Underground Concrete Storm Shelter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- We bought a used underground concrete storm shelter that we moved to our homestead and installed it behind our house. We did all the work with friends and family from loading it to moving it to digging the hole and installing it.
Reminds me of my childhood. Sitting on the trailer house steps watching the action. Good times. Glad you got a storm cellar.
What a freaking storm shelter man just came across your channel nothing like a man taking care of his family
Thats awesome. Grandbabies that are raised around work end up with good work ethics usually. Good on you.
Thank you, I’m just trying to raise my family the same way I was raised, we always work together as I grew up and I raised my kids that way and now my granddaughters loves to be out there helping us, I’m very fortunate to have such a close and loving family, thank you for watching our videos and commenting, we appreciate you
Hearing all the "getting stuck" stories from the farmers around here has come in handy for me on occasion.
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It's good to have friends like BARKO and the others.
One thing is for sure...the shelter is not likely to blow away!
I tell you what, I couldn’t make it without them…lol we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
You're very kind man to your granddaughter. The shelter turned out great stay safe be well you and your family.
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nothing like a little hard work, it's very gratifying when the job is done, the finished dirt work turned out great. a job worth doing is worth doing right. great work!
Good to know people with stuff
I couldn't stop laughing at that cute lil girl jumping and dancing around. She's got some energy.😃
Thank you, she is our oldest granddaughter and she loves staying with us out on the homestead, she told her mother and father she was moving out with her Bubba and Nae Nae…lol thank you for checking out our videos and commenting, we appreciate you
Glad to be along for the ride. Much respect from Suffolk Virginia.
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Fine to see your skill at equipment operation! The whole family did an amazing job.
Thank you we always work together and they do a real good job, we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, we hope you have a good evening
Slick trick. Dig it out of a hole, move it, stick it in another hole. Although it had to be choreographed. The price was right. Lotta work, boys.💪😎👍💙
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@@CountryHomestead1 Lotta work, sir. 😎👍❤🧨🔥
it must feel good to have that installation finished. good job.
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Just ran. Across your video Awesome work Thanks for sharing the video with us Fixing on getting one of these for my family too.
A lot of work but it's well worth it. Enjoyed a full-watch. 👍🏽🤠 05/09/24
We really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment on our video, we was happy to get the storm shelter and have took the grand babies in it a couple of storms already, put both times we been lucky with just close calls, we hope y’all have a good evening
Nice that their are people that go to and beyond helping others. Blessed❤
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I don't understand why there is no drain or sump pump in the shelter. Great investment.
Great storm shelter I think everyone with land should try to get one . This world is getting crazier by the minute. Living in nyc there none . This is the last place to be if anything was to turn bad ...
Good for her . Can't wait for grand kids
We always heard grandkids was so much different then your kids, in they was right, there’s a whole new love when it comes to grandkids, my son said all the time that I didn’t do that when they were growing up, I just laughed and tell him I love the grandkids more…lol thank you for watching our videos and commenting, we appreciate you
Great storm shelter but everyone I see is built wrong, the doors should open inwards because if something gets blown across outward opening doors you are trapped inside.
We plan on having a 20 ton bottle jack and a metal post so if that happens we can jack the door open, thank you for checking out our videos and commenting, we appreciate you
I am glad that I live in Australia and we do not need such shelters, stay safe.
@@bobw7066 thank you
Love watchin bunker vids on utube, but each one has something wrong with em in their own way, or atleast something i wouldve done differently. The workers will hate me for micromanaging them when i build one haha.
@@bobw7066 bro, ur next to china. Yeah u do. There not just for storms.
Looks good guys you do good work get some grass growing you will be good to go
We plan on seeding some grass we just have some more work to do around it before we do, thank you for checking out our videos and commenting, we appreciate you
I hope you plan to beef up that door. Two hinges will not be strong enough. The gage of the metal should be beefed up with another layer or two to improve the impact rating. the interior locking mechanism is important so when you are in there the wind cannot pull it open. I would build some fold-down benches that can double as shelves for cold storage. Something like a simple bolt and nut together style. Install a battery lantern and add a tub for supplies like water and batteries and something for the kids. Paint the interior a nice like gray color so it is not so drab and dreary. It would be a very simple matter to run some conduit from the trailer into the interior for a light.
