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Came here from Corporals Corner. He said you’re retiring from the military and you’re one of the ones “not being heard.” As a nurse, who will likely soon be retiring for the same reasons, I had to come over here and give some support. Liked and subscribed on principal alone. Haven’t even watched the video yet. Thank you for your service.
Watched it. Would’ve subbed anyway. Great content. 👌🏻
Thank you, thank you, thank you for pronouncing cache correctly.
Good tips . I’d just re-bury the cylinder after retrieving the objects. May want to use it again . No worries of a sink hole and no one sees you carrying a chunk of PVC pipe. Have a good one
It depends on your scenario. If you are staying local and want to re-use it, that’s a great idea.
If you’re not coming back, it might be faster to sling the tube via the carry rope, fill the hole in, and bug out ASAP.
Put a Silica gel pack to minimize moisture too.
Good idea.
Oh damn, I ate it by accident!!! Should have read the warning label!
Always😉
Could have saved Pablo Escobar millions of dollars.
I do the little boxes of baking soda, the silica packs( I bought a whole gallon on Amazon).
And rice
I might take a pic of the area before digging so I could reconstruct the cover accurately.
It is worth mentioning the eyes in the skies that watch over the lands specifically forests. Cloud cover is your friend.
Andrew is so awesome, Superman wears a pair of Ranger Survival & Fieldcraft Under-Roos.
Major, you once again demonstrated why you're in a different league to most survival instructors on you tube.
Truly impressive.
God ain't got what it takes to help any enemy of yours in a shtf /wrol situation.
Epic knowledge.
Some other points:
1. When leaving the site and rejoining the road, you can make yourself look less suspicious if you come out carrying some toilet paper. Be rolling it up like you are returning after having just dropped a deuce in the woods. Nobody will want to check that out😃
2. You can skip the measuring tape by placing the cache on the ground next to where you want to bury it. Then take your heal and start at one end of the cache and drag it next to the cache until you reach the other end. That covers the length. The width will usually be the width of your spade, assuming that is what you are using.
3. Locating the cache. You can use your axe or saw, if you have one to help prep for finding later. When finding all you should need is some cordage, say 100' or so. When burying the cache, move about 50 feet away from the cache and pick a tree that doesn't look like it will be falling over, cut down etc. Make sure there is another tree straight across the top of the cache but on the other side. Mark it with an inconspicuous notch. Go back to. your cache and cross over and go to the tree on the other side and mark it. Do this for a second and possibly third set. Now in the future you can use the line between the two trees as a marker. Attach the cordage between the trees with marks then go to roughly the center and drag your heal and make a line. Then do a second set of trees and third if you have them. One is all you really need but more makes it faster. Where the lines cross, your cache should be there. It may seem like overkill but if you are in the dark, or it is snowy, or just plain really muddy or overgrown then this method can really speed up locating the cache. Note, wood cutters, forest fires, bears, whatever can mess with your trees. So always have a good record of the cache location. Short duration burials are probably not a big deal but anything more than a couple months and you will want to have A) pictures, lots of pictures B) Well established and unchanging landmarks, C) text description. If you cannot answer yes to "Can you find your cache in the middle of the night in a pouring rain, under extreme time pressure" then perhaps you have not located or recorded the location well enough. Choose your location wisely. It's best when able to pre scout locations, think them over, approach them from different directions, at night etc. This isn't always possible but if you can do it.
4. The thought and prep time you put in ahead of time will pay off tenfold if you ever need to really use it.
Another excellent video. A possible variant would be to bring a small bag of “ play sand” with you. The sand goes in over the container….this way when you dig…the contrast tells you that you’re in the correct area…..The sand isn’t visible until you penetrate the top level.
One thing I would like to add is that folks need to know is the frost line in their area for a few reasons, one is if the person retrieving the item is doing so in the winter and an E-tool might not cut it if the frost line is 3 feet down or more, second is that if there are items that could freeze like canned foods it's a good idea to keep them from freezing, third is ammunition is not as reliable especially rimfire when it is experiencing freeze/thaw cycles many times.
All in all good video.
Great video Andrew!
May I suggest silicon gel packs as well as sack-up sleeves to inhibit rust on metallic objects stored in the cache.
Also, if it will be located in an urban area, place metallic objects, like old nails, screws, etc nearby to stop metal detectors from locating it.
Everyone should have a house cache- it's buried near the home, on your own land, and small. Photocopies of critical docs, a thumbdrive of insurance inventory, a friend and cash. You might make it out of the housefire, but your wallet might not. Update that one every six months, and a raised bed is perfect.
