[paraxion]

A lot of people are pointing out flaws like the difficulty in screwing it in - although the original patent includes the use of a post-hole digger as a pilot hole. Nobody has mentioned the fact that - in the video at least - the deceased's head would be in the above-ground portion. Entering a cemetery would expose you to a large field of head-boxes. The idea of this on a hot day also concerns me: hermetically sealed is one thing, but steam pressure is pretty intense.

I propose an alteration: the unit be built with a large slot in the top, instead of the current capstan device. Then you could use a standard gravestone as a screwdriver...

[tomcam]

There will never be a funnier comment on HN than this one. Thank you for bestowing the phrase “large field of head-boxes” upon an undeserving world and for passing the baton so elegantly to /u/tantalor.

[Kluny]

Second place for "Then you could use a standard gravestone as a screwdriver..."

[tomcam]

Agreed. You almost never see that much comedy packed into such a small space.

[BizarroLand]

Mentally picturing 2 men using a grave stone as a 1/3 meter socket head is too funny, the ratchet making the chk-chk-chk-chk! as they wind up for another turn.

[tantalor]

"Phillips head"

[cwillu]

Robertson's head turning in his grave