I’m so glad you are beating this cancer. I absolutely love your videos. That door weighs 3000lbs? WOW! Almost as much as my ex wife lol. I have family in Texas and the next time I get down there I’ll be stopping by.
When the reinforcing bars were just being piled on I was thinking that can't be right lol, then I realised what was going on when it became spaced out and wired properly that it was a trick of the trade! Great video again mate have fun!
If you're shipping to Canada, you might have a new business building tunnels headed south instead of bunkers XD Potato Joe loves his open borders, and lots of my Canuck pals arent dual citizens, so they're in a panic to get outta here^^. God bless you, Ron, hope you're doing as well as you can be health wise, prayin for a miracle for ya, buddy XD
I am very close to Switzerland, I have seen similar doors but thicker not for civilian bunkers, they are very similar to the LCC Titan 2 doors in conception, but the one that drives me crazy besides the vaults are those of the LCC Minuteman
The door itself is just part of it. If you want this, look at how they are built in Switzerland... The resistance required of the slab above, the air filters, and also TWO doors. We have 2 doors, there is always a sas with 2 doors with something like a 1.5 meters. This wall is just the very begginning of the bunker. Then, between the various walls, between the walls and the slab, there are tubes that are installed during the construction. Once the construction is over, and the building is sinking in the soil and moving, the entrepreneur comes and injects a mortar like product at very high pressure, and it seals the joints between each structure element that was not built in one part.
Same here I know it would have to be watertight for sure some areas are high enough not to flood but summer rains are enough to flood a bunker if it's not watertight
Could you put Portuguese subtitles in your videos? I'm Brazilian and I really like your channel, but I wanted the subtitles for me to understand better. please?
Subtitle options are available on this video, didn't check the others. Bottom right is a rectangle - click on that and subtitles will show up. Then click on the cog next to the rectangle and click on subtitles and then choose the language you want. 😀
This looks lovely but I’m a poor student and can’t buy any of this lovely stuff and to add to this to have a bunker you need to have land to put this in & if you live in a condo or apartment building your screwed :) so thanks for this but for most all they can can do is pray 🙏
Why not sell “bunker starter kit” bundles? Like a door, air filtration system, escape door all together for slightly less then buying them all separately?
Because 1 door is useless, you need 2 doors to form a sas. Escape doors don't exist in Swiss bunkers. And the most important is that you need an engineer to build it. You will build this underground. Depending on the ground conditions, the way you build it is not the same. And most important, you need structural reinforcements in the concrete walls, random people won't be able to do it well. And then, you need highly specialised machines to inject a mortar beterrn the walls, and between the walls and the slab once the building is done and has sunk in its final position. This sealant is injected at a very high pressure. If you do one part a tiny bit wrong, it's over, your bunker is unsafe and useless. Plus, imagine the liability on it. And just making the concrete for the door would be a problem... 90% of the people would make a random concrete receipe, not following the resistance recommended in Switzerland. They would add way too much water, they would not vibrate the concrete, etc... That's a dangerous idea. Definitely not a DIY project if the guy selling these products is serious.
This door is not a door for a safe. These doors are easy to open, they are just heavy, there is no locking with a key. These are used in Switzerland for bunkers or nuclear bomb shelters. That's one of the many elements composing a bomb shelter in Switzerland. You include 2 doors to form a sas. There are air filters to renew the air and purify it, there are many structural requirements to withhold the expected requirements of it. There is sealant required between the walls and the slab above, etc... It's not an anti burglar door, and not an anti-shooting door. We are not in the USA. Other solutions are required to solve those different problems. Those doors are similar to what you'd find in military bunkers.
What about the right hinges in these doors and the anti-weight system? Such a door weighs a lot, and for example, a wife or childrens can seriously damage themselves if carelessly use this.
So the wife and kids are stupid? This kind of door remains open 100% of the time, and no one touches it until the day it is needed. These doors are designed for the day when a nuclear explosion occurs, 2 per bunker, with a sas in between, and many regulations to follow to build it properly. These shelters are build within the home, in a cellar. All homes in Switzerland have a cellar with this (not mandatory anymore for few years, but still being built). So no one touches them, it's not a game !
He answered in another comment. Because it’s a blast door it needs the frame to prevent it from falling into the room. If it swung in, the hinges and locks wouldn’t be enough. Should have some folding cover over the hinges to prevent cutting. Or have a dedicated security door. My preference would be security doors as blasts are extremely unlikely in my rural setting. If you’re really want blast protection a lot of WW2 bunkers have the door to the room at 90° to a hallway which has access at each end. If a bomb lands near either access the blast travels down the hallway and vents out the far access without exerting much pressure on the door. This 2nd access also allowed them to get out if the 1st was caved in. Few had escape tunnels.