For a long term cache, try to get below the frost line. Probably won't crack Sch 40 PVC, but will try to push it up like a rock. That's how things "shallow, unmarked" get found. I prefer a solid cap on one end, for cost and water tightness; very long term it's probably better to do two, make the tube a little long, and pack the ends with rags for when you cut the end off. That is critical IMO for a submerged one. If you're going to vertical, augers are amazing but noisy, post hole diggers are only marginally less obvious visually and a work out. In that case, you'll want to bag your small items (cheap socks are fine), put a cord on them, and those cords have tags to indicate what order to pull those bags in. A 36" tube, three feet down for three, five, ten years, you not going to be subtle digging up, so make the tube as secure as possible and just cut the top off in situ when the time comes. A few chunks of paracord will burn through pvc, so will a hacksaw. In winter, a metal pot like they use on salad bars for dressing is very useful- build a small fire in that, thaw the soil, dig as far as you can, repeat ad nausea. (You'll get sick of the repeating.)
And when you bury, if you dont plan on digging it up within a few months, mound the soil up a little proud, there that tube is will turn into a slight dent as the soil settles it was flush. A small, rectangular dent isn't subtle. Short term vs long term detection, it's all a matter of calculus. I often pack out the soil- put it in the raised beds.
Awesome information Andrew. Your breakdown of the entry and exit protocols to get to your location was excellent.
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Good video. I didn't read all the comments so it mat have already been said, but if you bury this for any real length of time, that cap will be near impossible to unscrew with that tool and holding it in your hands. Even with a couple people holding it, it's just sealed too tight. You need to bring some thing like a strap wrench or length of rubber strap to wrap around the pipe a couple times and step on it and hold it in place while using the tool to unscrew the cap, and that tool should be a pipe wrench. Nothing plastic for tools cause they just are not strong enough to handle the force being applied to the cap. Keep up the great work.
one thing i think you may be missing out on is the experience of the dirt settling in time around your object, especially with rain and weather. I have been installing sprinkler systems in the SE NM USA desert for over 20 years and i gotta come back a week or two later and re-cover all ditches with what the customer thought was 'left over dirt' all summer long and into the winter.
Best bet to minimize what will soon be an obvious trench in the ground, at the bottom of the hole pack the bed with a 2"-3" branch (maybe the top of your walking stick?) a good, serious packing, then a buncha stamps with a boot, heel and toe and flat, then a layer of soft dirt 2" ish thick, then your tube, then a 6" layer of soft and another REALLY good packing around the tube/object, then another 3"-6" and packing until you have no 'left over dirt'.
In an efficient military manner. Outstanding ! I miss my active duty days , Hooyah !
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Always look forward to your videos..,
So, not only am I sassy… but I’m getting smart too…😂
Oh, I’m multitasking ~baking fresh peach pies while I’m watching this video…
Have a safe and wonderful week…
When do we eat?
Be right over I love peaches! q
Lengths of pipe can also be used to store things in plain sight, an “extra” pipe in your basement should go unnoticed if it looks like other pipes.
What a coincidence, I just happen to be sassy; caché it is. Another brilliantly outstanding vid.
You are still a dangerous warrior, major, in a good way!
OUTSTANDING!!! Andrew, excellent block of instruction this morning, very detailed and thought out presentation. The white board (may they stay in Team Rooms forever) is a great tool for visually explaining the step-by-step plan. Smart plan for visual security using the trail cams… I mean, it’s out there for the million dollar pic of Sasquatch! Lolol. Great stuff as always! Keep up the Fire!!!
The amount of detail n reasoning behind every action is simply awesome. Thank you. You can go solo as as school instructor. No need for you to affiliate with other schools unless you're studying the terrain. Stay blessed, sir.
Great job 👍 you are an excellent teacher. I'm in my 60s, and was in the Marines (77 to 83) Semper Fi buddy
When are you gonna start your own schoolhouse?
I for one would enjoy learning to survive and gain knowledge and skills with you as the professor or instructor.
He’s going to end up with the Gray bearded Green Beret Corporal Shawn KellyAnd DaveCanterbury As an instructor at the Pathfinder school. I guarantee
Another great instructional video!
Good skill to practice that goes with this is geocaching. Finding caches others have hidden and given clues to follow to find it.
Then there is the fun of searching for historical caches. Pay attention to the trees and rocks when out in the wild. Before the invention of GPS, clues were often carved into tree trunks or scratched or chiseled onto rocks.
A quality metal detector is a good thing.😉
I love your style...
White board planning ...
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I would cut a knotch in the square lid on top so you could use a stick to turn the cap if need be
I never would have thought about replacing the dirt/soil in the same layers. THAT, my friends, is attention to detail! Excellent demonstration!
Outstanding! Well thought out and practical. A follow up on cache contents and prepping of contents for burial would be much appreciated.
