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Fraggle Rock · 04-08-2011, 12:03 AM

That is bad ass!! Thanks for posting some pics, I'd love to have something like this someday!!

CannaBunkerMan · 04-08-2011, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Fraggle Rock

That is bad ass!! Thanks for posting some pics, I'd love to have something like this someday!!

Hopefully it will be legalized, and you won't need it. Unless the nukes fly, in which case you won't be able to live without one.

AOD2012 · 04-08-2011, 02:53 AM

oh man canna, you are living my dream right now. have one more year and ill have my bachelors in architecture.. lets just say this is what my specialty will be hopefully hahaha.
overgrow it.

aod

CannaBunkerMan · 04-08-2011, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by AOD2012

oh man canna, you are living my dream right now. have one more year and ill have my bachelors in architecture.. lets just say this is what my specialty will be hopefully hahaha.
overgrow it.

aod

I'll post a price list for everything involved, to give people an idea of what something like this would cost. I haven't put it together yet, but I'd guess I spent $40k by the time everything was/is done. $0 in labor is a nice number too, since I completed everything by myself.

Well, there was a few harvests of trimming labor, paid for in kind.

Actually, the electric company does most of the heavy lifting. From my wallet. When the room is lit, I can top $1000/month just there.

It's really hard to come up with a number, since I'm still working on things, and I've been collecting equipment for 15 years or so.

CannaBunkerMan · 04-08-2011, 03:22 AM

5 more.

#1 = Big pile of dirt of the same volume as the freshly concealed stairwell.
#2= Getting ready to dig
#3 = Whoa, that first step's a doozy.
#4 = Big hole where my patio used to be.
#5 = I could use an army of these little fuckers, and they're fun to drive drunk too! He has a bigger brother that came to visit, I'll see if I can find a shot of him. He only stayed for a couple of days though.

CannaBunkerMan · 04-08-2011, 03:29 AM

As much as I love the skid steer, it did have a horrible tendency of ripping up my lawn.

You can see the stairwell that I built over the winter. I'll cut out the back of the bulkhead, and put it on hinges for the primary entrance.

I'm starting to pour the footer in the 3rd picture. Unfortunately, the soil in my area is all sandy loam, and I started having a problem with dirt avalanches. The result of one of these diravalanches can be seen in the middle.

My concrete mixer will show up somewhere in here. I swear, that thing is a tool of the devil. When I bought it, it was already 3rd hand, and had been used commercially. It's a 3 cu/ft mixer, and I never thought it would finish the job. 550 batches later (one 5 gal bucket sand, one gravel, .5 cement), it was still turning. It had no bearings when I got it, so it made a horrible noise. Anyway...

In the last two pictures you can see the 1st course of blocks being laid.

gardenbug · 04-08-2011, 03:35 AM

Not sure if you are worried about it or not but that tractor pic has info that points to what city you are in, might want to edit it.

CannaBunkerMan · 04-08-2011, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by gardenbug

Not sure if you are worried about it or not but that tractor pic has info that points to what city you are in, might want to edit it.

Really? Where?

Thanks!

Tuhder · 04-08-2011, 08:47 AM

Thats so fuckin slick, It sure costs to be truly stealth.

CannaBunkerMan · 04-08-2011, 02:47 PM

Now it's just playing with blocks. Very heavy blocks that scrape up your knuckles. Soooooooooo much digging! I actually backfilled all of this by hand to save money and scrutiny by renting another excavator. Mistake. Oh, now that I'm mentioning mistakes, I'd never build something like this again out of blocks. Actually, I'd NEVER EVER mix any more concrete by hand. That's what those huge trucks are for. It's actually cheaper to have it delivered, and you don't have to shovel any gravel. Shoveling gravel sucks. It's just as heavy as sand, but each time you hit the gravel with the shovel, you get a nice shockwave through the arms that really hurts after a while.
Ok, back to the pictures. Inbetween the 2nd and 3rd pictures, I removed the collapsed dirt, and used it to partially backfill the foundation. You can't really see it all that well, but I used a sealant on the outside of the walls to keep the water out.

