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Tunnel Trek
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2016
I'm Darren. I'm an Englishman living in the NE of Scotland. This channel is my way of sharing what I get up to in this part of the world. Lately this involves bunker building, mud larking, beachcombing, and urbexing - so nothing out of the ordinary here. Additionally I am a full time chef and like to share cooking tips. Outside of work I am a member of the local community council and offer my hand at taking care of the green spaces around town. To say I'm a busy guy is an understatement.
Come along for the trek!
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Come along for the trek!
If you would like to support this channel you can do so by simply liking, subscribing and commenting. I really enjoy reading all the comments. You can even support financially if you are able to. Simply by visiting either of the following links. The former is a list I created of mainly tools, which will help me tremendously. Any such purchases will be greatly appreciated!
www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/20QKAUQR6YP19?ref_=wl_share
buymeacoffee.com/tunneltrek
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Episode 28 - Digging in the secret bunker again
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In this episode I install the last of the sleepers which completes the greenhouse floor... amongst a few surprises... Music credits - The Shins
Episode 25 - Welcome to the jungle... gym
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Episode 25 - Welcome to the jungle... gym
Episode 23 - Installing joists in the secret bunker
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Episode 23 - Installing joists in the secret bunker
Episode 22 - Honey, I shrunk the tools
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Episode 22 - Honey, I shrunk the tools
Episode 21 - Cleaning up the secret bunker after Storm Bert
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Episode 21 - Cleaning up the secret bunker after Storm Bert
Episode 20 - My secret bunker is frozen solid
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Episode 20 - My secret bunker is frozen solid
Episode 15 - Halloween in the secret bunker
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Episode 15 - Halloween in the secret bunker
Episode 14 - Secret bunker archaeological finds
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Episode 14 - Secret bunker archaeological finds
Episode 10 (Part 2) - One small scoop for man...
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Episode 10 (Part 2) - One small scoop for man...
Episode 4 - Recommending other bunker builders
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Episode 4 - Recommending other bunker builders
I'm late to the party but Happy birthday mate and congrats on the new job. The saw horse looks great. I have an old Black and Decker fold out one that is still going strong after almost 4 decades.
Many thanks Lex. Already made good use of it today!
I have two crappy saw horses.. I'll show you one day. Yours look good. All that snow reminds me of this one time at band camp... oh, no that's a different memory 😁.. a job I did once, in the snow, on a mountain, in a blizzard, it was terrible. Give me dust storms and tiger snakes any day.
Happy belated birthday!! Congratulations on the new job I love innis and gunn and the green is my favorite. Those are delicious. They quit selling them at my local stores
Many thanks. Just done some googling and I presume you're talking about 50 shades of green. If I come across one I'll review it specifically for you
@@TunnelTrek no the one you were having in the video. I love that one
@@Mrdawhipah I see. I've only ever had it on draught. It's delicious. I do enjoy Lost Lager by Brewdog, a refreshing lager.
@@TunnelTrek I'll try to look around. I love the brew review
You need a gimble to film any walking and exploring videos, look up how to make make one.
I will do, cheers
Heard you give a shout out in the video for my old home town, Queensferry just outside Dunfermline, great video!
@@philnewman1110 Yes, Queensferry also features in one of my older videos also. If I remember which one, I'll mention it below. It's a lovely place.
cant hear you over the video about a crazy lady mistaking spots in her eyes for UFO's
The man flu in Aberdeen has been brutal 😷
@@thisisus1307 Absolutely, anywhere I go people are coughing and spluttering and dropping like flies with it. I went from no symptoms to being unable to walk in 12 hours. I took a few days off work, went back and still felt like crap. I just have a persistent cough remaining, but I have asthma so it will take time for my lungs to recover. The cold weather and saw dust in my workshop isn't doing me any favours.
