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hattie
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2011 21:48
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bushbunkie - sounds good. *S* Your place is really cute!!
Quoting: Gary O There's just a ton of truly great cabins in this forum, from a rehab camp trailer that has all the warmth and aesthitics one could possibly desire, to the classic log cabin of one's childhood dreams.
hehehe...I was just sitting here oohing and ahhhing over these great places and thought, "I wonder what city folk would think of all this?" I mean, we go nuts over small, cozy places and there are many in the big cities that feel they are sacrificing with only 4,000 sq. ft. *LOL* Ahhhh, they don't know what they're missing!
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Just
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2011 22:10
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And proud of it.. not sure if i have anouther cabin in me>>
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jvgo
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2011 22:12
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Thank you for the complements Neb, Hattie, Turkeyhunter, BushBunkie, and Cman47c !
BushBunkie - the cabin is 12 x 24 including the porch. There is a sleeping loft over the porch.
Cman47c - Deer are not the numbers they used to be in Forest co. PA. In my younger days, it was not uncommon to see 50-60 deer in a day. Now I am lucky see 1 or 2 deer in a day.
This is a of a cabin my brother and I built over 40 years ago on still standing on the same property next to the cabin in my earlier post. We were teenagers at the time and had no money but really wanted our own deer camp. With only hand tools we cut small logs on the property that could be easily handled and scounged scrap lumber and material wherever we could find it. Old wood packing crates were used for a lot of it and tar paper for a roof. We heated it with an old Warm Morning pot belly that belonged to our grandfather.
We used this rough cabin for the first 20 years a a place to stay warm and dry for hunting and fishing trips. Later as a place to take families to enjoy the outdoors. Slowly the kids grew up and moved away or are now dis-interested in roughing it. The old place began to deteriorate. Black carpenter ants, chipmunks, pine and flying squirrels have been the main occupants for the last 20 years. A porcupine lived under it for a couple years. I now use it to store some old tools and odds and ends .
I am hoping to repair/rebuild some of it this year just to keep it standing if for nothing else than the memories.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2011 22:13 - Edited by: Gary O
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Quoting: hattie and there are many in the big cities that feel they are sacrificing with only 4,000 sq. ft.
Yeah, 4000 sq ft of fabricated (so called) 'beauty'...
Ever look at a simple thing like a pine cone thru a mircoscope?
Try it with fabricated materials.........
We've all got tiny cabins, but our rec rooms just out the door are unmatched...............
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Gary O
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2011 22:27
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Quoting: jvgo This is a of a cabin my brother and I built over 40 years ago
Now that's a cabin!!
Quoting: jvgo With only hand tools we cut small logs on the property
Nobody can take that away from you, jvgo.
Very very nice.
Wishin' you success in the rebuild
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Rob_O
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2011 22:29
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My country estate
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Gary O
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2011 22:44
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Quoting: Rob_O My country estate
Gonna be an edifice there soon one day Rob_O
We'll all be here, waitin'
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hattie
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2011 12:08
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jvgo: That is one nice looking cabin. I'd forget using it as a shed - I'd fix it up and use it as a cabin again!!!! It has real character!
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Strangebrew
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2011 17:42
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Some great looking cabins out there!
Not sure what the criteria are for "small cabin", but my nephew and I built this 20x24 cabin in 7 days last June. This was taken on day 7. Cabin is located on 53 acres just south of Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. I've since insulated the cabin and installed a woodstove for heat. Managed to hunt muzzleloader deer last fall and even rang in 2011 there with my wife and daughter. Plans for this summer include siding, wrap-around deck and a rainwater system.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2011 18:06
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Quoting: jvgo I am hoping to repair/rebuild some of it this year just to keep it standing if for nothing else than the memories.
now that my friend is a fine deer camp..............
Quoting: Strangebrew "small cabin", but my nephew and I built this 20x24 cabin in 7 days
fine cabin in a short amount of time......congrats
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bugs
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2011 18:08
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Beautiful strangebrew
Great to see another "Hoser" even if you are likely a BBomber fan.
That is wonderful country around them there parts.
Bet there is a bit more snow around the cabin at the moment too.
Methinks "small cabin" is more a state of mind rather than the size of your space.
Looking forward to seeing more images.
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neb
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2011 19:07
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Quoting: Strangebrew Strangebrew
That looks good. I want to do a 10x10 and I only wish I could get it done in 7 days.
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Strangebrew
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2011 19:20
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bugs...no comment on the Bombers. Lots of snow out there this year and it's been brutally cold. Spent new years out there and woke up to -35C both mornings. Pretty warm inside tho.
neb...it was alot of work in a short period of time, i was amazed. Thank goodness my nephew knows what he's doing or I'd still be framing the walls.
