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rayyy
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# Posted: 19 Mar 2012 04:50pm
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I'll be glad when this fencing is done.800 feet of welded wire and 50 T-posts.I feel like my arms are gonna fall off!lol.Want to get it done befor the grass really takes off.Boogie and smokey will really appreciate it.(my horses).I think maybe my next project will be to get the perminent flormika counter top in the kitchen with a real sink! Sick of washing dishes in the bathroom.Than the window over the sink.Then the wall finish around the window. Than the ceiling stained over the wall.than the decoritive posts and beams .Than the new light fixtures Than,than...Awww-Geee.
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Borrego
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# Posted: 19 Mar 2012 07:38pm
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Just finishing drywall, cabinets installed. next will be paint, followed by flooring. Gettin' close 
Then I need to build a front porch, and a side porch, and a screen porch, back deck....
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 19 Mar 2012 08:18pm
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Other than more tree thinning up in the mountains, nothing real big up there. Though the two planned projects will likely take the usual more time than first thought. 
1. Shear wall construction in between some piers under the cabin. That's to reinforce against lateral movement.
2. Installing the metal I've hand for some 6 months as skirting around the perimeter. With vents.
3. The big, longer time frame project, is here at home. We have a mid 80's ranch style home with a stucco exterior that is typical for the SW. It is in actually surprisingly good condition for being 27 years old. But we are tired of it. We also want new more efficient windows. One room on the back had very large windows. We started with that room.
Step 1 was to remove the stucco. All of it on the three walls that make that bumped out room. Then the walls were re-framed for smaller, but still large 6'0" x 4'0" windows. I've added sheet foam insulation on the exterior; 1 1/2" XPS and 1/2" of polyisocyanurate with foil facing. Seams are staggered and fully sealed and taped. When the third wall is completed and that window installed then I'll install 1x4 furring strips and then the final step of LP lap siding. Furring strips will be mounted using long structural screws that will go a full 2 inches into the wall studs.
That will more than double the R-value of the original wall insulation.
Then it'll be on to the next wall section, probably in fall. Eventually I'll go all around the house except for the front wall which is all brick. Those walls will likely have added insulation on the inside with a second layer of drywall.
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bobrok
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# Posted: 19 Mar 2012 08:21pm
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Build stairs down to the lake, a small deck @ bottom of stairs and put in a small floating dock for the canoe.
Picked up a 16' retractable awning for peanuts on CL last year. That's going over my back deck.
Want to get these outdoor jobs done before the black flies come around; with the nice early spring and warm weather I figure I'll be up there within a couple of weeks to get started. Hopefully I'll beat them this year.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:22pm
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Boo Hoo....unfortunately the list is so long...and not just at the cabin!!!! *sniff*
At the cabin we will just keep plugging away...there are way too many projects to complete and who knows "which project" will strike us as the one to work on. The one thing I do know is that we will have way more work than we do weekends to get it done in!!
At home we need to repair the fence around the pool and put up new front porch post and possibly a new railing. We tore it all apart this past Sunday and I really like it without a railing but Mr. Troll thinks we need one. Lot's of painting and staining should get done and the retaining wall along the driveway should be replaced. Also some more mulch should get spread----okay...I'm starting to feel overwhelmed. Now I have to make a point to avoid ever reading this thread again so that I'm not completely discouraged by all we didn't get done
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rayyy
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 03:57pm
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Lol,,,Trollbridge,I'm so sorrylol.I know what-ya mean.I got no soffits on my cabin yet,and the starlings are already returning and probably eye-balling my attic for prospective home sweet home!So much work to do yet and only weekends to work with.But I'm getting there.Slowly but surely.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:39pm
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Thanks for letting me cry on your shoulder rayyy I promise to keep plugging away if you do too........................you certainly don't want the starlings and their little peeps living in your attic!!!!
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Mr Troll
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:04pm
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OMG.........we can get r done if you help me and let me make some of the decisions
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:09pm
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 Let me guess......hmmmm....you want me to let you have your way and put that railing up on the front porch right??? Nice try!Quoting: Mr Troll let me make some of the decisions
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dvgchef
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:09pm
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The deck I was going to build last year...
An art studio for my wife...
More tree planting & tending those I have planted...
The weekend get-away is becoming a full time job and I love it!
Now if only it could pay my salary so I could be there full time.
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Mr Troll
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:11pm
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so....... I love your ideas but ya gotta have a railing sweet lady
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:18pm
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It is barely off the ground!
