Secret tunnel!
Okey-dokey, part 6 of the shhh! secret tunnel! So yes I am digging a tunnel from my shed
here along to my house, which is just over there and eventually into the bunker, which
is at the bottom of my garden. Now in the last video we got to about this little blue
line here, but we worked out how we could push holes up to the surface for ventilation
and pouring the concrete down. Now in this video I want to come all the way along here
and then we need to work out when we're going to turn left to come under the house and up
into the pantry. That's where it's connected to in my wonderful cupboard of luxury items!
So before we do this we need to put another hole up, which I think we're going to use
to kind of coordinate where we are exactly in the yard,
map it all out, plan it all out. So we can do it, come up in the right place. It'll all
be good. Now this video is sponsored by free trade. More about them at the appropriate
time in the video but for now let's go do a little bit more chimbling.
Oh no! Thats a bit of my house. That's nearly the bottom of
the bloody concrete.
Got our ceiling supported, now we need to find out exactly where we are before we start
turning left to go into the house, we need to know when we need to turn left and also
we need to know the center of that piece of tunnel, so when we come up under the house
it is up in the right place and you end up going down you know to the center of the uh,
of the tunnel and not all wonky and all that stuff. So what we're gonna do, we're gonna
drop a bit of box section down, clamp another bit of box section to the side of it down
here and the side of it at the top so it mirrors the straight line. So if we lay in a straight
line down here it should be in a straight line up there and we can see exactly where
we are and where we're going and how far across, up, down, whatever we need to be. That's how
we're doing it.
so using our pole as a reference, we've marked out exactly where we need to be. That is the
edge of our floorboards downstairs, so we can take all our measurements from that and
know that we're going in roughly the right direction.
Right we know where we are now, we've got it all marked up we can see where we're going
we just need to dig a little bit. Not in these clothes!
Now we just noticed one of the bucket handles, is about to snap! But they're all done really
well because these are the original ones from when we first started digging it.
OK, so we're going to stick a beam down here, and then that is the edge of this part and
then it needs to start going that way. Before we do that, we're going to dig a lot more
further in that direction, but of course if we carry on at that height when we go to go
that way, that'll be too low. So we're going to go up a bit and then across to support
this part of the ceiling. If that doesn't make any sense, I'll do it and then you can
look at it and go, 'oh that's what he meant!'
Does it make sense now? It's got to go up, across and then there'll be a curve over there,
no? oh well! Just just keep watching five or six minutes, It'll all make sense.
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Chisel's nearly snapped!
There we are, oh!
It just fell over! Couldn't stop it! I think we'll just have to leave it on the floor because
that's the biggest singular rock we've had out of this thing. There we are i fixed the
uh, the pin on the end of the thing straightened it up with a hydraulic press again, and uh
on with tunnelling! I think you're staying there!
So after struggling with the weight of that rock I've been kind of thinking, like how
much weight are we taking out? So I'm gonna weigh a bucket.
48 kilo, so that means based on the average that we do a day we take between three and
three and a half ton out of rubble a day, that is crazy!
So it's all dug! It's all supported. Next up, we're going to drill another two holes,
or another hole definitely, up to the surface. We've obviously got the one here in the far
corner that will fill all that side up with concrete, so it all moves forward. Very nice!
We won't have any air pockets or anything. I want another one, here basically to go up
there, to kind of make sure that this corner definitely gets everything. Now the only thing
we need to worry about is on the back of my garage, there used to be an outside toilet,
which I took down, so there is a sewer pipe and the mains water pipe running under there,
so we just want to come this side of that, so we don't end up puncturing that and then
over here at some point we've got the gas main to worry about. But that's for another
day. So, let's put another hole up at least, and
then we've basically got to build all this tunnel bit, steel. Get it all steeled up,
get it concreted up and safe, then we can start going towards the house. I just like,
I like standing back here and doing this shot, because it just looks, especially with the
fisheye lens, just looks wicked!
I guess, we want to be about there.
Hole number two. Right let's get some steel in there, oh it's lovely! OK, that's got the
floor plates down. Next up we're going to drop a bar down our new hole, get it all angled
up with where it needs to go towards the house. So we can get a center of this bit, going
off here, because it's not only going off at a funny angle, because it's not at right
angles of this it's right over to the house, which it's a slight a slight scunt to this.
