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SteveN
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# Posted: 8 Jun 2015 11:37 - Edited by: SteveN
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I read a short news story about a shipping contatiner cabin here in Ontario (near Ottawa). Looks like a nice little setup.
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azgreg
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# Posted: 8 Jun 2015 11:50
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A similar build with a great blog can be seen here.
http://www.tincancabin.com/how-to-build/
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SteveN
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# Posted: 8 Jun 2015 12:14
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Quoting: azgreg A similar build with a great blog can be seen here.
Nice Blog! Thanks for sharing.
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 8 Jun 2015 20:15
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Neat but stupid. Would be quicker and cheaper to stick build a cabin and then leave the stupid containers on a ship where they belong. No way it saves money.
PS I have built things for free and things for millions. I know construction.
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azgreg
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# Posted: 8 Jun 2015 21:34
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Quoting: Salty Craig Neat but stupid. Would be quicker and cheaper to stick build a cabin and then leave the stupid containers on a ship where they belong. No way it saves money. PS I have built things for free and things for millions. I know construction. Salty
There's a part of his blog where he agrees with you.
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Julie2Oregon
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2015 04:56
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Not only that, but I've read that shipping containers -- unless you buy brand new ones -- are chockfull of chemicals. They douse the things with anti-fungal agents, pesticides, etc. to keep the cargo from becoming moldy and infested. Sure, you're going to put down vapor barriers, flooring and such but why use something like that for a home when you can build a cabin with materials that haven't been repeatedly saturated with stuff like that and used to haul who-knows-what?
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Wilbour
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2015 17:42
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Not sure if it's the same guy but CTV news in Ottawa is gonna have a piece on this tonight at 6.
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Pookie129
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# Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:48
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Quoting: Salty Craig I have built things for free and things for millions. I know construction
knowledge is power, and this is a great thing to know!
Especially when those dreaded nasty Hawaiian vacations come around and you don't want to go. With this information, I can take your place in terrible horrible Hawaii and I can leave you a list of a million things I need built for free 
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 24 Jun 2015 21:39
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Pookie129
Your humor my friend is a refreshing distraction from reality. I could think of a million reasons to go back to Hawaii. It is a lovely place, but oh what a flight.
I'm sure my overly egotistic phrase that you quoted sounded a bit loud. I usually like to come across a bit more laid back. However, I wanted to drive the point home to all my cabin buddies that a shipping container is a pathetic object to start with. I'm very partial to a product harvested from trees.
Last thing I want is an inexperienced pioneer trying to settle the wild in a steel box. Would have been like taking a Little Red Wagon pulled by your Collie on the wagon train West. Just not real bright.
One last thought; how did you come up with pookie129? Very interesting handle. 
Salty Craig "nuf said"
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Pookie129
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2015 06:17 - Edited by: Pookie129
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Quoting: Salty Craig I'm sure my overly egotistic phrase that you quoted sounded a bit loud. I usually like to come across a bit more laid back.
Not in the least, I am a just a greedy galute and saw a great opportunity to capitalize on free construction work and I took it. I wish I was more subtle, but it's not in my nature...and frankly, you have a terrific sense of humour yourself, so I never take it as loud or offensive...you are just funny, plain and simple my friend....I am still reeling from our Hawaiian exchange...lol..lol. Hard to be mad at a funny guy, even with a Mai Tai in hand...lol..lol.
I couldn't agree with you more, wood wood and more wood, although I like steel and rock too, the preference would be for a wood home over a shipping container for sure.....but it is interesting what some people will put together for themselves in terms of these structures or projects. Personally if you are going to invest some time and energy, what VictorVector has going on with his floating palace is a great idea and investment of time, energy and money and is beautiful and amazing of course..
Pookie129 - Pookie is a nickname I had off and on years and that is a long story in itself and has been a running joke of sorts for years, and the 129 is my homage to US129 in the Smoky Mountains - one of the best riding roads and places in the world (next to camp) and my old stomping/riding grounds and where I spent some of the happiest and funniest days of my life (this far) and that was my old motorcycle/group forum handles and so on and so forth....thankfully, there are not 129 of us, the world is barely tolerating 1
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2015 20:34
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Pookie129
Makes sense. Thanks for the enlightenment. I've been thru the outskirts of the Smokey Mountains but never through the popular parts or Rt. 129 that you speak of. Sounds like a cool place. I like to ride the Blue Ridge Parkway. That's a beautiful drive along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains and it passes through the Shenandoah National Park. I can be there in a half hour from my house.
It has just dawned on me that I have written an entire paragraph without inserting one of my random, off the wall craigments. Must be growing up.
Better get off here. My scooter is sputtering. I fear that the wobble shaft or canuter valve has flown asunder. Possibility of a loose muffler belt.
Salty Craig
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