Thank you, Sir. Hope I never have come to the place where I feel a need to use this...but...
Good video, I enjoyed it. Test your measuring/compass accuracy by giving the information to someone else to do a bit of geocaching
Great idea on carrying the wrench to open it up. I ran into a situation a few years ago with PVC. I had to make an improvised wrench with two sticks about two feet long. I placed each stick parallel to each other on either side of the square nut and lashed together with cordage (bank line) and twist the sticks counter clockwise. It worked but took a little time.
It’s basically survival geocaching :) I never thought about doing that. Thanks!
Good video, I have them for each member of the family. The items very per- person. The wife and daughters are somewhat different than my sons
At least since the 1960's, the US military has been mispronouncing the word cache (cash) by saying cash-shay. I wish they would use the dictionary pronunciation. It may be too late to change the tradition.
It's good to hear the correct way.
*I* say, "cash," for that it's worth. "Cachet" is a different word.
It might be wise to think of the word "quiche": you pronounce it "keesh," not "kee-shay." You could alos think of rhyming it with the near-synonym, "stash."
In some way it is not so wrong. Something hidden is said « caché » in French (pronounced cash shay) so a « cache » is made to « caché » something.
In English cachet is something prestigious.
@@melaniedebagheera7082yes, in French too sometimes. The sound Cash-shay can be written caché or cachet but meanings are differents. When caché means hidden, cachet with a T at the end come frome "seal", a way to mark letters or stuff with you own mark (like a stamp to close the letter and need to be broken) so by extention it means having something special. Works for objects or people. So yes you can have a sentence like : where have you caché this cachet :-)
or : you have caché that you have some cachet (you've hidden some nice behaviour)
Hearing it with two syllables is like an ice pick in my ears!
Andrew, I appreciated the patrol route. Good tips on short halts and danger areas. S/F.
The tool is a plumber’s “cleanout wrench”, also called a “combo wrench”.
Will remember that. Thank you.
The cache is cool listening to you give the operational plan was cooler.
Easily the best cache video ive seen so far
Thanks for another detailed video.
That handy dandy special pvc pipe tool is a spanner, in case you were curious. Thanks for the great video.
good idea. but maybe put a piece of metal or so incase a metal detector may be necessary to find it again. and that PVC cement is a two part process. use the cleaner, then the cement. otherwise it only makes a friction fit. John
The square end cap, cut a slot on the face, 3/8 inch deep, do not penetrate the inside. Can use full tang/kbar knife to open.
Or drill a hole through horizontal, can open with a screwdriver into the hole.
Good informational video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
This is the best and most informative cache video on YT.
An outstanding video, chock full of valuable information. I’ll definitely remember that little wrench. At the advice of a friend, I hid a couple of these around the farm I live on. He had been through the SERE school in the early nineties and showed me how to properly grease up firearms to store them in the PVC tubes.I’ll definitely share this video with everyone in my FB feed.
Now more than ever a good idea
Dude I got patched yesterday for the Scout Class. Thanks again for that awsome video you did covering what to expect and what to train for.
Awesome man! Great job!
Wow another great idea!!👍
I want Major Andy in my survival cache' !
You could always see if One Shepherd is interested in a sere training class. You and Brent0031 would probably hit it off immediately.
They would rock together!
Nice cache Andrew. I like the cord wrapped around the top for easier retrieval.
A lot more complex than digging a hole.
Cache emplacement and recovery orientation.
Thanks
I did not even realize how much I needed to know this.... Thank you again for being the best down and dirty SERE.instructor there is Lead the way and I follow!
Great tutorial as always major.
Excellent instructions thank you
GREAT video, it's almost like you have done this before!!!!!
Well done Andrew. A cache is definitely an answer to future needs in survival support situations.
Been doing this for awhile now. Great for stashing fishing gear in locations that require a long hike.
Really liked this one. Thank you Andrew.
Awesome like allways! 👍👍💯
This was one of your best. Outstanding info. A lot more to it than just digging a hole and burying. Bravo Zulu.
When you dump the dirt in the river…use moving water if possible….dump the dirt a little at a time…no big “ signature of a mud slick “ moving down stream
Hello !! Another good one, thank you !
Do not underestimate the moisture on amunitions. After some years these 22LR may show some rust as I discovered myself when I dig out some pvc tube...
I see that After the Cravate you’re speaking French again withe this Cache. In French it means « hidden place ». If you keep going you’ll speak fluent French !! Just Add some « Rendez-vous » and other ...
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Those crucial planning points were great.
Thanks !
Always good to have the extra knowledge...great chalk board!
Great channel and videos.
