Stream of Consciousness/General Conversation Thread

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Bride's got in in her head to build a root cellar, readout, storm shelter, election shelter in the hill/ valley behind the house. So I guess I'll be shoveling and wacking on stuff in November. Probably a 12x12 or something. She and the kids have been chopping down 4-5 inch pines in 16 foot lenghts to use for the walls. Living on the frontier is alot of work.

 

[Raven]

Bride's got in in her head to build a root cellar, readout, storm shelter, election shelter in the hill/ valley behind the house. So I guess I'll be shoveling and wacking on stuff in November. Probably a 12x12 or something. She and the kids have been chopping down 4-5 inch pines in 16 foot lenghts to use for the walls. Living on the frontier is alot of work.

Precast concrete is cheap, lasts forever and it goes in the ground in one day. One and done

 

[Snake-Eyes]

Raven loves concrete.
Plenty of good reasons, too.

Build your bunker, Rebel. I wish I could.

Looked at these before:

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And Hesco barriers with all the displaced dirt. Here’s one DIY thread:

https://www.survivalistboards.com/threads/diy-hesco-barriers-desco.995950/

 

[MarkS]

Precast concrete is cheap, lasts forever and it goes in the ground in one day. One and done

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Waterproofed concrete buried in a hill with a drain field underneath and you will be fine. If I could afford it that’s what I would love to do for a home.
I built forms and poured concrete walls in my younger years.

 

[Raven]

Waterproofed concrete buried in a hill with a drain field underneath and you will be fine. If I could afford it that’s what I would love to do for a home.
I built forms and poured concrete walls in my younger years.

 

[MarkS]

That’s one of the reasons I want a concrete structure buried in the side of a hill. Ideally it would have a deep well for water and a natural gas well for powering the generator.

 

[Raven]

That’s one of the reasons I want a concrete structure buried in the side of a hill. Ideally it would have a deep well for water and a natural gas well for powering the generator.

Dont forget to O-ring seal it and include as many air tanks as you can. If possible buy a CO2 scrubber and a machine to release fresh oxygen from the H20 molecule. Its the air shafts that get people killed, found and radiated in every bunker movie. Its broken down machinery or lack of filters that makes long term habitation hard. No outside air... Gotta think like SEALAB1, nuclear submarine technology or even the ISS tech. They dont have to come up for air for months.

Without money, remember the Vietcong tunnel gas trap, using water in a tunnel as an air lock. Its the same technology under your bathroom sink saving your family from dying from methane gas