I'm going to dig out a big fricking basement under my house. We're on a slope. Would you buy a kubota or a conveyor belt and a shovel?
Needless to say, I don't want to die or have my house collapse. anyone have any tips?
I'm going to dig out a big fucking basement under my house. We're on a slope.
I read somewhere that shovels are the deadliest tool in construction, accounting for the biggest portion of workplace accident mortality rates. What came in second place wasn't even close.
HOW?
im guessing something involving a dumbass and gas lines or electrical.
Cave ins. Trenches are dangerous muhfrickas. They collapse in the blink of an eye and then you're dependent on a crew with an average IQ of 87 figuring out how to rescue you in <1 minute.
>shovels are the deadliest tool in construction
That why you see one guy digging and like five uys standing around watching him at any road construction site.
They're monitoring to make sure the shovel doesn't turn on him. (And one of them is keeping the betting book for which limb it will bite.)
Kubota, all the way. Crowdfund it and run a blog and maintain a thread here.
We will call you 'Dug'.
tractor or convery belt
tractor, kubotaor w/e
get permits
Frick you you piece of shit I hate you so much
I can't wait for the day when every leaf eating bureaucrat gets Louis the 14th'ed
Do you even know where you are?
Sorry meant Louis the 16th'ed...in my rage I misplaced the year of revolution.
You are literally a useless eater.
lol
so mad he can't even get his frog history right
I don’t want to embarrass you, but you have a hole in your shirt.
For starters, hire a real engineer to evaluate the project and develop the reinforcement plan, especially on a slope. Based on the current foundation, there will be a specific plan/order in which you need to dig and put in columns during the project to keep the existing structure stable.
this, seriously, get some professional to make the plan, talk to him that you want to be the manual laborer and they'll help you.
I would plan to support my house so thoroughly with structural steel (bought used it's quite reasonable with some looking) as I went such that collapse would be insanely unlikely. It's not difficult to maneuver steel sections single-handed with some planning.
I really like steel as it's so easy to cut, weld, drill and bolt. Mag drills are affordable these days. I'd use a conveyor belt and shovel because it's surprisingly easy to move a lot of spoil that way.
When we dug out ours I bought four mexicans and 30 home depot 5 gallon buckets.
we dug out a section tamped it down with gravel and put cribbing in and used steel beams as cross supports.
Shovels don't kill people. People kill people.
Go for it, brother! Just dig it!
this right here op. even me with my penut brain knows when its time to shill out to the engineer. No one wants to have something collapse....its expensive and embaressing.
id say determining your geogolic layers will determine how complex this is going to be.
if you dont want this to be super obvious use some extruded aluminum or H steel beems and build your own belt or whatever to move dirt to aboveground.
large machinery is going to mean a higher ceiling and also more support for the ground. just get some drills that are hydrolic and handheld for max stealth. hydrolic pump runs above ground and supplies pressure to the underground tools.
depending on where u are....you gotta be careful cuz their might be seismic sensors or acustic monitors....
Jesus they weren't kidding when they called this a crawlspace. Why is this a thing? my knees are killing me and this dirt is probably bedrock or close to it. gonna get a kubota, i can barely chip into this with a shovel.
No room to build outdoors?
we have a little over half an acre, but i have different plans for that. no one needs to know this exists but me and you guys.
>no one needs to know this exists but me and you guys.
If you're not dead-set on that idea you could set up some bilco doors and start digging from the outside. If you do want to be discreet you could put a shed next to the house and dig from there,.
>I'm going to dig out a big fricking basement under my house
lmao homie i didn't think you meant from scratch
to get any use out of that place you gotta dig straight down and put TNT under it and hook it up to a redstone switch outside
>Why is this a thing?
Allows air flow to prevent mold
>They guarantee your work is done safely and to code.
lol
Looks like some jerk put a bunch of concrete under your house to keep you from finding all the cool treasure he hid below it.
pressure washer and a shop vac blast ground and suck it up its how they tunnel under slab houses to fix sewer and water line leaks
I keep thinking that it would be a really interesting piece of kit that would basically be a heavy-duty vacuum cleaner with a power head that instead of a carpet brush has a mini version of picrel. And then have the hose go out through the crawlspace vent to a hopper or blower that then dumps right into a truck or wheelbarrow or whatever you're using to move dirt.
yeah it already exist its called a tunnel rat it attaches to a vac truck its one of the ways they tunnel under slab houses
>Permits are for your own good anon.
frick off you dumbass