Shipping crates

Do you have $12k to blow on an underground shelter? Does it do anything better than your basement? Seriously, uparmor your basement, seal it from flood, have all your storage and backups in there, and if shtf you fill the upstairs with grease, marbles, dangling fish hooks, and lego. See if any cunt even makes it past the front hall.

>Also how well could one of these be made into a easily defensible bunker/fortress?
It's garbage for that. The only thing you get a thin metal box. By the time you add all the armor or support you will have a complete bunker/fortress without the need for the shipping container at all.

File: 1475818350533.gif (999KB, 167x165px) Image search: [Google]

999KB, 167x165px

>>31644708
>that video
What the fuck no just stop holy shit no.

Absolute garbage design. None of that looks good to last, they didn't put it deep enough, and they could have saved time, effort, and likely money just by starting from scratch with a designed structure meant for underground burial.

File: don't bury shipping containers.jpg (10KB, 259x194px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 259x194px

>>31644708
so much to point out

1. underground bunkers are misunderstood, you can't defend them; you just can't
if you're caught in one 20 men can be killed by one guy sitting on top
you have no way out, and no awareness of what awaits up on the surface
and thats if nobody blocks your air vents

2. so much material has been used here, why even use a shipping container

3. they won't protect you from much, maybe a fire
but you risk being buried or the shelter collapsing

at the end of the day you should spend less and just make a root cellar
or spend more and build a propper one

this jackass spent 12000$ moving a perfectly functional shipping container a foot underground and hard to get into
and his designs goes beyond unsafe, it laughable
what's retaining hte dirt from crushing inwards?!
does he think a shipping container can bear the weight of a 6in cement slab?

it's going to rain, wash the dirt against th container semi-crushing it
the slab will crack because it's LITTERALLY SUPPORTED BY THE DIRT AROUND IT
fair chance it could collapse

File: reinforced-concrete-o-ring-storm-drain-pipe-big2.jpg (40KB, 400x300px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 400x300px

>>31644708
Not sure why burying shipping containers is even thought of as a good idea, when you could use pre-fabricated reinforced concrete pipes.

They're meant to be buried.
They can be sealed.
Built to standards for that sort of shit.
They're made in a variety of sizes, and are modular, so you can put 'em together like Lego.
Comparatively cheaper.

>>31645716
for some time I've been interested in building a shelter/store in a section of pipe like that

not sure how you would make best use of the space

build one like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO25JYAaJC0

>>31646263
>>>>/reddit/

File: 633758-tubo-hotel.jpg (82KB, 650x366px) Image search: [Google]

82KB, 650x366px

>>31646115
like this (or longer, 2 or 3 section togetherbut with a lot of earth around & over them with a ladder in a vertical pipe section (would need entrances cut in it though).

File: w89UVGA.jpg (215KB, 1200x975px) Image search: [Google]

215KB, 1200x975px

>>31646115
You could do a floor like >pic related, then divide the under-floor bit into sections for storage of stuff like beans and rice. Kinda like a really shallow cellar.

>>31646345
well that as always going to be the general idea

my question would be more how to store things effectively under the floor
would you have lift-up sections?

my biggest concern would be ho you ensured your exit wasn't blocked

>>31646360
Divide the storage area lengthwise, and have wooden panels that slide across the centre like display cases.

Not sure how your exit's being blocked in this scenario.