I think the door is bigger than the frame so that it can take the blast and transfer that to the walls. The reverse means that only those two metal tabs actually hold it on, and a good blast would shear those clean off.
Ron, I've seen a lot of documentaries on between two world wars era fortifications and all of them bunkers had this very thin layer of metal [couple mm] from the inside of bunker so if enemy artillery scores a direct hit on bunker walls that thin layer of metal will prevent small pieces of concrete frpm breaking off on internal side of wall and wounding or killing people inside. I've recently also seen that in latest russian tanks armor [I think T-14 Armata or T-90] but instead of thin metal layer they use somekind of material. Do you think it's a good idea to apply this solution to bunkers? Look at Ukraine, shellings, rockets. It may be worth it. What do you think ol' pilgrim to Holy Land?
Are you referring to anti-spalling materials? A bunker door down a stairwell likely isn't going to come under small arms, RPG or artillery fire since its underground in a stairwell. I think the more likely way an attacker seeing entry would plug up the air pipes above if they know the location of the bunker. Not sure how well an anti-spalling layer will stand up to a shape charge placed on the door. I believe tanks use layers of kevlar to catch the fragments if a round pentrates of causes spalling inside.
my only problem with these doors is that the hinge and door sits on the OUTSIDE, you can only use it as a blast door not a "bunker" door, if a blast goes off and debris on the outside of the structure falls in front of the door you cannot open it. If someone comes to get in but you're locked inside, they simply cut the hinges off. is there a reason they are built this way and not like a normal door/door frame? Big heavy door frame made out of 12" C channel, 10" thick door that sits on the inside with the hinges on the occupant side of the door so it swings inwards in case there's something in front of the door? It also sits 2" in from the edge of the door frame to help with debris
@@AtlasSurvivalShelters oh ok so it's from the pressures of a blast...hmm maybe that's why the XXXXXL Govt bunkers have the multi-bar locking pins in the doors....pressures of a nuke going off elude me so I always assume there's a reason why things are built a very specific way even though it goes against my internal judgment lol thanks for the reply
@@caseydman4651 you are right google it, really nicly spoted but i think your coment will get deleted really fast... anyways you have school for it? I do and i didn't spot it :D
@@caseydman4651 i mean you nearly said it in oder to work they are missing whole 1 room i mean my english is not perfect and it is hard to explain when i don't know the words in english but like were you ever in power plant? You need to do exacly what they have no joke, if you do what they are doing it is not enought i mean there is a reason nuclera power plants don not have only 1 doors to protect them from radiation. As i see you didn't meant this.. and that is the reason i said it will get deleted coz it shows ghe bunker is just for show off and will not work at all when you get hit by any bomb and based on that doors it is not even working againts ramdom people who would want to get in.
Because it's useless? It's expensive? Because all the cellars in Switzerland are built in concrete, so this is one additional concrete element inside the cellar to enter the shelter. Because the bomb shelters are all made of concrete (concrete foundations, concrete walls, slab above in concrete). In Switzerland, things are engineered, not designed. There is someone who made calculations for the appropriate thickness of concrete needed. Concrete doesn't corrode. Steel does. So absolutely useless.
Why did you stop using the round culvert and go to the box style... seems a bit labor intensive with all that welding and assembling...??? Don’t get it...??? And that translates to more cost for you and the purchaser...
His website offers both and lists the pros/cons of each. This is one of his components videos to help folks who want to build a concrete bunker rather than buy a steel bunker.
What I would like to know is how your blast valves on the air intakes and exhausts would work with the new Thermobaric ordinance that Russia is employing in the Ukrain? The initial blast wave would close the ports but the ensuing fireball of the fuel air mixture burns all of the oxygen in the air creating a massive vacum. These are similar ordinance to the US made MOAB's, one was used to clear out cave inhabited by Taliban. In Afganistan. Is there a valve available that would pull shut as well when a vacume is created by these types of weapons?
well today for 2 / 3 hrs ago we got a textmessage Russian President Putin has ordered the military to put units that can also have nuclear weapons at a heightened readiness level.
listen people if someone can survive on the surface to fuk with your vent pipes or attempt to remove your blast door then you can survive up there too so have a defense force on the surface rotate on shifts. also you can't just cut the hinges on an out swung security door to gain entry they are affixed to the frame when in the closed position all cutting the hinges would do is place the 3000lbs on the ground increasing its resistance to opening
that front yard bunker really doesnt look that safe, to block alpha particles you'd need a foot or two of concrete, that looks like it's right on the spot... lol i'd add a few feet just to be sure
When Steven Spielberg re-enrolled at California State, Long Beach to earn his BA more than 30 years after dropping out, he was given three course credits in paleontology for making Jurassic Park.
