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Derby42
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# Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:44pm
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I am new here, I have just been reading through the topics and it seems like a nice community. I am headed to my off grid cabin for the weekend. I was looking at some of the lighting threads. I mostly use candles. Any way I thought I would just say hi and post a photo of my cabin. It is about 16 x 16 feet
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littlehouseontheprarie
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# Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:48pm
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Yep that is a cool old Ozark cabin.
I would love to see more pics. some interior and some of what I am sure is a beautiful view.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:53pm
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I have just a couple of the decorations , I will try to take some more this weekend.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 16 Oct 2015 11:02pm
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I found one more, I took this one through the window in the dark
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skootamattaschmidty
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2015 03:16am
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Welcome! Great place! Lots of great ideas for lighting, especially 12 v LED's
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Rowjr
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2015 11:54am
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I like it looks peaceful !
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hattie
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2015 12:31pm
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That is a beautiful cabin. How old is it?
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Derby42
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2015 05:16pm
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About four years. I have tried to post some more photos but must not have a very good signal
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Derby42
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2015 05:18pm
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The stoves
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Cisco
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2015 09:21am
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where are you located Derby?
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Derby42
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2015 10:53am
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Missouri
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Derby42
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2015 10:56am
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We did the floor in field stone and salvaged bricks. I swept dry quickcrete into the gaps and wet it down with a hand sprayer.
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Cisco
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2015 11:59am
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Cool, I'm in the foothills of the Ozarks In north west/ Central Arkansas about 2 hrs south of Branson. Lots of Ozark cabins on this forum.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2015 12:06pm
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I am about an hour east of Branson , just on the edge of the ozarks. If you drive north ten miles you can be in the flat land.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2015 12:20pm
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Here is the view across the draw from the cabin. The trees are just starting to turn.
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RiverCabin
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# Posted: 21 Oct 2015 10:14am
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Welcome fellow Southeast Missouri cabin owner!
It's hard to believe that your cabin is only four years old. It has that wonderful "moonshiners cabin" look. I thik it looks perfect for those ozark hills!
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Derby42
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# Posted: 22 Oct 2015 01:10pm
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The trick is to build it out of really old junk, ha ha. I actually spent very little on it. The foundation is 8 railroad ties from the local hardware store. The walls are pine 4x4's that are only three feet long. They were scrap from a company that uses them to stack bundles of pipe on flat beds. I just stacked them up like bricks, wood glue between each and nailed together with sixteen penny nails. The rafters and tin were from an industrial chicken house that burned and was reused as a shop for another 35 years before we tore it down and made the cabin. The windows are old single panes that dad took out of his house. So it is really just a combination of old junk. Sure is a nice place to spend the fall.
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manny
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# Posted: 22 Oct 2015 07:32pm
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Man .i like it. like it a lot.I got a couple acres in the middle of somewhere. Am thinking of doing just that.Really old junk . I got plenty of that around here.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 22 Oct 2015 08:32pm
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Thanks , I really enjoy my time there and only spent a couple of hundred dollars building it. The wood cook stove was setting out behind dads barn with a sheet of tin over it. Looks a lot better in a cabin. It was really made for coal I think, has a very small fire box
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countryred
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# Posted: 24 Oct 2015 09:21pm
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Very cool. I like that type of cabin. Our place is Shannon County.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 25 Oct 2015 12:17am
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Thank you, I really enjoy it. I wish I got to use it more often but it is so hard to get away most of the time. I really enjoy the fall season there. One thing I over looked when I built it nestled in between two red oak trees was how loud the acorns would be when they drop and hit the tin roof, lol.
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 25 Oct 2015 01:33am
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cool cabin...love it.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 25 Oct 2015 01:44am
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Man, that is the cabin of cabins.
The personification in the raw.
Thank you for gracing this site.
Too very cool.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:26pm
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Thanks for the kind comments, most of the people I know don't really think it is cool. That is why I logged onto this forum, it is nice to share with like minded folks.
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Rowjr
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# Posted: 27 Oct 2015 07:44pm
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Love to see more !
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Derby42
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# Posted: 27 Oct 2015 08:13pm
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This is a photo of the table. My brother made it out of some rough sawn oak off of an old hog farrowing house we had. It made a really nice little table for the cabin. We put bricks salvaged from the concession stand at the old drive in theater under the table and the stove so we could have a more level surface.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2015 05:10pm
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Here is a photo from the porch. I used to have some squirrel tails and a deer tail tacked on the wall but that kind of stuff doesn't last too long out side like that. I used to smoke and I would put my butts in the metal can, can't be too careful in the woods with fire.
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CabinBuilder
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# Posted: 4 Nov 2015 08:05pm
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The cabin and pictures DO have a character...
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Derby42
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# Posted: 5 Nov 2015 03:08pm
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I won't be able to make it to the cabin this weekend due to some family commitments, but next weekend will be deer season and I hope to spend several days there. I sure enjoy being out in the woods. I have a collection of foxfire books that I like to read there.
Yes, they have some character to them, not for everyone. I have really been impressed with the cabins I have seen on this forum. I have considered adding a loft but I don't really think I allowed enough room when we were building it.
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abby
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# Posted: 6 Nov 2015 07:25am
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I love it, and I absolutely love your creativity! junk to some, but good cabin items to us. it looks like a wonderful place to relax!
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