Josh & I live in a trailer. We have always wanted a root cellar/storm shelter for obvious reason. I mean, we all KNOW that trailers are not a good place to be in the case of storms (ie: tornadoes)
But, more recently we have decided we want one as much for it’s being a root cellar as it’s being a storm shelter.
Our freezer quit and we lost a freezer full of food- which is a huge loss with the cost of food nowadays.
Anyway, we want a root cellar so that we can take a bunch of our produce from the garden and store it for Winter use without havingto can or dehydrate everything.
So, with a tornado getting a little too close for comfort last Sunday we decided it was a good time to start checking out alternative root cellars to see what would work well and yet be low cost.
One thing that we have found that sounds really good is a cargo carrier We read that these are usually only used once so it is recycling and the are built strong.
Since they are so plentiful we read that sometimes you can getthem for free or just for the shipping cost.
In looking around we found a nice sized one for about $1300 not including shipping. We would then need to make a concrete slab or fill in with gravel to help with support and drainage.
For extra security we would want to install support beams inside although some people say that with a cement slab that it is not necessary. You should check into this further for safety sake.
One person said that theirs was well worth the money and effort. They live atthe bottom of a hill and get everyone’s runoff yet their root cellar remained dry inside
We will bring you more info on this after we do more research
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