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neb
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2011 20:22 - Edited by: neb
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I have not started my cabin yet but do have all the posts set. I will start again this spring. I will post a few picture of the land in differant area's. On the one picture I have a shot of a muley.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 9 Mar 2011 08:30
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Quoting: neb On the one picture I have a shot of a muley.
neb--pretty property, nice muley in the 2nd pic, next to the juniper/cedar.Looks like he was slipping out on ya. I killed 100's of whitetail, this fall i am going for a muley in ND w/ smokepole.
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neb
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# Posted: 19 Mar 2011 09:00
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Any more pictures of your land or cabin? There is some very nice cabins and pictures of land so far.
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neb
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# Posted: 27 Mar 2011 15:39
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Not to be a hound dog here but it is nice to come back to one post and see your cabins in one place. I read posts and always go back here to this site and see your cabin and th eperson I'm talking too. Thanks and hope you all share a picture of the shack or land.
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bushbunkie
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# Posted: 27 Mar 2011 20:57
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Hey Neb,
Good luck.
My cabin / Bunkie is 10 x 10 as well.
You can be very creative with this size of space if you want to.
Good Luck!
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neb
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# Posted: 27 Mar 2011 21:25
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I got a lot of plans with 4 large windows and a small loft. I just need to figure out how to cut birds mouth cuts for the rafters tha sit on the top plate. I want an open rafter with a 2x10 main beam and tie rafters into that. I will have to shoot from the hip and build as I go.
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Borrego
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# Posted: 27 Mar 2011 22:11
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Here's our 'compound' ;-)
In the California desert......
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neb
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# Posted: 27 Mar 2011 23:17 - Edited by: neb
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Quoting: Borrego Here's our 'compound'
Looks like a great place for a cabin. It looks like you started your cabin but just couldn't tell for sure from the picture. A very nice piece of land.
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bushbunkie
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:50
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got a lot of plans with 4 large windows and a small loft. I just need to figure out how to cut birds mouth cuts for the rafters tha sit on the top plate. I want an open rafter with a 2x10 main beam and tie rafters into that. I will have to shoot from the hip and build as I go.
Neb,
Here's our rafter set up...FYI.
It's 6' at the peak and open so you can change at night.
For roofing, they used 1" x 14' barnboard planks to tie every in.
Working great so far. Under the loft is 6'5"...total bunkie height around 13'.
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squirrel
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2011 17:59 - Edited by: squirrel
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heres our cabin in the works haven't quiet finished yet but getting there
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neb
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2011 20:17
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bushbunkie
Did you cut bird mouth cuts for your rafters where rafter meet's the top plate. That is very nice.
squirrel your looks great and looks like you got a good start.
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Erins#1Mom
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2011 20:40
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No photos of land or cabin (still unbuilt). Thinking of buying a few windows at a bargain salvage place in nearby town. Question: How many have built cabin around purchased or donated windows and doors?
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neb
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2011 21:22
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Erins#1Mom
I have my old windows from my house that I replaced a few years ago. They are in great shape and I have them in storage. If you talk to a contractor in your area they take out old windows all the time you may be able to get some of the old windows that most people just throw away.
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TomChum
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2011 00:56 - Edited by: TomChum
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Hey neb, ahem..... back on-topic,,,,, I closed on the land 1 year ago, and started building in June. So 2011 will be my first full season of cabinhood. I bet you cant wait to get going this spring!
Here's my 100+ acres in Google Earth. It was selectively logged in 1998. The driveway to my cabin (yellow) is a narrow 2-track pine needle road, exactly 1 mile long, was an old overgrown logging road. The nearest house is 1.5mi away, just me, a timber company and Nat'l Forest! Land price was reasonable ($160,000). I expected to find 20ac for $240,000, but going farther out in the woods provided a lot more space and the cabin I wanted too. And the remoteness reduces the possibility that someone will build a McMansion next door. In snow season have been using an ATV to get in, sometimes snowmobile, and the last time I had to walk out (2.5 miles walk).
The cabin, 12x16 172sf of floor space.
A view from the west border, looking off property.
Glacier Lilies pop out just as the snow melts, should be coming up in the next couple weeks, can't wait!
Cougar tracks....
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smitty
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2011 04:32
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That is an awesome cabin. I love it!
Here is our piece of NY..
Good spot for our shack
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The creek at the back
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Looking down the hill to the creek
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An old hemlock tree
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neb
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2011 09:26
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TomChum
That is very nice piece of land you have there. The cabin looks great and you are a very fortunate person. Very nice.
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honusbam
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2011 23:45
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No cabin yet, just land. I was pleasantly surprised today that I was 'finally' able to drive right to it. I even had my snowshoes prepared and everything.
Land sits right at 6000 feet in the Rockies.
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