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Gentlemen,
I'm pulling the trigger on the plan.
I want this thing to be water tight, so glued PVC is what I'm going with.
The local supplier (who I often work with) is making me a tube that will be:
-Four foot long section of 8" inside dia. PVC with a glued cap on bottom (definitely water tight)
-This vessel will have a screw top cap that will extend slightly above the ground surface

The 15 cigar caddy will fit into a this tube. I could stack two 15 (or smaller units) into the tube. Removing the foam will give me space in the caddy to pack in more cigars. I will insert a lifting device so that I can get to them.

I think I can safely say that this system will keep 40+ cigars at good temps in the heat of summer.

I'm picking up the tube tomorrow and will bury it on Thursday. I'll post pictures of it before I start digging.

I'll be sure not to put it's GPS coordinates on any geocaching websites!:D

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Or better yet, one of those survival shelters like in The Road. Also complete with ventilation, bedding, toilet & shower facilities, a few krugerrands and loaded weapons to help withstand the cannibalistic days of the post-apocalypse.

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Perhaps I should demo my entire house and build a new one with a basement. Surely, this would be much easier than digging a hole and inserting an 8" dia. pipe.

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Now that’s just silly.

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I say do it. But here's what you have to do....Turn it into a science project for all the CA BOTL's to watch....Take pics of the project and the progress, and then check back with it periodically to see how they are doing, take more pics with more results, then finally smoke them and post your results.

The Great Cigar Burial.....

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Oh, come now, don't be ridiculous! You shouldn't demo the entire house, you should embark on a long and very expensive renovation project wherein the contractors dig out and build the basement under the existing house! Sheesh, only cheaters would go the demo route.

:r j/k of course :D

Have you already purchased the cigar caddies? Are they the perfectly airtight/watertight model? The reason I ask about the airtightness ... condensation due to differences in air temp. Might need to dig the hole, set the apparatus up, insert a thermometer and find out the temp at the depth you'll be storing, get your cigar caddies to that temp, THEN drop them in the tube. But I dunno, I'm no heat/air man nor am I an engineer.

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Once upon a time I thought I had heard it all.

Let er rip, bro! :tu

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Did somebody call me?

MCS

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:r

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Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

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Ya know, I hate to be the one to inform you of this but gophers have been known to chew through PVC. There have also been unsubstantiated reports of subterranean weasels being attracted to, and attacking PVC. You may want to considered flooding the pipe with a mildly lethal gas to protect against invading varmints.









:=:

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And to poison your cigars in case any beavers try to smoke them.

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Good point. Forgot about those sneaky beavers. :(

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http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/pictur...pictureid=4460

I thought it deserved a picture.

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My cat brought me a weasel the day before yesterday. He just ripped the head off and left both parts by the back door.
I'm guessing weasels aren't all that tasty, because he also left me three giant piles of barf.
It makes me believe you have to remove the venom sacs before you eat a weasel.
The next day he brought me a mouse. He's got no stick-to-it-iveness.
Which brings me to the moral of this story...
Never send a weasel to do a ferret's job.

Please fasten your seatbelts, place your seats in the full upright position and return to your regularly scheduled programming.

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Don't listen to these guys..do it and take pictures! :banger

P.S. make sure you make a treasure map or you will never find them..and you have to wear an eye patch too while hunting for them..and say ARRRRR a lot.

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Encode the treasure map and hold a contest for the first one to figure it out.

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Fortunately, beavers, weasels and gophers all have trouble using lighters.

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When are we doing this in your backyard??? I'll bring the backhoe!

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Hire this Man:
http://truthpraiseandhelp.files.word...pg?w=300&h=211

"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote."

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Am I the only person who thinks 4' is too long? Lets be serious here, how are you going to get the boxes out of a small diameter 4' deep pit?

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You put the cat in first! :banger;s

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How many acres do you think DaKlugs would need to get his stash underground? Do you think Tara would cover it?

