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JoeKing
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# Posted: 17 Jun 2020 12:12am
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My wife and I built this four years ago and use it at our fishing camp. Don't know if this qualifies as a small cabin.
Cabin on wheels
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hattie
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# Posted: 17 Jun 2020 12:14am
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That is beautiful!! I love the curved roof. It's made out of wood - I'd say that is a cabin.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 17 Jun 2020 08:24am
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Wow very good craftsmanship!
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fiftyfifty
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# Posted: 17 Jun 2020 09:04pm
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So cool. Did you design it yourself?
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JoeKing
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# Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:16am
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We learned a lot from a blog called Paleotool, we used a lot of his ideas. The trailer was an old boat trailer and we had to be careful to stay under the weight limit, so everything was as light weight as possible. I usually overbuild but in this case it was seeing how strong I could make things while shaving off pounds. I thought about boat and aircraft construction. My wife did an amazing job on the door, she pulled it out of a berry bramble that it had been in for probably twenty years. It is made out of old growth redwood and she stripped at least six layers of paint off it. She applied gold leaf to the raised panels. The roof is made by running purlins for and aft between the front and back bulkheads, then thin plywood is bent over and screwed in place. We used wavy wood and bent it over the top of the plywood and attached the corrugated metal to that. in between the plywood and the corrugated metal we used silvered bubble rap as insulation. If we had had a heavier duty trailer we would have put 2X2 purlins on top of the plywood and filled the gap with rigid foam insulation and then put another layer of plywood on top of that and then the metal. We just installed a Cozy Cabin yacht heater and we love that.
Door
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Fish camp
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Cozy Cabin heater
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JoeKing
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# Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:22pm
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Thank you!
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