Burying the Dugout Shelter

Transcript

Hey everyone, Cowan here, and today is the day that we start to bury the dugout shelter in the dirt. Okay, so this shelter that I've been building to survive the extremely harsh winters my new location can have is about six feet deep in the ground, or about five and a half feet, and is built with just pallets and scrapwood, basically, and a few extra things like aluminum insulation and tarp, and some plastic sheeting for waterproofing. And it's been coming along great so far, but the one thing I've been worried about is what happens to the structure when I actually push all of this dirt in here, and it starts to put weight sideways on the walls. Okay, so first of all, that can affect the structure, push in the actual physical walls, which I'm not as worried about, and I'll show you why. But second, I was worried about it. basically breaking through the kind of thin outer layer wall, which I was using, which was just the insulation, the foam insulation, and all of that way it was almost certainly going to break through that, or at least bulge them very significantly, and it probably would not have lasted very long. So I ended up biking to town and buying some plastic sheeting, and I put plastic sheeting along the entire outside of the walls, and then... I didn't think I had enough scrap wood to cover the entire walls with wood, but I did. You know, I just had to really look for it, and there was plenty, and actually, there's actually still more of it that I could have used. So, anyways, the entire wall is just covered with... old scrapwood, which, you know, won't even be seen because it's going to be completely buried. So, anyways, let's take a look at that, and we'll take a look at the inside of the structure and show you what I did to make sure that the walls don't get pushed in, even a little bit when we're pushing the dirt in. Okay, so as you can see, it's very much a Frankenstein monster of scrapwood. You know, you don't have to be too careful about this because it's just, uh, to keep the dirt from wrecking the wall. And also, just as a side note, here's the air inlet tube. Okay, so this is the, the, basically it's a French drain, okay, so there's gravel underneath the walls and a trench, there's a trench underneath the walls filled with gravel, and it's all leaning this way across the whole four walls of the structure. So if water gets in, it's going to end up in this corner and go out through all the gravel and rocks that's there, okay? but also there's a pipe that I've set there, which comes in, and then I've actually buried this a little bit, but I built this little structure to protect the pipe junction here, because this pipe that goes like this, is pretty weak. Anyways, that goes into the structure, and we'll basically give air the entire time, okay? So I'm going to have this, and then eventually I'm going to probably install an air outlet. high on the structure and I'm thinking it will probably be on this wall here because the wind will be coming from this direction most of the time and so having on this wall will prevent it from pushing air in. Okay, so let's actually go down inside and I'll show you what I've been up to down here. So I put in this railroad tie here. and it's just an example of what this is going to, basically the stairwell going up the ramp is going to be. There's two holes dug in it and then rebar, about two feet long, pounded down into each hole to hold it in place. It's also screwed into these boards here. So we've got some temporary reinforcements to keep things from shifting. These will be taken out this and this. Once we're done filling in and maybe let it settle a little bit, and also on the inside, You can see here and here, those are also temporary. But I also put in some permanent strengthening of the structure. You can see here, there's this two by four, no, two by six that goes around the entire bottom of the structure, which is permanent. And then also I put in these cross beams or whatever you call them, which will keep... things from pushing in, right? But also, these will be permanent, and temporarily, I'm just going to fill this whole bottom part with dirt. You can see I got all this space to go up, and that will be what I live on. But eventually, if I ever get enough cash to actually buy some flooring, I can use these to build the flooring. So it's all leveled out and ready for that step if I ever get to it. Okay, and then up here, you can see I put in some... 2 by larger than 6es, I don't know, 2 by 12, I think there are 2 by 12s here, let me get down. All around the mid layer, okay, and this is because what's the dirt gets this high, this is another weak point of the structure, this is the junction, the seam between two pallets, so here's a pallet, and here's a pallet, and so if things are going to push in, it's going to push in right there, okay? So these are also permanent, and... this bottom part and this top part and maybe I'll put in a very top part someday, but that can all serve for helping with the installation of some sort of more visually appealing interior wall. So anyways, that's what I did to make sure that this thing doesn't collapse or even budge when we're feeling in the dirt. but we're going to have to wait and see what actually happens when we do it, okay? So we're probably going to use the tractor to do it because this is a lot of dirt to push in, and it would take a pretty long time. And honestly, that would be the most ideal situation if you want to be as careful as possible as just doing it by hand. But because of how secure this thing is, both me and the guy who's going to be helping with it think that there's pretty much no chance that this thing budges even a little bit. We're just going to do that. Plus, we're going to have some water, some rain coming in a couple days, which, you know, we need to have this buried before then, so we want to make sure that we get as far as possible before that rain comes. So, anyways, next I'll show you the actual bearing process, and we'll see how it goes. So actually, first, before we get to that, I want to mention that this morning, I put a thermometer in the actual... inside the actual structure. And when I went in to check it this morning, it was 45 degrees in there, okay? And then when I took the thermometer out of the building and set it down in the open air, it went down to like 34, 33 degrees. Okay? So I didn't even sleep in there last night. That's not my body heat reflecting in. The door was wide open. It's not even buried yet. and there was that much of a difference in warmth from inside the structure versus out, okay? So imagine what it's going to be like when there's a door, when it's buried in dirt, and when I'm actually sleeping in there, it's going to be pretty comfortable, and then once I find out a good heat source to use in there, it's going to be, right, I'm not afraid of any winter situation, so anyways, on to the burying. We've got quite a bit of dirt in now, basically almost to level. And the shelter hasn't even shaken, as far as I could tell. And everything inside looks fine. No problems. All right, I've got the shelter mostly buried. At some point, I'm actually going to... bring the dirt all the way up to the lip of the roof, maybe even over the top. But for now, I'm just going to let this saddle for a few days before I do anything else. So these two sides and that side are mostly buried. The front is not buried yet because I have to figure out what to do with this ramp here, the ramp that I will be putting stairs into. and then putting the door in, you can see we accidentally had some dirt fall, so I'll need to be scooping that out of there. But my next project will be basically shoring up this section. So this will be the part that I'm most concerned about water coming in, especially when the rain comes in in a few days here. And it'll still be an issue once I get the ramp in, but I'm more worried about... water coming in this way. So in terms, I'm probably just, you know, just for this next rain, I'm probably going to burn up all around and all around the ramp. And still the rain that comes in on the ramp will probably end up down there. But that's a problem I'm going to have to face no matter what, so that'll be a good test. So anyways, that's the video on burying the... dugout shelter. I'm surprised it went so well, basically there was no problems at all. Like I said, you didn't even see the walls or anything shaking when we were dumping the dirt in there, so I think I built it pretty solid, but we'll see how it all goes once the weather starts turning, so I'll let you guys know about that when we get there. Alright, thanks for watching, and I'll see you guys later.

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