/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1557235]

I can come by a used shipping container for free and was thinking of burying it in my backyard to have some sort of bunker. It would be great for safety if there ever is a huge fire or poisen gas outside but mostly I wanna use it for fun (fix electrical and plumming and maybe have a few beers with my friends).

What is a good way to isolate it all so it doesn't get cold in winter?

[Anonymous No.1557238]

>>1557235
Shipping containers are actually impervious to all forces, including the force of warmth and the force of anti-warmth (coldth).

[Anonymous No.1557240]

Die in a fire

[Anonymous No.1557244]

>>1557235

>poison gas

Is this seriously a potential hazard where you live?

[Anonymous No.1557247]

Stop right there.

[Anonymous No.1557253]

>>1557235
shipping containers aren't designed to handle the sort of force that soil puts on buried objects. it's going to collapse and kill you.

[Anonymous No.1557287]

>>1557253
Not if he digs the hole deep enough, say roughly 500ft

[Anonymous No.1557309]

>>1557247
containers are not designed for lateral pressure

[Anonymous No.1557318]

One might be able to improve lateral stability by welding on big sheets of metal, so they form vertical pipes with the existing construction. This would take several days of grinding and welding but you might end up with something strong enough to withstand the forces.
You could also dig out a hole and put steel reinforced concrete around the thing. This would also make for more of a bunker.

[Anonymous No.1557319]

>>1557235
>What is a good way to isolate it all so it doesn't get cold in winter?

imitation crab meat.

[Anonymous No.1557337]

>>1557319
>imitation crab meat.

[Anonymous No.1557376]

>>1557287
This

[Mrcrummy No.1557483]

>>1557235
>What is a good way to isolate it all so it doesn't get cold in winter?
bury it deep enough that it will always be 60f inside
also, add reinforcing framework inside

[Anonymous No.1557514]

Where are you at? What is your frost line depth? All these aside, a small electric space heater will do fine for the sparse time you are in it. With chums chillin inside you will find the need for fresh air ventilation is greater than climate controll.

[Anonymous No.1557591]

>>1557318
>just build a concrete bunker to place your metal bunker inside of, bro

[Anonymous No.1557601]

>>1557235
This bait is of such low quality that I’m not even going to look for a fish and hook picture.

You suck donkey nuts OP.

[Anonymous No.1558358]

the weight of the dirt pushing in on the sides will collapse it, you need to reinforce the sides ,bottom and top with steel bars, then i recommend a moisture barrier,insulation, and some sort of walling weather drywall,plastic ect, the weight and pressure of the dirt from the sides will collapse the container overtime if its not reinforced.

[Anonymous No.1558370]

>>1557601
You replied though

[Anonymous No.1558445]

>>1558358
>weight of the dirt pushing in on the sides
He just needs to counter that pressure with something following Newtons figures. Maybe fill it with water and use it as an underground pool?

[Anonymous No.1558452]

Retards. Don't bury your shipping container in dirt. Just cut a shipping container sized hole into solid stone so it won't cave in, and cover the top with lightweight fake plants.

To deal with winter, just put insulation between the container and the stone with a layer of insulation on top under the fake plants. Insulation hardly weighs anything.

[Anonymous No.1558519]

Reinforce the sides and top with pallets.

[Anonymous No.1558530]

>>1557247
https://youtu.be/7GDthiBGMz8

[Anonymous No.1558768]

>>1557235
dont lie op youre making a grow room or a meth lab

[Anonymous No.1558987]

>>1558452
>Just cut a shipping container sized hole into solid stone

[Anonymous No.1559102]

>>1558987
just scale up your 3d printed dremel cnc mill plans

[Anonymous No.1559133]

>>1557247
Dig a hole install vertically

[Anonymous No.1559137]

>>1557287
Based and digpilled

[Anonymous No.1559152]

>>1557309
How the fuck can they stack them so high on those ships then?

[Anonymous No.1559153]

>>1559152
those containers have thick square tubing that runs vertically up the corners of the container and is longer than the height itself, no weight is being put on the walls or ceiling

[Anonymous No.1559155]

>>1559153
Shit why don’t they just do that then?

[Anonymous No.1559162]

>>1559155
because those tubes are to support another container by its matching tubes, they don't add structural integrity to the top.

[Anonymous No.1559177]

>>1559152
It's a strong steel frame wrapped in as little as possible. Only the frame is strong and the sides and top are just there to keep the weather out.

[Anonymous No.1559186]

>>1559162
How do they lock the connectors on a vertical stack of containers?

Like it you see a flatbed truck it'll have locking handles all around where the container mounts on, but that only works for the lowest container in the stack

[Anonymous No.1559187]

>>1559186
Some of them have an inset so the bottom of the top container fits into the top of the bottom container.