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Mr Troll
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:34pm
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im hoping to get to the finished stair way and log loft railings soon , TB and I have some cool ideas for these ,hope they work out.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:40pm - Edited by: trollbridge
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OH....way to switch to our cabin railing and stairway now! LOL! How 'bout you get your way with that one and I get my way at home???? It's all about compromise after all
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Rob_O
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# Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:26am
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My current project is reclaiming some land that was bulldozed a few years back then left to regrow. Lost a good hat today when the vines pulled it off my head and it got bush hogged
Next project will be moving the camper closer to the temporary power pole. That will probably happen before the clearing project is completed, I had to fight hard to get that pole hooked up and I want to use it!
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larry
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# Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:41pm
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to see how much i can sit on my can this spring!!!
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bobrok
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# Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:51pm
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larry, hmmm...you've quite a concept here.
I may have to rethink my attitude about why I actually "have" a small cabin to begin with
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jgiffi
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# Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:48pm
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getting ready to construct my 24x40 pole barn .... have to side the camp but I need a place to store all of my stuff too! Just not enough time in the day but it has been a blast
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:06am
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I'm having my entire 20 acres fenced off. Barbed wire, 4 runs, 12" apart, 4 feet high. Its a 1/3 of the way done, total run is 3/4 of a mile. Cost me a smidge over $7,700.
I'm also doing my flooring in April and will also install my new security camera. Off grid, used solar power from http://www.eyetrax.net. I got the cammo one. Its controlled from my PC from anywhere. Set for motion, force it to just take a snap shot and withing 30 seconds, I have an emailed picture, I can also have it send it to my phone or both. I will also install a small dome camera in the porch area and another camera on the premises. The eye trax will be on my gable end, up real high, looking at my driveway.
So after this trip, I will be done. Until I make up something to do. :D
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TomChum
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# Posted: 24 Mar 2012 01:21am
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I came across a LOT of copper wire (that I forgot I had). I'll be putting 2/0 wire (about size of a pinky finger) from my solar panel to the cabin, 120 (=240) feet, for a 1.2% loss at 7.5A.
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DaJTCHA
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# Posted: 24 Mar 2012 02:33pm
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I'm either digging post holes or painting tomorrow, dependent upon what Mother Nature dishes my way...It may sound miserable, but digging post holes (6 of them) in a driving rain isn't all that bad. I did this once before and besides the slight discomfort of being completely soaked to the bone, it kept me cool and sure helped with some of the compacted dirt I had to sledge hammer through with the digger!
If it is semi-nice outside, I may begin to apply the first coat of "forest service" brown to the T1-11 siding that has been protected for months under stapled 4mil plastic.
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TomChum
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# Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:07am - Edited by: TomChum
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Planning an upper kitchen cabinet. In a log cabin, there's nothing to measure from, so I mocked up in OSB, nice and square. Now I can measure from the 'box' and build it to fit.
Benefits of scrap OSB laying around: I built the mockup 'box' extending 17" almost to the windowtrim, but seeing it in-place it looked 'wrong', so cut it back to 13" as shown.
A cabinet mock-up (not shelves!)
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The too-deep 17" version
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Seto
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# Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:50pm
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my next project includes building raised bed gardens, a solar powered food dryer and a root cellar
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rayyy
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# Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:54pm
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Very nice tom.Cozy corner.I like your windows too.I completed the fenceing in the pasture on saturday and decided to get the 250 gal water tank set up on the porch.YAHHHHH!!! no more lugging the 2 -5 gallon jugs up from the creek any more.It took 2 hours of generator running time to pump water up out of the creek to fill it.A shot of clorox and I'm good to go.
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Tim
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# Posted: 4 Jul 2012 11:55pm
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We are finishing all the "little things" this week. We should be moved in by the end of July. Then, .........a chicken coop!
Then, a garage....then.............
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Seto
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# Posted: 5 Jul 2012 12:50pm
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with my gardens in full swing i will be putting up food for winter, every time i go to town i pick up a few more canning jars. my next big project is starting in late August when i will be hand digging a root cellar to keep everything from freezing.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 5 Jul 2012 12:57pm
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Very cool Seto! Then on the hot days you can hang out in the root cellar for relief huh?
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rayyy
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# Posted: 7 Jul 2012 11:57am
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I'm bout ready to cut the top out of my water tank and jump into it for relief.lol.It can serve two purpouses,my big water supply and my little wadeing pool.lol(just kidden)
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 7 Jul 2012 12:38pm
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Just don't pee in it rayyy!!!!
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Rifraf
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# Posted: 7 Jul 2012 01:09pm - Edited by: Rifraf
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i've still got to finish my lofts. But while I wait on material money im doing some cheaper things like getting my yard ready for new grass
Got the smaller trees uprooted, also ive got it rock raked with the tractor now i have to hand rake it to get the small rocks out. Then plant.. water.. water and water some more
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