Our new model BE-6L. Lighter, simpler, lower price.
BURY 'EM! model 6L Interior dimensions 44" x 6" Shipping wt. 23 lbs. Volume 5.2 gallons
$194.95
During turbulent economic and political times it makes good sense to keep caches of important items in hidden locations away from your home. Properly used, your BURY ‘EM! tube can boost your chances of accessing a backup supply of essential emergency items in case your home position is compromised. Your 6M model BURY ‘EM! tube will hold 1 to 2 weeks’ worth of dry food staples (flour, beans, powdered milk) for one person, or shelter and clothing items, valuables, first aid materials, or a variety of emergency and survival tools and equipment.
BURY ‘EM! tube kit contains: 1 pressure-tested 6-inch PVC tube 1 six-inch expansion plug with stainless steel fittings 2 olive drab military Mylar bags 12" x 60" 1 knit fabric sleeve (makes two sleeves joined at bottom), 7” x 96" 10 cloth drawstring bags 6" x 10" 6 colored cord leashes for bags 2 sealed Hot-Hands O2 absorber packets (Open only at last moment.) 1 alcohol cleaning pad
You will need: rags, padding, plastic “peanuts” non-stick-surfaced clothes iron broomstick, thick dowel, or narrow wood scrap scissors pliers or wrench to tighten or loosen wing nut vacuum cleaner 2 plastic five-gallon buckets tarps or sheets of heavy-gage plastic shovel, hatchet for roots, other digging tools rope or long bag with strap for carrying tube
The BE-6L model uses an expanding neoprene rubber plug, tightened by means of a wing nut. All original metal parts were replaced with stainless steel for long-term underground exposure.
A tight-fitting fabric-reinforced neoprene washer covered with a stainless steel washer was added under the wing nut and the bolt threads were coated liberally with wax sealant to keep moisture out of the plug. The inner seal of fully expanded gasquet and neoprene washer under the carriage bolt head are the primary barrier to moisture intrusion.
Open end of tube is reinforced to double thickness to avoid any possibility of stress cracking from tightening expansion plug.
Despite the multiple layers of protection provided in your BURY ‘EM! tube kit, you should select non-perishable emergency items composed of plastics, ceramics, and/or stainless steel or other corrosion-resistant metals. Make sure any fully padded, wrapped, and bagged large items will fit.
1. Empty BURY ‘EM! tube of all parts.
2, Place 4-6 layers of soft clean rags in bottom of tube for padding.
3. Lubricate any metal parts of your emergency items for storage. No lubricants are included with kit because of highly variable individual preference ranging from use of light oils and silicone sprays to grease.
4. Two Mylar tube liners have been provided. Either use one inside the other for extra protection or save one for future re-use of tube.
5. Wrap any large items with plenty of cloth padding to eliminate any hard or sharp points that could wear on or puncture Mylar liners. Insert into provided cotton tubing. Twist tubing one complete turn and invert to achieve second wrap. With hands washed clean of lubricants, place fabric-wrapped large item(s) into Mylar bag with narrowest end facing the opening so bags of smaller items may be more easily added and removed. Be careful not to get any lubricant on Mylar liner openings so they can be properly heat-sealed.
5. Loosely fill cotton parts bags with any smaller items, lubricated if needed. (Do not lubricate food, clothing, or ammunition.) Provide extra wrapping for any hard, sharp, or pointed objects. Cinch and tie drawstrings. Cloth bags segregate different types of objects and help protect Mylar from puncture. Use doubled-over fabric sleeve inside Mylar liner for extra protection and fill with full cotton bags.
6. If there is additional space, consider adding other emergency items (small tools, first aid, rain poncho, protein bars, fire starter, etc.) If more than 6 cloth bags are needed, select something from your sock drawer that you can fill. Allow two-inch space at mouth of tube; do not overfill.
7. A perfect heat seal is essential. If you think any lubricant may have gotten on inside of Mylar liner openings, cleanse with tissue, then soapy sponge, then rinsed sponge, then with enclosed alcohol cleaning pad. Allow to dry thoroughly. If double-bagging, you will have to cut outer Mylar liner down to a few inches shorter than inner one so inner liner can be sealed, then folded down inside outer one to make room for outer liner to be sealed.
8. Plug in non-stick-surfaced clothes iron and set to "wool.” Have thick dowel, narrow board, or broomstick ready. When iron is hot, make short test seam near liner opening to see at what speed iron should travel to make good seal. (Make full seam closer to bag contents.)
9. With vacuum cleaner plugged in and ready, open sealed Hot-Hands O2 absorbers and place inside tube liner (inner liner if you are double-bagging) . They will begin absorbing oxygen immediately.
10. Quickly suck air out of Mylar liner with vacuum cleaner (inner liner first if you are double-bagging), flatten open end across dowel or broomstick leaving no wrinkles and run iron across the liner. Make seal wider by advancing the dowel or broom stick a little further out from initial heat seam. Once assured of good seam, use scissors to trim off excess Mylar beyond seam, fold and depress into tube or outer liner. Repeat with outer liner and you are almost ready to close up your BURY ‘EM! tube.
