what? Completely water tight, and for all practical purposes unlimited capacity.

 

Has it been done? What would out do this?

 

Edit: Wow I should have spell checked that long ago.

Edited November 2, 2004 by rusty_tlc

[+Stunod]

I have some 30 gal "short" drums with the same type of lid here at work. I've though about using one, but never figured out where I could hide it (or how to get it there).

Edited November 2, 2004 by Stunod

[+amytincan]

and I thought a 5 gallon bucket was a fantasy. man you're thinking BIG.

[+Renegade Knight]

I can hide it, but don't have access to a drum.

 

It would make for one heck of a day though trying to get it to the spot once it's been scouted without being observed. 300' of rope might be needed...

[+rusty_tlc]

and I thought a 5 gallon bucket was a fantasy.  man you're thinking BIG.

Thats nothing, I spotted an abandoned railroad siding near THE MISFITS last weekend. Now if I could find a condemned railroad car cheap.

Edited November 2, 2004 by rusty_tlc

[+rusty_tlc]

I can hide it, but don't have access to a drum.

 

It would make for one heck of a day though trying to get it to the spot once it's been scouted without being observed. 300' of rope might be needed...

I already have permission to take as many as I want. They only have 200 - 300 out there. Mango concentrate anyone?

[+Renegade Knight]

If you ever want to make a weekend of it, we can find a spot. There are plenty of rock piles in cool places that could swallow a 55 gallon drum whole. At least people would have a shot at finding it...

[+CurlyKrakow]

Logs of a no longer active local Biggie.

 

No pictures, but you get the idea.

[+rusty_tlc]

NASCAR Racing cache was pretty big, foot locker sized. We laughed our butts off when we found it.

[+rusty_tlc]

If you ever want to make a weekend of it, we can find a spot. There are plenty of rock piles in cool places that could swallow a 55 gallon drum whole. At least people would have a shot at finding it...

It's good to know there are still place left in the west with rocks. We're getting pretty low on them around here.

How far are you from Reno again?

[kayaker22589]

I can think of plenty of places to hide one, I just don't have the money to fill it.

[+Stunod]

I can think of plenty of places to hide one, I just don't have the money to fill it.

I think it would be pretty funny to find a 55 gal drum with only a small log book in it

[+rusty_tlc]

I can think of plenty of places to hide one, I just don't have the money to fill it.

I think it would be pretty funny to find a 55 gal drum with only a small log book in it

Inside an Altoid tin.

[+twqb]

i think it would be funny if someone waited out in it and jump out as a ftf scare of course i wouldnt expect someone to wait out there for days but if it was released for an event someone would only have to hide out there for a little while they even could have someone be a spotter and let them know when someone is coming then they could just get in then

[+wimseyguy]

i think it would be funny if someone waited out in it and jump out as a ftf scare.

You don't need someone to wait inside it. Just get one of those spring loaded can snakes custom made for the 55 gan can.

As far as the mother of all caches-um I think Monkeybrad already has one that could hold several container this size.

It would still be pretty cool to find one that big. Maybe you could get a hollywood propmaster to make an oversize guradrail and then hide it to the back with a magnet?

[+rusty_tlc]

.... Just get one of those spring loaded can snakes custom made for the 55 gan can. .....

I can see the headline now "Geocacher decapitated in bizarre joke can of nuts accident!", .

[AZcachemeister]

Mine's Bigger Than Most!

An 18"x 33" water softener brine tank. Big, but not really hidden.

[+wimseyguy]

.... Just get one of those spring loaded can snakes custom made for the 55 gan can. .....

I can see the headline now "Geocacher decapitated in bizarre joke can of nuts accident!", .

Rusty, you just made me snort my apple juice out of my nose.

The kitchen staff turned to see why I was laughing at my computer.

[+Monkeybrad]

As far as the mother of all caches-um I think Monkeybrad already has one that could hold several container this size.

Back in the day I have had four 55 gallons drums in that cache and two on top.

[+wimseyguy]

One can only imagine what they were filled with.

[+Monkeybrad]

Medicine, of course.

[+Renegade Knight]

If you ever want to make a weekend of it, we can find a spot.  There are plenty of rock piles in cool places that could swallow a 55 gallon drum whole.  At least people would have a shot at finding it...

It's good to know there are still place left in the west with rocks. We're getting pretty low on them around here.

How far are you from Reno again?

It's not so much the rocks as where they are at.

[+AtoZ]

There are a couple of caches out there that are actual HOUSE, so this is just another container. I have a cache that is a 5 gallon bucket that is full of stuffed animals called Teddy Bear Picnic for kids.

cheers

[+rusty_tlc]

There are a couple of caches out there that are actual HOUSE, ...

Got any links? Or way points?

[+Monkeybrad]

I keep hearing about them, but it is always just a house with a cache in it or a logbook on the front porch. To me for the house to be a cache, it would have items to trade and a logbook inside. If you cannot trade for the table in the house, then I do not view it as a cache.

