What’s up bunker lovers! When we last met, I had gotten the tunnel dug to partial depth and back to the face of the shed.
This time I tried undermining to get under the shed, but it was some of the most pain-in-the-ass digging I’ve encountered to date. I couldn’t really swing my pickaxe or make any good progress, and I’m impatient and wanted to feel like I was moving along, so I made a lame choice and built a roof over the unfinished tunnel instead of digging it to completion.
Moving towards a fully covered excavation, I built the roof over the tunnel in two sections and covered them with leftover roofing shingles. They were in the shed when I moved here…I spent no money on this project. I made the roof in two pieces so I could lift and prop one side.
I had to somehow clear out the tunnel far enough inward to gain floor access to the shed. So I decided to just chop out the floor and see what I could do.
Cutting out a rectangle slightly smaller than a door mat, I did come across one floor joist that would need to be cut. I dug out below the joist on both sides and wedged in vertical 2x4s to support, hammering them into the vertical position. Once I felt good about them I used wood screws salvaged from palettes/crates to fix them into position with a second piece of 2x4, and then I cut the joist at both ends of the opening.
Then I put my brother-in-law’s tiller to work. This was not terrible, but it wasn’t much faster. The pickaxe and now smaller rock hammer chip and cut through big rocks as I clean walls and work my way down, but the tiller just cleans them off pretty much and bounces around like mad - plus the dust it kicks up in a closed tunnel is insane.
It took most of the day to get this far, and now it’s too dark in the tunnel to get any work done. Next I would need to run some electricity and lights.
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