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SLVRBK
06-24-2013, 04:04 PM
I bought my cabin 4.5 years ago with my good friend here in Texas. It's about 100 miles from my house but it gives us a ton of peace, the ability to hunt, grow vegetables, raise fish and thrive in the event some bad sh!t hits the fan. It's a little small for both of our families so we are looking to expand it as we speak. My cabin has everything the general American house has: Toilet (septic), shower, central heat and air, satellite TV (donated by a friend), fridge, stove, 1/2 acre stocked pond and 14 acres of trees and "pasture". All of our water is collected rain water as a well would cost nearly $14K due to the potable water being at 332 feet. It is stored in a 1,500 and a 305 gallon tank. I'm surrounded by 180 acres on the east and west sides, 600 acres on the north and the south end is our private road (only one way in and out). It's not the wilderness survival camp but it is the place where I'll hole our families up, strap on the ghillie suit and pluck off any unsuspecting looter from 300 yards if things get a tad crazy here in the south.

I know I'm not the only one with a cabin, so post up!

hunter63
06-24-2013, 06:13 PM
Looks like you got it going on, and even if its small, it's a good start......You gotter going on.

I have posted "The Place" many times, but here it goes...

Original "Place".....as in place up north....was in used from 1989 to 2005
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/new%20album/PICT0135.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/hunter63/media/new%20album/PICT0135.jpg.html)

Big house on the side of a south facing hill side....LOL..."The Place" currently:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/new%20album/DCFC0044.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/hunter63/media/new%20album/DCFC0044.jpg.html)

SLVRBK
06-24-2013, 06:24 PM
That is great! I see you're a hummingbird fanatic too! Where "up north' is this?

hunter63
06-24-2013, 06:33 PM
South west Wisconsin, in coulee country.......Wasn't hit with the last Glacier, so all hills and valley's.....on the Kickapoo river.

randyt
06-24-2013, 07:00 PM
awesome places, I like the verandas. One of these days I'm going to build one on my cabin.

1stimestar
06-24-2013, 08:09 PM
This is mine before I moved in. I have since hacked down the weeds and am working on putting in gardens.
http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/424193_10152014346140697_766153469_n.jpg

Note that I have a real live 2 story outhouse!
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It's called a damp cabin as it has an internal water system. There are many dry cabins up here because of winter conditions and permafrost, it takes a lot of money to keep water fluid in the winter. But this is so handy. We have to haul our water in 5 gallon jugs but once here, we have hot and cold running water to the kitchen sink and the shower.

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What it looks like in the winter.

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The temperature that sometimes makes me use expletives!

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SLVRBK
06-24-2013, 09:18 PM
That is a really nice cabin! I've always wanted to go to Alaska but that -40 degrees is a killer. In January I left Houston at 89 degrees and landed in Calgary at -19 degrees....... my breath literally froze. Shiza!

rancher
06-25-2013, 10:51 AM
9279

We live here full time now, moved in June 1st. This is a mudroom/extra bedroom extension being built right now. Supposedly another extension will go on the back next year but we'll see. This year is busy enough setting up gardens, pastures, livestock housing etc.

1stimestar
06-25-2013, 11:13 AM
I bought my cabin 4.5 years ago with my good friend here in Texas. It's about 100 miles from my house but it gives us a ton of peace, the ability to hunt, grow vegetables, raise fish and thrive in the event some bad sh!t hits the fan. It's a little small for both of our families so we are looking to expand it as we speak. My cabin has everything the general American house has: Toilet (septic), shower, central heat and air, satellite TV (donated by a friend), fridge, stove, 1/2 acre stocked pond and 14 acres of trees and "pasture". All of our water is collected rain water as a well would cost nearly $14K due to the potable water being at 332 feet. It is stored in a 1,500 and a 305 gallon tank. I'm surrounded by 180 acres on the east and west sides, 600 acres on the north and the south end is our private road (only one way in and out). It's not the wilderness survival camp but it is the place where I'll hole our families up, strap on the ghillie suit and pluck off any unsuspecting looter from 300 yards if things get a tad crazy here in the south.

I know I'm not the only one with a cabin, so post up!

Nice grounds you have there. How long does it take to mow?


9279

We live here full time now, moved in June 1st. This is a mudroom/extra bedroom extension being built right now. Supposedly another extension will go on the back next year but we'll see. This year is busy enough setting up gardens, pastures, livestock housing etc.

Cute place. Nice big trees! What part of the country is that in?

rancher
06-25-2013, 11:23 AM
Cute place. Nice big trees! What part of the country is that in?

North of Ottawa, Ontario. We're the onsite caretakers of a 50ac. vacation ranch. Each unit is named and ours just happens to be 'The Cabin'. It's the closest unit to the forest and lake and removed from the rental units so it suits me perfectly. The owners have had this place for 40yrs and have looked after it quite well, Plenty of 100yr old pines here, old oaks and maples, and the beech overhanging the backyard is absolutely packed with nuts right now, I just hope I remember to harvest them come fall!