Nearly 40 years ago, I was acquainted with Ron Hood. I pass along his thinking and add to it. His retreat was about 100 miles out of Los Angeles. His plan was to use his motorcycle on railroad tracks. This avoided traffic jams. He had two caches on the way.
Whether you work downtown or live in an area that is routinely evacuated for a hurricane, the cache idea works. Everyone has old tax returns, ugly paintings from his mother-in-law, junk for which there is no room at home. If you add a sleeping pad, some clothing, some canned food and water, you have an urban cache in commercial storage.
1. you don't have to rush home and get caught up in traffic.
2. you don't have to join the mob leaving the Florida coast and paying a high price for a motel room.
Large P.B. containers slide into that tube size perfectly. For those things that need to stay even more dry.
I use plastic peanut butter jars for EVERYTHING. The small ones. 400gms.
A small sock with cat litter is also good for absorbing moisture
i got one or more caches and for the most part, my mo is similar to yours, but what i found really outstanding were your elaborations on cache emplacement.
thank you, major, well done!
Very good good points thank You 🙏 You and corporate corner are the best
great videos keep em coming
So possible solution to your problem here when you are taking the survival cash out to burry it, get a section of PVC that's a half cut crescent roughly the exact same size that you can burry and put underneath the cash itself. If you use the crescent to cradle the cache and then after you pull the cache itself out just flip the crescent pvc half upside-down and refill the hole, it would leave a very small indent the %99 of people wouldn't notice.
Fantastic. Something new for me to work on. Thank You!!!!
Outstanding information and great video, thank you for your service and stay safe.
You will be all set when the world ends hope you don’t need it ever.
I have seen a couple of good videos on making cache tubes and the use of various containers and on digging the actual cache, but your video is the first to suggest a probing stick and the change of appearance. Your planning is amazingly thorough and detailed.
1) Would you suggest having an extra tarp or large plastic bags and sheeting to retrieve the cache to avoid damage to our shelter tarps?
2) And if one is using a cooler or other larger container would you still remove it or leave the empty container buried reducing the need to find filler material and carry it out?
3) If one created a cache to supply or resupply a family would you prefer multiple but small, separately buried caches or one sufficiently large enough hole to hold one large single or a few small containers to reduce digging and replacement of soil and debris?
While I see how this applies to military practice, I have different ideas about survival caches as a civilian. Rather than making of these buried "stealth" caches for my own supposed use, I've always fancied building a visible, easy-to-find, easy-to-use cache of supplies (or a well-supplied shelter) for people who are injured and/or lost, to be put in a high-risk area. And to that end, one of *my* first priorities would be to include some contact info for SAR, law enforcement, and of course, me.
In that case, get the grey, electricians PVC. More UV resistant. Of course, half a dozen layers of shocking pink or blaze orange Krylon will go a long way toward UV resistance to, if you want it high viz.
@@tenchraven Thanks.
Thanks for yet another great video!
Great video as usual! A follow up on contents, what and why would be great information for new people to the channel, and old.
Good video as always bro.Put next on evasion movement.
Hi. Thank you once again for an oustanding no-nonsense vidoe! Stay safe. ATB. Nigel
Amazing! Very good tips! Thanks👍🏼
This is the kind of information content I love. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.
Best cache video I’ve seen. Well done!
Outstanding video, as always !!!
Outstanding video!!!!
Great stuff Major 🤠
Great info as always! Thanks for taking the time to make this video! I really like your plan for accessing and leaving the area.
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Simple, just take some of the forest debris from an area and set it aside. Then you take your soil and place it in small mounds and then litter it with the debris. The mounds will naturally mold into the landscape. When retrieving your cache is the dirt from those mounds to fill in the hole, then litter everything with debris.
Very USEFUL video, Ranger! I have shared it with other good men and to let them know about your excellent channel. Keep the faith and stay safe. Thanks for what you do.
No condoms? You savage, gonna raw dog it in the apocalypse.
Damn, I forgot to put that in as part of my cashe'. Oh man . . .
Great cache video. The pvc pipe is genuis.
Thanks a lot for this video. Good info and well presented, as always. Stay safe and happy Andrew!
This is excellent! Thanks Andrew. Alan R
Nicely done! I would lay the (orange here) retrieval line in a crisscross pattern along the top side of the cylinder to make it easier to find and grab, especially if you're in a hurry.
It might also be useful to keep the spoil in the bag and hide it in loose rocks or heavy brush in your off-site hide location. Then you could quickly retrieve the bag to replace it in the hole; meanwhile it would be located away from the primary site.
I know they 'say' that individual GPS devices cannot be tracked, but I would still think twice about using any digital device to locate & hide my cache, especially in case that system is down at the time! Great Video Nonetheless, Cheers From Australia!👊🤠👍