What Is The Largest Cache Container You've Found?

[+CacheCreatures]

The small container discussion got to me wonder... what is the largest container you've found? It seems to me that the bigger the container, the more carefully it must be hidden. Lets see how clever people have been!

 

For us, this cache was the largest. It was a large ammo can buried under a huge pile of rocks. To the cacher's eye, it was pretty obvious where it was. To the muggle eye though, it wouldn't get a second look.

Edited December 3, 2003 by CacheCreatures

[+Renegade Knight]

The largest I've found is a 3 gallons bucket. The largest I've placed is a 5 gallon bucket.

[+Touchstone]

I used one of those for one of my caches too. I was thinking of using a foot locker for a cache container and hiding it in a bunker. Unfortunately, the bunker is fenced off so it doesn't have access....yet

[bergie_69]

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a4-63c74b0df22e. This one's pretty big. I intend on going after it this summer. I was going post a picture, but I can't figure out how to do it.

[+Doc-Dean]

5 Gallon Bucket at View Carre'

 

This cache BTW is also my ATF!

 

 

[+Jeeters]

Found a black 5 gallon bucket cache which I suppose used to hold something like asphalt sealer or something. The lid didn't fit all that tight and so the contents were wet from moisture build up. There were even 'dew drops' all over the inside of the bucket.

Edited December 3, 2003 by Jeeters

[+Stunod]

The largest I've ever seen is Markwell's Project A.P.E. cache, Mission 12: Blind Canal. It was a HUGE ammo can (60 mm?) that measured about 18" x 12" x 6".

[+CurmudgeonlyGal]

We've found a couple big'n's. One was a Criminal cache with a large ammo box hidden in a stump. It was almost comical at HOW noticeable it was from behind - all those 'natural' looking logs and leaves and sticks. (Nobody would find it because the odds are very slim they'd actually go that far off the trail and who'd go around the backside of the stump even if they did scale the hill?) I'm not sure how big the ammo box was itself, but it was about 18 x 12 x 6" Maybe a wee bit bigger.

 

The other large one was a huge rubbermaid container. Unfortunately it had taken quite a beating and was wrapped up in a day-glo orange trash bag and was still taking on water something fierce. We'd ridden our bikes out to find it and didn't have ANYTHING with us to replace it with. I'm thinking it needs to be replaced with a teeny tiny otter box. <g> Unfortunately the owner is in Japan for four years so I don't see it getting replaced anytime soon - way out in the boonies on logging roads that are all gated and all sorts of yadda. If I get the gumption to waste a day, I may go out and replace it.

 

-=-

 

michelle

Edited December 3, 2003 by CurmudgeonlyGal

[+CacheCreatures]

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a4-63c74b0df22e. This one's pretty big. I intend on going after it this summer. I was going post a picture, but I can't figure out how to do it.

Here is the pic bergie_69 was referring to:

 

 

Thats a biggun!

[bug and snake]

The largest I ever saw was a five gallon bucket. I won't reference it here because it had a unique feature that I would have to give away to discuss it in detail but it was the most satisfying cache I ever found. It proved to me that the big ones can be subtle too.

[+Swampgecko]

Biggest Cache Container found?

 

The biggest I have found here in Aussie was a blue tub big enough to hold coffee table books... But the largest I have placed was a metal drum that i had floating around, that is a Garmin 12 beside the cache

and here it is in use

You can read all about the cache heresanD on Track

[+The Cheeseheads]

I recently found one that was not big volume wise, but was a tube about 4-5 feet long. It was hidden in a tree that was hollow from the fork all the way down to the ground.

[+nincehelser]

I've found several 5-gallon buckets, but probably the largest cache was one of those big Coleman picknick coolers.

 

George

[+ShaneN4Girls]

Found this tub the day after Christmas last year. Don't know exact size, but I'd guess 30 gallons. The amazing thing was that everything inside was bone dry. I wouldn't expect that with this type of tub and lid.

 

[+Snoogans]

GQ's Abducted Santa Claus is the biggest most people would ever see. It's 3'x3'x4'!!! An adult could squeeze into it. Seriously!

 

Sn gans

[uperdooper]

i was going to use this, but i thought it would be hard to hide.

[+Brian - Team A.I.]

A cache that I help maintain has the largest container I've seen to date. It's called 'FREE Ammo Can Cache', and contains 2 .50-cal ammo cans, as well as trade items inside what I believe is a 20mm rocket ammo can wedged impossibly between some large boulders. When the ammo cans are depleted, 2 more are put inside, and done so with the hopes that the cans will be used to place future caches.