I’d love to see a dome build at some point! A new one and the process of it!
Same, I want to also see how its built.
Good luck with that...
I’m so glad you are beating this cancer. I absolutely love your videos. That door weighs 3000lbs? WOW! Almost as much as my ex wife lol. I have family in Texas and the next time I get down there I’ll be stopping by.
I can imagine what demand is today. Keep up the good work
When the reinforcing bars were just being piled on I was thinking that can't be right lol, then I realised what was going on when it became spaced out and wired properly that it was a trick of the trade!
Great video again mate have fun!
Hey Ron thanks for another great video.
Can you do another one on the escape hatch? Thanks again Ron God bless!
If you're shipping to Canada, you might have a new business building tunnels headed south instead of bunkers XD Potato Joe loves his open borders, and lots of my Canuck pals arent dual citizens, so they're in a panic to get outta here^^. God bless you, Ron, hope you're doing as well as you can be health wise, prayin for a miracle for ya, buddy XD
You got it!! Tired of the politicians and high tax nation. Our own country is robbing us of $$ and freedoms
I’d love to see a video on the dyi concrete bunker y’all sell!!
Hopefully within the next 3 or 4 years I can invest in an atlas bunker! You have some quality stuff dude!
Nice looking job on everything.
They make look sssooo easy.
I am very close to Switzerland, I have seen similar doors but thicker not for civilian bunkers, they are very similar to the LCC Titan 2 doors in conception, but the one that drives me crazy besides the vaults are those of the LCC Minuteman
Amazing!
I love these videos
bad ass doors
You might be able to ship to Canada, but you might not be able to deliver into Canada if all the truckers are in jail :)
This was awesome
That is awesome!
1st! Great bunker video!
Need info on the HAM radio please
If I ever were to build a house I would install one of these in my basement if I had the money
The door itself is just part of it.
If you want this, look at how they are built in Switzerland... The resistance required of the slab above, the air filters, and also TWO doors. We have 2 doors, there is always a sas with 2 doors with something like a 1.5 meters. This wall is just the very begginning of the bunker.
Then, between the various walls, between the walls and the slab, there are tubes that are installed during the construction. Once the construction is over, and the building is sinking in the soil and moving, the entrepreneur comes and injects a mortar like product at very high pressure, and it seals the joints between each structure element that was not built in one part.
Any suggestions for a bunker in central fl? Water table kind of ruins any chance I think.
Same here I know it would have to be watertight for sure some areas are high enough not to flood but summer rains are enough to flood a bunker if it's not watertight
Do you deliver to Nebraska and stuff? Cause I do want to do this there's just a lot of things I need help on.
cement build house is great
Could you put Portuguese subtitles in your videos? I'm Brazilian and I really like your channel, but I wanted the subtitles for me to understand better. please?
Subtitle options are available on this video, didn't check the others. Bottom right is a rectangle - click on that and subtitles will show up. Then click on the cog next to the rectangle and click on subtitles and then choose the language you want. 😀
This looks lovely but I’m a poor student and can’t buy any of this lovely stuff and to add to this to have a bunker you need to have land to put this in & if you live in a condo or apartment building your screwed :) so thanks for this but for most all they can can do is pray 🙏
if you're living as a poor student now... why would you wanna be alive in the post apocalypse... lol
Why not sell “bunker starter kit” bundles? Like a door, air filtration system, escape door all together for slightly less then buying them all separately?
Because 1 door is useless, you need 2 doors to form a sas.
Escape doors don't exist in Swiss bunkers. And the most important is that you need an engineer to build it. You will build this underground. Depending on the ground conditions, the way you build it is not the same.
And most important, you need structural reinforcements in the concrete walls, random people won't be able to do it well. And then, you need highly specialised machines to inject a mortar beterrn the walls, and between the walls and the slab once the building is done and has sunk in its final position. This sealant is injected at a very high pressure.
If you do one part a tiny bit wrong, it's over, your bunker is unsafe and useless. Plus, imagine the liability on it. And just making the concrete for the door would be a problem... 90% of the people would make a random concrete receipe, not following the resistance recommended in Switzerland. They would add way too much water, they would not vibrate the concrete, etc...
