Sorry this has been so long in the waiting but its full steam ahead now, this video is a week later than planned so the next update won't be far away, stay tuned as it's progressing way faster than before.
Periscopes are cool. The garage is going to need a periscope. You can spy on the street from underground or see what's going on above you while you're down there.
i remember the early days of the project, when work was only done when the neighbors were "away" to keep the illusion of a hidden tunnel. obviously the scale of the project has come much farther than that would allow. it's great to see how far along you've come colin!
I just spent 26 minutes watching you dig a hole... and I really couldn't be more proud of you making your dreams come true. You're an inspiration to makers everywhere.
Seeing how long this is taking with an excavator, really puts it into perspective how much time and effort went into the rest of this project prior. Each one of those excavator bucket fulls is 2-3 if not more of the buckets you carried and winched out of the tunnels. Thank you!
Is it just me, or does Colin seem to be in a very good mood in this video? Him and Tom both, all smiles and joking around. Love to see it, working with your mates doesn't feel like work. Can't wait for the next one!
I'd be smiling too if I'd finally got some sun after the last few months worrying about whether or not the English weather will turn my secret tunnel into an underground log flume.
Honestly Colin this is probably one of my favorite videos of yours that I've seen. Nothing crazy just good old antics and friends and family, definitely made me feel as if I was right there with you!! Looking forward to part 10.
17:20-18:20 I just love how much this bit feels like a fun little party with all of Colin's friends. Very wholesome to see people just enjoying working on something together :)
Maybe it's just on the second channel, but I love how this dig project is getting more and more people involved with every video - Tom, your wife, your mother, good ol' Freddie, and even the lorry drivers. Seems like you're on your way to an entire block party by the end of the project.
Ironic really how it started out as a secret tunnel and by the end it's going to be a community project! Colin's going to end up having open days and running tours 😆
I love when Colin's friends join in! - edit: Smooth bucket change. Last time I tried a bucket change, I was chasing it for a couple of yards too cinch the connection. But to be fair, I am a novice (and unlicensed!) equipment operator.
@Tomlamb980 Always impressed seeing such finesse in the digger, especially considering you're sitting miles away from the bucket yet not crashing into stuff
I dunno if its the camera or just that i am not used to seeing sunshine in your videos, but man, what a bright and beautiful day. Nice true-to-life colors too. It just gave me a happy feeling seeing that blue sky and the excitement of progress and digging. What a great time 👍🏻
@@PaulAden The worst part is that the one week of English summer is spread across all of the other weeks, you'll get a good day, and then you'll have to wait another week for the next good day.
The best part of the video is the way you treat the workman and the way your mum made a effort with them honest shows the person you are. Love these videos
Although completely different, Escape to Rural France is rebuilding a chateau that burnt down in a fire. Matt's virtually built it all himself with help from a few friends along the way (more so nowadays). It's impressive what he's been able to achieve so far. Loving seeing how your mad project is coming along. I've been watching since the old hilux fast food and pallet death wall days. I had no idea you'd become as big as you have, major congrats on that front Colin.
Just to add other massive UA-cam diy projects to the list. The Restoration Couple’s barn conversion is enormous and it’s in the uk. Escape to rural France and his chateau is impressive in scale also
The ice cream truck is brilliant! We had trucks wander the neighborhood when I was a child, and all the kids would run down to get ice cream. Sadly, those days are gone in my corner of the US. The menu looks amazing, instead of just cold stuff on a stick...
There's a little channel of a guy in Appalachia in the US, where he keeps rescuing enormous old steam engines and their boilers to restore and set up on his property for school groups to come by and see them operate. By the time you consider that he has to go rescue the engines from remote mountain locations, restore/rebuild them, then do all of the brickwork to set them up similar to their original operating conditions - it's the only other project I can think of that gives this one a run for its money. The channel is Jonathan W, and he's a very hard working, intelligent, salt-of-the-earth type. Enjoyable content. Edit: Another REALLY GOOD ONE is Sampson Boat Company and Leo's restoration of Tally Ho. They're pretty much done with the boat now but man what a journey it has been 💪
If you're hiring contractors, take note of the pizza and ice cream...if you take care of your workers they will go above and beyond to give you top quality service! (a couple beers or a splif after work wouldn't hurt either) And hats off to Colin for some of the least intrusive commercial breaks!
@@BodywiseMustard For my favorite creators, like Colin Furze, Rob Dahm, The Fat Electrician, DonutOperator, I don't skip their ads, because they're people with personality and their personality makes the ad more relatable, and enjoyable to watch.
The only contractor hes hiring is Tom Lamb, and he is Colins long time friend, so i think he does take care of him as well as Tom giving him top quality service.
Get a one ton digger, and drop it in the hole with the bigger digger, then use the little digger to dig the base out, and lift up to the bigger digger. Then lift it out when done.
I have to say, given the soils where I live, the practice of brick foundations in the UK always gave me jitters… but if that’s the sort of rocky subgrade you’re building on, I can see why it persisted. I could never get away with that, but I’m on deep ancient glacial lakebed clay, so anything short of a deep, poured concrete wall, or a poured concrete grade-beam on 3m pilings is just going to either sink, or be shoved around by frost heaves.
I don't know if it's the same in England, but in Australia, those larger rock segments would have some value. Also, take your time Colin, this project is a wonderful exercise that no one else would dream of undertaking with your professionalism. Basic wood tunnel-supports or reinforced concrete bunkers are simple, but very basic. Steel walls backed by reinforced concrete is next-level. You could even run an efficient heating system under the floor.
