WalkingRocks Bunker Upgrade

[Zamric]

Well, after a year of sitting in place and WalkingRock starting his own little Burro inside I decided it was time to finish-up and finally turn WalkingRocks Bunker into a TRUE Bunker! ( Buried at least 2/3 total height). I hope it will help to insulate from both Cold and Heat and since he has started digging, he has a hole that is another 2' deeper than the bottom of his Bunker.

Before Pics...

...And now it looks like this!

and here is a pic of a very guilty tortoise, sitting in the middle of what USED to be a lush bed of Monkey Grass!

 

[tortadise]

Looking good. He looks happy. Now that its warming back up. AGAIN. Long winter.

 

[Zamric]

Looking good. He looks happy. Now that its warming back up. AGAIN. Long winter.

He has about had it with Cold, Sunny days! Beautiful Sunshine to lure him out of his heated bunker then that cold wind to drive him back in!

 

[AndreaRosie]

Good looking tort!!!

 

[Zamric]

Good looking tort!!!

Thanks!

 

[wellington]

A well deserved new bunker he has there. Guilty, not him, just look at that face

 

[Zamric]

A well deserved new bunker he has there. Guilty, not him, just look at that face

up close, that face has several blades of monkey grass sticking out...

 

[EKLC]

That looks great, and he looks great!

This has been the worst winter yet for me. The cold fronts came in november and march, two months which should be good. It was warm enough in january and february to tease me, but not warm enough to go out. Basically, a 5 month winter in florida, what a rip off.

 

[Zamric]

That looks great, and he looks great!

This has been the worst winter yet for me. The cold fronts came in november and march, two months which should be good. It was warm enough in january and february to tease me, but not warm enough to go out. Basically, a 5 month winter in florida, what a rip off.

Thanks!

Sorry about your long Winter.... BUT.... "...here comes the sun..."

 

[mctlong]

Looks great! What's the blue top?

Walking rock is such a beautiful tort.

 

[Zamric]

Looks great! What's the blue top?

Walking rock is such a beautiful tort.

Thank you!

The blue top is a tarp covering 2 light domes from when I 1st made his Bunker. This year I hope to re-build the lid and make it Waterproof and well Insulated!

 

[Yvonne G]

One of the fellows in the tortoise club I used to belong to had something similar to Walking Rock's bunker. He cut one of those great, big, round garbage dumpsters that you see behind apartment buildings in half around the middle. Then he set the top half over the burrow the tortoise had dug, with a tortoise doorway cut into it. The top half of the bin had a lid he could open to check on the appliances he put in there. He mounted an oil-filled electric heater inside there and a couple lights.

The guy had his son climb down into the burrow, just to see where and how far it went. The kid was completely out of sight. Our winters get down into the 30's most nights, and the only heat the tortoise had was what was up at the top of the burrow in that dumpster. He had a very healthy-looking sulcata that lived several winters (that I knew the fellow) being kept this way.

I wish I had gotten some pictures of it.

 

[Zamric]

One of the fellows in the tortoise club I used to belong to had something similar to Walking Rock's bunker. He cut one of those great, big, round garbage dumpsters that you see behind apartment buildings in half around the middle. Then he set the top half over the burrow the tortoise had dug, with a tortoise doorway cut into it. The top half of the bin had a lid he could open to check on the appliances he put in there. He mounted an oil-filled electric heater inside there and a couple lights.

The guy had his son climb down into the burrow, just to see where and how far it went. The kid was completely out of sight. Our winters get down into the 30's most nights, and the only heat the tortoise had was what was up at the top of the burrow in that dumpster. He had a very healthy-looking sulcata that lived several winters (that I knew the fellow) being kept this way.

I wish I had gotten some pictures of it.

That sounds like a Super Heavy Duty version of WR's Bunker! Lucky for me that I placed it above an old Oak Tree I had cut down 2 years ago and had the stump grinded down to 12" below ground level. WalkingRock has now dug a bowl in the middle of the old rootball and it cradles him nicely!