Pouring Concrete Walls For My BUNKER SAFE ROOM!

Phase two of our A-frame home build means finally adding on the bedroom wing to the house. I'm not gonna lie, I'm very excited about this project. I just can't wait for finished product. And yeah, it's huge. I'm loving it. But it's not just a bedroom wing. It also includes Josh's dream safe room. I have a small safe. Now I have a massive safe. A massive safe. We've just cracked the book to a new, more challenging build, and with this concrete pour, it's not the rain that we're needing to work around. It's the birth of new life on our farm. The perfect day for landing. And concrete. Two girls. Tomorrow's concrete day, so today I'm going to spend time buttoning everything up. I got vertical bracing going around the entire foundation wall, and I got a space every two feet. Erin and I have a lot of work to get accomplished today, so we're going to promote divide and conquer. I'm going to start by getting kickers around the entire foundation wall, and Erin has some work at the barn to do. We've had a really mild February this year, but this weekend we're going to be dropping into the 20s, and our mama ewes are getting within the one week range of lambing here. So while I'm not expecting to have lambs during the cold temperatures of this weekend, I do want to be prepared because if I'm not prepared, then they will have lambs. That's just the way that it works. I'm going to work this to the outside of the barn. So we got a nice clear entryway. We've got to brace that corner, that corner, same with those two corners, brace those also. That wall is good, that wall is good, this wall is decent, this one needs a little bit of work. It definitely does. Also some graffiti. Just make sure we can reach it over the gate, okay? Yep. Through here. Yeah, we'll just tie some wire right there, and they'll both have some arrows on each side. Yeah, it's good. The safe room wall is right here, going to be 12 inches thick, and they're going to go up in concrete, and the entire ceiling of the safe room is also going to be concrete. I'm not going to lie, I'm very excited about this project. I just can't wait for finished product. And yeah, it's huge. I'm loving it. I would not be an electrician's wife if I didn't use wire to attach to everything. How many lambs do you think we're going to have this year? Three. Three? Yeah. No way. I think one though. No way, we're going to have way more lambs than that. Maybe eight? Probably somewhere around eight, that's a good guess. You're going to have your hands full. Get ready. Yeah, I cannot wait. So we're good. All we need to do is put some rods through here, and just connect everything to the rods, and maybe put a couple kickers on the backside, and we're done. I got three-inch rod, washers, and nuts. So the plan is to cut the rod at 16 inches, drill through both sides of the form, slide the rod through there, and nut and washer on both sides. And that way when you pour concrete, the rod going between the two forms holds it together so the concrete doesn't expand and pull everything apart, so we can keep a nice even 12 inches the entire way through. So we're all buttoned up, ready for concrete. I have one thing I got to do tomorrow. I need to cut down the inside of the form all to the same elevation, because right now some of the plywood is butted up, and there could be like a three-inch difference, half-inch difference of height in between the plywood as it goes around. That's what the footer report isn't exactly perfect, so it's a little bit off. So what I'm going to do is take a laser, and mark the entire thing, and cut it all down. We're probably going to do that tomorrow morning, because it's going to be dark outside. We'll get there when the sun starts coming out. Just enough that I can see, I can put the laser up, and I can see the laser going right around the entire area, and I can cut it all down. But we're ready for concrete. So we came here early this morning to get the laser set up. We did that on purpose so we can go through here and mark just a line. It's going to be a lot easier than holding that stick up with the reader on there and then trying to mark it. So we just set it up and mark the lines. Now we're ready to start cutting everything down to the proper height. Oh my gosh. Look at that. Lambs born on concrete day. It doesn't get much better than that. Of course. They look so cute. I'm so happy. I hope they're both girls. Oh, me too. It's okay, mama. Look at those little tiny things. Oh my gosh. She's so sweet. Pick her up so we can see if it's a boy or a girl. She's so brave. Hand it up. What does that mean? Two girls. Oh my goodness. Good job, mama. Oh, they're so brave. So this mama here had two adorable little ewe lambs. She cleaned them off beautifully and they're nursing very well. They're already up walking all around. This little one right there is nursing. It's great. It's the perfect day for lambing and concrete. You'll see what this one's doing right here. You are doing a good job helping mama take care of that baby lamb. Yeah. She looks like she likes those head scratches. They're so healthy. They are healthy girls. And they will turn out to be a very nice little family. She birthed beautiful babies. Yes, she did. And she's so brave. It's so exciting, mommy. I want to take a minute to talk about today's sponsor, Policy Genius. From day one, our entire goal out here has revolved around creating a better future for our family. Everything from building our own home to developing our small farm and also preparing for scary what ifs. We do a lot of risky stuff out here and accidents can happen. And that's why we chose early on to get life insurance. 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And it's just a total mixture of both excitement and a little bit of nerves because you just never know how it's going to go. Come on, Lace. Gotta come in here for safekeeping, buddy. I'm putting Leon into his holding pen just honestly for the safety of the concrete guys and the guy that is operating the pump truck. Leon is a very, very sweet boy. But he is also a ram. And we've got to respect his nature. Right, Lee? Yeah. In the plywood like this, I think we're smart to go just a little bit thicker. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And if there is a blowout, a lot of times you can catch it before. This is like super uneventful, which is probably a good thing. Very slow. Very boring. Watch. Watch them blow out now. Totally uneventful. Nothing big is happening. We're just pouring concrete. And it probably is because we put the rods in between the forms. We put dirt at the bottom. We also tap comp to the concrete. Everything's stout as can be. We're pouring slow. It's not too runny of concrete. It's right consistency. And I think if we do the forms the entire way around, the same way we did these forms, we'll have no issues. Yeah. So yeah, it's really working out. So we're on the truck number two. We got six rows of one truck, six rows of the other truck. So we should be done in about a half hour. It's going good. So once it gets done, we're just pouring concrete, baby. We got a house to build. Time to schedule another concrete day. Yes. If all our concrete days were as beautiful as this concrete day. Can't beat this. It's 60 degrees out here. It's February in West Virginia. We're doing concrete, you know. It's amazing. You can't beat it. You really can't. Josh, I think you hear cracking. Where? On this wall. Yeah, pulling apart. We all started hearing a little bit of cracking and creaking going on with the forms, which obviously isn't a good sign. So Josh is going to take a look at it and see what we need to do. All right, screw gun. This thing started moving on us, that's all. We started cracking. It started coming up a little bit. So I'm going to add some extra kickers and rod. It's just cold. All right, give me some nuts. So we go to that side. You want to go? Yep. Let this set up a little bit. We can do that. The new plan is to relocate the pump. We're going to let this concrete set up and solidify. It's going to get hard. So we're going to go on that side and pump around. By the time we get back to here, what little part was bulging out, the concrete already hardened up. It's going to go right on top and we'll have no more bulge. Is that a grape? That right there is Ellie's contribution. But it's okay. You can't throw grapes in there. Grapes don't belong in footer walls. You know what I mean? All held together. I have a little bulge, but no big deal. It's time to start forming up some more walls. Yeah, yeah. So good news, you know. It's always a good feeling when concrete day's done, you know. Are you ready for your house defense? It's a little bit early for that, isn't it? I think we got a little bit more forming up to do. We definitely do. Of course we can go see the lambs again. Daddy hasn't seen them yet. What are we going to name them? Lambie. Your crew is right over there. Did a good job today. Thank you.