[samba]

This is fucking awesome!!!
Just don't lock your daughter in there for 15 years

[CannaBunkerMan]

Originally Posted by samba

This is fucking awesome!!!
Just don't lock your daughter in there for 15 years

It's funny that you mention that. A close friend of mine wondered where all of the vietnamese children were. Then I told him how inappropriate that comment was.

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[Tuhder]

Originally Posted by CannaBunkerMan

It's funny that you mention that. A close friend of mine wondered where all of the vietnamese children were. Then I told him how inappropriate that comment was.

Hahaha. Thats so messed up! Hahaha.

[CannaBunkerMan]

CBM..you look to have a very very well thought out plan of attack. Mind if I ask how long you planned for, before actually starting to dig?
edit: and what made you decide to go underground? 100% stealth?

I spent about a year planning, taking measurements of the foundations, and building my virtual house in Google's Sketchup. I built several "virtual" bunkers board by board, so I could assemble a materials list to price out different configurations.

I went underground, since the last indoor garden was in the attic, and had uncontrolable temperature flux. I lost a crop to heat and got to thinking... I went underground for stealth and temperature regulation. That, and I've always dreamt of burying a few cargo containers in my back yard, like every other grower on the planet.

I had a job that I hated, but it paid okay, so I started saving. As soon as my "fundraising" was over, I asked my boss for a 100% raise. This was at a time that we had a pay freeze at company X. They refused, but not after offering me a 25% raise. Pay-freeze, huh? So, I told them that they were fired, and left.

I had originally hired a friend to help with the construction, but he was worthless, so I fired him too. Let's call this guy the King of Rust. Everything he touched would just rust away. The moral of that story was that, "professionals" usually talk mostly out of their asses. In other words, if you research it well enough, you can do anything yourself, and usually save yourself a headache, as well as one more person to know your business.

If I had the whole thing to do over again, I'd use forms, and a concrete truck. The king of rust convinced me that mixing my own concrete would be safer. To tell you the truth, I'd rather 10 concrete companies know about my bunker, than to have this putz know about it. At least I have leverage on TKOR.

I lost 50 pounds mixing concrete, and I got pretty sick/depressed by the time I was done. Did I mention shoveling gravel sucks? I can't believe that's one way the Nazis killed the Jews, just to put them to work in the gravel pits. Horrible. Anyway, leave the concrete mixing to the pros, unless you're a sadist like me.

Another negative was that the summer of 2009 was super rainy, and the mosquitos were AWFUL. At least now that I have that whole malaria thing over with... (jk) I think you'll see a few of those giant power fans in the pictures. I called them my "no-squito cone of silence" fans. Mixing concrete in the rain sucks too.

Concrete is one of the coolest things that I know of. Mix some shit together, and make rock? COOL! That being said, I HATE concrete with a passion. I hope to never need to mix concrete ever ever again.

[Tuhder]

I had a job that I hated, but it paid okay, so I started saving. As soon as my "fundraising" was over, I asked my boss for a 100% raise. This was at a time that we had a pay freeze at company X. They refused, but not after offering me a 25% raise. Pay-freeze, huh? So, I told them that they were fired, and left.

Thats funny, This is EXACTLY what im up to right now. Im going into the lions den with my life raft already inflated and asking for a 105% raise. Funny thing is, I want them to say no and their probably going to say yes.

I love the thread, But I think it would be better suited in grow room designs & equipment.

[AOD2012]

Originally Posted by CannaBunkerMan

The moral of that story was that, "professionals" usually talk mostly out of their asses. In other words, if you research it well enough, you can do anything yourself, and usually save yourself a headache, as well as one more person to know your business.

could not have said it better myself.

[Dr. Penguin]

I used to do this for a living and I know it is damn hard work. Then I realized you did it alone.....

Now that I've shoveled my jaw back off the floor, awesome fucking job so far! I'm excited to see the rest of the progress and hopefully some of the fruits of the project!

[CannaBunkerMan]

Originally Posted by Dr. Penguin

I used to do this for a living and I know it is damn hard work. Then I realized you did it alone.....

Now that I've shoveled my jaw back off the floor, awesome fucking job so far! I'm excited to see the rest of the progress and hopefully some of the fruits of the project!

The fruits are currently being enjoyed. I stumbled across a random clone of some Green Crack about a year and a half back. Fucking awesome buds, man!

To give some more scale to the project, I used 150 x 90lb bags of cement. Each bag would get me about 6 cu/ft (I mixed it strong). That's 33.3 yards, or roughly 3 cement trucks worth of mixing. A standard bag of concrete will get you about 1/3 cu/ft. If I bought bags of concrete instead, I'd need... damn, my mental calculator broke. A friggin' frig ton of them, that's what I'd guess.

[CannaBunkerMan]

These next 6 are from finishing off the top course of blocks.

Do you like my house jack? It looks just like a car jack, but it's used for houses.

One of my main concerns was to get everything finished and backfilled as soon as possible. This is my pants down moment, don't giggle. From breaking ground with the excavator, this point is about 10 days in, and I was busting my ass like I never thought possible. I took a little bit of a break and slowed down some after pouring all of the concrete and backfilling. There's still a lot ahead, since I still haven't poured the floor and celing slab yet...