As you remove so much soil, it is necessary to use Steel Sheet Piling wall to support your soil or foundation. It might seem stable now, it will not if rain or a heavy truck pass by.
Aww when you're mum gave tom the cake my heart melted I miss my grandma's baking she live 8 hours away so I don't see her often you're mum reminds me of her
The true test of "wife material" is just how much she'll put up with your idiosyncrasies. I've got one that puts up with all of mine, including a home arcade in our dining room.
That or Colin makes Don Juan look like a virgin school boy in bedroom or Colin and Harry the horse have something in common😅😂🤣. Hey Colin since you can’t ship dirt out of the country why don’t you wash off rocks, put them in a nice little Chinese takeaway folding cardboard container with a some fake grass like is put in Easter baskets and sell them as Colin’s pet rocks, lost brain matter, etc
@@IggyStardust1967 the best ones are the partners that sees what you're doing, and then comes with helpful suggestions that you haven't thought of yourself yet but solves a flaw that would have put a serious delay and cost increase in the whole project if it hadn't been discovered until you got to it naturally! I was been found by one of those back in 2007 and been happily married since 2017 😁
I've got a very understanding wife and can get away with most things that give my friends wife agro but I think even she would draw the line at undergound bunkers especially right outside the front door. 😂
DIY projects I'm watching: Matt Carricker restoring a whole resort, Money Pit castle is restoring an old castle, Cole the Cornstar is a farmer renovating his grandfather's 100 year old estate, and Jenna Phips was a sewing channel that is now undertaking her own full home renovation. All interesting in their own way.
Erik Grankvist is awesome, building all kinds of wooden structures and furniture from hand with only hand tools. Super good cinematography too and relaxing
Y'all all forgetting about Brent Underwood from Ghost town living. He's the one that lives up in Cerro Gordo. He's rebuilding the American Hotel there, he's also exploring through all his mines right down to 900ft plus more. That's a really good channel to watch
Gotta make the tunnel dirt jar stickers the colors of the buckets. You're on red now, next blue or green, maybe add a firey orange, then end on purple. Perfect theming, Colin!
For a bigger DIY project, in India Dashrath Manjhi spent 22 years single-handedly carving a road through an entire mountain to improve the transport links to his vilage, because his wife died due to unavailability of medicial services and he wanted to prevent it happening again.
I think I saw that. Wasn't it because the ambulance couldn't get to his wife in time due to needing to go around the mountain so he said screw it and built a tunnel through?
Don't let your foundations naked and unsupported during the underpinning process for too long. Sag is a huge issue with stuff like this. You don't see it now, but the bricks have 100% moved, but also, if you see cracks in the mortar, don't be too afraid either. If they do crack (knock on wood), just hire a crew that does forced injection repairs on brickwork. As is, the foundation spanning the portal is good indeed. That's a solid structure there, it would've been pretty bad if it wasn't like that. Whomever made the house, they knew what they were doing, because you see SO many houses where this isn't done right and segments are either floating or built on "hopes and dreams" as my teacher used to say.
Your neighbor must either be absent or an absolute saint. Watching you shovel and sweep up in the path of the bucket puts me in mind of some poor workaday sod mucking out a dinosaur's zoo habitat... "All right, Clyde", banging him on his armored skull with the broom, "don't make me job any harder". It was once posited that no one more enjoys the white hot spotlight as does an Englishman. You, sir, are the living proof of the concept. To be capable of selling a pint of dirt to anyone across the entire globe shouts aloud the sheer magnetism of your effort to entertain and bring co-operative affirmation of your efforts. Good show!
Yeah, I didn't get my dirt at Maker's Central but was still almost as pleased to hear the shop were all out, means it's a popular keep-sake for us all. Got one on order now 🥰
love your underground work, watched all the hand digging and steel work previously, this is the most interesting dirt work on the internet, mostly because of your commitment to doing it right, ie painting the steel, insulation, backfilling with concrete, a very good job, love it.
For anyone wondering white label tunnel dirt (the original) is sold out red label tunnel dirt (the second run, launched in this video) is sold out and it has been two days since this video premiered and run 3: blue label tunnel dirt is also sold out I think we like tunnel dirt, Colin!
Colin we love your strong effort to cover what is already a chaotic bit of fun. Thanks for the update on the tunnel work. The new underground Garage will be amazing.
my grandma has a piece of the Berlin Wall... it's not anywhere near as big a deal but it is still a piece of history... your secret garage and all will out live us all. you're a legend Colin... and don't you forget it.
You need to cut a piece of plywood to block off the opening so all the dust is kept under control and not dusting out your entire cavern while you are digging and I am glad I don't live next door ... Your a wild man Mr Colin.
In awe of the project! I think Dan from Escape to Rural France (rebuilding a fire-gutted French Chateau) attended the same safety training as you! If you ever take some of your stuff on the road to different towns, I'd pay good money and sign my life away for a go on the big weebley job and the warframe anti gravity harness!
I moved to England when I was 10, I'm over 30 now and I sometimes get surprised or jump scared by my own shadow, you just see it so rarely, it's always surprising.
If you haven't checked out Escape to Rural France, go give it a look. One could argue Dan's chateau rebuild is a bigger DIY project. And he's even less safe than you! Must be a British thing. 🤣
dan works 2 hours a day if you are lucky. Chateau Du Thiel rebuilt their chateau, built a restaurant, put in heating and AC, a bunch of walls, built a rock wall around the chateau, and they built an addition to the chateau. Dan is still putting in the frame on the roof.
