The best $3500 purchase (that I hope I never have to use)

[Hawk Teflon]

Well, the installers for our storm shelter are here installing it in our garage. After this past May / June and the tornado outbreaks, and with a new child in our lives, it seemed like the right decision. Hopefully we'll never have to use it. But if we do, it'll be there.

 

[Everts]

wow man where Im from this looks like something from the movies.... no pun . Be safe and take care.

 

[David Jimerson]

Dorothy - she's flying!

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

Was that a cow?

Same cow.

 

[Jordan Scott Price]

You bought a backhoe?

 

[Hawk Teflon]

Nah, they brought it to dig the hole to put that box into.

If I'd bought a backhoe, I would have been installing a pool tomorrow.

 

[Jordan Scott Price]

I just assumed you were going to dig a big hole when the sirens went off.

 

[Pookie]

An in ground beer cooler, I'm impressed. :thumbsup:

But, where's the bathroom wing? :huh:

 

[Rippie]

How does that thing lock shut?
I mean in the movies that's always the weak link.


Sweet bonus you can work under a car easier now as well.
Of course with no other way out ya gotta trust the other guy who parks the car above you
to actually MOVE it when you're done.

 

[Hawk Teflon]

Pookie, I'm going to have to get a loan for that wing. As for it being a beer cooler ... well, there is a lock and key for a reason!

Rippie, it just slides shut and locks. Those two "claws" you see on the last picture latch it shut. You can then open it again from the inside with an attached handle. From the outside, there's a detached handle that opens the latch in that pops into that middle square (it's doubling as a hand rail in the picture above it). I hadn't even thought about working on the car from there.

 

[Terry_Lasater]

Nice, Hawk! Folks around these parts need a fraidy hole. :thumbsup:

 

[wannabeapilot]

how much does it weigh?

 

[Terry_Lasater]

I'll jump in to say it's heavy but what makes it safe is that its below ground.

 

[Hawk Teflon]

I'm not sure. I didn't try to pick it up. But it's box of 10 gauge steel that has to be put in with a machine.

 

[Charli]

Hawk, you know you HAVE to use this as a location scene for a short film for here. It's expected. Uh, huh...

 

[Hawk Teflon]

Hawk, you know you HAVE to use this as a location scene for a short film for here. It's expected. Uh, huh...

Ha! I've already been thinking about that. Not sure what the next fest will be, but if it's ClaustrophobiaFest I'm set!

No, I really have been trying to figure out what I can shoot down there! Ha ha!

 

[Terry_Lasater]

...your next vlog.

 

[Scott F]

The day of the big storm: "Oh crap, we gotta move all these cases of beer out of the way so we can get inside!"

 

[David Jimerson]

Not all.

 

[TwistedLincoln]

While I like the idea quite a bit, the design seems a bit flawed... what happens if the garage collapses on top of it while you're inside?