 

I've pondered slipping one of the newer ones I have in as a special container for someone. I'd have to look at the side to see which type of ammunition goes inside, but it's roughly the same width as a .50-cal, but 2x as long.

[+Webfoot]

The largest I've found is a 3 gallons bucket. The largest I've placed is a 5 gallon bucket.

The largest cache I've found was a five gallon bucket, placed under the shade of a sycamore tree, down by a creek, right out in the open. Needless to say, the cache isn't there anymore.

 

There wasn't even a clever place for this cache to be hidden near that sycamore.

[+Brian - Team A.I.]

In honor of Webfoot's post, I must change my answer...

 

The largest container I have ever found was a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

 

[+CYBret]

Everything GEO! is in a large Rubbermaid tub covered with camoed burlap. Great hide and very clever for such a HUGE container.

 

The other big cache I've found was outside of Lincoln, IL. It was a book themed cache hidden in some kind of great big Army issue box. Not sure what the box was, but it reminded me of a very large roaster oven (if you know what I mean, please let me know). Alas, it disappeared, along with a lot of GREAT prizes.

 

I was thinking the other day....we own a house about 12 miles from here and are planning on selling it, but haven't really moved on those plans much lately. I wondered about hiding the garage remote somewhere in the yard and using the garage itself as the cache container. Even thought of how neat it would be to have an easel set up with one of those great big pads of paper on it and some big thick markers to use as the logbook.

 

Considering the garage still needs cleaning out, it would work out pretty good for me...provided people didn't bring their own junk to trade.

 

Bret

[+Monkeybrad]

In Middle Tennessee there is an old Nissan Pathfinder four wheel drive in the woods, where the entire interior is the cache container. The pages describes the cache as being in a "small 4X4 container". It is full of things like coffee makers, lamps, and your standard array of Mctoys and gadgets.

[+KaiserKlan]

Go check out Dog Dedication (GCH3PH), it's a igloo style dog house. Fun find.

[+bthomas]

In Las Vegas, Picture This was a utility trailer in the parking lot. It was recently archived, though.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...0f-8348a62eab85

[+Staos]

My first Markwell

[+Oat]

Found this 12/30/03. It's a piece of PVC pipe sealed on one end and screw lid on the other.

 

[+Staos]

Found this 12/30/03.

So, what's it like in the future?

[+erik88l-r]

It would have to be The Biggest Cache in the World, companion cache to The Smallest Cache in the World.

 

I could probably have fit into the biggest cache. It's been awhile, but I think it had trade items like old VCRs in it. Despite it's size it wasn't an easy find.

 

~erik~

[+Oat]

Found this 12/30/03.

So, what's it like in the future?

It's good.

 

I've since learned how to keep track of dates and how to enter them correctly.

 

[+MissJenn]

 

The post above was written on Dec 4 2003. I wonder how big LARGE is these days ...

Edited March 24, 2005 by MissJenn

[+cache_test_dummies]

The post above was written on Dec 4 2003. I wonder how big LARGE is these days ...

The LARGEST has gotta be this cache, mentioned in

this post in a similar topic.

[+AtoZ]

I have a 5 gallon bucket that is full of stuffed anmimals called Teddy Bear Picnic. People are supised you can hide such a large container.

cheers

[Mvillian]

I have one thats a 10.1 gallon bucket with a screw top lid it is in plain view but not many people go where its located "Black Creek Cache" Florence SC

[WH]

This cache container is pretty big.

 

[+Marky]

For us, this cache was the largest. It was a large ammo can buried under a huge pile of rocks. To the cacher's eye, it was pretty obvious where it was. To the muggle eye though, it wouldn't get a second look.

I guess it did get a second look. It's always a bummer when a large cache goes missing.

 

--Marky

[+CharlieP]

This is the grand-daddy of all ammo cans, about 3 feet long.

 

33 1/3 Cache in Georgia

[+Camo-crazed]

Well, I have found a reglar sized ammo can and hidden a 5 gallon bucket

[+Blind Avocado]

The Big One. That was the second biggest cache I ever saw!

/Maxwell Smart

[Radman Forever]

About a year ago I found a cache that was a garbage can just outside a geocacher's house in South Boardman, Michigan. One of the trading items was a bowling ball!

[+mrducky]

I found a cache that was a 55 gallon drum, mostly buried in the ground, full of stuffed animals. The log book was pretty big too.

[+4 Mountain Pirates]

This cache sounds really big from the logs I have read. I have not had a chance to get over there though. GCKYBY