Bunkers / Fallout shelters

[longbow]

Post links or pictures of real or planned bunker ideas.

Designs for fallout shelters are als0 great

Blast doors, blast valves or other ideas. I'd love to cut and seal one up in the limestone out back. Blasting it open would be a fun way to dig it....

Radius Engineering Underground Shelters

oxygen candles

Safety Equipment 03-081-35

 

[Vasili]

isn't limestone kinda soft though?

 

[Vasili]

and for the low low price of one million plus dollars I too can have an ec32 generator module

 

[longbow]

and for the low low price of one million plus dollars I too can have an ec32 generator module

Might be overkill for 4 days in a shelter.......

 

[tyler34]

Green Eye Technology,bomb shelter

 

[tyler34]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpHuETv0RVs&feature=related]YouTube - Backyard Bombshelter[/ame]

 

[tyler34]

this is the best and most legit one I have found.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdUD-oSfR0&feature=related]YouTube - MHD Tours a Fallout Shelter[/ame]

 

[remymartin]

Flux Capacitor and a 100ft roll of foil?

 

[longbow]

The new storm drain system under west 3rd / hwy 48?

 

[Woodsman]

You might want to spend some time trying to figure out where you can use oxygen generating canisters. Some atmospheres do not go with these. If I remember right, these generate heat due to a chemical reaction (that's where the oxygen comes from). Bottled air like SCBA air packs or pony rescue bottles might be a better option.

You might also look at Shotcrete as one way to address the limestone walls as a structural liner inside. You can order the Shotcrete with certain fibers in it that can replace re-bar. And I suppose if you were so inclined you could build some stone camouflage around the entrance.

You might find some ideas here: http://www.hardenedstructures.com/2050727/default.aspx

Sometimes thinking outside the box can be a fun exercise and you might save a few bucks too...

 

[Eddie]

Here is mine. We don't really use it anymore as it is inconvenient to get to and our safe room is the primary place of retreat. When we first moved here I used it as a winecellar and later on to hang salami in. There are more pictures in my albums.

It is completely underground and not beneath the house, the roof is 18 inch thick poured, reinforced concrete with about two feet of earth on top of that. The doors are wooden, layered over with metal and there are three separate exits. It was built by the home's previous owner in the 1950's.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Wow Eddie. That looks and sounds like a vintage, picture-perfect WWIII backyard bomb shelter. Was that an unexpected find after the sale, or was it one of the previous owner's selling points, or neither?

 

[Vasili]

Here is mine. We don't really use it anymore as it is inconvenient to get to and our safe room is the primary place of retreat. When we first moved here I used it as a winecellar and later on to hang salami in. There are more pictures in my albums.

It is completely underground and not beneath the house, the roof is 18 inch thick poured, reinforced concrete with about two feet of earth on top of that. The doors are wooden, layered over with metal and there are three separate exits. It was built by the home's previous owner in the 1950's.

A good start, but give me ten minutes and my own "toolkit" and a foot and a half of concrete is nothing but an annoyance.

Still, pretty cool. Two would be ideal but everyone must have an emergency exit I guess.

 

[shooter]

check out earth bag house for a very cheap but labor intensive idea.....

 

[Eddie]

Wow Eddie. That looks and sounds like a vintage, picture-perfect WWIII backyard bomb shelter. Was that an unexpected find after the sale, or was it one of the previous owner's selling points, or neither?

It was an unexpected find. I learned later from the previous owner's son that they built it at night so that the neighbors wouldn't know they had it.

 

[Eddie]

A good start, but give me ten minutes and my own "toolkit" and a foot and a half of concrete is nothing but an annoyance.

Still, pretty cool. Two would be ideal but everyone must have an emergency exit I guess.

I think it was designed for atomic bombs landing miles away, not to protect against direct assault. That is why we prefer our saferoom as a family retreat.

 

[E5RANGER375]

Eddie, your shelter is cool man!!! I would'nt tell any of my neighbors about it. id have all kinds of storage in there. your lucky man!!

 

[Bull]

Nice Eddie, I'll have to check out your album

 

[Eddie]

Eddie, your shelter is cool man!!! I would'nt tell any of my neighbors about it. id have all kinds of storage in there. your lucky man!!

Thanks Ranger. If you get out this way sometime you'll have to check it out.

 

[Bryanearl]

I have been toying with the idea of getting land and having prefab put in with the wife. I can't decide because I do not know of a smart location base on I live in the middle of the city I woudl have to have a 30 minute heads up at the very least to get to a shelter after first warning and even then with people it might be pushing it.