[+Team Perks]

I keep hearing about them, but it is always just a house with a cache in it or a logbook on the front porch. To me for the house to be a cache, it would have items to trade and a logbook inside. If you cannot trade for the table in the house, then I do not view it as a cache.

All you need to do is think of someone you hate, post the coordinates to their house, and invite others to trade for their furniture. It's brilliant!

[LEAD DOG]

Except your supposed to trade UP...

[+greende]

Except your supposed to trade UP...

Can you imagine a house filled with geolitter!

[kayaker22589]

Here's an idea. I know its kind of against the rules but oh well. Take the drum and stick an altoids tin to the top magnetically and put the log bookin it. Then dig a hole and stick an ammo can full of swag in the hole and place the drum on top. That way noone can complain about a micro in the woods.

[+rusty_tlc]

Ever since I made the, joking, post about the railroad car it's been on my mind.

 

This would be the ideal camouflage.

1) Obtain permission to use an out of the way siding. Like the one I saw 50 miles from anything on the end of a dis-used spur.

2) Buy a condemned freight car, park it on the siding.

3) Log book and trade stuff inside, get the cache approved. Do not specify a container size.

 

I can see people hunting all over the freight car for a cache.

[+Fergus]

I like the freight car idea. I think you should ask people to leave items as large or larger than they placed. I can just see the log now. Took happy meal toy, left a sofa.

[UndercoverNinja]

Let me know if that railroad car cache comes to life...I got a sofa I'd trade for...

[+BigWhiteTruck]

This brings up a question I have been thinking about for quite a while.

For such an oversized cache, seems to me that the best way to hide it would be to partially bury it.

If you left the top x inches sticking out of the ground, covered with rocks/sticks/the usual, then no digging is required, so it's okay, right?

[+Cleenjeep & Danger Girl]

Ah yes... macro caches.

[+Today's Cacher]

There are a couple of caches out there that are actual HOUSE, ...

Got any links? Or way points?

Here ya go; a story about an entire house that is a cache.

[+greende]

I like the freight car idea. I think you should ask people to leave items as large or larger than they placed. I can just see the log now. Took happy meal toy, left a sofa.

....took sofa, left tractor.

[+Awsome Ev]

I like the freight car idea.  I think you should ask people to leave items as large or larger than they placed.  I can just see the log now.  Took happy meal toy, left a sofa.

....took sofa, left tractor.

Took Tractor. Left Semi and lost Gps. Could you bring it back? LOL

[+Camo-crazed]

I like the freight car idea.  I think you should ask people to leave items as large or larger than they placed.  I can just see the log now.  Took happy meal toy, left a sofa.

....took sofa, left tractor.

Took Tractor. Left Semi and lost Gps. Could you bring it back? LOL

now where did I leave that space shuttle? Oh yea in the cache that I got the semi from. No sign of the missing gps Was there a porta jhon there

[+Mr Lost]

I like the freight car idea.  I think you should ask people to leave items as large or larger than they placed.  I can just see the log now.  Took happy meal toy, left a sofa.

....took sofa, left tractor.

Took Tractor. Left Semi and lost Gps. Could you bring it back? LOL

now where did I leave that space shuttle? Oh yea in the cache that I got the semi from. No sign of the missing gps Was there a porta jhon there

Took Space Shuttle, left two rabbits (m/f).

[+Camo-crazed]

3 days later the railroad car explodes...

 

Cache needs some maintenance

took rubble & 3938409136913476 baby rabbits (ooooh the trade items are spawning!)

Left ammo box and new logbook (rabbits ate old one)

Edited December 3, 2004 by camo-crazed

[rescue557]

There are a couple of caches out there that are actual HOUSE, so this is just another container. I have a cache that is a 5 gallon bucket that is full of stuffed animals called Teddy Bear Picnic for kids.

cheers

Is there any way of linking to a few of the house container types for an example? I'd really like to see one of these (that's nifty)!

[+Camo-crazed]

I wonder if they will let me buy that factory down the street? Some people think finding the cache is hard, but it's easy. Now finding the logbook however...

Edited December 3, 2004 by camo-crazed

[+JHutch]

Anyone got anything bigger than a cadillac fleetwood?!?

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e2-56a596fd305d

[tthedorff]

I like the idea of the train car. I no were there is a few I might be able to get permission to use? I like the idea of trading up in size, and this might work. There are two shops, one ice cream and the other nicknacks. They migth like the trafic, kinda like a sponser. There is also a cache (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7bb51092-9466-40d7-a105-4e36f50b239d) Not sure how to get you to see this one. This is a very cleaver cach. The bird house is a model of the train car next to it, and the cache is in a section of the wheel. It was great I didn't get the clue in the name "wheel thing" till I was on the way home, and it was like that was so cool. Sorry if the link didn't work, try (Not Just for the Birds, Look for the Wheel Thing) zip code

49461. Thanks for reading. Todd & Team Breakaway