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paulz
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# Posted: 15 Jun 2024 19:54 - Edited by: paulz
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Came across this old photo dated 2012 of the finish grading of my cabin spot on the hill. The red string is where it’s going. I had already notched out the hillside with the back hoe and roughed out the road from below.
Next photo is how it is today. Years of labor in between. If you have old build photos post em up.
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paulz
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# Posted: 15 Jun 2024 20:15
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I had no build experience. My home town friend Mitch here had built his cabin some years earlier 100 miles away and we framed it together. Dog helped.
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frankpaige
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# Posted: 16 Jun 2024 02:07
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Built the frame in the driveway in Denver. Trailered it to the site. It was a great day.
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ICC
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# Posted: 16 Jun 2024 04:04 - Edited by: ICC
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My 16x30 cabin foundation: true size 6x6 southern pine foundation grade CCA PT left over from a bridge project, 40 to 44" in ground. Girders are 4 layer 2x10. Joists are 2x12 HemFir.
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ICC
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# Posted: 16 Jun 2024 04:09
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2x6 studs 24" OC.
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paulz
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# Posted: 18 Jun 2024 03:07 - Edited by: paulz
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Quoting: frankpaige It was a great day.
Nice. I know what you mean, getting to the point of realization you’ll be living in something you built.
With my new property I also came to the realization that I owned enough wood to build a city! All redwood too, great stuff for siding, fences etc. I bought a new gas powered bandsaw mill and milled all the siding for the cabin. Wife doing her usual supervisory duty here.
Also owned this VW Rabbit diesel pickup back then, thing got 50mpg!
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paulz
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# Posted: 18 Jun 2024 03:43 - Edited by: paulz
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Vw, mill, Julie
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spencerin
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 01:43
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Those trees.....
Impressive. Nearly awe-inspiring.
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 12:18 - Edited by: paulz
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Thanks, yeah those monsters are everywhere. At one time I had a tree climber go up and put a pulley at the top of one outside the cabin. I never did anything with it but I just checked and the 1/4” rope loop going to the ground still works fine. Trying to think of something I can haul up there. Antenna? Camera? Missile warning alarm?
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ICC
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 12:33
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How tall are they?
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 13:45
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Never had a whole mature one on the ground, over 200 I’ve been told. Straight as a bear’s dick too, makes em great for milling. I made the cabin girders out of one.
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ICC
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 18:26 - Edited by: ICC
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200 is certainly getting into the awesome category. The biggest we ever felled here was 107 feet, a ponderosa pine back in the 50s. Cut by dad and grandad with a 2 man crosscut felling saw. I was 10 & got to run out the tape measure end when it was laid out on the ground. The stump was cut quite close to the ground and it is still there. A good hike now as the old logging road washed out badly years ago.
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 20:42 - Edited by: paulz
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I tied a red rag and tape measure to the tree pulley rope. Pulled it up 25’. Visible just above cabin roof. Doesn’t help much.
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 23:28
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Couple years after the cabin was livable, a friend who was losing his place gave me this shipping container. With some struggle I got it up the hill onto another notch I cut next to the cabin. Then I bought some steel I-beams from a boat storage yard dismantle, $75 each I think. Bolted two across the top and the others as joists, pier blocks buried in the dirt. Built a deck on top, bards in redwood natch.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 23:33
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You have put in a tremendous amount of work Paul!
Those pics make it look almost like you have quite a treehouse
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paulz
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# Posted: 20 Jun 2024 00:47 - Edited by: paulz
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Yeah should of bought flat ground
Then, after the deck was done, I met a guy that had a paver business in my home town. One day he calls, tired of the business and moving back to South America. I can help myself to what’s there in his work yard. Spent many trips hauling it all out here, and more laying in my parking area. My elbows were ready to fall off when I got done. Completed photo in post above. Also did a sidewalk down the side of the cabin, and there’s still more left to do the back if I get the motivation.
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paulz
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# Posted: 21 Jun 2024 20:58
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Had a bunch of left over building materials after the cabin so I built an 8x16 just up the hill. Did it myself as I was now an expert. Originally I thought a guest room, but when the solar boom hit I mounted all the panels (well most of them) up there. Three have been smashed by branches but still pass testing. Never finished the inside.
My water tank is up there too, gravity fed to the cabin. Well is 200’ down the hill.
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paulz
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2024 11:57
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Last two things I’ve done are down below the hill on flat ground closer to the road. First, I dug out the old house foundation, scabbed a roof on it for a shop. Then I scored some free rafters and built a car port for the equipment.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2024 16:12
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You sure make me seem like a slacker......
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paulz
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2024 18:04
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Well I wasn’t even 65 yet. Now if I can get up and take a good crap I’m having a productive day.
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Malamute
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 04:26
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I have some build pictures, though they are prints from film, I need to digitize them.
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paulz
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 17:35 - Edited by: paulz
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Sounds good.
I was just up at my ‘guest’/cabin shack and solar holder. When I built years ago I bought used front doors from a recycle yard. That one has a knocker engraved ‘Bagenstows’. No idea who they are but the catchy name has stuck with the place.
Even better, the cabin front door already had a doggy door. We didn’t even have a dog then, but now he spends half the day traipsing through it.
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