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Erik
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# Posted: 6 Aug 2022 10:58
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If any part at all speeds up 😅
I’ll be overjoyed, thanks for the encouragement
Though ðŸ‘
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Erik
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2022 19:27
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Been a long summer we managed to get the deck on after insulating underneath with foam board and foam, used 3/4 in. I've tried to over build everything, but yet build small. Once the deck was on the endless futzing about how to configure the windows began.
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Erik
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2022 19:29
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the deck
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Erik
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2022 19:34
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Still learning how the forum works
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Erik
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2022 19:36
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the finished deck
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Erik
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2022 19:37
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Now the trick is to figure out how to lay out the windows and make a framing pattern that sticks vaguely to my plans
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2022 20:50
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Do you have any place nearby that sells those 'pre-built' storage sheds? If so, go take a look (take paper&pencil and/or cell-phone for pics) at how they stud up the walls and the framing around the windows. Be aware that any wall that supports the roof needs good headers above the windows.
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Erik
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2022 21:04
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For years I lurked around those sheds in Home Depot parking lots 😂. It’s a great suggestion I have a good sense of basic framing, I’m trying to get the view of Mt. Doki just right, so although I have a framing plan I’m also changing it on the fly. It’s basically a hyper over engineered garden shed.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 11 Oct 2022 08:38
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Quoting: Erik We’re calling it a “hutâ€.... Cabin may be to grandiose a description. Thanks for the compliment, I’m still tweaking the design. ðŸ‘
Eric, know the area well, grew up in a logging town where most of that timber would end up from the logging company.
How about the fire lookout cab design? They are 15X15, but your 14X14 is a more practical dimension to build. Look up the L4 cab design
I'd do a hip roof and the fold down shudders for winter storage.
Fire Lookout Types
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 11 Oct 2022 08:40
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Nice work, I might add and a challenging location. Hint, get lots of buddys, they love volunteering for this stuff. (free labor)
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Erik
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# Posted: 11 Oct 2022 10:51
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I found this book helpful to see all the L4 designs! here in my area of the Olympic Peninsula. Funny a mountain I built my first cabin on 20 years ago had a lookout, and this new place had one too, but miles up the ridge.
I like the L4, but all the glass, when I was younger I put tons of glass in the front of my cabins, but in the NW here especially now our summers can be long and hot, so I went with a trail shelter design from up in the national park as my starting point.
there used to be this amazing website called windsox run by this gentleman, documenting all the olympic trail shelters, fire lookouts, he was an engineer, but it's gone now. I emailed him a few times he wrote, "too old now" rather touchingly.
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Erik
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# Posted: 11 Oct 2022 10:53
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here's the book
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 12 Oct 2022 21:05 - Edited by: toyota_mdt_tech
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Quoting: Erik here's the book
Its on its way, found it new at Amazon, Erik, I have lots of books like that, love lookout books, love anything lookout or lighthouse. I love old logging history too.
You must know about John Tornow, wild man of Wynoochee.
Camp Grisdale, or even camp Govey. Grisdale was a small town in the middle of no where. Been to both, Grisdale was the last logging camp in the lower 48.
I used to go up in the Olympics with dad for deer season, you could hear the talkie tooters for miles, log trucks with the jake brake coming down the hills, has to be alert and ready to get our of their way.
That area WAS my backyard.
Erik, I like park log shelters too. I just finished thsi one at my place.
drop me an email, use my username in here AT yahoo dot com
I check it once a month. We may even know each other.
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Erik
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2022 11:55
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Grisdale know it well, it's pretty well grown in now, used to be the last company town in the US where you were paid in "chits" and had a company store....
You still hear the TOOT when they're long leading and tower logging. Although the logging is now down to 1/8 of what it once was, which is mind blowing considering the number of logging trucks you still see.
You posted once before, your log structures are awesome. My obsession was more with the trail shelters here in the National Park, but lookouts too, although they had a more set form as you mentioned with the L-4 etc.
The Wildman of Wynoochee is still very much a living legend. I recently picked up this much larger book up at Book and News in Port Angeles I'm looking forward to reading it!
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Erik
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2022 12:00
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Hiked in goofing around trying to figure out where the windows and roofline should be based on the reality of where the view is up into the Olympics.
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Erik
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2022 12:04
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I've gone with a really low roofline in the back 6 foot, as I'm 6-2 I figure that will be tall enough and 10 foot under the center beam.
I'm obsessed with these Japanese porch styles called Engawa. I'm trying to get that just right and I'm not a good enough architect to imagine it so I've just gone and mocked it up on the building deck. In Japan they have wet blustery weather but still want to bring outside light in. The cabins I built when I was younger tended to be very modern Scandinavian with a ton of light and glass, but in the summer you'd bake, although it was glorious in the long rainy winters, I'm hoping this high porch will solve the problem.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2022 12:06
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While checking your views keep in mind the upward growth 'on out there'.
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Erik
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2022 12:13
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I've tried to clear as minimally as possible, this is the view I've carefully tailored the whole structure around. In this case I want the trees to grow up around it eventually as the stand is only 30 or so years old I'm in of reprod. When I cut a view I try and think about is maintaining it realistic, and then I try and think about Chinese landscaping and how the sun and clouds are gonna move, but you're very right many people just cut or bring in the earth movers to clear and forget trees grow 3+ feet a year. Here's the view I'm trying to work with but not cut off with the eave line or the window frame.
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Erik
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# Posted: 1 Jun 2023 05:39
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Snow finally melted out in WA, the winter storms ripped my tarp off so I’ve had to Rick all my lumber to hopefully get it dry.
I put the first wall up so here’s a pic. I may have goofed up with not making this wall have a 2x6 beam top plate. I asked a question about it in the construction section here.
Year three of hiking lumber in, clearing the site by hand, I’m hoping to have at least a useable shell up, roof on, stove in, so I can use it to ski and snow shoe this winter… here’s to hoping.
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Erik
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2023 16:06
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Managed to make it up for the weekend my covers blew off over the winter so I’ve been drying everything out and trying to get my framing back up to where it was last fall when I took it all down for the winter…
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actionshooter
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# Posted: 27 Jun 2023 23:21
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Love watching this post... spent my childhood running around Camp Govey, Browns Creek, Cushman and Wynochee.. Lived in Shelton for quite a while and still find my way up there every once in a while. Looks like your cabin is coming right along. Congrats!
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 28 Jun 2023 15:30
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Quoting: actionshooter Love watching this post... spent my childhood running around Camp Govey, Browns Creek, Cushman and Wynochee.. Lived in Shelton for quite a while and still find my way up there every once in a while. Looks like your cabin is coming right along. Congrats!
actionshooter, I grew up in shelton, graduated from their high school, also spent time at govey, grisdale running all around those hills during deer season.
I moved out in 84
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