Caching your goods

[itsybitsy]

Some interesting stuff here for those of you who are interested in putting together a 'remote' cache

http://www.survival-center.com/guide/cache.htm

[Carrot Cruncher]

Cheers Lisa, I haven't made a cache yet but it is something I want to do this year (along with a million other things ). I think I might have to slip it under MrsCC's radar though, she is ok ish with spending money on preps for the house but might object when I want to bury them in the middle of nowhere

[itsybitsy]

Cheers Lisa, I haven't made a cache yet but it is something I want to do this year (along with a million other things ). I think I might have to slip it under MrsCC's radar though, she is ok ish with spending money on preps for the house but might object when I want to bury them in the middle of nowhere

Well she won't know it's there if you hide it properly!

[preservefreak]

thanks for this Isty, caching and bugging out is something I really need to think about this year. among the hundreds of other Must Do this year

[itsybitsy]

There's always too much to do and not enough time, energy (or money) with which to do it - particularly when you've factured in a full time job and running your home too.

[lisaloolibell]

my concern with caching is remembering where Ive put the stuff

[urban fox]

I have been looking at casheing for quite some time and really do think its one of the best ideas there is. and we all stash things in one way or another!!
but there are a couple of points about casheing which worry me !!!
firstly there is the fact if you are casheing something a fair distance from your home, you cant keep an eye on it. this could be anything from a few snickers bars in a tube to buried on public land to a motocross bike or something hidden in an area you thought no one went to!! but the thing is (you did!!!!) and if you did whats to prevent anyone else???
I metal detect as a hobby and as such learn to read the land as where people may have hidden things in the past!!! one guy mentioned burying stuff in areas which has a lot of metal trash!!! well take it from me. the way metal detectors have progressed over the last decade has been unbelieveable. my own machine for example is by no means top of the range yet it can find and identify two or three metals which are laid together touching each other!! and in many cases it willlet me know that there are two metals one on top of the other.. There is this sport going aroung now called geo casheing where people bury things and their friends go find them... some of these cashes are less than two inches long by half inch wide and my machine has found hundreds of them...
so whilst still wanting to bury stuff am governed by a couple of factors
next

[urban fox]

firstly the value of the items I am hiding for example we dont want to bury a top whack bushcraft knife and state of the art radio gear... and a miriad of other expensive gear just for a metal detectorist to come along and whoops there goes your cache!!! and just for the record my own machine will pick up an ammo can from about two and half feet away. in freash air. if the item was under wet soil, you can effectively double that distance!!! of course metal detectorists arent alllowed just everywhere but if its an area where landowners have given permission to detectorists consider your stuff gone!!!
so if i am going to hide anything for a rainy day the location will have to be very carefully considered

[Carrot Cruncher]

Some good info on the Metal Detectors UF, Thanks. I never realised they were that sensitive.

[urban fox]

Some good info on the Metal Detectors UF, Thanks. I never realised they were that sensitive.

not all of them are so sensitive but you must remember that what they are is mobile ground penetrating radar although on a smaller scale. if your headphones were sensitive enough they would pick things up which are unbelieveably deep!! the deeper stuff is what we listen for using the collective tern whispers!!! some of the cheap low frequency machines which hardly have any descrinination go very deep.. I had a c scope basic model along time ago and that picked up a gold stud ear ring from 18 inches.. I dont know the entire tec details but it had something to do with soil conductivity after it had been raining!!!
I could talk about metal detectors all day but this int a detecting site.. so I will shut up!!! suffice to say they can be very suprising in capability!!! cachers beware!!!