I found you on episode 45+/-, been watching the early ones looking cool at all the different stages its been dry here , love hearing the rain on the metal.!, i consider 13 lucky, since iam backwards from most folks 😂

Take it off the wall? Easy. Pick it up to put in a bucket? Really messy and annoying, but also doable. Then you have to drag the heavy bucket, hard, and then you gotta wonder where you get rid of it, Impossible. Not exactly what you imagine when you think about digging yourself a bunker, but...

6:04 The greatest respect mankind can show to its intellect and to the nature they exploit, is to never throw anything away, and make good use of it until it's nothing but dust, and use that then also.

Hey lex . Weather in London has been rather pleasant, no Victorian smog lol. Sciatica didn't appear in the video I hope it was absent for you also. I reckon that fence will become a trusty companion for as long as it's able. Will the wood be concrete at some point in the future. Looking forward to some technical concrete kung fu.

If you drill and fill like you do for the ladder all the way around every 150mm you could widen it 100m. Mark out and do every 3rd hole and give time to cure obviously.

Oh good, you are planning on going sideways! Clay is funny, solid clay will not allow water to travel through it. It just holds onto it's water. I'm in clay myself, but once I started to encounter some rock and gravel in it, here came the water! Sump it off and it comes running right back. Mine is very seasonal, I'm in a dry season right now and the sump is never running. So that means it's time to lower the sump and keep digging. Good times!

Lex you have come along way since last october! Going straight down is hard work! Your clay is perfectly miserable stuff and the never ending water is always a challenge. I know you want to hit 7meters down, but I was curious if you are going to expand out sideways once you reach the bottom? Next question I have is are you planning on having to pump water forever? Hopefully you have seen some of the water proofing membranes I've experimented with that bonds to the back of concrete. The all white stuff is very cheap from china, but I had no luck with them dealing with me. Today I have 2 rolls of the p20 which will go down right before I pour concrete. For now, I've been excavating a section for the largest sump you have ever seen. I'm using 15" dual wall black pipe and the plan is for it to die in the hole as I won't be able to access it. It's only job is to hover the water level in 12" of gravel below my floor which will be 12" thick concrete. It took a lot of buoyancy calculations to come up with that one. Yikes! Keep digging buddy! Oh, how wide is your bunker shaft?

It's slow work hey. I got a bit done this afternoon but no video.

Hi lex maybe use the block and tackle to load up the lift. I'm hoping that the clay will become nicer as you get deeper.(If there's such a thing as nice clay) How far till your lift runner extension.

Just a mad idea - from someone with no background in this sort of thing.. I remember cutting clay with cheese wire back in school. So, would a L shape plank, with spikes down the long in-side, layed down & under cut with a wire pull out perforated rooftile sized slabs. Looks like really nice clay, it may just contain enough natural grog not to crack. I don't know all that much about clay, it could be one of many minerals & some don't fire well, bentonite for example is best used for cat litter. fascinating project.

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we need a prediction episode, where you sit through the crude math of how long it's been to get to here, and what it ideally will be, and how long approximately will take at the pace you've been going (:

Amazing progress mate. Its interesting seeing someone just go down.

7m is a long way down. You'd probably get away with 5m assuming you'll have to put a support structure in regardless. Funny, literally a game of cat and mouse on the camera.

That clay looks firmiliar. Horrible stuff, glad to see you feeling better.

Good progress. Digging probably the same as when you climb a ladder. Five metres doesn’t sound it , but feels way high.

Looking forward to the tunneling

The a.d.d can be a curse and a blessing. I know for myself that is the case. I will buy a mug mate. I bulged my 4th and ruptured my 5th in my lumber spine. I too know the joy of a numb butt and leg.

Enjoying the videos 👍

The Henry style vacuum cleaners work as bailing out tools. ,just don't slosh it about when running. The neighbors are drinking your water.

i need a mug! We enjoying the journey with you Lex🤙🏼🍻cheers

It'll be interesting to see the footage from your trail-cam. I have a pond here that attracts all sorts of wildlife, especially in summer. Kangaroos, deer, echidna, rabbits and all sorts of birds.... Feathered birds. I don't have a pool big enough for the other ones, unfortunately... Is that an enameled steel mug ? Looks cool.

thats a pretty piece of machinery

genius name hahahahaha

perfect music

Quick man the buckets were sinking lads 💪🏼🤙🏼🍻

Darn it. Somethings happened

Nice work Lex, good to see you up and at it again.

Good to see you down the hole again. Bit by bit.

Glad your getting better 🙂

I had a bad experience with pain killers years ago. Very rarely take anything these days. Sometimes pannadol. Having two pumps is a good idea.

Nice work. Stoned in the workshop, if you didn't say I'd never know. One design improvement I can think of is the float switches, have them mounted on angle inside the tub. As they currently look vulnerable to damage, as the tub gets put in deeper sumps as you continue to dig. Shortcut to cleaning the filter ,rotate it 90 or 180 degrees as the bottom section will be doing most of the work.

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All the best, maybe time to get yourself some new boots,

glad you got that solved quickly and easily. 🤙🏼🍻cheers

Get a physiotherapist consult if you can, it can really help with sciatica. That and caffeine apparently.

More stuff means more stuff to stop working and need maintenance. But it's all good fun.

One thing worse than working while having sciatica and back issues, working for someone else while having sciatica and back issues. Keep taking the tablets and hope to see ya next week.

a dollar and 10 minutes per milimeter of shaft. Ouch.

Great to see you still getting stuff done but dont over work yourself into another week of off time. maybe i bit of light stretching a few times a day and good hydration will help out i know it does for me. 🤙🏼🍻cheers!

8:30 why not get yourself a simple socket adapter for the drill so you can drill those most of the way in? On speed 2 the drill should be able to get them all the way in?

No good about your back mate. But good that you're still getting a bit done.

Hey Lex, I struggle to watch these long videos. I am wondering if you could make some around the ten minute mark giving a low down on your achievements and not showing unedited long sections of video. I find myself skipping a lot of it which probably hurts your watch percentage. Cheers for the update though. Look after that back of yours.

Sir Turbo tried serial pumps similar to what you mentioned and gave up. It would be worth going back to watch what he did. I wondered after that if you could just connect the out of one to the in of the next.. I'll try it one day if I ever get to the point where my pump doesn't do the job.

It's always a pain fixing up things like that. Lucky you didn't get hit with that grinder.

I was just thinking, sparks toward your plumbs and not your chums, and then it happened. That could have gone downhill quickly.

39:29 and THAT is why I hate using corded grinders. I always EXCLUSIVELY use battery powered ones. They're too weak to do that.

It's been dry here lately but water has definitely caused me some challenges as well. I'm sure you'll rise above it

You might not have done as much as you'd hoped for but you're still making progress and doing a great job. 👍🏻👍🏻

Well that was a rip roaring action packed episode. The infamous concrete. The mildly cooked upper float switch. And the cafeteria customers commenting that their packets of crisps are really heavy. Optocoupler may be a component that inspires you. English summer and London orbital traffic jam has done a number on me today.