Digging An Underground Speakeasy Part 6

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Жыл бұрын

Another installment of the underground Sand Bar I'm building in the Sandland tunnels! This episode is a mix of stuff from the summer, including closet expansion, wall / door frame construction, more digging with angle grinders, and random surface updates. Stay tuned for more in the coming months!
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@kapegede Жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing. The intro was very funny!

@jacobgreenberg3030 Жыл бұрын

The bricks look really cool set into the sandstone, but I don't blame you for not wanting to dig out each brick. Keep up the great vids!

@w9akwqsl Жыл бұрын

BRICK MORTAR USE SAND AND CEMENT. GO TO A PLACE THAT SELLS CONCRETE BLOCKS AND THEY HAVE SACKS OF MORTAR MIX.

@devinsullivan6160 Жыл бұрын

My knowledge is more turn of the century, but as I know it, you use slaked limestone motor for bricks. Which the bath tile stuff looks a lot like

@TheWordOfTheStreet Жыл бұрын

the way you can in the door 😂

@TheSpaceBrosShow Жыл бұрын

heck yea, more sandland!

@Stax_ Жыл бұрын

Best channel on KZfaq.

@Mark6O9 Жыл бұрын

He looks like Wolverine

@mattparker9726 Жыл бұрын

YaY! This is so cool!

@ChrisCrewdson Жыл бұрын

"Sometimes that's also the last step..." 🤣

@AaronzDad Жыл бұрын

You need digging gear with some sort of long belt or drive shaft to get the power source away from the sand-flinging cutting edge. Keep the sand outta the motor and I bet it would run longer. Just a guess of course. You could go with a bigger cutting wheel that way as well. Slow and torquey would work great in that crumbly sandstone.

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

I've actually seen slow and torquey tried, and it's surprisingly not that effective. The sandstone isn't crumbly enough on its own, but if you make relief cuts with the grinder it's then easy to pop out big chunks. I've considered a long arm with the wheel at the end, I might build some kind of contraption for that when the dumpster grinder finally dies!

@averagedemographic8933 Жыл бұрын

Mortar depends on the brick and application. You can usually find mortar at construction supply depots, they usually tons of bricks, mortar, caulk, tools, etc. Edit: Caulk dries quicker I think so you could use that for the brick stuff, for excavation you could drill a grid of holes and chisel that out.

@asn413 Жыл бұрын

heyy! hobo signs :D And now you get to go to hobo frieght for another grinder... :/

@officialconsciouscommunity Жыл бұрын

2 months for mortar? WOWWWWWWWWW!

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

It's some kind of grout junk for bathroom tiles that hardens by drying out. Since the tunnels are almost 100% humidity it took forever to dry. I probably shouldn't have relied on what the hardware store people thought was right, should have found an actual brick mason :-P

@anfroo9660 Жыл бұрын

cool

@TheDistur Жыл бұрын

Sand? Sand.

@123khristian Жыл бұрын

I wanna check this out

@dagmarsuarez3033 Жыл бұрын

"There's no guard on it or anything". Well there used to be.

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

Probably was at some point, but it was missing when I got it!

@BurkenProductions Жыл бұрын

You should just build a large spinning machine that can drill in to the wall faster

@adventureswithryan5499 Жыл бұрын

Looks good man!

@bbrockert Жыл бұрын

Every one of these videos I wonder about boring a hole straight up from the bar to have some ventilation, to reduce the humidity and try to push some of the silica dust and mold spores out so that you can drink and have the dumpster beer be the dangerous part, rather than the air. Thinking it through, if you measured the *absolute* humidity of the surface air and only blew it down (with a solar powered blower) when it was less than something like the equivalent of 70% relative humidity at the tunnel temperature, it would have a drying effect. Possible that I'm overthinking it and the same system would work as on sailboats, where you have a solar powered fan and on average the humidity is going to be lower outside any time it's sunny enough to power the fan.

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

We want to keep some humidity, the sand gets crumbly if it dries out. We also had a geologist tell us the humidity helps reduce airborne silica dust, so is probably better for breathing long-term!

@bbrockert Жыл бұрын

Ah well, who are you going to believe, a random friend off the internet or an expert who actually knows what they're talking about? :) If there ever was a desire for a dryer room, maybe spraying the walls with sodium silicate would make the surface hold together even as it dried.

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

@@bbrockert I do want to try the sodium silicate thing at some point!

@pbpx Жыл бұрын

I wonder how a wood power carver blade would do on the angle grinder.

@blintscav Жыл бұрын

Did you use in situ sand for the mortar? If so how handy!

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

Yep, just scooped it off the floor!

@blintscav Жыл бұрын

@@saveitforparts sand back to being (artificial) sandstone!

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

@@blintscav Kind of, the cement is more sturdy than the original sandstone. I did some experiments trying to see what would re-solidify sandstone and cement was the best, but doesn't look or behave the same.

@troopergoodwin6530 Жыл бұрын

SANDLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@troopergoodwin6530 Жыл бұрын

use a 5 gallon bucket to mix the mortar in it will stay good for a few hours at a go. keep it up!

@magnadox Жыл бұрын

Yoo I live in rochester Minnesota can I come visit sand land?

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

I'm not the owner, but you can find his contact info on tunnelcity.com. He's usually more open to people who want to help dig, depending on his schedule and whatnot :-)

@infoscholar5221 Жыл бұрын

You need a wooden door frame, and then use quick-crete to hold it in place, then you'll have a strong enough structure to hang a light door - like a trailer interior door, for example - onto. Be safe. those caverns have no reinforcing frame, I woory about a cave in after you've hollowed them out to such a degree.

@saveitforparts Жыл бұрын

I've got a video on here somewhere about the structural stability of the tunnels. Since we keep them relatively small with an arched ceiling they're self-supporting. We do have reinforced ceilings in the donut room partially due to a crevice there and partly for aesthetics.