That's a dangerous idea. Definitely not a DIY project if the guy selling these products is serious.
Gonna need this for WWIII
Are these doors still available in May 2024?
DYI for everybody
rock on
Obviously there is no door impossible to open if they want....but better then nothing I prefere this way.
This door is not a door for a safe.
These doors are easy to open, they are just heavy, there is no locking with a key. These are used in Switzerland for bunkers or nuclear bomb shelters. That's one of the many elements composing a bomb shelter in Switzerland.
You include 2 doors to form a sas. There are air filters to renew the air and purify it, there are many structural requirements to withhold the expected requirements of it. There is sealant required between the walls and the slab above, etc...
It's not an anti burglar door, and not an anti-shooting door. We are not in the USA. Other solutions are required to solve those different problems. Those doors are similar to what you'd find in military bunkers.
Ron what is the strongest bomb shelter
Business is "booming".
I LIVE FOR THIS OKAY. EVERYBODY NEED ONE NOW 💯😱😱👍. WW3 HERE SONE 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
What about the right hinges in these doors and the anti-weight system? Such a door weighs a lot, and for example, a wife or childrens can seriously damage themselves if carelessly use this.
Close one. Is not that difficult. One hand is on the door handle, one the looking handle and foot are behind the door step.
@@ProFettMoHaMett such actions can "leave" a foot inside the shelter with the door closed
So the wife and kids are stupid? This kind of door remains open 100% of the time, and no one touches it until the day it is needed.
These doors are designed for the day when a nuclear explosion occurs, 2 per bunker, with a sas in between, and many regulations to follow to build it properly.
These shelters are build within the home, in a cellar. All homes in Switzerland have a cellar with this (not mandatory anymore for few years, but still being built).
So no one touches them, it's not a game !
nice
Any openings for Mighty welders? Let's go Brandon
Fantastic door but I won’t hear you knocking!
You need video doorbell...
Great video. Why not make it a in-swing?
He answered in another comment.
Because it’s a blast door it needs the frame to prevent it from falling into the room. If it swung in, the hinges and locks wouldn’t be enough.
Should have some folding cover over the hinges to prevent cutting.
Or have a dedicated security door.
My preference would be security doors as blasts are extremely unlikely in my rural setting.
If you’re really want blast protection a lot of WW2 bunkers have the door to the room at 90° to a hallway which has access at each end. If a bomb lands near either access the blast travels down the hallway and vents out the far access without exerting much pressure on the door. This 2nd access also allowed them to get out if the 1st was caved in. Few had escape tunnels.
I think the door is bigger than the frame so that it can take the blast and transfer that to the walls. The reverse means that only those two metal tabs actually hold it on, and a good blast would shear those clean off.
Ron, I've seen a lot of documentaries on between two world wars era fortifications and all of them bunkers had this very thin layer of metal [couple mm] from the inside of bunker so if enemy artillery scores a direct hit on bunker walls that thin layer of metal will prevent small pieces of concrete frpm breaking off on internal side of wall and wounding or killing people inside. I've recently also seen that in latest russian tanks armor [I think T-14 Armata or T-90] but instead of thin metal layer they use somekind of material. Do you think it's a good idea to apply this solution to bunkers? Look at Ukraine, shellings, rockets. It may be worth it. What do you think ol' pilgrim to Holy Land?
Are you referring to anti-spalling materials? A bunker door down a stairwell likely isn't going to come under small arms, RPG or artillery fire since its underground in a stairwell. I think the more likely way an attacker seeing entry would plug up the air pipes above if they know the location of the bunker. Not sure how well an anti-spalling layer will stand up to a shape charge placed on the door. I believe tanks use layers of kevlar to catch the fragments if a round pentrates of causes spalling inside.
Actually myth busters did a special with bedliner as anti spall protection it worked flawlessly awefull speedy for a whole shelter though
my only problem with these doors is that the hinge and door sits on the OUTSIDE, you can only use it as a blast door not a "bunker" door, if a blast goes off and debris on the outside of the structure falls in front of the door you cannot open it.
