Bunkers

❗ Pretty presentation - admit I only skimmed through it, will watch it from start to end after - But I have a definite outlook on bunkers!

Mind you, not that I'm biased on this subject in any way but - "I Hate Bunkers!" ❗ ❗

I reckon you have dug your own grave with these concepts for a survival strategy - don't care how pretty they look.
Would rather be up and out in a secure high ground loc with a couple of exit strategies.
Bunkers show your loc, that it's a treasure house waiting to be opened and has everyone contained in one nice, neat little area.

How easy can you make it for a bunch of marauding bad guys that mean you harm! ❗ ! ❗ ! ❗ ! ❗ ! ❗

Very impressive.Very interesting.Very expensive.Cross my mind few times and I am sure it could be made much chipper and still very practical.
Henry

Sweet! yeah you found it to eh, i watched the whole show and a lot more on this matter. I wish I had the resource's to build my own, but hill billy budget is more my style of life at the moment. If you have the means to do this, then why not. also i've been looking in to buried homes, dome homes and earth ship design as a possible future shelter for me and my family. They hold up to extreme winds and weather like a champ and if placed high in the side of a hill, no worry's about floods and all, they even have an essence of cammo to them in the country side or rolling hills. I like how shea in the video has a fresh water well under his bunker. that would be wise for ne new home construction and have a manual pump in addition to the electric one that will be powering the house, if that's not possible a rain water catchment system would do. At least with a manual pump you can always move water in buckets by hand if needed. running out of it is the only option we don't plan for!

Well now, interesting topic.

Since I have had to dig some of these by hand in the past (none that looked that good in your video.. ) I know for a fact that, you can create bunkers from scratch with a shovel, some sandbags and rivetting (corrugated metal) and some 6 ft stakes. Low cost and you do it yourself, hard to find later on, can incorporate a back door or tunnel to another bunker or backdoor.

Bunkers have been made by hand since the BOAR War, in South Africa, dirt cheap and effective. Short of hitting them with a 200 pounder they will stand up to mortars if done right with the proper overhead thicknesses needed and timbers. Build in back tunnels and trench works, you can have them close to your house or in your property. If you have at least a backhoe it can go much easier and much easier for non military or retired older ex-military as well. They are warm, withstand all the elements if done even half assed properly.

Using machinery to dig the bunker system as that is what you would need for longer term and effective systems, I would incorporate a water catchment or even a well system if you could. Rain water is cheap to capture in so many ways and easy to store underground. They systems if done right can be heated with a few candles, veggie heaters, small heaters and soon you're down to shorts and a t-shirt in -50 deg celsius weather.

Using corrugated piping it would and has been done quickly and cheaply as well, at least for corridors and side storage areas. Just fill the corrugated pipes with gravel, cover with timbers or not and cover with grasses and shrubs. You could incorporate a few simple designs like the U-shape, L-shape and slit trenches with corrugated pipes to and from or as off shoots or main entrance areas. All it needs is some cash, some land and a few shovels. There are Trench and Bunker systems still in use that were dug by hand over 10 yrs ago in CDN Military bases worked hard, put away wet and still going. Sides of hills and tops of hills work best, stay away from the bottoms of the hills for very obvious water issues.

Look into places that sell the larger road works corrugated piping, do not tell them you will be living in them though, just for road works and cattle crossing areas, they deliver too.

My question is usually ventilation. If someone knows your in there and can only assume you have food what is to stop them from gassing you out, or dumping gasoline down the pipe and setting it on fire?

Ventilation, you can design a offset vent system that will close and/or bypass in the event of a GAS attack. Now I mean both types, liquid and vapor. BUT, money is the issue. Some vents system incorporate a Carbon Monoxide shut off valve that will close off or bypass your primary system. But my self, I find its cheaper to install a dummy that is very visible with an alarm on it. That way you'll know when to roast some nut with an open fire... (flame thrower 101). Forgive me, but I not in a forgiving mood right now. 😈

Thought about the dummy vent along with a tunnel to an open area away from the bunker. I Guess a vent for liquid at a downward slope would work and a vent higher than that would work for gas as well. I will try and make a "paint" of what I mean.

neat show.

There was one article that I saw that I thought was pretty inventive. A person had a bunker, under his patio, the intake vent was part of the underside of a concrete table, and his exhaust went through the stack of his built in BBQ. Out of site out of mind.

Great ideas ranger. Gets the brain thinking in a different direction.

There was one article that I saw that I thought was pretty inventive. A person had a bunker, under his patio, the intake vent was part of the underside of a concrete table, and his exhaust went through the stack of his built in BBQ. Out of site out of mind.

OK - pay that - I would likely walk right past that one too if I was there - he has put some thought into it.