on #Ukraine, #Iran, #weaponry #drones, and putting things #underground to keep them safe. He proposes “rapidly bored shallow tunnels” because “Israel has destroyed only about 40 percent of Gaza’s tunnels after two and a half years of war.” He suggests cut-and-cover with prefab tunnel segments, which sounds ineffective to me.
on 02026-04-10#video #toread about #underground #dwelling #bunkers in #Ukraine
on 02026-04-0431-minute #video #toread about secret #underground #tunnels in #China
on 02026-02-18#video by #Practical-Engineering on #building #tunnels #underground. Almost entirely talking-head filler and stock footage, though there’s a chart plotting unsupported roof span against “stand up time” at 10'17", with “competent rock” of high rock mass rating being able to stand up without support for a long time, not even rock bolts (anchors), much less more advanced supports. #digging
on 02026-02-18new #Las-Vegas mole people tunnel life #documentary, guided by a guy who lived down there for years. There are 1500 people there, and they ride bikes. #video #toread #underground #stealth-camping
on 02026-02-15#faircompanies #dwelling #video about an #underground Atlas missile silo. #toread
on 02026-01-16#video by "ModernHillbilly" about #mining #tunnels #underground. #toread #digging
on 02026-01-16#video about roof reinforcement for #mining #tunnels #underground. #toread
on 02026-01-16#faircompanies #video #toread on Kristie Wolfe’s Washington #underground home. #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video on Zach and Allison Anderson’s “#underground maze of light-filled earth homes” #dwelling, which is mostly not really underground. The above-ground part looks magical, #building with twisted #ferrocement trees for pillars and a central tower, with curved raised-bed gardens on some of the roof. Totally based on ferrocement. Most beds are inside apses behind archways in the walls of bedrooms, sleeping niches with a bed-height floor. Footage is included of spraying the “falseworks” of ½" rebar and slab mesh and expanded metal lath with shotcrete after plastering one side with fiber-enriched plaster. Rainfall from the top is collected through a 3 “inch” pipe into a huge donut-shaped underground cistern (60000 “gallons”). For tax purposes most of the house is categorized as “landscaping” because it’s not climate-controlled. Largely inspired by Forestiere’s underground gardens. The bookshelves on the spiral staircase up to the vault house contain Robert Ludlum, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Jo Nesbø, Andy Weir, James Patterson, and Kate Atkinson. His main bed is on a balcony near the top of the tower, “high enough off the ground that there are no mosquitoes”. For outer walls with sandstone-like veins through them, with the appearance of wind-eroded strata, they built custom trowels to plaster it on there, then used an “organic patina acid” to darken some of the strata after it cured. Elsewhere he “pivoted” his ferrocement around an existing oak grove in order to incorporate it into the living space. There are lots of bookshelves that are actually doors. Also there is a chicken coop. His term for the standard superadobe geometry is “lancet dome”, like a lancet arch.
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a self-built fully #underground #dome #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#video #toread on Carlos who got kicked out of his #underground #stealth-camping house in New York City’s Freedom Tunnel in 02012. He has a hard time recognizing people’s faces, it seems, and has some apocalyptic delusions from Family Radio, 94.7 FM.
on 02024-09-15#digging an #underground 1-bedroom apartment #dwelling. Lots of talking-head filler, like most #Kevin-Builds #video productions. Useful datum: some garage-door panels are steel-faced sandwich panels with a styrofoam interior. He’s using a dump-truck trailer, backhoe, etc., so this is far from bushcraft. Bit of a Minecrafty feel as he circular-saws the legs off his just-crafted table, so it won’t be so tall, while waiting for the pizza to get done in the oven. The plate-steel culvert, canned food, and Tang are less Minecrafty. He discusses but does not show his future plans to put in drain tile “with a sock on it so the sediment don’t get into it” to drain water from below the shelter. Also he put down a tarp under the surface dirt to keep rain from soaking into the shelter from the top, which he did sort of show. #stealth-camping
on 02024-04-06“inside [Carlos’s] amazing home in the [Freedom Tunnel] beneath New York”. He had heat, electricity, computers, refrigerators, and a microwave, and lives on food discarded by supermarkets; he’s converted a former sewer into a comfortable, clean house, maintaining cleanliness with a no-shoes policy. He had to bring in water in jugs. “The [homeless] shelter is a very, very wicked place. (...) Drugs, fighting...” Later the authorities kicked him, and everyone else, out. #stealth-camping #video #underground
on 02024-04-05