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!
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| This is what you use to move 12000 pounds of concrete. |
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| It had to be held out on the boom and then spun 360 degrees. |
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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!
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