tunnel

[ddigger]

I tore down this house not long ago, it was built by a Jewish imigrant to this Country. In the tower were shooting rests and the small windows folded down to the inside. In the basment there was this.

I went in about 150ft untill it became clogged with tree roots and my shoulders felt like they were beginning to swell. The nieghbors I spoke with said rumor had it that it daylighted out nearly 1/4 mile away, and that the man had vowed never to be captured again. It makes me wonder the **** this man must have seen to go to the lengths.

 

[johnk]

That is very interesting. Is it in the US? Must of had some really nasty doings with the wrong people..

 

[nybirdman]

Probably a survivor of the Holocaust,captured by the German's WWII
Eastern Europe......immigrant Jew are the clues.

 

[ddigger]

Yes sorry, Northern California.

 

[JB4310]

I like tunnels, thanks for showing it.

What type of soil? looks pretty hard and stable. How deep is it? Could you stand up in it?

JB.

 

[MarkV]

Wow, don't see that everyday. In the first two tunnel photo's there was something on the ground that looked like containers tied together but I could not make it out for sure. Any idea what they were? Are you also going to collapse the tunnel?

Looked like an interesting house. Was it to far gone to save or was it being torn down for other reasons?

MarkV

 

[ddigger]

The soil is just a type of hard pan. The tunnel was about 28 t0 30 inches wide and 36 to 40 inches tall. The entrance was about 7 ft below exsisting grade. The house was on the grounds of a private school which I also demolished, to make way for a housing project of some sort. I am sure that after I left the dirt guys dug up and recompacted the tunnel. As for the stuff on the ground it was just junk, old pipe, cans and wire, mostly stuff that had fallen in from the demo.

 

[ljellio]

Very interesting thank you for sharing . Kinda gives you chills to think what he has been through. Similar when you see houses and barns that were part of the underground railroad

 

[jinman]

I can't speak to the tunnel, but I know someone who is finishing up a house in the country with a gun port in a wall beside the front porch in case undesirables come calling. He'll probably never have to tell anyone to leave more than once.:thumbsup:

BTW: I'm always amazed at how the older generation would do things. If I were building a tunnel, I'd first dig a trench with a backhoe, put in shoring, and cover it up. Digging by hand and dealing with cave-ins and spoil removal must have been a huge task. My 75 year old uncle bought a house in the 70s with a vacant lot beside it. He got out there with a pick and shovel and dug a hole, set forms, and poured a storm cellar. His neighbors (and me) thought he was nuts when he started, but they were awful friendly when he got finished. His was the only shelter on the block.

 

[MossRoad]

My dad was a WWII veteran and an architect. He built our house back in the mid to late 50's. We had the only reinforced concrete bomb shelter on the block! :laughing: It had steel I beams to support the concrete slab on the ceiling. The door was counterweighted with several large steel weights on a cable, pulley system. There was a hand pump well pipe and a fresh air intake pipe. He never finished the well pump or built the air filtration system. It was supposed to be some sort of hand crank apparatus with automotive oil filters to trap radioacitve dust particles. He figured by the time the "bomb" was dropped and armageddon was emminent, there really was not much of a point in staying in a concrete hole for 20-30 years! But it made a dandy tornado shelter! :thumbsup: :laughing: