Being a slow-poke smoker, my miserly little stash should last me until about age 108, and after that, perhaps it would be wise to quit.
How Much To Cellar
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Wait a minute, isn't a 50 gram tin 1.75oz?
Adjusting for inflation, Cosmic's closer on the total. Shit! That means I don't have enough tobacco!
Fully agree and I'm no youth-worshipper. The older I get, the wealthier my bank of memories and, hopefully, more extensive my wisdom. All best pondered through a cloud of pipe smoke!
I got tired of typing out the mixture, and I wrongly assumed everyone knew. I thought I invented it, but Cosmic got there first. Peter Stokkebye's Luxury Navy Flake and Luxury Twist Flake combined 50/50 for those who don't know. Sorry I didn't clarify. For the record, I never intended to block anyone.
Thanks. It's good to have a benchmark. You rock!The calculations are pretty simple and once you have the formula it's simple head math to determine what you will need to have in your cellar:
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 1 pound.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 1 pound per year. 2 pipes per day = 2 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
Sorry...... I'm a Stanford Nerd, it's a curse....
The calculations are pretty simple and once you have the formula it's simple head math to determine what you will need to have in your cellar:
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 1 pound.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 1 pound per year. 2 pipes per day = 2 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
Sorry...... I'm a Stanford Nerd, it's a curse....
You may want to check your math and conversion factors. 16 oz = 1 lb
To all you new guys grappling with the most important decision of your life, I will make it simple for you. You cellar until one of us says to stop. How easy is that, you don't even have to give it a second thought. We are the pros, you are the newbies. Rely on our years of expertise and we will have your cellars filled to the last tin you will smoke before taking your dirt nap. This is why we are here, trust us, we have never failed.
Go easy on him he went to Stanford!
I guess I should have had coffee before writing this 
Corrections are below:
The calculations are pretty simple and once you have the formula it's simple head math to determine what you will need to have in your cellar:
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 2 pounds.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 2 pounds per year. 2 pipes per day = 4 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
Corrections are below:The calculations are pretty simple and once you have the formula it's simple head math to determine what you will need to have in your cellar:
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 2 pounds.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 2 pounds per year. 2 pipes per day = 4 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
I like that Stanford math.
Let me know if you decide to sell any Stonehaven, I’ll take 5-10 lbs! LOL
I just went looking for a bag of Black XX that I know that I have, to send to Condorlover, I'll be damned if I can find it. But I did get to revisit "the stacks". I have enough to last several lifetimes, I think, calculations or no calculations. But I'll keep looking, it may be in the whole leaf bunker.
I've told my wife and kids that I intend to do as the nomadic native Americans did and go on my 'spirit walk' once/if I become too much of a burden. I intend to pack a little nap sack and wander off into the mountains somewhere and die in peace. I'll skip the whole put-me-in-a-home-somewhere-to-die-and-forget-about-me, thanks. My wife wasn't keen on the idea so I told her I'd carry some kind of tracking device that I'd turn on before I go but I expect they'll be fishing it out of a buzzards gullet anyway but I didn't tell her that. :D
Wayne, do what I do. Get a live in caretaker. Teach her how to clean your pipes and how to fill them. You don't want to be a burden to your family, so let a stranger handle it for you. My plan is to die with a pipe in one hand and a tin of tobacco in the other. I also have an alternate plan for the live in I have but we don't need to go down there just yet.
What if it's just a bad cold and you're not really dying. That could be a crushing anticlimactic moment as you trundle up the cul-de-sac to the snickers of your neighbors.
Thanks for doing the work.The calculations are pretty simple and once you have the formula it's simple head math to determine what you will need to have in your cellar:
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 1 pound.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 1 pound per year. 2 pipes per day = 2 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
Sorry...... I'm a Stanford Nerd, it's a curse....