If someone comes to get in but you're locked inside, they simply cut the hinges off.
is there a reason they are built this way and not like a normal door/door frame? Big heavy door frame made out of 12" C channel, 10" thick door that sits on the inside with the hinges on the occupant side of the door so it swings inwards in case there's something in front of the door? It also sits 2" in from the edge of the door frame to help with debris
Yes. Blast doors always open out if they would blow in during a blast
@@AtlasSurvivalShelters oh ok so it's from the pressures of a blast...hmm maybe that's why the XXXXXL Govt bunkers have the multi-bar locking pins in the doors....pressures of a nuke going off elude me so I always assume there's a reason why things are built a very specific way even though it goes against my internal judgment lol thanks for the reply
@@caseydman4651 you are right google it, really nicly spoted but i think your coment will get deleted really fast... anyways you have school for it? I do and i didn't spot it :D
@@tommphaseznamcz lol dude wtf are you talking about?
@@caseydman4651 i mean you nearly said it in oder to work they are missing whole 1 room i mean my english is not perfect and it is hard to explain when i don't know the words in english but like were you ever in power plant? You need to do exacly what they have no joke, if you do what they are doing it is not enought i mean there is a reason nuclera power plants don not have only 1 doors to protect them from radiation. As i see you didn't meant this.. and that is the reason i said it will get deleted coz it shows ghe bunker is just for show off and will not work at all when you get hit by any bomb and based on that doors it is not even working againts ramdom people who would want to get in.
why not weld a steel plate on each side ?
Because it's useless? It's expensive? Because all the cellars in Switzerland are built in concrete, so this is one additional concrete element inside the cellar to enter the shelter. Because the bomb shelters are all made of concrete (concrete foundations, concrete walls, slab above in concrete).
In Switzerland, things are engineered, not designed. There is someone who made calculations for the appropriate thickness of concrete needed. Concrete doesn't corrode. Steel does. So absolutely useless.
How much is a Atlas small bomb shelter for a family of 4 to 6 and can,live in for an extended time
50,000
Depends on what your looking for, but a realistic starting figure is probably about $120K. You can call Ron and ask.
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NOT in front yard,
then ALL the neighbors know your "business". Then IF SHTF- they'll be looking to join you
Why is the concrete poured in from the top? Why not mould it flat and pour it while it's laid down?
I'm guessing its that when it's vertical, the bubbles are squashed out harder because there's more height of concrete on top squishing it.
How much
When are you putting out the Bethlehem video?
Why did you stop using the round culvert and go to the box style... seems a bit labor intensive with all that welding and assembling...??? Don’t get it...??? And that translates to more cost for you and the purchaser...
They have both.
His website offers both and lists the pros/cons of each.
This is one of his components videos to help folks who want to build a concrete bunker rather than buy a steel bunker.
the box style is more flexable, provides more living space & costs a lot more. Those are bunkers are going to the very wealthy.
What I would like to know is how your blast valves on the air intakes and exhausts would work with the new Thermobaric ordinance that Russia is employing in the Ukrain? The initial blast wave would close the ports but the ensuing fireball of the fuel air mixture burns all of the oxygen in the air creating a massive vacum. These are similar ordinance to the US made MOAB's, one was used to clear out cave inhabited by Taliban. In Afganistan.
Is there a valve available that would pull shut as well when a vacume is created by these types of weapons?
buddy if you're being targeted by the russian army and you're that important that they're using vaccum bombs, no blast door is gonna save you
I bet he's in his bunker now.
well today for 2 / 3 hrs ago we got a textmessage Russian President Putin has ordered the military to put units that can also have nuclear weapons at a heightened readiness level.
If I could build 1 for under 10k I would build one
Let's just hope the Ukranians have the material for this
Thats one expensive door lord
listen people if someone can survive on the surface to fuk with your vent pipes or attempt to remove your blast door then you can survive up there too so have a defense force on the surface rotate on shifts.
also you can't just cut the hinges on an out swung security door to gain entry they are affixed to the frame when in the closed position all cutting the hinges would do is place the 3000lbs on the ground increasing its resistance to opening
hide or camo your vent pipes... and put a hidden electric fence around it
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That’s a bit cool
that front yard bunker really doesnt look that safe, to block alpha particles you'd need a foot or two of concrete, that looks like it's right on the spot... lol i'd add a few feet just to be sure
The door is 90 degrees to the surface, the presumed source of the particles so the shielding requirements will be much less.
When Steven Spielberg re-enrolled at California State, Long Beach to earn his BA more than 30 years after dropping out, he was given three course credits in paleontology for making Jurassic Park.
You're still here?..is this one of your many child army commenter's? Not only is this irrelevant but You're still a snake. Change your profile pic.
There are 293 ways to make change for a U.S. dollar.
How much do you charge for a submarine door ship to Washington State
$4500
Makes a good blast door untill someone shows up with a torch