I'm half way through and already thinking Tom's got a machine that's a bit small for that depth, and Colin just said the middle has to go 2 feet deeper. Good on Tom for fighting with a deep excavation and very hard material. Not to mention limited access to whatever rolls into the existing excavation with the metal floor. Nice one Tom!
I love that Colin keeps a jar of Tunnel Dirt in his passageway just in case he needs to film an intro for a vid whilst walking through it. Product-placement at its finest.❤️
... that we know of. Secretly he already may be a cyborg, with many parts replaced for ... reasons. That also may explain how he pulled off some of his stunts.
Impressive work! My dad and I dug underneath his house (built on the side of a hill) Added 200 square meter basement level with bathroom, office, living room and very large workshop 👌
Bigger DIY project - Matt Carriker (OffTheRanch) bought and is renovating an entire abandoned resort. Technically might not be "Do It Yourself" since he has a ton of help, but Colin is technically getting help as well. I recommend the videos of them using dynamite to blow up solid rock so they can dig a new road down a steep hill.
I'd say him renovating the mansion was bigger than this. Also that Alan guy from Heavy Sparks channel has an entire compound he's hand built and the Ghost Town fella has a huge thing going. Hell, I follow this lady named Jenna that is redoing a huge ass house with her boyfriend, Colin's project really isn't that big if you really think about it.
@@alw1217 Idk, Colin's project is also bigger than it seems. It may not be bigger in terms of size and volume, but in work it definitely is. It's one thing to redo something that already exists, and another one to build it from scratch by hand until the workload is just physically impossible for a human to do. He started with a hydraulic chisel, a winch and loading dirt in the trunk of a friend's car lol
What if some of the rock chips were glued to a small piece of wood, covered in epoxy to seal. I would think that could be sold worldwide as either art or drink coasters! I don't know for sure, but there would probably be enough buyers to make it profitable!
You seem more tired or stressed (or both) than in any of your vids to-date. Definitely big job. House, neighbors, council... you're doing great! I would say approaching close to home stretch now. Keep it up!
Read "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss, second book after "The Name of the Wind". I swear you gonna laugh your ass of when reading about a certain golden screw.
I swear Colin you by far have the biggest home dyi job on UA-cam! I have watched your channels from the beginning of you starting your tunnel and have loved it ever since! See you on your next video man and take care of yourself and be careful. 👍
Hi Colin, you should offer a small number of exclusive gold tunnel dirt jars, dirt going in the jars as Tom digs it out of the ground live👌I can’t get enough of your crazy videos 👍
Colin, For your window, make a frame between the interior wall and the dig wall. Seal it thoroughly. Add a plate on the interior about 4 inches tall. Pour resin no more than 3 inches deep at a time. Once cured, more your plate up and repeat for the next layer until you get to the top. Sand an polish it and you should be good. Doing it in smaller layers also allows you to vac between pours in case you dislodge anything.
Given how popular this project is I think it's safe to say that a lot of us humans, Colin included, are dwarves at heart. We all yearn to dig big holes and build our homes and sanctuaries underground.
*Digging the coolest DIY project in the world* **Ice cream van music starts** Colin and Tom together: STOP EVERYTHING. This proves that men are just big kids. And we love them.
@@BLenz-114 I was thinking more when everything else is complete - like how far could he go down? 50 ft? 80 ft? I'm not talking about an elevator shaft from his house to his tunnel. I''m thinking an elevator shaft from his back garden tunnel system down to the water table as far down as he can go.
@@schenkov He has the aluminium cover thing going over the neighbours garden too, I think they use it for the digger sometimes. It's a pair of semi-detached houses
This must be the biggest DIY online Colin. Only thing bigger that comes to mind are old DIY projects from the 50s, 60s, 70s here in the US. DIY "Bishop Castle" or in Wisconsin the early parts of "House on the Rock"
For some reason I found myself reminiscing The Sensational Alex Harvey Band playing The Tale of The Giant Stone Eater plays in my head whilst watching this one...
@@davidanalyst671 Colin didn't ask about speed, he asked if there was any bigger project out there. I would say rebuilding a ruined chateau that was probably one decade away from being a pile of rock ranks as bigger than his tunnel and underground garage.
Sorry this has been so long in the waiting but its full steam ahead now, this video is a week later than planned so the next update won't be far away, stay tuned as it's progressing way faster than before.
I wouldn't worry about time taken I think everyone understands projects of this scale take a long time and you have a life to live 👍👍
English terrified by strange yellow object seen in sky! News at Ten!
My friends in the States know you is that mad English Punk inventor!
Escape to Rural France. Renovating a burnt down, derelict château. This
ua-cam.com/video/9JbwdGPpFA8/v-deo.html
Worth the wait ! Xo
Periscopes are cool. The garage is going to need a periscope.
You can spy on the street from underground or see what's going on above you while you're down there.
Great idea!
Like a medieval Ring doorbell cam? 🤔
"what that loud noise above, Colin"
"Oh that's just the powpow.."
Normally, I would say, "Don't give this man ideas!".... but in THIS case, I'm going to make an exception and encourage it! This is a brilliant idea!
That's a great idea. I hope it goes all the way up his house and pokes out of the top of the chimney.
Periscope sounds great, but it needs to have a garden gnome as a disguise.
