Lunch at the cabin.

[sage5907]

I must apologize to Armored farmer because when I posted pictures of my cabin I had no intention of stealing the thunder from his post. I was so taken in by his cooking beans and having a cabin in the woods that I wanted him to see my endeavors. I appreciate him sharing his good times and I wanted him to see what I was doing. I started out talking about brewed coffee and then the conversation went to pooping in a bucket and one picture led to another. My replies were intended all in fun. One farmer to another.

 

[Patocazador]

2 questions, Sage: outside dimensions? and how far is it from your house?

 

[sage5907]

2 questions, Sage: outside dimensions? and how far is it from your house?

The cabin is a portable building built by Dierksen and is one room that is 14 X 20 with a 4 foot porch on the front so the outside length is 24 feet. The concrete pad is 5 1/2 inches thick, 34 feet long and 16 feet wide. I used 1/2 inch L bolts 7 inches long in the concrete for anchors by placing quarter inch chain over the runners on the shed and bolting the shed down. I set the cabin up so I could use 2 x 10 lumber for skirting. The floor of the shed is 20 inches above the concrete because it is near the river. The shed came with double pane windows but was unfinished on the inside. I did all of the finish work myself by using 3 1/2 inch insulation in the walls and ceiling, sheeting the walls with 3/8 inch finished plywood, and 1 inch tongue an groove pine on the ceiling. Trim around he ceiling, windows and door was of unfinished white wood. I used RV lighting with 12 volt wire in the walls with a 12 volt control panel. The river runs through the center of the farmland. My nearest house is several miles from the farm.

 

[Show Me]

Dream cabin. Live, work and play on the farm a cabin would be nifty with the grandkids. Sitting up on a pair of hay rings no property tax around here.

 

[Patocazador]

My nearest house is several miles from the farm.

Your wife will have you put up a clothes rack or a closet to keep her things. How do I know? My 12x36 cabin has 2 clothes poles with racks/shelves for guess who?

 

[Armored farmer]

I must apologize to Armored farmer because when I posted pictures of my cabin I had no intention of stealing the thunder from his post. I was so taken in by his cooking beans and having a cabin in the woods that I wanted him to see my endeavors. I appreciate him sharing his good times and I wanted him to see what I was doing. I started out talking about brewed coffee and then the conversation went to pooping in a bucket and one picture led to another. My replies were intended all in fun. One farmer to another.

Oh heck no....not stealing anything!
I am enjoying every post.
Your cabin is excellent @sage5907 .
I wish my cabin was closer to our little river, but that property belongs to my father. He wouldn't care....but it is more easily accessed by trespassing atv riders and such.

 

[Armored farmer]

I have a security camera (cell trailcam) on my cabin. If there's anyone creeping around that shouldn't be....I'll get a pic of them.

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[MutinousDoug]

I have a security camera (cell trailcam) on my cabin. If there's anyone creeping around that shouldn't be....I'll get a pic of them.

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Cute camp. What's that in the B/W pics, a skunk?
My neighbor, across the road in Colorado fed his dog at home on his porch. Neighbor raised a couple of generations of skunks under that porch. Them and his cats got along just fine and the dog, FINALLY, under threat of yet another wintertime bath and banishment to the barn, learned how to behave...

 

[jmorris]

If I had it to do over.....an enclosed 6x10 ft trailer would be about ideal.....you could move it around to different deer/turkey areas...or heck ...haul it across the country with an atv and gear inside.

Now you're talking. We've got the tower in the woods but I've had an itch for an ~6.5 x 10-12 enclosed heated and AC trailer myself.



We just don't spend as much time in the same place as we used to.

I wasn't finished welding out my last 20 ft frame when I thought I should have skipped the second set of stairs and just skinned and axle'ed the top half of it and topped the bottom with a blind and high house for throwing clays.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

^^^ What a cool place! ^^^

 

[jmorris]

I need to see if I have enough left to build a dock at the lake for the children or if i need to remove the ladder and save it but I don't have the need for it in the shop anymore.



and have been testing the heater and AC for more than a year now, I cautiously trust them.



Should have used the diesel heater the last time we went camping but I was trying to show a kid how to "rough it", turns out its only hard on old people, that make it hard on themselves.

5 liters (3.8L to the gallon) lasts right at 11 hours on max (8000 btu), with less work than propane and I have a fill valve on the big tank at the house for the portable ones.

 

[Armored farmer]

I need to see if I have enough left to build a dock at the lake for the children or if i need to remove the ladder and save it but I don't have the need for it in the shop anymore.

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and have been testing the heater and AC for more than a year now, I cautiously trust them.

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Should have used the diesel heater the last time we went camping but I was trying to show a kid how to "rough it", turns out its only hard on old people, that make it hard on themselves.

5 liters (3.8L to the gallon) lasts right at 11 hours on max (8000 btu), with less work than propane and I have a fill valve on the big tank at the house for the portable ones.

Wow
More pics plz!

 

[Armored farmer]

Cute camp. What's that in the B/W pics, a skunk?
My neighbor, across the road in Colorado fed his dog at home on his porch. Neighbor raised a couple of generations of skunks under that porch. Them and his cats got along just fine and the dog, FINALLY, under threat of yet another wintertime bath and banishment to the barn, learned how to behave...

The night pictures are infrared flash and appear black and white....and yes that's a skunk...he's a frequent visitor.

 

[PapaG]

Our cabin was an old, old garage. Older son and I replaced the roof, took off the garage door, built a lean to where the garage door was. Over the next ten years we insulated, put in two steel doors, A few windows bunks and a kitchen. Went from an electric heater to a wood stove and finally got a furnace from a guy who got underwater on a house build.
We have slept six and even put in an ejector pit and flush toilet. Haul water in a 275 gal food grade tank. Looking at a well next year. My time is running down so I want the boys to have the best to remember me and their mother in the outdoors.
Lots of fun and memories in the cabin that the walls could be seen through in 2005 til now, warm and comfy. Two tower blinds at opposite corners we built with insulation and windows allow us to "hunt" in shirt sleeves with a Buddy heater.