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suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 29 Jun 2011 10:57am Reply I have been a lurker in this forum for many years. This year I finally started my cabin. So here goes. Lets hope that I can figure out how to post images. Here are the plans that I am building to. I am about half done to getting dried in.

naturelover66 Member	# Posted: 29 Jun 2011 01:59pm Reply Welcome to the Forum !!! Your Cabin plans look great ...... i cant wait to see pictures. I visited Southern Utah two years ago...... and absolutely fell in love with the beauty of the land. I ve been looking at property there ever since.

turkeyhunter Member	# Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:08pm Reply nice plans............welcome to the forum. Looking forward to pic's of your cabin as well.

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:25pm Reply Year 1 got the building permit. What a painful process. Year 1.5 got the foundation in. Built a 12X16 1 1/2 story bunk house/shed Bunk house near completion. Year 2 finished bunk house and bought 4 Wheelers. Price of lumber was to high to build the cabin. Here is what the last 1/2 mile to the cabin looked like the week before memorial day. One week later I made it to the lot in the truck and was able to start. More later

turkeyhunter Member	# Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:28pm Reply looks GREAT!!!!!! love the view............ really like the bunk house too!!!!

BadgersHollow Member	# Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:03pm Reply More photos and details about the bunk house, that looks cool. How much do you think it cost you to build it? I'm going to start on something like this soon.

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:40am Reply The bunk house is a 12 X16 with 10 foot wall and a 12 X 12 pitch roof. I have about 5000 dollars into it. It is mainly used as a shed to store the 4 wheelers and supplies but works ok to sleep in over night. Here are a couple of pictures in more detail for it. upstairs down stairs Solar trailer that I built on winter waiting for the snow to melt. It supplies all the power we need up there.

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 1 Jul 2011 10:43am Reply Here are a couple of more pics This is where I got by end of the memorial day weekend. One week later Another week later

turkeyhunter Member	# Posted: 1 Jul 2011 01:11pm Reply fine looking build on the cabin............you be in the dry in no time..... ps--you have a great view from your cain, i bet fall will be postcard view.

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 1 Jul 2011 03:12pm Reply You know it. Fall is my favorite time on the mountain. This is from 2 years ago.

turkeyhunter Member	# Posted: 1 Jul 2011 07:00pm Reply Quoting: suburbancowboy Fall is my favorite time mine too------- beautiful pic...........

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 6 Jul 2011 12:31pm Reply Here are a few more pics. This will catch everybody up. This is where we got to this last weekend.

turkeyhunter Member	# Posted: 6 Jul 2011 05:53pm Reply amazing view !!!! nice trusses!!!!! that roof work is HARD work!!!!!!!!!!

Erins#1Mom	# Posted: 6 Jul 2011 06:48pm Reply Those trusses look custom made?

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 7 Jul 2011 10:42am Reply They were made by a lumber supply place that supplies material for companies that build houses. They are 12/12 on the outside and 9/12 on the inside, with a 20 foot span. 120 pound snow load. On the second floor it is about 9 feet to the peak. They ran about 2000 dollars delivered. Other than the foundation this was the most expensive part.

naturelover66 Member	# Posted: 8 Jul 2011 11:01am Reply Nice job and what a view !!!

bret7763	# Posted: 10 Jul 2011 08:00pm Reply Progress for this weekend got two more rows of osb on. The truss crew put some of the trusses on the wrong sides of the line so we had to cut the nails and move and rest the trusses. What a pain. Hopefully next week we will finish the roof.

bret7763	# Posted: 10 Jul 2011 08:01pm Reply

brokeneck Member	# Posted: 3 Dec 2011 12:19am Reply Looks great -- but then so did the bunkhouse ...

neb Member	# Posted: 3 Dec 2011 09:11am Reply Very nice and great country.

Bevis Member	# Posted: 3 Dec 2011 11:02am Reply Nice build so far. WE like pictures. Love the view 2

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 28 May 2014 02:50pm Reply I haven't posted on this in a while but here is where the cabin stood as of the end of last year.

suburbancowboy Member	# Posted: 28 May 2014 02:53pm Reply Also last year I had a project to get power to the cabin. So I built this 8X8 power shed to hold the 3 250 watt panels and the batteries, charge controllers, inverters, etc. There is also enough room to hold one 4 wheeler. It is designed to double the capacity if I every want to go full time.