Man needs a dog named grommet
@@SeanBook001 too right 👍
THIS MUST BE DONE!
100%
Need to go full Invader Zim style
You've got very understanding neighbours.
Pretty sure he owns the house next door....
@Tashmann not sure because he often mentions doing work around neighbours unless it's neighbour to the left
@@TashmannI’m sure he recently said they gave him permission to go onto their property.
Only a certain type of person can be a Colin Furze Neighbour (that could actually be a good T-Shirt ?).
I would guess well compensated.
i remember the early days of the project, when work was only done when the neighbors were "away" to keep the illusion of a hidden tunnel. obviously the scale of the project has come much farther than that would allow. it's great to see how far along you've come colin!
When they use to make videos? Not this once a 6 month video pace they are currently on
I literally thought the same.. what happened to it being “secret” so no one knew you had a bunker 🤣
I bet that he bought the house of the neighbors too. And Colin and his family are living somewhere else as well 😂
much *further. Farther would imply a literal distance, not a symbolic one.
Not much of a secret if you put it on is it.
This man and his friends dug a big hole, had pizza and ate ice cream. It's like a 8 year old's birthday party and I love it.
Don't forget a nice looking spounge cake
Its a man instinct - instinct that cannot be attenuated...
The toys might get bigger, but the boys will be boys
I just spent 26 minutes watching you dig a hole... and I really couldn't be more proud of you making your dreams come true. You're an inspiration to makers everywhere.
Seems to be a new youtube theme of hole digging. I mean im not mad about it but it seems to be a theme
Just the mental fortitude to keep pushing with this whole project is next level. About the only other YTers who can compare are CEE and the BOM boys.
Seeing how long this is taking with an excavator, really puts it into perspective how much time and effort went into the rest of this project prior. Each one of those excavator bucket fulls is 2-3 if not more of the buckets you carried and winched out of the tunnels. Thank you!
Is it just me, or does Colin seem to be in a very good mood in this video? Him and Tom both, all smiles and joking around. Love to see it, working with your mates doesn't feel like work. Can't wait for the next one!
He’s got all a man needs!
-digging a hole
-pizza
-mum
-ice cream truck
It's cos the sun came out int he UK after weeks of dull and rain! Makes everyone happier.
I'd be smiling too if I'd finally got some sun after the last few months worrying about whether or not the English weather will turn my secret tunnel into an underground log flume.
When it’s sunny in Britain it’s hard to be upset 😂
@@duckduel5820 its cuz the sun is shining for the first time this year in the UK lol
Honestly Colin this is probably one of my favorite videos of yours that I've seen. Nothing crazy just good old antics and friends and family, definitely made me feel as if I was right there with you!! Looking forward to part 10.
At least he'll have something to look at from his youtube legacy. Everyone else just has a bunch of vids with hard coded manscape ads to look back on.
Nothing crazy? My man's dug a tunnel system under his house mostly by hand.
It's kind of the "old youtube" style of video. It has a very certain charme. ^^
I was just waiting for fireworks for passing 1M subs on this channel
always a good video when tom is involved but even better when everyone gets involved
17:20-18:20 I just love how much this bit feels like a fun little party with all of Colin's friends. Very wholesome to see people just enjoying working on something together :)
Maybe it's just on the second channel, but I love how this dig project is getting more and more people involved with every video - Tom, your wife, your mother, good ol' Freddie, and even the lorry drivers. Seems like you're on your way to an entire block party by the end of the project.
Ironic really how it started out as a secret tunnel and by the end it's going to be a community project! Colin's going to end up having open days and running tours 😆
It's Tom Lamb everybody! He's a farmer. It's excellent to continue seeing you working on projects together. Great content Colin, thank you!
I love when Colin's friends join in!
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edit: Smooth bucket change. Last time I tried a bucket change, I was chasing it for a couple of yards too cinch the connection.
But to be fair, I am a novice (and unlicensed!) equipment operator.
@@MonkeyJedi99it’s me
@Tomlamb980 Always impressed seeing such finesse in the digger, especially considering you're sitting miles away from the bucket yet not crashing into stuff
Holy crap yall's ice cream trucks rule, actually soft serve!
@@jamesjones4607 Right? WE get droopy ghost-shaped sherbet bars and sticky popsicles.
Subterranean Englishman surprised by his own shadow. Runs back underground.
I almost spit out a lung from laughter!
Sounds about right
Now that’s comedy
@@Danbatio It was fun. I enjoy his videos and respect the work he does. I was thinking of the American Groundhog Day.
Skull emoji
I gotta say Colin, the amount of trust you have in Tom, is outstanding! Putting your Head THAT close to the Bucket at 14:30 while he´s working it.
Absolutely! You should not show that on youtube. People are dumb and get hurt
4:27 too, holy shit
“We massively underestimated the popularity of tunnel dirt”! How can you not love this guy‘s enthusiasm for life!
The little get together for pizza / cake mum delivery is so lovely, it feels like you've got such a genuinely happy team there
There's a mum delivery service?
How can we get in on that game here in the US?
The cake is worth much more, it is baked with grandma's love, and that is priceless for many people
Yes! I don't have grandparents, so a cake by grandma is priceless 😁
so sweet!! is good to see the family involved and together!
So! True!
It improves the flavour by a minimum of 110%!
I dunno if its the camera or just that i am not used to seeing sunshine in your videos, but man, what a bright and beautiful day. Nice true-to-life colors too. It just gave me a happy feeling seeing that blue sky and the excitement of progress and digging. What a great time 👍🏻
That’ll be the one week of English summer.