Been watching you for a while and finally decided to tick the box, the content on this is very good, and the music is just fantastic, make more like this and I’m sure it will work. Well done
@@philnewman1110 Just on my lunch break at work. Very nice to hear, thank you for your kind comments. I'm only just getting started my man. I've learnt so much over the past few months regarding editing and camera work. I knew I had to share my shenanigans even though my first videos were as basic as they come. I'm glad you're enjoying, welcome aboard fellow Trekkie
Cracker of an episode mate! The hatch frame is looking really good. I guessed a sump pump so got it wrong again but you enlightened me :-) The ladder was a good score. I think it's a rite of passage building a bunker that you'll injure yourself in some manner so now you've got that behind you. I fell off a ladder, bounced off the top of a fence with my rib cage, reconnected with the ladder with multiple body parts and finished up on the ground while installing a solar panel for the bunker. Love the mascot and challenge accepted 🙂
Cheers mate. Chuffed with the ladder. Work light is a game changer. I remember the episode where you were speaking about your injury. It sounded very sore. Yeah glad to have mine out the way. Pretty stupid of me and it was early in the morning and I hadn't fully woken up yet, which no doubt helped with the pain.
2025 will be the year to rock on, and be in search of a mascot.
All the best for 2025!
@@grahamcameron7628 Cheers Graham
Its coming along grand. Great job fitting that last floor board in.
@@Mrdawhip Cheers mate. I'm really pleased with them as they're reclaimed but practically brand new. They've been in my workshop for a while taking up a huge amount of space, so I'm glad to have my workshop back. Even the greenhouse windows are reclaimed. They're actually old COVID barriers from the gym at my work.
@@TunnelTrek wow Way to be resourceful. Those are amazing pieces of timber there. Very thick, should hold anything you throw on them. 'ell could probably hold all of @LexsBudgetBunkerBuild walls by themselves hahah
That's looking really good. It will be good to see you digging in there.
@@SubterraneanRalph Cheers. That's in next week's video mate! Along with a couple of surprises haha. Happy new year Ralph
The floor and cladding looks great mate. Just going to throw an idea out there regarding the garage wall - rather than cladding it how about giving it a nice thick coat of paint? That'll bind the stone finish to it, make it less abrasive and not take up any room. The cladding is going to eat up 50mm of width otherwise. I'd paint it white to reflect a bit more of the light around. Probably cheaper and quicker to do as well.
I'll have a think mate. The abrasiveness is bugging me. I like the idea of a bright white. Also your idea of an under pond dome is a must! Amazing idea which I'm excited to complete next year. Happy new year Lex
Here in the states we have a barrier paint primer called kilz. Works brilliant
The hatch may be overly heavy with that wood, You want to have a 2 door split hatch.
Excellent suggestion, thank you. Something I hadn't considered
I like your idea for the pond but how about a viewing dome in the bottom of the pond? That'll allow you to look around more and will be less likely to be covered in silt than a flat piece of glass. Merry Xmas mate :-)
@@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild See this is why I asked you guys. A dome would be amazing. That's a salvage yard or eBay job!
Merry Christmas Not a good idea for the pond unless you know it will be completely sealed up and will never flood. Otherwise you're gonna have a nice bunker for a merfolk
Yeah it'll be sealed up properly. Lex has suggested a dome which I absolutely love this suggestion. It would look amazing and unique
Your bunker is coming up nice with the floor / roof.
Thanks mate. I'm pleased with the flooring. Not rushing it as I don't want to mess it up
Just an idea, you might be able to use some truck hood hinges to help with your hatch if you can find a way to attach them. Could go with the ones that hold them the hood up by themselves or the ones that just assist opening and have to have a prop bar to hold it up after wards. I know truck hoods can be pretty heavy so they might help out.
Would look into the older steel trucks, 80's or so. Most of them didn't have prop rods and if it could hold those thick and solid hoods(bonnets over there) it would hold his hatch.
I'll score reclamation yards and eBay and the like, cheers
The greenhouse floor is looking really strong. Looks like really nice wood. All I can get is low quality pine (the good stuff is all exported).
Cheers, I'm very pleased with it. Picked it up cheap and stored them in the garage for ages. Pleased they are leaving the garage so I can get my workshop back tidy and organised and also to have a greenhouse floor again!
Hey mate, when you cut timber move the chock underneath to the other side of the saw. It will stop it pinching like it did. You need to let the cutoff piece fall. Pinching is very dangerous. Nice work though buddy.
@@BackyardBunkerBuilder will do cheers. It's my mates saw which he lent me for this project so still getting to grips with it
To save using the handsaw, you need to adjust the depth of cut on the circular saw..
It's lugging the sleepers around that's the tiring part. They're very long and heavy. Coupling that with clambering in and out the bunker multiple times is exhausting. On the mend though.
No good about still being crook. At least you've improved. Don't you get pinged for copyright for having that music at the end ?