We do I have plans on doing everything you just mentioned, we plan on making some more videos on upgrading our shelter, thank you for checking out our videos and commenting, we appreciate you
Love the team work!
money well spent ...
That’s awesome!! Y’all did great!
Thank you
If you have water in the hole I hope you take the time to coat the exterior of it with a water sealant such as Dry Lock and set the shelter on a layer of gravel so it can drain. If not you will get water absorbed into the shell and it will get mouldy and damp and smell awful pretty quick.
We’re going to keep a watch for that and if we start to have a problem with water we plan on installing a French drain on the back side of the shelter, thank you for checking out our videos and commenting, we appreciate you
@@CountryHomestead1 he's absolutely right. Do it because mold WILL happen.
Is this Cherokee County, Texas? If so, I'm on 1911 outside of Alto. Great video! Howdy, neighbors!
@@danabuck6461 yes sir, my father Roy Foreman lives out on 1911 on old mail route road and I work for Sturrock Logging in Alto, we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
That dirt looks like it would drain really well plus you have the backfill sloping away from the shelter. As long as the water table is not shallow I'm thinking your shelter will remain mostly dry.
Yes sir I believe it will do good, I will just keep a eye on it, so far it’s been good and we have had some pretty good rain storms, we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
@@CountryHomestead1 I subscribed today and will follow along for awhile; looking forward to future projects.
@@johnoneill5812 thank you
Parabéns! Ótimo vídeo! Sou mais um inscrito! Sucesso à todos! Grande abraço aqui do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
obrigado, grande olá do texas, nós realmente apreciamos você assistindo nossos vídeos e comentando obrigado
Howdy y’all- man, y’all made quick work of that project. Your ground sure digs a lot easier than what we got. Take care and God bless
Ya that skid steer makes quick work of the digging, it’s helps that we don’t have rocks in the soil, just top soil the red clay, we appreciate you taking the time to watch our video.
That's a heck of a shelter sir! And very nice job installing it. Also refreshing to see someone who understands the concept of positive drainage. Not only away from the shelter but away from the house. Are these things commercially available for sale and any idea on cost?
Greetings from Arizona, USA
Looks great ! Good Job !!
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Looking forward great 👍
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Good looking out my friend
Thank you
Great channel guys. We are in Ontario canada 🇨🇦
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Don't forget a tie-down the chain from inside the door to the inside. Use a steel bar to hold the chain.
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Nice setup
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I would have definitely put it further back and not right where you park by the door.. You put it right in the way. lol
Actually we put it right where we planned our back porch to run beside it and our back stairs go down right in front of it, so in a event of a storm we can and have went straight to the door of the shelter. We appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
Greetings all the way from the Netherlands! Good job Sir, nice storm shelter👍
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Great reviews always
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Skidders, shovels, bobcat, what else do you need? Great show!
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That's why they normally set them in 2 pieces, hence the plates with bolts. So you can set the bottom then set the top on the bottom.
Ya we try to take it apart but with it being used the bolts was not coming out without breaking, so we figured we would move it whole, we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
Hi, along with the bolts, it's most likely sealed at the 2 halves using conceal. A Bituminous PolyButyl Rubber Sealant, tar like. It helps keep it water tight, making it hard to come apart.
Best of luck to you all. 😁
Sincerely Ed from Chicago
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WoW that was cool
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Shelter yang unik.. Salam dari indonesia
halo dari texas, kami menghargai Anda menonton video kami dan berkomentar, terima kasih
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What happens when shit hits the fan and you need one of these how long do you think you can survive underground or to come back out and be safe from whatever threat in the environment?
Well this is really just a storm shelter, so tornadoes are the main reason we would be using it for, so survival rate would be a lot greater than not having one, we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
@@CountryHomestead1 ahhhhok.... I got you now. He'll yea! I thought this was for like a war type shelter. Thank you for clarifying. Great channel. Newly subscribed.
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it can still float up out of the hole, you are not concerned with that?