@@PaulAden The worst part is that the one week of English summer is spread across all of the other weeks, you'll get a good day, and then you'll have to wait another week for the next good day.
Colin’s mom looks like just the sweetest ever. Making a cake for Tom and all.
I love how the full-size two-tier cake looks kinda small in Tom's hand 💪 Proper lad, and good on mum for looking after him.
You’re one of my favorite YTers - not only because you’re doing what I want to do , but you’re also unique . Thank you for sharing , Mr. Furze .
You , Sir , have solved for the confines of spacetime-continuum . That is the most humane thing I have ever seen .
I’m going to use a custom Benton Block inspired 4x8 legos - DIY of course , other than maybe their molds one day .
4th dimensional dreams . Floating cube eventually . These things may must happen .
The best part of the video is the way you treat the workman and the way your mum made a effort with them honest shows the person you are. Love these videos
Although completely different, Escape to Rural France is rebuilding a chateau that burnt down in a fire. Matt's virtually built it all himself with help from a few friends along the way (more so nowadays). It's impressive what he's been able to achieve so far. Loving seeing how your mad project is coming along. I've been watching since the old hilux fast food and pallet death wall days. I had no idea you'd become as big as you have, major congrats on that front Colin.
Was going to recommend this as well. Just to say his name is Dan and not Matt.
Yep exact the project I was going to refer too as well
youtube.com/@escapetoruralfrance?si=XA4V-WE73CVIzR9e
could you imagine dan and colin doing a project together.... now that would be the biggest DIY on YT
Just to add other massive UA-cam diy projects to the list. The Restoration Couple’s barn conversion is enormous and it’s in the uk. Escape to rural France and his chateau is impressive in scale also
Very big difference in build quality though 😅 that Dan needs some proffesional help regarding brickwork and safety regulations!
The ice cream truck is brilliant! We had trucks wander the neighborhood when I was a child, and all the kids would run down to get ice cream. Sadly, those days are gone in my corner of the US. The menu looks amazing, instead of just cold stuff on a stick...
There's a little channel of a guy in Appalachia in the US, where he keeps rescuing enormous old steam engines and their boilers to restore and set up on his property for school groups to come by and see them operate. By the time you consider that he has to go rescue the engines from remote mountain locations, restore/rebuild them, then do all of the brickwork to set them up similar to their original operating conditions - it's the only other project I can think of that gives this one a run for its money. The channel is Jonathan W, and he's a very hard working, intelligent, salt-of-the-earth type. Enjoyable content.
Edit: Another REALLY GOOD ONE is Sampson Boat Company and Leo's restoration of Tally Ho. They're pretty much done with the boat now but man what a journey it has been 💪
I just subbed that guys channel, I love that stuff, I'm surprised I never ran across him before.
Thanks
Johnithan W is Epic, ive been subbed to his channel for awhile now✌👍
Great comment Jonathan. 😉👊
Link?
There's also plenty of tank and boat restoration channels.
Having a highly skilled operator is so important with a dig like this one
This whole time I was marvelling at Tom's precision. Man's an artist with heavy machinery.
Unfortunately, they couldn't find one so they had to get Tom to do it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@harezy 👍😂
@@harezy exactly what I was thinking 🤣🤣
Big machine would been all pulled out
If you're hiring contractors, take note of the pizza and ice cream...if you take care of your workers they will go above and beyond to give you top quality service! (a couple beers or a splif after work wouldn't hurt either) And hats off to Colin for some of the least intrusive commercial breaks!
Not intrusive at all because sponsorblock automatically skips them
@@BodywiseMustard For my favorite creators, like Colin Furze, Rob Dahm, The Fat Electrician, DonutOperator, I don't skip their ads, because they're people with personality and their personality makes the ad more relatable, and enjoyable to watch.
@@Yoko_Grim Exactly!
The only contractor hes hiring is Tom Lamb, and he is Colins long time friend, so i think he does take care of him as well as Tom giving him top quality service.
@@Yoko_Grimif an ad is skip able and you skip it they get paid all the same
Continually impressed at the delicacy and precision that Tom can manage with the excavator. Truly mesmerizing stuff
A time-lapse of the entire build, from bunker to DeLorean pulling out of the garage would be *chefs kiss perfect
Looks good. I hope you're enjoying digging it all out and building it as well, Colin
Its awesome
@@2MuchColinFurze I bet ya you will miss doing this once it's all dug out and finished all together Colin
@@2MuchColinFurze At some point you will just have to dig under the house and just make a new basement
@@thomassutphin7904 He'll have to dig a secret bunker under a secret bunker
@@moscuadelendaestyou wouldn't expect a second secret base under a secret base
Get a one ton digger, and drop it in the hole with the bigger digger, then use the little digger to dig the base out, and lift up to the bigger digger. Then lift it out when done.
you will like the next main channel video lol
A bit of foreshadowing eh?!?!@2MuchColinFurze
Nice....
banging
👍
Been following entire process it’s amazing man . When a guy says man cave this guy took it a new level.
I have to say, given the soils where I live, the practice of brick foundations in the UK always gave me jitters… but if that’s the sort of rocky subgrade you’re building on, I can see why it persisted. I could never get away with that, but I’m on deep ancient glacial lakebed clay, so anything short of a deep, poured concrete wall, or a poured concrete grade-beam on 3m pilings is just going to either sink, or be shoved around by frost heaves.
