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JasonB
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2017 07:37am
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I'll look that book up... Sounds right up my alley!
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2017 10:31am
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i am so jealous.
wow.u guys rock!
i love the cabin.its wonderful.
thank u for sharing your build.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2017 10:45am - Edited by: Gary O
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Quoting: JasonB Thanks Malamute, I appreciate the information you're sharing
Kid, you could do worse than hooking up with Malamute.
He's the real deal.
His builds are the immaculate construction in regard to log 'cabins'...in my opinion.
Not the huge lodge behemoths seen these days, but tidy structures that invite without saying.
Enjoy the romance
not everbody dares to have one
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Malamute
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2017 07:26pm
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Thanks for the kind words sir. I'm humbled by your comments.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2017 08:18pm
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It's earned, pard.
Many times over in your case.
Just appreciate you bein' here.
Keep on keepin' on.
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JasonB
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2017 08:17am
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Thanks, Cabingal and Gary!
Took a worried walk out to the cabin last night, by headlamp, with my building buddy...
The storm ended yesterday afternoon. 2 days of ice, freezing rain, 80kph winds. I feared for my roof. Visions of tar paper hanging in trees...
Pleasantly surprised, upon rounding the last corner and leaping the stream... The roof's fine, cabin's dry inside, just a few ballast poles blew off. Wire'em down this weekend, during our first overnight. Add a few more, to be sure.
Menu's bacon cheeseburgers for lunch/dinner and sausages and eggs for brekky.
Forcast says sunny, high -1C, low -8C. Perfect.
J
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JasonB
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# Posted: 31 Jan 2017 08:05am
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My neighbor, and I spent the first night in our log cabin Saturday....
We packed out on Saturday at noon, arriving at the camp just before 1. Fired up the stove, and put a couple tins of beans on to heat, ate'em up and set to work.
We put another 8 ballast poles on the roof, insurance vs the next winds. Then spent a bit of time making the small waterfall near the stream's entrance to the bay a bit more observable. Once we'd had enough of that, we returned to the campsite and felled standing dead trees and bucked them for the night's firewood. A nice little stack, perhaps 18" deep x 18" high x 3' long.
Then dinner. Fried up a mess of bacon, then 4 burgers. They tasted great! Cooking on the woodstove is a joy, seems to have unending heat capacity, but never quite burns anything.
Once dinner was eaten, we hiked by headlamp out to the coast on the side of our little gorge opposite the waterfall, following an old trail we'd cut 5 years ago. Then returned to the cabin for 2 more burgers and an evening's chatting and relaxing 'round the stove.
Turned in at about 11pm, sleeping in mummy bags on cheap air mattresses. Very comfortable, but for my neighbour's constant, loud snoring. Awoke to feed the stove at 2:30, again at 3:30 when neighbour's air mattress failed (we'd brought a spare). Finally, I fed the stove at 6:30, and we were up at 8.
Breakfast was a mess of sausages and scrambled eggs, very, very nice. We cut some firewood to ensure the next time we visited we had dry wood at least to start, then packed up for the hike home... We'd promised the families we'd be home 'round lunchtime, and were good to our word, arriving at 12:20.
The cabin as we left, in a light snow shower...
The best part might have been while crossing our back yard stream, my daughter had written "I (heart) Daddy" in the ice pellets on the stream in our back yard. AWWwww... 
J
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JasonB
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2017 10:38am
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Spent some time on Saturday at the cabin... Walked out at about 11:30, bacon, bread, cheese, coffee and the like in my pack, just me, alone... Beautiful sunny morning, calm, -12C.
Got to the camp a bit after noon, and set about firing the stove. It's easier now, as we maintain a supply of dry kindling and birchbark in the shelter... Often in winter, even the birchbark is hard to light here, as it's commonly ice-soaked. But 10 minutes after striking the light, it's warming nicely... Takes the cabin a couple hours to *feel* warm, however, alot of cold soaks into those logs.
Stove fired, I boiled some water for coffee (boil first, ya know, safety and all), filled the perk and set a pan of bacon on. Soon the good smells were emanating...
Bacon cooked, sipping my coffee, I made up a pair of cheese/bacon sammies for the pan, and fried them up. Due to a shortage at home, I'm using pre-shredded tex-mex cheese mix, but it goes well enough...
Bread fried in bacon fat's a wonderful thing.....
Feeding accomplished, I set to work. Felled and bucked a pair of standing dead spruces, one about 4" and one closer to 7", then bucked them with the bow saw. Should be enough for next weekend's overnight stay out with my daughter...
Cabin as I leave.... Fire's lit, burning pretty clean for a simple barrel stove...
We got some light flurries this past week, which whitened the scene a bit, and provided for some interesting tracks to try to identify.... Hare, of course were everywhere, along with red squirrel. Plenty of voles, a couple least weasel, white tail deer, porcupine, raccoon, and these fellows:
Bobcat:
Eastern Coyote (This guy went right into our back yard):
The local wildlife have really taken to our trails over the years... Beats tunneling thru brush, I guess!
J
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leonk
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2017 11:48am
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Beautiful
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