11. Once Mylar liners are sealed, pack top of tube with enough padding to keep contents from shifting and slamming into expansion plug during transportation and burial. Mylar is an impressive membrane but cannot withstand hammer blows. It could suffer from load shifting. Use rags, firmly wadded paper, or plastic packing "peanuts" to thoroughly fill empty spaces inside. (Bubble wrap pops too easily.) If expansion plug cannot be forced in all the way before tightening wing nut, remove some packing material and try again.
Add Hot-Hands O2 absorber packets to Mylar liner (above) just before sucking air out with vacuum cleaner.
Heat-sealing with clothes iron on setting for wool.
1. Once full tube has been topped off with plastic packing peanuts or other soft materials (but not bubble-wrap) to keep load from shifting inside BURY 'EM! tube, it's time to insert and tighten expansion plug. 2. Make sure plug flange is pressed all the way down onto tube rim, then begin tightening the wing nut. Once you have it as tight as you can comfortably get by hand, use a pair of pliers to exert a little more force on it to make certain of a good, strong seal. Remember to take pliers with you when you unearth your BURY 'EM! tube.
Here a pair of channel-lock pliers is used to tighten wing nut. If large channel-lock pliers, vise-grips, or pipe wrench are used, be careful not to use too much force to avoid breaking wing nut, stripping threads, or cracking plastic.
Realize that anything metal buried in your yard or hidden in your wall or attic can be easily located with a good metal detector. Therefore you should select an off-site location that is free from prying eyes as you dig and bury, a site also unlikely to be bulldozed or washed away by flooding or wave action and where children are unlikely to dig and metal-detectors are unlikely to be used. (Beaches, old foundations or train tracks, and empty city lots may not be good sites.) Select a spot that aligns with permanent features so you can relocate it easily.
BURY ‘EM! tube stowed inside reinforced carrying bag from a folding rocking chair. A rope tied tightly onto the shaft of the tube near each end would also work for one-person carry. Folding GI shovel, gloves, and sheets of plastic or small tarps can be carried inside 5-gallon plastic buckets or separate knapsack.
If you cram a lot of heavy stuff into it, your loaded BURY ‘EM! tube may feel like it’s full of lead! A strong person should still be able to carry it by means of a padded rope handle or long bag with strap. If not, two people can lash it securely to a pole and carry it between them. Use knapsack for GI shovel, gloves, hatchet, and tarps.
1. Spread two tarps to protect the surface from telltale soil spillage and position plastic buckets on them to load with excavated topsoil.
2. Remove ground litter carefully as if it were puzzle pieces and arrange it on one tarp, to be replaced afterward.
3. Carefully dig up and load leaf mold/topsoil layer into buckets and pile deeper layers of soil and rocks onto other tarp until you have a hole of the right size and depth. Your BURY ‘EM! tube should be covered by no less than a foot of soil. Two feet would be safer in case of fire.
4. Place BURY ‘EM! tube in hole and backfill. Tamp the earth well as you bury so soil will not settle and leave a telltale depression.
5. Replace topsoil then surface debris to disguise your burial site.
6. Load excess soil into buckets and fold tarps carefully so no soil particles are left on top of surface as evidence of burial location. Dump buckets full of earth a good distance away where it won't be noticed.
Be very careful not to attract attention in returning to the site. Unless you have gone to unearth the BURY ‘EM! tube and retrieve its contents, inspect the location from some distance away without stopping so that anyone following you will not deduce the location of your buried cache. Remember, paranoia is healthy in a post-collapse or crisis environment. Train yourself to think and act as if your survival is at stake.
Hole ready for BURY ‘EM! tube. Note top layer of leaves placed on upper left tarp and soil and rocks piled on lower right tarp.
This product is offered in good faith to assist with family emergency preparedness but carries no warranty against loss from fire, moisture, theft, or animal damage, especially because user application cannot be controlled. Store all items at your own risk.
In case any portion of this procedure becomes outlawed for any item or items, do not follow it. For public safety reasons firearm burial is specifically not recommended.
Firearm burial is specifically not recommended for public safety reasons. How about a BB gun instead?
Special care must be taken to place every speck of fresh earth on the tarp or plastic sheet so that no telltale trace is left behind. To successfully conceal your BURY ‘EM! tube and its contents you must leave the burial site indistinguishable from the surrounding surface. To relocate your site you will need to position the hole along intersecting lines of permanent landscape features or else devise some other means of saving its precise coordinates.
Here you see one our old-style models lying in its hole before being covered with earth.
BURY 'EM! model 6L
Special care must be taken to place every speck of fresh earth on the tarp or plastic sheet so that no telltale trace is left behind. To successfully conceal your BURY ‘EM! tube and its contents you must leave the burial site indistinguishable from the surrounding surface. To relocate your site you will need to position the hole along intersecting lines of permanent landscape features or else devise some other means of saving its precise coordinates.
