Containers

[2_Stand]

I saw these containers at the vet in ER a couple of weeks ago. I just now got around to googling them.

Has anyone seen or used them for nanos yet?

[Timberline Echoes]

You better NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😆
TE

[2_Stand]

You don’t want to hike a mile through the blackberries to search for a nano in the cedar swamp?! 😆

[zuma]

Yes, I have found a couple of those. I remember the first one I saw in MN, GC19XQ4, though the owner called it a “bullet” in his writeup, it is what you have pictured, and the same size.

I also saw one stuck into the side of a Gazebo, somewhere in Illinois, GC14ZYC. I have not seen one in Wisconsin, that I recall right now.

From what I can tell, they have issues with not being watertight, stripping the threads easily, poorly thought out placements, and being owned by geocachers who dont mind loosing a few friends. 🙂

zuma

[Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu]

@2_Stand wrote:

I saw these containers at the vet in ER a couple of weeks ago. I just now got around to googling them.

Has anyone seen or used them for nanos yet?

Yes I have… the darn thing rusted shut and couldn’t be opened after a winter. I was bummed!! Then I replaced it and the tree got bushwhacked. I saw and bought mine at Petco!!

[Timberline Echoes]

As long as you keep it in an ammo can where it can stay dry and rust free.
TE

[Team Deejay]

These containers are all over Racine and Kenosha. And yes, they suffer from all the issues described above.

[2_Stand]

Good to know.
I’m always on the lookout for cheap, creative, durable containers, and I thought these might fit the bill.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I had one of those stuck into the end of a pinecone in one of my caches called NEMESIS #5 The cone of silence.

That reminds me. I gave that container to The CinemaBoxers, who in turn sent it out to the east coast to be placed. I never got the GC number for that cache. Looks like a need to make a call.

[cheezehead]

I do not have one that small. The one I had was just less than an inch long. And Zuma DID find it. Remember Z-man? Put some camo duck tap and some clear fingernail polish and you should be good to go. They work great in worm holes in tree bark. I got mine a pharmacy for about $6. It’s for Nitro pills and you put it on your key chain. Wally World also had some a little bit bigger. about 2 inches long and the with of a nickle or so. Called a fob container I think.

[gkrone]

I was talking to flydad a couple months ago and he ran into one of these with a magnet on it in a knot hole of a pine tree.

Had to bring your own nail to get it out of the hole.

[EnergySaver]

@gkrone wrote:

Had to bring your own nail to get it out of the hole.

That’s one way to get to use that rating criteria of “need special equipment”!

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