Rick
06-25-2013, 11:34 AM
Hey 1st - I just noticed that your cabin is perched above ground as is most of your neighbor's. Is the cabin fully supported above ground or is it just the front deck and part of the cabin? I would think that would make it difficult to keep warm if the wind could blow under it too.

SARKY
06-25-2013, 03:37 PM
Check this out, www.sukup.com and check out their "Safe T" homes. The original is 18 feet in diameter at a cost of $5700.00 which isn't bad. From the info I got from them you could go up to 46 feet in diameter.

SLVRBK
06-25-2013, 05:41 PM
Nice grounds you have there. How long does it take to mow?



Cute place. Nice big trees! What part of the country is that in?


To be honest I cheat. My neighbor a couple of miles down the road sold me his 40HP diesel Mahindra tractor so when it's long I use that and when it's not I use a riding lawn mower. After it is all said and done it takes around 2 hours. I once used a professional grade golf course mower and smoked it out in 50 minutes but that damn thing was roaring at 10+ miles an hour.

Ken
06-25-2013, 05:44 PM
To be honest I cheat. My neighbor a couple of miles down the road sold me his 40HP diesel Mahindra tractor so when it's long I use that and when it's not I use a riding lawn mower. After it is all said and done it takes around 2 hours. I once used a professional grade golf course mower and smoked it out in 50 minutes but that damn thing was roaring at 10+ miles an hour.

Ever consider buying a couple of goats? They're a multi-purpose animal.

SLVRBK
06-25-2013, 06:08 PM
Ever consider buying a couple of goats? They're a multi-purpose animal.

The coyotes would make short order of them in a few days. I have seriously thought about getting two miniature donkeys though. I don't give a damn what anyone says..... miniature donkeys are as cool as the other side of the pillow.

Rick
06-25-2013, 08:00 PM
You realize I'll be up all night trying to figure that out. I mean once you turn it over you no longer have the other side you have this side so you have to turn it over again then you still have this side and not the other side. I'm not certain there is any way to actually obtain the other side of a pillow without doing away with this side first. And I'm not certain how you'd do that. Yep. I'll be up all night trying to figure this out.

hunter63
06-25-2013, 08:18 PM
That is great! I see you're a hummingbird fanatic too! Where "up north' is this?

We are feeding all sorts of birds, humming birds, finches, gold and plain, cardinals, oriels, hoody woodpeckers, big ones little ones and middle sized ones....

When you don't feed them , they squawk, make a fuss....Then if it isn't the "good stuff" they kick it on the ground,...pick out the best stuff...stuff on the ground attracts mice, and other vermin which move into the wood pile.

Birds and mice then crap all over the place.

I think they are all democrats....kind fun to watch.

1stimestar
06-25-2013, 08:52 PM
Hey 1st - I just noticed that your cabin is perched above ground as is most of your neighbor's. Is the cabin fully supported above ground or is it just the front deck and part of the cabin? I would think that would make it difficult to keep warm if the wind could blow under it too.

It's the whole cabin. They are built that way on purpose. The floors are as insulated as the walls. This is how we build on permafrost. But you have to raise the house up high enough that the heat from the house does not start to melt the permafrost. As long as it is frozen, it's stable. If it's built at ground level, this is what you have.

http://cloud9doula.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/img_0672-medium.jpg?w=420&h=315

SLVRBK
06-25-2013, 09:02 PM
You realize I'll be up all night trying to figure that out. I mean once you turn it over you no longer have the other side you have this side so you have to turn it over again then you still have this side and not the other side. I'm not certain there is any way to actually obtain the other side of a pillow without doing away with this side first. And I'm not certain how you'd do that. Yep. I'll be up all night trying to figure this out.

It's pretty complicated. This is how it is solved........

Sn(x) = sum of first n+1 terms at x.

remainder(n) = f(x) - Sn(x) = 1/PI (integral)(-PI to PI) f(x+t) Dn(t) dt

Sn(x) = 1/PI (integral)(-PI to PI) f(x+t) Dn(t) dt

Dn(x) = Dirichlet kernel = 1/2 + cos x + cos 2x + .. + cos nx = [ sin(n + 1/2)x ] / [ 2sin(x/2) ]

hunter63
06-25-2013, 09:39 PM
I wus tolt der wus no matf........Too hard for me.

LowKey
06-25-2013, 10:51 PM
Datz not mafz. Datz fizicks. Fizicks is werse.

deafdave3
06-25-2013, 10:57 PM
...... It's about 100 miles from my house......

About 100 miles from your home in The Woodlands? Let me guess... somewhere between Livingston and Cleveland? It looks like its around that area.