The fourth picture shows some of the staging that I built. Everything in this project is heavy. Either heavy, or REALLY heavy. The staging is no exception.

The last couple of pictures show the wall under the house's foundation being finished. I designed the placement of the bunker to maximize the use of existing foundation walls to save in costs and time.

Speaking of time and money, I wanted to make the structure as strong as possible, so again, like with the stairwell, filled all of the hollow cores in the blocks, and used rebar to tie everything together. I wanted to lay some horizontal rebar, but I forgot to buy the special notched blocks to do that with. Two years later, there are no cracks so I think that decission turned out okay.

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gardenbug Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 266	Not sure if you are worried about it or not but that tractor pic has info that points to what city you are in, might want to edit it.
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Fraggle Rock Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 216	That is bad ass!! Thanks for posting some pics, I'd love to have something like this someday!!
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04-08-2011, 03:22 AM	#25
CannaBunkerMan Enormous Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North East Posts: 1,253	5 more. #1 = Big pile of dirt of the same volume as the freshly concealed stairwell. #2= Getting ready to dig #3 = Whoa, that first step's a doozy. #4 = Big hole where my patio used to be. #5 = I could use an army of these little fuckers, and they're fun to drive drunk too! He has a bigger brother that came to visit, I'll see if I can find a shot of him. He only stayed for a couple of days though.
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04-08-2011, 03:29 AM	#26
CannaBunkerMan Enormous Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North East Posts: 1,253	As much as I love the skid steer, it did have a horrible tendency of ripping up my lawn. You can see the stairwell that I built over the winter. I'll cut out the back of the bulkhead, and put it on hinges for the primary entrance. I'm starting to pour the footer in the 3rd picture. Unfortunately, the soil in my area is all sandy loam, and I started having a problem with dirt avalanches. The result of one of these diravalanches can be seen in the middle. My concrete mixer will show up somewhere in here. I swear, that thing is a tool of the devil. When I bought it, it was already 3rd hand, and had been used commercially. It's a 3 cu/ft mixer, and I never thought it would finish the job. 550 batches later (one 5 gal bucket sand, one gravel, .5 cement), it was still turning. It had no bearings when I got it, so it made a horrible noise. Anyway... In the last two pictures you can see the 1st course of blocks being laid.
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04-08-2011, 08:47 AM	#29
Tuhder Oh,Hi! Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Paia, Maui Posts: 180	Thats so fuckin slick, It sure costs to be truly stealth.
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04-08-2011, 02:47 PM	#30
CannaBunkerMan Enormous Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North East Posts: 1,253	Now it's just playing with blocks. Very heavy blocks that scrape up your knuckles. Soooooooooo much digging! I actually backfilled all of this by hand to save money and scrutiny by renting another excavator. Mistake. Oh, now that I'm mentioning mistakes, I'd never build something like this again out of blocks. Actually, I'd NEVER EVER mix any more concrete by hand. That's what those huge trucks are for. It's actually cheaper to have it delivered, and you don't have to shovel any gravel. Shoveling gravel sucks. It's just as heavy as sand, but each time you hit the gravel with the shovel, you get a nice shockwave through the arms that really hurts after a while. Ok, back to the pictures. Inbetween the 2nd and 3rd pictures, I removed the collapsed dirt, and used it to partially backfill the foundation. You can't really see it all that well, but I used a sealant on the outside of the walls to keep the water out. The fourth picture shows some of the staging that I built. Everything in this project is heavy. Either heavy, or REALLY heavy. The staging is no exception. The last couple of pictures show the wall under the house's foundation being finished. I designed the placement of the bunker to maximize the use of existing foundation walls to save in costs and time. Speaking of time and money, I wanted to make the structure as strong as possible, so again, like with the stairwell, filled all of the hollow cores in the blocks, and used rebar to tie everything together. I wanted to lay some horizontal rebar, but I forgot to buy the special notched blocks to do that with. Two years later, there are no cracks so I think that decission turned out okay.
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