I don't know if it's the same in England, but in Australia, those larger rock segments would have some value. Also, take your time Colin, this project is a wonderful exercise that no one else would dream of undertaking with your professionalism. Basic wood tunnel-supports or reinforced concrete bunkers are simple, but very basic. Steel walls backed by reinforced concrete is next-level. You could even run an efficient heating system under the floor.
As you remove so much soil, it is necessary to use Steel Sheet Piling wall to support your soil or foundation.
It might seem stable now, it will not if rain or a heavy truck pass by.
Aww when you're mum gave tom the cake my heart melted I miss my grandma's baking she live 8 hours away so I don't see her often you're mum reminds me of her
Mrs Furze must be a very understanding lady.
The true test of "wife material" is just how much she'll put up with your idiosyncrasies. I've got one that puts up with all of mine, including a home arcade in our dining room.
That or Colin makes Don Juan look like a virgin school boy in bedroom or Colin and Harry the horse have something in common😅😂🤣.
Hey Colin since you can’t ship dirt out of the country why don’t you wash off rocks, put them in a nice little Chinese takeaway folding cardboard container with a some fake grass like is put in Easter baskets and sell them as Colin’s pet rocks, lost brain matter, etc
@@IggyStardust1967 the best ones are the partners that sees what you're doing, and then comes with helpful suggestions that you haven't thought of yourself yet but solves a flaw that would have put a serious delay and cost increase in the whole project if it hadn't been discovered until you got to it naturally! I was been found by one of those back in 2007 and been happily married since 2017 😁
I've got a very understanding wife and can get away with most things that give my friends wife agro but I think even she would draw the line at undergound bunkers especially right outside the front door. 😂
She's just as crazy as he is!
DIY projects I'm watching: Matt Carricker restoring a whole resort, Money Pit castle is restoring an old castle, Cole the Cornstar is a farmer renovating his grandfather's 100 year old estate, and Jenna Phips was a sewing channel that is now undertaking her own full home renovation. All interesting in their own way.
I have to add one, Escape to rural France. A british guy rebuilding a burned down and overgrown chateau in France.
I think Andrew Camerata announced his plans for a new major build a bit back; looking forward to that one...
Erik Grankvist is awesome, building all kinds of wooden structures and furniture from hand with only hand tools. Super good cinematography too and relaxing
Y'all all forgetting about Brent Underwood from Ghost town living. He's the one that lives up in Cerro Gordo. He's rebuilding the American Hotel there, he's also exploring through all his mines right down to 900ft plus more. That's a really good channel to watch
@@darksunrise957Yep, Andrew announced he's building another castle atop his new property. That man is a human machine!
Gotta make the tunnel dirt jar stickers the colors of the buckets. You're on red now, next blue or green, maybe add a firey orange, then end on purple. Perfect theming, Colin!
For a bigger DIY project, in India Dashrath Manjhi spent 22 years single-handedly carving a road through an entire mountain to improve the transport links to his vilage, because his wife died due to unavailability of medicial services and he wanted to prevent it happening again.
I think I saw that. Wasn't it because the ambulance couldn't get to his wife in time due to needing to go around the mountain so he said screw it and built a tunnel through?
Not heard of him but what an absolute legend! Victory from tragedy.
But that was before UA-cam. Link: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi
It wasn’t worth it by the time he finished they already made it faster to get to his village
UA-cam wasn't a thing 22 years ago. You might as well mention the Great Wall of China
Don't let your foundations naked and unsupported during the underpinning process for too long. Sag is a huge issue with stuff like this. You don't see it now, but the bricks have 100% moved, but also, if you see cracks in the mortar, don't be too afraid either. If they do crack (knock on wood), just hire a crew that does forced injection repairs on brickwork. As is, the foundation spanning the portal is good indeed. That's a solid structure there, it would've been pretty bad if it wasn't like that. Whomever made the house, they knew what they were doing, because you see SO many houses where this isn't done right and segments are either floating or built on "hopes and dreams" as my teacher used to say.
Hide your kids, hide your wife, here comes the forced injection crew!
One wonders if that was the 'blown raspberry' that Colin was referring to.
With the type of literal bed rock type dirt he has, I think he'll be alright. Especially since he's doing it in sections
Was thinking the same. I would have been loitering with an Acrow jack in hand for the first chance to shore it up.
House is built on solid rock, that thing ain't going nowhere.
Your neighbor must either be absent or an absolute saint. Watching you shovel and sweep up in the path of the bucket puts me in mind of some poor workaday sod mucking out a dinosaur's zoo habitat... "All right, Clyde", banging him on his armored skull with the broom, "don't make me job any harder". It was once posited that no one more enjoys the white hot spotlight as does an Englishman. You, sir, are the living proof of the concept. To be capable of selling a pint of dirt to anyone across the entire globe shouts aloud the sheer magnetism of your effort to entertain and bring co-operative affirmation of your efforts. Good show!
People keep mentioning that he’s actually bought the house next door now.
@@Jonathan_Doe_ Thanx, wasn't aware.
Next project should be: "Digging secretly a secret tunnel under the secret tunnel"
a second deeper secret tunnel and a garage under the garage
Yeah, I didn't get my dirt at Maker's Central but was still almost as pleased to hear the shop were all out, means it's a popular keep-sake for us all. Got one on order now 🥰
love your underground work, watched all the hand digging and steel work previously, this is the most interesting dirt work on the internet, mostly because of your commitment to doing it right, ie painting the steel, insulation, backfilling with concrete, a very good job, love it.
