[blackdog]

I knew a family from Estonia that bought a ranch house down the street from us. The family didn't like the concept of a crawl space. They hand dug with five gallon buckets a twelve foot deep basement under the house. They were under the foundation footings and used rebar and hand mixed concrete to form and pour deeper footings and walls.

It took them four years of hand digging after work each night for usually three to four hours at a time.

Once they got their basement they had a place to store their home grown produce, brine cured meats, etc.... and I suppose in the back of their minds, hide from governments gone wrong.

[21twelve]

Wow - that is pretty amazing.

I’m surprised the building inspector gave them the permit! ;)

I was on a project in Indonesia and there was a huge boulder by the side of the road - like 30’ x 30’. They had a bunch of worker’s on it hand drilling holes. The plan was to then fill the holes with clay and wet the clay so it would expand and break the boulder.

I don’t think they were trying to make an obelisk though!