So we need to get the dead center, so we know how far to bring that wall. Where this one
needs to stop and cut round and all that technical stuff, that if we get wrong, we'll end up
coming up in the pantry a bit wonky and that's no good! Right got it all marked out, so basically
there's some lines you can't see obviously on this camera. So we've got our angle, it's
set uh, it goes off at a seven degree angle, or an 83 degree whichever way you look at
it. I was going to do the end of this bit of tunnel at right angles and then go off
at an angle, but I think that's going to make the roof and there's going to be too many
wiggly bits. Come off 7 degree, 80 up there somewhere,
and if we get it wrong and end up in the middle of the kitchen, you can rewind to this part
of the video and say, 'that, that was when the mistake was made!' Righty ho, wall up,
next bit is this end wall. Now, I'm going to stick a little recess window, a little
bit like I did with the pump down the other end. So I've been on the laser cutter, laser
cut myself a profile of which I can plasma cut around, so I've just got to work out exactly
where it is and shove it in, because we just had so much space. Basically the wall is going
to go here. There's like another 500 mm, So rather than just filling that all up with
concrete, let's make use of it. Yes, oh it's not just going to be a tunnel you know, it's
going to be a utility tunnel!
Like a little seat look, ideal for sitting here in my new Furze branded shirt, whilst
considering the dates in the 2022 Furze calendar. Yeah or having a drink from the Furze drinks
bottle! Right, that's got these up. Now the other wall which I've put up, there's quite
a lot of space behind it still and rather than doing this again I've decided to put
a little game in of plinky plonk. Basically a series of pipes welded up, fit to the back,
put a ball in the top... which one's it going to come out?
Right that's got the old pinky plonk in, next we need to work out how to do this funny roof
junctiony thingy.
We're gonna whack it up, stick a laser level line across, draw it, take it away, cut it,
put the other bit across, laser, mark it, cut it, hopefully put them back on and they'll
meet up.
This is the other side we cut off.
Right that's got ourselves a corner, quite impressed with that it's done, done it all right
I think.
Now then, we've got a load of mesh, which kind of makes like a boundary for the concrete,
so when we pour it down it doesn't all just bellow out the side, which of course is slightly
trickier now, because we're on like a funny, we're on a corner basically, not just a flat
end. So right let's get some concrete down and then we just got to finish the floor off
and then that's that bit kind of done, and then before we start digging that way, I have
another little idea.
It's running! So to help with getting the concrete along, I've made this little rubber
thing at the end and we can...
helps it go along, because a lot of you did suggest we should have had a vibrator last
time! Uh, we didn't, but we've got one now!
OK, concrete's going off, boom! Nice and solid. So this is my thinking, this tunnel is now
quite long and all the digging we do here, we're going to load the buckets up, we've
now got to drag them all the way along, down there to winch them out, and that's quite
a long distance now. So I'm thinking we need to make a Minecart system.
OK, we have a minecart, it's got a little light, make it look a bit more minecart-esque.
Now it's only got two sides because we don't want to be lifting the tubs over the top of
this. That's harder work, and I was going to make like a fake side that you could just
slot in, but I thought just wasting my blooming time here, it's never going to be on. So,
basically got some rails, which I've been knocking up down there, two bits of 20mm box
section with just some bits of flat to hold them at the right distance. uh we're not going
to screw them to the floor, I'm just going to lay it on, because we might want to move
this. Right let's go and give it a test. We've got a minecart!
Right I like you, so I'll need to test you out, flip you around, do a bit of digging,
see if you are actually going to help us. But oh before that the predict- a- ball.
I've got little signs added now. So then should you all subscribe to the Colin Furze Youtube
channel?
Oh yeah! oh yeah!
This works so well you can even do it at night with a light on the front.
It definitely feels more Great Escape now we've got this.
OK mine carts they get thumbs up, you can see what adam in minds now obviously done
a bit more digging. We've had a bit of a measure up, I'd say we're about a foot 30 centimeters
away from the line of the house, so very soon we're potentially going to reveal the house
foundations, depending on how deep they go of course. Now next tunnel video we are connecting
this thing to the house hopefully, but it's not going to stop there. We've got the bunker
to connect to in the back garden and also I'm thinking about doing something in this
direction as well towards the front of the house. Anyway hope you enjoyed this video.
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