Make your 3rd batch of Tunnel Dirt in blue- it'll make an AWESOME Union Jack to decorate the garage with,
For anyone wondering
white label tunnel dirt (the original) is sold out
red label tunnel dirt (the second run, launched in this video) is sold out
and it has been two days since this video premiered and run 3: blue label tunnel dirt is also sold out
I think we like tunnel dirt, Colin!
Never mind all the dirt and digging, your mum's Victoria sponge looked amazing! 😋
Ding dong
Colin we love your strong effort to cover what is already a chaotic bit of fun. Thanks for the update on the tunnel work. The new underground Garage will be amazing.
Tom's precision skill with a digger always astounds me. The man's an artist!
That’s what I was going to comment! He is good
my grandma has a piece of the Berlin Wall... it's not anywhere near as big a deal but it is still a piece of history... your secret garage and all will out live us all. you're a legend Colin... and don't you forget it.
What do you mean "not anywhere as big a deal". Owning a piece of that wall is one of the coolest things I've ever heard.
You need to cut a piece of plywood to block off the opening so all the dust is kept under control and not dusting out your entire cavern while you are digging and I am glad I don't live next door ... Your a wild man Mr Colin.
at this location the problem is water, not dust
🎶"I am a Dwarf & Im digging a hole, diggy diggy hole digging a hole"🎶
i found them on tiktok hahahaha I probably the only person in the comments who's rose this wind did not pass over.
Every time i watch these videos that is exactly the soundtrack in my head. 😂
@@davidanalyst671 Look up the originators of diggy hole. Hint: it's not Wind Rose
Brothers of the mine rejoice!
Escape to rural France is the biggest DIY channel. But this is on another level.
I was going to suggest Escape To Rural France Too☺️
lol I was gonna suggest it too.
Yes, that's a big one!
Closely followed by @ThePethericks renovation of the old convent.
@@petertragardh4571 definitely The Pethericks too 😃
In awe of the project! I think Dan from Escape to Rural France (rebuilding a fire-gutted French Chateau) attended the same safety training as you!
If you ever take some of your stuff on the road to different towns, I'd pay good money and sign my life away for a go on the big weebley job and the warframe anti gravity harness!
Watching you fight back against the rubble with a tiny shovel is hysterical.
thats colin for ya
I moved to England when I was 10, I'm over 30 now and I sometimes get surprised or jump scared by my own shadow, you just see it so rarely, it's always surprising.
If you haven't checked out Escape to Rural France, go give it a look. One could argue Dan's chateau rebuild is a bigger DIY project. And he's even less safe than you! Must be a British thing.
🤣
dan works 2 hours a day if you are lucky. Chateau Du Thiel rebuilt their chateau, built a restaurant, put in heating and AC, a bunch of walls, built a rock wall around the chateau, and they built an addition to the chateau. Dan is still putting in the frame on the roof.
I'm half way through and already thinking Tom's got a machine that's a bit small for that depth, and Colin just said the middle has to go 2 feet deeper. Good on Tom for fighting with a deep excavation and very hard material. Not to mention limited access to whatever rolls into the existing excavation with the metal floor. Nice one Tom!
I love that Colin keeps a jar of Tunnel Dirt in his passageway just in case he needs to film an intro for a vid whilst walking through it. Product-placement at its finest.❤️
You know it's a good day when a garage update is released 😁
Likely the only Englishman with sunburn! All praise to Collin's wife for putting up with all of this madness!
They got over forty degrees last year, I think there was plenty of burning going on
Props to the Insta360, that image is really beautiful, the mic is great too if you're using the in-built one
I'm always amazed on how Colin can do THIS kind of stuff and never get slightly injured.
... that we know of. Secretly he already may be a cyborg, with many parts replaced for ... reasons. That also may explain how he pulled off some of his stunts.
Right? The clips of him in the tunnel with the bucket going all out just a couple of feet from him were slightly concerning
I can guarantee he would have had a couple of injuries, but they would have only been very slight due to his plot-armour skin.
It's all thanks to his Safety Tie
12:12 his face and the sudden pause before hearing "there is dirt everywhere!" was hilarious
agreed
I dont know the council is on board but i love colin.
Every mans dream.
Impressive work! My dad and I dug underneath his house (built on the side of a hill) Added 200 square meter basement level with bathroom, office, living room and very large workshop 👌
Bigger DIY project - Matt Carriker (OffTheRanch) bought and is renovating an entire abandoned resort. Technically might not be "Do It Yourself" since he has a ton of help, but Colin is technically getting help as well. I recommend the videos of them using dynamite to blow up solid rock so they can dig a new road down a steep hill.
I'd say him renovating the mansion was bigger than this. Also that Alan guy from Heavy Sparks channel has an entire compound he's hand built and the Ghost Town fella has a huge thing going. Hell, I follow this lady named Jenna that is redoing a huge ass house with her boyfriend, Colin's project really isn't that big if you really think about it.
@@alw1217 Idk, Colin's project is also bigger than it seems. It may not be bigger in terms of size and volume, but in work it definitely is. It's one thing to redo something that already exists, and another one to build it from scratch by hand until the workload is just physically impossible for a human to do. He started with a hydraulic chisel, a winch and loading dirt in the trunk of a friend's car lol
Nah. Andrew camarata. That’s the diy project
What if some of the rock chips were glued to a small piece of wood, covered in epoxy to seal. I would think that could be sold worldwide as either art or drink coasters! I don't know for sure, but there would probably be enough buyers to make it profitable!
