Caches

[BRD@66]

Hole dug to where there's 3+' above the top of the container. I'd suggest a big army surplus pelican box. Big enough to store it.


Add a foot of dirt on top of the sealed box. Throw a few chunks of metal on top of that. Brake rotors, bicycle handle bars, general metal crap. Fill the hole up. The dirt has to be compacted or you'll get an low spot.

Take a couple gallons of high test sugar water and pour all over the spot. Camouflage till the vegetation grows back.


Map the location.

Please explain the bolded part.

 

[scap99]

Please explain the bolded part.

Throws off the ground penetrating radar?

Allows you to locate it later with a metal detector?

That's the only two things I can think of.

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[grasshopperglock]

Decoys in case someone decides to dig the spot. Even with a metal detector. The sugar water is for the fireants to alter their decision to dig there.


Any metal objects. As long as they're worthless. Beer cans, bolts, nails, beer bottle tops. You want it to look like a buried trash dump. Not worth digging.

 

[IXLR8]

I have to comment about the lighter.

In a conversation with someone that survived living in Bosnia during the conflict there. The one item he deemed more important than any other item was a lighter. He wished he had a case of Bic lighters. Besides being useful, they had an unexpectedly high barter value.
YMMV

 

[grasshopperglock]

It's one of the few things still made in the USA.

Bic lighter. I have prolly 15 laying around the house. Some brand new in inventory.

 

[grasshopperglock]

For dampness control in the sealed container. Wal-Mart sales a tub of Damp Rid near the automotive section. It's a mid level desiccant used to suck the moisture out of boats and RV's.

Pop the tub open and pour a layer inside the container you're using. The white flakes are the substance that absorbs the moisture. Something like 300x it's weight. It's inert and won't harm things it's next too. Besides food.

 

[grasshopperglock]

Back it up with a vapor rust stick up. Lowe's sales them. It's a small block canister that admits a rust preventative vapor. I've seen them under the WD4O brand. Used personally, they work protecting, in the white, steel firearm parts/tools. In a non airtight box.

 

[vmax]

alot of you are planning to be able to hunt or fish during SHTF
I think about 2 things. Unless you have your own land, where are you planning on doing this? tresspassing is a bad idea, and espessially bad during SHTF
some landowner can see you on his place, taking his resources and blow your brains out from the comfort of his lookout point.
secondly, the game gets scarce during hunting season due to the increas of the number of people in the woods.
this will be maginfied if only a small percent of a town of 100 people takes to the surrounding woods to look for game.

instead of planning on being Rambo and jumping from a tree to kill a pig with that big knife you have, you should spend your money on food storage instead

that is something you can count on instead of hope for

 

[grasshopperglock]

alot of you are planning to be able to hunt or fish during SHTF
I think about 2 things. Unless you have your own land, where are you planning on doing this? tresspassing is a bad idea, and espessially bad during SHTF
some landowner can see you on his place, taking his resources and blow your brains out from the comfort of his lookout point.
secondly, the game gets scarce during hunting season due to the increas of the number of people in the woods.
this will be maginfied if only a small percent of a town of 100 people takes to the surrounding woods to look for game.

instead of planning on being Rambo and jumping from a tree to kill a pig with that big knife you have, you should spend your money on food storage instead

that is something you can count on instead of hope for

You plan for both. Stationary and mobile. If I get that hungry enough. Forget the knife. Ill jump out the tree with a big rock. Lords know Ill wish I had a DVD player at camp to watch Rambo. TV and a bag of chips.

 

[vmax]

You plan for both. ,,,,

that would be wise

 

[grasshopperglock]

Weather radio. Did anybody add that that yet?

Hand crank jobber. Something with an AM. There's talk about HAM radio stuff floating the board. I don't know a thing about it. I'd like to though.

Someone needs to start a thread.

 

[99taws6]

There's talk about HAM radio stuff floating the board. I don't know a thing about it. I'd like to though.

Someone needs to start a thread.

Mm mm yes gotta have bacon



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[Hoji]

Oh, hahaha... I was thinking like a mouthpiece on a saxophone or something similar. I can see how to use that in hand to hand combat, but I was having a hard time understanding why to cache one.

Why wouldn't you have a saxophone in your cache?

 

[Bozz10mm]

Mm mm yes gotta have bacon



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Mmm, bacon. http://beprepared.com/yoders-bacon-9-oz.html

 

[Rebel]

Why wouldn't you have a saxophone in your cache?

I dunno, I'm more of a trumpet guy. The mouthpiece can also act as a kazoo.

 

[zincwarrior]

Women!

Here is wisdom.

Why the mouth guard in the original list. I know its for boxing, but er...when are you getting into a boxing match in the apocalypse?

 

[99taws6]

Macgyver could have made this list so much shorter with a Swiss Army knife and some duct tape


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[grasshopperglock]

Another thing worth adding. Yes, tested it personally. It's worth the $150. Samick Sage, take down recurve. 30-40# weight range. Three arrows and two strings.


Hand pump water filter. Ceramic filter preferred.

 

[TheDan]

Why wouldn't you have a saxophone in your cache?

Because I haven't played in almost 20 years

 

[grasshopperglock]

Seeds. Sealed and dry.

All kinds of stuff. Things that can be used to barter with. Something like hard turnips. You could trade them for ammo....in a shtf situation.

Someone's gonna want to eat that hard basturd and will trade ammo to get it.