Na I’m not to concerned with it, the ground has a good slope where we put it and the water flows down hill from the shelter, and our ground water lever is lower then the shelter so I don’t believe we will ever have a problem with that, we appreciate you checking out our video, we have several more videos on our playlist if you would like to checked them out, thank you
Not sure what the shelter cost, but did you look into a prefabricated telecom shelter?
I got the shelter for a real good price, we’re happy with it, we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
Y’all live on a beach? We got that black dirt and clay where I’m at. Track loader won’t do it for us. We water our foundations here.
No we live in East Texas in between Dallas and Houston, thank you for checking our videos out and commenting, we appreciate you
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Now how are you going to keep the water out of the shelter? My shelter top is about even with the top of the hole which causes it to sweat water on the inside year around. When you're inside in lightning and water on the floor that is no fun.
So far we haven’t had any problems with it but only time will tell, if we start to have problems I will just have to research the best way to fix it, we appreciate you taking the time to watch our videos and commenting, thank you
@@CountryHomestead1I tried the concrete water proofer to stop ours from sweating it helped but didn't completely stop it. Of course our shelter is in a dirt bank and the door faces downhill but I made the mistake of putting in two 25' runs of 4" corrugated pipe and filled in some of the entrance. Now no water flows out of the corrugated pipe so I suppose I'll have to find someone to dig all that back up an remove it. It mainly floods after we have had a lot of rainfall.
Why didn’t you put form work
and pour concrete hang why don’t you
build a tilt up concrete home it won’t
blow away like wood
The cost to pour concrete would be way more then we payed for buying the shelter, we got a good deal on buying it and the labor didn’t cost us anything but time, and I’m not any good at all doing concrete work, we appreciate you taking the time to watch our videos and commenting, thank you
is there a plan to seed or sod the yard to prevent erosion?
Yes we plan on putting grass seed down we just have a lot of remodeling to do still to the house so as of now we have a old dump truck that we use to bring dirt from the back side of our property, and we keep fixing it as we go, we appreciate you taking the time to watch our videos and commenting, thank you
Have an Alternative exit or just 1?
It just has one exit, but we have a 20 ton bottle jack that stays in shelter just in case we need it, we have made it to where u can use it to jack open the door, we appreciate you taking the time to watch our videos and commenting. Thank you
Yud think THEY would have embeded lifting eyes in that thing. IMO
😬eeek that you need such an “attachment” or “accessory” for your house….
Hmmm looks mighty useful though for a Wombat stampede or a Drop Bear plague.
Kind regards from Oz🇦🇺 (no pun intended)
Ya we would rather have the shelter and never need it then the one time we need it and not have it, so we will be prepared if the time comes, we appreciate you watching our videos and commenting, thank you
Is this in Elkhart? Or slocum?
Closed, we are in between Rusk and Alto out FM752 not far from Slocum through the back roads
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How to run from such storm. Hide in a bunker until the storm.carries its self away then there is no shelling
AFFA angels never die HMS
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That bush crane is not rated for that lift, that is totally irresponsible, you are going to get someone killed.
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Wizard of OZ 2?
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Uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...you say uh too much, lol, lol!!! 😁 And who picked the music for your video??? 🙄🤦♀️🤯
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Great job!! Y’all ready for me to bring y’all some chickens yet lmao I got Goats kidding in June or July too lmao miss y’all xoxo
Once we get our place fence off with a good goat fence we plan on getting some goats, but first we got a lot of remodeling on the house to do, my sister and brother in law live right next to us out there in the got 40-50 chickens so we’re good on chickens…lol
What I s the name of song
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Sure hope those two, that were sitting by the back door, don't get in first if a tornado is coming at you cause there won't be any room left!
Some people have problems you can see. And some people you can't see.
Well I assure you if that time came I would make sure my family came first, no matter the room that would be taken, we would just hug tighter, but other then that thank you for watching our videos and commenting, we appreciate it and God blessed you
"Chinese fire drill"
Jump out of truck, run around and jump back in….lol thank you for checking out our videos and commenting, we appreciate it
It’s not level
What not level?
Banker four lefi
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