Rockcicle!
That would be really cool! But that would take some time and effort - and I wonder if that would be available
Tom's accuracy an skill with a digger always amazes me
You seem more tired or stressed (or both) than in any of your vids to-date.
Definitely big job. House, neighbors, council... you're doing great! I would say approaching close to home stretch now.
Keep it up!
In the beginning, I heard "if the ass falls down" multiple times. Took me a while to figure out that you meant the house xD
I just commented the exact same thing 😂
Read "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss, second book after "The Name of the Wind". I swear you gonna laugh your ass of when reading about a certain golden screw.
Best one yet, just a bunch of british folk having a good day
Changing the bucket on the digger FROM the digger, that was cool
I've spent the last 3 days demolishing my shed and I'm knackered. I can't imagine how much energy this sort of project takes.
Perfect Thursday. Thanks Colin 👍🏻
You mean Furzeday?
I'd like to pay an hommage and give all my respect to Misses Furze and her high patience!
21:20 Waiting for Colin to say 'Nine pound for two ice-cream!' 🤣🤣
I swear Colin you by far have the biggest home dyi job on UA-cam! I have watched your channels from the beginning of you starting your tunnel and have loved it ever since! See you on your next video man and take care of yourself and be careful. 👍
Hi Colin, you should offer a small number of exclusive gold tunnel dirt jars, dirt going in the jars as Tom digs it out of the ground live👌I can’t get enough of your crazy videos 👍
Colin, For your window, make a frame between the interior wall and the dig wall. Seal it thoroughly. Add a plate on the interior about 4 inches tall. Pour resin no more than 3 inches deep at a time. Once cured, more your plate up and repeat for the next layer until you get to the top. Sand an polish it and you should be good. Doing it in smaller layers also allows you to vac between pours in case you dislodge anything.
That would be about 9,000 gallons of resin.
@cobytenpenny5269 we're talking about a window, not the entire wall.
Given how popular this project is I think it's safe to say that a lot of us humans, Colin included, are dwarves at heart. We all yearn to dig big holes and build our homes and sanctuaries underground.
Diggy Hole!!!!
I do approve of this Tom Lamb chap he is certified top tier along with Colin. Stay safe everyone on this project!
*Digging the coolest DIY project in the world*
**Ice cream van music starts**
Colin and Tom together: STOP EVERYTHING.
This proves that men are just big kids. And we love them.
Alright Colin - when the garage is done and you do the back garden tunnel - the people want an elevator shaft going down. As far as you can go.
The elevator should be the pantry. Like the whole thing, pickles and all, so when it's in its "up" position you wouldn't even know.
A second lower level would be epic lol
@@BLenz-114 I was thinking more when everything else is complete - like how far could he go down? 50 ft? 80 ft? I'm not talking about an elevator shaft from his house to his tunnel. I''m thinking an elevator shaft from his back garden tunnel system down to the water table as far down as he can go.
@@conspirasteve
Ahh. I see.
so what's with the house next door? have you bought it off the neighbours or paid for them to go on a years cruise?
Do have to get your neighbors approval to do construction during the day in the uk?
@@schenkov Colin is using their front garden and drive for the works so one would assume he has asked them nicely ;-)
@@Nick-Gotrel When is he using their front garden?
@@schenkov He has the aluminium cover thing going over the neighbours garden too, I think they use it for the digger sometimes. It's a pair of semi-detached houses
This must be the biggest DIY online Colin. Only thing bigger that comes to mind are old DIY projects from the 50s, 60s, 70s here in the US. DIY "Bishop Castle" or in Wisconsin the early parts of "House on the Rock"
13:38 the biggest "do it yourself" project, he says, while watching _someone else_ do the work.
And just think, even once this whole front section is done, you still have the tunnel to dig that will connect to the backyard bunker! 😂
For some reason I found myself reminiscing The Sensational Alex Harvey Band playing The Tale of The Giant Stone Eater plays in my head whilst watching this one...
Great as always Colin, I for 1 won't be buying the tunnel dirt but I admire what you do, an eccentric Englishman in his prime bravo
That tin can only contain 3 things, buttons, biscuits, cake.
Or seeds.
I thought it can only be pins... and needles... and money...
if its not the biggest DIY project its probably the biggest in the smallest available area. cant wait to see that delorean rise out of the ground
Double intro?
Haha. Adds to the casual vibe?
Just get to see more Colin!
Twice as good
complaining?
It was triple for me because I wasn’t sure I heard the first intro right, went back and then discovered it was actually a double intro
You have the best neighbours, they must genuinely love you 😁💙
Wake up babe, new underground garage update.
Escape To Rural France rebuilding the Chateau is the biggest DIY project I know of.
he is slow as hell. its a great project but he should have completed the chateau by now. He spends like 2 hours a day on it.
@@davidanalyst671 Colin didn't ask about speed, he asked if there was any bigger project out there. I would say rebuilding a ruined chateau that was probably one decade away from being a pile of rock ranks as bigger than his tunnel and underground garage.
21:00 "Nine bloody quid fer 2 ice-creams? Blooody 'ell! I bet 'ee can 'ere meh!"
Colin you're so insanely creative, smart and hilarious. Thanks for the channel!
Periscope sounds fantastic, but it requires a disguise in the form of a garden gnome.