Some of them just sit on top of each other, they're too heavy even when empty to slide off unless the ship was on a very extreme angle, and at that point the ship is sinking anyway. I have never seen shipping containers stacked higher than 1 high on a truck

[Anonymous No.1559197]

>>1559187
I figured they would take greater care to prevent losing containers, since you often hear about a ship hitting a big wave and losing a bunch of containers in a storm.

I just figured that was freak accidents or accidentally forgetting to secure the stacks, rather than just stacking them up loose and hoping for the best. Interesting.

[Anonymous No.1559227]

do you think I have talent?

[Anonymous No.1559417]

>>1559197
They aren't really secured by much, if anything. It takes time and money to secure and unsecure loads that 99% of the time aren't going anywhere anyway, and the remaining 1% nothing you can do will secure them well enough.
Now multiply that by the fact that at this very moment, there are many tens of thousands of shipping containers in transit on the ocean, and yeah, these things go over with enough regularity to create serious shipping hazards and significant economic loss. Insurance of contents is cheaper than securing it "properly", particularly when your lost shipping container that damages another ship is unlikely ever to be identified later.

[Anonymous No.1559420]

>>1559227
>when you see a merchant in the thumbnail
k internet time is over for me today I think

[Anonymous No.1559444]

>>1559133
How deep?

[Anonymous No.1559448]

>>1559444
About 500ft

[Anonymous No.1559459]

>>1559420
I just saw it too........

[Anonymous No.1559705]

>>1557235
OP,

the answer to your problem is school busses. Busses can handle the pressure and have been used to make bunkers in the past. They can sometimes even be bought cheaper than shipping containers.

>anon ur lying id believe you

google "ark 2"

[Anonymous No.1559716]

>>1559420
>>1559459
What's a merchant? Forgive ignorance please

[Anonymous No.1559728]

>>1557235
tell us the truth, your building a meth lab arent you

[Anonymous No.1559740]

>>1557247
These are all lies photos. Because of the corrugated ridges, bunkers, or containers, as I call them, can withstand high vertical horizontal, but only NOT diagonal forces due to the Lampard principle.

You should read more. I get physically mad whenever I see these types of disinformation posted on the web.

[Anonymous No.1559789]

>>1559740
>who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes
Alright you go bury your shipping container, professor Lampard, I'll pass though

[Anonymous No.1559790]

>>1559740
I can't tell id you made all this up or not, but i'll assume you did, good troll friend

[Anonymous No.1559815]

>>1559155
Because they work excellant... on container ships and trucks.

Theyre not designed for bunkerbuilding.

Think faggot.

[Anonymous No.1559817]

>>1557309
You can pressurize them to counteract the external forces. Just need an airlock for entry/exit.

[Anonymous No.1559818]

>>1557235
It will crush it. Put it on a slab cut a window or two and insulate it with imitation crab meat. Consider adding a slope to the roof. Itll last as long as you keep it painted

[Anonymous No.1559819]

>>1559740
Look into why basement walls are built how they are and fuck off.

[Anonymous No.1560078]

>>1559152
this

[Anonymous No.1560107]

>>1559420
Wow quality merchant.

[Anonymous No.1560252]

>>1559444
About tree fiddy

[Anonymous No.1560684]

>>1559152
it's like a house, only has strength for vertical pressure

[Anonymous No.1560687]

>>1559420
lmao

[Anonymous No.1560692]

>>1559420
It's a tranny box.
You're merchant detection skills are uncanny.

[Anonymous No.1561205]

Make sure you paint the inside white but add a shot of black to the paint for coverage

[Anonymous No.1563417]

>>1561205
how so?

[Anonymous No.1563420]

>>1559420
Just remember you are here forever

[Anonymous No.1563744]

>>1557337
...the fuck?

[Anonymous No.1563772]

>>1557244
>>1557244
got me

[Anonymous No.1563778]

>>1557247
This.
I remember climbing on top of one of these at the baseball field with my friends when we were like 13, and worrying that tge roof would cave in because it would dent in everywhere we stepped.

[Anonymous No.1564676]

>>1557337
based jo

[Anonymous No.1564686]

>>1557235
>What is a good way to isolate it all so it doesn't get cold in winter?

You won't get cold... WHEN YOU'RE DEAD!
>[dun dun duuuuun]

[Anonymous No.1564687]

>>1559740
Soil weighs about 110 lbs/cuft.

Also after some quick mental gymnastics,

Let's say container is 10' x 50' is 500 sqft. Just 12" underground is 55,000 lbs
GL m8

[Anonymous No.1564940]

>>1557235
Everyone knows that we don't have the technology to bury a metal shipping container without having the roof cave in.
The only explanation is that an alien must have buried a shipping container and then constantly posted it to this page to be enigmatic.
I know, I know. I was skeptical too, but now it makes so much sense, that I am amazed that I ever doubted in the first place.