Shelter from a storm....

One day we were outside working on the foundation and someone pulled into our driveway. The lady asked us if we wanted a storm shelter. Well, in fact we were going to put one in someday...it just wasn't going to happen yet. She said that they had lived in a trailer while building their home and had a shelter put in. Once the house was built they no longer needed the shelter. ( they built an earth contact home). So, we drove over there and took a look at it. Chris spent a few evenings digging it out of the ground with the backhoe. We called a concrete company that sets septic tanks and they were willing to move it for us if we had a place already dug out to put it in. We spent the next few nights digging out a place for it to go. Then had it moved. The cost of the new storm shelter- $280 to move it!!!  We have to dig out a bit in front of it and put in some retaining walls. We are going to use one of the grain bin doors on the front of it because it needed a new door. It will just have to wait still until it is finished...the house is higher on the list of things to get done!

This is what you use to move 12000 pounds of concrete.

It had to be held out on the boom and then spun 360 degrees.

It will have a lot more dirt around it before we are done. We have to have dirt moved in to go around the foundation of the house and this storm shelter. I will update when we get it done!