Guest Clay Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 What kind of ingenious ways have you come up with to disguise or hide your caches. I have taken camo paint with me to the cache site ot match the colors, and have used expanding foam on a pvc pipe (copied this from TreOkies. See Xmas gift cache thread.) Quote Link to comment
Guest TresOkies Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 Here are a few that I have used... 5 gallon pickle bucket sprayed with expanding foam and painted in camo brown and camo olive green 3 pound coffee can sprayed with expanding foam and painted in camo brown and camo olive green 2 foot length of 4 inch PVC pipe with a sewer cap end (screw type) on one side and an end cap on the other painted flat black and then given the camo treatment 1 foot length of 2 inch PVC done the same as above Spent shotgun shell used as a leg of a Christmas day multi-cache -E ------------------ N35°32.981 W98°34.631 Quote Link to comment
Guest TresOkies Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 Here are a few that I have used... 5 gallon pickle bucket sprayed with expanding foam and painted in camo brown and camo olive green 3 pound coffee can sprayed with expanding foam and painted in camo brown and camo olive green 2 foot length of 4 inch PVC pipe with a sewer cap end (screw type) on one side and an end cap on the other painted flat black and then given the camo treatment 1 foot length of 2 inch PVC done the same as above Spent shotgun shell used as a leg of a Christmas day multi-cache -E ------------------ N35°32.981 W98°34.631 Quote Link to comment
Guest jbmccarthy69 Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 quote:Originally posted by TresOkies:1 foot length of 2 inch PVC done the same as above Now those small ones really do look like pipe bombs. [This message has been edited by jbmccarthy69 (edited 28 December 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest geospotter Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 TresOskies, I love the variety of your cache containers. I really like the microwave one in the background. Ingenious! Quote Link to comment
Guest Artful Dodger Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 I love the home made Terra Firma apparel - cleverly disguised as a ..... carpet! Wow! Quote Link to comment
Guest Eoghan Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 So it looks like you've been getting a lot of work done on the job since you moved back to OK....... Quote Link to comment
Guest Eoghan Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 So it looks like you've been getting a lot of work done on the job since you moved back to OK....... Quote Link to comment
Guest TresOkies Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Eoghan:So it looks like you've been getting a lot of work done on the job since you moved back to OK....... Yeah, tons... Hanging out on the Groundspeak forums and making a general nuisance of myself Generating multiple versions of GeoBuddy for the tens of users who love it Planting caches in places few people visit Researching which GPS model to buy myself for Kwanzaa Do the job for which they pay me a salary Not necessarily in that order in case my Boss is reading -E ------------------ N35°32.981 W98°34.631 Quote Link to comment
Guest TresOkies Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Eoghan:So it looks like you've been getting a lot of work done on the job since you moved back to OK....... Yeah, tons... Hanging out on the Groundspeak forums and making a general nuisance of myself Generating multiple versions of GeoBuddy for the tens of users who love it Planting caches in places few people visit Researching which GPS model to buy myself for Kwanzaa Do the job for which they pay me a salary Not necessarily in that order in case my Boss is reading -E ------------------ N35°32.981 W98°34.631 Quote Link to comment
Guest ClayJar Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 And to think I just start with clay jars and add navy nail polish camo. Quote Link to comment
Guest web-ling Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 I usually just get one of those pairs of glasses with the nose and bushy moustache, and put it on the cache... ...either that, or camo spray paint. Web-ling Quote Link to comment
Guest sbukosky Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 I'm presently experimenting with camouflage netting. Wal-Mart has it. I'm using Rubber maid containers and wrapping them in the neting to disguise it. I'll see how it holds up through the winter and if people will take the time to rewrap it when the find it. Quote Link to comment
Guest Marty621 Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 I use camouflage duct tape. Quote Link to comment
Guest Mopar Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Marty621:I use camouflage duct tape. I've seen that on your caches Marty. Works pretty well. Where did you buy it/how much is it? Quote Link to comment
Guest welch Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 ive been considering gluing natural items such as leaves sticks twigs, or rocks to the cache, but the expanding foam/paint idea seems like it would work too, and be a lot lighter. Quote Link to comment
Guest Dutchboy Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 Here is a site that sells the camo duct tape. http://www.identi-tape.com/duct.html Quote Link to comment
Guest Choberiba Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 Welch: I've been considering gluing natural items such as leaves sticks twigs, or rocks to the cache, but the expanding foam/paint idea seems like it would work too, and be a lot lighter. Looking at TresOkies stump, and remember what the fake "burl" caches I made using the same expand-o-foam look like. I'm starting to wonder if they'll pass muster from anyone who's made one. TresOkies did a great job, don't get me wrong. But I could tell it's a foam stump right away, something I don't recall being able to do when the original Leno*-stump was introduced. *Leno? Lemo? .... What's his handle? Quote Link to comment
Guest rdwatson78 Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 Captain Leno. The web page is http://www.geocities.com/lenopam/ rdw Quote Link to comment
Guest jbmccarthy69 Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 quote:Originally posted by ClayJar:And to think I just start with clay jars and add navy nail polish camo. Is that the official stuff the Nave Seals use to disguise their fingers? Quote Link to comment
Guest TheBeans Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 I used low-expanding foam and had much better luck. What I'm trying work out now is how to make a cache that looks like a ROCK! Wendy ------------------ Take me to BeanAcres Quote Link to comment
Guest Hamster Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 I just bought a pre-cammo treated plastic o-ring Ammobox from Gander mountain. Just like the ones they sell on the site. Should blend in well. Call me lazy. I just don't have the still, or know where to get cammo colors for spray paint or fleckstone paint etc. Quote Link to comment
Guest Hamster Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 I just bought a pre-cammo treated plastic o-ring Ammobox from Gander mountain. Just like the ones they sell on the site. Should blend in well. Call me lazy. I just don't have the still, or know where to get cammo colors for spray paint or fleckstone paint etc. Quote Link to comment
Guest Betty Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 Model railroad hobby shops have small rubber-mould sheets for pressing very natural-looking rock stiata lines into plaster of paris for track layouts. Then you paint it and maybe add dusty stuff. Wonder if you could use these somehow to make artificial rocks. Talk to a model train person or club about your problem. He/they would have some ideas. Your hpbby shop could tell you who to call. Quote Link to comment
Guest sidewinder Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 The camo storage box from Gander Mountain pictured in this thread looks like very, very, similar to the one at the Geocaching gear store. I don't know what the difference in price was but I think when I purchase one I will support the Geocaching.com web site. sidewinder Quote Link to comment
Guest Alan2 Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 quote:Originally posted by geospotter:TresOskies, I love the variety of your cache containers. I really like the microwave one in the background. Ingenious! He forgot the camo paint! Also, I'm curious, how long is the extension cord? alan2 Quote Link to comment
Guest TheBeans Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 Don&Betty....excellent suggestion! Thanks! If it works out I'll post some pictures for everyone to take a look at. Wendy ------------------ Take me to BeanAcres Quote Link to comment
Guest navdog Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 This is how myself and some friends disguised a cache recently. The Birdhouse [This message has been edited by navdog (edited 07 January 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest navdog Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 This is how myself and some friends disguised a cache recently. The Birdhouse [This message has been edited by navdog (edited 07 January 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest TresOkies Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Alan2: He forgot the camo paint! Also, I'm curious, how long is the extension cord? Long enough to plug in next to the portable refrigerator and the port-a-potty. You missed the other hidden container--the "4 year-old perpetual playscape" also known as a large empty box. -E ------------------ N35°32.981 W98°34.631 Quote Link to comment
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