MCS

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A system of pulleys--duh...! ;)


WOOO HOOO, PROJECT #2!

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Hydraulics.

For 8" dia. you just need an auger.
With a backhoe you would have the whole root cellar in just as much time.

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I'm prescient--from today's USA Today:

Doomsday shelters making a comeback

:tf

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Haha, this is so epic!

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Gophers and weasels and squirrels, oh my!

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OK, I'm hooked. Plz post photos of your work.

http://images.wildammo.com/wp-conten...07/f_celeb.gif

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Looks like excessive end zone celebration to me. Good thing they didn't pull out a Sharpie.

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Ditto, keeps 'em cool and fresh!

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Gentlemen,

PROJECT UPDATE:

I picked up the 8" dia. PVC pipe yesterday. It has a cap glued on one end and a slip on cap for the top. I will later fix a lock through the top lid.
The hole is dug and the pipe is now in place. I will post photos soon. I have 60 cigars coming today via UPS. I also received my RH beads today from hcmcigarbeads.com.
Question: Should I adjust my beads from 65 to 70 percent humidity?
I know I need to let them set in my caddys for a couple of weeks first, but should I adjust them if up to 70* or leave them where they are (assuming they are between 65 and 70).
I have two 15 and one 10 cigar caddys that I will "put in the hole" and connect to a hook at the top of the pipe with heavy strings. I'll number the caddys and keep an inventory of what's in which box.

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Pics!

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This needs pics of course... but really dude, all you needed was a cooler. Waste of time in my opinion. I also suspect that within a month you will buy a cooler out of sheer frustration with digging up your cigars every time you want a smoke.

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Here is the 8" PVC tube. It's 54" tall!
http://www.bicyclecart.com/Tube_8_inch_dia_SDR_35.jpg

Hook for rope:
http://www.bicyclecart.com/hook.jpg

Lid:
http://www.bicyclecart.com/lid.jpg

Looking down tube:
http://www.bicyclecart.com/down_tube.jpg

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Hole with tube in it:
http://www.bicyclecart.com/hole_dug%20tube_inserted.jpg
http://www.bicyclecart.com/another.jpg

Cigar Caddy (15) on a "leash":
http://www.bicyclecart.com/cigar_caddy_15_on_rope.jpg

Caddy in tube:
http://www.bicyclecart.com/caddy_in_tube.jpg

Final storage photo:
http://www.bicyclecart.com/painted%20lid.jpg

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Wheres the hole?! Put a grave marker over it, see what your neighbors say.

Edit: You just posted the pics.

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Holy sh!t! You did it! Bravo! That's kinda cool. Unconventional, but cool. Thanks for the pics. This rocks! :banger

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I would rather this than trying to keep a cooler cool by having to continually add ice and worry about the temperature. This tube will keep things nice and cool. I can easily access cigars and will keep them in the house once ambient temps go down.

I'll put a lock on it later today.

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Did the leaves from your Oak tree fall early this year? :=:


MCS

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Thank you, thank you. I'm very happy with the results. It was a deep hole. The actual digging took me about an hour. I went through some pretty heavy soil and some roots needed to be cut but everything went pretty smooth.

I now have the tiniest basement in North America!

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I put it in a part of our yard that is left "natural" (I don't rake there).

I'll probably paint the cap to look leafy.

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Congrats!!!

Don't listen to us Naysayers!!! Pretty soon we'll all be digging holes!!!;)

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Impressive, but what you really need to do is buy a pole with a hook and just let them stack..... ORRRRRR REALLLY strong Magnets! :D!! JK awesome unconventional storage!

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Well, I think to make this complete, you should PM an admin and have them change your name from "Hoosierguy" to "Squirreldude".

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Now, for your next project, put a 36" pipe down there with a storage rack and some pulleys... you'll be able to store EVERYTHING... run power to it so its run by a hydraulic winch!!! oooohhhh that'd be awesome!

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Very cool!!! :tu

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Wow, what a unique solution to a common problem. What's the temp like in the ground?