@@SubterraneanRalphNot yet, but it states it's copyrighted in the thumbnail and my audience is limited. Will see what happens as I'm not too sure to be honest.
I recommend the goldscrew range from Screwfix. There are two branches in Aberdeen AB11 and AB23.
@@davelowe1977 Cheers man. I use Screwfix for everything anyway pretty much. In fact I got a new pair of boots from Screwfix which I broke in today but will feature in the next video
That will be nice and solid with those boards on top. If you want to be extra firm you could put some 45's in the corners but it probably doesn't need it. The flat membrane effect of the top boards will stiffen it all up anyway.
@@SubterraneanRalph 45's is something I'm considering once I have the whole floor done. Nothing wrong with some over engineering. I have the timber after all. The floor will also be supported on all sides with concrete and rebar in time.
@@TunnelTrek it will be hard to put them on when you have the boards screwed down
Im a little concerned the concrete posts are just floating at this point, Surprised the wind hasn't blown your greenhouse away yet.
The posts are solid and still supported underneath. I was careful not to excavate too much under them. The side where the posts are are not of concern and will be concreted soon. Rebar will also be added. Wind is not an issue whatsoever. Water is my only area of concern at the moment. Timber arriving any day now for cladding
I tried to comment earlier but it wouldn't load. With how thick those beans are and how narrow your greenhouse is you could probably get away with running a full joist to where you are going to put the hatch door and use a simple interlocking joint on the joist and support runners that way
@@Mrdawhip Good suggestion. Still feeling pretty rancid so the nocturnal bunker building won't commence again until Tuesday evening at the earliest 😂. I only have one day off work until boxing day, very typical this time of year for a chef. Still looking forward to having a more practical and usable space again so I can begin cladding the greenhouse soon. It's going to get pretty stealthy real quick
That's some great progress especially considering you were sick. I couldn't even be bothered watching TV when I had covid and here you are out there in sub-zero temperatures building a bunker!
My Mrs thought I was completely insane to do this. Needed some fresh air in the lungs and get the blood pumping! 💪 Back to work today but still shouldn't be back until Monday at the earliest
-4 🥶.. I think your -4 is like my 10... too bloody cold to go outside
@@SubterraneanRalph haha I long for double figures again. Or even an hour or two of more sunshine.
Are you using exterior use screws? I mention it because I have been in my house long enough now that the non exterior use screws I have been using are starting to fail as they rust away.
@@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild Yeah exterior use screws and pressure treated joists.
They don't need screwing in they are hammer fixing are they not?
@@That1ufo Most are, some require some further persuasion
Sump is good. I'd dig it deeper while it's dry. The bunding around your bunker is a good idea. I wonder how much will seep in. That sand would be good in my garden to break up the clay "soil" here.
Saturday I plan on taking the sump down to 7 feet. Mostly to scout out the work I have ahead of me soil wise
You are welcome to my sand 😂
@@TunnelTrek that's also a good reason to do it while you can. I'm keen to see what's down there.
Hey thanks for the shout out. In the video I share i more so was trying to show how they went through and did sections of "pillars" of sorts to stabilize the upper level. Then went back through to finish up the rest of the sections. In that process you are keeping support while you build the supportive structure
@@Mrdawhip No worries, I'm always keen to learn from others. Yeah I watched it. Lots to think about. If you haven't seen turbo conquering mega eagle, I recommend it. He has a pretty interesting method
@@TunnelTrek definitely have. I binge watched them but I haven't seen any updates in quite a while.
@@MrdawhipYeah, he's a great watch. Very intelligent and practical guy. Hopefully he's filming away for some more videos.
You're making great progress mate - six foot is a great depth because at least if you change your mind about building a bunker you have a ready made grave 😅
@@LexsBudgetBunkerBuild I'm sure this would delight Mrs Trek. I joke it's for all the pets actually. I bet you're itching to tunnel sideways. Dale looks like he's going to have a mega bunker!
I did a little geology look up to see what you could hit some weeks back, Any clay layer is likely only 1m deep if you had hit it, And the bed rock could be 100ft or so down. I think you may hit that sand layer anywhere in your area.
@@That1ufo I just hit the sand layer as it happens. It's a dream to remove as much less solid than the clay. Other reason I like to keep digging my sump area is to see what I have ahead in terms of geology. Cheers
Concrete makes heat from the reaction, I think you can probably get away with it if you have 3 days without a frost, and the greenhouse is already warmer and a bit of plastic over the door.
