Danuwoa
Redneck Emperor
Good Lord, that’s beautiful.
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Building a cabin
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I’d never leave !
Lilly001
Senior Member
Yours makes mine look like a shack. LOL
uturn
Senior Member
Getting ready to start clearing my entrance in to a small piece I bought backing up to some forest land...looked hard and long to find a piece of ground to get away and do the same but ended up deciding to buy this piece in the county I live in now and make it our homestead. A lot of that decision was made because of what NMurph mentioned...Our age and time to get there!
I will be trying to document my journey with it...not sure just yet if it’s a Metal Building, Pole Barn or Conventional Wood Frame Home...I love them all for different reasons!
Good luck on yours!
And, I love Triple C’s take on it too!
I will be trying to document my journey with it...not sure just yet if it’s a Metal Building, Pole Barn or Conventional Wood Frame Home...I love them all for different reasons!
Good luck on yours!
And, I love Triple C’s take on it too!
Danuwoa
Redneck Emperor
Keep us posted. It will be cool to see it in various stages of progress.
TomC
Senior Member
Will be starting a TripleC inspired pole barn house and shop later this summer!
blood on the ground
Cross threading is better than two lock washers.
I want to come over?
chrislibby88
Senior Member
I was gonna suggest getting a premade wooden building and putting it on blocks or a slab. Beat me to it. You can find these things used for pretty cheap too.
Yep the derksen cabins are well made you can do a little or a lot. I did a lot mine is a 12x26 lofted barn cabin. I added a 14x14 bedroom n an 8x8 full bathroom ran electric insulated it wood floors n paneling. Then put in 15000 btu ac with heat strip appliances n wife finished it off by finding old furniture ect. Took a couple years start to finish when money was available LOL.
deers2ward
Senior Member
If you build a log cabin, I recommend coating the logs with Boiled Linseed Oil. My cabin was built in 1938...I have the daily journal from the construction that the man in charge wrote every day....after cutting the trees from the property and skinning the logs, they coated all logs with BLO, and it is still in great shape 82 years later.
fireman32
"Useless Billy" Fire Chief.
I’d be concerned with carpenter bees on a log cabin. I stayed at Florence Marina some years ago and the cabin seemed to be being eating alive by the bees.
Bushhog Bob
Senior Member
I bought my farm in 1987 and had my cabin built in 1994 by a company out of Ellijay, GA. Since retiring in 1999, my grandson and I have seen a lot of good deer and turkey hunts out of this place.
I have killed thirty-eight carpenter bees since spring with a badminton racket. It is almost as much fun as hunting.
I have killed thirty-eight carpenter bees since spring with a badminton racket. It is almost as much fun as hunting.
Triple C
Senior Member
I bought the adjoining land to my place in 2012 and it had a crude cabin on it wrapped in OSB board. Moved it the following year to where our other pole barn cabin is located and remodeled it as a guest cabin. Wrapped it in rough saw pine on the outside and inside, added a bath and put in a kitchen. Window unit to cool in the summer. Sleeping loft upstairs. Turned out to be a quaint cabin that serves it's purpose well.
Deer Fanatic
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dang that's nice!!!!
Triple c that kitchen table is awesome , I’m wanting to sale my house and build something similar just a little bigger to live in on a little piece of land I have in the woods
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