Firstly I commend you for getting stuck in and creating a rather practical pit, you have some very handy skills well done. I would like to mention though about the horizontal forces that will apply to the brickwork sides of your pit/trench. Bricks and mortar are great in compression but not very good if the force applied is horizontal. In the case of a retaining wall, essentially what you have, the earth is going to push in on those walls and could start bowing them inwards. Your reinforced concrete at the top will help the top part of the trench from collapsing but unless it's 'tied' to the bottom reinforcing ring it wont help the walls much. Sure it depends on many factors, type of soil, length and height of wall, height of the water table (which does look very low), etc, so it might be ok for a long time. However, I wanted you to be aware because 'if' it was to fail the chances are it will be when the force is greatest on the structure, which is when your car is on top of it and you are at the bottom. A more ideal solution would have been to use reinforced concrete (vertical and horizontal steels) for the whole 'box' and ignore the brickwork completely, the steel reinforcing would have made sure that the concrete walls wont flex at all. Keep up what you're doing, but stay safe.

@markstephen1326

3 жыл бұрын

Yep true, good point. He can tom up the walls to make it a little safer. Will be slightly annoying stepping over though.

@peteryao2008

Жыл бұрын

Agree. that was my concern too while admire his skills and hard working spirit. I am thinking to build one for myself in my garage. I am thinking use rebar all the way from the bottom to the top to make a cage like thing and extend the metal all the way to the other side of the runway, even if I may have to pour the concrete section by section, the metal skeleton is connected . great job and very inspiring.👍.

@cirzett5028

10 ай бұрын

I was wondering about the reasons not for casting the entire box, why lay the bricks? Did have a good laugh at the “I broke the first brick!” Lol. Without having any experience in building, I was also thinking about the weak part of this structure clearly being the earth pressing in on the brick walls..

Great job, not many people have that kind of work ethic to dig by hand😊

@hermitfrogovich218

Жыл бұрын

of course, because people are lazy as I said in my recent video about strawberry

Looks great! Good job comrade!

Super impressive work. Your car will be happy.

Nice work and fair play for doing that digging by hand, that must have taken some time !! A great DIY pit which should last for many years !!

Impressive hip mobility… Great job on the pit.

Great job,man!

good job but would have added a sump box for ground water

Incredible work

Very impressed, genius

Very good video. Impressive work.!👍

Wow. Great job. !

Super jealous!! Love it!! 👍👍

good job!

nice work

fantastic work

Good job.

Very good job

Nice job 👍🏻

Very good job. I like the way you work. Too bad that the weather kinda interrupted your work, but you did very well.

Man ... That is very impressive work! And a lot of hard work. How long did it take you from start to end? (You just kept going and going).

Thx for sharing

Awesome 😎 👌

good job bro God bless and Merry Christmas!

Nice 👍

Plastering at the same time as bricking!

idk about those walls. my gut says build proper car stands , ramps, cribs or something

Looks too deep right, what if you get a truck in there?

@hermitfrogovich218

2 жыл бұрын

Deep? That's what my height is, so that I don't need to bend under the car. What do you mean by "get a truck in there"?

How do you keep water from getting in

@hermitfrogovich218

Жыл бұрын

If you mean spring water, when the snow melts, I don't keep it from getting in. I let it go. It's just for a month or two. Then it goes away.

How long you worked on this??

@hermitfrogovich218

2 жыл бұрын

all summer

Needs roof

Has it collapsed yet?

@hermitfrogovich218

2 жыл бұрын

Second year, still like brand new.

cinder blocks man

@hermitfrogovich218

2 жыл бұрын

lol, not cinder blocks, but brick man

@TheHalusis

2 жыл бұрын

@@hermitfrogovich218 i meant use them instead, with rebar. much safer. good vid tho brotato

@hermitfrogovich218

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheHalusis got it, thanks for advice 😉