Unchained Preppers

General Category => Security & Survival => Topic started by: Crow on February 06, 2012, 08:39:23 PM

Title: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: Crow on February 06, 2012, 08:39:23 PM

a few years ago a friend and I was discussing buying an abandoned bunker that was once used to house missles and such. the bunker itself was still intact, the owners wanted 60k for it (a sum neither of us was at the time able to even imagine having.) so seeking alternative ideas we went searching for things and the following link is basically what we found. I didn't do too much digging before posting this but what I found before were basically step by step instructions on how to build one of these from the ground up (dont mind my pun)
http://earthbagplans.wordpress.com/tag/sandbag-dome/ (http://earthbagplans.wordpress.com/tag/sandbag-dome/)



after a few moments of digging I found this lil bugger now go get your hands dirty!
http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/pdf/earthbagbuilding2.pdf (http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/pdf/earthbagbuilding2.pdf)



this is the main site for it... check out the emergency house or whatever its callled...  said it costed 1k USD to build. Just think about filling your own sand bags and such. and for those fellow sewing preppers... making your own bags.. (WOULD TAKE FOREVER) but would be worth it. just stick to the materials (mostly earth and a lil more... earth)

http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/index.htm (http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/index.htm)


(http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/images/plans/roundhouse-dome-cluster.jpg)
this is a little extreme for the concept but this is one of the possibilities

Title: Re: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: mountainredneck2051 on February 06, 2012, 08:54:00 PM

good info

Title: Re: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: Reaver on February 06, 2012, 09:04:48 PM

I used to ( when I was a kid ) have some Bad ass bunker complexes.

These are pretty wicked sweet.  [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co

Title: Re: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: Crow on February 06, 2012, 09:22:53 PM

one thing thats cool about it. is if you aren't right at sea level... like me, most of your house or whatever you want to call it can be underground. so if your digging out a lil foxhole.. why not dome some sandbags over it :)

Title: Re: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: mountainredneck2051 on February 07, 2012, 01:46:22 PM

Quote from: Crow on February 06, 2012, 09:22:53 PM

one thing thats cool about it. is if you aren't right at sea level... like me, most of your house or whatever you want to call it can be underground. so if your digging out a lil foxhole.. why not dome some sandbags over it :)

i always wanted to build bunkers and shit as a kid

but for some reason digging in the rocky mountains at 9,000ft elevation was a real bitch.....

Title: Re: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: thatGuy on February 07, 2012, 08:25:41 PM

Dude just make sure that you are buttressing those walls and adding all the rebar, barbed wire and nylon mesh (under the plaster) that you can. Earth bags got a bad rap for falling over and killing people because they lack shear strength.

Title: Re: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: mountainredneck2051 on February 08, 2012, 11:25:35 AM

i'd love to make a bunker, but i'd have to dynamite the fucking mountain.........

or get a chain gang up here to bust the rocks........

Title: Re: Be a gnome in your BOL
Post by: WhiskeyJack on February 13, 2012, 06:22:07 PM

Quote from: mountainredneck2051 on February 08, 2012, 11:25:35 AM

i'd love to make a bunker, but i'd have to dynamite the fucking mountain.........

or get a chain gang up here to bust the rocks........

Im comfortable with you doing either of those things MTN.