Im sure the handles on the 65l bucket can't take it, the small ones hardly last long, for a long service life you should only fill the small one about 80% anyway.
Yeah, I fill them to the brim but take a good load off in the barrow before moving them. The 65's are much stronger and more practical. I have another method in the next video. I've also been warned to not leave them out in the sun for prolonged periods as the UV degrades them but won't be an issue over winter. Cheers
Glad to be of service, i think.
Sorry I was meant to credit you 😂
@@TunnelTrek Don't worry about that, I just wasn't sure if it was my idea you meant or not.
@@NickBFTDIt certainly was - your comment was the light bulb moment in my head.
@@TunnelTrek Cool, I have reason to think about these things.
@Mrdawhip Good watch, cheers. I plan to fully concrete each side once I reach the 6 foot mark. I will have to wait until spring now because of the temperatures required for an effective pour. Too cold and the concrete won't chemically react properly. The tunnels themselves will be supported by a wooden frame which I will concrete around and slide further down the tunnel. I have plenty of time to plan this, so at the moment I haven't given it too much thought. I'm still researching root cellars at the moment.
Excited to see how it goes. I've been watching some videos on second level pours and the bracing underneath but of course there's not really any vids other than Collin furz about pouring a roof underground hahah. The only idea I've got is beams of sorts
That's a lot of water. You're gunna need a pump. We used to drink here until they taxed the life out of it... Tally Ho old chap
At least the water in my bunker is relatively warm - yours must be icy cold!
Yess, retrieving anything I drop results in very cold hands all day!
I've been thinking about my own in my backyard and how to go about a specific detail I haven't seen much talk on any of the other channels. How do you plan on going outward from the tunnel and doing the ceiling in concrete or by support? I have watched these guys which i believe is more towards what you are talking about doing th-cam.com/video/mOAtli8oVS0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-qD1tVsgKrEkArUG
@@Mrdawhip It depends a lot on your soil/rock and the lower you go the more stable the ground will be, then there is ground water to consider, you have to adjust your plans as you go, part of the fun is constantly reconsidering your engineering, But if you don't like all that you can get yourself a digger and just dig it all out and bury it later.
@NickBFTD not exactly a secret or budget build with a digger hahahah but yes I've been constantly watching vids and thinking of ways to support, dig, support, dig... Shaft is fairly easy concept. I did like where lex drove rebar as a support. I asked the same of her but said she has a plan. Can't wait to see
Is it possible to build a barricade of some sort to stop the rain getting in or is it all ground water ?
I'm looking into that at the moment, temporary sand bags is a possibility, plenty laying around up here
@TunnelTrek maybe you could get a ring of concrete around the top section which is raised above the ground level by the height of a step, which will mean your greenhouse floor will be slightly raised but the issue will be fixed for ever, if it's a problem now it will only continue with your finished bunker 👍
@@NickBFTDbrilliant suggestion and not one I've considered. I can certainly do this
Yes mate! Greetings from Derbyshire.
Love Derbyshire! I hope you can persevere with my early work. I do improve ever so slightly 😂
@@TunnelTrek I've watched them all by now. I'm excited to see how it goes.
Hopefully as you dig deeper it will get warmer. It'll be interesting to see what the baseline temperature is when you're down a couple of metres. It's around 18 degrees C for me so comfortable all year round.
Yeah I'm gonna try reach 6 ft asap so I can lay the roof of the root cellar. Weather isn't helping much right now.
Canadian bloke here. Frozen dirt sucks. Hopefully warmer days are ahead!
Welcome my friend
I reckon you'd get a decent light show pick axing some of those rocks at night with the lights out (just don't hit your foot!)
I'll give it a go 😂
There's some nice scenery around there. The "Rise UP" mural was great
The graffiti is awesome. Aberdeen does a street art festival most years. Some murals cover whole buildings.
Big pile of rocks is not very covert. what if someone asks to see this mega pond your building?
Music is 100x louder than the voice, You need to be careful about not revealing your location, you don't want someone going to the council, or nuts showing up.
Yeah I'll keep an eye out on the volume levels in the next one. I'm pretty security conscious with locking my tools away and locking gates etc... but always looking to beef up security where I can. Cheers for your concern