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[Closed] Ultimate secure bike storage solution? An underground scrote-proof bunker

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Anyone else watch this and think "That would be perfect for my bikes?"

Puts some of the shed-building threads on here to shame ๐Ÿ˜€

(with the notable exception of mcmoonter!)


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 11:41 am
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My current bike bunker is in a cellar, through 2 locked and alarmed doors at both sides of the house, down the steps of doom into the cellar and then past a mountain of random lawnmowers, home brew kit, sledges etc and into the back of the bunker where the bikes/workshop is. All this is bombproof too (120 year old house which during WW2 had its cellar reinforced to make a bomb shelter).


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 11:46 am
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He needs a bunker, I lasted about 3 seconds before making it my mission in life to punch him in the face till he shuts the **** up.


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 11:47 am
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Whaaa...? He's Colin Furze. He's awesome. He has the infectious energy of an 8 year old with a belly full of Skittles and Sunny Delight.

Perhaps you'd warm to him if you saw his pulse jet bike?


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 11:55 am
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Isn't rust going to be a bugger ?


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 12:12 pm
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According to [url=

plan video[/url], he's going to cover the metal in concrete which should (possibly?) keep the rust off.


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 12:18 pm
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If I was Colin Furze I'd invest in some fireproof overalls, you know just to be on the safe side! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 12:22 pm
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Colin Furze is great - hydroforming with a pressure washer!


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 12:22 pm
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best of all, not a single hard hat inside.
would have at least given the little kid a toy hard hat.

when I saw the first bit, I assumed they'd just crane in an ISO container and build from that. But then that wouldn't be colin furze without fabbing the entire thing from stock.


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 12:28 pm
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What a shite bunker

Not even mounted on anything to absorb shock, and with no soakaway - josef fritzl could have done a better job.

Would have been better off sticking a 40' shipping container in the hole.


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 12:31 pm
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http://www.cement.org/for-concrete-books-learning/concrete-technology/durability/corrosion-of-embedded-materials

The Wonderful World of Concrete.

Concrete is a construction material composed of sand, water, and chemical admixtures.

Chapter one: Sand...

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Would have been better off sticking a 40' shipping container in the hole.

Not nearly as much fun though!


 
Posted : 29/09/2015 12:35 pm
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If I was Colin Furze I'd invest in some fireproof overalls

I think he might be naturally fireproof:

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Posted : 29/09/2015 12:37 pm
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[b][UPDATE][/b]

Well he's poured the concrete now and it looks pretty damn good:


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 12:13 pm
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I think he might be naturally fireproof:

Did he not completely incinerate his arm when building those?

I like his stuff but he seems to try too hard. Maybe he's genuinely like that but it's a bit too "I'm bonkerz, me!" He might even be zany.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 12:38 pm
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No, that was when he made the turbine and the gas blew across his arm.

He might be 'out there' or 'whacky', but his stuff does show kids how engineering can be both useful and fun. For all the madness, there is actual knowledge there.

Besides which PULSEJET BIKE!!!! How awesome is that????


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 12:45 pm
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with the notable exception of mcmoonter!)

Hey! Don't forget Kayak and Slack - both superb craftsmen.

I'm very jealous of all three...


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 1:03 pm
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My favourite is still the wall of death from pallets. Just the collision of scale, idiocy, motor vehicles and a massive dose of why not?


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 1:07 pm
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This is the sort of thing you need:

[url= http://quirker.co.uk/story/woman-narrowly-escapes-death-after-100ft-mineshaft-suddenly-opens-in-her-garden ]http://quirker.co.uk/story/woman-narrowly-escapes-death-after-100ft-mineshaft-suddenly-opens-in-her-garden[/url]

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none of that hard work digging a hole, just drop a few bits of storm water drain down vertically and you've got a 100ft deep bunker.

obviously you'd need a lot of shelving to see the benefit.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 1:14 pm
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Did he not completely incinerate his arm when building those?

Nah that was when he made a pulsejet out of a bog roll holder and some duck tape:

Maybe he's genuinely like that but it's a bit too "I'm bonkerz, me!" He might even be zany.

Well if you look back at his very early videos he was a young scrote into his bmx and punk, and doing daft things like smashing up old motors and driving them through a car wash with no windows.

Now as a late-30s father with a mortgage the anarchy is a [i]little[/i] more grounded - but he still seems like an excellent laugh.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 1:16 pm
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Concrete rusts metal...

Errr, no it doesn't. Metal encased in concrete may corrode if things like salty water find their way to it, but the concrete doesn't cause it to rust.

Concrete is a construction material composed of sand, water, and chemical admixtures.

Don't believe everything you read on the interweb, concrete needs a bit of cement in it as well.............


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 1:39 pm
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Would have been better off sticking a 40' shipping container in the hole.

Shipping containers are entirely unsuitable for making bunkers, apparently. They're designed to take loads at their corners but don't cope with tons of earth spread evenly over their tops and pushing at their sides.

[url] http://graywolfsurvival.com/2625/why-you-shouldnt-bury-a-shipping-container-for-a-shtf-bunker/ [/url]

That may of course be your point.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 2:05 pm
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Just so we're clear, I am not helping you build a bunker.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 2:07 pm
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Don't believe everything you read on the interweb, concrete needs a bit of cement in it as well..

I think you missed [url=

reference material...[/url] ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 2:14 pm
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Basically just a Guy Martin who knows how to use soap.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 2:26 pm
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[b][UPDATE AGAIN - HE HAS FINISHED IT][/b]

And unsurprisingly it came out quite well...


 
Posted : 18/11/2015 11:18 am