How to bury a cache and keep it safe(pics) - a challenge to you.....

[lone_flyer]

I studied 3 best books on the subject
Steal This Book
How To Bury Your Goods
How to Hide Anything

And read all I could find on net.
From the net it all boils down to bell method principle and "PVC pipes"

I did 5 test burials...all went bad in short time!

There are many variables involved:

flooding
freezing (a huge huge problem)

If anybody can survive those two (so far impossible), then you have:

animals
metal detector
ground penetrating radar


The most advised option is to have PVC pipes
but it seems like "folk lore" to me because
below zero the cap and the pipe will
flex differently and the seal must brake.

Even if I were to weld them....not glue them like they all advise....

When ice comes the pipe could just be catapulted out of ground.

If you have any pointers I will appreciate very much and
even reward you with a picture/video of an actual burial

 

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[BC1969]

Why go down ?
Paint container to match.
Secure container to tree near the top on any tree.
40 feet or so.

Alternative.
Place any TXTL60 safe in your living room... empty.
Put stuff under the sink.
No one will find it.

 

[Duckshot]

Bury it twice as deep as the best metal detectors go with a rock fitting neatly on top of it, rusty nails and tin foil confetti scattered sparsely 6" down.

You might not want to discourage the radar in case you need to find it again.

 

[smokeythecat]

I put it in a bank at 6% interest.

 

[Al D]

Here are a couple of ideas

 

[smokeythecat]

AlanM, zzzzzzzzppppppppppffffffTTTTTTT! Poof!

 

[Al D]

AlanM, zzzzzzzzppppppppppffffffTTTTTTT! Poof!

Haha, yea, that is always a possibility.

 

[smokeythecat]

Or until the electric company guy comes along...Hiding stuff isn't always wise. When my grandmother died, it was told she hid cash in the house, which she probably did. She hid it so good they never found it. My mom did the same thing and we never found it.

Heck I lost one of my best daily used SHOES this am! It got caught up in the bedspread my cat peed on deliberately to get my attention, and I had thrown it downstairs. Found it before I washed the spread.

 

[Worm-Slicer]

You could place a few gold coins in some pop cans and "plant" them in different locations. I would put the coin in, crush it tight so it would not rattle if the can was shaken to give it away and bury one or two in each spot. No one would ever suspect anything valuable in it and be safer than the bank. I know when I dig up a pop can I immediately cover it back up. Just don't forget to have a method of placing them so you don't forget their locations. Maybe mark them with turtles or something. lol

 

[TomW244]

You could place a few gold coins in some pop cans and "plant" them in different locations. I would put the coin in, crush it tight so it would not rattle if the can was shaken to give it away and bury one or two in each spot. No one would ever suspect anything valuable in it and be safer than the bank. I know when I dig up a pop can I immediately cover it back up. Just don't forget to have a method of placing them so you don't forget their locations. Maybe mark them with turtles or something. lol

Crap! When I dig pop cans I put them in my pouch and throw them in the garbage later. How many of your gold coins have I thrown in the garbage!!!!!

 

[Worm-Slicer]

Crap! When I dig pop cans I put them in my pouch and throw them in the garbage later. How many of your gold coins have I thrown in the garbage!!!!!

Now it's time for you to start dumpster diving!

 

[ToddsPoint]

I heard of a cache of coins found in a piece of iron pipe with end caps screwed on. Coins were okay. I don't know how long it was under ground. Gary

 

[PullTabSlayer]

PVC Properly primed and glued will work fine, millions of sewer pipes in the ground and they are not popping apart from weather. Personally anything that important I would keep close and accessible.
If the Zombies attack cause they want my stuff, I will fight them off the best I can, and in the end if I lose and the zombies eat my brains, well then they can just have my stuff, I wont need it anymore

 

[Johnnybravo300]

Bury it on private property so it's safe. Why give someone a chance to find it.
Gold and silver will be fine underground even if they get wet and dirty. That's one of the traits that makes them good money for thousands of years.

 

[Blak bart]

Huh.....you could try state waters....if someone did find it you be guaranteed that it would take a team of lawyers to straighten it out, and you would eliminate 99% of people from finding it. Dive my friend.....the salt water wont hurt the gold !! Or put it deep in a national park !!
Good old mother ocean....been hiding its gold for millions of years !!

 

[Terry Soloman]

Back in the 70's and 80's all the Mafia guys were putting their South African Krugerrands in PVC pipe and burying them in their gardens or woods behind their houses. Some didn't count on me detecting with a Minelab GPX behind their houses in the 2000s.

 

[Trezurehunter]

This will be a long post, so bear with me : My dad wanted to make a safe in our home back in 1976. Our home was built on a slab and we had the cheaper floor tile. (The type where you just peel the backing off so it was sticky - 1960's home). We moved the bedroom furniture out of his and moms room, and proceeded to cut a 16 x 16 patch of concrete out of the slab with a concrete saw. We dug down about 20 inches to hollow out the hole. We then made a form for a new piece of concrete, inserting 4 - 6 inch PVC caps into it, and poured concrete around the caps. (do not fill caps), and placed 4 screw anchors in the top so we could insert screws wrap a hanger around them, and pull it up. Then we cut 4 pieces of PVC pipe about 14 inches long, and put another cap on the opposite end, anchoring them on with PVC glue. These would attach to the caps in the concrete. Filled tubes with valuables, put slab back in place, put tile back over slab, and their bed went over the whole deal. No damage was ever done to the valuables, and no one except immediate family ever knew that safe was there. That safe is still in the floor, after 46 years (its empty now) and we lost my dad 4 years ago. This type of safe was below ground level, so it was tornado proof, fire proof, and I would even say 99.9 % burglar proof. My dad always like to challenge himself, and it worked ! I do miss him.