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paulz
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2024 10:50am - Edited by: paulz
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I’m not much into cabin decor, too much else to do, but on the occasional cold after hours I’ll play around. Mostly all freebies.
At my local college shop class there is a dumpster outside. A couple of years ago a friend called me over to help him dig out this picture he found in there. I forgot all about it until last week he tells me he never hung it anywhere, do I want it before he tosses it? Hmm ok.
Put it above the slider at the cabin, looks pretty good, much like the rocky ocean coast not far away.
Got any cabin decor with good story?
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2024 01:38pm
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We have one of those old large Budweiser pics of Custer's Last Stand that used to be in about every bar, or saloon depending on where yer from.
Your pic is a lot more peaceful.
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ICC
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2024 06:39pm
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At my cabin I have only one picture hanging on the walls. It is a photograph I took years ago on a trip to Germany with my wife. It is a more or less typical view of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. My wife loved it. I had a 20x25 print made for her and she wanted it above the bed at our "castle".
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Fanman
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2024 07:20pm
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There's a deerskin from the second deer I ever shot hanging on the wall near the fireplace. There are several paintings and prints of the local area by local artists including my brother in law, four photos of the lake by my daughter, and an assortment of my wife's knicknacks on the windowsills.
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Curly
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2024 11:17pm
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I do have some cabin décor items from my uncle’s old cabin where I hung out as a boy back in the 1970’s. I have many good memories from there. Unfortunately, that cabin flooded multiple times and was torn down years ago. The good news is that some items were salvaged and I have them displayed in a corner of a room.
In the first picture are my old Eagle Claw pole with a Zebco 33, my very first pole with a Zebco 202, my dad’s pole with a Johnson reel and two of my Grandfather’s steel poles that must be from the 40’s which are still outfitted with old green braided fishing line. The original eyes were broken off those steel poles and Grandpa replaced the eyes with loops of solder he soldered onto the poles. The pole on the left was outfitted the way Grandpa fished, with a Kodak aluminum film can for a bobber and a metal nut for a sinker. I put a plastic worm on the hook for the display. Grandpa kept his worms in the Prince Albert can which he would tuck in his pocket. Grandpa liked to keep it simple. His bamboo fly rods are in a bundle on the right of the picture and his fly wallet is on the top of the picture of the cabin.
The other picture has the mantle that was above the cabin’s fireplace (it's blackened from smoke) and assorted outdoor gear and pictures of cabin friends. The deer rack was from a mule deer Grandpa shot in Montana in the 40’s or 50’s. The box in the picture contains some of Grandpa’s fishing lures. Grandpa is pictured holding his favorite shotgun. His favorite dog's portrait is also shown in the picture. That dog was so popular in their small town that when the dog passed away, the local paper published an obituary for the dog. Ya gotta love small towns!
Am I too sentimental? Yew betcha!
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paulz
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2024 11:21am - Edited by: paulz
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Great family stuff Curly, thanks for the photos.
Bit more on my place, front wall of the cabin. My property actually had a house on it, demolished back in 1966. The guy I bought it from gave me this old set of plans. Couple years after I built the cabin I embarked on digging out what was left of the concrete foundation (pic at left) and put a roof and front wall on, it’s now my shop.
Through that window is my solar paneled front overhang. The tree saw came from a yard sale. 50 bucks for that, a splurge for me.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2024 12:09pm
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Ive got the brother to that saw! -0- for me, it came from our old farm.
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2024 11:19am
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Quoting: gcrank1 Ive got the brother to that saw
When men were men and chains were ladies jewelry. Never tried mine, must be a workout.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2024 11:37am
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Mine still works fine.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2024 12:28pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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Mine works, or did last time I tried it maybe 30yrs ago. I touched up the tips with a file and it cut pretty good but I couldn't find a partner that could get in the rhythm for more than a couple strokes, lol.
And I had such illusions about hiring out....
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darz5150
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2024 12:33pm
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Quoting: gcrank1 couldn't find a partner that could get in the rhythm for more than a couple strokes, lol.
Lol. These might be the original 2 stroke wood saws!  
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2024 01:20pm
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Right On! 
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2024 05:56pm
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Darz you stud! What is that monster, oak? I took one down and bucked it last week, only about two foot diameter but boy is that stuff heavy. Makes my redwood feel like balsa.
Sitting by the splitter now. Next weeks project.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2024 08:34pm - Edited by: darz5150
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Yep, it was Oak.
There were 3 trees that size and 3 a little bit smaller. Too big for local saw mills.
I think the one in the pic was 52 inches in diameter at the bell. It took about 2 1/2 rounds split to fill up a pickup bed.
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